I had not got my name down for this match this year because I was not keen on the venue to be honest. In previous years one person would always bag up while the rest struggled and some caught nothing at all. I had a text of Keith74 at work on Monday asking me to fish as one of his team mates had dropped out, after gaining permission from the high commander Gem I returned a text accepting.
Reading the thread on MD's I found out all the bigger carp had been netted and replaced with 5000 stockies, 6-8oz
But there was still the odd rouge bigger carp that had avoided the netting. I made a load of rigs for shallow and on the deck with 0.13 powerline, size 1 Tubertini 175's and Jon Walker pencil floats for on the deck and Preston Purple's for shallow. Bait wise I had 5 pints of caster and 5 pints of bronze maggot again 
I just wanted to catch anything that swims lolArriving at the fishery after a nice easy drive down the M6 I saw all the usual suspects. Some old faces and some new ones.
My team mates were ready to greet me and give me a strict team talk 
Keith74 was el capitan with Steve(Pole addict) myself and Tony Ward. Keith drew an envelope of Bucko which contained 4 pegs and then we each picked a card out the envelope. I opened mine up to see peg 24. The last 2 times fishing there I have been on 20, 22 and now 24 I loaded my trolley and set off for the good walk to my peg. When I got there I wasn't disappointed either.
Gils Pool, Peg 24 Click all pictures for bigger view
Silver Slug on Peg 28
Shallowman on peg 26
So the 3 Tunnel Barn Farm framers were all on a nice line
but them pair were not in my section so I didn't have to worry about their supreme bagging skills today 
Supreme Baggers (or Buggers, you decide
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Keith (Shallowman) is a tad shy
Keith's Peg
My bait for today
Fellow Forum moderator and Shrubbery AC internet liaison officer David Wall was also fishing today and came round to inspect my 'Flyer' peg
Dave 'Island' Wall
Thanks for the piccie Dave
The match was due to get underway at 11am fishing till 4pm. With the whistle the match began and it wasn't long before I could hear splashing from my left as both shallowman and Slug were both into fish. It wasn't long before I hooked in to my first fish, a lovely crucian carp. This was pretty much the order for the day watching them pair catching and me catching 1 to their 5 fish
Although they were catching very well they did not threaten me as this was a team match and I was fishing to win my own section and I thought I was doing ok as I could not see much being caught from down the straight to my right. I was catching on my topkit again for 2 hours but I think they got spooked and I had to follow them out to 5 meters where they more comfy feeding. Thinking back I reckon the fish had pushed my keepnet out to where I was fishing. I was catching all kinds of fish but very few silvers. My biggest fish of the day only went 2.5lb. the carp were going 4 to the lb
A tad smaller than I'm used too 
With the whistle it was all out or was it....... a whistle had blown at 3pm for another match on a different pool and people had stopped fishing on our match
But with the real all out on our match I felt I had about 30-40lb roughly.Walking along with weigh in down my section 26lb was winning it. I put 33lb 8oz on the scales to take my section for the team
Keith74 was in the same section as Slug and Shallowman so was aiming at 3rd but managed to get 4th in section with 18lb 3oz. Tony Ward had also gained 4th in section with 23lb 3oz so there was only Steve (Pole addict) from our team to weigh in and he thought he had done quite well. 28lb was winning his section and he beat that with one of his nets, he put a fine total of 49lb 7oz on the scales
to take the section
We had managed a grand total of 10 points. But was it enough ......Results
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Gils Peg 1 Piggy A1 29.06 2
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Gils peg 3 bagger J B1 25.12 3
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Gils peg 5 Neil Of The Nene C1 19.15 5
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Gils peg 7 Glenn Ribbons SEC D1 40.15 1
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Gils peg 9 ian Wills E1 15.02 6
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Gils peg 12 Tony Ward F1 23.03 4
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Gils peg 14 Yellowbard SEC A2 26.01 2
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Gils peg 16 Tinny B2 13.12 5
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Gils peg 18 Alan Rose C2 15.08 4
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Gils peg 20 Red hat D2 24.05 3
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Gils peg 22 Fisher jazzman E2 07.13 6
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Gils peg 24 Simple Simon F2 33.08 1
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Gils peg 26 Shallowman SEC A3 51.14 2
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Gils peg 28 Silver Slug 1st B3 64.09 1
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Gils peg 30 Ribbo Snr C3 32.14 3
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Gils peg 32 Slim Shadey D3 DNF 6
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Gils peg 34 Bog Eye Bill E3 09.01 5
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Gils peg 36 Keith 74 F3 18.03 4
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Gils peg 38 Brian the Fish A4 06.06 5
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Gils peg 40 Steak B4 29.12 2
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Gils peg 43 Dry Nets C4 23.02 4
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Gils peg 45 NateFx D4 DNF 6
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Gils peg 47 Ulladubulla SEC E4 28.08 3
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Gils peg 49 Pole Addict F4 49.07 1
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A) BaggerJ 3
Steak 2
Silver Slug 1
Tinny 5
11 Points
B) Red hat 3
NateFX 6
Slim Shadey 6
Glen Ribbons 1
16 Points
C) Neil Of The Nene 5
Drynet 5
Ribbo Snr 3
Alan Rose 4
17 Points
D) Yellowbard 2
Shallowman 2
Brian The Fish 6
Piggy 2
12 Points
E)Keith 74 4
Pole Addict 1
Simple simon 1
Tony Ward 4
10 Points
F) Fisher Jazzman 6
Bog eye Bill 5
Ulladubulla 3
Ian Wills 6
20 Points
After the longest results working out ever
it emerged that our team had done it by only 1 point. A big well done to the rest of the team
Now I have some pictures of the winners of the day and presentation but I will apologise in advance for the poor quality, for some reason the camera did not like the lighting inside the cafe but worked fine outside
Also so not to confuse you like it did everyone else... If you were part of the winning or runner up team you did not win your section money to make the payout more even I think.
Bucko, Match organiser
Keith74, Our Team Captain
The three amigos... Shallowman, Sliver Slug and Pole Addict
The raffle prizes
Section points or weight ???
Glenn Winning Section 1
Yellowbard winning Section 2
Shallowman winning section 3
Ulladubulla winning Section 4
Runner up Team.... Steak
Runner up team .... Bagger J
Runner up team .... Silver Slug
Runner up team .... Tinny
Winning Team .... Keith74
Winning team .... Pole Addict
Winning team .... Tony Ward
Winning team .... me, Simon Mound
Winning Team minus Tony who had gone to the pub
Silver Slug. Top individual Weight and Golden Maggot Winner
Sorry about the picture quality again.
I had a great day in some even better company. Good to see everyone again.
Well done to everyone who took part and especially John (Bucko) and Mrs Bucko for arranging it all.
