Was looking forward to the match until seen the forecast - 50 mph winds and rain. luckily little to no rain. Before all that Geoff and me got a Spoons breaky in us.
I was praying for a peg with the wind off the back. Prayers answered Peg 20 it was. The wind was off my right shoulder, blasting into peg 17. Felt for those on pegs 15 to 17, especially Glenn who was probably on the worse form peg 15. It was bad enough with the wind off the back. Good company with John on peg 19 who appeared to be twitching to get up the pub, but was on the scales 😒 - pictured.
I had planned to have a go with paste, two things prevented this, the wind plus left the paste in the fridge 😢! However, had the expanders so set up a 4x14 to fish them over micro and loose fed 4's over the top down the shelf to the right with tow. Foul hooked two lost carp on this so was abandoned. The short Ronnie rig was set up but without any Ronnie's feeding was a waste of time only catching a few tiny Rudd. So the most of the match was spent on the 4x14 Winter initially at top set plus one barrel for 5 lb of Skimmers then adding another barrel for another 5 lb of Skimmers, all caught on double DR's over GB laced with Pinkie. The fish were up in the water and caught the majority of the silvers 6 inches off. Out on the bar Carp were topping so set up the waggler and had a few chucks on it, however, because of the wind felt the feeding wasn't accurate enough - presentation wasn't too back though.
Weighed 10 lb 2 oz of all Skimmers for the silvers win.
Seen Glenn disappearing out the carp park for a FOE surprised he lasted as long as he did.
The match was won by Steve S (pictured with the silvers winner) from peg 1 on Shipp's with 56 lb. Steve caught at 12 metres fishing meat over meat. Well done Matey.
Back to the Inn with most of the usual suspects. I'm not sure picking up at this venue is financially wise.
Thanks to Bri Shanks for running the match in his usual efficient way 👍
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