Everyone reckoned that the Gnome should win because he's fished it 27 times in the last month, but half the club have been fishing this lake for the last 30 years. Okay, so 'team Kenny', (Pickup n Stuart) haven't been for 15 years but they still used their experience to give us the old one two. For those who'd been before it was a real trip down memory lane, and for those who hadn't it was a pleasant surprise that a park lake should be such a nice environment. The surroundings of the lake haven't changed much, but the water itself has. Its now 4/5 feet deep with comfortable, well spaced pegs, and its been stocked full of fish.
Ken Stuart had a fish pretty much every put in for three hours before a dramatic slowdown dented his catch rate, He caught at three metres on soft 4mm pellet, and put skimmers, crucians, and the odd tench and roach in the net. When weighed, his bag totalled a level 29lb, and gave him a comfortable win. Well Done Ken, paid again to have a good days fishing, can't be bad.
On the other side of the lake, Kenny Pickup was also re-living the good old days, and his 22lb 8oz was made up predominately of skimmers, again caught on soft pellet. A couple of wobbles in the last few weeks, Ken, but you and I know, although your lads are good, you are Daddy Pickup and they shouldn't forget it!
In third spot, and proving that practice makes perfect, (well nearly) was The Gnome. Despite the local alcoholic advising that he'd caught a bucket full of tench off the peg in the middle of the night, after feeding a whole loaf, and being woken up as we pegged the lake, Yozzer still managed a respectable 22lb 4oz. This was made up of mainly crucians, with a handful of tench, skimmers and roach.
Gary Chambers fished maggot and had 18lb of quality rudd, roach and perch - looks good for the winter - to win a section.
The other section was won by...wait for it....Norman 'no nugget' Smith with 13lb 8oz. He has been learning from Sumo, and declared that he had a 2lb golden tench in his net, but it lost weight in the net and was actually about 12oz. Some pools money and £1 off John, Get in.
It was my wish that we had a match on here, and I hope everyone had a good day out, and was not disappointed. I know the fish are small, but there are plenty of bites for all, and no carp...for a change. OK Lee, you got snapped off three times, could have been big gudgeon or maybe the terrapin has returned.
A big thank you to Mrs Roche for supplying first class bacon butties....and F.O.C. too.
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Class write up gnome,fair play to kenny and me dad they both fished well on the day,but as for him being the daddy i think his time has past and i think its time to move over and let his lads show him how its done,just wait till badenhall ;).The lake is a very nice lake to fish and as you say the surroundings are very pleasant,the day was a very good day if im honest,didnt think it would be.As for BIG gudgeon breaking me off ha ha,it was no terrapin either it was deffo carp.According to some reports there was an 18ib carp caught there a couple of weeks ago,so i found out yesterday.There was also talk of F1's in there? did anyone have any?? somehow i doubt there is we would have at least seen 1 or 2????
ReplyDeleteNo F1's for me or Kenny P. Having said that I didn't have much of anything!!!! 18 was always known as the 'dead' peg!
ReplyDeleteThere have been no carp or F1s stocked....anything like that which is caught has been stocked illegally by the locals.
ReplyDeleteWhich peg 18 is 'dead'? The one at Yewtree, Baden hall or Saughall, to name but a few?
I was on for a section win at Baden Hall but you wanted to go home! ;-)
ReplyDeletei wanted to throw myself in the lake....would you have followed?
ReplyDeleteAnyway top park 18 is actually the 'dead-head' peg, always drawn by a numpty :)
ha ha at gnome your funny :)
ReplyDeletereally enjoyed the day nice being back in the old hunting ground and without the local dickeads telling you how to fish it or swimming past your swim.glad i could donate a couple of bob to my mate. as for the "leave it to the young guns" the old mans not done for yet just cos you got wuppassed the members who didnt go missed out(ahh) another good blog yozz i,ll get you a job with angling times
ReplyDeletei enjoyed the day- another good blog yozz - the reason kenny p had no local dickeads and duckfeeders was they were all behind me
ReplyDeleteTony at least you didnt have another golf course behind you :)
ReplyDeleteits ok now lee ive just ordered a preston hardhat with free earmuffs case im pegged next to john heald
ReplyDeleteHa ha nice one hopefully they will come before badenhall :)
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