My Thursday match calendar is fully booked now until 6th
April so today was the last chance to fish one of my Favourite venues for a
while - Harescombe. Usual breakfast prepared by Chef Andy Price who had a River
Frome hangover catching a mere 5oz yesterday. Talking of hangovers Roy Liddell was
missing today apparently has started a three week Hogmanay.
In to the draw bag and out comes peg 8. Looking at the Lake pegging map I had plenty of room with Hookey two
pegs to my right and Lee Waller two pegs to my left. Whilst tackling up Lee
decided to make it five pegs to my left down to Alan Oram by doing the full
Monty into the Lake complete with tackle box and all that was attached to it. In
the process he broke three sections of his pole. I usually take the opportunity
to take a video; however, Lee needed help so I was collecting all things that
floated with my landing net. It was pack up time for him and go home as none of
our clothes wouldn’t fit Lee, where was Andy Price when you needed him. Lee
took it well and still had time for a smile (pictured right). Luckily his
Android was still working.
The Lake has been fishing hard;
however, it’s start where you finished the last match, well nearly. I set up
the usual 4x12 F1 to fish full depth at top-set plus either 2 or 3 sections. I
decided on a negative light rig in case, a 4x10 F1 to fish on the top-set with
a long line down wind – RH side with pinkie 6 inches off bottom.
I started on top-set plus two with 4mm expander over damped
micro and had an 8oz F1. I then had lots of shy bites so switched to 2mm
expander and after three tugs I could catch a ½ oz bottle top every put in, a
lot of effort for not much return. So after 45 minutes I switched to the
top-set light right with single Pinkie over loose fed pinkie, which are a
bugger to loose feed accurately. Plenty of bites from small Ronnie’s ensued. I
then had a run of three decent F1’s which were soon to disappear and it was
back to the Ronnie’s. As soon as the small Ronnie’s disappeared it was time to
anticipate run of a couple of F1’s and that how the rest of the match panned
out – Ronnie’s and F1’s.
I finished the match with 34lb to be beaten in to second
place by 1lb by Derek Jarman (pictured right) who was on end peg 14 and caught
over using maggot over maggot.
Full Result:
1 Derek Jarman 35lbs 0ozs 0drams
2 Mike Nicholls34lbs 0ozs 0drams
3 Brian Duckett30lbs 0ozs 0drams
4 Alan Orum24lbs 6ozs 0drams
5 Terry Girdlestone15lbs 10ozs 0drams
Weigh Sheet:
A different weigh in today with Jemma Phillips (pictured
right) assisting Andy weighing using her newly developed system match angling
result service which can be logged into and shows the weigh-in live as it
happens. Today I did copy and paste the result in from her website which can be
found on:
Match-angling.co.uk
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