Got Baits ISK League Round 5

With this being the second to last match of the league I know I had to still get a good result in order to maintain my mid table standing and avoid the drop zone like Newcastle this season.

At the draw I pulled out B13 which resolved to Bramley peg 13, I do enjoy the long walks to these pegs.

When I arrived at the peg I had a clear path to the island and 2 margin swims, however the biggest obsticalewas the wind blowing across the peg from right to left at around 15mph and gusting upto 25mph. With the wind this made it more difficult to get the method feeder over to the island and impossible to get the pellet waggler in the right position.

I choose 2 margim swims one to the left around 7 meters and the other to the right. At the whistle I fed both margin swims and cast the method feeder out to the island. Within a few seconds I was noticing a few liners then the tip swung round and I soon had the first carp in the net of the day. Back out to the island and the tip swung round again this resulted in a missed fish, the wind seemed to pick up and this didn't help as I seemed to be loosing around 50% of the fish on the way in. I should have used the longer 12' feeder rod which may have given myself a bit more of the edge.

I changed to the margin line however with the wind being so bad and having changed direction also this made my margin swims very difficult to fish, I managed to get 3 small carp out of these before I had to try the method feeder again.

At the end of the day I managed just over 31 lb at the scales and managed 3rd in the section which was a fair result for the day. This has left me 13th overall, not bad seen as I had settled for 20th this year.

League Placing

1 Ian Carley, 5-4-4-5-4, 385-14 22
2 Nick Gilbert, 5-3-5-3-5, 362-9 21
3 Paul Kell, 0-5-5-5-5, 379-1 20
4 Russ Evans, 4-3-4-3-5, 303-13 19
5 Collin Wood, 3-5-5-5-0, 307-10 18
6 Russell Graves, 0-5-4-5-4 286-7 18
7 Dennis Price, 4-4-5-3-2, 269-8 18
8 Jeff Driscoll, 4-3-3-4-4, 249-2 18
9 Jonny Watt, 5-3-3-0-5, 250-11 16
10 Matt Love, 5-4-4-0-3, 219-0 16
11 Mark Hathway 4-4-4-0-3, 211-1 15
12 Nick Allen, 3-5-3-2-1, 218-15
13 John Haige 2-2-2-3-4, 204-6 13
14 Paul Slater 3-0-2-4-3, 184-11 12
15 Trevor Little 2-1-3-4-0, 217-9 10
16 Pete Allen 2-2-1-3-2, 217-6 10
17 Chris Jones 3-1-2-2-2, 124-10 10
18 Al Loader 0-2-3-0-3, 127-4 8
19 Brian Pink 2-2-1-2-0, 52-3 7