i don't know why i watch the moon cycles like i do but the fact is when ever i fished after a full moon the roach fishing is never as good unless there's some colour in the waterat the draw ted yet again had sorted all the bait out for everyone on the league a brilliant effert
and i thank him for running the league at the draw ted had said a couple of teams had dropped out [where have i heared that before ::) ::)] so there was no room for error if we were going to hold on to our second place as well as trying to take on the first place the draw was made and i ended up in A section peg 4 after finding the section the peg looked good and i had a spare peg to my right
i took this at the end of the match as i was late setting up but as you can see plenty of colour
the bushes across the far side might of had 18in but looked as if they would hold some caster fish the mild was 4ft and perhaps 5ft at 4 metres
i couldn't tell you where i was but walking down to my peg i past a lock under a bridge with a stream running down the other side
chubby or what ,so i did think the first two pegs might have a chance of one although they were a little further down.to my left i had inform darren lewis top canal angler plus he's on a roll after two big results the weekend before 
well to my right and further down stream in the tree's is where sean ashby had won the match before so the talk was all about being the wrong end of the section
again this was taken at the end of the match
well what happened in the match was completly what we didn't expect none of us could get a bite .we all went nearly a hour without a fish
i'd put a positive line in with 150ml and a couple of others with very little bait as we hadn't a lot
i tried over a lot earlier than i wanted to first with caster then joker
out of the blue i started catching a roach a throw for the rest of the match
all at 13metres in ,out one a throw .darren stouted up you must be winning the section by a country mile then he started catching
the problem was he was catching at 9 metres at the end of the match we were the only two to catch roach at our end of the section i'd had around 60 to 70 roach
they went 12oz 10drms
i had never caught such fish and didn't really want to but had i beat the master he had put a bonus fish on the scales and had 73 fish i couldn't believe it he weighed 13oz
for 4th in the section
giving me 5 pointsi dont know the overall result but we ended up with 16 points and shakespeare had 17 points so we knew we had held onto second but had we done enough to catch the leaders
You only have to see the results from other canals... erewash fished well saturday and stainy fished its head off yesterday! There were four weights over 18lb and nearly everyone caught over 10lb, roach and skimmers! 
