When it comes to Bela versus Adam Richman there is only one
winner – Bela. However, when it comes to Bela versus Stella, again there is
only one winner, which left me driving Bela’s van to the match!
After a late breakfast at Shipham we were still an hour early
for the 10 o clock draw – why so late?
In to the draw landing net and out comes peg 8, which is the
first peg over the bridge on the right. The next peg being peg 20 on my left –
Duh! Jason Radford arrived on this peg. Hence the need to describe the pegs rather
than allocated peg numbers – the weigh sheet shown below is not in peg order, the plan of the pre modified Lake shown right helps in this respect.
Talking to both locals Paul Faiers and Glen Calvert it
looked as if it was carp or nothing – how right they were.
Why is it that even though the walks to the pegs are ridiculously
short Anglers still have to park as close to their pegs as possible even though
they are potentially disturbing other anglers pegs? I thought Shane Casswell
was going to try and get his car over the narrow bridge. I was pestered all day
with cars and walkers coming along my end bank, which irritated me, probably more
than the fish. I suggest next match (if there is one) a car is parked over the Lake entrance - Whinge over.
I decide on two rigs a 4x16 Jolly for Silvers with maggot
over GB at 10 metres where I had eight foot of water and a 4x12 Jolly for both
the inside RH margin and to the end bank at the same depth. On the “all in” I
fed a ball of GB laced with a few dead reds at 11 o clock, followed by a few
hard 4’s down to the RH margin at 5 metres, finally a mix of wetted micros and
dead reds in to the end margin between to stick-ups.
Starting on the GB line I could not buy a bite. So I re-fed
another dose of GB and tried the end margin with three dead reds. This resulted
in three quick biggish Carp all foul hooked losing all of them! Too early for
the margin I’m thinking, so it was back over the GB and first put in I had a
bite which was a 2lb Skimmer foul hooked which resulted in nothing in the keep
net. I fed again and went back to the end margin but this time with single corn
and had three good Carp in three put in’s. That was the end of it for the next
two hours with the GB line now abandoned in disgust it was time to try the short
RH margin again with corn this resulted a missed bite followed by another foul
hooked Carp. I spent the rest of the match to the end bank between the two
stick ups landing another decent Carp and losing another foul hooked making it
Mike 4 Carp 5!
My four Carp weighed in at exactly 25lb for 7th
overall in what was a tight match. I wish I could have landed a couple of those
foul hooked fish as it may have produced some coin today.
The match was won by Trigger (pictured right sporting his
new trend setting Polaroid’s) from the RH Island end point with 69lb of Carp.
The Silvers was won by Paul Faiers (pictured lower right with his
catch) with 8lb of Skimmers.
Full Result:
1. Craig
(Trigger) Edmonds 69-0-0 - Top end right Island
2. Tony
Rixon 50-01-0 – Top end outside shoe
3. Shane
Caswell 44-04-0 – Top end inside shoe left Island
4. Clayton
Hudson 37-06-0 – Middle outside shoe
5. Steve
Seager 35-03-0 – Middle far side Island
6. Mike
West 29-08-0 – Middle
Island
7. Mike
Nicholls 25-0-0 – End peg Far side Island
Top Silvers:
1. Paul
Faiers 8-0-0 - Next to Clayton
2. Glen
Calvert 4-08-0 – Far side outside shoe top end
Weigh Board:
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