Every year since the first Total-Fishing.com/ACA match in 2003, I have had the pleasure of visiting Roy Marlows Glebe fishery. This is in my humble opinion one of the best fisherys in the country and I wish I lived closer.
This year due to work commitments I was unable to make the TF/ACA festival at the end of May, but not to miss out I was booked in for THE match of the year, the clash of North Vs Midlands Vs South. The Monkeys Vs The Muppetts Vs the Shandies.
The match was arranged to be fished over 2 days the first being running line only, with the second day to be any method allowed on the fishery. This was to be a team event with one man from each of the 3 teams in each section, the winner of the section getting 1 point down to 3 for last. After the 2 days fishing the team with the lowest points gets the bragging rights for the next year.
Both myself and the usual travelling partner Mark set off for the Longshoot Hotel nr Nuneaton(our base for the next couple of days) Thursday afternoon after work after a couple of very shakey moments which included Mark having to get his seatbox frame wielded up at the last minute and then Mark driving off only to see his wallet shoot of the roof of the car. Anyway with those events behind us we arrived safely at the hotel, unloaded the kit and headed to the bar for some drinks and food followed by a few of us trying our hand at a pub quiz and not doing so well and finally to bed late.
The following day dawned and promised to be very hot, so much so that I stopped at the local supermarket to get some sun cream.
We all met at the Glebe fishery where the usual pre draw banter was flowing, with this being a team event our captain Ricky Baxter drew one of 3 envelopes with the teams pegs in then we had to draw our peg from those in the envelopes. I did my usual and drew a crap peg. Peg 104 on pool 7, oddly enough I have had the pleasure of this peg twice before and both times previously I have struggled to catch anything from the peg.
My plan was to be to start on the feeder, while feeding pellet on the waggler line hoping to catch the carp shallow, all the while feeding down the edge looking to catch on the long rod.
At the all in I chucked my loaded feeder across to the far bank, and started to feed pellet on the waggler line. Almost immediately I could see fish milling around feeding on the pellet line, but decided to keep on the feeder and let the fish get a bit more confident. After an hour of fishing all I had managed on the feeder were a handful of skimmers and a perch, so I decided to have a crack on the pellet waggler, first cast and I was straight into a carp. Unfortunately that was all I managed on the pellet waggler and the feeder failed to produce any fish other than the odd skimmer.
All the while the Northern monkey who I was pitted against was catching the odd carp by fishing paste on the waggler just beyond the rod tip, seeing as I was not catching on either of my other lines and no fish were showing down the edge so I decided to follow suit and try to catch some fish on the paste. I quickly set the rig up and and within minutes I was into my second carp with several more following in the next hour before the bites went off and I was struggling again. As we were getting into the final hour I decided to lash some bait in down the edge to try and get a few fish to finish off with, and it worked. 10 mins after throwing in 2 pints of hemp some pellets, corn and caster there were tails and vortex's in the margins. This resulted in me managing to put a couple more fish in the net before the all out.
Unfortunately my efforts were not enough to win my section (of 2) and I ended the day pretty hacked off that I had been limited to fishing a rod and line when I know I could have got more out of the peg with the pole. But what really mattered was the Shandies managed to win day 1 by just 1 point so it would all hinge on the following days result.
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