{"id":3908,"date":"2020-03-16T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:27:42","slug":"the-golden-rod-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Rod Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve just come back from the two-day Golden Rod Final at Larford Lakes held at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Day 1 I drew peg 10 on Match Lake and had a good start catching a run of F1s by plopping a little Open Alloy Feeder short with fishery micros and a 5mm yellow Washter. The lake\u2019s F1s have taken a battering recently so they soon shut up shop and everyone seemed to struggle on our bank after the first hour.<\/p>\n

I eventually managed four carp and an F1 in the middle of the lake on 7mm Washters. Sadly they weren\u2019t quite big enough as I totalled 40lb, with a 41lb and a 43lb on our bank in a really close battle! However, we were all eclipsed by the burr bank pegs opposite who all had 50-70lb+ of big lumps late. The exact same thing happened on Day 2 with world class anglers faring no better from our pegs, so definitely not a good draw in hindsight.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Day 2 I was on peg 9 on the Speci Lake. I decided to fish a short Method plop all day for bream and skimmers with the outside hope that a bonus carp would arrive, but only two got caught in our 11-man section. My 10 fish went 18lb for 3rd in section, narrowly beaten by a 19lb of skimmers next door and a carp-assisted 20lb off the opposite bank. I was a bit gutted as I somehow pulled out of three fish. Once again the faithful 7mm Washters did the damage. Strangely not a bite on corn and only one small fish on dead maggots. The whole lake switched off today, just like last year\u2019s Final on Day 2, but it is only March I suppose…<\/p>\n

I ended up 21st out of 66 anglers. An ok result off two very average pegs, but looking back I could\u2019ve scraped into the top 10 prizes with a bit more luck.<\/p>\n

A big well done to Przemek Solski on winning the \u00a310k jackpot with an excellent two-day performance and of course to Phil Briscoe and his team for keeping the event going after such serious flooding.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nice sitting on my hands watching a quivertip for two days, but I\u2019m itching to get the float gear and catapults back out now!<\/p>\n\n\t\t