Kippax Lakes, Leeds - Osprey Lake.
Got 3 matches to catch up on. Last weekend, I fished round 8 of the Robin Hood AC League at Kippax Lakes, Leeds. We were on Osprey again. O Crap, that said on our last match here I was a happy 5th from this lake. Did I fair any better this time?
Due to how difficult it was on our last match here, there was only 13 of us in attendance.
I wanted to draw any of the 4 corner pegs (2, 15, 17, 30). I put my hand in the lucky bag and peg 30 stuck to my hand - happy days.
I arrived at my peg to find that I had Eric the Pheasant on peg 28, Michelle was on peg 25, Dave Horsfall was on peg 23, Mark Wright was on peg 21 and Paul Wilson was on peg 18 (17 not in). In addition, there was no one on peg 2, instead I had Dave Webster on peg 1. We have fished this lake a few times and this was the first time that I had known for peg 1 to be put in. Hmmmm.
I set up the obligatory 9ft method rod and mini baitrunner. Then I made up 3 pole rigs:
Rig one was a 4 x 16 Colmic Jolly set to fish top 2 + 2 straight out in front of me where it was about 5.5-6ft deep.
Rig two was a 4 x 14 float set to fish about 2ft deep across to the island. The end of the island was about 14m away, but was featureless, so I added the 16m section to my Garbolino M1 and fished away to the left where I had some reeds growing out of the island and upon plumbing up I found that I had 2ft deep. I put on a heavier rig as there were some reed strands under the water and needed to ensure that my float (and bait) had settled correctly.
Rig three was my margin rig. I plumbed up to the platforms to both left and right (the platform to my right is peg 31 which is rarely used in matches) and found that I had about 3ft deep to them both.
For bait I had a couple of pints of white maggots (for the top 2 + 2 line), 6mm Bait-Tech expander pellets, some 6mm hard pellets and some micro pellets for the method feeder. I also knocked up a bag of Sonu-Baits krill groundbait (for potting down the margin - and for the method if needed) and I also had a tin of corn.
That's it, I was ready.
The match started, I went straight out to the island with the long pole and lowered the rig in near the reeds, the float settled for all of 15 seconds, then buried. I was into my first carp of the day (hopefully), as I was bringing my fish in, Eric had got a bite on his pole and where as my fish was about 1lb, Eric's was about about 7lb. Crap, I was playing catchup all ready. I managed to get a couple more carp claw back some of the deficit, that everything went wrong. I received a call from work!!!! The time was now 10.42.
I am the manager of a domiciliary home care company employing some 80 staff or so and one of our clients wanted to bring their father home from hospital (yes on a Sunday) and wanted us to provide round the clock care for a few weeks or more. I had my admin staff ringing me, the Director of the company ringing me, the Associate Director ringing me, the client ringing me, the carers ringing me. This went on for the next couple of hours. I finally managed to resolve the issue and got one of my live-in carers to go and the client was able to be sent home from hospital. I sent a text to my boss at 12.36 saying that it was all sorted out.
Although I had still been fishing during this time, I wasn't really fishing, I was just going through the motions as I was not focused on what I was doing. I had however managed to snare a couple of carp and roach during this time. Unfortunately, fishing does not pay the mortgage and work does!!!
Right, back to the fishing. It had gone belly up in this two hour spell. Dave on peg 1 had caught a couple of carp and had a bream that was about 4lb. Eric the Pheasant had managed to get another couple of carp. I was still playing catch up.
There was not bites forthcoming from the island, and I could only catch roach and small bottle-top skimmers on the short 2 + 2 rig.
I decided to go down the side to the next platforms to see if I could get any signs. I dropped in to the left margin and after a fruitless 10 - 15 minutes, I had lost one fish - I got a dip, struck, the fish went to the middle of the lake and then the hook pulled, I had it on for about 5 seconds.
I went to the margin to my right and after about 10 minutes, I managed to get one about 4lb. That made me feel better. I proceeded to fish the margins for the duration of the match. That's it. Match over.
I walked around with the scales and everyone asked me what I had caught - I replied not a lot and they said that I was lying as rumour had it was that I had caught. Webster set the ball rolling by putting 22lb on the scales. Frank Brook (the winner of the last match here with 39lb) was next to weigh and plonked 5lb on the scales. Frontrow Harrison was on my peg from the last match (peg 6) and was the new leader with 22lb 8oz. He asked what I had caught and I said about 20lb or so (with my fingers crossed in my pockets).
There were a few weights between 15lb and 26lb or so. Then the scales arrived at Paul Wilson and he promptly plonked 47lb 3oz on the scales from peg 18. Mark Wright was next to weigh and managed to put 47lb 1oz on the scales from peg 21. Dave Horsfall had 26lb 6oz, Michelle had 15lb, The Pheasant had 22lb 13oz. I was last to weigh. I lifted my first net out and put 6 carp on the scales, I then lifted my second net out and put another 4 carp with them and the scales bounced around to 29lb 11oz. I had managed to snare 3rd place.
Full Result
1. Paul Wilson (Peg 18) - 47lb 3oz
2. Mark Wright (Peg 21) - 47lb 1oz
3. Mike Herrington (Peg 29) - 29lb 11oz
4. Ian Waddell (Peg 10 ish) - 27lb
5. Dave Horsfall (Peg 23) - 26lb 6oz
Woodlands Lakes, Thirsk
I fished the Whitsun Bank Holiday pairs match with one-time travelling partner - Lee Bramham (Bram). We both wanted to fish either Skylark or Partridge, then Bram said that seeing as I had driven us both there, I could fish them. I said no, we will flick a coin for it. Bram flicked the coin, I called heads. I was fishing on either Skylark or Partridge and Bram was fishing Curlew/Wagtail or Kestrel.
There was about 42 pairs on the match so we had a bit of room.
I put my hand in the bag and peg 24 on Skylark stuck to my hand. Hmmmm, feast or famine. Bram drew peg 15 on Wagtail.
I arrived at my peg to find that I had Josh Newton on peg 20, Steve Richards on peg 13, Gordon Poole on peg 15 and young Ross Pickles was on peg 11.
I had pellets, corn and groundbait for feed and I set up the ubiquitous bomb/pellet waggler/method rods and also 2 shallow pole rigs, 1 margin pole rig and 1 rig to fish top 2 + 2.
To cut a long story short, I ended up with 9 carp for a total of 48lb. Bram had 6 carp for about 40lb ish. 35lb won Curlew lake, 55lb won Wagtail lake. Jonny Maddison won the match with 135lb from Partridge (about peg 23), 88lb won my lake from peg 18, Josh Newton was second on the lake with 83lb ish, there was a 'ton' weight from Kestrel. Fellow Robin Hood club member Dave Webster won his section with about 73lb from Partridge 3 (or 5).
Josh Newton and Andy Dargue won the pairs match.
FellowAfter the match Robin, the pond owner, did two random peg draws to win £25 and £50 respectively. The first random peg to be drawn was peg 3 on Partridge. Dave had added to his funds from today. The second random peg to be drawn was peg 11 on Skylark and seeing as Ross wasn't there (he was still fishing), they re-drew the peg. Wagtail peg 15 came out. Bram, the lucky so and so, had won the £50 prize. Did he go halves??? Did he baubles!!.
Next week, we are on Stock Pond at Sykehouse. Never fished it before. Well, we will see.
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