Back to Kippax again for the open on Lapwing Lake and a slightly reduced turnout of 14 this week. Not a big match but a friendly one all the same, and a much welcome 10am draw (lie in again then!). This time I drew on the opposite side of the lake to last week in peg 24. I've always liked the look of this peg when I've passed it as it sits on a bend and there is a lot of water to go at. I wanted to try and fish with my rig touching the bank again but as there was lots of vegetation in the water, the only likely spot I could see was next to a sedge slightly to my left. Here I found about 6inch of water, which I fished with a cut down adapted rig. I also set up to fish for ide down the track and the same margin rig as last week to fish 10m down the peg either side. However I also put up a polyball rig to fish wetted down paste a bit closer at 6m to my left, to see if that would sort the foul-hooking problem out.
It wasn't long before tails and fish were appearing in the mudline where I'd fed maggots but I just couldn't catch them! My rig was snagging up bits of weed on the bottom and the problem was that where I was fishing dropped off suddenly from 6inch of water. After a very frustrating hour with just a carp and an ide to show for it I decided to move my line. I went to the other side of the sedge, this time in about 1ft of water, although it was tight to a weed clump and not the bank itself. As expected this produced more liners but I started catching good ide, some of which were 1lb 8oz. I caught the occasional carp but what I soon realised what there were much less carp round this side of the lake, but they were bigger, and there was more ide here.
Halfway through and I decided to feed the margins to my left. It didn't take long once again for tail patterns to appear and the first two casts went like clockwork. Two positive bites and two 5lb fish hooked and landed. The fish appeared to realise what was going on as once again the liners and foulhookers then started! I came closer to the bank but it made no difference. I started to feed my 6m paste line and when a few swirls appeared there I had a go, using the same groundbait I was feeding as a paste. A couple of chucks and no bites whatsoever despite fish being present saw me decide this was not the answer! These fish rarely touch a bait off bottom, even down the middle so I honestly think the next thing to try is the Method down the edge. I'll keep you posted on that one!
I spent the remainder of the match swapping between across and down the edge. The edge line provided more nice ide and I actually reverted back to the 6ins of water island line for the last hour and took some carp here, plus more ide. Come the end I was a bit annoyed with myself as I knew I should have done better. I was interested to know what my silverfish net would weigh because I had caught most of the ide accidentally using three maggots on a size 16. I was kicking myself for not going for them properly with lighter gear as I was on a peg where they live. I had a track rig already and set up for them but I never even picked it up, doh!
Sensas Walton's Andy Barker won the match from peg 7, next to where I was last week, with 94lb, interesting a lot of this was caught on the Method feeder. Anyway my ide went 34lb odd and my carp 50lb odd for an eventual total of 85lb 8oz. I was just beaten into third by Andy Rymer, who caught 24 carp for 88lb, but I was cursing that poor first hour and not going for the ide. It should really have been another win!
Match Result
1. A Barker 94-8-0 peg 7
2. A Rymer 88-15-0 peg 26
3. B Fisk 85-8-0 peg 24
4. B Rymer 81-0-0 peg 5
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