Well booked on this match Friday to try and get a feel for the place as never fished it before and I've booked on the golden reel qualifier in April.so left my house at 7 am and turned up bang on 830 to this
lovely today was on specimen lake that's the far lake. It was very cold and a bitter wind was coming left to right. So out of the van and star chatting to the guy parked next to me Jamie Harris (matrix) I was trying to get as much info as poss and he was very helpful. So inside to pay the money and get a brew chatting with the locals and listening mainly!!! Phil briscoe said just sit on the method all day. Everyone wanted to draw 78 where grant allbut (drennan) emptied it from last week with 220 odd pound !!! But it wasn't in 76 was closest so my name got called into the draw I pulled out peg 12 on the burr bank which is not too far from the middle Jamie Harris said you should get a few skimmers there so I was quite keen.
This is what I was greeted with.
So set up method rod . Cage feeder and the pole for 13m buy this time the wind was howling through from left to right waves crashing against me platform I just managed to plum up the pole line in the wind and thought I wouldn't fish it unless the wind died down later in the match.
My usual organised chaos!!!! I had last weeks winner to my left and his mate a venue regular to my right neither of which had even set up the pole.
All in was shouted so I looked around a bit and followed suit chucking the method out about 50m the same as grant to my left. The chap on my right was putting a bit of bait in through the cage feeder. Not a lot was happening bit of rain was pounding the left side of me!!! So I started switching hook baits on the method to no avail while grant to my left netted a near on double figure carp and the bloke to my right had a good skimmer and a roach. Well I gotta do something or I'm gonna blank at this rate. It was now about 1 o clock and I hadn't had a sniff. So five small feeders full of gb with a very few dead pinkys and mags in at about 20m then baited the 16 hook with 2 pinkys and a big juicey white!!!! 2 mins and boom tips gone round and I've landed a bream around 2 pound thank god no blank 😃😃
Goes out again and another one in the net get in I could get used to this!!! So I stuck on that tip line for a couple of hours putting the odd skimmer in the net but they seemed to be getting smaller I also missed a couple of bites and one fell off at the net 😡then as quick as it started it died and couldn't get a bite on it I tried further out left and right a bit but nothing. Between putting the odd skimmer in the net I managed to feed my pole line with a pot of pellet. So was approaching the last hour now and I desperately needed a carp so I tried a 6mm expander on the pole strawberry corn and maggot couldn't get a bite chucked the method out couldn't get a bite so went back out on gb feeder added 1 final small skimmer then couldn't get a bite. All in was called thank god. Scales came to me I put 8.06 pound on them which was a thank you pls try again 😂😂 grant before me put 30 pound something on 2 carp and some skimmers his mate to my right then put 8.03 on 😃😃 so I beat someone lol!!! Turned out there was a couple of dnw and a few other weights below mine😁 so not too bad I think Jamie Harris won the match with 35 pound and he landed a 22 pounder near the end. Well done to him and everyone else toaday the weather was testing and must say everyone was quite friendly and open with info. Didn't think I would do well today it was all about learning for april hopefully have another go before then. Don't think I'm fishing next weekend so il give you a rest from my blog !!! Tight lines to all until next time thanks for reading 👍👍👍🎣🎣🎣😃😃
Here was my peg for the day 37 tile lake. Speaking to the lads it hasn't fished that well in the last couple of rounds but I felt confident of a few. The wind was coming left to right and slightly in my face and it was supposed to get worse as the day went on. And that it did indeed!!! So change of plan for me I thought fish the pole early and when it gets unfishable switch to the tip . The horn sounded and I fed 2 lines at 13m one with gb and pinky other with micros with a few 4mms.i also fed a line at top 4 with mags and pinky in the hope of small roach eel or anything really. Went in on the pellet line for 40 mins without a sniff so switched to the gb line and missed a bite straight away so persevered on that line and finally had a small skimmer. By this time Simon ryal on my left had a small tench and good skimmer on the tip glyn Wycombe on my right was also catching small skimmers on the tip. So I kept switching my lines to no avail and the wind picked up so went on the tip couldn't get a bite I sat on the tip for a while trying to figure out what to do kept trying the pole lines with nothing to show for my efforts!!right re clipped the tip rod sent out 6 feeder fulls and sat on it Simon was taking the mick and laughing at me but he did have the right to as I opened my big mouth before the match saying I would take some easy points off him !!!!😂😂
after 20 mins or so the tip went round and I was in another small skimmer was hoping for more but it was really slow the wind was pushing hard left to right tried to go on my pole lines a couple of times but couldn't present the bait properly. I even re plumbed and put in an edge line in the hope of something anything!!!! I added one more small skimmer and weighed in 2 pound dead which was last in section. So the wheels fell off today this was my worst result this year in hindsight should've gone on the tip all day but don't think it would of made much difference Simon weighed 6 pound and glyn weighed 3. Jon fuidge won are section with around 12 pound ish I think but we could hear him moaning from the start !!😜😜also my 3 pals beat me today winning some of there quids back that I've taken off them in previous weeks well done jonny page who won his section with 12 pound and Wayne staples with 6 pound mark Thorne with 3 pound !!!!! Onwards and upwards sedges again next week hope for a better draw and no wind !!! Hope everyone had a good day and thanks for reading 😃😃
at the all in fed my 2 lines and chucked out the feeder poured a brew first slurp and the tips twitching boom nice little skimmer to save the blank. Straight back out after 5 mins had a little knock but nothing out again and had a better skimmer of around a pound come on!!! 
Out again and it flew round proper un getting on for 2 pound ooosh then it went a bit quite so 40 mins in have a look on the pole as the 2 to my left were catching steady but small stamp fish. Couldn't get a bite over the gb and pinky line all day kept trying it and feeding it but nothing🙁🙁 so on to the pellet line kept cad potting in micros and a few 4mm expanders and caught in little spells of fish on this line but they kept backing off didn't want to chase them to 16m so just kept switching to fishing on my feed and just past it but had to keep resting the line. So flicked between the tip and this line for the rest of the day putting odd fish in the net all skimmers from 4 oz to a pound. Nice days fishing had 17 skimmers for 14.07 winning the section comfortably and second on the lake and I think 3rd overall chap called Nigel won are lake with 14.10 and Jamie parkhouse won tile with 16 pound I think giving my mate mark Thorne a section default win (love a default ) 😂😂 but him and Wayne had to give me a pound and jonny page writ me an I owe u 👊but he did well also winning his section with 12 pound 
look forward to the next round in 3 weeks hope everyone had a nice day and tight lines to all 👍👍🐟😃😃😃