Hawthorne AC club match.
The Reservoir at Hartleylands is situated at one of the highest points of the farm, and when the wind blows you can really suffer.
Long pole is the name of the game here 12mtrs+, but with the wind being so variable from flat calm to a howling gale all day, presentation proved a nightmare with just a few small Roach as my reward for sticking it out for the first 2 hours.
It got so bad that I sat it out on the feeder for the final 3 hours! Twice the tip went round resulting in a couple of plump 2lb+ Carp. Then right on the final whistle the tip went again and I carefully played a similar Carp to the net, but at the very last second it rolled on the hooklength and was off.
At the scales I weighed 5lbs 14ozs for 5th,but that lost Carp had cost me 3rd place, which just about sums up the way my season has gone in the club matches.
Just one more club match to go at Willow Park next month and then we can do it all over again!!!!!!!!!
At the scales I weighed 5lbs 14ozs for 5th,but that lost Carp had cost me 3rd place, which just about sums up the way my season has gone in the club matches.
Just one more club match to go at Willow Park next month and then we can do it all over again!!!!!!!!!
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