Today i was going in the match at dales pit like i do nearly every saturday. We draw the pegs at 9:30 and start at 10:30 and finish at 3:30. I put my hand in the bag and picked out number 2. hooray! i thought. i chose peg nine and headed down to my peg. Please note that i do not take pictures when im match fishing as im concentrating. I walked down to peg nine and there was a nice wind blowing it it :). I set up two lines one at 4m to hand down the edge for small roach and anther line out at about 9 metres for the skimmers and cruicans. The rig had a mainline of 0.16 to and 0.08 bottom and a drennan loaded insert waggler weighing 1 gram. The shotting consisted of several number eight stots around the float and two down the mainline to give a nice steady fall through the water. The hook i was using was a size 22 B520 Kamasan Barbless. The rig i was using for skimmers and crucians consisted of a 0.16 mainline to a 0.08 bottom. The float was a drennan tipo 1 gram as the water is quite deep here. used a 0.8 of a gram olivette with a few number eight stots to dot it down. The hook i was using was the same as on the other rig. The feed i was using to day was wetted down trout pellets a bit of hemp and some dead maggots and some live ones. To start off i throwed out maybe 20 trout pellets. A few kernals of hemp and a few maaggots and left that for a bit while i sorted my other swim out. On my longer line i cupped in half a cup ful of trout pellets, half a cupful of hemp and half a cupful of dead maggots. Time was shouted and i started off on my long line. Hooked into a good fish straight away looked a good crucian of around a pound but the hooked pulled at the net!.i went back out with a single dead maggot and was cathcing decent sized skimmers every chuck but they eventually got smaller and were now catching them of around an ounce. I had a look on my short line and was into good rudd and roach and ide straight away this looked promising.this lasted for about an hour and then it went dead. Put some more bait in left it and looked on my longer line all i could catch was 1 ounce skimmers.i had another look on my short line and it was still dead so i sat there for around 2 hours catching 1 ounce skimmers. Then i had a look at my short line a was awarded with a 1lb and half roach. I carried on catching decent amount of good roach and rudd. Then a couple of carp decided to gate crash the party. i put a new hooklenght on and went back out. Bang! 4lb bream i had it rolling on the top and the hook pulled out oh no i thought. I then had a few more cruicans and a small tench also some more rudd and roach. I never had a look on my longer line as it was pointless as i was catching good fish at 4m. I had a few skimmers around about a pound and then it was time.
The top tree match results
G.Vines 13lb 6oz
E.ogden and ian joint second 6lb 15 oz
I came third with 6lb 10oz and i got 8 pound in my back pocket so it wasnt too bad i enjoyed it.
Any way until next time tight lines The obsessive angler.
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