Obviously i have been doing well the past few months over here and i'd be targeting the big roach again with hopefully the added bonus carp somewhere along the lines.
For starters i drew the end peg on the far right of the lake. I wasn't going to change my approach for today even though i got an end peg which normally means feeder work on this venue.
I decided to set up a handful of pole lines and just as a back up a simple feeder rod rig.
First rig:
Line 1 (3m to Hand)
As i always use for this, the to hand rig was to be .5 Colmic goldie tied to .11 direct to a size 16 drennan silver fish maggot. (As usual a big float for a big bolt effect, put this to a double 4 elastic and your sorted).
I also tied 3 spares up of the above rig, Mainly because when fishing to hand is a fish drops off at the last second of swing, the line carries the momentum and tangles round, you can combat it a little by whipping your top 2 forward but it rarely stops it.
Line 2 (Pole Method)
I know its still at bit early but one day i'm not going to set this up and then wish i had! So it may as well be up and waiting just in case! I've now moved to using the Browning Kobra flat methods as i feel there a lot better build quality then the Preston ones and a fraction of the price!
Line 3 (Feeder Line)
I was just going to set up an everyday feeder set up, you all know by now i never use a method on the rod and this is no different. Just an ordinary Drennan Groundbait feeder with a short tail!
Bait wise
As you can see, my bait was pretty much maggots, maggots and more maggots. A mixture of maggots with turmeric, dead reds and ordinary live reds, i'd be looking to spray around 2 - 5 dead maggots every fish and looking to use the top up balls like last week every 3 or 4 fish. I'd also be looking to fish the least bait on the hook as possible while still getting bites, in other words i want to try and get away with a single red on a 16 or even a 14 if possible, to create a higher more fish - bite ratio.
Time to get in...
Well it was time for the all in, i started my swim off by chucking in 2 very large balls of just ground bait, its important to create a wide spread area when fishing for silvers to attract the maximum amount of fish in your peg as possible. I started on the 3m like and was almost instantly into the roach. It didn't seem to be going as quickly as the previous week though, maybe a fish every 5 minutes or so....
11:00
The first hour had passed and it was starting to pick up, i was getting the roach up to around the 1lb mark so a pretty good stamp of fish in anyone's book. I decided to stay on this line and just keep a gently trickle of bait going in.
13:00
A couple of hours later i was still on the same line but the fish were getting pretty small. I decided to keep at it, as long as i were keeping fishing entering the net then that's good enough for me. I didn't notice any one getting any carp so there was no point coming off this line. Every ounce counts!
13:30
Well, i hooked my first carp and it didn't take long to shoot off, but with the balanced tackle it seemed to calm down and come in alright, without any drama anyway!...
14:30
Well we were into the last hour and i'd been catching roach most of the day with the one bonus carp. The roach were still coming in to the turmeric reds and i was happy with that. It did start to slow down towards 14:45 but it soon started up again with another bonus carp...
The match ended and after the weigh in, it was to be my win again....55lb this week:)
Very pleased with my performance today, only criticism is that i may of over fed at the start. I broke my own rule to be fair. I don't normally feed until i start catching fish but i presumed there would of been fish already waiting. It wasn't costly but it could of been!
Thats it from me for now:)
Nathan@ Fish4Thought
