Thursday 24/11/2022 - Bathampton Over 55's and Short Walks - Bridge Pool

Only 15 fishing today not surprising with the weather conditions forecasted, some injuries and holidays also contributing. With only 14 the pegging could have been so most were out of the wind. However, that didn't happen even though both Tony and me recommended that pegs 7 to 10 be left out in favour of the far side pegs.

Into the draw bag and out comes peg 11 a peg you would normally run to and a peg I have been waiting to draw to fish the waggler over to the island. Even though I set it up it wasn't an early option because of the wind blowing in at me at 11 o clock. It didn't get used. Whilst setting up the wind started to pick up blowing my trolley around so put some stones as chocs under the wheels. Tony  arrived on peg 8 and Andy Gard on peg 10 - both unhappy with their weather limiting draws.

The water was quite clear due to the rain we have been having. The umbrella wasn't going to be permanently up due to weather conditions, only used a couple of times during the heaviest rain, but needed hanging on to.

Decided to fish down to the right putting my back to the wind with the long Ronnie rig and a 4 14 Winter Titan to fish top set plus one barrel out in front once the wind permitted.

Feed some GB with Pinkie on both lines. started on the Ronnie rig with single LR and caught small Ronnie's straight away. Kept them coming by topping up regularly with small balls of laced GB. Had two F1's before it went quiet.

Andy Gard shouted out to me that my trolley, rod case, roller bag and net bag had blown in the lake. The wind had swung round. Thanks to Andy we were able to retrieve all. Impressed with the Mossell bags as even though the roller bag had two roller in it it still floated! Not sure it done my peg any good though.

Switched to the in front line and had a run of small Ronnie's and three more F1's and a welcome 1 1/2 lb Skimmer. By topping up and switching between the two lines (hurricanes permitting) kept a few Ronnie's coming but it was really difficult conditions to say the least. The wind came round to the South West and was a few degrees colder, glad to hear the all out.

How many times does the wind drop once the scales arrive - again today now a mill pond. My F1's weighed in at 6 lb 5 oz and my silvers 9 lb 3 oz for a par total of 15 lb 8 oz and a silvers section pick up.

Chris Ollis (pictured with his catch of F1's) "STORMED" the match from peg 4. Chris fished 11.5 metres down the far shelf using small pieces of worm hook bait over kindered chopped worm with a few casters. Chris caught steady through out the match. Well done matey excellent weight on the day especially from peg 4.

Silvers was won by Dave Wride (pictured with the match winner) from sheltered peg 34. Dave caught long using maggot hook bait over maggot and GB. Well done matey.

It's now confirmed that the silvers league starting on the 05/01/2023 will be fished on Withy Pool. Carp will not count this year which are to be returned.

Back to the Compton for a beer and a warm!

Result:

1. Chris Ollis 30-05-0 peg 4

2. Paul Barnfield 28-04-0 peg 19

3. Dave Wride 23-07-0 peg 34

4. Tony Rixon 22-14-0 peg 8

Silvers:

1. Dave Wride 12-12-0 peg 34

2. Paul Barnfield 12-04-0 peg 19

3. Tony Rixon 10-0-0 peg 8

4. Mike Nicholls 9-03-0 peg 10

Weigh Sheets: