The weather is strange, cold before the draw and 26 degrees by lunch time – what’s going on. Oh, yes global warming. It is certainly confusing the fish.
Another good turn out, probably because the match was on Bridge Pool. It was the first time that I can remember Colin choosing to draw a close peg. But he got a good-un with peg 16.
I drew peg 30, spot on again! I know this peg well and decided to fish the caster shallow. But first I made sure that the bigger Skimmers were going to show. So started on the 6mm GOT expander over a 250ml of wetted micro and 4mm pellet. I had a couple of small Skimmers, but it was slow. So out on the caster shallow and basically I got my head down, catching 22lb 7oz of Ronnie’s with a smattering of small Skimmers. This was enough to win the Silvers. However, I did have one 10lb Carp on the caster and one 9lb 9oz Carp in the last ten minutes down the edge on paste. This gave me a total weight of 42lb which was also good enough for first overall and a pick up of £25.
Terry Bruton was runner up in the Carp pool with nine for 40lb 12oz (won’t be getting a phone call on this match!!). Terry fished peg 7 on the pellet waggler to the end of the island.
Third over all was Pete “The Real” Phillips (pictured right with his best Common Carp) with six Carp for 39lb 12oz. Pete likewise fish the pellet waggler in to open water form peg 32.
Full Result:
1. Mike Nicholls 42-0-0 peg 30
2. Terry Bruton 40-12-0 peg 7
3. Pete Phillips 39-12-0 peg 32
4. Bob Price 24-10-0 peg 13
5. John Bradford 16-10-0 peg 6
6. Bob Tilley 15-12-0 peg 10
6. Mike Jones 15-12-0 peg 8
Top Silvers:
1. Mike Nicholls 22-07-0 peg 30
2. John Bradford 16-10-0 peg 6
3. Chris Snow 10-10-0 peg 28
My apologies to Bob Feltham who did in fact fish five of the six hours in the last "Coffin Doggers", even though he told me he wasn't going to fish. Bob tells me he had about 9lb which was extremely good from peg 4.
Today the great Michael Jackson died aged 50.
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