{"id":2061,"date":"2019-01-06T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T11:10:01","slug":"skimmer-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=2061","title":{"rendered":"Skimmer Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fished the Dog Lane Silverfish Open today, which was a sellout with 22 of us booked on. I\u2019ve drawn peg 34, in front of the island, which looks like a great carp peg. Five hours later I can confirm that after hooking more than my fair share of the things!<\/p>\n

I started OK, catching some chunky skimmers, but then they seemed to completely shut up shop. For the next few hours all I could catch on anything I tried was either tiny roach or carp and my longest lines were a non-starter.<\/p>\n

Thankfully a few hand-sized skimmers returned in the last hour and I managed to keep nicking an odd one, alternating two swims at 8m. I caught best on dead maggots and pinkies over small amounts of Dynamite Black Milled Expander, Green Swim Stim and Silver X Canal & Lake.<\/p>\n

The bites were really iffy all day in the flat-calm conditions, so I regularly swapped between a strung-out rig and a double-bulk setup to try and figure things out.<\/p>\n

The whole lake\u2019s fished hard, so I was pleased to see my 13lb 11oz total was enough for 3rd overall. Dick Ashby was next door and a well-deserved 2nd with a lovely net of roach on his top kit for 14lb 4oz. The match winner was Jake King with 18lb of skimmers from peg 16 on the opposite bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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