Hawthorne AC club match.
The venue today was the Mushroom Farm at Falkenville, just outside Hailsham in Sussex for the 4th Hawthorne club match of the season.
The Racetrack.(looking from the bottom towards the top end)
The match was to take place on the fishery match lake called The Racetrack, and the target species on this lake is Carp, but there is also a prolific head of Roach and skimmers if the Carp don’t show, an interesting addition however are a number of Wels Catfish up to about 15lbs .
After a superb cooked breakfast in the barn it was time for the draw. The favoured swims with the wind as it was, were at the top end of the lake. So as you can guess out comes 23, at the opposite end.
On previous matches at this venue I’ve dabbled with paste for bait, with varying degrees of success. Today I had decided that come what may I would stick with a pellet and paste attack .
With the wind gusting and making presentation awkward at 13mtrs, I just set up the one rig to fish pellet over paste at 7mtrs. This consisted of a Drennan Carp2 float on a length of Trilene XT and a Drennan Carbon Carp (size 10). No weight on the rig, just the weight of the paste to cock the float.
Sport was never fast and furious, but the bites when they came were either a definite lift or sailaways and I finished the match by putting 41lbs 14ozs (all Carp) on the scales, which was top weight on my bank, but only good enough for 3rd overall.
This is the best result I’ve had fishing paste,and I shall be trying it a lot more in the coming season and putting some of Malc’s recipes to the test.
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