David's end peg

Round 6 was again back on the Rosslea Lakes. 1-2 degrees was showing up on the way down the road this morning and the back roads to the Rosslea Lakes were very dangerous with ice. Lyon’s lake was frozen over with about 10mm of ice.

17 anglers turned up and ony 3 sections were in today:

6 pegs on Inver High

6 Pegs on Drumacritten

5 pegs on Gavins

Today turned into a bit of a disaster for me. I drew peg ‘I18’ which I was on 4 weeks ago and won the section, but today it was alot colder and frozen over. Pegs 17 and 18 are shallower than pegs 13-16 which meant that it was always going to be a bit of a struggle. 4 Weeks ago it took an hour for the the fish to move into these 2 pegs even with the mild weather, today I didn’t know what was going to happen.

I broke the ice up to 13m with my cupping kit. The slider rod went up in the hope that the thin ice would melt or move during the day. 2 rigs, 3” on deck and 2” on deck, 1g Colmic Cosmo’s, 0.08mm to size 20 B511’s.

Groundbait:

Half bag of VDE Secret, Quarter Bag of Sensas Gross Gardons, Quarter bag of Black Crumb, Quarter Bag of Damp Leem.

All in:

I cupped in 2 small balls and a pinch of hemp at the start. I cupped in a small ball every 45min after.

Long story short:

It took me 1 hour to get my first bite and a small 20g Roach.

2 Hours later I got my 2nd bite from a 50g Roach. Brenton Sweeny on peg 17 was still biteless after 2 hours and packed up shortly after and went home early. Jordan Hall on peg 16 was also Biteless but was still perserveering. Tony Kersley, Nick Howel and maybe Paul Eyers had caught a few roach from the start in the deeper pegs.

3 Hours in and with Tony Kersley on 17 small Roach, Nick Howell leading the section with 20-30 Roach and then when Tony said Paul Eyers was starting to put a couple of fish in the net I called it a day. I put my 2 Roach back and packed up in the Rain. Jordan had now caught 3 roach at this stage.

I was destined for 2 points which would be a dropper so I decided to settle for 0 points and get home to the heat.

Looking at the results that evening, the big surprise was Jordan finishing 2nd in the section. Paul Eyees only had 200g for 4th and Nick won the section as expected and Tony in 3rd. The fish must have eventually moved towards the shallower pegs in the last hour which left myself thinking that I should have stayed on and maybe caught a late run of roach for a few more points than I expected.

With today’s Nill points, i’ve sliped back down to 3rd overall but only 3 points behind the leader after both Neil and Paul having bad days also. Round 7 again on 8th January.