Rolfs Winter league - Match 4

Scraping the ice off the van windscreen is never a good start to a days fishing but today its match 4 in the winter league and I'm fishing C Section again so hopefully the deeper water will help a bit

After my nets were given the dipping of their lives as usual by Rolf

It was time for the draw and when my name was called I stepped forward and pulled peg 27 out

I decided to fish 13m straight out in front of me today and for bait I was just going to use sweet corn and bread fished over micro pellets I also had a few maggots/casters and a tub of worms just in case things were really hard as ounces can make points
Owing to dodgy elbows I find it very difficult to hold the Lerc at 13m at the moment so I have splashed out and put purple hydro through 2 of my Armageddon power tops as that is much lighter and easier to fish at distance
So lets hope it dosen't meet 1 of Rolfs monsters on its first outing
There is a very tempting bush just to my right

So I set up a top2 with black hydro to fish caster on the deck under the bush the rig is a Malman stable 4x14 float on 0.16mm line with a B911 18 hook tied direct

The other 2 rigs I'm using today are both set up on Malman Thicko 4x14 floats on 0.18mm line with a B911 14 hook direct for the corn rig and a B911 12 hook direct for the bread rig and both are set to fish on the deck

10am and the all in is sounded I ship a small pot of pellets out to 13m and another small pot of casters under the bush to my right

I fitted a kinder pot to the corn rig top2 and started with 1 grain on the hook and shipped 3 or 4 grains out in the pot

The sun was out by now and though it had been minus 3 over night it was quite pleasant sat in the sun while I was contemplating that fact my float shot under and back up before I could react I shipped it in and back out with a few more grains of corn in the pot and sat ready this time the next time it dipped I struck but missed the fish completely looks like its going to be 1 of those days again

Still back out with a new grain on the hook and a few more in the pot and this time when it went down I was ready and struck into a fish and judging by the purple hydro disappearing out of the top2 its not a Roach

A nice steady ship back and a tussle on the top2 and I had a Carp of about 5lb in the net and a smile on my face

The guys either side of me both lost a Carp but looking across the lake I could see pegs 14,15 and 18 were bagging up

Back on peg 27 not too much was happening no bites or indications since I had landed the Carp peg 28 was in the same boat with no bites at all but the guy on peg 26 was starting to catch a few fish on bread I was just considering swapping to my bread rig when the float buried and I was into a decent Carp the hydro streamed out and the Armageddon whipped round as the fish headed off to the end of the lake I eventually got it under control and shipped it back in it felt a heavy fish and was hugging the bottom I had it in and on the top2 and was trying to lift it to get it over the drop off when the hook pulled

I shipped a pot of pellets out to 13m and changed to my caster rig and gave it a try under the bush to my right after a few missed bites I hooked and landed a small Perch

Looking across the lake the 3 guys opposite and also the 3 guys to my right were all catching Carp now on bread so I swapped to my bread rig and went out to 13m but unfortunately I spent the last hour bite less it was almost as though there was a net across the lake between pegs 26 and 14 as pegs 12 and 13 were struggling for bites as were peg 28 and me but all those to my right on both banks were bagging

I was just considering sticking a couple of sections on and going out to 16m when Rolf sounded the all out

I packed my gear away and headed off round the lake to help with the weigh in

There were 5 weights over 100lb with top place going to Lloyd Moss (again) with 186lb from peg 24 and there were quite a few low ounce weights and 2 or 3 DNW's when we got to my peg my Carp and Perch weighed 5lb 6oz not earth shattering but better than the 2oz I had last match and it earned me 2 section points Chris had 76lb from peg 34 for 8 section points and Paul had DNW (again) from peg 16 that gives Team Desperate Danns 10 points this week and leaves us in 6th place in the league with 50 points

Team-----------------------Total

RS Baits --------------------88
Rolfs Team Gold. ----------78
Hayes-----------------------71
Fisherman's B -------------60
Rolfs Team Diamond. -----58
Desperate Dann's .--------50
Fisherman's A -------------50
Musketeers-----------------42
Throwbacks----------------33

Next match I'm back in the little lake on A section