blimey bit quiet on here or are they still fishin
HOW many tench did he have again
bit of a tease here
Tease over OBI - here's the results
Cheers for that ‘insight’ into your day Mark V
As for your question
(HOW many tench did he have again ?)
Aint got a clue……….now that’s given the game away at the outset that it obviously wasn’t me.
Despite my plea on Friday night for an extra lie in on Saturday morning, Heinzer wasn’t having non of it and picked me up a few minutes before 8……..some 20 mins before I’d have thought of departing for this one.
In fact when we arrived our early presence, well mine really, attracted a few quips from KOD and FK……….
On the way to the match with Heinzer, knowing that we were basically going to peg approx 12 either side of Wood Lane, I went ‘on record’ and told him that I fancied drawing at either side of the concrete ‘D’ along the Common. It’s a renowned pleasure area that coughs up some big weights - just ask Cotti
- but doesn’t always produce in matches. The reason being why I fancied giving it a go? ……….I’d never fished either in a match or pleasure session, those few pegs.
Heinzer did the pegging out whilst I attended a call of nature
and Sprucey made the trip back home because we’d convinced him there was a chance of showers and he’d forget his waterproofs
A bit of a depleted turnout out……..we’d a few sick notes already handed in, but the CBA list also contained a few names, ::) resulting in a few spare pegs as the consensus of opinion was to leave ‘em in.
Short walk draw pegs were done for FK, Brambles, Phil B and Tommy ‘the magician’ Cooper and then the others dipped in.
With nearly all drawn I looked down at my book and 5 pegs were left in……..now I didn’t exactly know where heinzer had pegged what, but there were four pegs ‘up’ the Common left, plus two down the lower end of Wood Lane. Guess what I drew………well no need to guess really…………peg 3 stuck to my sweaty palm, whilst 19, 21, 23 and end peg 24 were left without an angler on ‘em.
Off I trotted………..on arrival to my right I’d drawn next to MrV again………..this is becoming a regular thing this season.
To my left in the distance on end peg 1 was HaHa…………
Now HaHa was gunna be a real threat today as it was the same peg that Hotlips had destroyed the field on our last match on the canal with 25lb of tincas………..and HaHa likes a tug or two
The off and two punch lines are fed, some of that chop worm (and caster) that Heinzer had talked me into buying for the Forum match, along with a longer line over with squatt with a few caster.
The first 15 mins saw a couple of indications on the short punch line, but they weren’t having it.
Well not in my peg anyway, cuss MrV, electing to fish the inside punch line on the whip save waving the pole over their heads was seen off second put in.
I could also see Sprucey having a few bits whilst I was still dry.
A look on the longer punch line and a bite almost straight away and a small roach meant I’d avoided the dreaded ‘dry un’.
Next put in and a rudd this time on the drop. ‘Hum…………let’s slip a maggot on’ I think to myself and I start to pick a few more small rudd up.
‘Let’s have a gander on the chop now’…………..but nowt - not even a stripey as my float rests motionless against the lily pads
After 5 or 10 mins I drop back on that longer ‘punch line’ and continue to pick up odd small rudd.
I’m just about to feed to see whether I can speed up things as bites are tailing off a bit and this comes round the corner……..
And wipes out most of our ‘long’ lines going over the far shelf despite please to move into the track………..
Well that’s all of the photo show over this week Joffie - that’s all I took……………good job you saw that bit of the canal last week so you can ‘imagine’ the rest.
And our resident snapper ‘Sprucey’ was obviously all over the shop as well as forgetting his waterproofs he’d left his memory card at home………….so gowd knows what he’s going to follow this report up with…….
Halfway through…….or it might have been past half through, Ball it In Baker pops to pay us a visit. Nice guy Ball It In is,
yep he’s a character that we desperately need back in the club……….now just why did he call it a day and leave us
…………….but he’s also got a serious side to him when I’ve had a chat or two with him on a couple of occasions this year.
He advises that a few tincas have put in an appearance along the common, to three anglers…….Geoff, Juan and Yamo’Well that’s blown me away’ I think to myself.
Worse still, its the knockout today and I'm fighting for my life to get anywhere near some of those catches
It’s slow, might have my nose in front of MrV, as I hear the splash of a large fish in the distance to my left…………..Ha Ha is taking his time playing one………….’that’s also wiped me out’ as I look again in a few minutes.
An enquiry to HaHa on how he is getting on a short while later is greeted with ‘Loads of tench’
Well just what have I got to do to hook a tinca down there at the moment
Despite topping up my chop line, I never had a sniff off it………..not even a kinver tiger.
Talking of kinver tigers with ½ hour to go I hook a better sample from across from another line, uptill now I’d only had 1 to 2 oz fish………..this billy is going 6 oz plus………….then he snags me on an inside pad and he’s off. ‘Wander if that will cost me………….'nah’ I think to myself…..’that wont make a difference to the frame with those tincas that have put in an appearance’.
Well you can be wrong cant you as that stripey cost me a few quid in a brown envelope as I later learnt.
The all out and gear packed up I trots to MrV.
‘How you done?’ I ask. ‘Got out of jail with 2 billies, one a lb plus in the last hour on the chop’
‘Aghhhhhhhhh……….he’s done me’ I think to myself - ‘can’t live with that’
MrV also confides that he’s also been seen off another twice………this time on ‘proper gear’
Sprucey also tootles up…………..cussing that one of his floats thats 20 odd years old has given up the ghost on a kinver, plus that he’s been seen off twice as well.
It takes what seems an age for the scales to arrive, curteousy of our guest the chief scribe MarkV and KOD.
I watch as Sprucey then Mrv weigh in with just drams separating them and think to myself they’ve both done me
………………along with HaHa on end peg 1
…………..I’m probably gunna be lowest weight in this ‘section’ of cut today
Anyway onto the true tale of the scales………….
PEG
1 HAHA 0.6.7
2
3 T K 3.8.11
4 MR V 2.7.13
5 SPRUCEY 2.7.0
6 ZORRO 1.8.0
7 GLYN
DNW
8 MARK V DNW
9 KOD 1.3.14
10 BRAMBLES 0.4.4
11 TOMMY COOPER DNW
WOOD LANE BRIDGE
12 PHIL B 1.3.0
13 F K 0.12.15 (Retired & went home)
14 HEINZER 1.9.4
15 VESTE 0.14.15
16 YAMO 3.12.10
17 COTTI 1.9.2
18 BIG BAZ Did not fish
19
20 GEOFF C 18.1.13
21
22 JUAN CHUB 5.15.15
23
24
Since heard on the grapevine
rumours that there were a few moans ::) that we fished the ‘wrong’ section of the canal……. but for our ‘readers’ I would add that the section was suggested by a member on our last match, and the concensus agreed with it.........
Mind looking at the result I certainly don’t think Geoff or Juan Chub probably moaned or really had owt to moan at………….Geoff has had a couple of wins on the Common over the last couple of seasons, and Juan Chub is obviously chasing Hotlips record on there, having now fished two and framed in two.
Never said it was easy down there, you can sack up, other times they don’t seem to want a peck, but they are in there………….. dont forget a fair few of our matches on the canal have seen you needing double figures to win.......
