Kippax Park Open Saturday 21st September

 

Saturday saw me at Kippax Park once more, I enjoy the fishing here at this time of year but there are probably only a few weeks left before this venue becomes really hard and it will be it for me for the year. Today I was back in one of my favourite areas of the lake, peg 7, though I was warned that there can often be a lack of carp in pegs 2-7 and Andy Stoner to my left on peg 5 was not too optimistic. Judging by the scum in peg 1, the wind had been blowing down the lake, would this mean the carp were down here with it?





A bit more of a modest 16.5m this week put me tight to the bank, but with only one main spot to fish inb etween two sedges, I decided not to put a Method feeder rod up this week. Basically I didn't want to throw a feeder into the spot I was polefishing too. I set up a mud rig, a deeper across rig, a track rig for ide and a margin rig. I was going to try something different this week and fish my margin rig further down the shelf in 2.5-3ft. After feeding across with maggots, I started down the shelf a bit but it wasn't long before I saw signs of activity in the mud so I soon brought this rig in and picked up my shallowest one. The first four drops produced four ide for around 6lb, a decent start on this venue. But anglers further down the lake were already catching carp, and Andy Stoner caught one first drop on his ide rig. He then started catching big ide down the track on worm.

I persevered in the mudline but when I did get a bite the culprit was an ide. Forcing the peg with more bait failed to tempt any carp in, but the ide were still there. I decided to replumb my deeper rig just off the mud to target the ide specifically and hope for carp later on. After catching a few this started to die off and I had a couple of looks down the track, catching a few more good ide here too. Half way through the match and I was getting a bit concerned, as although I had plenty of ide, I only had three small carp to go with them. Andy had slowed right up and was struggling down the middle and across. The lads in the early and late numbers were catching carp, while to my right at the top end of the lake very little was being caught.

My hopes now lay with the margins as the ide had seemingly deserted me (or I'd caught them all!). The deeper line failed to produce so I replumbed much tighter to the bank and soon saw a swirl or two. I quickly caught the customary two mug carp in the edge before they started to become cuter. The usual scenario started to have me tearing my hair out again, I then decided to try the Method down the margins and caught one on this, but then they seemed to spook at the splash. I took another on the pole and also added a few carp across later on. Andy had managed some bigger carp down the edge and was catching me up again.

The result of my days efforts was 30lb of ide and 32lb of carp for a total of 62lb 4oz. Andy had a mid fifty but neither of us main framed and I took the section by default. The match was won by Sean Rogers on peg 25 with 86lb, Andy Barker was second on peg 2 with 85lb of carp and Steve Mazza third with 71lb. It's safe to say the carp were at the bottom end today!

Match Result
1. Sean Rogers 86lb p25
2. A Barker 85lb p2
3. S Mazza 71lb p26
4. B Fisk 62lb p7