Rolfs Spring league - Match 3

Back at Rolfs in Oxfordshire today for match 3 in the Spring league series the weather has been fine all week and its predicted fine for today as well so all I need is a good draw in C section now!
This week Steve is away so Team Assassins consists of myself Paul and Mark Chard. Mark is fishing A section Paul is in B section and I am in C section

At the draw bag Mark pulled peg 2 out Paul drew peg 13 and I came away from the bag with peg 15 not the best draw in the section but the sun is shining and hopefully I will have a few Carp for once

The winning method at the moment from pegs 23/24 is fishing shallow with a waggler and spraying pellets and although I am on the opposite bank and down a bit my plan today is to fish a pellet waggler and hope that the fish will move along the bar a bit more

I am also going to set up a pole line at 13m and another at 6m for silvers as the way my luck is running this year I'll probably need some silvers to get team points
And also a margin swim tight to the bush to my right



At the whistle I shipped a pot of pellets out to 13m and 2 balls of green swim stim out to 6m and a pot of hemp and corn along the bush to my right

Then I cast a grain of corn out on the pellet waggler to about 18m closely followed by a pouch full of pellets, for the next hour I swapped baits on the waggler tried different depths different amounts of feed but was unable to get a bite

Both pegs 23 and 24 were into Carp from the whistle in fact Phil on 23 was playing a Carp as I was shipping out my first pot of pellets at the start of the match peg 17 was also catching a few Carp by now
So I decided to try my 13m line and went out with a 6mm soft hooker pellet on a size 16 B911 direct to 0.18mm line set to fish on the deck after a couple of Min's the float gently slid under and I had a 2oz skimmer in the net next put in the float slid under a little less gently and headed of to the centre of the lake closely followed by my purple hydro at long last I was attached to 1 of Rolfs Carp and it wasn't foul hooked after a quick battle I slid the net under a 4lb common for the next 20 Min's I caught a few more skimmers but generally the 13m line seemed to have died so I shipped another pot of pellets out and then tried the margin swim after 30 Min's I gave up on the margin swim and went back out to 13m and straight away was into skimmers after about my 5th skimmer when the float shot under the purple hydro came streaming out of the power top and I was attached to another Carp this 1 felt bigger than the first and swam round and round in front of me until I eventually managed to get its head up and net it

This was another common of about 6lb I went back out to 13m with another pellet and before the float could settle it shot under again and I was playing another Carp this time another 4lb common so with 3 Carp in the net and a few pounds of silvers things were looking up for once

I was no where near to pegs 23 and 24 as both were bagging peg 17 was also way ahead of me but Lloyd on peg 19 and Frank on peg 14 were not catching so hopefully I'd get a few team points today

In the last hour I managed to get skimmers regularly but no more Carp although I managed to foul hook 3 or 4 Carp and was getting a nice collection of scales

Looking across to peg 19 I saw Lloyd had had a couple of Carp in the last 30 Min's so it was going to be close

Rolf blew the whistle and I packed my gear away and headed off round to help with the weigh in

When we got to C section Frank weighed 6lb 12oz on peg 14 my 3 Carp weighed 14lb and to add to that I had 7lb 4oz of skimmers giving me a total of 21lb 4oz peg 17 weighed 62lb Lloyd on peg 19 had had 3 decent Carp for 27lb Phil won the section with 145lb on peg 23 followed by Ian on 23 with 111lb

As for Team Assassins Mark weighed in 184lb from peg 2 for a fine section win for 6 points and also the match win Paul had 30lb 8oz from peg 13 for 5th in section and 2 points and my 21lb 4oz gave me also 5th in section and 2 points giving us a total of 10 points today and putting us in 4th place in the league

Not a fantastic days fishing but it was certainly nice to catch my first Carp at Rolfs this year
Things can only get better as it gets warmer