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TK vs TA 2009

October 18, 2009 Simon Mound Leave a comment

Saturday 17th October

Todays match was the annual Harrisons vs Talk Angling Match. This consists of two teams doing battle on a canal in the Midlands. This years venue was to be Pelsall common and wood lane.

The draw was at the Finger Post pub who had kindly agreed to open early to make us breakfasts and have somewhere nice to do the draw. Thanks for the lovely food and hospitality.

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The Draw in the pub

While I was still eating my sausage, bacon and cheese sarnie the draw got under way. TK’s crew were to be on even number and TA were on the odds (cock pegs) hehe. Larry from TA drew pegs for us and visa versa. I ended up with peg 18 on the common. For company from my crew I had Sprucey on 16 and Budgie on 14. Lee Woodhouse had drawn peg 13, the peg everyone wanted.

Lee on another good peg

Walking down to Peg 18

I got to my peg and realised is was one peg away from where I had a drynet from on one of the gruller matches earlier in the year, I drynetted along with eveyone else (except 3 people) I liked the look of the peg and thought it would be good for a few fish.

I went out to a comfy 13m for my punch line and found I had 1 ½ foot of water. I didn’t have a inside shelf as such because it was more like a gentle slope from 1 foot down to 4-5 foot of water. I settled at the deepest for a caster line.

Me Plumbing up at 13m

I only had punch and caster with a few pinkies for today and word was the TA cracks were going to be using bloodworm and joker. I stuck to what I knew and had been working down here on practice sessions. With everything set up I had 20 mins to kill and walked down to see Sprucey, Budgie and Mouse.

Sprucey on peg 16

Budgie on 14

Lee Woodlouse on fancied Peg 13

With the match about to start Lee announced he had forgotten his drink and asked Gem to go and fetch him some water. So off she went to the pub only to find that a farty little bottle cost £1.70. Tight arse Woodhouse was never going to pay that so she went to find the local shops instead. She took a few pics on the way. Gem was not the only Lady there offering support either.

Tea brought to your peg, cant be bad

View back to the Fingerpost Pub

Pegs on Pelsall Common

The Fingerpost Pub

On the all in I cupped in a pot of punch on the 13m line and a pot of punch with a few casters and hemp on the track line. I shipped out to 13m with some bread and only had to wait 20 seconds for a bite, a small roach. I had avoided a drynet so I was happy. Shipping out again I had another right away and was thinking I was in for a nice days fishing. With in 5 minutes I had 3 fish in the net and then the bloodworm and joker cracks either side of me started catching and left me struggling for a bite.

So after the first hour I had started well and found myself struggling to compete with the guys either side of me. I tried my track line and did not have one single bite from it in the whole match. For the rest of the match I switched lines and tried coming further down the far shelf and closer to the far side snaring the odd fish here and there but could not get the fish feeding properly.

I cupped in some more punch in an attempt to get some fish back in my peg but before I could get back out a swan came by and hoovered the lot up lol.

Naughty Swan liked my bread.

The guys either side of me on the B & J were slaughtering me and were regularly catching. The only chance I had was to catch a beastie from the track but the Tench and Bream were being very shy today, not one was caught although there were reports from Henizer who was bank running that people were being broke by some big fish.

With the whistle signalling the all out I knew I would probably be last in my section and thought I had about 8oz and I wasn’t far off with my guess. Sprucey reckoned he had about a lb and Budgie said he would be lucky to have 6oz. Woodhouse on the other hand was like a cheshire cat so we knew he had done well.

Silverfish to my left. 4lb

My few fish

The Guy to my right's fish

Sprucey's Fish

On to today’s overall winner of the match and as much as it pains me to type this….. Lee Woodhouse. Well done mate.

Lee's Fish

Overall Match Winner Lee Woodhouse

Full Results…

Talk Angling odd numbers……Harrisons Even.

Section 1
Jimbo……………. 0…7…0…………………..3pts
Ha Ha…………….. 0…5….12………………..4pts
Budgie……………..5…8…0……………… …..1pt
mick The fish……..1…13..4…………………..2pts

Section 2
ed pole……………3…9…12………………… ..1pt
OB1……………….0…10…6……………… ……4pts
Larry Teepot…….1…8…5……………………..2p ts
Goughy……………0…10…6………………. ….3pts

Section 3
Jay 411…………..3..15..14…………………… .1pt
Mick Garbet………1…7…3…………………….. .4pts
Blue4ever…………2..14..2………………… …..3pts
Mark O……………3..13..2…………………….. .2pts

Section 4
Chockie Munster..7…10..0………………………1pt
budgie……………0…10..13………………. …….4pts
PK………………..3…7…2………………. ……….2pts
Sprucey…………1…5..14…………………. …….3pts

Section 5
Bonanza…………6…11..0…………………. …….1pt
Simps……………0…11..4………………… ………4pts
lippy……………..4…0…0………………. …………2pts
Tricast 62………2…4…0………………………… .3pts

Section 6
Markco MBC……2…11…0………………………..2p ts
Big Baz…………2…15..8…………………….. …..1pt
Brian G…………2…0..0……………………….. ….3pts
Phil b…………..0…0…0…………………….. …….4pts

Section 7
Smiley Miley…….0…3…13………………………. ..4pts
Cotti…………….0…7…11………………. …………2pts
Le Mo…………..4…15…0…………………… ……1pt
Cheslyn Boy……0…4…9………………………….. 3pts

Section 8
Cockney Blanker.0…10..5…………………………2pt s
Mark V…………..0…4…10……………………. ….4pts
Blue Zulu……….0…11..10…………………….. ..1pt
TK……………….0…9…0……………….. …………3pts

Section 9 harrisons spare anglers
Zoro…………….1…8…8………………… ……..
Yamo……………2…5…10………………… …..
Millie……………..0…5…3……………… ………
Tinca Ted……..0…1…7………………………
The Shark……..0…1…0……………………..

I would like to thank both TK and Larry for arranging this superb well run match. I have had a right laugh on the day even if the fishing for me was hard going. I will be fishing this again for sure.

Match Report

Match Fishing Scene at Rolfslake. 2009

September 20, 2009 Simon Mound Leave a comment

Saturday 19th September.

I put my name down to fish a match with the lads from Match Fishing Scene. The list was full up so I went on the reserve list. I was not hopeful of getting on the match as Rolfs is always a popular venue. As luck would have it several people dropped out and I got on the list.

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The view when I got to Rolfs

Arriving at the lake there were people milling around but I did not really know anyone and there were some of the lakes top anglers fishing today so I was a little nervous. Two people that I did know turned up, Clive and Steve. I soon got chatting to some other people too, I had a good chat with Justin Case about shallow fishing a subject I find interesting.

Rolfs supremo Jon Walker turned up and everyone gathered around the back of his van to look and buy some of his floats. I went over for a look and soon found myself parting with £12. I bought 6 floats costing £2 each which I thought was good value for money.

Jon Walker Floats I brought

On to the draw. I pulled out peg 29 and instant decided I was going to be fishing shallow today and try to make it work whatever happened. The reason I thought this is because I have fished peg 29 before and wasted time fishing on the deck and by the bush to the right only to try shallow in the last hour and managed to catch a nice amount of fish.

It also appeared that I had drawn next to Wacko Jacko …

John Bennett. Chamone MO FO

My home for the day. Peg 29

A nice short walk from the car park to my peg which was nice, I had brought my trolley in case I drew the motorway bank but did not need it. For company today I had John Bennett on peg 30 and Winkledean on peg 28

John "Jacko" Bennett on peg 30

Winkledean on peg 28

My main rig today would be my Boilie Shallow rig that I have been using a fair bit at rolfs and have caught plenty of fish on it. Simple rig for a simple bloke hehe.

Shallow Fishing Set up

Simple Rig that has caught me a lot of fish

I also set up a 5m line and a margin rig as a back up. With and hour and a half to set up I had plenty of time to have a chat with Eddie who had turned up and was busy munching a bacon roll. Eddie on the other side of the camera for a change.

Greedy Eddie Taylor Green

On the all in I shipped out to 11.5m and slapped the boilie on the water and waited for the boilie to sink to the 2″ depth, nothing. A few drops later the float sailed away. Without feeding anything I had managed to get a fish which is what I had done on my last visit when I drew peg 26.

For the next few hours getting a bite at 11.5m was getting really hard. I managed to get a few more fish by going deeper, up to 3 foot. Changing the depth regularly seemed to induce bites. After 2 hours I decided to add another section and start again. I went out to 13m and instantly hooked in to another fish but this time the it was much bigger. With the fished weighed and photographed by Eddie {thanks Eddie} I was back out again and straight in to another fish, another weigher. I had another 2 weighers from the 13m line before it dried up.

One of my Weighers

For the final 1½ hours I added another section and went out to 14.5m’s and changed the depth back to 2 foot. I had another weigher right away but after that I was struggling for bites again. I had been watching Steve Wilson and Justin Case over on pegs 16 and 14 who seemed to be catching well also. Eddie had been doing a great job of keeping me informed on who was catching what and told me that I was in with a chance of winning my section which I was delighted with.

On to the weigh in and after we weighed in the little lake it was clear on just how hard the lake had fished today. I had guessed that I had about 80lb so was keen to see what Steve on 16 and Justin on peg 14 had done. With Justin Case weighing 75lb 12oz I thought I had just about beat that but with Steve weighing in 85lb 3oz I thought he had done me.

Another angler that I had seen catching a few was Slider on peg 26 and he put 76lb 4oz on the scales. The scales arrived at my peg and I weighed in 93lb 12oz which surprised me and was enough to win my section and the match. Steve and Clive had said that if I had over a ton that they were going to throw me in as I have been known to tell a few porkies where the amount of fish I have caught is involved hehe.

The Match Fishing Scene lads are a great bunch of lads and I had a good laugh along with been lucky enough to catch a few fish on what turned out to be really hard day.

Results.

Position	Name	Peg	Weight	Section
1	Simple	29	93lb 12oz	B
2	Steve0070	16	85lb 3oz	C
3	Slider	26	76lb 4oz	C
4	Justin Case	14	75lb 12oz	C
5	Eels	25	65lb 0oz	C
6	Chris Calder	6	63lb 10oz	A
7	Clive	4	58lb 0oz	A
8	Chris Telling	8	44lb 0oz	B
9	Jon Walker	40	39lb 12oz	A
10	Pikey	18	37lb 8oz	C
11	Caster or Disaster	13	36lb 4oz	B
12	Caster Master	9	35lb 4oz	B
13	Firstpeg	34	33lb 4oz	A
14	Winkledean	28	32lb 0oz	B
15	Wightman	22	29lb 0oz	C
16	Paul Jay	32	28lb 12oz	B
17	Mick the Fish	2	17lb 8oz	A
18	Jadstar	10	10lb 12oz	B
19	Crowy	7	6lb 8oz	A
20	Welshmagic	38	6lb 0oz	A
21	Happydangler	36	2lb 0oz	A

23	NickM	23	0lb	C
23	John Bennet	30	0lb	B