MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY

MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

See you soon

Cookie

Lingmere Xmas Match 18/12/16

SUMO shows us he is learning after last weeks timekeeping affair.

Guest Blog this week from SUMO .

As you all know he is desperate to be in charge so every now and again we throw him a bone to keep him interested.

This year's Christmas match saw 20 members turn up at Lingmere Fishery in Moreton. Even some of the club's rarely seen superstars turned up. Honestly, they'd turned up anywhere when a free bowl of chilli after the match is on offer!

After one of Jan's usual lovely breakfasts the draw was delayed up while we waited for Paul Rob to show up. Apparently he's changed his hair mousse from L'oreal to Tresseme and it takes a bit longer to set.

Rumour was that the bottom lake was the place to be and most were looking forward to drawing down there. Pato drew 44, end peg on the bottom, and immediately decided that he would catch fuck all. He spent the next 5 hours doing just that. Either he's clairvoyant or it just goes to show the power of negative thought.

Jambo Pickup took the day with 64lb 11oz of mainly F1s on the feeder to the island from peg 42.  A brilliant display of accurate casting  (his words, not mine) and a great weight on a hard day.

In the next section Horrible Harrop showed his much improved tip fishing technique by getting two casts into the water before he went squirrel fishing up the trees on the island. He admitted defeat and chose the pole to win his section with section with 13lb 6oz of the 100lb of fish in front of him!

Meanwhile, things on the top lake things were not so good (honestly). Absolutely no wind, bright sunshine, and lower than recent temperatures really put the mockers on things.  Steve Hudson took his section with 17lb 1oz but as he was hidden behind the island I'm not sure what he did. Knowing Steve it would have involved a feeder and some bread. There was nearly a fatality in this section. Dennis Jones started talking so much bullshit that poor Steve Coleman on the next peg nearly drowned in it. Steve's not been out with us for a while and hopefully this incident won't put him off.

The next section was won by Lee Pickup with 13lb 4oz, but again as i couldn't see Lee, and didn't expect to be blogging this match, I don't know what he did but well done son.

Someone else won the next section but I'd rather not talk about it..............oh for fuck sake OK then, Golden Balls Buck 'The Bastard' Rodgers drew his usual flyer (20) and proceeded to batter yours truly off the next peg.  Honestly this guy is good, he had my trousers down and was dry fisting me before I knew what was going on. The twat jolly good fellow had 33lb 7oz for top weight on the top lake.  The utter utter..............

The final section was won by Dave Edwards with 23lb 4oz. Again due to an island being in the way and me not expecting to report meant I didn't find out how he caught. He seemed quite pleased to have beaten Tony Wilson though!

The Christmas draw was won by some people but as usual I wasn't one of them so they can piss off!

YO HO HO Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to everyone

See you soon 

Cookie

LINGMERE SUNDAY 11/12/16

Paul's  tactics Gel at Lingy

A decent turnout at Lingmere this week with 16 Eggy members lining the banks.
The day before the Saturday Open guys had a great day with the maestro Jamie Hughes winning with 137lb.
Time for the eggy boys to show those guys how to do it properly !!!!.
After a hearty breakfast and the usual highs and lows of the draw battle commenced.
Wearing a heavy coating of hair gel Paul Robb managed to net 37-01lb and turn out as today's winner.
Accepting the regular advice offered by Patto such as go home lady boy , If you catch any more I'm going to bum you Paul still managed to outdo us all and using the Monkey method cemented the podium place after a long absence.
In second place the ear battered Match Captain Davey H settled into a rhythm and mustered 30-12lb to come a close second.
In third was the ever popular Sumo. A varied attack managed to get him on the podium with 17-15lb.
As a Xmas gift I have organsed a " How to tell the Time " session with some local 5 year olds for Sumo. After dumping in all his bait at 14:15hrs and then asking Davey H to shout the all out it was a pleasure to inform the stupid prick that we still had an hour to go - HELMET.

So with the top 3 sorted the sections were decided amongst the usual suspects.
Claude Van Dim managed 12-13lb from section A for the money.
Sumo triumphed in section B putting Cooko and Normo in their places.
Dennis after getting a day off from the Grotto put 15-12lb in the sling to take E section.



The festive feelings were enhanced by regular bursts of Dink Donk Danker Dinky Do
 a Dinker Donker Danker.The senile amongst us provided this entertainment so thanks To Nicky and Eric for the Xmas Cheer

So 1st -  Paul Robb
     2nd - Davey H
     3rd -  John - Thick as shit Edwards

Sections

A  Brisso
B  Sumo
C  Robbo
D  Dave H
E   Santas little helper Dennis

Thanks to all who attended and te weighers in

See you soon ,

Cheers

Cookie

LOYDS MEADOW 4/12/16

OH BOLLOCKS !!!!!!!!!!

LATHOMS 27/11/16

Eggy Ferry's eye candy have a sweet day at Lathoms




8 hardy souls turned out for this one.
Despite some hard frosts and the coldest nights of the year everyone caught.
Following two days of fog and frost it was a surprise to wake up Sunday morning with clear skies and a temperature of 6 degrees.
An all you can eat breakfast in Ormskirk was taken by a few except for Nasty Nick who preferred  stuffing his pockets with free sausages rather than pay the £4.29 breakfast fee.
With plenty of room on the lake we had two sections.In section A were Fat Bastard (Sumo ) Brad Patterson , George Clooney ( Cookie ) and Tom ( Bucko ). In  the far uglier section were Claude , Eric , Davey H and Any Old Bait Harrop.
Regular top ups of Bovril were on offer and these warmed us to the task ahead .It also gave Cookie the chance of an extra dump or two on they way round.
Bucko started like a house on fire and carried on through the match.With tactics of Maggot and pellet and changing lines he mustered 67-01lb and was the runnaway winner today.
Cookie after 2 hrs of virtually nothing changes lines and fished top 2 and 1 in 3ft foot of water and knocked out 36lb to finish second.
Coming third was Fat Bastard with 32-14lb.
In the ugly sister section Brisso managed to keep the others at bay and 31-13lb was enough to take the envelope,
Once again Lathoms produced and a good day was had by all.

Congratulations again to Bucko and the usual fuck all of 67 lb added to his already impressive number of victories this year

1st Bucko
2nd Cooko
3rd Sumo

Section A Bucko
Section B Brisso

Well done to all who fished

See you soon

Cookie

Lingmere 13/11/16

Bucko kicks the opposition into next week

Top dog this week was Bucko with 52-13
Another 5 hour stint proved fruitful for Sumo with 49-13 securing the runners up spot
In third place was Steve Hudson with a creditable 38-13

Section winners were

A - Sumo
B - Kenny Stuart 28-11
C - Bucko
D - Dave H 22-13
E - Terry - 27-10

See you soon boys

Cheers   Cookie

Cunneries 6/11/16

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Andy comes good despite having a crap shift pattern

On the winners podium this week was Andy Lawton with 37-13
Second after a weeks practice at Westwood Lakes was Nasty Nick with 32-12
Finally in third was Bucko with 32-12

Section Winners were

A - Sumo 24-12
B - Nicky 32-12
C - Andy - 37-13

Cheers Boys

Lathoms 30/10/16

Terry wins the gold medal at Lathoms

Only a small turnout for this one with the Charity match on.
Terry Murrel was todays winner with 63-12
Norman came a close second with 61-01 and finishing the top 3 was one of our welcome guests Chris Goddard who bagged 60-11

Section winners as follows

Dave Harrop 38-07
Norman  61-01
Terry 63-12
Chris 60-11

Cheers Boys

Sumo presents Jamie with the Yozzer Hughes weekend away winners trophy

Congratulations to Jamie on being presented with the
"Yozzer Hughes Weekend  Away Winners Trophy "
Well done to all who competed and we will do it all again next year.

Cheers

Cookie

Lloyds Meadow Badger 16/10/16

LES SHOWS HIS PARTY TRICK

I wasn't at this one boys so only a short write up.

Top of the charts this week  with 36-16 was Les Thomson.
Straight after the match he displayed his excitement with the "old bowler hat on the knob " trick.
Soon to be repeated I hope.
Coming in second and only 2-02 behind was the only decent angler called cookie in the club.Colin that is !!!
34-10 pushed Les all the way but the rotund one could not be caught.
After a couple of weeks rest Bucko entered the fray and finished off the placings with 20-15 for a well deserved third place.

There were 4 sections and they finished as follows


A  John Rodgers - 20-15
B  Les Thomson  36-12
C Col Cook    34-10
D  Neil Patterson  11-11


Well done to the framers and section winners

See you soon bays

Cheers Cookie

WEEKEND AWAY

BOYS

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SUMO FOR DOING THE WEEKEND AWAY BLOG.
SORRY I TOOK SO LONG GETTING IT DONE BUT UNLIKE MOST OF YOU RETIRED OLD FOOLS I HAVE WORK TO DO.

See you soon boys

Cheers

Cookie

Eggy Ferry Weekend Away 2016

This year 17 of Eggy Ferry’s finest (plus Nicky Harrop) made their way down to the midlands for one day on Barston’s main lake and two days at the Midlands Mecca known as Tunnel Barn Farm.

Day One – Friday 9^th September - Barston  

Arrangements had been made to meet at the Toby Carvery in Knowle (about 5 miles from Barston) at 8am to start the weekend with an ‘All You Can Eat’ (they hadn’t met Pato!) breakfast for a fiver.  Surprisingly all the members who agreed to meet there actually turned up on time if not a little early. We were eagerly waiting for the doors to open when a member of staff came out and appologised profusely as breakfast wouldn’t be served until half an hour later than usual at 8.30am. Blind panic amongst the ranks followed until Tony Wilson (one of our few compos-mentis members) suggested having breakfast in the Club House at Barston instead. OK it might be a bit more expensive than the Carvery   but what the hell, these trips are only once a year.  The aforementioned Harrop volunteered to lead the party there as he had Barston dialled in on his Satnav.  Foolishly some of the party followed him all the way into Solihull, which was odd given that Solihull is 10 miles north of Knowle but Barston is 5 miles east! The final straw came when his Satnav directed him to a disabled parking space in the local Solihull Morrison’s (I always thought that disabled spaces were for physically rather than mentally disabled people!) We eventually found ourselves driving back past the Carvery about 10 minutes after the 8.30 breakfast had started!!!!!!! If only we’d just waited in the car park.

Finally arriving at Barston a quick but filling breakfast was followed by the day one draw.  Format for the weekend was 3 sections of 6 each day with top 3 in section getting paid out.  So 50% of the crew picked up dosh each day.

The weather won day one with a howling gale blowing across the lake. Presentation on the pole was terrible but some still caught whilst others stuck to the feeder or bomb.  First on the day was Gary Brislen with a brilliant 99lb of mainly F1s at 25m on the bomb and big pellet. Second was Tony Wilson with an equally impressive 90lb of carp and big skimmers on paste short.  Third was Colin Cook with 80lb including some right munters on worm in the margin.

(All weights are rounded up or down to the nearest pound)

Sections        

A             1^st           Tony Wilson       80lb

                2^nd          Dennis Jones      48lb

                3^rd           Chris Rowe         46lb

B             1^st           Gary Brislen        99lb

                2^nd          Colin Cook           80lb

                3^rd           Andy Lawton      66lb

C             1^st           Lee Pickup           55lb

                2^nd          Jamie Pickup      47lb

                3^rd           Kenny Pickup     35lb   (a Pickup Whitewash that one!!)

The hotel was the excellent Holiday Inn in Kenilworth and the evening entertainment involved a rather good Indian meal across the road. Even the regulars quickly realised what a prick Nick Harrop can be and they started pounding him with left over Naan breads. Unfortunately none of them hit him hard enough to knock any sense into him.  

‘Who threw that fucking Naan bread?’

Neil Patterson displays the dining manners learned at the Lucy

Clayton Finishing School for Young Ladies.

Day 2 – Saturday 10^th September – Tunnel Barn, Jenny’s

A mahoosive breakfast in Tunnel’s new conservatory dining room was followed by the draw, pegging being kindly sorted for us by Les in the tackle shop.  Many suffered a slow start as the lake didn’t respond to the usual corn and hemp on the deck tactics and the refusal of the massive head of F1s to feed shallow on caster or maggot.  Eventually people started to sort it out and fish started getting caught all over. Unusually for him Tony Wilson was struggling and in a hissy fit went back to his car to ring his wife for advice. She told him to man-up and not to ring again when she was busy paying the milkman. Due to the slow start weights were not up to Jenny’s usual high standards but when a load of hungover idiots like us turn up, what do you expect?  Pato was on speed dial to the Samaritans after 3 hours and still trying to tie a noose of 0.25mm line between his neck and the nearest (very strong) tree at the weigh in.  The soft shite came third in section, picked up some coin, and cheered up a bit.   

Sections         

A             1^st           Colin Cook           96lb

                2^nd          Dennis Jones      58lb

                3^rd           Neil Patterson   43lb

B             1^st           Nicky Harrop      83lb (Jesus wept.)

                2^nd          John Edwards    75lb

                3^rd           Andy Lawton      49lb

C             1^st           Chris Rowe          80lb

                2^nd          Jamie Pickup      71lb

                3^rd           Derek Warren    51lb  

Entertainment that night consisted of a meal in a local Chinese. Again great quality and washed down with lashings of Tsingchau lager.

Day 3 – Sunday 11^th September – Tunnel Barn, Canal

Yet another good breakfast at the fishery was followed by the draw with Les again kindly pegging the lake for us.  Well what can I say? Personally I’ve fished this lake 6 or 7 times and never done less than 60lb even when I’ve totally fucked it up (which is quite often). This year the lake was well out of sorts compared to it’s usual brilliant form and everybody struggled including the 4 or 5 of us who (sort of) knew the lake. Top weight on the day was day was 45lb which normally you’d have chucked back after 3 hours because you’re  50lb behind and gone home. We blamed it on the Match Fishing Subscriber Classic mob who had been on it the day before....’cos no way was it down our incompetence.....            

Sections        

A             1^st           Tony Wilson       25lb

                2^nd          Eric Hayes           20lb

                3^rd           Derek Warren    17lb

B             1^st           Lee Pickup           21lb

                2^nd          Kenny Pickup     16lb

                3^rd           Dave Lynch         13lb

C             1^st           Jamie Pickup      80lb

                2^nd          Gary Brislen        71lb

                3^rd           Les Thompson   20lb  

Sadly Missed

This year saw the inaugural competition for the Ian ‘Yozza‘ Hughes memorial trophy.  Ian tragically died on the bank at the Garbolino Club Angler of the Year Qualifier earlier this year at Lindholme Lakes. Many of you northwest anglers who read this blog but are not club members will remember Ian.  He was a brilliant angler who didn’t suffer fools gladly. You either loved him or hated him (usually ‘cos he beat you using just a top two kit!) Most people, including me, loved him. He’d more often than not beat most people with his usual half pint of stale pellets and pint of half dead maggots/black casters  while they had 4 pints of fresh casters and a kilo of worm.

The format for the weekend was 1 point for a section win, 2 for second, etc etc.   

Well done to Jamie Pickup as the first of many future winners of this esteemed trophy.   Jamie won with 5 points (1 first and 2 seconds ) with a tie for second between Colin Cook and Tony Wilson on 6 points each, nail biting stuff indeed.     

Yozza . RIP mate.

LINGMERE 9/10/16

THE MISSING U-52 SPOTTED AT LINGMERE

18 Of our boys waged war with Lingmere on Sunday and were at action stations when the periscope of U52  surfaced in front of peg 13.

Patto tried the depth charge approach to stop it by putting  6 two pint pots over the top of it to no avail .Cookie and Lee then peppered it with bomb and feeder but failed .It was left to Patto to snare the underwater menace with the pole to bring the excitement to an end . The top 4 was then handed back to it's rightful owner Keiran . Excuses were offered and a sloppy top was the one accepted .

I thought that was something you asked for in a massage parlour when offered extras !!!!!

Flat calm with sunshine seemed to deter the Monkey method boys but despite this plenty was had by all.

Six sections of three made up the field and and the winner today was Dave Edwards

Having around 65lb in the net with an hour to go he ran out of bait and had to abandon the long shallow approach with no maggot left .

In second place was the Ginger Midget , despite claiming to have about 20lb at the finish the little scrote weighed in 55.04 for a well deserved second place.

Coming third was the ever popular Nicky H having badgered Patto with support from Davey H all match he put together 52-05 for third . Funnily enough he finished with 9 gallons of Maggot left - Dave E remember this next time you run out.

In the sections the results were as follows

A     Nicky 52-05

B     Audi Lee 33-01

C     Dennis    55-04

D     Normo    

E     Dave E  70-09

F     Claude   48.07

Well done also to Housey who after working all night still managed to stay awake and push Claude all the way in a tight section.

As usual controversy was not far away and a slight mix up between Norm and Eric saw them sitting on the wrong pegs .To be fair they  did draw about 5 minutes before so to be expected from two of our senior members , sorry  - HELMETS.

Cheers Boys see you soon

Cookie

HALL LANE MERLINS 2/9/16

CLAUDE NOT SO DIM


On one of the longest lakes we fish on it was a day where space was abundent.

It was that far between pegs that Dennis on the end peg looked really small at times.

Deciding that some pegs were flyers and others were not proved to be rights and Gary on the flyer of the century made easy work of it and won the match with 72-14

Davey H on a similar looking peg also saw the rest of us off with 63-10 for second.

Having only two sections the winner of the duffers section was Patto with 43-02

So sections were

Patto 43-02

Caude 72-14

For any of you who were worried me and Sumo made it home fine despite not having Nicky to guide us home

Cheers  Boys

Cookie