Well what can I say?
I’ll start by thanking all for turning up at this 4th SMF Cut Championship – it was good to meet some ‘old faces’ and many more new ones – cheers
Thanks also to Bullah, Phil B, Mike E, Joffie and Dazzla for the raffle prizes............
.not forgetting Manny for me bacon sarnie that I forgot to pay him for. ‘Forgot’ – that seems to be a bit of a reoccurring word yesterday.......... 
Now the apology from an alzheimer suffering numpty
for taking you all hostage........sods law that is, once before on these matches we were locked out.........can’t believe we got locked in this time. 
Whilst i wait for Heinzer to shout ‘Eureka I’ve found the keys in the car’, I’d better also thank Heinzer’s missus and JK for coming to our aid with the spare set of keys and releasing us. Spose the one good thing that came out of it was that we didn’t have an after match barbie this year – good thing really – as someone’s pointed out, it would have been cinderised by the time we got back to the club. 
As to the fishing...........well what can I say – apart from a couple of exceptions, it was hard to say the least.
A few DNWs, but I didn’t actually hear of any dreaded dry uns And as for the weather – just glad that final downpour ended before the final whistle or I might have slung my sodden stuff in the cut along with the gate key On a personal front I drew a dreaded long walk, but was greeted by a peg I’ve fished before and done well off.
I needed it to fish well again again – i was flanked either side by cut cracks Pedro and Kingfisher. No pressure then, and I knew what the peg was capable of and how to ‘attack it’. ::)
But the best laid plans don’t always come to fruition and they certainly didn’t on this match .......3 roach in the first 3 put ins was followed by bites on both punch lines that for some reason I just couldn’t touch
The weather took a turn for the worse and bites were at a premium so halfway through with a lull in the rain I took the camera for a walk
(click on the pictures to enlarge them)
And to my right, northern cut crack Pedro.
And the master, Kingfisher
ME looking rather posh
Dick Van Dyke with some strange looking bloke who kept walking up and down
Dead Peg looking a bit grumpy considering he’d got a 3lb+ breme in the net
Now with a smile like that, TrevorB must have got at least 2 3lb breme in his net
Buzza wasn’t too chuffed – he’d been seen off twice
Josh was having a few and had snared a tinca too
Swampy fishing long short........if you get my drift
Next up its Victor and co on the fancied wides
Hum, just thought - was there a hat stall that I missed. Must say, they do look all the rage
Towpath2 owning up to a lb plus skimmer.......
Snowie having his usual cuss and chunter
And just who would this be on an end bridge peg..........? Answers on a postcard..........nah on second thoughts don’t bother, that’s far too easy a question
Last but not least the others on all those flyers south of the walkover bridge
Back I trotted and on the way back, heard that Buzza the Tavern Champ had snared a bit of a beastie, enough supposedly to trouble Dick’s few tench.
All I could muster for the rest of the match was a few more small rudd and tbh I was glad to hear the whistle.
Up trotted Woodhouse to weigh ‘our end’ in and having packed up I took a few ‘catch’ pictures.......
First Dick with his tincas
Dead peg with his breme
Now for the tale of the scales..........
PEG
1
2 SWERVO 1.1.8
3 TAUDS 0.11.13
4 G MITCHELL 1.10.4 Section Winner
5 HEINZER 0.7.8
6 K WELLINGS 0.12.7
7 HUMPY 1.7.6
8 TOP 4 4.1.6 Section Winner
9 STEVE OWEN 0.5.0
10 DAMO23 1.3.6
11 PHIL B 1.5.3
12 BULLAH 1.2.4
13 MIKE E DNW
14 MOZZIE 4.0.0
15 BLUES4EVA 0.12.10
16 R JONES 4.0.8 Section Winner
17 COLIN WELLINGS DNW
18 SAM R 0.8.8
19 MANNY 1.15.15 Section Winner
20
21 DAVE H DNW
22 WOODHOUSE DNW
23 OBI DNW
24 DAZZLA 2.6.4
25 KEEF DNW
26 JOFFIE 3.1.0 Section Winner
27 SNOWIE 1.3.6
28 TOWPATH2 2.3.0
29 VICTOR DNW
30
31 SWAMPY 3.14.4
32 JOSH 5.5.8
33 TAVERN CHAMP - BUZZA 32.4.0 Section Winner
34 TREVOR B 0.15.8
35 DEAD PEG 5.3.0
36 DICK 11.10.0 Section Winner
37 ME DNW
38 KINGFISHER 1.2.0
39 TK 1.6.4
40 PEDRO 1.1.8
Nope – that isn’t a typo against peg 33.
Remember me mentioning a beastie – well here it is - all 19lb 9oz of it – the fish that is, not Buzza
Well done Buzza the new SMF Cut Champion – bet you wont forget that battle for a while
Then it was back to the club (eventually) for a pint, the raffle and a bit of entertainment - wasnt it Joffie and Co
have our own canal league 
