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Well the day had finally arrived for this tension filled, nail biting day.

Larry had finally managed to scrape a TA team of 10 together with late confirmation that Dan Workman and Griffo would fly the flag for him

The Bum Draw Master arrived at the cut a little later than usual because Heinzer had popped to the butchers before picking him up to get a pork chop or two for his tea.

Arriving at the cut, around 8.20am the BDM was a little surprised to see how few cars were there. Had Larry and his crew already surrendered and took heed of Yamos taunts during the week.

No…………………

The notorious Harry the Hitman was first to pop out of the bushes ..............he was up for a scrap today…………..the information he’d gleamed from his spying missions over the last week or two wasn’t going to waste.

Also in attendance, albeit somewhere down the towpath, were Ian H and Firstpeg who’d made the long haul all the way from Bath.

KOD, Heinzer and BDM went off to peg. BDM spotted Haha’s van going in the wrong direction past the cut………..a quick call on the dog and bone and a bacon sarnie was ordered.

Now the best laid plans……………….rarely come to fruition, and today was no exception. The intention was to peg the complete section of the boats as this was prolific the week before and there were signs of large shoals of roach basking down by the boatyard itself. However a couple of bodies were visible in the distance.

‘Sod’s law’…………hardly ever see anyone down that section and two anglers are smack in the middle. Rather than peg around them, pegs 1 – 15 are put in up to the bridge rather than the expected 25/28 on there. Pegs 16 to 28 are in the middle section which is still carrying a tinge of colour.

‘You want 1-15 and 23-28, preferably high or low’ though BDM, who deffo didn’t want 16-22.

Back up the bank and Teepot and rest of crew have turned up after all

A staggered draw was made, with ‘El capitan’ Teepot draw the Harrisons names out, Heinzer reciprocating with the TA team names.

The low cock pegs soon go……………

Aint it funny how the draw conspires and throws up a quirk or two?
Larry drew along side Brummie and long time buddy who he’d fished with years ago, Gerry who was now a staunch Harrisons man. What a head to head battle was in store…….

Worse still, Larry also had the added distraction of having the Shark to his left………… this was now scrambling his brains…………what should he do? Have a silvers battle with Gerry? But he couldn’t ignore the team instructions given to The Shark to go all out for beasties………..what a dilemma for poor old Larry.

Silverfish had practised the cut on Thursday and caught aok from the gap in the new fence. The BDM had given him loads of info………..and had joked that he didn’t want to draw next to him Well Silverfish ends up on 18, and guess who was on 19?

Someone who cant get away from the peg…………..having drawn it the last 4 matches. Now Larry dips in the bag and it’s 5 on the trot for the BDM……………’thanks a lot Larry’.

For the BDM it was a bit of a grueller………….Silverfish was netting fish and heaping on the pressure of the next peg whilst Hotlips popped down to report that Jonah had had 5 fish in his first 5 put in. BDMs favoured punch failed to pull in the silvers so it was a head down jobbie after a biteless first 30 mins, resorting to picking up bits from a rotated 5 lines.

Anyway, enough of the waffle……….a few snippets of interest as reported back

The cut daint fish anywhere as good as the previous weekend……………now that’s a surprise.

Having said that, Heinzer got seen off first put in on the punch, Budgie got seen off and also bost a no5 section

Simple Simon needs to go on a ‘Get the skimmer in the net’ course

Millie was seen off twice on the caster whilst Silverfish owned up to losing a decent fish or two.

Poor old Dan got leafed out.

The Shark followed instructions and got 1 tinca out whilst another snagged him.

Larry went walkabouts………….

Gerry had about 250 silver slivers whilst Gez and Firstpeg picked up a few better samples.

Harry tried to catch a boat

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before deciding to chuck the waggler up the bank whilst Zorro flashed his foil and put together the best net of the day.

And the moment you’ve all been waiting for………..the results

PEG ANGLER TEAM WEIGHT
1 T SMITH TK's MEN DNW
2 HARRY THE HITMAN TA 0.11.10
3 ZORRO TK's MEN 5.7.0 SECTION WINNER
4 IAN H TA 1.8.4
5 YAMO TK's MEN DNW
6 EJAYAR TA 1.1.9
7 DAYLEWLIA TK's MEN 2.13.0


8 GRIFFO TA DNW
9 GEZ TK's MEN 1.11.9
10 FIRST PEG TA 2.9.14
11 COTTI TK's MEN 1.5.0
12 SI COOPER TA DNW
13 GERRY L TK's MEN 3.1.4 SECTION WINNER
14 LARRY TEEPOT TA 0.6.9


15 THE SHARK TK's MEN 3.6.10 SECTION WINNER
16 DAN WORKMAN TA DNW
17 JONAH TK's MEN 0.5.0
18 SILVERFISH TA 1.14.8
19 TK - THE BDM TK's MEN 2.3.12
20 JD TA 0.11.3
21 MILLIE TK's MEN 1.12.0


22 PHIL B TK's MEN 0.4.5
23 HAHA TK's MEN 1.13.13
24 BUDGIE TK's MEN 1.15.15 SECTION WINNER
25 KOD TK's MEN 1.6.14
26 BRAMBLES TK's MEN 0.13.6
27 SIMPLE SIMON TK's MEN 0.9.3
28 HEINZER TK's MEN 1.8.0

TK's Harrisons crack team managed to scrape home but left bitterly disappointed with an empty trophy cabinet back at the club cuss Larry pretended he'd left the trophy at home

One thing I excluded to mention in the original write up above – how remiss of me – was that despite it being a ‘difficult’ day for most, I really enjoyed the day, it was great to meet up with some new faces, some old, it was fished in a friendly atmosphere and importantly the banter before, during and after was A1.

Thanks guys for all making the day

Budgie the Cut King gives a thumbs up on his way to a section win

Brambles doing his best to snare a beastie








Simple Simon still with a smile after missing the net







'Did you see my lackie go?' asks Heinzer








Is that a boat coming?






Millie concentrating on the caster







Silverfish from TA putting the pressure on the BDM







'It was that big.......................'







Poor Dan from TA gets leafed out






The Sharks done the bizz and has got time to stretch the legs








Go under you sod............





Poor old Si - never dried in a match before..........but then again he'd never fish a TK Grueller before








Even the cracks from down South couldnt stop the inevitability

Daylewlia owns upto having 43 bits






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Whilst Harry the Hitman tries to hide his 27 remaining tins of luncheon meat

a cracking report and some great pics tk. A shame i had to miss it as i had to work

So whats the full story about harry trying to land mgb's house. I also heard a rumour that a few beasties were lost

Nice one TK great report and pics as always...Well done Harrisons

Superb report and piccy's TK
That picture of the Shark is not him stretching his legs. He is dancing to that reggae music coming from that Barge

I was so excited that I caught a 8oz skimmer, I threw it back in the cut instead of in my keepnet ::) :(

Re-done the results for you TK.....

spot on report nice looking canal good bunch of lads by the looks
a few leafs

Could do with you and a few cracks down on there to show us how its done Joffie

It's early days, but Zorro sets the pace in the Grueller table after match 1

ZORRO   30
THE SHARK 29
GERRY 28
DAYLEWLIA 27
TK - BDM   26
BUDGIE 25
HAHA   24
MILLIE 23
GEZ 22
IAN H 21
HEINZER 20
KOD     19
COTTI   18
BRAMBLES 17
HARRY HITMAN 16
SIMPLE SIMON 15
LARRY TEEPOT 14
JONAH 13
PHIL B  12
YAMO    5

I don't mind everyone else beating me but Bloody boat catcher Harry, now thats taking the yellow stream  

you shouldnt throw your fish back before the weigh in then

well thats a nice way of loosing to the hit man dont you think