Okay so onto this weeks post, the 1st club match at Orchard Lakes was run last weekend and here is what happened, At the draw I was very, very happy to have drawn peg 44, it is an end peg up the middle spit, this is by far the best section on the lake and a hard one for most of the other sections to keep up with, so as you can imagine to be on the end of it was an added bonus!
To make things even better though I was the only peg on the section to have had any kind of feature to fish to, other than the far bank of course. I had a lovely looking Lilly bed to my right and another across and to my left, this one was sunken and very dead but a feature none the less!
As you can see from the above image the other Lilly bed across is not visible and to be honest was hard to make out standing there, I started off fishing maggot to the right of me just to try tempt some Roach or Crucian's to feed. Normally the matches here are very hard going in the 1st 3 months of the year so to get anything in the net early is normally a good move.
After around 20 minutes I had probably just over 1lb of Roach and a single small Skimmer in the net when the guy next to me hooked a Carp across, I had been keeping an eye on what had been happening around me but hadn't noticed what bait he was using. Normally though corn is a good shout on here so I went over to the other Lily bed with a single grain of corn fished dead depth, after about 3 minutes the float went under but the fish was so fast into the snags and I lost it.
I got my rig back but it was very badly tangled, I decided to chuck out a bomb with punched bread on a quick stop, I used 3 10mm pieces of punched flake and tipped it off with a single 10mm piece of crust to pop it up, this was fished on a 6" hook length of 0.16 to a size 16 hook.
My plan was to leave the bomb out there whilst I untangled the rig but as I was sinking the line it pulled out of my hand and I was finally hooked into a better fish of my own.
I decided at this point to chuck it out again with same bait to try and untangle the rig again, this time though my plan was to shallow it of and dob bread across to see if there was many Carp up for a piece, I managed 2 more smaller Carp on the bomb before it went quiet and I decided it was time to start dobbing, this time I went over with a 8mm punched piece I had prepared in the microwave the night before.
I managed a few quick fish on this method before again going quiet, so I spent the rest of the match switching between bomb and bread and dobbing bread and I started to put together a few fish unfortunately though the guy on the peg next to me was emptying the lake at an awesome rate, although somewhat depressing I could not help but watch on at some of the best angling I have seen in a long time!
The fish seemed to be of a better stamp when dobbing the bread and the better fish were the shallower ones as well, to be perfectly honest I was caught out thinking it was going to be a lot harder than it actually was and wasted a whole lot of time fishing for bits rather than targeting the Carp. Not a mistake I will be making next month!
The only rig I used on the match was a Dino F1 float to 0.13 mainline with a 0.11 hook length and a size 18 B911 F1 hook, these are by far my favorite floats for winter fishing as they are perfect for all manner of fishing, as it displayed on the day.
I weighed 26lb 6oz for 4th in section which when you compare it to my weight here last year of 1lb 4oz again for 4th in section you can see the difference.
Thank you very much for reading guys I hope you enjoyed, as I said I am sorry I missed last week but it really could not be helped, I will try my best to either catch up this week or next but will be time dependent!
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