{"id":7344,"date":"2025-07-18T12:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:22:04","slug":"patchy-sport-in-poor-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7344","title":{"rendered":"Patchy Sport In Poor Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My fishing matches have been patchy to say the least recently! Not too surprising in this weather, though. On the Soar qualifier at Sutton Bonnington I drew opposite <\/a>the pub car park. With everyone enjoying a beer in the sunshine the bream and skimmers were never going to be anywhere near all of that noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a nice start catching perch on the feeder then just ran out of bites. I weighed 2lb 14oz with 4lb winning the section and about 9lb winning the zone with skimmers from the last peg. It was never going to be a spectacular match in the searing conditions and a clear and sluggish river, but there\u2019s always half a chance when it fishes hard\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, the Feedermasters qualifier on the Trent was cancelled, but that gave me a chance to have a day off and watch my daughter earn her orange belt in Karate, which was really nice! I then had a great couple of days coaching at the brilliant Packington and Dog Lane fisheries, before a long trek north, full of anticipation for the Tidal Trent qualifier at Collingham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I caught my PB 11lb 10oz specimen there last year, so I was really fired up with lots of big-fish taming gear. We knew it would fish hard, but no one predicted quite how much the river would switch off. I had one bite and missed it. Like most people in my zone, I couldn\u2019t even get a sucked maggot! However, I had a next-peg lesson off Trent expert Phil Foster who had four bites and four fish; two chub and two bream for 12lb 7oz. That astonishingly was enough to win the entire match and just 5lb 8oz framed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other big surprise was just how much the tide came in. It even took the experts by surprise and I was starting to think we\u2019d have to move our vans! Still nice to be sat in river, a bit like Otis Redding, just sittin’ on the dock of the bay…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My fishing matches have been patchy to say the least recently! Not too surprising in this weather, though. On the Soar qualifier at Sutton Bonnington I drew opposite the pub car park. With everyone...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feeder-fishing","category-river-trent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","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=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}