Tight lines
ON Tuesday, March 7, we made our first visit of the year to the Embalse de Argos, for the final round of this year’s Abbey Angling cup.
The venue is pegged along a peninsular that is now known as the cold side and the warm side. The cold side does not get much sun, even in the summer months and at this time of year was probably peaking at about 10 degrees with a very strong face wind, whereas the warm side had a bit of sun and no wind with a temperature of about 20 degrees. This reflected in the fishing with the warm side fishing much better than its counterpart.
Winner, not only on the day but winner of the Abbey Angling cup was Bob Robinson. Drawn on the warm side he fished the method feeder with corn or pellets at about 45 metres to catch carp for 18.10kg. In second place on the end peg, again on the warm side, was Graham Patterson. He fished the cage feeder with either maggots or corn for 16.70kg. In third place, making his debut for the club was Gary Plant. Again on the warm side, he used similar tactics to Graham for 13.64kg.
The best weight on the cold side was Barry Smith with 11.68kg caught on maggot on a cage feeder.
Rods N Reels
The next day at the same venue, and after the exploits of the previous day, we decided
to all fish the warm side. The thinking was that the fishing would be better. This day was much warmer, with little or no wind, high pressure and temperatures approaching 30 degrees in the sun trap of the pegs. In essence the venue fished much harder, mainly we decided due to the rapid rise in air pressure.
Winner on the day, from peg one, was the Burnley maggot-master, Barry Smith. He fished at about 25m with maggot or corn and caught 12 carp for a total of 18.12kg. In second place was another raider from over the borders, this time from Sevilla, Dale Smith. Dale fished the method feeder mainly, but also caught a couple of barbel on the slow sinker for 8.82kg. In third place for the second day running was Gary Plant who also used the method for 8.18kg.
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