Sunday 27/04/2008 Carps AC - Sedges - Tile and Brick Lakes

This match honoured Tom Coulston's 80th Birthday with the Carps AC Secretary Colin Golding (pictured top right - the one sporting a new coat) presenting Tom with a bottle of Southern Comfort. Tom provided cakes for all forty contestants. As it was his birthday Tom requested a good draw, but alas didn't get one!

This match was held on two lakes - Brick (the old Match Lake) and - Tile (the new converted specimen lake). It was decided to hold two separate matches with identical payouts with twenty anglers on each lake.

Tom kindly pulled my peg for me which was peg 40 on Tile. Consulting the peg map I was on the near side corner peg (behind Brick peg 1). This would be the first time I fished Tile, along with many others as the lake has only been open for a short while after some serious restocking. However, I had my heart set on fishing Brick which I know so well. Got to my peg and felt it might hold a few fish. I set up two rigs at 7 metres, which was 10 foot deep a 4x18 and a 4x16 Jolly for Skimmers and anything else that swims! I also set up a rig for the Ronnie Roach and one for the left hand corner margin. I fed three balls of ground bait at 7 metres and one 250ml of micro in to the margin. I started on the Ronnie rig with caster and caught straight away, the Ronnies were between 2oz and 3oz with the smattering of bigger Ronnies and Rudd. I caught quite fast for three hours. I then tried my 7 metre rigs which produced one Ronnie. Back to the Ronnie rig until the last hour of the match, where I caught fourteen small carp in the margins.

I weighed 28lb 10oz of Ronnies for first in the Silvers and 11lb 3oz of small Carp for 39lb 13 oz and second overall on Tile. I took the Silvers winners pool of £60.

My team mate Glenn Bailey won Tile with 75lb 13oz of Carp to 16lb! Glenn fished a tidy match on the pellet waggler, fished just off a island at 40 metres.

Full result:

Tile Lake:

1. Glenn Bailey 75-13-0 peg 35
2. Mike Nicholls 39-13-0 peg 40
3. Alan Smith 30-10-0 peg 28
4. Dave Avery 29-12-0 peg 33
5. Dave Evans 22-06-0 peg 34
6. Bill Ferris 21-02-0 peg 23

Top Silvers:
1. Mike Nicholls 28-10-0 peg 40
2. Bill Ferris 19-12-0 peg 23
3. Paul Attwood 17-02-0 peg 30 (mainly eels!)

Brick Lake:

1. Paul Davis 87-12-0 peg 9
2. Gary Cross 50-03-0 peg 11
3. Ron Grandon 38-04-0 peg 1
4. Russell Peck 36-07-0 peg 10
5. Paul Lock 33-06-0 peg 14
6. Rod Wotton - 27-14-0 peg 3

Top Silvers:

1. Alan Oram 17-02-0 peg 4
2. Mitchell Artus 16-08-0 peg 14
3. Rod Wotton 15-03-0 peg 3