10/12/11 - Lands End - Speci Lake

Weight – 1lb 14oz
Catch – 4 Perch
Weather – Mostly cloudy with showers. Overnight frost.
Water Temp – 5.8c – 6.3c
Match – Open – 3rd out of 5

Only 5 today which was disappointing, however 3 dropped out on the morning and today was also Viaducts Christmas match, so attendance was always likely to be low.

It was decided to use Speci Lake today and normally I would be happy to have drawn peg 31, opposite the point of the island. However last night’s frost seemed to have knocked the colour out of the water, which was now very clear.

The first 30mins was spent on double corn at 14.5m, under the far shelf, but no bites. So a switch to fishing tight to the island resulted in 3 lost foul hooked carp and that was the only carp action I saw. I was getting occasional liners and tried fishing shallower, but no indications. In fact only 1 carp was caught between the 5 of us, which fell to Beany on peg 33.

With 90mins to go, Mark Walsh on p29 was catching big perch at 8m, which meant Mike West on p32 was in line to pick up silvers with just 3 tiny perch. Beany had managed to lose a 2nd carp at net.

I had only caught 2 tiny perch and decided it was time to try something different, by chopping up some maggot, which has got me out of trouble on more than one occasion. Today was no different with 1 decent perch from down the track, followed by another tight to the island, to take the silvers by default.

Some days there is nothing you can do. A sharp overnight frost killed the fishing today and with only 5 anglers on the lake, the fish had far too many places to sulk away.

1st 11- 2 - Mark Walsh – p29 (big perch)
2nd 4- 8 – Dave Wescott – p33 (1x carp)
3rd 1-14 – Ken Rayner – p31
4th 0- 2 – Mike West – p32
5th 0- 0 – Mark Poppleton – p36 (1st blank in 6 years)