goodiford goodies

off to goodiford mill fishery today for my first visit , so after a good brekkie in abby,s kitchen dean , jason and me were off down the A 38 and m5 to the collumpton turn off and wee got to the lake in an hour so it wasnt to bad or to far. the lake looked nice the only thing was a lot of the carp population seemed to be spawning, but not all as there were quite a few cruisers indicating that they werent all at it. the match was a nick coller/ anton page affair and it all ran very smoothly. there was 40 fishing so it was a good turnout , even though there are 64 pegs on the lake it meant putting some corners and tight pegs in so 32 or 33 would be a nice number on the lake.
i drew for myself today and ended up on 21 which was at the top of the slope from the carpark, a nice short walk, i had a good long margin round to mike west on 21 trouble was the willow tree,s were shedding that horrible white fluff (seeds)that stick to everything it touches and by the time the match started the margin was no more as the fluff had built up to such an extent that it was 2 to 3 mtrs out from the bank making the margin unfishable , so the 4x12 j3 float to .16 and a 16 b960 was a waste of time ,i did feed it during the match with 8mm pellets just in case it cleared, but it never so that was a waste of time.
as there were a few cruisers i made up a 4x12 impact 10 to fish pellet shallow on a long line so i could go dapping with a 8mm on .16 with the ususal hook, and i made up a 4x16 j3 for fishing on the deck, but with it being 9 foot deep i didnt excpect to much on that.
at the start it was straight ou with the shallow rig , and it didnt take long to dap the first carp into the net , steve kedge on 19 had 3 doing the same in the first 3 put ins then he bagan to struggle, jason radord to my left started on the wag to a small island, he had a carp first chuck then the island on the next 3 so that was the end of his wag fishing as he didnt want to lose any more floats.
i couldnt really see to much of what was going on as there were islands,tree,s and spits in the way, i did hear that at the halfway mark dean was admitting to 40 carp, so tha was the winner sorted . by the end i had taken 20 carp all taken shallow at 16 mtrs , for an estimated 90 lb,as expected dean won with a bit to spare as he ended up with about 70 carp all taken on 8mm pellet from his right hand margin at 13 mtrs for 214.2 on peg 27
just behind (lol) in 2nd spot was me ,my 20 carp going 109.6 on peg 21
3rd tim ford 102.10 peg 13
4th gary (bigfoot)bedford 84.7 peg 33
5th leon (the imp)hubbard 84 lb peg12
6th gary wall 83.14 peg 39
silvers were won by ron stark with 27.12 of caster caght roach and skimmers.
considering the fish had other things on there minds i dont think it fished to badly so another visit is definately on the cards, all we have to do is convince the owners to let us put less anglers on the lake so giving more anglers a chance to get a few bites and fish