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Recently Llyn Y Gors also welcomed Ultima's pair
of Pete Wilson and Andy May. Pete Wilson of Ultima and Smartbait fished
the Karpium with his friend Paul Dyer as they landed a 19lb 15oz Mirror
Carp and Andy May had a terrific day on the Match Lake. Andy fished
in a friendly competition against local and Welsh International angler
Paul Jones. Both anglers were superb on the day yet Andy eventually
triumphed with an incredible 110lb match net in cold, wet Winter conditions,
Carp, Barbel and Bream were in abundance and left Andy May stunned about
the quality of Llyn Y Gors and the newly labelled 'Bagging Machine'
cant wait for his next visit to Llyn Y Gors.
From
Andy May's Blog
Monday 3rd March Challenge match Llyn-y-gors
"I was really looking forward to fishing this water as I have heard
how good the fishing is. The place is set in beautiful surroundings
in Llandegfen in Wales; it took a bit of finding as it's in the middle
of nowhere but I got there in the end and met the owner Kev and Paul
Jones who I was fishing against. Paul is a very good angler and fishes
most of the open matches I fish so I know him quite well and with Llyn-Y-Gors
being his home water I would really be up against it. We fished on the
match lake and also we were doing a feature for a magazine as Llyn-Y-Gors
have just opened up a new carp water called 'The Karpium' and another
of my Ultima team mates was doing a feature on there. Paul chose two
pegs which were quite similar being 13 metre across and both with plenty
of cover to fish over to, also both had a similar depth of around 4
½ foot down the middle. It was a freezing cold day with snow
around and the wind pushing the temperature down even further. Paul
was really confident of catching a few fish as the water hardly ever
gets match fished and therefore pressure is kept down to a minimum,
but I was a bit reserved thinking that it would be a real struggle in
the cold conditions. I set up just two rigs, one over finding 2 foot
of water against some elephant grass and in between two little bushes.
On Paul's advice I used heavier line than I would normally use for this
time of year using 0.14 Ultima XT7 main line and 0.12 XT7 hook length
to a size 18 B911 hook and white hydrolastic with a 4x10 float. His
reasoning being that the fish, mainly barbel and carp don't get caught
very often and as the island was quite snaggy I needed to get them away
as quickly as possible. Down the middle I used 0.12 XT7 main line and
0.10 XT7 hook length to a size 16 B610 hook and blue hydrolastic with
a 4x12 float. I would feed maggots and small balls of micro pellets
down the middle and pinches of micro pellets and either corn or a 4mm
expander pellet on the hook across. On the all in Paul immediately hooked
into a carp whilst I was still feeding my swims, Here we go I thought!
But on my first put in the float wouldn't settle, I thought it was small
fish attacking the pellet on the drop at first but my elastic shot out
and made it's way towards one of the two bushes, it was a foul hooked
barbel around 1lb, next put in the same thing happened and I caught
another barbel, then I caught a carp around 3lbs, the swim was absolutely
solid and my float was dipping all the time from all the fish, I had
to work out a feeding pattern so I could avoid foul-hooking them and
the best way was to feed every other put in and to lower my rig in rather
than push it up the shelf, this way I hooked everything in the mouth
and the fish weren't pre-occupied by my feed. I really hadn't experienced
anything like this before in the cold conditions, I was catching a barbel
or a carp every chuck, Paul on the other hand was struggling a bit catching
just odd fish. After 3 hours inevitably things started to dry up over,
I was still getting bites but thought I would rest the swim and let
the fish re-build there confidence. I had a go down the middle which
I had been feeding every 20-30 minutes and first put in I caught a skimmer
around 1lb, next put in I had one around 2lb and after that the barbel
moved in, what a place this is! I rested my far swim for around an hour
and again first put back in I was into the barbel again, they were feeding
really confidently now and I hardly had to strike as the barbel were
hooking themselves. At the end of the match I knew I must have 80lbs
plus, Paul was first to weigh and had 20lbs 14oz, he had really struggled
but to be fair he said that my peg was solid with barbel and im sure
he let me go on the best peg today as I hadn't seen the venue before.
I weighed in 110lbs of barbel and carp, an absolutely brilliant days
fishing in stunning surroundings. I would definitely recommend this
venue and can't wait to go back. "
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