MORETON BRICKS, 9/1/11 ~ 5 fish for 38 pounds

The Brickies at Moreton provided the venue for a real old fashioned winter match. Instead of starting with delusions of 50lb bags, everyone was in realistic mood, and a bite was the first priority. Sumo drew his customary lottery peg, which also happened to be the carp flier. With whupass kept over from Conwy, he was oozing confidence, and plumped for a 17lb winning weight. Everyone else thought half of that would be good enough.
Remarkably for Eggy, sixteen started the match, and there were no early darts. With 5 minutes to go the whole field was still in with a chance of success. This had been a real grueller, but fished in high spirits. I think we appreciated wetting a line without it immediately freezing up.
There had to be a winner, and with 3 skimmers, 2 roach and 3 missed bites, Yozzer Hughes was forced to stay and weigh. The scales tipped 3lb 12oz and it was worth £38. Feeder fished pinkie was the "successful" method.
Second place went to the real King Kenny, Mr Pickup, who managed 2lb 15oz of mainly tip-caught roach on maggot. Mind you, Liverpool finished a close second on the day too. Well done Ken.
John Edwards also found some roach on pole with maggot and his 2lb 12oz saw him finish as second loser (3rd to everyone else). He also took an early lead in 2011 Golden Nugget, because despite catching well in practice the week before, Norman couldn't manage to repeat the feat on match day.
Gary Brislin again edged into the money, catching a level 2lb of roach on waggler fished maggot, even with the sun in his eyes all day, Aaarrrgggh. This winter fishing suits you sir.
The other section went to Ken Stuart, whose 2 roach went a startling 1lb 10oz, and put more cash in the Team Kenny coffers.
Imagine the weights on proper scales. Then again, maybe not.