I had breakfast in the Hanham Café with the usual suspects,
more Gas talk than fishing.
It was our turn in the dreaded A Section. The boss peg has
been peg 32 with peg 3 close behind everything else has been crap, especially
peg 2, I don’t think Jesus Christ could win the section from here.
First into the draw and out comes peg pictured right. Not
what I was hoping for there has been a few disasters on the peg Blanks and
DNW’s from some excellent anglers. The best two pegs went to Chris Rolfe (who
still can’t tell the time) and Rich Coles peg 3. The Jesus peg 2 went to Glenn
“16 metre” Bailey. It was good to see the Gas Heads sticking together – Bailey,
Smith Peg 34 and Greenslade peg 33 – as expected all to struggle.
Like would like to record that I caught on the edge rig and
the GB feeder I set up but can’t. So it was the yellow top 4x16 F1 Winter that
was to serve me well once again today. As forecast the wind was strong and
gusting coming in from the West. The crap pegs were relatively sheltered, but this
wouldn’t help them, so decided initially to start short at top-set plus
three. After plumbing deadish depth (never
absolutely sure the depth is perfect for many reasons) and running the float
through at 2 –o-clock I found the tow was aggressive against the wind - left to
right. I like a bit of tow but because of the gusting wind I couldn’t hold it
back as I would have liked. We were already to do the initial potting only to find
the organisers watch was slow by five minutes, duh.
In went my first knub of GB laced with a few dead Pinkies
not really knowing exactly where it would settle the fish. So with single DR on
the hook I started to run it through, the pace was harder than Newbridge in
summer. I was soon settled with a micro Ronnie. Over the next two hours I
caught surprisingly well including a 2 ½ lb Tench (thinking of renaming by
Skimmer GB to Tench GB). After which the wind died the sun came out and the tow
stopped and my struggle to get a bite started. I started a pellet line at 10
metres and a new GB line at 11.5 metres again at 2-o-clock. The upshot was I
caught one 1 ½ lb Skimmer on triple DR’s over the pellet losing a 2 pounder
foul hooked in the anus. I had three more 8oz Skimmers over the long GB line,
but it was a long remaining four hours. Rich Coles had a great middle of the
match catching decent Skimmers regularly, but I was hoping I might pip him
because of my Tench. This wasn’t to be because all the Tench I have caught
during this league has shown signs of significant weight loss.
I finished the match with 9lb 10 oz – 15oz behind Rich
Coles. Well done matey. This put me in section second and fourth overall.
Certainly would have settled with that before the all in!
The match was won my Paul Barnfield (pictured right) with
16lb 1oz from peg 28. Paul caught on the waggler at 20 metres with triple
Pinkie over lose fed maggot and catapulted GB. Paul also fished the feeder over
the same line and later when the wind died caught at 11 metres catching 15
decent Skimmers throughout the match with all methods adding to his over all
weight.
Full Result:
A Section: Rich Coles 10-09-0 peg
3
A Section: Mike Nicholls 9-10-0
peg 4
B Section: Steve Dawson 13-06-0
peg 7
B Section: Dave Wride 6-02-0 peg
11
C Section: Jim Norris 6-0-0 peg
19
C Section: Dave Willmott 5-08-0
peg 17
D Section: Paul Barnfield 16-01-0
peg 28
D Section: Steve Tanner 8-12-0
peg 24
Weigh Sheets:
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