Thursday 25/04/2013 - Bathampton AA Over 55's and Disabled - Bridge Pool

Apparently I have been ignoring the Disabled element of these matches, so 20 Coffin Dodgers and 5 Pill Poppers were on Bridge Pool today.

 

Bob "The Crooner" Price had been to WSM for the weekend and came back sporting a new hat (pictured right). If you look closely you can see where the Donkey ears have been cut out.

 

In to the draw bag and out comes peg 12, not normally in the draw! Mike Jones then realised that he had put the wrong pegs in the draw bag – an age thing I’m guessing. Into the draw bag again and out comes peg 33. Far bank and an end peg. This peg can be good for Ronnie’s and Carp, with Skimmers less likely.

 

I was looking to have a bit of a practice on the paste today with the anticipation that I could read it across to the Acorn KP series match this coming Sunday. So in addition to the Ronnie rig and a Skimmer 4x16 Jolly I set up a LH margin paste rig.

 

Starting on the Skimmer rig at 5 metres with maggot over GB I was surprised to catch Skimmers for the First hour plus one decent Tench putting 9lb 14oz in the net before for some unknown reason the swim completely died which I could not revive even though I kept trying.

 

On to the Ronnie rig with caster over caster and after just the one Ronnie foul hooked a Carp, which wasn’t on long. So this decided me to fish the paste for the remainder of the match. The result was a total of four lost foul hookers and three decent Carp in the net which weighed 27lb 6oz and when totalled with my Silvers took me to 37lb 4oz for 5^th overall and a pick up by default.

 

The match was won by Paul Haines (pictured right with the Silvers winner – I think Paul is just about awake must have had a hard day) with 88lb 12oz from peg 18. Paul Caught on the straight lead with popped up bread over loose fed punched bread. According to Ray Bazeley Paul spent half the match trying to catch Squirrels.

 

The Silvers was won by Mike Key with 15lb 13oz from peg 28. Mike caught on soft pellet over wetted micro at 10 metres.

 

Full Result:

 

1.      Paul Haines 88-12-0 peg 18

2.      Martin Alexander 64-12-0 peg 24

3.      Chris Rolfe 53-0-0 peg 26

4.      Charlie Barnes 38-09-0 peg 11

5.      Mike Nicholls 37-04-0 peg 33

6.      Ray Bazeley 35-12-0 peg 21

 

Top Silvers:

 

1.      Mike Key 15-13-0 peg 28

2.      Alan Jones 14-06-0 peg 7

3.      Charlie Barnes 14-01-0 peg 11

4.      Mike Jones 12-12-0 peg 1 (Still some Ronnie’s still in the Lake then)

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