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| Written by pam | |||
| Friday, 04 June 2010 10:53 | |||
 Just back from a visit to the lake to have a look around and to start planning the pegging for this year’s event. It was a spring morning but instead the weather conditions were cold, wet and miserable – great. It had been a harsh winter on the lake, much the same as the rest of Europe. The lake had been frozen hard for over a month at the beginning of the year. One of the hardest parts of pegging the event is the amount of weed in the lake and trying to ensure every competitor has a fishable swim. Hopefully the cold winter will reduce the amount of weed this year and allow me some different options in the pegging. The pegging of the sections have been pretty much the same the last two years and I want to make some subtle changes to sections this year to ensure a more even distribution of fish around the ten sections. There are also a couple of changes being made to the general carp fishing on the lake as well this year. The night fishing zone, what competitors know as the Carps Cabin, is no longer a zone. Will this increase the numbers of carps down there during the competition now? To compensate for this a number of swims on the big island facing the marina will be opened up as a night zone, will this decrease captures in this area? The fish are growing all the time in the lake and the 2-3kg stockies from last year should have nearly doubled in weight and there should be even more beautiful 20kg fish to catch, and the serious possibility of a 30kg mirror. Whilst I would like to open up new areas of the lake for pegging we have just about got all the lake already. There are still some bays available but these are bird reserves and strictly no go areas, other bays are simply too shallow and too weedy to be options. Following the recent visit I am looking to extend the numbers of swims in what was last year’s ATT section but only if these are fishable as it does get shallow down there, but it has also produced good 25kg fish to anglers who have ‘guested’ the area. So all in all it should be another exciting event this year with the changes in the pegging of the sections. Will I or won’t I remove the pegs that have won the last two years? Will the unbelievable number of carp and large carp caught last year be beaten? Is it really possible for a new WCC record to be caught again for the third year in a row? And can we raise the barrier to 30kg+? I don’t know the answers but September will soon be here and we will all find out. Andy Chambers
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