HAMPTON SPRINGS, WILLOW, 11/8/13 ~ Two-faced Jamie is winner on willow

Recent results on Hampton's website suggested it was fishing well, so good sport was expected. Apart form one small section, that was indeed the case, with most having about 40lb.
Saturday night on the chatbox, and Jamie was in buoyant mood, talking about cans of whupass and muppets fishing the method.
Granted, he got the whupass correct, which makes a change as it's usually a waste of time even opening the tin. Catching steadily throughout the match, and finishing strongly in the margins, JBay put together a tidy net which went 68lb 14oz at the scales. A magical performance, sadly tainted when he revealed that he had fished the method all day, including down the margins!!  Two-faced muppet, Miss Piggy AND Kermit rolled into one.

Runner-up on his 'home' water was the Gnome. Winkling out some early blade skimmers and cruies set up a late marginal attack, where some quality barbel and carp saw Yozzer weigh 60lb 02oz.
Third was Colin Cook, who by his own admission, had next to nowt for 4 hours. A manic last hour in the margins brought most of his 51lb 04oz . Well done Col.
Paul Dennett again showed his liking for Hampton with a section win. 46lb 08oz of mainly carp on meat was enough. Nice one Paul.
The only 'poor' section was won by Steve Coleman with a less than impressive 26lb 12oz. Can't believe he fished the full 5 hours and only had that much! But well done anyway Steve :-).

Dave Cargill memorial/benefit match, Moreton Brickworks, 4/8/13 ~ Tollo wins with a ton

This match, in memory of our late Match Secretary Dave Gargill, was well attended by Eggy members and other friends and Brickie regulars who came to honour Cargy. The main aim of the day was to raise some funds for the Cargill family and pay tribute and remember our good friend Dave. A great total of £310 was collected on a very successful day. 
It's a good job it wasn't all about the fishing because although the usual pegs provided some great weights, there were also very poor returns from some areas. 
The winner was Paul Tolliton with 111lb of quality carp, taken on the pellet waggler, so congratulations to him. From the next peg was our very own Jamie Pickup with another pellet wag dominated carp catch to the tune of 88lb. Well done Jambo.
Another venue regular, in the shape of Lee Pickup, won a section with 46lb, while the other section was very poor with yet another regular (but only for 30years), Andy Lawton, needing only 3 carp and some bits to weigh 18lb. Good effort lads.
The aim of the day was achieved, and not even the last hour rain shower could put a dampener on proceedings. A big thank you for all those who could support the day.