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The man's a genius!
Day One
Peg A23 saw me in a good section, I caught an odd skimmer and grass carp on both slider
and pole along with several cat fish and a few tiny fish gave me a 5.65 kilo total and a
comfortable section win.
Hook bait was bunches of bloodworms - anything from three to ten - and another one of the
keys was resting each swim giving it twenty minutes or so before coming back to it after
feeding.
I could sense when I needed to change swims and spent the last thirty minutes on the pole
because the swim was full of fish. There was six minutes to go - it's important to
keep looking at your watch in these three hour contests - when it finally plunged under
and I caught a grass carp. That fish won me the section and I followed it up with a
skimmer.
Day Two
This was much more difficult. I drew the next peg to where Will Raison had done well
the previous day. He'd caught a lot of bleak so perhaps I was going to have to fish
for them today but I didn't want to. The same process at the start with the feeding
except this time I went out onto the slider early because I thought I might get an early
bonus there. Fortunately I did in the form of a 0.56 kg nase. I'd got about a
kilo by now and a kilo of bleak would have been very difficult.
Again, feeding very little joker at the start ment that I could top up quickly for the
bonus fish and I was feeding my swims after fifteen minutes. After that I fed and
fished both swims at intervals catching a grass carp and a skimmer on the pole and a
skimmer on the slider, but I didn't think I'd done enough to win my section. I did
and I just couldn't believe it.
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Light
pole rig
Pole Adapted 14.5 metre Shimano Super Ultegra with smooth sections
Elastic Vespe
No5
through three sections set fairly slack
Main line 0.1mm Shimano Ultegra
Hook Length 0.09 mm Mustad Thor.
Float 1.25 gm and 4x18 Trabucco Ultimate 1.
Rig Length five sections
Hook size 16 Mustad Long Point Round Bend Match.
Comments This was the starting rig for small fish. |
