Felt a bit jaded this morning after a long but satisfying and
memorable day yesterday. I nearly didn’t go because the forecast was for up to
40mm of rain. Luckily they got it wrong (again) and we stayed dry all day. This forecast probably did put off a few.
Arriving at the draw I was very disappointed and sad to hear
that BAA is not running the Pensioners match this year. This would have been my
first qualifying year to fish it and was hoping to follow Dads footsteps. Dad
couldn’t drive but always bought a BAA membership just to fish the Pensioners
match, back then he used to get a lift from home from volunteers from the
committee. I haven’t been told why they have cancelled the match, I know lot of
Pensioners will be disappointed as they get at least 30+ attend.
In to the draw bag and out comes “Mike’s” peg 32. I seem to
live on this peg. Walking to the peg I noticed that some predator had had a
good breakfast on Duck eggs (Pictured right).
I set up just two rigs my Ronnie rig for caster over caster
and a 0.3 gram Silverfox PC set at 3 foot for the down wind LH margin. The plan
was to fish for Silvers until it died and then on to the paste for Carp. And
that’s exactly what I did. At the two hour mark the swim died but had caught
some Hybrids, Ronnie’s and Skimmers, losing a foul hooked Bream and a Tench
which did me in the Bankside weed - bugger. On to the paste dripping hard 4’s
over the top for the rest of the match and although it was slow I did manage
four Carp pulling out of a fifth.
It was a result that gave me a double third with 50lb 9oz and
13lb 5oz of Silvers.
The match was won by Rich Coles (pictured right with the
Silvers winner) with 126lb 7oz of Carp from peg 11. Rich caught in his LH
margin fishing whole worm over dead maggots.
The Silvers was won by Barry Fitchew with 21lb 14oz from peg
21. Barry caught on caster at 5 metres over GB laced with caster.
Full Result:
- Rich Coles 126-07-0 peg 11
- Pete Greenslade 57-09-0 peg 18
- Mike Nicholls 50-09-0 peg 32
- Bob Price 47-14-0 peg 29
- Alan Jones 41-04-0 peg 28
- Pete Phillips 39-02-0 peg 6
Top Silvers:
- Barry Fitchew 21-14-0 peg 21
- Mike Jones 15-12-0 peg 30
- Mike Nicholls 13-05-0 peg 32
Weigh Sheets:
2 comments:
they are not duck eggs.they belonged to a moorhen.not pedation either,they have hatched.and you took the piss out of young joe mcmahon!see you soon.steve at viaduct.
Definitely not hatched. Track marks from nest to path where eggs were opened. There were some signs of yoke.
OK Moorhens aren't ducks.
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