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Well half way thru this one, Mike.Angling.Coach, hereinafter, referred to as MAC shouted across the pool to me with words to the effect  ‘You’re gunna have a job writing about this one on the forum’

‘Too right’  I thought to myself as I enjoyed one of the many Mugger Moments experienced during this match……..along with most.

I’d mixed feelings and what to expect on this one…….previous season reports had been positive, with a ‘huge head’ of silvers to go at – with 15-20lb ‘easily done’, plus other bonus fish being a ‘mixed’ commercial, rather than an out and out crap carp pool. However, recent match results I’d clocked weren’t actually anything to write home about……. 

So armed with some casters, mags and disco pinkie, which KOD kindly picked up for me on Friday night (and dutifully basted and flavored with fish repellant over night ) I was going to try to attack the silvers and also have a ‘throw away’ couple of lines for the pellet.

At the draw there was a somewhat depleted turnout – 19 members out of the 27 of us, along with solitary guest, MAC – who certainly turned out to be a charismatic, energetic and pleasant character – doing battle with the  for the first time.

Peg 25 came out as the ‘golden peg, worth 100 sovs plus. As soon as it was called the fishery owner plus his ‘helper’ intimated it could be won off 25 today, being the last ‘open’ match winning peg.   :o

Hands were soon dipping and as 'MGB mk 2' I feared the pot would go as 25 stuck to Big Baz’s hand.

I also knew where I didn’t want to be – an area described as…………..
An interesting feature is a gravel bar about 11 metres out from Pegs 14  to 18 , on the bank between Spring and Abbey Lake, where depths rise from 11 feet to about nine feet.

Guess what peg I was left with…………..

Ok – no prizes – peg 16, smack in the middle of the deep water.

‘Be positive’ I thought to myself, ‘perhaps all those 6lb bream are in the deeper water’ I tried to convince myself.

Getting my gear out of Heinzer’s car at peg 5, things didnt look to bad  – decent fish were topping around the place……

Of I traipsed and made myself ‘comfy’ on my peg for the next 6 hours or so.

Yep the internet write up was true……..5-6   feet on my top 3, sloping away much deeper to 5/6 mtrs where it ‘leveled’ off a tad. 

7 rigs set up to cover a variety of depths and methods………..and a tray of groundbait mixed up.

The off…….a few early fish were caught by members, including myself who picked up odd small roach off all lines but couldnt string two together

But it was slow for most - the  was certainly in town today. 

Brambles and Big Geoff either side both had netters to turn the screw on me. 

Well not a lot else to report………..not sure whether I dozed off for the next 4 hours or not.

Oh I remember – I spent 15 mins on the long line, up in the water on a 3.3lb rig, pinging mags at my float. I know it was about 15 mins , cuss I took a call from JK at the local Holiday Hypermarket in which she fleeced me of 5k booking  a holiday for us and the kids. 

Well no tugs during that call. After the call, as a few bits were topping on the line, I slipped on another top 3, 1.8lb……..and guess what………well no guesses needed, first put in no 6 lacky shoots out, pole tip bends, I sink the pole as a bow wave shoots off to the middle of the lake……….goodnight Vienna. 

Oh I also I remember a bonus 1.5 oz roach dropping off and missing my keep net by an inch or two……. how costly would that turn out to prove in the Curse points league.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, MAC had been destroying the opposition on his bank with the aid of two bites and two fish  taken on the feeder(?) – well I’m sure he’ll give us a resume of how he did it later – that was until Heinzer, with two solitary small roach and a gudgeon unleashed his feeder as we moved into the last hour.

And what a move that turned out to be as he zoomed up the weights from 3 oz with the aid of a crap of a 1lb followed by another crap knocking 6lb plus. 

Ah well, time for the result, courtesy of KOD’s email scan to me this morning

PEG ANGLER WEIGHT
5 HEINZER 7.5.0
6 RICH C 0.1.8
7 MARK V 1.4.8
8 GEZ 0.15.0
9 M.A.C 3.9.0
10 COTTI DRY
11
12 LASHER DRY
13
14 YAMO 6.15.0
15 BRAMBLES 0.9.0
16 TK 1.10.0
17 BIG GEOFF 1.11.0
18 SPRUCEY 2.0.8
19 PHIL B 0.10.0
20 ROBERTO 0.10.8
21
22
23 ZORRO 0.12.8
24 KOD 0.11.8
25 BIG BAZ 1.7.0
26 TOMMY COOPER 0.7.8
27 HAHA 1.10.0
28 HARRY THE HITMAN DRY

With the absence of David Budgie Bailey and all the action going on, I didn’t find time to have a wander with my camera…….or was it I couldn’t really be bothered.  ::)

But having packed up it was worth getting it out of my box to record these antics of a certain Angling Coach …………

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Great report TK.
Well the pictures I could have done with not seeing till after my breakfast

That aint my fault Simps

It is Today at 1:34pm

@ T  K

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I have a terrible cold and have been in bed coughing up snot

well i came third with 3lb 9ozs i had 2 bite on the tip and 2 fish only bites i had all day tk as got some photo's of a beeched whale swimming around which was quite a sight the top 3 weights were 7lb 11ozs for 1st, 2nd was yamo with 6lb 12ozs and me with 3lb 9ozs after all the time i spent making those rigs i left by my computer didnt remember them till i got to the fishery

Lovely

what weight would you get for that whale that was swimming or bobbing around tk said that he wished mrs tk had lady lumps like that really sorry guys lost middle section to landing net pole

Thats why you should always have a spare set of clothes in the car whilst fishing!

Good read TK thanks for shareing the days fishing in words.

Get well soon Si

Some quality Mugger Moments© all round.

Mike did you manage to snare your hands free kit on any bait after we'd left?

well done to Heinzer

yamo no i didnt mate but dont care had a great day out with a nice group of anglers

nice report tk.


MCA youe got a long way to go if you are planning to take over from malc as so far you've failed on 3 things and drawing on 1 ....
preparation = Malc beats you as your to organised
swimming = Malc beats you as you left your cloths on
For getting vital things = you matched malc as he always forgets everything
being on time for the draw + malcs never made the draw time and you did so you fail

My Match – Spring Pool.

Wasn’t looking forward to this one, there just seems no pattern to the place in terms of how to fish it. That didn’t bother me much, but the weights on a club match last Sunday did. They were pretty dire. Coupled with the fact that I didn’t get a bite on an evening scouting mission a couple of weeks ago, despite two previous reasonable visits, had put me right off. Maybe the tenacity’s going a bit., dunno.

Thought the safe way to fish it was to go for bits up in the water. Sure fire way to a respectable weight, but unlikely to win, or even frame if the decent carp showed. Wasn’t up for scratching for bits though and decided to be more positive.With my back not too clever, decided to ditch the box, dust off my chair and do something else.

Yesterday, put on the dark glasses, moustache and false beard, went into the shop and purchased two method feeders.        

Started the match potting in some micro pellets on two lines left and right at the bottom of a shelf, reverting to type, at about 41/2m. No bites. Reminded myself I was supposed to be fishing the method !

Stuck some tissue paper in my lugholes as ear plugs and lobbed it way out, using a home made concoction of all sorts mixed in the bucket and settled down for some peace and quiet. Corn on the hook.

I’d seen bigger fish showing on every visit there, at distance and although they hadn’t shown up in a weigh in I’d watched or on the match last Sunday, I thought it was worth a gamble. The place doesn’t seem to take angling pressure well and I suspected the bigger fish just went further out.

No bites. After about an hour and a half, cross legged on my chair waiting for the baitrunner to go off, I was well bored. Put out a canal float and scratched some one ounce roach at 2-4 feet deep. That’s what my 1lb 4oz was made of. After an hour and a half of this, back on the method. Nothing till about 45 min to go when the ratchet went off.

Lifted into a fish and the hook length parted. Only .14 but I thought it should have been enough with a lot of mono between me and the fish. It’s the roach fisherman in me. Not a lot of pressure before it gave way in the middle of the hooklength. Very strange, maybe a fault/damage to the line ??

Stuck with the method then, resisting packing up fully until the whistle went.
That fish could have been 1 1/2lb or much more, who knows. If only I’d snared another …

After the whistle Top Coach Mike, played to the gallery, paddling for his landing net section, eventually successfully. I reckon he’s a bit of a porn star on the quiet. They may have been chest waders but they certainly didn’t cover his attributes !

All in all I don’t think it’s a bad pool (can hear the howls now) just doesn’t seem to be standing up to a lot of anglers on it at the moment. Pleasure catches usually much better. My guess is, it’s probably at a very healthy natural stocking level.

My guess is, it’s probably at a very healthy natural stocking level

Probably profound words MarkV.............plus a decade or so we wouldnt even be fishing.........it would be close season when fish sometimes have other things on their minds 


Anyway attached below is the league today - although early days, can anybody catch Team Jefferys 

plus a decade or so we wouldnt even be fishing.........it would be close season when fish sometimes have other things on their minds

generally speaking on that point, i've noticed on a couple of venues over the weekend, the fish seem to have a 'rough' texture to them, thats besides the bream with spawning nodules, if thats what they're called. It's the roach and skimmers that seem rough to the touch. Thought it might be due to spawning time.

Has anyone ever noticed this ?