Sunny, Snowy, Tenchy

Yet another visit to Acorn today, this time for a Tuesday affordable match. Mike drew me peg 6, one away from were I had struggled yesterday☹.

Whilst it was cold it was lovely and sunny.

Peg 6 has a bridge at a little over 13m, which it shares with peg40. Fortunately for me, peg 40 had not been drawn, due to a no show.

The bridges at Acorn can hold a lot of Tench, so I felt like these would need to be targeted today.

I setup two lines against the bridge in 4 foot of water, plus a top kit and 3 line down the middle, all with a view to catching everything that swims.

I started by big potting my 2 bridge lines, one with maggot, one with micros. Whilst they settled I had a quick dob around with bread. 30mins and 1 roach later time for a change. I didn't want to go on to my bridge lines too early, so I went long down my right margin with an expander and toss potted in groundbait.

2 small Carp and 30mins later it was time to get on the bridge lines.

I slowly started to get bites from Tench and Carp on both lines. I fed one line whilst fishing the other, this seemed best on the day. I kept a run of odd fish coming until suddenly both lines completely died.

The sun had disappeared I don't know ow if this was a factor?

I refed with a big pot and dropped onto my short line(I had been loose feeding allday with maggot). 20mins and 1 roach later this wasn't happening!

I went back long down the right margin again, another carp and a Crucian were bagged.

Back on to the bridge lines and I was catching Tench and Carp again, now with the odd Skimmer.

I decided to stick with this as I felt it was my best chance of a pickup on the day.

I managed to keep fishing coming slowly despite, snow, hail, rain and spells of bright sunshine.

I weighed 49lb 13oz for 4th overall, my silvers went 31lb 5oz for the top silvers weight😊

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