With my report on wednesdays Willinghurst Open likely to be very short, I have convinced fellow Total Fishing.com member Squeeky Roller (Stuart Wilson) to be this weeks guest blogger with a report on his trip to Framfield (where I wish I'd gone) !
My match report is short and sweet - I drew the back spit at Willinghurst for the third match in a row - this time Peg 25 and with the whole of the top lake being horribly coloured and filled with an extra 6 inches of rain water, I had the grand total of 2 bites for 2 carp and 12-6-0.
Result
Terry Harrison Top 6 43-4-0
Jimmy Bullard New 8 40-0-0
John Clifford New 13 37-12-0
Sections
Michael Sanders Top 26 32-0-0
Donald Garnish New 20 27-1-0
However, Squeeky had a much better day than me and here is the report of his day.
I booked myself into the wednesday open at Framfield for a complete change of venue for me, normaly I can't get out and fish on wednesday and if I can I go to Willinghurst as the lads there are fantastic and the laughs flow all day long. I found out that Mark Hathway also had the day off and he also fancied Framfield as well, so the plan was hatched to meet there. Anyway I got up in the morning at 6.30am and with the draw at 9am I had plenty of time to sort myself out. For those who have kids you will understand this, my 18mth old son likes to play with keys and normally I put my house and car keys away so he can't get at them but this particular morning he finds them ! I find them eventually and leave my house instead of 7.30 but at 7.45 and I've still got to load my car up..loads my car up then disaster the handle of my carry-all is caught over the lock of the car boot and wedge's the car boot shut so I can't open it..by now i'm very nearly loosing the plot and going to do a "John Cleese" you know the scene were he's hitting the car...any way I get manage to get on the road and of course I hit the traffic school run and people going to work etc, Mark phones me and asks in a nice and calm polite voice "were am I"? To cut a long story short Mark drew my peg for me and text me my peg number peg 48 and I arrived ten minutes late, and met up with him collecting his nets as you use the fishery's own, now to those who have never been to Framfield there's two lakes Brookhouse and Spring with island running up the middle of them when you collect your nets you give the guy your peg number and he gives you nets accordingly, if you draw an average peg you get the one net if you draw a good peg you get two nets ........I got two ! Anyway I get to my peg, quickly studied the 'pitch' as it were, the far bank was out of the question as it was about twenty metres away with a small bay,a bush to my right on the inside on which i would be sharing with my neighbour and another inside peg to my left, so the plan was two inside lines one left and right and a 13 metre attack in the middle of the track with the option of a bomb rod over tight in the bay if needs be or go longer on the pole say 14 to 16 metres. The bait would be corn and pellet down the edge's and just pellet on the pole line and either pellet or corn on the bomb and my rigs consisted of 0.10 on the long pole with grey hydro and 0.13 for the inside lines and all with carpa 3's 4x12's dotted and with tubbys 808 16's for inside with 6mm pellet and 18 for long with 4mm pellet, plumbed up i had two foot by the bush and two and a half foot left inside and three foot long pole(hence the float size).On the whistle i cupped out a small cup full of pellets on the long pole line and a full cup by the bush and half a cup by left with a few grains of corn. I shipped out on the 13 metre line with a 4mm expander on the hook and 'pinged' 6 pellets at a time ..now you may think why he's not kinda cupping well with the amount of fish in these lakes you get them feeding on a penny and you'll end up with foul hookers, anyway ten minutes in and every body has had fish and the guy to my right is on two (apparently he more or less lives there, abit like Pikey with Willinghurst), then my float dips 'here we go' I think and out fly's a two inch roach..well its a fish !! I pinged half a dozen pellets out and shipped out...float dip's again fish on ..carp around the two and a half pound mark is in the net 'relief' we're off the mark.. pinged ship out again then another followed and another I kept the routine more or less going for the whole of the match pinging 4 4mm every ten seconds as well as lifting and dropping the rig...I did look at my inside lines through out the day but there was nothing there even my neighbour never had a bite off that shared bush, I more or less caught all day long off the one line at 13 metre and when they backed off a little I went to 14 metres and the bomb rod never entered my head, needless to say I weighed in 82lb for a match win.
WELL DONE SQUEEKS !
Sunday is Round 4 of my winter league at Willinghurst - Come back here on Monday to see how it goes and if Squeeks can catch another 82lb weight !
