The Asian Angler January 2015 Digital Issue - Malaysia - English | Page 346

It was another unknown place for me, the usual questions go through
my mind; how far out do I fish? Will it be a feeder or pole venue or both?
Shall I feed aggressively or sparingly? I decided to clip up for 50 turns
on the feeder and an 11m (plumbed and found an interesting drop off
there) pole line just in case. From the starting whistle some small perch
(very small) were landed, then realised I was probably fishing on a bed
of zebra mussels when some came back on the hook and the feeder got
snagged numerous times. So I made slightly longer casts at 55 turns to a
small clear patch and slightly deeper water. Occasionally made casts to
45 turns where I made do with more small fish. Unfortunately, my pole
line did not produce any bites throughout the match.

I persevered feeding with the 55 turn line but that was when things
started to get horribly wrong. Firstly, I’ve exhausted all of my heavy
feeders, lost through crack-offs and snags so I couldn’t hit the clip consistently, and secondly the side wind made my casts slightly off course.
For close to 3 hours I think pegs 7-10 did not get any bites so we ended up chatting (and moaning). Bites started again in the last hour and
Dave (former King Of Clubs champ) immediately went on a catching
streak while I just stared helplessly at my motionless tip. And somehow
at some point of the match I managed to crack a quivertip too (sorry
Steve!)!