Practice match 23rd Walsall Canal

[Woodhouse]

Walsall canal Tipton
83 fished


With the ice thawing by Thursday the canal produced a much better match for most of the anglers below peg 93 with nearly half the field catching 4lb plus.

Former world champ Tommy Pickering showed his class on peg 1 with a catch on skimmers and roach that totalled 9-14-10 on bloodworm and joker.

1st Tom Pickering (Preston/ Barnsley) 9-14-10 peg1
2nd Darran Bickerton (Daiwa Trentmen) 6-13-8 peg 10
3rd Simon Preece (WB Clarke VDE) 6-9-0 peg 69
4th Martin Harrell (Team Maver Midlands) 6-8-0 peg 81
5th Rob Quinn (Shakespeare) 6-5-8 peg 6


section winners
1-9 D.massey 4-14-5 peg 3
10-18 A.Davies 5-3-13 peg 13
31-41 C.Gorrell 6-0-10 peg 35
42-53 A. Moulton 5-8-0 peg 46
58-67 John Fowler 6-1-0 peg 60
68-76 A.Higginbottom 5-2-0 peg 73
77-90 T.Peel 5-11-0 peg 82
91-100 L.Breeze 3-9-0 peg 91
101-109 Jon Arthur 3-11-0 peg 105
110-118 Paul Bick 4-10-4 peg 117

[Dodge]

Much better conditions for everyone on this practice ratbag  

[AdSlade]

fished alot better than last week by looks of it lee

[Woodhouse]

pegs 94 to 118 was very patchy but the rest of it fished OK.

[TK]

Former world champ Tommy Pickering showed his class on peg 1 with a catch on skimmers and roach that totalled 9-14-10 on bloodworm and joker.

The bionic beaker still doing the bizz

I've still got Tommy P's book - My way with the Pole - autographed by him and Colin Dyson - think I need to fish it out and swat up again

[ropa]

And to think the lad who drew peg 1 last week , wouldn`t go to the peg

[joffmiester]

looks like 1 t0 10 was a good area lee one or two drawbags in that section