Best excuse ever?

#1

Having run matches for donkeys of years I have put up with that many excuses it is untrue

However, this one is very true and it happened years ago on a match I run. Wolvehampton's Stan Ward drew this peg on the Staff-Worcs Canal at Stafford. He was catching a few fish (honestly) and this boat came along. Everyone thought the boat had got stuck in Stan's peg and it did in more ways than one. It actually sank and the crew had to get out quick!
While this one was very true what is the best excuse for failure you have ever come across; I have come across more in my time than our PMs come out with.

joffmiester · #2

i never catch anyway i don't need a excuse bill

#3

A bike shortened my top two I was using by some six inches yesterday. You should have seen the rig, it was condensed, gloat and all into about a 1 inch square

#4

That should read FLOAT, not gloat; that is what the biker were doing.

joffmiester · #5

i had one a few years back i was fishing at medley on the Thames it was really hot and in the summer i had a really high bank behind me and i sat in the water below it was all well
until a dog jump off the high bank and smashed my pole on its way to the water that finished my days fishing

#6

Yesterday at the draw at stafford boat club on the staffs/worces canal div 3 practice ............... there were no pegs left for those of us who turned up 20 minutes before when the actual draw was supposed to take place

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Still won my section though

Guest · #7

the best i can think of was my old man. he was fishing a winter league match on the canal at rode heath (100 pegger). the weather was terrible , pouring with rain and gusting winds. he drew in a narrow with a bit of shelter on the far bank (enough to hold a pole at 10m every now and again) he was catching a few nice roach on castor (and doing well in the match

)until with an hour to go the weather got so bad he had to put his pole up the bank grab hold of his umbrella and hang on for grim death

. for a few mins he could not fish (it was like the end of the world ) then all of a sudden crash bang wallop a boat smashed into the bank crushing his keepnet the boat dragged along the towpath side

. my old man let go of his brolly that landed in the hedge behind him , he quickly grabbed it and took it down , he chased along the towpath to grab the boater at the rear of the boat . the net was not to be seen. after alot of threatening as big as this bloke was my old man got £50 quid off him for his net and pools money (a miracle in itself) if he had not parted with his cash it may have been his life

(as small as my old man is). anyway after the boat pulled away my old man went back to his box to sit down furious still ,when he caught a glimpse of what looked like a keepnet , he grabbed his landing net and dragged the net towards him , the net was ripped at the top but further to the base of the net was not . unbelievably there were still fish in there

, he weighed in 4 .1/2 lb from memory and finished second 9lb won it so even with the lost fish he would have faired no better . so all ended well in the end. unfortunately i dont think he's had any luck since haha

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#8

Always though he was a jammy old git. Good one that Crap Peg, really like it. I think you ought to change your name though

#9

Same here Dodge. I have fished that cut over 50 years and ended up three miles away from where my peg should have been.
A few of us ended up the other side of peg 1

I was peg 120.
Still won section though

I'm considering pegging the National like this; now that would be fun

#10

Spare a thought for the guy that sorted it all out yesterday. He was not responsible for ferking the draw up. I actually drew his peg, he was on 64, exactly the same peg he framed off last summer with skimmers; he may well have framed again as peg 66 did. He ended up not fishing the match but sorting out extra sections and sorting parking out.

The ones that ferked the draw up all ended up fishing; I, like several others were told to go to Deepmore. We ended up at Milford.
Do you know what WAFU stands for Dodge?

#11

WAFU

is that a football team

No easy job to run a match of that size bill i know and i felt sorry for the lad that run it and explain everything

i also felt sorry for a dozen lads who were behind us at the draw who had driven up from wiltshire (devizes) and peterborough

Alls well that ends well as they say

Nearly fell off me box when a boat full of German holiday makers came past .......... what does "gud morgen" mean

#12

Crap Peg

Your old fella would of done a mint taking anglers to there pegs in his taxi yesterday if he werent fishing

#13

Gud morgen is believe is what is sounds Good morning. I can remember Hitler muttering

WAFU is a trophy we used to pass around in the old days to the lowest scorer in the team.
It stands for 'What A FLick Up.'

#14

Nice one Bill

Erm

"What a Flick Up" is that German an all

#15

Herr

Almost

Guest · #16

bill , maybe it should read crap angler instead :(. dodge , from what my old man caught sunday he would have been better off taxi ing instead

. mind you i think he had the right idea in the end and watched fauxy catch a few

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#17

Not too long ago one of out team actual said he was getting that many bites on the cut he had no time to feed. It was an excuse but only get 6/10.

Can you guess who that endearing character was?

#18

Erm was it that extremely handsome chap Keith Hulland by anychance

#19

You mean our Cliff Richard look a like by any chance?

There's only him that could say that.

my holiday's over, he's back this weekend.

#20

About 10 years ago when i fished in the Mid Cheshire winter league with Team Trafford one of the our team members drew a peg which he said....his words " That Peg Is Way Too Good For Me"

it was on the Trent & Mersey canal at Northwich

He went on to win the match (80 pegger) with 14lb of roach ........ nice one Adge Woodward