The hardy gruellerites were greeted by a fairly coloured canal – not the horrible slatey grey colour that runs in by Pelsall New Road Bridge - but quite a coffee colour as you looked over the bridge wall.
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Pegs 1 to 8 went into the section south of the bridge, with 9 to 17 above it, heading up to the ‘police pool’
To be brutally honest I wanted to draw pegs 1 to 3
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Draw time – and as everyone had a dip, two pegs were left in the bag for me and Heinzer...........peg 3 and 12. Yippee a 50/50 chance of getting what I wanted.
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And having set up, here’s peg 12 for the day........well the next 4 hours
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For company to my left I’d got C B A........
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With Zorro to my right
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The whistle went and lines were fed – the usual punch, choppie and some superblack and squatt up the shelf. I’d have a look on the punch, but didn’t really expect it to ‘work’
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However a minute in and ‘yelp of joy’
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Next put in was better as the dreaded DNW was avoided.
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I was having a few but they were last years fry as OBI was putting me to the sword. Never mind I’d got that ‘banker’ groundbait line to have a look on later, I’d just let them snotties get their heads down a little longer before emptying it...........
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But 40 minutes in and before I’d gone over it, that line erupted............now I thought I was on the Extension cut, not out in the Atlantic - it was as though a wolfpack ploughed through the swim – fish scattering in all directions as 4 or 5 bow waves formed.
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As the four hours progressed this happened on a few occasions as I struggled to get the fish to settle – as well as strikes right on my other longer lines, fish also scattered on my feet as I’d trickled a bit of squatt in short.
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However I wasn’t the only one having a bit of essox lucius trouble. Zorro and OBI also had ‘em show either side of me and down on those low numbers, I heard Big Col T was having some fun and games too, in fact he managed to snare one about the 3lb mark.
Mind, if Big Col T thought it was bad down his end, as the water erupted in peg 12 for the 6th time I managed to snap this..........
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Honestly
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Going into that last hour I felt like a piece of cod, battered both sides as OBI and Zorro both wheedled a few out and I could see MrV, The Milky Bar Kid, Mike E and Yamo all having a few.
Noone from the other side of the bridge had been walkies either – a usual sign that they must be having a few. No alternative then, time to play catch up and drag a piece of worm round ........see if I could snare the beastie that I’d bumped half way through the match whilst having a ‘chat’ to Carl who’d popped down to see how we were getting on.
But sadly it wasn’t to be and Heinzer signalled the end of the four hours.
Big Col and Jason C did the bizz on the scales and this is how it had panned out...........
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1 COTTI 0.3.14
2 BIG COL T 0.5.8
3 HEINZER 0.4.5
4 JASON C 1.5.3 2nd
5 TREVOR B DNW
6 BIG COL 1.0.8 Section winner
7 TONY C DNW
8 PHIL B 0.1.3
9 MIKE E 0.9.8
10 YAMO 1.4.6 3rd
11 OBI 1.2.14 Section winner
12 TK 0.11.5
13 ZORRO 0.8.6
14 MR V 1.8.0 1st
15 KOD 0.9.15
16 JOSH 0.15.2 Section winner
17 TRICAST62 0.14.0
So well done again MrV – that’s two on the bounce and this time despite being next to the Kiss of Death
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