only 8 of us booked in today so its just a bit of a friendly knock up, with only 4 on each bank one of the corners would have been nice , but i end up with 28 stuck to my mitt which is halfway up the far side, with so much room i thought the margins might come into play so i set up pellet rigs for each side but me like everyone else couldnt raise a bite down the edges so no more of that then, i set up a 4x12 rig for down the middle with a 18 b960 for banded pellet (6,s) and a 4x8 for 8mm to the far bank with a 16 b960 on .18.
at the start i cupped in some 6,s down the middle and a healthy pot of 8,s against the island.
starting down the middle it wasnt long before i was playing a fouler which came off, next put in and another one on which i was convinced was in the mouth but that came off aswell, so i changed to a 16 hook with all the fizzing going on i was convinced i would get another but all i had was 3 good skimmers , i,m beginning to think these carp that fizz are taking a mouthfull of pellets off the bottom and coming up off the bottom to chew them as lots of people get bites and dont connect sometimes until you come way off the bottom and they are mouth hooked , who really knows.
after 90 mins of extreme fizzicals i decided to ignore that and go over to where fish were mooching about over the 8,s , but as is quite normal on this venue the fish are some of the wisest in the southwest and do a dissapearing act when the pole goes over there heads, it would be a bit better if you could use a longer line but with bits of foliage on the island you are courting trouble with to much line above the float, the first fish i had from there was a tail hooked 9 pounder but that was my lot for a while except for 2 lost foulers, i thought that the 8,s werent really working so i switched to 6,s and upped the feed , and that seemed to help with the fish feeding more confidently and losing some of there inhibitions, also i cme off the bank with my right hand margin rig as it was set at 2 foot , just right for about half a metre off the island shelf, and i had 3 quick fish, and by swapping between the shallow on top of the shelf rig and the slightly deeper rig i had odd fish to the end , i think i had 11 carp and with fish to about 13lb i thought i would have about 80lb , as far as i could see the main threat i could see was from mike west on 25 who had caught on pellet up the end bank and later on paste in open water,mike ended up with 72.9 but would have won if he hadnt listened to steve kedge who advised him that .16 will never break on the pole ,so 4 lost rigs later and i think mike will be buying some stronger line today ,my fish went 91.4 for first , jason radford also should have been second but the tired little bugger aint got the strength in his body to lift his net out of the water so a 5 pouder flipped out and went back, i,m finding it hard to believe he was the uk,s under 18,s power lifting champion and i dont think it should be a problem lifting for him as he is only 4 foot 6 so he aint got to lift it as far as everyone else.
4th was phil harding with 28.12 which was mainly chub off peg 35 and he won the silvers with that
5th and second in silvers was john bradford 28lb
6th joe thompson 25.6 peg 39
7th dean malin 20.12 peg 32
8th jamie dyte on 37 who dnw
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u.r right about the carp coming off bottom to consume their food. as u know i had koi for many years in the u.k and if u fed them with a lot of pellets u could see them come off the bottom and its as if they were chewing the cud just hovering there. sharky s.a
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