This was the last practice match before Sunday's final. The pegging went from peg 1 at the car park to peg 19 at the end of the furthest island. I was ask to include the very corner peg on the car park bank which was peg 11. I wasn't sure about the peg as the wind was not blowing directly in to it - in fact it was fairly calm. As chance has it, I drew the peg! I am told the car park bank is the bank for silvers - so started on the 4 metre whip and caster. I started straight away to catch quality Ronnies and Ronald's to 1lb (at last). However after a couple of rounds with Carp I broke my whip. To say I was upset - well, I had to have a walk to and to see if John Bradford had a spare, which he didn't. So I set up the 14 foot Normark Avenger, which was a bit too stiff for shallow water waggler fishing. I had a few more Ronnies and after a total of four and a half hours was broke again by Carp. I decided to get my own back and fished for them with pellet and paste for the last hour and a half. I weighed 13lb 10oz of quality Ronald's for second in the Silvers and 86lb 10oz of Carp for a total weight of 100lb 4oz and second overall and a pick up of £30. However, second and second is not going to win anything this Sunday!!
The match was won by Colin Golding from peg 5 with 123-10-0 of Carp. I am not going to divulge how he caught - as you all know anyway!!
The Silvers was won by Bob Gullick from peg 3 with 26lb 5oz of Ronnies. Bob also qualifies for the Carps AC Wednesday Silversmania.
Full Result:
1. Colin Golding 123-10-0 peg 5
2. Mike Nicholls 100-04-0 peg 11
3. John Thompson 91-0-0 peg 9
4. Paul Attwood 82-01-0 peg 19
5. Alan Oram 76-13-0 peg 13
6. Jamie Dyte 63-08-0 peg 6
Top Silvers:
1. Bob Gullick 26-05-0 peg 3
2. Mike Nicholls 13-10-0 peg 11
3. Bill "Maggot man" Ferris 11-14-0 peg 2
4. Charlie Barnes 6-01-0 peg 7
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