after the success of the last top 4 match we had another one today and with 17 booked in it shows how popular it is. we had a bit of room to play with so we put 13 on the match lake and the first 2 on each side of number 3, as this was the seventh match in 8 days on the match lake i really fancied drawing one of the pegs on number 3, so i let tom thick draw for me as he never seems to be on a bad peg , and sure enough he handed me 68 which is on number 3 and a flyer as long as you can fish the long pole to the island and the weed bed to the left ,but with a top 4 only that was out of the mix, we just had to hope the fish were a bit peckish and would come close. with one of the new breed(yea right)in the shape of phil(fabio)harding sat opposite ,i was going to have my work cut out as he has been in a rich vane of form lately, but after watching him today he must have drawn on some garage fulls never mind the sheds.
i only set up 2 rigs , one for soft pellet at 4mtrs on .12 with a 16 6313 and a 4x14 impact 6 float, the other was a 4x10 impact 1 with a 14 xedion on .18 for the meat each side in the margins.
starting at 4mtrs with soft pellet and feeding softened 4mm it wasnt long before i was getting bites off small skimmers , hybrids and crucians but it wasnt hectic, but at least fabio was keeping us ammused as he was losing carp and moaning to himself non stop, by the end i think he had lost at least a dozen and landed 5 but we all get those days, even the new breed.
i had been feeding meat down the margins but at the 3 1/2 hour mark i still hadnt had a bite in the margins, and by now the 4 mtr line had died , so i put on a piece of meat on the 4mtr pellet line and had a carp of about 6lb, quickly followed by 2 more, then i saw a tail in the left hand margin so went straight in and had a carp, then i had one in the right margin, so it was meat till the end ending up with 10 carp to 10lb , 5 from the margins and 5 from the 4 mtr line for what i thought would go about 75lb, when the scales arrived my silvers and carp went 81.4 for first on the day
2nd went to martin lenaghan on peg 5 with 56.3
3rd dean malin 54.14 on peg 10 which also included the top silver weight on the day of 26.6 beating john(the gimp)bradford into 2nd in silvers with 24.4
4th tom thick 53.5 peg 7
5th mat(new breed)tomes 53.3 peg 24
6th dave roper 50.6 peg 15
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