Rob's day

The Wednesday club were back at Beggar's Hall today with the promise of heavy rain throughout the day. With 10 anglers we had 5 on each bank. I drew peg 20, end peg of the 5 but that’s where the good news ended. With at least the rain holding off until we started, I went out on bomb and bread. John Carter next door lost an early fish, but sadly that was the last action he had. I tried all combinations, bread, corn on the bomb, method feeder with wafter, maggots etc for not an indication. Fred on 18 then had a carp after getting a few pulls which was also to be his last bite.

The day was getting colder with the rain continuing and a nasty wind coming down the lake – the only entertainment was seeing Bill over on peg 5 grapple with his brolly which turned inside out with one large gust.

With around 45 minutes to go the rain mostly stopped and the wind dropped – all of a sudden a different day! I had set the pole up and seeing Jeff on peg 3 land one carp from the margins, went out by the reeds with maggot on the hook. Immediately the float dipped and a few seconds later a 5lb carp landed. One more bite missed and that was it.

Very few fish caught today – on my bank Fred's one fish, Phil had a carp and a bream and Tony on 16 one good carp of 15lb 13oz enough to win the bank. It was equally hard on the low bank although Peter did well from peg 10 with 3 carp for 31lbs 3oz for top weight on the day. Bill had one carp, John Todd one roach, and Jeff the one fish. Picture is Tony with his carp.