First match for me this year and I almost wish I'd stayed in bed. Arrived fifteen minutes before the draw and the lake looked good for a few fish, although a club match the day before was won with only six pounds.
Now these matches are rover matches so if your number one you get first choice and so on, I drew number twenty out of twenty two so there wernt many pegs left! I went for peg 15 and set up a rig for down the side of the reeds, a rig at 13 metres on the deck and another rig for up in the water. At the all in I cupped in some 4 mm pellets at 13 metres and went straight over it on a 4mm expander pellet. Nothing! Tried different sized expander pallet and corn. Nothing! After an hour I tried down the side and was rewarded with a couple of small roach. Back out and I started to get a few more small Roach and a hand sized skimmer. I was pinging a few pellets all the time so was hoping for a few up in the water but didn't have a bite.
At the end of the match I tipped maybe a pound back. I don't know what won but 6pm odd had come off the channel which is the next lake to Langate.
In hindsight I was lazy. At 13 metres I fished 0.15 to a size 14 PR38 and should of scaled down. I also should have sorted some casters out the day before but thought pellet and corn would have been ok. Oh well there's always next time.
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