This week I got a call to step into and Excel AC winter league match as a guest. I’d not been to Cob house since early last year so looked forward to it even though I’d not been there much in the past. I wanted to draw at the cafe end of the pool as the wind was pushing down that way but I drew up the top of end of the pool.

The plan of attack was to start short and then push out into the lake if needed, although the wind was a bit gusty. So I started at 2+2 on the pole with soft pellet and feeding micro’s. This only attracted small silvers and I tried maggots next but again all I could catch was more small silvers. So I fed both margins with dead red maggots and micro’s which produced nothing and after a couple of hours I was going no where. A change was needed, so dispite the gusty wind coming from my left I shipped out long to 13 metres with corn as hook bait and cad potting in a few gains of corn over the top and at last I caught a carp. I stayed on this line for pretty much the rest of the match catching the odd carp. I did come short a few times during the day but nothing was near in and the carp seemed to be in the middle of the pool. So today was just a case of feeding a few grains of corn over the top of my 13 metre line and sitting and waiting for a bite. My 8 carp went to 39lg 7oz which was enough to pick up a section win.

Best rig of the day

This was a 6 x 16 F1 Maggot pole float to help combat the wind, set up on 0.17mm main line with strung out no.8 shot above a 6 inch Preston size 14 (0.15mm) GPM Ready rig set up on green 11 Preston Dura Slip.