No little hiccup seemingly went unnoticed. Chopper lost his one and only plummet, and then fished the whole match at the wrong depth (that's his excuse for DNW anyway). Yozzer lost his hat in the water, to cries of "no floating hats allowed" and "bit early to throw in the towel". It must have disturbed the fish too, as he also DNW.
Norman lost his pound (as usual), and Steve C lost a crucian trying to swing it to hand..... OK who hasn't ? The biggest shock however, was that Arthur Roche lost the lottery (for all concerned members, we will be having a whip round at the next meeting).
Enough of the frivolity, there was also a serious match going on, which was won by the Master Catcher, Ken Stuart, who had a typical Gorsty net of cruies, skimmers and pasties, to weigh in 34lb 10oz. Ken caught mostly at 13metres on 6 ml pellet.
Having caught a whole lot of nothing in the first couple of hours fishing paste, John Edwards transformed his seemingly empty peg when he played his trump card, the now legendary pineapple T bags. He caught carp steadily until the end of the match and agonisingly (for him anyway) finished with 34lb.
Dave Cargill sneaked onto the podium after a couple of section wins, having caught some quality carp to record 22lb 8oz. Following a comment of "so this is where the big carp are", Dave responded by saying that all the BIG carp were swimming round the lake with his hooklengths attached, he was only weighing the small ones!
Gary Chambers 'scratched around' on a variety of baits to catch 21lb, which included a couple of quality bream, and won a section, while Jamie Pickup also coined again with an assortment of skimmers, cruies and small carp on pellet, which weighed 19lb 10oz.
P.S. A note for Pegleg, if you want rid of your Satnav, I know a bloke with a Sensas pole who might just do you a swap.
We're in the money!!!
From left to right, Ken Stuart, Dave Cargill, Gary Chambers, John Edwards and Jamie Pickup
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Another great report Yozz, it was a really enjoyable day out yet again, Bens nickname was Sunshine when he was still with us and he was with us all day today, im sure he saw the whole match and loved every minute of it. Id just like to say a big THANK YOU to you all for comin today and showing your support, its good to have good friends like you all. Im sure our Lee will be on to post a little somethin soon.
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS to Kenny on winning, well done to John and Cargy for their 2nd and 3rd, and also myself and Gary on our section wins (sorry Healdy, haha).
Summer is certainly on its way, WUPPEE!!!!!!!
Great report for todays fishing yoz,I would also like to thank everyone who turned out today to make my sons match an enjoyable and very special occasion,as jamie said im sure Ben was looking down watching what was being caught and in sum cases what was not.A big well done to kenny for his win and taking the trophy home,maybe next year i may get to take it home as long as i can shake the rust off.I would like to say a big thank you to ALL the club members for making me feel so welcome since Ben passed away aswell your ALL a great bunch.Thanx again.:)
ReplyDeleteanother great report yozz(got u a job with the wirral globe as a roving reporter)well done to my mate for winning the trophy and the match(its just like going to one of the family)thanks to everyone who turned out and well done to everyone who framed it was a good atmosphere and hope to c u all at lloyds meadow
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