a) Before I totally forget what happened or
b) Before the missus chucks the results away
18 hardy fools gruellerites turned out for this latest classic as Yamo took charge of the pegs and dropped 19 on the towpath with no 17 having gone mysteriously missing
1 to 8 were on the boatyard, with 9 to 20 the other side of the new bridge heading south. Draw done and dusted as I found myself on 7..........once again with OBI for company to my left when I finally got there.
Peg 7 was exactly the same spot as the peg that I’d fished last time on the boats. Hadn’t exactly set the world on fire that day – failing to bust the lb – would it be any better today?
Here’s a reminder of the peg – not before the off but taken with about ½ hour to go as I needed a gypsies
10am and Heinzer whistled up. 3 punch lines were fed along with a choppy & caster spot.
5 minutes passed without any reaction to the float
but OBI was first to avoid the dreaded DNW as he snared a small silver on.........guess what, 3 guesses and 2 dont count as he only had one bait with him, such was his confidence in it 
Down the towpath to the right the odd landing net was being put out to use
and a few minutes later I avoided the dreaded too.......... 
A few more bits followed from a couple of lines over the next 24 mins before it was time to move onto that renowned and classic OBI snotty line
to see if owt was there........ 
And whey hey – after about 5 mins, a tentative dip of the tip followed 10 secs later by the float sliding away.........a lift..........and no 2 lackie came sliding out.
A typical OBI snottie graced the landing net a minute or so later
To cut a long story short that OBI snottie was followed over the next hour or so by 4 of his bros
before the line totally died after yielding a concluding couple of ½ oz silvers 
Time to exploit that carefully nurtured choppy line........
First look on it, lift, drag, lift and drag. On the 3rd drag the float zipped under............gorra be a lb plus kinver tiger
But it wasn’t – it was a 4oz rutilus – not what I was expecting, the kinvers would follow, as sure as night follows day, wouldn’t they?
After lifting and dragging the chop for another 5 mins, it went again.........
And rutilus no 2 was netted
Another look and finally a kinver .......... but less that ½ oz.
Looks like I need some lessons from Mike E – kinver tiger captor extraordinaire 
- as that was the last bite on the chop. In fact, although we were only 2 hrs in, it turns out it was virtually last bite anyway as in the last two hours only about another 2oz of silvers graced my net. Whereas in those last 2 hrs OBI and Yamo either side were gunning me down
...........in fact OBI was perfecting a new method for the Extension – I won’t reveal what in case he wants to steal a march on us all and keep it all hush hush Has he got another un on?
Dont tell me Yamo’s in again
Carlos had come down halfway through and advised The Milky Bar Kid was ‘bagging’ and that MrV had had a few netters so when Heinzer signalled the end of the 4 hrs all I’d got hopes of was a default section win as OBI in my section had wiped me out with that run of stamp rudd
It seemed an eternity as having packed up we waited for Batman and Robin to appear with the scales
‘6lb to beat’ announced Batman Tricast62 as he finally approached
OBI weighed in – no wonder he’s so quick with the pole and so hard to beat – he’s got 4 arms
Realizing he might be disqualified he quickly tucked his 2nd set of arms away
OBI then obliged and took this snap of some geezer with half a head, just to prove to Bullah that the camera does work.....
Batman and Robin Tricast62 and The Milky Bar Kid trotted off to weigh in the lower nos and this was the tale of the scales when the result sheet came back.......
PEG
1 ZORRO 3.11.8 2nd
2 BLUES4EVA 2.13.7 Section winner
3 MIKE E 1.1.5
4 TABBO DNW
5 TREVOR B 0.7.4
6 YAMO 2.12.6
7 TK 3.11.5 3rd
8 OBI 4.0.0 1st
9 JOSH 2.1.14
10 PHIL B 0.13,7
11 TRICAST62 2.15.8 Section winner
12 COTTI 1.12.9
13 HEINZER 0.10.5
14 MRV 1.12.5 Section winner
15 THE HUNTER 1.3.0
16
18 BIG COL 0.14.0
19 BIG COL T 0.5.0
20 KOD 0.3.10
The cut hadn’t fished to bad, but the results could have been a bit better as the usual tales of woe emerged from a few of lost bonus fish
Anyhow – hats off to CBA OBI
- it’s almost time for grueller no 6 
