Monday 5 October 2015

Newton Abbot Juniors Carp Match 26th/27th September

Newton Abbot Juniors Carp Match Sept 26th/27th
This match took place over 2 days day 1 fishing on weedy lake not a lot to report as only 1 fish was caught between the 6 anglers and the sooner the club change the venue for day 1 the better, but congratulations to young Ben on Catching an 11lb Carp in the last 5 minutes and winning on the day

Day 2 was on Wheel and with prospect of a few more fish and with the sun shining Robbie and myself set off early to have a quick look around.
We arrived with plenty of time to spare and found a few other anglers already there.
Robbie had already decided on the swim he fancied and when he drew 2nd choice I was confident he would get his swim and he would get a few carp.
He chose peg 2 which is a lovely swim on the disabled platform it gives him lots of options with a margin under the platform to his left a lovely Margin next to some reeds to his right and a far bank at 12 mtrs which is hard for him to fish all day on the pole but he candle it in short bursts but can also be fished with a straight lead.
Bait for the day would be mainly pellet with some meat as back up.
We only had to setup 3 rigs for today as  the margins were pretty similar on the right and far bank slightly deeper to the left and 1 meat rig that we could alter to suit if necessary.
At the all in Robbie had a quick look down his right hand side as the reeds were already knocking and within 5 minutes the float buried unfortunately the Carp buried himself in the reeds and the hook transferred to a reed.
The swim was disturbed so he went down his left margin and again within 5 minutes another Carp took the pellet but again it came off but with little disturbance so Robbie went straight back in and was soon rewarded with a little Carp of around a 1lb and all seemed set for a bumper day but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't winkle out another bite so after an hour he tried to his right but with no bites coming and with no other fish being caught he decided it was lunch time so out came th lead rod and he dropped it over to the far bank and started to munch when the tip flew around and he landed another small carp.
He kept on the lead for another 30 minutes but no further bites and with lunch over he tried his left Margin again.
He kept lifting and dropping his float and was rewarded with 2 more bites but lost both possibly foul hooked.
Into the last hour and we had heard that 1 lad had landed a couple of bigger Carp and 2 other lads had a similar weight to Robbie.
Robbie decided to try his left margin again and with signs of Carp there he was confident of getting a bite.
It Didn't take long for Carp number 3 to come again a small 1 but this put him in second place for the day and with the reeds knocking he felt there were more Carp there for the taking and he was right.
He lowered his float in and his elastic streamed out unfortunately the Carp didn't want to stop and the hook link snapped.
In again and another bit almost immediately this time the Carp came out then dived back into the reeds and went solid with no other than pulling for a break he disappointingly pulled only to find he was still attached and played carp number 4 into the net.
We heard that young Danny had landed another Carp also so it would be close between the 2 of them so when Robbie hooked another Carp with 5 minutes to go things looked good only for the Carp around 4lb to shake the hook out.

So it ended Robbie 4 Carp 6 the weigh in started and Robbie had 2Kg 180 on to Danny and he also weighed 2kg 180 so a tie for 2nd place as everyone knew Joe had landed 4 large Carp in his weight of 13Kg.

So a good day and Robbie coming joint 2nd on the day and joint 3rd over the weekend.

A big thank you goes out to Paul Gay for looking after the youngsters as both the Junior officers were absent on Sunday
Also a big thank you to Western Towing for sponsoring the event