So the day of the match arrived an the baits i was taking were, 4mm feed pellets, corn, meat, expanders, 2 pints of caster, a few worms, half a pint of red maggot and finally some hard pellets for using on the band if i decided to fish up in the water.
Arrived at the (venue which now has a cafe and sells bait too if you didn't already know this), and when all arrived we did the draw and i drew peg 11 which was to be midway along the far bank. You can drive all way round this lake which at least means no trolley, all pegs are great too concrete and level.
So got round to my peg and always i sit there for a few minutes just to study what I've got, to my left going out about 5 metres i had some pads behind them i had some clear water and then a few reeds against the bank so i had a good feature to go at, Out in front i had open water and to my right i had a small patch of reeds.
So time to set up, the first thing i did was set up a method feeder i like to use a small method feeder when its not just carp to go at.
then i set up 2 rigs for the pole, the first was a 1 gramme rig to fish the end of the pads in about 5ft of water, the comprised of 4.6lb straight through just in case any of the resident carp decided to have a go.
the next was a margin rig which was a small dibber float again 4.6lb straight through both these rigs were finished off with a size 16 hook.
Finally it was time for the all in and first thing i did was pot some bait in and i shipped out a large pot of chopped worm and caster out to the edge of the pads, a pot of feed pellets topped off with some meat and corn down either margin.the first bait i decided to try was a worm tail out to the pads and had a bite almost immediately and in came a small roach about 3 ounces this was followed by 4 or 5 more before the swim just died and this happened for the next hour or so until i had a few more small roach and then it died again so i decided I'd feed again. I let this settle and went down the edge for half an hour without anything to show for it, by this time i could see the end peg which had the wind blowing into catching a few carp and new i needed carp to have any chance of some coin, also the guy opposite went on the pellet waggler and had a couple of carp also.
So i decided to set up the pellet waggler too, i used a 6 gramme pellet waggler set at about two and a half feet deep finished off with a hair rig with a pellet band attached and first bait was to be a 6mm light coloured pellet. For feed i was using the same pellets on the hook but in different shades and colours, these were catapulted out after each cast about 4 or 5 each time and in between this i would catapult out some caster to get the silver fish active and attract the carp to the commotion (this is something that has worked for me in the past when allot of silver fish are present). In the first few casts i had had 2 carp about 4lb a piece and had a extremely large carp break me. then it died but i had to keep going at it as i had seen no movement down the edge and i was still in touch with the leaders. i changed bait to a larger 10mm halibut pellet and this did the trick i had another 6 carp to the end of the match to finish second with 29lb which was 26lb of carp and 3lb of silvers the match was won with 34lb so i was one fish away but felt i had fished a good match and the only regret was not fishing the pellet waggler earlier, the guy who initially went on the pellet waggler didn't catch like i did and i really feel the feeding of casters made the difference, it really is worth trying if theres plenty of silvers in there "give it a go".
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