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he looked down and declared ‘i’ve got a pinkie’. Poor bloke he was delirious. I’d seen him trying to net a plummet earlier. Still, he provided amusement for the assembled Cashmore crew.
LOL that was hilarious
Nice report Mark, summed up everyones day perfectly
Thats a good report TK, especially on a week when there isnt much to report
Not a patch on MarkV's - that was ace - here at work people think I've been on the wacky backy or took a tablet too much...........I've been struggling to suppress the laughter
Originally 3/4s of the 'series' was a mix of Inlet/Outlet alternated with the KP..............with key and security issues on the inlet/outlet I knocked those couple on the head............then the last KP match was cancelled because too many wanted to fish it................not enough pegs to meet 'demand'
The last match in a fortnight will be on there though
Simps sounds petrified of a suicide straight peg though
Mind - I spoke to Kim yesterday afternoon.........he was on peg 4 on their match on the KP and he packed up after 2 hours...........so there's every opportunity that the might kick in again
tk
we all know your proud of the greuller series . with scratching for bites seen as a right of passage BUT having the canal dredged by four dredgers the week we are due to fish is taking it to the extreme don`t you think . even for your twisted mind ? sorry about winding simple up with tales of zorro catching on the next peg . mind his face was a picture
Yes and believed you as well
A very hard match indeed, trying everything just to catch 1 fish.
Yamo and Veste provided some excellent entertainment
Ball it in Baker made me laugh to when a nice young lady walked by and he said "oooo they are nice wellies, nearly as nice as you"
She just giggled and walked away rather quickly. His Ice breaking was also an eye opening experience. Holding 13m's of pole by the thin end, bopping the ice. Then pushing left and right, he cleared a 5 meter wide swim in no time and then proceeded to impersonate a gondola boatman with his pole
First blank of 2009
Holding 13m's of pole by the thin end, bopping the ice. Then pushing left and right, he cleared a 5 meter wide swim in no time and then proceeded to impersonate a gondola boatman with his pole
Whilst the fishing was largely abysmal and not a particularly great advert for our beloved cut that was one of the funniest days ever. Ever trod in dog sh*t and wiped your shoe along the ground only to find you've just wiped you shoe in another lump of sh*t, well that happened to me twice on the day. Seeing the ice breaking was summit else, budgie had done it before as had vestie whereas stories of ball it in using his pole like a gondolier and doing impressions of spartacus using the thin end of his pole to pierce the ice made me chuckle what was to happen thereafter caused hysterics. I borrowed vesties' anchor on a string,it looked more like abu hHamza's arm had been chopped off. After a couple of successful launches it got snagged up on the bottom right in the middle of my peg, pull pull did i and it wouldnt budge,vestie came over and we both pulled and nothing. Dog walkers must of thought we were a pair of lunatics in our hats pulling a rope like a tug of war match. Kev hails down a young lad in the distance,a young chav in his nice new fred perry jacket pulling a baby labrador known to me and kev as 'shabaz'..we explained what had happened with the anchor and kev asked the lad if he would go round the opposite side of the cut and if we chucked the excess rope over to him whether he would pull it from that side to see if he could budge it. The lad was eager to help left the dog with myself and set off not actually realising how far he had to walk thru all the mud, 10mins later he appeared in the distance,knackered and extremely muddy.simple chucked the rope as mine and vestie's arms were aching like hell having tried to pull this anchor out of the cut. The rope just missed the far bak and this lad was on his belly in the mud reaching for this rope, how he never fell in is still a mystery to me, vestie was absolutely howling of laughing as i stood there holding a dog whilst this poor young lad was face down leaning into the cut. Budgie and simple were over with the cameras taking snap shots, this poor lad must have thought what the hell was going on with about 4 people taking pics of him.Eventually he got the rope and pulled that hard that he so nearly went in the cut, still the anchor would not budge. He walked back round took the dog and disappeared into the distance. He was covered in mud, a quite morning stroll had tunred into an embarassing muddy adventure.So here i was with a huge length of rope right in the middle of my swim....i looked across at phil who looked like the grim reaper in the antarctic, completely oblivious to what was going on. The all in sounded and once it became apparent no fish were gonna put in appearance, the laughs continued. Vestie was playing bezza and big Col up by netting his own pinkie twice and then netted a swimfeeder and a plummet. Rumours went down that he had caught several fish even though his keepnet lay beside him on the bank, the worried faces could be seen for a long way off. perhaps the funniest thing was when tigerbay walked past,kev played his plummet expertly for about 2 mins even tho it swung around in the air a few times, oh my god did we laugh or what. I think he got tigerbay reeled in there. Every person who walked past the far bank was hailed down by vestie and asked to pull the rope, some declined but others had a go, one guy was taking it so seriously, and vestie was howling of laughing in his face. About 4 people had a pull of that rope and no-one cold budge it.
Slowly but surely people gave up and went for a wander so i went for a walk too, did my first lump of dog crap, and wiped it in another lump as i approached cotty under the bridge. WALKED DOWN past zorro and sprucey and down to ball it in who was playing and netting a huge branch. 'that's the 5th one now look i could build a campfire' he said as he plonked it down by the other branches he'd hooked on his catmeat rig. Indeed ball it in had built a mini wig-wam by the end of the match. Tk next to him looked a lonely soul but we didnt half chuckle discussing the events of the day. On my return to my peg, a quick no 1 in the trees saw dog crap no2 trod in and unbelieveably wiped in another lump to its right, even i was laughing at this point. The shark gave me evils as our mars bar marathon comes to a head, but on this day i knew we were gonna draw a blank and the decider on the kidney pond would see the crowning of the mars bar winner. Great laugh great pics, the only thing missing a few fish, well done to those who did catch.
Great reading about saturday it was a day to either remember for the laughter or forget because of the heart ache.
I finaly drew a great peg on the junction really fancied it when someone told me ....roach at 6 mtrs bream at 11
Blew the whistle to start on went the bread cupfull out at 6mtrs chopped worm and casters at 11.
Then waited and waited and .......................
Float dipped yes i thought finally got a bite after about an hour................out came a lovely light blue plastic bag
two hours gone dave b next to me is also suffering so its not just me goughy rings me cr*p down the bottom end as well
Look around seems not to be many people sitting down so thought i'll go for a stroll as well if only to warm up.
Off i toddle to goughy and TK both are a picture of concentration but no fish Goughy and myself decide to give it to 1pm then its off to the pub i'd been lucky and parked the car where i could get it out
So result of last two gruellers 1 lost fish one missed bite ( last grueller ) 1 plastic bag and a small branch of a tree ( this grueller )
seven and a half hours of trying .................
BUT THATS FISHING
Good luck guys on the last grueller
We were debating what it might be, vesty reckoned it might have been a motorbike i think something far bigger like a milk float or a decayed pile of ball it in's halibut pellets fed in a previous match !
