‘Too right’
I thought to myself as I enjoyed one of the many Mugger Moments experienced during this match……..along with most. 
I’d mixed feelings and what to expect on this one…….previous season reports had been positive, with a ‘huge head’ of silvers to go at – with 15-20lb ‘easily done’, plus other bonus fish being a ‘mixed’ commercial, rather than an out and out crap carp pool. However, recent match results I’d clocked weren’t actually anything to write home about…….
So armed with some casters, mags and disco pinkie, which KOD kindly picked up for me on Friday night
(and dutifully basted and flavored with fish repellant over night 
) I was going to try to attack the silvers and also have a ‘throw away’ couple of lines for the pellet. 
At the draw there was a somewhat depleted turnout – 19 members out of the 27 of us, along with solitary guest, MAC – who certainly turned out to be a charismatic, energetic and pleasant character – doing battle with the
for the first time.Peg 25 came out as the ‘golden peg, worth 100 sovs plus. As soon as it was called the fishery owner plus his ‘helper’ intimated it could be won off 25 today, being the last ‘open’ match winning peg. :o
Hands were soon dipping and as 'MGB mk 2' I feared the pot would go as 25 stuck to Big Baz’s hand.
I also knew where I didn’t want to be – an area described as…………..
An interesting feature is a gravel bar about 11 metres out from Pegs 14 to 18 , on the bank between Spring and Abbey Lake, where depths rise from 11 feet to about nine feet.
Guess what peg I was left with…………..
Ok – no prizes – peg 16, smack in the middle of the deep water.
‘Be positive’ I thought to myself, ‘perhaps all those 6lb bream are in the deeper water’ I tried to convince myself.
Getting my gear out of Heinzer’s car at peg 5, things didnt look to bad – decent fish were topping around the place……
Of I traipsed and made myself ‘comfy’ on my peg for the next 6 hours or so.
Yep the internet write up was true……..5-6 feet on my top 3, sloping away much deeper to 5/6 mtrs where it ‘leveled’ off a tad.
7 rigs set up to cover a variety of depths and methods………..and a tray of groundbait mixed up.
The off…….a few early fish were caught by members, including myself who picked up odd small roach off all lines but couldnt string two together
But it was slow for most - the
was certainly in town today. Brambles and Big Geoff either side both had netters to turn the screw on me.
Well not a lot else to report………..not sure whether I dozed off for the next 4 hours or not.
Oh I remember – I spent 15 mins on the long line, up in the water on a 3.3lb rig, pinging mags at my float. I know it was about 15 mins , cuss I took a call from JK at the local Holiday Hypermarket in which she fleeced me of 5k booking a holiday for us and the kids.
Well no tugs during that call. After the call, as a few bits were topping on the line, I slipped on another top 3, 1.8lb……..and guess what………well no guesses needed, first put in no 6 lacky shoots out, pole tip bends, I sink the pole as a bow wave shoots off to the middle of the lake……….goodnight Vienna.
Oh I also I remember a bonus 1.5 oz roach dropping off and missing my keep net by an inch or two…….
how costly would that turn out to prove in the Curse points league. 
Meanwhile back at the ranch, MAC had been destroying the opposition on his bank with the aid of two bites and two fish
taken on the feeder(?) – well I’m sure he’ll give us a resume of how he did it later – that was until Heinzer, with two solitary small roach and a gudgeon unleashed his feeder as we moved into the last hour. 
And what a move that turned out to be as he zoomed up the weights from 3 oz with the aid of a crap of a 1lb followed by another crap knocking 6lb plus.
Ah well, time for the result, courtesy of KOD’s email scan to me this morning
PEG ANGLER WEIGHT
5 HEINZER 7.5.0
6 RICH C 0.1.8
7 MARK V 1.4.8
8 GEZ 0.15.0
9 M.A.C 3.9.0
10 COTTI DRY
11
12 LASHER DRY
13
14 YAMO 6.15.0
15 BRAMBLES 0.9.0
16 TK 1.10.0
17 BIG GEOFF 1.11.0
18 SPRUCEY 2.0.8
19 PHIL B 0.10.0
20 ROBERTO 0.10.8
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23 ZORRO 0.12.8
24 KOD 0.11.8
25 BIG BAZ 1.7.0
26 TOMMY COOPER 0.7.8
27 HAHA 1.10.0
28 HARRY THE HITMAN DRY
With the absence of David Budgie Bailey and all the action going on, I didn’t find time to have a wander with my camera…….or was it I couldn’t really be bothered. ::)
But having packed up it was worth getting it out of my box to record these antics of a certain Angling Coach …………
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