{"id":27,"date":"2016-10-29T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=27"},"modified":"2016-11-13T19:26:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:26:42","slug":"round-one-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Round One Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Packington Winter League \u2013 Round 1<\/h3>\n

\"packington-wl-2016-rd1\"<\/a>Where’s all the water gone? That was what I was asking myself after setting up on Big Gearys peg 19 for Rd1 of the Packington Winter League!<\/p>\n

This is a really good summer peg and often has its day in winter, but with a cold snap, no wind and water levels really down after having no rain for yonks it looked devoid as I set up. You could see fish rolling the opposite side of the island, though, and, just as I suspected, all the fish seem to have\u00a0buggered off into the deeps\u00a0towards the ‘high bank’. That’s where all the top weights came from. I still managed a reasonable 6th on the lake with a whopping 13lb 12oz.<\/p>\n

That included a 7lb carp on the bomb with 40 mins to go, which\u00a0must’ve got lost. I\u00a0could definitely sense\u00a0one was\u00a0in the area just before I had it. With that in the bag I sat on it the rest of the match hoping for another pull without so much as a tremble.<\/p>\n

I added 6lb of skimmers on the long pole, alternating between two swims at 14m. It was only 2ft at the most here and I could only catch one fish off each swim before it needed\u00a0resting. Worm heads and dead reds were best, but the bites were really tentative and nothing like the day before. I tried feeding one swim positively and one swim really negative but both were the same.<\/p>\n

The best thing I did was\u00a0get up and\u00a0swap kits to\u00a0lighter No5 elastic just to ensure I got everything I hooked in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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