As we were blown off in the Eliminators heat at rutland it was all down to a one hit eliminator on Grafham yesterday and unfortunately I didn't manage to go through.
After practice we had a couple of methods pulling a Di5 or twiddling on a midge tip and a good number of shoals in Sailing club, Lodge, Gaynes, G-bouy, Savages and the Nature reserve so what to choose?
My partner for the day was Richard Kesek, a seasoned Grafham campaigner with many England caps to his name and after a brief chat we decided to give outside the lodge a go at the most fish and then over to catch some bigger fish in Savages.
The first hour or so resulted in only a few swirls so we headed off to Savages. The fish weren't on here either but at least we managed to tempt a few fish and they were a good size.
I had a nice 4lb brown that fought hard and deep and typical. I then had a 4lb 6 rainbow that fought fantastic. it jumped 3 or 4 times and shot off on a couple of runs that took backing of a screeming reel - majic!
Fishing a couple of black buzzers with either a booby or a daiwl bach on the point we had managed 3 a piece by 4pm and then decided to tough it out. Everywhere else was fishing very hard. There were reports of a few 5's and 6's but our size of fish could well be OK.
What we hadn't realised though was that at 4pm the fish came on outside the lodge like turning a tap and all the many that headed back there then bagged up in double quick time. Mark Haycock managed to make it through and I think after only having 1 he then bagged up in the hour. Well done.
For me it was from confidence to dejection all within a couple of minutes. Never mind there's always next year!
Monday 21 June 2010
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