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Excellent report Tony as usual.
After seeing my peg I thought I was gonna have a pleasant day catching a few fish and I was right. I had  5 roach , 3 chub, 2 bleak and a perch, oh and about 10 minnows.

Well done to Drynet, great weight  

[edit]How come I had to weigh in [/edit]

nice write up tk. them are the biggest fish ratty as ever caught. He usally only catches eyes. At least thyese had tails

Well, my last match with you guys turned out to be a disappointment, results wise, anyway.  :(
I had a half decent draw on peg 7, which is a reasonable peg for Roach.
Just set up two rigs, one for the track, which was about 2ft 6inches deep, and one for over, which was about a foot deep (too shallow for my liking, but fancied a few Roach off it late on.)
After an hour, all I could muster was half a dozen tiny Roach, mainly form over. Then, it was like someone turned a switch on, and in the next twenty minutes, had the majority of my fish, which included a decent stripey among a few Roach.  ;)
For the last couple of hours, i could only muster afew more smaller Roach. With hindsight, I think I tried to fish too light down the track, which was pulling quite hard.  
Never mind, i enjoyed the fishing, and the weather wasnt as bad as expected  :)
Thanks for all the Good wishes at the end of the match. I will keep in touch, I promise. It will be easier and safer to take the P**s from 200 miles away.  

some decent roach and proper billeys there lads
and lee must have had sweat on catching that many

I ain't got a report really as I didn't catch much

But after I couldn't catch on anything else the Punch saved my wobbly cheeks
Maggot and pinkie was only catching me minnows, caster didn't even get me a bite.
I could hear Drynets pole going back and forth so I knew he was catching.

Great company and like already said the weather was great. The sun was in my eyes all morning and kept me nice and warm. No wind also!!

Looking forward to the last Grueller match this year

Good report as usual TK. Im just glad I was sitting at home in the warm.

Good reports so far chaps

Your all stupidly brave in this weather!

Hope Grueller Match 10 is better for all

How come I had to weigh in   [/edit]

Come on Drynet tell us all how you fished it and walked it............

Interesting that you did 6lb of Kinvers, whilst Gerry did 6lb of mainly silvers last time off that peg

Aye the scales were on your peg
Not only did you thrash me I had to weigh in for you too

The day started of bad when plumbing up the rig it dropped off and disappeared fished choppie rig 1 on the left across the other side about 2ft from the bridge which was about 2ft deep. Rig 2 also choppie 8 metres to my right in the middle around 3ft deep. Rig 3 maggot & caster over hemp was further down past rig 2 close to the metal fence/guard thing.Fed the hemp seed first then the 2 choppie lines, started with white maggot over the hemp and started catching small roach, gudgeon and chublets almost instantly. After 30 Min's i had a small perch which prompted me to go straight to the choppie line on my right from then it was almost a bite every put in. When i did fail to get a bite after a few Min's i fed a small bit of choppie then switched to the choppie line by the bridge and did the same here and repeated for the remainder of the match. I had some trouble hooking fish at one point which turned out to be a blunt hook ::) also pulled out a few fish to put this down to the fish not taking all the worm, trouble is leave the bite to long and perch take it right down the tail :( one small perch jumped of the hook and landed head first in hemp seed tub and just froze there with tail sticking out . The pike took the worm has i shipped the pole back, he behaved himself though and came more or less straight in. As Si said weather was pretty decent really with the sun in my eyes most of the 4 hours.

Back down to earth today fished 5 hours without a single bite

Aye the scales were on your peg  
Not only did you thrash me  :-[ I had to weigh in for you too  

Thanks for that mate you'll have to show me how to use them one of the days.

Back down to earth today fished 5 hours without a single bite  :'(

Where was today's grueller then?

Back down to earth today fished 5 hours without a single bite  :'(

Where was today's grueller then?

That syndicate pool in Worcester i was telling you about the other week, it was clear almost all the way across the pool. 6lb'ish won second 3lb, two weighed in ounces and the other four dry netted. Had a nice brekkie at woodlands though

Good report, next time you have a pike shout me louder so I can get a piccy.
Unlucky for today, that's fishing for you

Good report, next time you have a pike shout me louder so I can get a piccy.
Unlucky for today, that's fishing for you  

Tried to hold on to him but he weren't having none of it

I deffo had a pike in my swim.
The grass was moving under my feet to the right and then a bow wave shot out and towards the bridge, it disturbed all the mud on the side under the bridge too.
Must have been chasing its dinner.

Well what a funny old match, was well gutted when i drew peg 5 on the inlet, just didn't fancy it at all. On the bright side pulled peg 6 out for Mr V, oh well aleast i could have one last fishing lesson
Then BDM gets peg 4  :'(  usually when drawn next to each other one or both of us end up having a real grueller.
well i have to say TK you really surpassed yourself this time, i dont think in all the years i've ever heard you swear and moan so much constantly for 4 hours non stop
Perhaps you need to change all that rotten line on your rigs
well theres a first TK both having a reasonable match

Apart from the odd curse of mine when I was in full flight depleting my rig box, feeding a new punch line 2 foot out and a choppie line in my keep net I quite enjoyed it  ;)

Probably as you said it made a change from us both having a real ballacher which is the norm when we are pegged next to each other - too many venues spring to mind to mention  

Got too keep my eye on you for 2008..........particularly on the Curley Wyrley now you've cracked the Cotti the Warburton King tactics  ;)

At least you've got the confidence to fish the inlet again - see there are fish in it.............and you battered the crack MrV in the process  :P    

well i have to say TK you really surpassed yourself this time, i dont think in all the years i've ever heard you swear and moan so much constantly for 4 hours non stop
Perhaps you need to change all that rotten line on your rigs

I would loved to have heard that