{"id":3754,"date":"2020-01-30T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2020-01-31T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:12:50","slug":"2nd-prize-at-makins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"2nd Prize At Makins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/makins-2nd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/makins-2nd-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/makins-2nd-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/makins-2nd.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With our electric off all day I decided to get out the house and fish the midweek open at Makins. Even though it\u2019s over an hour away I didn\u2019t need much persuading!<\/p>\n<p>The match was split between Avon and Severn pools on Phase 3 and I plucked peg 5 on Avon from the bag, with Gaz Wood to my right on 1 and Steve Haywood eventually arriving on peg 8 to my left.<\/p>\n<p>My pre-match prediction was 35-40lb to frame, but it\u2019s fished pretty good for January. I\u2019ve had a nice day catching around a dozen carp for 52lb and 2nd in the match. Andy Searle won with 70lb from peg 14 and Mark Griffiths was 3rd with 47lb from Severn.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve caught everything across, fishing around some overhanging brambles. Five on bread, a couple on corn and the rest on pellet. I\u2019ve fed green Swim Stim micros with a 6mm expander over the top, both given an extra dash of Dynamite Betaine Green Pellet Soak.<\/p>\n<p>With only 3ft down the middle and 2.5ft across I only set two rigs up. Both were 0.2g Malman Mojos on 0.18mm Power Micron to a 0.14mm hooklength and size 18 and 16 hooks. Red 10-12 Slik through a Short Kit was best as I had to drag several fish out the brambles and somehow didn\u2019t lose any in there! It\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve used Short Kits at Makins and they were spot on. These lakes average just 13m wide so you don\u2019t want miles of elastic streaming out, especially with Makins\u2019 notoriously spooky carp.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure the weights would\u2019ve been higher if it wasn\u2019t for the amount of nuisance roach in everyone\u2019s peg. They were even having a go at double 10mm bread! It made me think you could have a surprisingly good silverfish-only match on Phase 3 if anyone ever fancied running one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With our electric off all day I decided to get out the house and fish the midweek open at Makins. Even though it\u2019s over an hour away I didn\u2019t need much persuading! The match&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carp","category-makins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}