Thursday 03/05/2012 - Viaduct Cost Cutter - Campbell and Carey

Down again for the Skivers match, this time with matey Glenn Bailey and a barking dog (me with Roofers cough). Glenn appears to have an endless amount of holidays. After a breakfast at Canards Well (the water table is up), it was a tour around the new Viaduct Woody’s café (pictured right – opening Monday 07/05/2012).

In to the draw bag and out comes peg 80 – again. I have a hate – hate relationship with this peg as it tends to be a Carp Slayers peg on the lead or Waggler – not for me. That said I decoded to fish a tight match at 11.5 metres at 12-o clock with 6 mm Spam hook and feed bait. So it was the one rig a 4x13 Jolly with a compromise (Carp/Silvers) 0.16 hook length. I started reasonably well with my first eight fish being all different species (unfortunately I didn’t catch a Ruffe for a full house). I caught well both Silvers and Carp losing four Carp and three Silvers with one Tench untying my hook! I had a spell catching Hybrids to 2lb, but as soon as I put in a bit too much feed the Carp would come in and disrupt the swim. Fifteen minutes to go I hooked and landed an 18lb Common thinking I could get away with in just the one net which now held 7 Carp. With 5 minutes to go I hooked and landed a 15lb Mirror. So I had to get the third net, which I wish I had got one fish earlier, as my nine Carp weighed in at 93lb, unfortunately due to my lack of concentration I had over the 70lb limit in the first net getting docked 8 lb (first time ever). So my official Carp weight was 84lb 14oz. I was surprised when my Silvers weighed in at 40lb, giving a total of 124lb 14oz – an excellent days fishing using only 50p worth of bait – ½ pint of Spam. This put me 5^th in the Silvers and 7^th overall. Peg 80 is now a love – love story – I wonder for how long? Whatever, I was really chuffed to have got a good days fishng from the peg.

 

The match was won by Tony Gilbert (pictured right) with 232lb 11oz from peg 126. Tony caught shallow from the off using 10 mm banded pellet over loose fed 8’s. Tony fed four pints through out.

The Silvers was won by Kev Newman with 54lb 10oz from peg 127. Kev caught on meat down and out from each of his margins.

Paul Greenwoood (pictured right with his bank runner) was third in the Silvers from peg 100 with 45lb 2oz fishing soft pellet at 13 metres.

Full Result:

1.      Tony Gilbert 232-11- 0 peg 126

2.      Craig Edmonds 186-01-0 peg 118

3.      Scott Russell 177-06-0 peg 119

4.      Paul Blake 159-03-0 peg 85

5.      Steve Jackson 135-13-0 peg 132

6.      Dan White 125-0-0 peg 114

7.      Mike Nicholls 124-14-0 peg 80

12. Glenn Bailey 96-12-0 peg 102 (No Silvers)

Top Silvers:

1.      Kev Newman 54-10-0 peg 127

2.      Dave Romaine 46-11-0 peg 125

3.      Paul Green wood 45-02-0 peg 100

4.      Nick Ewers 43-14-0 peg 116

5.      Mike Nicholls 40-0-0 peg 80