Bela had some how managed to be first in the queue, so I pushed in to third to draw (any arguments see Bela)! Bela had drawn his usual section – peg 100 on Carey. Luckily (perhaps) I pulled peg 131 an area that I seemed to be drawing a lot lately. Alan Oram had won from the peg yesterday and speaking to him he hadn’t had anything on the meat, more importantly very few Silvers. I had set my mind set on this species for the overall league, so I was a bit wary. I set up two paste rigs one for the margin and one to be fished at 11.5 metres, plus one 4x14 wired Jolly to fish with meat at 7 metres. Starting on the 8mm meat I found exactly the same as Alan the meat was soon being attacked by Ronnie’s and after twenty minutes or so all I had to show for it was two tiny Skimmers. As a few big Skimmers had been coming out on small pieces of paste I decide to give this a go using the kinder pot and a few hard 4’s at 11.5 metres I had six decent Carp to 10 lb in the first six put in’s. Not what I wanted. To Glenn Baileys dismay (two pegs up on 129) who at this stage had very little I decided to open up a CW&C line also at seven metres but at 2 o clock. This resulted in one dropped Ronnie, blimey I was in trouble. I was overcome with doubt as to whether I should go back out with the paste and try for a Carp weight. So I gave it another try and after losing a foul hooked Carp I landed another small one. At this stage it was obvious that the Skimmers south of the spit were not either feeding or on holiday and Carp slaying would be a deviation from the plan so I made the decision (right or wrong) to set up a Ronnie rig and got the caster out. With now only three hours of the match left the most I could expect was 15 lb (30lb per six hours), but it might be enough. So I stuck with this for the rest of the match. My seven Carp weighed in at 42lb 7oz and as predicted my Silvers went 15lb 5oz for a total of 57lb 12oz. This put me joint second in the section Silvers and third in the overall section. However, I did manage to pick up the Silvers section by default jointly with Mark Bird (why do they call him Budgie, I think of Adam Faith when I hear this nick name)! I think my decision to stick to “The Plan” was right.
I suggest that Dude Squires learns to count as he initially under counted Lewis’s weight by 10lbs – “remember to carry over the ten’s”
The Silvers was won from peg 123 by Scott “Hung-over” Lovell with 58lb 14oz of Tench. Scott fished meat short to his left hand margin catching steady all match.
Full Result:
1. Lewis Greenwood 137-14-0 peg 112
2. Lee Werrett 136-04-0 peg 127
3. Dan Squires 127-15-0 peg 111
4. Ray Heyward 123-03-0 peg 128
5. Steve Jackson 97-04-0 peg 113
6. Dave Goodall 86-02-0 peg 114
Top Silvers:
1. Scott Lovell 58-14-0 peg 123
2. John Green 46-11-0 peg 118
3. Ray Hayward 33-02-0 peg 128
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