Today saw me back at Alders Farm, this time on Pines Lake. I liked this lake before the changes at Alders and like it even more since. There are plenty of quality skimmers and decent Tench to back up the carp weights and if your not catching one your catching the other, the float never seems to stop.
There were nine of us booked on and with plenty of room, Richard Brain set about sorting the pegs out whilst I took the money.
Richard drew peg 4 with Mick Wright on 6, Terry Lancaster on 8 and Vic Nugent on 10. He must like that peg. I drew 15 and knew it was all wrong for what I wanted to do ( fish corn my style) Colin and Ernie were on 17 and 19 respectively with Mick Kelly on 21 and ever consistent Charlie Lancaster on 26.
As I stated earlier I did not think the corn method would work today due to lack of depth in this peg, however I would give it a go and see how it went. I spent a little bit longer than usual plumbing around my peg until I could find at least 2ft of water. This was around 2+3 sections and slightly to my left. It deepened off a touch there and this would be were I would concentrate the corn. I also set up a long line at 11m where I had 2ft 6" and would use this to give the main line a rest if needed. A margin line towards the corner completed my rigs.
At the all in I cupped in a pot of 4mm fishery pellets and around 20 grains of corn to 11m and threw a handful of corn down the edge. A couple of grains to 2+3 sections followed by the rig, a shot pause and the float goes and 3lb common was in the net, another couple of grains and a skimmer, more corn and a smaller carp. With an hour gone I had around 10 fish for 20lb and the peg was getting worse, I would have to wait for a bite and it did not matter how I fed it, tight via tosspot, spread by hand, little or a lot, it made no difference and was dying. I decided to try 11m and nicked a couple of fish from here, before having a quick 5 minutes down the edge for no bites. I tried fishing a little closer to no avail and then to the side and snatched another couple of fish. It was now 2 hours in and around 30lb in the net. Vic was catching odd fish at 11m from peg 10 and the word was it was fishing hard except for Colin and Ernie on 17 and 19.
I made a conscious decision to stick at it, I was still picking up odd fish but they seemed to spook easily in the shallow water and back off after a couple, but by persisting I managed to keep the coming. I did have a couple of looks down the edge for 4 fish in total, but again you could see fish in the peg but they were just coming in and not really feeding fish.
I thought I had around a ton at the end and would have to part with a MK Nugget to Vic or Mick who I could not see, and with both admitting to 70lb knew it would be close. However it was not to be.
Overall
1st Colin Spencer 229-04
2nd Keith Ashby 124-13
3rd Richard Brain 108-07
4th Ernie Waterfall 99-01
5th Mick Wright 98-09
6th Terry Lancaster 97-12
7th Vic Nugent 97-02
8th Charlie Lancaster 90-14
9th Mike Kelly 45-06
To be fair it was a close match bar Colin, who really has got to grips with paste fishing, a couple of fish here and there made all the difference. Still I had a nugget off both Vic and Mick and take a 3-0 lead in our little head to head challenge.
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