Well another poor match by me which started so well.
Arrived for the draw with 10 minutes spare (5.30 draw/6.00 all in) and a quick look around showed it to be a bit blowy around pegs 12-18 so i really fancied a a peg between 1 and 8 with a few fish showing.
This series is a rover and we had 18 attend so pretty good for an evening match.
I drew number 12 so had to wait whilst most of the good pegs were taken and when it came to my pick i was surprised to see peg 5 still available so picked it.
I arrived at my peg with 3 rigs already set up as 30 minutes to set up is a bit of push so attached my pole rigs at work.
A few slight adjustments were made after plumbing up but my 3 rigs consisted of a shallow rig for the far bank a Pellet rig set at 2 foot for both my margins and a 3 foot roach rig for top 2 plus 2 straight in front of me.
The all in was called and the bloke next to me cast his pellet feeder onto the island and made quite a commotion getting it back through the reeds opposite (This continued all evening) i noticed the lad on peg 3 had a small carp first put in I started on the far bank at just under 13 mtrs with meat and after 10 minutes my float buried and i managed to land a lovely 4lb mirror
Peg 3 had another small carp and peg 7 had a carp similar to me.
After 30 minutes i had another bite but this it went darting through the reeds and although i believed i had it out twice it finally went solid and i had to pull the elastic and lost my hook.
This is where it all went wrong i reached for another hook link and realized i only had size 22 hook links to 1lb bottom or size 12 hooks on 6lb line Knowing it would be a battle with the reeds all night i opted for the larger hook maybe that was a mistake.
I tried on the roach line and had quick bites from some nice roach and probably put a quick 1lb in the net.
I tried both margins but to no avail so went long again to the far bank i lost another carp in the reeds and despite seeing the reeds jostling all night i couldn't get another bite.
I ended with between 4/5lb which wouldn't be enough so dnw.
Top 5 get points and i heard pegs 12 through to 18 had fished quite well.
The lad with heavy casting and pellet feeder somehow managed to get 8kg (perhaps i need to make more noise) and peg 3 weighed 4kg i missed the rest of the weigh in as i was talking with my Wife's Uncle but will update when i get the final results.
I feel i need to master the art of feeding a little better but do feel more confident with every match i attend and i am constantly learning by watching the better anglers.
Hopefully going to have a pleasure session over the bank holiday weekend at a private lake for some wild Carp.
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