Quick summary.....
Looking ahead the best day of the week was going to be Tuesday but with the tide wrong on the local river and also it was still a bit of a mess I decided to go along to the Tuesday Open at Acorn Fishery run by Mike Chapman.
I haven't done any good for a long time on this venue and a lot of the guys who fish it go twice a week, Tuesday and Sunday so they are ultra familiar with the pegs.
I had a look at my carp top 2's and the elastic was err...rotten so decided I would just fish for silvers.
I did get there in plenty of time but missed the draw as I was waiting down at the site office where it used to be done but Mike put another 3 ping pong balls in the bag and I drew out 27 which is pretty rubbish if you wanted carp this time of year but no worries for me.
3 lines today, 6 sections straight out in front, 7 sections down to my right a meter out from the bank and 7 sections at 2 o'clock all lines had the same depth, about 3.5 foot. Two top kits with 6 elastic, one with a 4x12 and the other 4x14 as the wind was blowing up a bit. Size 20 wide gape hook on both rigs.
Dead chopped worm (that's another story) with caster and pinkie and Clive Bransons Black Bream mix for ground bait.
I settled in and began carefully preparing my 3 lines with a small ball on each.
I picked up fish, skimmers, roach, perch and a couple of small tench off and on during the 5 hours. I did loose what I think was a couple of bigger tench which may have made a difference. It was an enjoyable day and made a change from chucking the feeder out which is all I have done so far this year.
I weighed 9lb 9oz, 17lb won the silvers by organiser and venue regular Mike Chapman off island peg 2.
1. Ant Piekielniak 40-00 p35.
2. John Andreas 37-04 p40
3. Mike Owens 33-13 p15
4. Mike Chapman 28-14 p2
5. Bob Smith 21-06 p13
6. Eddie Wynne 19-00 p7
Silver's
1. Mike Chapman 17-00 p2
So a nice day and it stayed dry for once.
Prepping now for the Team Qualifier with Nomads at Evesham on Sunday.
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