Been a while

[Banana Steve]

It has been a while since I last posted a report and as I have managed to gain a few points I thought best to get my A**e into gear.

Well over the last couple of weeks I have managed to fish our new club river and fish the clubs Carp qualifier match.

The river report:

The River Frome at Woolverton Somerset


As you can see, this is great looking stretch of the River Frome. I have now fished this stretch 3 times and each time has been different. The first time was just after the season opened up and I found myself in the swim depicted in the photo above. On arrival at the river, there was a good steady pace, perfect for the Stick Float. So with conditions perfect all I had to do was catch a few fish and it wasn’t long before my first bite, a small but nice looking Roach. Bites were a bit far and few. But every now then I would get a good bite but miss it on the strike, after a while I did manage to strike into a fish and my question of why I was missing bites was answered, I was missing bites because the lightning reactions from the Dace in the strech.



I had a good day there not as many fish as I hoped but at least I caught. And I even had another species for the hunt. A monster Minnow!



My second trip saw me a swim upstream from the previous swim. This swim was deeper and the flow was a little slower than previous time. As before I found the bites a slow to begin with but instead of sticking with maggot I opted for meat as well. With a few Dace and Roach in the net caught on maggot I went over to the far bank with meat on the float to catch myself this 2lb 6oz Chub.


My Third trip saw me back on the same peg and this time I only took meat and fished the pole on the far bank, I only managed one Chub of 11lb or so and a few good Dace.



My Carp Match:
The club over the last two years run a series qualifiers of Carp Matches with the top three going into a final being held at Little Hayes in September, each qualifier lasts 24hrs and with Crockerton not fishing its best at the moment the draw was always important. I drew Peg 1 for which I wasn’t to over pleased as I wanted one of the higher peg numbers. However, I bit the bullet and set myself up for the match.

The match was hard I did however, catch fairly early in the match and produced this 13lb 4oz Common, ( more points as well)


As the day wore on and moved into the evening, Cindy who was in peg 20 went into the lead with a13lb 8oz Common


By the morning I had only had a few bleeps during the night but found myself in second place with Aiden Doven in third. As the morning wore on I managed to fluke a 4lb common to put me back in first.


As to say I managed to win the qualifier, even though I didn’t fancy my chances at the start of the match. But one good thing came of all the trips I scored 4.5 points.

[fishypaul]

well done silly a**e, some nice fish there mate

[Simon N]

Great To See The Clubs New Stretch Of The Frome Being Used. And Also Producing Some Fish. Good To See You Made The Best Of A Peg You Drew That I Know You Really Didnt Want. Funny How You Got The Peg Cindy Wanted And Cindy Got One Of The Peg U Wanted. At Least You Both Got Through To The Final.

[pingu]

good to see you out mate
and points too

dave

[stevepatrick]

Looks like you had a great time. Those carp look in mint condition, and always nice to catch when fishing a small river.