the draw was made the same fliers were talked about here there and everywhere ,so i thought i'd get rob wootton to draw my peg he's got to be better at it than me
;)he had drawn a half decent area himself so i was ready 
207 209 196 198 all still in the bag 
well nothing changed rob pulled out 205 
can have fish on it normally bread fish in clear water ,but hay-howe it was B/J 
you always catch a few 
famous last words 
as i walked to my peg dave petch was walking towards me "just going to get my ice breaker
its frozen"i never thought about it once as out side the boat and most other areas had no ice 
as Dave walked back I'd reached my peg yes frozen not thick but frozen he laughed and said to one of his team mates i wonder who's on the tree's would it joff or scotty both are walking that way .again he laughed and shook his head
it said it allnever mind its a day out should catch one or two ,suns out and if i throw some bread for the swans they will break my ice
what a good idea until about 10 came flying in well that's the end of my ice but how do i get the swans to go i thought eginoire them and tackle up they will soon realise i have no more food at this point i got my pole out rigs and started setting them up when suddenly a swan thought the tipp ex on my pole was a piece of bread and tried to grab it NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 
the next minute i had a hole in my No6 section Nick moss was next peg in stitches having never seen anything like it before so i cut my No6 in half
and started againby this time the swan's had made off down stream
normal rigs were used just all brand new shotted perfect ,bait sorted i knew i wasn't going to feed a lot and one side i leamed 100ml and the other i put 150 ml neat
i sat and sat and sat there
plan z had been used 3 or 4 times 
i'd ran out of rigs even tried at the bottom of my keepnet 
this was grim and the same for most scotty was the first to catch Sid and Nick also had a couple of fish .little old me had not had a bite i wasn't going to give up 
i will catch :-?one way or the other i lowered my rig in and it went straight down 
yes a roach at last !!there here i couldn't wait to get back in it never moved again until the last hour when i had two more
at three the white flag had gone up as pete scott slipped a pound roach into the net
talk about mymojo be down i don't care if i never see the canal river or lake again even so the match was won by rob jones who had a brilliant weight of 4lb on what i can only say thehardest canal ive fished 2nd Ant king 3lb he's having a really good run this year 3rd steve woollard 2lb 12oz and richie reynolds 2lb11oz
well done to all the anglers for turning up i hope its better next time
