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title well thought out chrisse lad bet that took hour o two t work out

Sounds sadly ominous

Sounds sadly ominous 

All those who decided to miss this one will be forced to fish it three times next year

Oh, and those who took an early bath

title well thought out chrisse lad bet that took hour o two t work out

Well..he had about 5hrs to think it up yesterday Chris

I was asked to help out a friends team, they were a man short.... all paid for, and 3 free bags of groundbait after the match, couldn't turn it down..... only had 2 fish, and lost 2, still weighed 11lb odd

Woeful Wigmore'


Yep that title did cross my mind yesterday (after 5 mins, not 5 hrs OBI), but I didn't want to use it as I didn't want to discredit the venue as I genuinely feel it has a lot to offer..........I just honestly cant get my head around what went wrong (again) as I've seen it a much different light.


I'd booked the venue again for this year as I felt we needed to ‘exorcise a ghost', but as things turned out the Cashmores Crew were well and truly haunted by the experience.


But let's just whip back in time as to how the day unfolded...............


Cockadoodledoo Mark 2 picked me up with a surprise gift of a couple of dozen of his best yolkers – and very nice they turned out to be as half way to the venue I received a call from SWMBO advising that she'd quaffed three scrambled eggs for her breckie. Must confirm her findings as my three egg omelette went down a treat for breckie this morning. Ta Cockadoodledoo Mark 2


Cockadoodledoo Mark 2's expertise with his cocks is obviously far in advance of his navigational skills by the way as I thought we'd got lost on the way, despite him reassuring me that the venue was ‘only just down the road' despite me pointing out the sign that said ‘Rhyl 5 miles'


Having picked up some rock for the guys I was greeted by OBI who handed over the preordered bacon butties and enquired if I wanted his spare trolley. ‘Did I want his trolley'? – yep I did, some of the pegs can be a hike to – well 50 yards......


Fast forward 6 hrs to the weigh in.....


‘It's Billy no mates' quipped KOD with the scales ‘Bet you've bagged up here all on your own'


Had I crappity smack


Rewind 6 hours to the draw.....


Peg 22 stuck to my donny. ‘Hum, where's that?' I thought as I could see permanent 39 just to my left. ‘Gunna be a hike round the pool to 22, lets load up the trolley'. But it wasn't a hike – as I found our peg dropped on perm 39 – sods law, Ive gorra new trolley and I've only gorra walk 10 yards.


As it turned out that was the one saving grace of the day..........


Cuss I'd got nobody ‘next door' to have a bit of banter with as next peg down was Tricast who was ‘miles away' and out of sight. Right next time the MP3 player (I cor afford an Ipod) is coming out.


Talking of Tricast, I'd pulled out 20 as the golden peg, so just before the off i popped to see him and tell him ‘No pressure yam on the GP'


‘Well that's safe today - I'm gunna (is that Yorkie speak?) gi it harf ower then I'm off' despite me assuring him he would sack up if he adopted TK's tactics......


Well what else is there to report.............


The whistle came and went. On a personal front I was up for it – the most prepared I'd been for a match in ages .........I'd even wasted some bish bosh on pellets the day before with of course the usual get out of jail tactics.......


As the day progressed I found myself struggling to keep up with Cotti ‘opposite' who looked to have a decent peg




(He wasn't really that close – I zoomed in)


I didn't see my nearest neighbours to my right setting the world to light either....





Talking of nearest neighbours and looking at the results sheets, interesting to see that HaHa (next to Harry the Hitman) was ‘miles away' and out of sight. Come to mention it I don't think MrV and Cockadoodledoo Mk 2 were exactly on adjoining pegs, but I'll always stand corrected on that one....


Anyway, waffle over and time for the tale of the scales

PEG
1 BRAMBLES 0.8.0
2 TOMMY COOPER DRY
3 HARRY THE HITMAN DRY
4 HAHA 9.5.0
5
6 YAMO 6.7.0
7 CARLOS 3.8.0
8 BIG BAZ 3.11.0
9 PHIL B 1.2.0
10 KOD 2.1.0
11 ZORRO 6.0.0
12 COCKADOODLEDOO Mk 2 9.5.0
13 MR V 9.6.0
14 DARK HOSS 3.5.0
15 DAZ 3.7.0
16 ROBERTO 3.14.0
17 MIKE THE PIKE 3.14.0
18 OBI 3.6.0
19 COTTI DRY
20 TRICAST 12.0.0 GP
21
22 TK 1.9.0

Yep a complete disaster. The ‘tidiest' I'd fished a ‘commercial' venue in ages, but it just daint happen – I couldn't even get out of jail on the silvers – they just were not there.......or if they were, they didn't want a peck


On a parting shot, last time I cajole Tricast and MrV into turning out.....especially as the treasurer not feeling too well having to get his wallet out again

Ps – another parting shot – if anyone one moans about our cut again – coincidentally next match up - they are likely to be facing an early bath..................in it.

Nice bit of waffle there boss

Nice write up as usual TK. The venue looks the business, but it is obvious after 2 Cashmores matches it will not cope with 20 anglers on there. Even worse is we fish it on Saturdays and they have a match on it Friday evenings  :( :(.

It was another one of those where the manager came round with an hour left and said we had pegged it all wrong  :fisticuffs

For me, it was an out and out silvers attack. Caster, maggot and G/B, with one area receiving a pot of choppy throughout looking for some better skimmers. Needless to say, I had 4 fish on the choppie, which were a total of about 8oz for the 4 of em 

All my fish came top 2 to hand, with red maggot over caster. Hardly had a bite with caster on the hook 

Well done Bruv on the win 

Top marks to the weighers in as usual  (especially as they managed to find the extra ounce to put me second)  Nice one lads 

PS. Have we had the result of the stewards enquiry yet? Apparently Daz reckons Tricast fed 5 buckets of G/B throughout, while Tricast says he only had 1/5th kilo in each bucket

Yes Mr v I noticed my 9lb 8oz went to 9lb 5oz costing me 2nd spot. Must keep an eye on yamos dodgy eye
Should have won it anyway after losing 4carp due to turning round talking to people on my peg,mentioning no names kod. Barry love telling me all the wrong pegs went in wen I thought big baz was a regular up there . The lads being pegged in the first bay after last year being told that the erea was c rap because it is too shallow hence the dnw s (final thought is not a match venue,move on)

From what I saw col you didn't need any help with me stood behind you to miss or loose fish

To be fair TK could really find anything remotely amusing about the place, checked the website before going took all me pellets out so as not to break any fishery rules and intended to purchase there own pellets only to find the place SHUT :surprise (won't make that mistake again)
Thanks to the members who offered to help me out
decided to go with ground bait feeder and chopped worm
Only to find left all me feeders at home
Many thanks to phil and Carlos for helping me out with that

So After five hours woefull was quite mild

crackin write up boss as normal

especially as they managed to find the extra ounce to put me second

Yes Mr v I noticed my 9lb 8oz went to 9lb 5oz costing me 2nd spot.

Glad I wasn't doing the weigh in again

‘Did I want his trolley'? – yep I did

You can put it to good use moving your bags of compost and geraniums around Chateau Kulics grounds

Today I have mostly been.....

Having triple egg omolette for breckie (again)

In between the showers moving me geraniums about

Consuming ham, double egg and chips for me tea

I think I'm going to start taking orders for me eggs tone,got so many now all my chicken s have started laying and my new 20ft pollytunnel will be full of vegs soon,already got more lettuce n cabbage that a herd of goats could eat.

I stopped the missus buying a lettuce tonight cuss there was on the way

I stopped the missus buying a lettuce tonight cuss there was on the way 

It's in the post as we speak

Joking apart criss I did offer you my other rod plus feeder pellets n hair rigs ext. The way you three were pegged all together when there was empty pegs I think ide ov gone home n like I said that first bay we were told last year was rubbish n how many people we're put in there this time round with a couple of dnw n low weights .is it only me who thinks about these things? Were possible I'll peg out in future n give everybody a chance.

Pegging out is a thankless task Col. Nobody can suit everybody, and at the end of the day, it is always a debating point after every match as to where pegs should have/could have been.
I was very surprised at the big gaps left out, and thought it was done due to "local knowledge". Barry Love told me he had intended helping peg out, but then had to help out with transferring fish from the stock ponds. I don't think the match would have been any different using different pegs. I believe it was down to too many anglers on the water to improve weights.

.is it only me who thinks about these things?  Were possible I'll peg out in future n give everybody a chance.

No its not only you who thinks about these things. Everyone who pegs out does their best, but criticism undoubtedly follows. Remember when we walked length of Trent at Sharratts in yellow stream rain only to be criticised for pegging out??? It's a thankless task Col you know that.