So today was Round 4 of the League for me at Two Counties. It had been fishing hard there recently and at first sight this morning I thought we would be in for a good day.
So on the day I drew peg 12, permanent peg 9, which was end peg. I arrived at the peg and was greeted with 2 awesome margin lines, open water and a nice chuck to the Island.
Home For The Day, Peg 12
I set up a small pellet feeder on a 9' Carpmaster with an Ultron 3000 reel. I set up 4 lines on the pole. 3 rigs, 2 for my edge lines to my right and left which were made up of Carp Series 2 floats 0.40gr on 5lb Power Micron to a 16 Carp Bagger tied to 4lb Micron and one for an 11m line shallow. The 4th rig was for 11m on the deck with a Series 7 float 0.40gr to 3lb micron and a 20 Carp Rigger with a band to 2lb line.
I started the match with an "All In" which Jeff replied with "that was a good one, you even got an echo!". I chucked out the pellet feeder and waited. nothing for 5 mintutes so I retrieved and cast out again. Still nothing after 5 minutes so I put the rod down and cupped in some micro at 11m and fished 6mm on the hook.
I kept throwing in some meat on my edge lines every 15-20 minutes in between feeding the pellets at 11m to build up for later but it seems the ducks were interested as well. I was soon catching some F1 carp but I was also missing a few bites which was irritating me. I managed to sneak a carp on this line as well but mainly had the F1's plus some small Perch.
Time seemed to fly by today and before I knew it my alarm went off to signal 2 hours left.I picked up my edge rig and went in with 8mm meat. I had a few liners but nothing possitive so I fed some more and returned to 11m. I managed another F1 in the next hour which was worrying me as others in my section were all playing Carp from their edge lines .
with 50 minutes left I returned on the meat. The float sailed away and I was into a fish that took off like a bullet. I managed to net him and he was a 5/6lb common. Back in I went and straight in to another fish. I had 3 quick fish then it went slow again so I fed and started lifting and dropping every minute or so. I managed to get 6 or 7 chunky Carp out in my last hour. My alarm sounded for the end of the match and I called the all out.
I felt I fished ok but losing some fish did knock my confidence a little. But we all lose fish and we learn from it. Glen arrived shortly and asked how I got on. He had a difficult day in the other section and he said it was a very close match.
I packed up everything minus the nets and walked round to the scales which had just started weighing in my section. Pete was leading the way with 37lb with 4 to weigh. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the results board and I can't remember any other weights from my section or the others.
I pulled up my silvers net firstly and weighed in with 11lb. Glen asked if I had many carp and I said not many. As I pulled them up and he put them on the scales he looked a little nervous. 28lb the scales weighed meaning I won my section which I was very surprised with, I turned to GLen and said "happy days I won my section, to his reply "yeah and the match!".
I was shocked to hear that! But a section win for us both which puts Glen top of the pile now! I'm 3rd or 4th now I believe. 2-2 between me and Glen now.
One happy chap, 2 section wins in 2 matches! Finally some good form and a huge morale boost. Really looking forward to the next one!
League Table BEFORE Today
Next Up for me: League Round 5 @ Sedges Brick Lake
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