I had been talking with Nick Rowe on FB and he suggested we go on the weekend betweens winter league commitments. I arranged to meet him at the Little Chef at Marston Moretaine and after a breakfast we were soon pulling into Phil Stones (Pebs) little paradise. He had built the venue from scratch and looked at it from a match angler's perspective. I must admit I was impressed. The lake we were to fish was Yasi's, Nick had booked us both into a small club match to have a competitive edge to the day. My home was peg 5, and not a good peg according to Trevor Jeans, a venue regular, and who had drawn next to me on 6. At least I could talk to someone I knew. Nick had drawn peg 13 and a lot better area.
Yasi's has an island at 13m which runs through the middle of the lake, I had been told to start long in the shallow water and then settle in at the bottom of the far shelf, I also set a rig to fish at the bottom of the near shelf in the deepest water I could find, this was at around 5m. I also set up a margin line but did not expect to catch here, as there was plenty of dying rushes getting in the way and very little colour in the edge.
For across i fished a MW Rattler float taking just 2 no10 stotz, this was on .14 stroft to a .12 hooklength which I had tied with a B911 F1 size 20 hook, this was for fishing either single maggot or double pinkie and was set to fish in 18inches of water.
My long deep line was at around 10m where I could find 4ft of water and fished a NG .4g Deano float, I had bought these earlier in the year and never tried them but today I felt it was the right conditions. Again it was .14 to .12 and a size 20 B911 F1 hook. My near line at 5m was again a NG Deano set another 5inches deeper, this time to a size 16 B911 F1 hook. All my elastics were either grey hydro or white hydro.
At the all in I decided to hang back a minute and see how everyone around me started off, no one potted in, so I decided to go with a toss pot approach that was similar to the locals. With a single maggot on the hook I shipped across and started getting tiny indications and soon switched to double pinkie. This did the trick as a couple of nano ide came to rest in my keepnet. A dull spell after around 15 minutes and I started coming back towards the shelf. Back on the maggot and a couple of Ide around the 1lb mark before again this line went quiet. Back to 13m and nothing, A couple more Ide came and after about 2 hours I reckoned on having 8 Ide for about 10lb.
I had been throwing around 8-10 maggots out to 5m since the start and decided to have a quick look and see if the fish were in the deepest part of the peg. I had a good run of Ide and a single skimmer all on double maggot hookbait. Trevor was matching me fish for fish but slowly I was pulling away from him. Then as I was getting into a rhythm, it was over, no more bites, I tried different shotting patterns but still nothing. I was back out to 10m and getting odd indications on this line but time was running out. I needed to get a couple more fish to fend off the barbel and carp Trevor had caught, so upped the feed rate and this seemed to do the trick as more bites were forthcoming. At the all out I was playing another Ide and unfortunately it came off on the way back. I hoped it would not be costly. By all accounts it had fished hard, yet I had thoroughly enjoyed myself. I had to work at getting bites and trying to hook those crafty Ide.
Overall
1st Paul B 48-13
2nd Nick Rowe 34-08
3rd Pip 34-04
4th Darryl 29-12
5th Simon 26-08
6th Keith Ashby 23-10
Well done to all those who framed, it was a hard day and you had to work at your fishing. Thank you to Kingfisher Club for allowing me to fish with you, a good bunch of lads who were quick to notice me losing a fish swinging it in. At least I did not fall in after the weigh in. Thank you to Pebs for allowing me to grace your fishery, I will be back and finally Nick Rowe who without his push would have seen me still not visiting How End. All in all a very good and enjoyable day.
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