First into the draw bucket and hoping for a peg between 1 and 9 as the wind would be mainly off our backs, the pegs to avoid were 9a/10 and 11 as the icy easterly was blowing in and across them, I opened the ticket and number 5 was on it, I waited with fingers crossed hoping no REDRAW was called, but no all was good , so of I wandered to my peg, it's in the middle of the near bank, and generally a good skimmer peg, they tend to be smaller along this bank, with the bulk of the bigger skimmers preferring the far bank for some reason, company wise I had the old stalwart Jim Thomas on 6 and the even older Ray Wickham on 4, to be honest I'm not to far behind.
On the whistle I cupped a couple balls at 11 mtrs with caster in and two at 13 mtrs on a different angle With some soaked micro, s,
I began on the short line but never had a bite on maggot or caster, and I did give it a couple more goes during the match, but never had a touch on it, I think due mainly to the fact the peg is very shallow out to about 7mtrs. So to cut a long blog much shorter I spent most of the match switching between the two longer lines, with single maggot being the best bait, it was never busy fishing with a bit of a wait normally for each bite. And when they did come the skimmers.were 2 to 5oz, I did get one of a pound on my first put in, and one of about 1 1/2 lb towards the end, I also lost two better ones during the match with the maggot going over the point of the hook, at the end I thought I may have 8lb ish, and was happy.to see.The scales bounce round to 11lb, so a section win it was then, so still right in the mix for the league, I felt.For the anglers opposite as it looked really.cold, so fairplay.to dave wride, Mike Jones and Keith Fisher for sticking it out. Any way weigh sheet below as normal.
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