Last week I drew a not very good peg and my tactics were not much different to the guy sat on the opposite bank, he was catching and I couldn't buy a bite, but one week later a different venue and you start catching a few fish and your whole outlook on fishing changes and the same can be said for the person the previous week who was catching and was full of confidence and was now struggling for a bite and its the fishery that's rubbish.
All fisheries have their good and bad points, some too deep, others not deep enough, some like open waters some like snake lakes, I've even heard people say that fishing was too easy but we all seem to forget that we have a choice to attend or not but the most important thing is that we are out fishing and not stuck indoors.
This week saw 23 anglers booked onto Longs lake at Summerhayes and well done for Steve to negotiate this with Pete to ensure we could get most of the club anglers fishing. Its not an easy task when the fishery limits the amount of persons able to fish but at least we were out.
From looking at the lake, you could tell the water levels were down even though we have had a few inches of rain over the past week. Summerhayes does suffer with the levels when we have had a prolonged dry spell as do many fisheries but there is a good stock of fish in Longs so people will catch.
As per normal we drew on Friday evening with fellow committee members looking in
Golden peg - 15
1 - Tony Fry
An early look at the forecast showed that the odd shower may be present but the wind was modertate. On setting up the skys grayed over then we had some misty rain before that blew away and it started to warm up
Today I had the awesome Dave Allen on my left and the in form Steve Warren on my right so I was up against it today. I have had some good battle with Dave in the last year but his class always shows . From the all in Dave was straight into a fish on the tip and he had at least 12 fish in the first hour followed by about 20 fish for 2 hours, wher as I had 3 and i think Steve had 2 or 3.
A switch of tactic with my paste line primed and I was pulling out a few bigger fish. Then I saw Dave go on the paste and thought that he would cruise it but again he could only catch little pasties whereas I was still getting bigger fish.
Dave disappeared for a few minutes which saw me land a few fish in his absence and he called over saying he thinks hes gonna get busy later in the match. That,s confidence for you.
Next to Steve was his mate John who was having a paddy and moaning about not being any fish and after 2 hours he had only caught 2 fish. Well John, I had 2 bites in 6 hours last week and poor Roger Coombes didn't have any so not too bad in comparison.
The section by the motorway always proves difficult in the summer but can be good silvers in the winter. Bob, Paul and Sausage may be in for a tough day. When Paul packed up at about 2 i thought Id see more follow but they all stuck at it.
It started to get more difficult on the paste line and bites were few and far between so a mixture of catch 1 on the paste then go on the tip for 1 seemed to work for the rest of the match as was the same for Dave. I wanted that 1 more fish but it never came and I thought Dave had beat me by a long way but it proved really close in the end.
Talk was that Shaun on peg 12 had 120lb and was the clear winner, however his clicking is somewhat off of the mark.
Results
Overall
1st - Shaun Larkham - 87lb - 08 oz
2nd - Dave Allen - 85lb - 01 oz
3rd Nige Coram - 81lb - 08 oz
Silvers
Ist - Bob Pascoe - 13lb - 14oz
2nd - George - 10lb - 12 oz
3rd - Tony Newell - 9lb - 08oz
Next up is Wedmore - Landsend - book in with Steve if you wish to fish.
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