Grueller Match 5

harry911 · #41

ime up for that sprucey lol

#42

Alarm goes off about 6.55am……….I’m not looking forward to this one. The forecast for the day is heavy rain,

possibly clearing around 10am.

A peek through the curtains confirms my worst fears………it’s raining. Kettle on and when I open the lounge curtains I’m greeted by the hollow in my back lawn looking like a swimming pool. It must have thrashed it down during the night. :o

So much not up for it I don’t even bother making up my flask of soup to see me through the day, but instead give HaHa a bell to get me a sarnie from the café - ta.

Car loaded and off I set at 8am, but it’s still pitch black and raining……………..what am I doing? :( :( :(

On passing through security at the station, which was a relative doddle this week, I note the numbers are down from the last match. Only 13 hardy fools have bothered today……….wish it was only 12 and I was still under the duvet.

However, the Inlet looks ‘inviting’ – well perhaps not that inviting – the Trent is up a couple of foot and bombing through. As a result there’s getting on for an extra foot on the Inlet which looks a decent colour too. That’s where I want to be today.

Pegs 1 - 7 are put on the Outlet, 8 – 13 on the Inlet. The draw and I don’t know how, presume it’s the last peg in the bag, but I’m told I’m on the outlet, end peg 1 where it meets the river.

Generally not a bad peg, more space than most with a few options. Having said that it whilst it used to be regarded as a cock peg a few years back, it hadn’t produced much on our last few matches there…………

A few reassuring words to Sprucey who doesn’t look like he’s relishing his peg on the inlet that he’ll have a few on the punch and I’m off to my peg.

The outlet is backing up because of the height and flow of the river. The contour on the peg is all over the place – between 5 and 7 foot down the track, 4.5ft inside and 3 ft plus across to the bits of sedges.

The off and punch, for a change is fed in two areas across 8 yards apart whilst a few casters and pinkies are trickled down the track and on that important inside which is usually good for a rogue kinver or two.

First look on punch area 1 and a small dace is the result. This is followed by micro roach, 60 to the lb - although I aint having that many.

About 40 mins in with about 4oz of bits in the net and disaster strikes………….

.........my ciggie lighter won’t work. I can’t survive the next 3plus hours without a nicotine fix so off I trudge to Simps for a light and hope he’s got a spare I can cadge.

Simps is ‘sacking’ on double caster and owning up to a couple of lb, all off what is usually an ‘average’ peg. That float tip keeps disappearing whilst I watch him for a few mins. A trudge further up the bank to Gerry. He sorts me out with a lighter and admits to having a few. ‘Perch?’ I ask – he’s won off the same peg last year with all perch. ‘Nope, roach, but I’ve cocked me peg up’ he tells me............how? I never asked

Back to my peg, I’m struggling just adding a few bits and pieces. Whilst Simps is having bite after bite on caster, all I’m rewarded with is a see through perch of an inch plus a small roach.

Higher up I can see guys swinging in bits…….the outlet is also flowing up there and I can see steam up that higher end………….dont think there’s any warm water getting down to me……….plus on occasions my float goes ‘uphill’ – no not as a result of bites – but probably due to the billowing of coloured water that I notice periodically enters the peg from the mouth of the river. Well that's my excuse ;)

Sprucey wanders over and tells me he’s having a

........... the station is drawing and the inlet is now bombing thru………..he’s reckons his punch is all around the cooling towers.

I have a wander across…………….those two little wanders about probably cost me a couple of grueller points as the results will show…………….all have a couple of bits, generally micro perch but are struggling. The inlet is now a thick chocolate colour too, which aint helping matters. On reflection although I’m being gruellered, I’m glad I’m not on there now

Anyway not a lot else for me to report – apart from the pike that was evident in the two pegs above me - as I didn’t catch much more – just sporadic bits and pieces. Was I glad when HaHa the timekeeper for the week (my watch had stopped) blew the whistle for the end……….

Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…………….

PEG

1 TK 1.2.3
2 PHIL B 1.3.9
3 HAHA 3.3.9
4 BRAMBLES 2.7.8
5 KOD 5.5.7
6 SIMPS 4.2.15
7 GERRY 9.9.15

8 MILLIE 1.3.6
9 ZORRO 0.1.12
10 YAMO 0.2.6
11 BUDGIE 0.4.5
12 HARRY DNW
13 SPRUCEY DNW

The less said about the ‘end’ the better.

If it’s any consolation for Sprucey, Budgie and Harry the Hitman, we won’t be fishing the Inlet/Outlet again this series – I’ve pulled the plug on those.

Those matches on 17th Jan and 14th Feb 2009 will now go to the cut. I’m still humming and arring whether to knock the other KP matches on the head too.

That’s because out of interest, coupled with KODS comments elsewhere, I spoke to my station contact on Monday to advise of the ‘security infringement’ wheen I learnt that their match on the KP the following day had been a grueller too………..best weight was a 4lb off peg 3 or 4, followed by a 3lb off peg 14, then a 2lb followed by not a lot.

Certainly not brill fishing…………….is it worth the jaunt I ask myself?

The cuts sound like a much better proposition to me………………and I’ve been asked for a few on the cut this week by a name or two who didn’t fish this match.

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#43

whooo hooo , Great report mate.

My vote would be to keep the kidney and change the others to the cut but it ain't up to me so there lol

You also forgot to mention about your car trouble at the end

I better not laugh it will be me next time

#44

My vote would be to keep the kidney and change the others to the cut

I'm listening, I'm listening............I aint cancelled the KP matches yet, (or had 'em cancelled for me) just the inlet & outlet

Might also depend how my bag of punch crumb works over the weekend and if there's any top tips in Jans edition of MF

;)

#45

Where you fishing and what weekend. Secret match on

#46

No secret matches

Heard the forecast aint too bad for Sunday, so hope to escape from last minute Chrimbo shopping with a few hours up the cut, doing me own thing with a bag of that white stuff I never got chance to use on the Inlet last weekend

Hopefully I'll be either on the Common stretch down Wood Lane (to the rhs of the bridge) if it aint totally gin there, or on the Extension by the new bridge.

#47

Nice nice. Might pop up and see ya. Will ring you first though to make sure you aint had a lie in

#48

Will ring you first though to make sure you aint had a lie in

Got me sussed

Yep thats always a good idea

Drynet · #49

Nice report TK

#50

i agree with simple keep the KP,we know from past experience it can produce and there are certain pegs there i would love to fish and have never had the chance. Its a grueelr series after all it aint about being easy.We can fish the cut at any time throughout the year but the kidney pond we cannot.What about the pool??? some decent nets of roach there last time.

cheslynboy · #51

If you move them to the canal TK goughy and myself can fish them as our matches have finished now till march

#52

Those matches on 17th Jan and 14th Feb 2009 will now go to the cut.

There's at least two dates for you Cheslynboy - they'll be either on The Extension or Pelsall

Brambles · #53

Good pics Si considering the conditions. Trying to work out who that is in the tea cosy impersonating me :(

#54

Your very photogenic Mr Brambles