Not been a good week - the mice are refusing to throw themselves onto my traps, and suddenly I've started playing indoor bowls like a beginner. Though there is one bright spot - I've contacted Cralusso and they say they have managed to find some of their Capri and Spirit in-line floats which tackle dealers don't appear to stock any more.
I like these Cralusso floats because you can change the tips, and I have only a few left of my favourite Drennan Tuff-eyes. The new Drennan AS models, also with interchangeable tips, seems nearly all either too small or their tips are too fine. I'm not a fan of very light floats for fishing on a long pole - fishing six feet deep at 10 metres in a strong Fenland blow with one seems pointless when you can't swing the rig back because it keeps blowing away from you. So 0.5 gm is my go-to size in most instances when fishing long, and 1 gm in a big blow, while I have floats in 2 gm and 3gm made up in my holdall.
Bryan Lakey made his name fishing for bream, but in his early fishing days he used to make headline winning matches on the Fen drains with roach - and he used huge porcupine quills for that. He convinced me that a heavily-weighted float often has lots of advantages, and I'm too old to be persuaded otherwise!
I had a lovely-looking margin swim down to peg 22. But I heard of only
one fish caught in the margins on our lake - a tiny perch.
Not a good match on Yew for me - 18 of us fished the JV match on Yew and Oak. I was happy enough with my swim halfway along the lake, but to cut a long (five-and-a-half-hour), dispiriting story short, I ended with one 8 lb cap, hooked 30 minutes from the end, on a pink wafter with a hybrid feeder, for plumb last on the lake.
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| Chris Saunders, to my left, plays his second, biggest carp. |
On my left Chris Saunders had two carp on a pole, and on my right Ernie Lowbridge laboured on a pole for most of the day for two or three big ide, and F1, and a few small roach, on maggot.
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| Gus Gausden won our five-peg section with two carp, a caraasion, and a tiny perch. |
Past Ernie, though, everyone seemed to have caught a carp or two on feedered maggot, topped by John Knight on 19, with nine carp on maggot feeder and hybrid feeder (not fished together!) and dead maggot, for 80 lb 3 oz.
My next bowls match is tonight, in a strong pairs league, when I hope my touch will have returned. I suspect my team will finish bottom of the league, probably without winning a game, but we like to make the stars work for their win...just like fishing!
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| The result from Oak - it fished a little better than Yew (but Not A Lot!). |
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| Ernie Lowbridge - third |
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| Roy Whincup - second on Yew. |
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| ...including this cracker. |
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| John Knight - 80 lb 3 oz... |
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