Wednesday Open 29th March 2017
Well after a 3 year break from having the time to report on my bank side activities
I'M BACK 😈😈
First trip out for 2017 was on the Wednesday Open at Rolfs Lake and with the clocks changing last Sunday it was a 1pm Draw with fishing from 2 till 7
For a change i arrived nearly 2 hours before the draw as i wanted to sort my gear out as i hadn't looked at it since early December last year but as normally happens i never touched it lol
Didn't seem like 2 hours but soon everyone arrived and it was time for the draw and i pulled out peg 4 in the small lake
Off i strolled to my peg to set up and that's where silly things started to happen 😱
Top Kit tubes pulled from the rod bag and that's when i remembered that i needed to elasticate some kits as of my 6 top kits only 1 had sensible orange elastic the rest either had knicker elastic about an 8 or no elastic lol
Well as normal i didn't sort any of them out with new elastics lazy as normal
A quick rummage through my box and i found 3 rigs and yes i had to untangle them as they had just been chucked in my box when i last fished as i did intend to make some new ones as i had used them all through last season ( i ain't changed) lol
Any way all 3 where actually perfect for the peg as when i plumbed around with them i found
Rig 1 was perfect depth for 5 sections down the right margin
Rig 2 perfect for 5 sections straight in front
Rig 3 perfect for the Top 2
Could get technical and say what type and weight floats and diameter of line they all were but i ain't got a clue other than some had a lot of shot on and one didn't and they were all Red lol
Line was probably .21 or .23 powerline
But i did put a new hook on each which was a size 12
FAILING TO PREPARE IS PREPARING TO FAIL
Springs to mind lol
Anyway enough of the prep or rather lack of it on to the fishing
At the all in i put a small handful of pellet on both my left and right top 2 swims then promptly went off back to the van as i'd run out of cig papers (see said i ain't changed at all)
On my return i put a 6mm pellet on and dropped it into my left top 2 swim and almost instantly missed a sail away bite, next put in resulted in a foul hooked fish that's still swimming at speed across the lake.
So 3rd put in was with Paste which resulted in a few knocks of the float the BANG fish on I instantly knew it was a lump as it just wandered off rather the going mental
Took about 5 mins before i even saw it and about the same again till it was safely netted and what a start as it was a right lump going between 18 & 20lb
HAPPY DAYS I'M BACK
To cut a 5 hour story short I took 6 more Carp from the left swim and 5 from the right swim along with 2 Bream all on the Paste for a total of 11 Carp and 2 Bream
Couple of today's Carp
(wont be doing landing net shots again as they look way smaller than they actually were
At the weigh in i had 3 nets as follows
Net 1 Silvers = 2 Bream & 1 Gudgeon for 7lb +
Net 2 Small Carp = 6 fish for 48lb +
Net 3 Big Carp = 5 fish for 89lb
Total Weight 144lb 9oz
And that was enough for the win
Don't forget though that i've screwed up a few things today as follows
I FAILED TO PREPARE WHICH IS PREPARING TO FAIL
I FISHED PASTE & IT'S TO COLD AND EARLY FOR PASTE
Must remember when i fish next Wednesday that i need to Prepare & i must not fish Paste
Yeah right i think ill do what i always do and do it MY WAY
😜😜😜
Well after a 3 year break from having the time to report on my bank side activities
I'M BACK 😈😈
First trip out for 2017 was on the Wednesday Open at Rolfs Lake and with the clocks changing last Sunday it was a 1pm Draw with fishing from 2 till 7
For a change i arrived nearly 2 hours before the draw as i wanted to sort my gear out as i hadn't looked at it since early December last year but as normally happens i never touched it lol
Didn't seem like 2 hours but soon everyone arrived and it was time for the draw and i pulled out peg 4 in the small lake
Off i strolled to my peg to set up and that's where silly things started to happen 😱
Top Kit tubes pulled from the rod bag and that's when i remembered that i needed to elasticate some kits as of my 6 top kits only 1 had sensible orange elastic the rest either had knicker elastic about an 8 or no elastic lol
Well as normal i didn't sort any of them out with new elastics lazy as normal
A quick rummage through my box and i found 3 rigs and yes i had to untangle them as they had just been chucked in my box when i last fished as i did intend to make some new ones as i had used them all through last season ( i ain't changed) lol
Any way all 3 where actually perfect for the peg as when i plumbed around with them i found
Rig 1 was perfect depth for 5 sections down the right margin
Rig 2 perfect for 5 sections straight in front
Rig 3 perfect for the Top 2
Could get technical and say what type and weight floats and diameter of line they all were but i ain't got a clue other than some had a lot of shot on and one didn't and they were all Red lol
Line was probably .21 or .23 powerline
But i did put a new hook on each which was a size 12
FAILING TO PREPARE IS PREPARING TO FAIL
Springs to mind lol
Anyway enough of the prep or rather lack of it on to the fishing
At the all in i put a small handful of pellet on both my left and right top 2 swims then promptly went off back to the van as i'd run out of cig papers (see said i ain't changed at all)
On my return i put a 6mm pellet on and dropped it into my left top 2 swim and almost instantly missed a sail away bite, next put in resulted in a foul hooked fish that's still swimming at speed across the lake.
So 3rd put in was with Paste which resulted in a few knocks of the float the BANG fish on I instantly knew it was a lump as it just wandered off rather the going mental
Took about 5 mins before i even saw it and about the same again till it was safely netted and what a start as it was a right lump going between 18 & 20lb
HAPPY DAYS I'M BACK
To cut a 5 hour story short I took 6 more Carp from the left swim and 5 from the right swim along with 2 Bream all on the Paste for a total of 11 Carp and 2 Bream
Couple of today's Carp
(wont be doing landing net shots again as they look way smaller than they actually were
At the weigh in i had 3 nets as follows
Net 1 Silvers = 2 Bream & 1 Gudgeon for 7lb +
Net 2 Small Carp = 6 fish for 48lb +
Net 3 Big Carp = 5 fish for 89lb
Total Weight 144lb 9oz
And that was enough for the win
Don't forget though that i've screwed up a few things today as follows
I FAILED TO PREPARE WHICH IS PREPARING TO FAIL
I FISHED PASTE & IT'S TO COLD AND EARLY FOR PASTE
Must remember when i fish next Wednesday that i need to Prepare & i must not fish Paste
Yeah right i think ill do what i always do and do it MY WAY
😜😜😜
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