{"id":9,"date":"2016-10-23T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-11-13T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T19:14:00","slug":"a-tough-silverfish-section-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"A Tough Silverfish Section Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Packington Silverfish League (Guesting<\/em>)<\/h3>\n

Autumn is well and truly here\u00a0and this was an interesting, albeit very tough, silverfish-only match on Molands Lake at Packington. I had agreed to guest for Simon Farmer and was quite looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

I knew\u00a0the lake was fishing very difficult and was interested to see what I could catch with a 100% silverfish attack.\u00a0That was until I arrived and discovered there was an additional F1\/carp prize! That\u00a0left me begging for a second keepnet as I’d only brought the one!<\/p>\n

I still concentrated on the silvers, as that was the main prize, plus I couldn’t let Simon down by selfishly just going for F1s and knackering his place in the league.<\/p>\n

Peg 13 was my draw and there were F1s rolling all over the place. It turned out to be a very tough day. I had a tench, a 1lb skimmer, a 2lb bream and some very small roach for 6lb 7oz\u00a0and\u00a0a section win. Just 10lb won the entire lake.<\/p>\n

I did have 20lb of F1s as well. They seemed to love everything I tried to avoid them!\u00a0I also fished much finer silverfish gear than I would if I was solely targeting F1s. Using a\u00a0solid No5 through a full top two with a 0.08mm bottom and a fine 20 or 18 Silverfish Match hook, I\u00a0never felt like I would get broken, even on big F1s to 3lb.<\/p>\n

What also\u00a0surprised me was just how receptive these f1s\u00a0were to chopped worm in groundbait. Wherever I fed it, they lapped\u00a0it up! Food for thought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Packington Silverfish League (Guesting) Autumn is well and truly here\u00a0and this was an interesting, albeit very tough, silverfish-only match on Molands Lake at Packington. I had agreed to guest for Simon Farmer and was...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-venues","category-packington-fishery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}