A cool start for this match, with temperatures down to 3 overnight, but a very pleasant day with a light breeze and sunny spells.
I think most of the field had a little mutter at one stage or another as sport was not as hectic as anticipated. The final scores, however, compared well with previous Gorsty visits.
A distinct lack of cruies and skimmers meant that it was basically carp or tiny roach.
Dennis Jones found the carp in abundance on a pellet waggler to the lilies. Pegged beneath a large willow tree, Ginger bemoaned the fact that the low branches were impeding his casting. Imagine the problems a normal sized person would have had, it seems the peg was tailor made for Dennis. 56lb 05oz was the final score, a very impressive effort on the day.
Lee Pickup finally made the 20lb challenge and in some style. Pellet waggler was again the successful approach, bringing Lee an excellent 41lb 04oz net to take silver. Well done Lee.
Mastercatcher Ken Stuart bucked the trend when he pole fished all match and brought a superb 34lb 02oz to the scales, which was enough for 3rd place, Nice one Ken.
Sections went to Nasty Nick Harrop with 27lb 05oz, and Fatboy Jamie Pickup with 25lb 05oz. Great efforts from both, so well done.
Struggling for most of the match, Andy Lawton finally managed a bite but it turned out to be a duck, which had taken a liking for his slow-sinking pellet. After a tremendous rod-bending fight lasting 5 minutes and just about wrecking his peg altogether, Andy finally cracked off and the bird ducked off.
That was enough for the Gnome, pegged next door, and Cookie Monster to do the walk of shame with over an hour to go.
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Good write up as always yoz,should have stayed mate it started fishing in the last hour lol.Although it wasnt explosive fishin it was nice 2 get the pel wag out and tip rod and leave the pole in the bag 4 a change,thats were u fell short yoz,u should have got a rod or 2 out lol. On a whole great weather and a great laugh as always with the eggy altho Johny rogers was very quiet throughout the day obviously not used 2 the club yet,Had such a laugh at les when his carp tried 2 fly out of his net,it made les jump that much he dropped his radio in the lake ha ha.Well done 2 all who framed especialy kenny stu 4 stickin it out on the pole all day and recording an impressive weight 4 the day and winning his section even tho everyone around him had rods out so well done to u mate fair play i know i couldnt stick 2 one method through out.
ReplyDeleteLee I was embarrassed at the hiding I was getting off the next peg, well done mate you fished a decent match, maybe next time I will give the pellet way ago myself, I thnk les is still clean himself up now.
ReplyDeleteThe pel wag didnt fish like it normaly does in there but hopefuly next time we go it should b more productive.Even the tip didnt fish and thats normaly awesome in there.As for Les ha ha ha ha ha. :-)
DeleteShould have filled it in...
ReplyDeleteOld school. Go ed Spadge lad. Yeeee haaaaa. Fat cunt.
DeleteNot even going 2 comment on that spadge incase u throw ya toys out the pram lol ;-)
DeleteCome off it Lee, water under the bridge. We can all be arses like I said.
ReplyDeleteStill would have filled it in though, it's called a slow burner line. Whoooohoooo
Lol it would have been a very slow burner line as it didnt fish that well at all mate lol,think the next match will produce better weights tho :-)
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