But it’s pouring down outside – a bit too wet to go fishing – well you don’t wanna get your gear soaked on a supposedly ‘pleasure session’ do you............and a bit too damp to give the bowls an outing on the green at the mo. As SHMBO has gone to work, spose I’ve got time sitting here listening to ‘Lorraine’ on Daybreak to knock a few words together.
Border Fishery. One I was really looking forward at the start of the week, but as time progressed I became ‘distracted’ and didn’t really focus on this one. Aok, I popped in the shops and got a bag of corn and a tin of meat (and also arranged with Cotti to get me some ‘get out of jail’ bait) but as the week rolled on I started to look less forward to it.
Regular readers will remember we’ve had ‘Mugger moments’ before,
well come Saturday morning I was well into a full blow ‘TK CBA moment’. Spose this had started on the Thursday when Heinzer had rung me ‘for a bit of info’. I didn’t possess too much info, but as he talked about pre setting up feeder rods, presetting up float rods the CBA mode kicked in as I thought sod that.CBA mode almost peaked on Sat morning when I got up as i thought to myself ‘Wished Heinzer knew where Border was, cuss I’d ring him and tell him not to bother picking me up, but i’d got the Tom Tom..........
Arriving at Border I’ve gotta say, first impressions – and last impressions come to that – were what a picturesque and pleasant fishery.
Just a shame it isn’t a tad closer or I could see myself joining Bay Malton.............. all in all, it looks a well run and impressive fishery. A few pleasantries were exchanged in the car park and Dead Peg confided he was also verging on CBA mode. Off I set with KOD and HaHa to peg out, but half way there, I CBA and wandered back where Roberto was doing the treasurers duties – ta.
We’ve had stalking heron rigs, swooping buzzard rigs, but the CBA mode temporarily lifted a I learnt of Josh’s latest secret weapon as he demonstrated to Tricast62 in the car park his ‘Budgerigar rig’
Highlight of the day really for me 
The draw was made and I found myself on end peg 1...........not exactly where I wanted to be as the wind was blowing in the opposite direction and it meant somewhat limited ‘banter’ not being flanked either side, but at least it wasn’t a ‘mega hike’
Mr V had ‘tipped me the wink’ during the week and l had only gone and drawn the same peg that he referred to, The info was seemingly reinforced by comments from HaHa
as he passed by onto his peg on the other side of the huge island that separated half of the membership.Well Lorraine on Daybreak has just finished so I’d better press on cuss I aint had my cornflakes yet......
Four rigs were set up do some damage with the supposedly 50lb plus of silvers and skimmers I was gunna catch off this ‘flyer’.......as with 10 mins to spare I wandered down to Glyn.
‘How you lackied that pole for today?’ I enquired
‘I aint bought it, I’m gunna fish the bomb’ (Now there’s a possible clue to the title......... or is it a little red herring?)
After a little chat I returned to my flyer ready for the whistle.The off and lines fed.........
First put in and a 4oz roach comes off the hook. ‘Oh shucks’ or words to that effect I thought to myself. Next put in and nowt.......
In fact those silvers weren’t exactly in suicidal mode as over the next 5 hours I wheedled a few out from here and a few out from there whilst I couldn’t see much happening to my left either. In between wheedling a few bites I slipped deeper into CBA mode and really felt that whilst I was tidy I was somewhat just going through the motions..........
Just for Joffie I took out the camera half way through to shoot off these two pictures just so any one not au fait with the match lake we were on could get a bit of a feel for it...........(hard to believe they were taken just seconds apart)
And CBA mode wasn’t helped when I was ultimately ‘Brambletised’ in the last hour as Brambles, with just a couple of silvers in the net wiped me out with two carp. Ah well, back to the drawing board..............
So here’s the results in order they weighed in.........
PEG
34 COTTI 9.2.0
33 ZORRO 10.5.0
32 BIG GEOFF 10.3.0
31 HAHA 16.12.0
30 DEAD PEG DNW
29 HEINZER 17.5.0
27 BIG COL 28.4.0
26 ROBERTO D 1.2.0
25 TRICAST62 DNW
24 SMART MART (FK) 16.8.0
22 MIKE ELCOCK 5.4.0
20 MR V 26.1.0
19 JOSH 16.10.0
17 DAZ WILLIAMS DNW
15 RICH C 18.5.0
13 BIG BAZ 21.8.0
12 MANCUB 9.2.0
11 MGB 2.14.0
10 GLYN 48.13.0
8 KOD 4.9.0
7 YAMO 7.15.0
6 MICK K 0.8.0
5 HARRY THE HITMAN DNW
3 BRAMBLES 7.12.0
1 TK 7.6.0
Seems a fair few had struggled...........all I really know was Cotti with two carp for his weight, Tricast62 had had to resort to a cut rig to get a bite – which culminated in getting smashed up. Harry the Hitman had had the one bite but been seen off.................Dead Peg was in a deep CBA mode and also tipped his couple of lb away........................whilst
Glyn had paralysed it and ‘bombed’ us all out big time, winning with a decent weight,
although a dejected HaHa did confide that he’d lost a fair few and should have done ‘80lb plus’Well done Glyn, that’s a new name to grace a Cashmores trophy next year
.......... that’s if we bother with a presentation evening in2013......... Just to reiterate, nice venue,
wouldn’t mind another bash at Border preferably without the CBA modeRight it’s stopped raining, I’m off out for a game of bowls.............
I think we have all been there TK 
Put a new rig on for the last 10 minutes, and hooked another which set off towards Crewe at an alarming rate. managed to get some control, and got down to the top 2 with the pulla thingybob working ok. saw it a couple of times, and would guess it was "touching doubles". Guess what, it took off again this time towards Stoke and shed the sodding hook 
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