Rig 1, 3m deck rig a 0.30gr Maver Invisible series 7 float, 0.18 mainline to 0.16 hooklength with size 2 Tubertini 175 hook, Preston 13 hollo elastic, all the shot bulked up 6inches from the hook in 3ft of water.
Rig 2, 3m down the edge, 4X12 Preston Durra 10 float, 0.16 line straight through to size 3 175 hook with the same 13 elastic and shotting in 18 inches of water.
Rig 3, 3m shallow rig, 0.30gr Maver Jurassic dibber, 0.16 to Preston PR27 hook for a lassoed pellet, 13 hollo elastic.
For bait I had decided just to go with pellet and corn as feed I normally take a few pints of dead maggots to feed down the edge but as I was on a weeks holiday from work I couldn't be bothered to fetch any, along with a few 4&6mm expanders for the hook was all the bait I had brought for the day. A lot of the big weights on here have been coming on the paste but I am not the best when it comes to this bait so I tend to fish to my strength's instead of pulling my hair out trying to hit the bites, I know I should fish it a lot more to get my head around it and I have won a few match's on it in the past but I prefer to fish it when I am targeting bigger fish. Scott (the local hero) Jones had drawn peg 20 and with one guy ringing up just before the draw to say he couldn't make it there was one peg that was going to have a lot of room!, yes you've guessed it with every other peg in it was nice and easy pegs 1,3,5 and so on 15 blokes on 30 pegs Scott on peg 20 had got 4 spare pegs from 16-19 to himself up to the end of the pool after the guy had cancelled, not only does Scott know all the fishes individual names as he works on the fishery but he knows how to catch them too and would be very hard to beat today from that peg. With Scott aside I had to concentrate on beating Stav off the next peg as if I let him take 3-0 lead in our traditional £1 side bet it would be all over, we had only planned to fish 2 more match's this week and he would be hell to sit next to with all the bragging rights going back home in the car.
At the start of the match I set off on the usual 3m deck rig with a 6mm expander on the hook and feeding 6-8 4mm feed pellets every put-in, it took only a few seconds to hook the first fish of the day and the first hour took on a familiar pattern with 23 in the net I was just hoping that they would keep coming this time and not slow down as they had on my last visit. It was another very hot day with the mercury rising to 30'c the same as yesterday but as on my last two visits after the first hour the bites on the pellet became very hard to hit, I started to miss a lot of bites and suffer from some foul-hooked fish so out came the shallow rig but I put on the long no4 instead of the short one to put the rig into slightly deeper water. This solves the problem of the liners and foul-hookers as most bites just hook themselves at this short a distance and the fish tend to be of a slightly better stamp, Scott was catching well as expected but with the weather so hot and a lot of fish basking around on the surface he said that they may well be getting ready to spawn again as some were swimming around in pairs( this is August!). I could here Stav catching but with the water level down there was a bush in-between us so I couldn't see him or how fast he was catching so I just got my head down and tried to extract as many fish as possible from the peg, for the rest of the match I caught most of my fish on the shallow rig and again failed to catch much from the edge the same as my last visit but this time we had got room so I was at a loss as to why they wouldn't settle there.
At the all out I had managed 113 fish and a quick walk down to Stav revealed he had around 95 fish so unless he had a lot of bigger fish i might have pulled one back in our series? A quick shout over to Scott before we started to weigh in revealed he was claiming 150-160 fish and the rest of the anglers on the bank saying he had won it out of sight, a lot of the other anglers said they had caught but had not counted the fish so we would have to wait for the scales to see how well. It might sound a bit daft catching so many fish but in the heat with a lot of the fish sunbathing it had fished harder than I thought I was thinking there would be more fish caught as it's not uncommon here for there to be a few double tons. The scales started on peg 1 but the angler on it failed to weigh I think he was just out for the day fishing from a carp chair on top of the bank and looked to tip back 30-40lb, Stav's 95 fish went 126lb and my 113 fish went 150lb 140z and the most important part of the day had been done pulling it back to 2-1 in our side bet series. The guy on peg 7 had 103lb and pegs 9 & 11 had 115lb & 129lb receptively there were no more big weights on our bank then Scott put 209lb 8oz to take the match, the next best weight on the other bank after Scott was 125lb so that left me in 2nd place so I was happy to coin and beat Stav at the same time. Stav had missed out on 3rd place by 3lb (must try harder mate), so well done to Scott for giving us all a good battering (on the end peg flier) and we had to drive all the way home only to come back again in the morning to do it all again (it's a hard life). Scott had organized a match on Laugherne Island, we had planned to go to Manor Farm the next day but after a long consideration the Cob House breakfast won hands down.
Cob House, Worcester Open 3rd August 2011
Wyatts - 3rd August 2011
Peg 3 Baker John 126 7
Peg 5 West Simon 150 14 2nd
Peg 22 Jones Alan 125 10
Peg 13 Waters Len 96 8
Peg 15 Cannon Martin 63 4
Peg 20 Jones Scott 209 8 1st
Peg 24 Evason Graham 89 5
Peg 9 Silke Derek 115 3
Peg 28 Gray Jamie 71 15
Peg 30 Fellows Luke 72 4
Peg 11 Nobbs Sam 129 2 3rd
Peg 26 Tudor Alan 68 12
Peg 7 Browning John 103 4
Peg 1 Nixon Michael DNW
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