Draw was at 09:00 with fishing 10:00 to 1600. I went into the kiddies school bag and pulled out peg 30, never fished this end before but Adie informed me there had been a lot of fish down that end mid week, we'll see.
The peg was like most pegs on Paddock but a little narrower that the mid teens and did not need my end section to reach the far shelf.
Peg 30 with the new stock pond that has been dug on the island, the overflow pipe has not been needed yet but still a feature.
For company to my left on Peg 31 was Sensas Thyers soft pellet and silvers king Mike Owens and to my right and an empty peg away on 28 was Sensas Thyers captain Lance Tucker. On Bridge pegs 33 and 34 were two other Sensa Thyers carp slayers Brian Slipper and Kev Perry, bridge pegs are a holding area for the fish and anyone who draws them are usually in the frame.
Map of Paddock Lake
Keeping things simple I had two rigs for the far shelf where there was around 2.5 feet and fishing banded pellet, one rig for the track, about 5 feet again banded pellet and an edge rig for fishing paste toward the pallet on peg 29. My 2 shelf rigs also could be fished down the edge.
On the all in generous helping of wetted 4 mm and micro were fed on all lines, there were a lot of fish moving but not always a good sign.
The first hour was quite slow and not a lot was being caught, I managed a couple of carp across but lost about 3 due to being foul hooked, Lance was doing a little bit better landing the ones he hooked.
An early look down the edge and I had one straight away on the paste but could not get another bite on it. I shallowed right up on the far shelf and had a few on the drop, feeding very little but making a noise dropping the rig in and continually lifting and dropping it.
Loose feeding pellet via the catty down the edge and fishing banded over the top only brought a couple more although I did bump a few due to fishing heavy elastic and trying to prevent them going under the pallet.
After 4 hour I tried a pellet I had not tried before, hemp and sweetcorn flavour on the band across about a meter out from the far bank. The float dipped straight away and I began to catch fish more frequently but too late in the day to make any impression.
The pegs prior to Lance did not weigh in that much and were exposed to a cold breeze most of the day.
Lance put 72lb 5oz on the scales to go into an early lead but had been watching Brian and Kev on the Bridge pegs and thought they had a lot more.
Lance with part of his catch
I weighed in next and thought I had around 45lb, was a little bit out and recorded 56lb 4oz.
My contribution
Mike Owens had a slow start but managed a few toward the end weighing in 32lb 12oz. Next was Brian Slipper who had 3 nets in on bridge peg 33. Brian weighed 71lb dead. Brian did comment that Kev next door had around 100lb. He was not far out with Kev putting 102lb 1oz on the scales.
Kev with part of his catch.
There was an indication that Mark Bromsgrove had also done well. Mark was not far off the mark (pardon the pun) with 100lb 14oz.
So.........a clean up by the Sensas Thyers guys.
1st Kev Perry 102lb 1oz
2nd Mark Bromsgrove 100lb 14oz
3rd Lance Tucker 72lb 5oz
4th Brian Slipper 71lb
I finished 6th, full results below.....
Not sure what is happening next week, was going to Summerhayes but there is a 2 day festival on and I am only free on the Sunday.
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