Hampton Long Island 5/8/2018

SUMO SHOWS OFF HIS LATEST ANGLING EQUIPMENT PURCHASE AT HAMPTON
" THE PRESTON INNOVATIONS PORTABLE PISS HEAD BENCH "

Sunday was another scorcher and with the water levels down on Long Island ,margin fishing meant fishing about 2 metres from the bank.
12 Eggy  members made the trip and a visit to the greasy spoon at Broxton set us up for the day.
Once again the self proclaimed leader of the western world and man in charge Sumo took it upon himself to be the master of ceremonies. This resulted on him allowing Nicky Harrop to peg the lake as he is a venue expert at Hampton . Unfortunately Sumo does not know that Nicky may be an expert on the pegs but is shite at fishing and has never had more than 20lb in a match at Hampton over the last 20 years. Needless to say there are always complaints about pegging of lakes but today there was only one moaner .
On arriving at our pegs Sumo and Cookie noticed that the aerator  was causing a bit of a tow and feeder fishing seemed to be the answer . However after a 1 fish in 45 minutes frenzy Cookie decided
to tackle the tow by fishing 2+1  on paste about 2" overdepth . This seemed to give more positive bites and Carp , F1s , Crucians Skimmers fed on the same line for the next 4 hours . Cookie fed micros to start with but when bites became more regular did not feed anything for the last 3 hours of the match .
While this was going on Sumo the Helmet of Hampton went into sulk mode about the tow from the aerator ( fanny ) and slept the final 2 hours of the match as shown in the photo above .
Around the rest of the lake some people had it really tough while others managed to find a way of catching either down the edge on paste or hard pellet .
After 3 days practicing at Monk Hall it was still a surprise to see Cookie win the match with 116lb and win B Section .
In A section Patto was showing off his brand new Rive Pole Rollers and they seem to have helped him as his 55lb was enough for second and the section.
Finally Eric also fresh from Monk Hall  took C section with 42lb.
In third was Terry with 53lb , maybe you need to spend £120 on a new roller mate ?

So in summary

1st Cookie
2nd Patto
3rd Terry

Sections
 A Patto
B Cookie
C Eric

Thanks to all that fished , congrats to framers and section winners
Finally I'm in the money

Cheers Cookie