Sad news of the passing of Malcolm Murfet. Born again he would be named Mr. Bathampton. The club was his life. Lots of fond memorise of Malcolm who did a lot for charities often donating anonymously. I can give one example now without fear of a bollocking. I ran the Bathampton Juniors, running Saturday matches regularly on the K&A Canal (chose this venue for safety reasons). Every Friday before the the match I would get a call from Malcolm enquiring how many was fishing. Most times it was around 40. I would get a return call later to go round his business where he would give me two sacks of prizes. He always said the pressures on you now to make sure they all catch. It was bloody hard work complying with his wishes. Nonetheless, they all went home with something from rods, reels, whips and loads of terminal tackle. It was pleasure to have known Malcolm and liked his forth rightfulness. I have included a pictured of him which I know he would hate any publicity once again helping a young lad with a gift of a pole. RIP.
If you do a search "Malcom Murfet " here search you will find some contribution from him - interesting funny read fishing in Ireland.
Back to Bitterwell for the over 55's - at last some proper weather. Bloody traffic around this area is awful.
Into the draw bag and peg 24 again it was. Learnt a bit last time so hopefully some it it will help today. Good company with Phil on peg 23 who was suffering from back pain and should of given it a miss and Barny on peg 25, hopefully will learn a bit from him on worm fishing.
Set up - the long Ronnie rig and a 0.3 gram RJ Slim to fish up to the reeds to my left. GB, casters and maggots and a few worms on their last legs due to the heat.
Fed both lines with caster and loose dry GB. Thought I would start in on the RJ rig up to the reeds this time with the margin pole with single caster. Shipping out spied a Carp supping up the GB still floating on the surface so lowered the rig over it and took it straight away. One double in the net in first 5 minutes. Tried feeding some more dry GB but no sign of another but did had a 2 lb Tench - good start. From then on it was a question of switching between the two rigs adding 2 more smaller Carp, 2 more Tench and a few Skimmers plus about 5 lb of Ronnie's to keep me active in between feeding. With 30 minutes to go fed some chopped worm on the RJ rig with a piece of worm on the hook which produced three Skimmers in the last knockings. I did loose a Carp in the middle of the reeds and was amazed to get the complete rig back - conclusion - RJ floats are indestructible.
Silvers weighed 22 lb 8 oz and Carp 26 lb 2 oz for a match winning total of 48 lb 10 oz. Second in the silvers to Andy Greenham.
Andy (pictured) drew peg 29 weighing 33 lb 10 oz comprising 6 Tench to 5 lb and lots of Skimmers to 3 lb. Andy caught on meat mostly down his margin feeding 6 mm fishing 8 mm on the hook. Well done matey.
Excellent fishing on a well kept fishery.
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