Tight lines fishing
Abbey Angling club
ON TUESDAY, January 18, we fished the third round of the Abbey Angling Cup at El Bosquet complex.
Upon arrival it was still dark and the temperature was –2.5 degrees, with quite a heavy overnight frost. Couple this with a full moon and things were not looking good for a pleasant day's fishing. This was exactly the case, the complex fished as bad as I have ever seen it, with five dry nets and five weights below 1kg from the 21 competitors.
Winner on the day and climbing into pole position in the Abbey Angling Cup was Richard Smith. Richard was drawn on peg 5 on the new section and fished the pole across on maggot to take carp and mullet for 11.02kg. In second place from peg 27 was the old stager, Bill Reade. Bill fished maggot or bread to catch 9.04kg of carp. Third was the very consistent Nick Bastock who again caught
on the pole with maggot for 8.16kg from peg 2.
The pairs event was won by Bill Reade and Tony Felstead with quite a lowly 13.52kg. Other section winners were Neil McBernie 6.74kg, Mick Hill 0.24kg, Harry Billing 3.50kg and Russell Davidson 5.96kg.
Rods N Reels
The following day we again fished the same complex. The weather was slightly better with 3 degrees upon arrival. We decided to also fish pegs 18 to 20 along with the usual pegs.
Runaway winner was the venue specialist who has been having a tough time of it lately, Neil McBernie. Neil was drawn on the end peg 7 and fished maggots across for a convincing win with 19.84kg. In second place, and using similar tactics, but this time from peg 22 was Steve Higgins who weighed in a credible 13.66kg of all carp. Third was John ‘I can moan underwater’ Waples, who moaned his way to 11.42kg from peg 22, fishing once again maggots tight to the far bank. The other section winner was Bill Reade with 11.42kg and the pairs event was won by Neil and myself with 22.82kg.
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