The normal Disabled and Over 60 Thursday match series doesn’t start until 22 Feb, so we have been having a few, unannounced, knock up matches in the mean time.
7 of us rocked up for today, fishing Lyme Pool, a venue that doesn’t get too many match days but is a favoured water for a lot of members as it is in the middle (ish) of Lyme and Wood Country Park. There is also Ron Hassall Pool and Wood Pool in this country park, these are also well fished venues by our membership.
I got drawn peg 5, right on the corner of the pegging. All fishing just the one side of the doughnut pool. It was a bit baltic from the overnight frost and the wind was blowing down the back side of the pool and right across my right hand side. Decided on just 2 lines, a mud line and a track line 3/4 across.
1. 12m mud line, 13-15 SRG hybrid elastic, GORTINI SHORT MARGIN FLOAT, 0.18 main line to 6″ 0.16 hook length, #16 SFL-B hook. Big red, pinkie, 4mm hard pellet or 6mm expander pellet as hook bait. Feeding small amounts of 50/50 Thatchers dark/2mm soaked pallet from the cad pot.
2. 10m track line, 4-7 SRG hollow elastic, GORTINI 0.40g CARBON SLIM FLOAT, 0.16 mainline to 6″ 0.11 hook length, #20 SFL-B hook. Big red and pinkie, as hook bait. Feeding small amounts of 50/50 Thatchers dark/2mm soaked pallet from the cad pot.
Started off on my mud line, had to tentative bites in the first 20 mins, but nothing positive, striking into nothing. Sat for far too long on this line, switching to my track line after an hour. Not much happening this end of the pool and not that much more in the lower peg numbers either. Peg 6 had first catch with a roach that was about twice as big as one of the big red I was using as hook bait, it didn’t make the net, just getting dropped back in. Rotated hourly in the hope something would turn up, Peg 4 was still barren, Peg 6 and 7 had a roach each. Started pinging 3 4mm robin red pellets over the float on my mud line mid day and I managed to pick off a ~6oz roach, so no blank for Johnny Boy 😂. That was my lot for the match, started packing up with 20 mins till all out, cold, miserable and in need of a hug! 😂. Peg 7 had been laying down a bed of chopped worm and this brought in some decent stamp F1 for him, although he did lose a few with hook pulls, winning this match with 14lb odd, the remining honours going to Peg 2 for 8lb odd and Peg 3 with 5lb on the nose. I wasn’t last so I class that as a bonus, yay.
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