LLOYDS, BADGER, 3/8/14 ~Yozz hits 'em for six

15 on a pleasant day at Lloyds. Plenty of pre-match banter regarding the club record weight, with everyone looking to a good day's sport. However, a lot of the preferred pegs did not produce what was anticipated.
Neil Paterson won the first section down from the car park with a mediocre 37lb. A huge improvement on recent outings for the jolly one though, and he even managed a couple of his beloved sniggs on chopped worm n caster. Pato, Pato give us a smile, well done Neil.
The usual bullshine from a few suggested it had been a bit of a struggle and yet Jamie Pickup still put a creditable 52lb 14oz in the weigh-sling, including a good number of carp. A section win was the reward, although not the honour of top Pickup. That went to dad Kenny, who caught carp from the margins straight from the off, and earned the bronze medal with an excellent 53lb 08oz. Nice one KP.
Second place went to Gary Brislen, who used his trademark paste approach to weigh 56lb 02oz. A very good performance from 'laughin boy' although his plight was helped when Paul Robb, on the neighbouring peg, packed up early having left his mirror at home.
The Garden Gnome secured his sixth match win of the current campaign, making good use of a decent peg. Meat down the middle brought some early carp and proper skimmers. Then followed an hour of ide bashing on maggot shallow, before a final flurry of margin caught carp. His total at the end went 93lb 02oz, for a comfortable victory. With your best 6 results counting towards club angler of the year qualification, Yozz would appear to be in  a strong position.
Back on the scene now work will allow, The Maestro, aka Pete Clueless, showed he still has what it takes, with a section winning 44lb 02oz. Not as good as it might sound though cos Pete reckons if he'd landed everything, the club record would be 200lb. Keep feeding 5kg of groundbait, that's what I say.
The club clown award went to Steve Cookie monster. A sudden gust of wind caught his brolly, which in turn bent the brolly arm attachment. This caused a spoke to come free and pierce his 13m pole section. Playing a 6lb carp at the time, he lunged to save the brolly, etc. and the pole went straight. His topkit came off the end of the pole and went into the lake. Luckily it appeared that the carp had come off. Asking Pato to try a rescue operation, the Big Man somehow managed to get hold of the errant section. Suddenly the elastic streamed from the pole again. It seems the carp was only resting. Cookie had the cheek to rejoin the topkit to the pole and play the fish back into his own peg. Amazing!