LINGMERE 12/8/2018

THE OLD SCROTES OF EGGY FERRY CRUMBLE TO A RISING NEW STAR

Sunday at Lingmere saw a mere slip of a lad show fully grown ( and overgrown ) men how it should be done . The hundreds of years experience between them wasn't enough to hold off the superb Jack Trainor and his 95lb put the pensioners in their places.
Jack drew peg 31 and had to contend with venue regulars Jimmy and Andy in the section. Most of Jack's fish were caught in the margins on caster . Jimmy and Andy both caught 50lb + but could not catch this weeks winner.
In second place and framing for two weeks in a row was the club eye candy Cookie . Once again his approach on peg 11 was paste on top 2 +1 about 5 foot from the bank down the left . Mostly F1's and a couple of carp made up his catch of 80lb 02oz for B Section.
In third place and A Section winner was the medical midget Dennis .
On peg 3 he started down the edge on caster and stayed there all day to bring 77lb 06oz to the scales.
This was enough to fend off Housey and Mark who both put 50lb odd to the scales.
Finally the most popular win of the day was in C Section . Horrible Harrrop showed Bones and Les no mercy and 57lb of mainly arsehole hooked fish ( according to Bones )was enough for the money.
A good days fishing for most and nice to see Mark and Jimmy having a day out , Another pleasant sight on the bank was Kenny Stuart , only a flying visit but Kenny will be back on the match scene starting this week.

Congratulation to the framers and section winners and thanks for your help running the match lads. It seemed to go a lot better than when the Helmet of Hampton puts on his Mussolini uniform and starts barking orders about after going into panic mode when the pools money is 20p out .
God help us at the weekend away !!!!!

So in summary

1st Jack
2nd Cookie
3rd Dennis

Sections

A Dennis
B Cookie
C Nicky
D Jack

Cheers Boys see you soon

Cookie

Hampton Long Island 5/8/2018

SUMO SHOWS OFF HIS LATEST ANGLING EQUIPMENT PURCHASE AT HAMPTON
" THE PRESTON INNOVATIONS PORTABLE PISS HEAD BENCH "

Sunday was another scorcher and with the water levels down on Long Island ,margin fishing meant fishing about 2 metres from the bank.
12 Eggy  members made the trip and a visit to the greasy spoon at Broxton set us up for the day.
Once again the self proclaimed leader of the western world and man in charge Sumo took it upon himself to be the master of ceremonies. This resulted on him allowing Nicky Harrop to peg the lake as he is a venue expert at Hampton . Unfortunately Sumo does not know that Nicky may be an expert on the pegs but is shite at fishing and has never had more than 20lb in a match at Hampton over the last 20 years. Needless to say there are always complaints about pegging of lakes but today there was only one moaner .
On arriving at our pegs Sumo and Cookie noticed that the aerator  was causing a bit of a tow and feeder fishing seemed to be the answer . However after a 1 fish in 45 minutes frenzy Cookie decided
to tackle the tow by fishing 2+1  on paste about 2" overdepth . This seemed to give more positive bites and Carp , F1s , Crucians Skimmers fed on the same line for the next 4 hours . Cookie fed micros to start with but when bites became more regular did not feed anything for the last 3 hours of the match .
While this was going on Sumo the Helmet of Hampton went into sulk mode about the tow from the aerator ( fanny ) and slept the final 2 hours of the match as shown in the photo above .
Around the rest of the lake some people had it really tough while others managed to find a way of catching either down the edge on paste or hard pellet .
After 3 days practicing at Monk Hall it was still a surprise to see Cookie win the match with 116lb and win B Section .
In A section Patto was showing off his brand new Rive Pole Rollers and they seem to have helped him as his 55lb was enough for second and the section.
Finally Eric also fresh from Monk Hall  took C section with 42lb.
In third was Terry with 53lb , maybe you need to spend £120 on a new roller mate ?

So in summary

1st Cookie
2nd Patto
3rd Terry

Sections
 A Patto
B Cookie
C Eric

Thanks to all that fished , congrats to framers and section winners
Finally I'm in the money

Cheers Cookie