The peg is a busy peg with plenty of options it holds a number of different species roach on the pole skimmers and bream when the conditions are right plus the odd carp it looks as though it should hold barbel and chub but i've never heard of anyone catching them from the peg
The conditions yesterday were bright slight breeze and a tad of colour in fact spot on.when i sat down the only fish i was interested were the bream and skimmers so i only set up A feeder rod and landing net with 20 minutes G/B mixed tackle was ready and i was fishing
the word on the peg is you need to cast to the end of the 4th narrow boat which is 50 to 60 yards
The flow comes straight towards you and is a little pacey so picking the right feeder is a must i also started on a shorter hook length so my bait was never far from the feeder and this resulted in a lot of missed bites and some fish
Three red maggots resulted in a few hybrids up to a pound yet i missed loads of bites .So a change in tactics i changed the rig around by putting the hook above the feeder something perhaps i wouldn't of done in a match not know the result but this was like a light switch the bites turned into the best drop back bites ive ever seen and a string of bream to 5lb started to come to the net
and another
this went on for a hour until it started to slow up
it was odd fish plus a few roach had come into the peg double worm and seat on your hands was called for.The bream i felt had moved or just shut up shop but the roach and hybrids were still having a peck
Finaly the double worm paid off the biggest of the day
Thinking i had it sorted i cast in again this time it rapped around straight away a solid fish could it be a carp after several dives into a weed bed which i had lost several bream earlier
i then began to think it was a barbel as i just couldn't get it off the bottom
suddenly it was quite clear what it was a double figured pike showed its head and it hadn't finished. after another couple of runs how i didnt lose it was answered i had hooked it in the side of its mouth and you can just see the worms hanging out its mouth
POSITIVE THINKING i must step the game up
by the end of a 4 hour session i'd lost 5 bream landed 7 along with around 8lb of hybrids and roach plus me big pike [returned safely as well]the G/B i use was sensas fishmeal lake and a couple of handfulls of Black river it mixed spot on for this type of peg
with all the kit match fishermen take you'd never reach the bombhole