Travelled with Chris Fox today , so we had the breakfast stop at the bridge in yatton, and its ok, I can't understand why more anglers don't use it, its 1 minute from the fishery. Got to the fishery to find out that 14 were booked in, not to bad as the lake was completely frozen due to it being -6c during the night, but luckily top man Mark Bartlett had broken out the required swims , Ray got the draw underway and I pulled out 27, not to happy really , and Chris was next round to me on 24, also not to good at present. But fortunately Ray can't count, REDRAW, being from north of Gloucester he must only have 13 fingers, Mike Chapman lent him one of his so this time we had enough balls in the bag, out comes 34 and Chris 33, so either side of a bridge for us then, a bit more Ice breaking to tidy up marks handywork, then down to the rigs, as the picture shows, walks don't really come much shorter.
Three rigs today all to fish maggot so the business end on all rigs had a size 20 middy 8313 hook on .12. All rigs were as5 drennan floats, a couple of .2g for up the shelf against the bridge and for out in front, and a .3g for in the deep water against the bridge, the bait tray was very minimalistic, with a few maggots only.
no worry about nuisance small fish as there don't tend to be many in here now.
At the start I fed several lines with about 10 maggots on each.
Starting buy the bridge I had a liner first drop, followed by a fouler which came off, then I had a goldfish, after 2oz won the silver's on Sunday I was in with a chance then LOL.
As the match went on it was a waiting game for bites, with the two bridge swims being the most productive. Chris had a few the other side of the bridge including an 8lb fish, but my side of the bridge seemed to have more fish as I was having small touches . Although the fish I did get were on the small side, about halfway through Lee Waller wandered round from peg 6 , he only had two carp and wasn't getting any bites, Phil Cooper over on 21 was also catching odd fish, Lee went back to his peg sat on his box and promptly started to catch fishing maggot out by the bridge and he caught well enough to the end to ensure the win, and it looked as though Phil was going to be second, third spot wasn't so easy to call as myself, Adrian Mercato on 5 and Andy gard on 22 had all caught , the weigh sheet below shows that indeed Lee won with Phil second and me third, with Ray(13 finger)bazeley winning the silver's with an all bream weight (lol) of 3 1/2 lb,
Off to viaduct Sunday for round 2 of the winter league, my turn on the match lake with a bit of spring and middle lake in the section, its supposed to warm up a bit for the weekend but I still expect it to be hard.
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