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<\/a>Yet another really windy and stormy day but I was happy with peg 21 on Extension. It’s a great peg on the lake, even though it’s strangely not been producing as well as you’d expect lately. My only issue today was the wind, which was up to gale force at times and hitting me\u00a0side on from the 20s as well as from opposite, through the gap in the islands. That meant I was getting buffeted and battered from all angles and it wasn’t pleasant! Wind tourettes kicked in several times\u00a0I\u00a0can tell you!<\/p>\nStarting short at four sections I managed a few small stockies and two older F1s before venturing out to 13 metres where it was about 4ft deep. This spot was a waste of time as tiny stockies were causing me no end of missed bites and liners. Another pole section was duly added to get\u00a0into 3ft of water. This was better but it was only\u00a0once I went a few inches even further and shallower that I cut down on the missed bites. I had a decent run of fish here but they were mostly small and the wind blew a few off as I really struggled to hold 15m of pole. I tried to drip a few maggots with my micro pellets and that killed the peg stone dead!<\/p>\n
A few looks with a deep dobbing rig into the bowl to my left was really disappointing, especially as the last time I drew this peg I won\u00a0the match with a big weight of\u00a0carp and F1s doing precisely that. The fish were clearly happier\u00a0in shallower water today.<\/p>\n
As the wind worsened I knew I needed to catch bigger F1s closer in. I decided to try and make something happen down the margins and\u00a0thankfully it worked and the fish were there and hungry! What’s more they were really big ones too; fish\u00a0we haven’t seen much of all winter! They definitely wanted pellets as I found\u00a0maggots were a complete waste of time.<\/p>\n
I ended up with 71lb 14oz for 2nd on the lake, just pipping Pete Caton by 3oz and Phil Moore’s 74lb from in-form Peg 26. Mark Taylor’s 84lb was best on New Pool and the whole complex had fished really well with loads of fish being caught close in, mostly on pellets. Thank god for that as that means these fish are finally having a munch so\u00a0I can start to feed some bait and\u00a0make things happen.\u00a0No more\u00a0dobbing and starving fish onto the\u00a0hook from now on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tunnel Barn Individual League \u2013\u00a0Round\u00a0Four Yet another really windy and stormy day but I was happy with peg 21 on Extension. It’s a great peg on the lake, even though it’s strangely not been...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-venues","category-tunnel-barn-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}