Ben will never be forgotten, but according to reports, maybe from a fishing point of view, sport was instantly forgettable.
Sumo ran the match and has kindly written an account of the day:
For those that remember the glory days at Gorsty, and given the recent club results there, plus the weather forecast, eleven brave (deluded?) souls headed out for our latest extravaganza more in hope than expectation.
The day started badly for more than half the field with an enforced Mackie D breakfast as the café wagon at Gorsty doesn't seem to open anymore. Still, the remaining 45 minute drive was enough time to get over the indigestion before the draw.
Given the wind and rain 'in the kipper', keeping your head down on the method/waggler and hoping for a bite was the order of the day. Most poles stayed in the rod bag and the three hopefuls in A section who set them up soon wished they hadn't.
Triumphant on the day was Dirk Wriggler with 25lb 15oz of method caught carp off the lilies. The £28 prize money Derek won will go some way towards replacing the rod he snapped and the reel he dropped into the margin and somehow never to be seen again????
Second, sitting next to Dirk, and on an all too rare outing, was Cargy Jnr with 19lb 05oz of carp, all (all? hah! five ) again caught on the method. Paul's casting prowess drew gasps of amazement from his fellow anglers as his skill and experience prevented his feeder from EVER landing in the same place twice. Searching the peg it's called. Well done son.
Final framer was Steve (I'm better looking than Rock ) Hudson. Perseverance and five and a half hours thrashing away on the big wag resulted in 5 carp for 11lb 15oz.
Sections
A- Dennis Jones - 10lb 13oz (with a perfect split of 2 fish in one net and 2 in the other).
B- Steve Hudson 11lb 15oz
C- Dirk Wriggler 25lb 15oz
I'd like to thank The Butler for sending tradesmen round to the rear entrance and helping with the draw, and Cargy for helping with the weigh in.
Joking apart, hopefully next year we can have a better day on which to remember Lee's little lad.
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Unfortunately the fishing was crap i never got a bite!! Congrats 2 dirk hughes 4 another win and ide like 2 thank those who made the trip 2 gorsty 4 this match thanx guys,next year we will have it closer 2 home on a better venue.thanx 2 sumo 4 runnin the match also.
ReplyDeletei would like to say a big THANKS to sumo,
ReplyDeletefor running the match, good write up and staying the distance, even when a section winning carp jumped out of his keepnet. i will not pretend i enjoyed the match, due to how cold it was and loosing my best tdr reel.
thank dirk
It was a grueller but it wasn't about the fishing on the day and it was worth the drive just to listen several waterproof jacket stories from J it was enthralling and very interesting.
ReplyDeletePitty you didnt buy the bottoms aswel coz alls i got on the way home was how wet u were lol.
DeleteArrived today son. Yeeee haaaaaa. Dry as a nuns crutch for the rest of the year yeeee haaaaa.
DeleteThat's great Lee we can look forward to waterproof bottoms stories at Lathoms - I cant wait!!
ReplyDeleteWwwaaaaannnnnkkkkkeeeeeerrrrrrrr. Haha.
DeleteOh and you'll have yours by then too. So we can both tell nice dry stories to all the fat cunts that are soaked. Yeeeee haaaaaaa.
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