PLAN C – DOWN THE TRACK
The deepest water in the peg is down the middle, and here is where you should finish your match as a final hour line to really ramp your weight up.
I don’t fish bang down the middle, but find where it begins to shallow up as it slopes, fishing just back from here and down the peg too at 13m. You’ll not catch a lot directly in front of you and, as when fishing across, you need to fish down to that ‘good’ side of the swim!
Maggots come into play here. You can feed them more aggressively without doing the swim any damage and I’ll feed them with a big pot, 30 at a time, aiming to catch a couple of fish before feeding again.
I pay attention to how quickly I catch because if I get bites rapidly I may change to using a small pot on the pole to speed things up. If the bites are steady, say every five minutes, I carry on with the big pot, almost setting a trap and waiting that bit longer.
When to fish here is at midmatch at the earliest and ideally in the final 90 minutes. I begin feeding here just before I come off the far-bank pellet line.
Fish the track too early and the fish will move down the peg as the day goes on and there’s every chance they’ll have swum out of the peg completely before the match has ended.
Double red maggot is the hookbait on a size 16 B911 with again, 0.18mm and 0.12mm lines but a slimmer 4x14 MAP WD1 float taking a spread bulk of shots across the final 12ins of the rig and fished a couple of inches overdepth. Elastic is also upgraded to White Twin Core.