Back again to Blythe for round 4 of our pairs league and we (Stav and I) were hoping for a good draw as we were around half in the league out of 14 pairs and with this one the half way point in the league 4 out of 8 we needed to put some good points on the board if we were going to make an impact on the top placing. I was happy with my draw on peg 12 Cherries pool as i have fished the peg a few times and always caught a few normally enough to get into the top half on the pool, Stav's peg on the other hand was crap 33 on Bridge pool which has produced only 2lb on the last match with a good angler on it Martin Yardsley and next to nothing off it in the 2 other rounds so it looked like our mega points score was out of the window.
I am going to cut this one short in an attempt to catch up to date so without going through rigs and stuff i will cut to the chase, to be honest i am struggling to remember much about this match as it was some 6 weeks ago. I caught most of my fish on the method feeder on double dead red maggot or corn with micro pellets on the feeder, last year i fished the peg 3 times in the league and caught mainly on the pole but this time it was the reverse. My first carp of the year? yes the 20th March before i have caught my first carp of the year and after around 1 1/2 hours on the feeder with only 2 skimmers to show i was on the moblie to Stav to see how he was getting on when the rod tip pulled round SHIT! dropping the phone on the side tray i was connected to a good fish, soon i netted a carp of around 10lb not a bad start as it was still cold and a few wouldn't catch that all day so with some good points in the bag i was happy. I ended up with another 6 smaller carp on the feeder and just around a dozen small skimmers in the 2-4oz on the pole for 27lb and 3rd on the pool which was won by Ade on peg 26 with 36lb around 5 fish up in the water on meat? Ollie was 2nd off corner peg 32 with 32lb. Stav had suffered off what has become the boggie peg on Bridge 33 with 1 carp and a few bits for 7lb odd but still beat one or two on the pool, so with half the league gone we were lying in 6th position out of the 14 fishing with Carl ( the gaffer) and his partner in 1st place we really need the weather to warm up a bit so the carp wake up and spread out. A couple of the carp i had caught were full of small lice on there belly's and behind the gill's a sure sign of them just waking up out of the silt where they have lay dormant all winter and starting to look for food! here's hoping.
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