Dillington Pond - Summer League - 31st May 2009
Saturday was scorching hot and today looked liked it was going to be more of the same. After the pond fished quite well on Wednesday night, I was hoping that it would continue today. I got to the Crown for the draw and there were 16 anglers fishing, which is a great turnout for our little matches. As ever everybody wanted peg 1 which went to Neil Dring, I looked at my ping pong ball to see a number 5. This was next to where I was in the first match and neither peg had done much then but the pond as a whole hadn't fished well, lets hope today is better eh?
After a short drive to the pond and a short walk to my peg, the first thing I noticed was the carcass of a dead bream on the bank, probably killed by an otter. At about 3lb it was a nice fish, I know it's nature and all that but it still seems a shame. I put my box in the water and started setting up, I'd brought a new keepnet this week in case any eels showed up as I had a hole in my other one. I had intended to set up a waggler but being a lazy bugger I settled on two rigs. They were both ones I had used in previous Dillington matches, a 0.5 gram Drennan Roach float with 0.12mm bottom and size 18 B611 and a Drennan Squatt float with 0.08mm bottom and size 20 B511 for fishing up in the water. I mixed up half a bag of Sensas Lake and added some free samples and was ready for the off.
Dillington Pond
For company I had Robin Cox on my right and Bruce Hunt on my left so at least there'd be some banter. Rob blew his whistle and we were off, I cupped in three balls of groundbait at 11.5 metres and went straight over it with caster on the hook. Normally...
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