There is definitely a buzz around at the moment with the way that Mawgan Porth is fishing, Harry broke the record last week with 329lb and on the Sunday it went again with 343lb to Skip McCabe. Great weight, it was just a shame that the majority competitors failed to show and it was a low turnout for that match. Skip drew peg 41 and had all his fish on 6mm pellet fished on his top two. There were 17 booked for the Tuesday match and I was keen to fish, I picked Harry and Duds up at 9am and on this occasion the van seemed rather empty, well all you need is half a pole and the nets are provided at the fishery so tackle is at a minimum!
Blue is the Colour
As we arrived it was like a SPRO convention! Daniel and Michael Twine from London and newly sponsored by Spro were on holiday and in attendance along with Andy Partridge and myself it looked like it was a team match. I had my dip and out came peg 8 a peg I fancied the peg until venue expert Andy Partridge drew next to me on bridge peg 9 in my opinion a better peg, but there was no doubt that we would be drawing fish of each other. When I got to the peg Andy was there and had already assembled an array of top kits and he was looking at the water rubbing his chin. ‘I don’t fancy this at all to day’ were the words I was greeted by. What do you mean mate it’s a great peg. ‘No I don’t fancy it at all’ Two minutes later Janet the owner walked around and Andy was asking for a third keepnet! Andy there is no doubt about it Mr P you are a canny old dog!
A day shallow?
I had made my mind up that I was fishing up in the water today as I thought it was the only way I could compete as Andy is brilliant at catching down the edge. My thinking was that leave that to him and see if I could draw more fish by fishing in the open water. I set up rigs on my top two with a short fourth section. One .2 Cralusso Capri rig to fish on the deck and several other in line KC Shelf rigs to fish up in the water. I also set up a rig for the edge in case I needed it. I had about 6 pints of 4mm fishery pellets with me and some 6mm hard pellets for the hook. I had treated these with some Yorkshire baits ‘Glug’ which amongst other things stops them breaking down so quickly, this enables me to catch a few fish on one pellet.
Doing it wrong at MP!
At the all in I gave it a couple of handfuls of pellet on my chosen line and before the second had hit the water Andy was landing a fish! A quick glance around and I could see a few playing carp. I dropped my bait in and expected an instant response but nothing happened! I had to wait a few minutes before my first carp arrived, I was already 6 behind Andy. But, they were there now and it was catch up time. It was solid, one a bung on the deck until my .18 line snapped. I reached for a shallow rig thinking I would get them off the deck but it just didn’t happen I was fishless for about 10 minutes. I was really annoyed with myself for not setting up a duplicate deck rig and had no choice I had to redo the rig which all takes valuable time. When it was done I started catching again but it was slower, glancing around everybody seemed to have slowed down.
It seemed to be that a few could be caught and then they would back off, I was cursing myself for feeding heavily at the start. Everybody expected huge weights me included and I fed for it! I should have gone a little easier as there is no way that you can take it out once it’s in. I left myself with no choice but to have a look down the edge to my right. I managed a few from this line and then they would back off. Andy had slowed down also. I could see him searching round his swim trying to find pockets of fish, he was however still playing his little mind games saying I was in front of him. I had to ask if he had cannabis in his cigarettes as he certainly wasn’t watching the same match as me!
I had to rotate between the two swims to keep the fish coming, I kept trying up in the water to no avail until the last 15 minutes when they decided to have a go. Oh man I just wish it could have been 60 minutes earlier.
The scales came around and 106lb was leading until I put 129lb on which was slightly surprising, I knew Andy had more despite him still saying he had less. In fact he did have less than me until he emptied his second net and recorded 140lb!
Andy led until the scales reached Harry who was on peg 47 he had 160lb to take another victory.
Overall the lake fished a little harder today but you wouldn’t think it with those weights, there were quite a few other weights over 100lb and I think all the visitors enjoyed it, well they all booked into Fridays match !
Harry had another go at trying to win the bonus peg money which is now well over 500 pounds but amazingly he couldn’t find his own peg number in the hat, he did however draw another three flyers!
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At Mawgan Porth Stewart did you band the pellet or hair-rig band it , and what shotting did you use?
Many Thanks
Richard
I use 4mm – 6mm hard pellet that is hair rigged on a Mosella micro band. The soft pellet is straight onto the hook. Shotting for the deck rig is a bulk about 6” from the hook. The shallow rig is a bulk directly under the float.
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