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Just waiting for a scan of the results from KOD and all will be revealed...........

Still waiting...........

Calling KOD ..... Come in KOD !

Here we go.............



With the having already struck causing this match to be transferred from the river to the clubs canal, surely it couldn’t strike again and we’d all see a few fish……….wouldn’t we

Expecting to catch a few, despite all the cold rain water entering the cut, I’d recharged my camera batteries with the intention of getting a few good pictures.

Trouble was despite indicating they were fully charged, they’d got about as much poke as a ***** and the camera was a dead as a dodo when I loaded them. Ah well, the best laid plans……….

Big Baz had pegged out. The original intention was to have 12 pegs each side of Wood Lane Bridge. Because of a couple of pleasure anglers already on the towpath of this extremely popular section of canal, 1 to 8 went onto the left and 9 to 25 along the common up to the junction with the Cannock Extension.

Secretly I wanted a draw 10 to 14, no long walk and a chance at one of the Common pegs I hadn’t fished for years.

Tommy Cooper was sorted with a ‘short walk' peg, selecting peg 8 from a choice of 8 or 9 and three golden pegs were drawn with the pot standing at 200 sovs plus.

Loads of Common pegs came and went and as I wrote them down I thought I was gunna have a nightmare and pull peg 1 from a couple of remaining discs in the bag.

Chuffed I was to pull out 11 whilst Sprucey revealed he’d got peg 1.

Now I’d watched a match the weekend earlier down Wood Lane and a guy pleasuring 10 yards away from my allotted peg 11 had had bream knocking the 5lb, a few tincas and a bite a put in from silvers. So perhaps chuffed was a bit of an understatement, I was certainly expcting to have a few.

With KOD framing last match on the cut sitting today on a GP this time, Yamo always gunna be dangerous with golden end peg 25 into the junction basin and yours truly who’d had double figures last match, plus a few others in ‘practice’ on the 3rd GP, I honestly thought before the off the pot was probably going on this one.

4 rigs were set up and lines fed on the off. Straight away within the first 5 mins both Zorro and Big Geoff had ‘proper’ netters, whilst I was struggling to wheedle a few silvers out.

Half hour in a boat. Now anybody who knows this cut knows that you usually don’t see a boat from one week to another.

It went over my ‘long down the shelf’ line which I hadn’t yet moved onto. So giving it 5 mins to settle I re-fed.

A few more bits off the inside line, nowt over 2 oz, so time for a look across. At this stage I was probably 2lb behind Zorro and 4lb behind Geoff who’d both had more netters.

Start picking up small silvers……only a matter of time before a tinca or two, or their mates those 4-5lb bream put in a show I think to myself.

Starting to get in a rhythm and boat two suddenly appears on the horizon…….

That well know boating lover, MGB on the peg to my left had obviously told all his mates he’s fishing the cut today and they have decided to have a convention I think to myself.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, after this boat passed, I just couldn’t get the fish to regroup again and despite trying to find them pushed up the shelf across, my best efforts proved fruitless and I really scratted for the next 3 hours for a bite.

In the meantime Sprucey on peg 1 gave me a bell.

‘How you doing?’ he asked.

‘Struggling mate’.

‘Yep, heard that one before’

‘Honest, got a lb, 1lb 8 tops’

After a few minutes trying to convince him that I wasn’t telling porkies and in which he tried to convince me he’d only had a few billies, he suddenly shouts down the phone that he’s gotta ‘propa ‘un’ on. It’s a bream of around 4lb which he takes great delight in netting, adding ‘It’s great, whenever I’m struggling I’ve got a secret weapon, I call you and I always manage to snare a gud un whilst I’m on the phone to you. I aint bothered about the size of my phone bill, I’ll carry on talking to you for the rest of the match……….’

On a personal front, not a lot happened on peg 11 for the rest of the match, other than I twisted a stomach muscle getting a can of Vimto out of my carryall, necessitating a stretch and walk.

During the walk with an hour to go it Ball it In has lost two good bream at the net and looks like HaHa might be into the final furlong – he was owning upto 7 or 8lb, whilst Phil B told me it was more like 12lb. Was the golden peg gunna be safe?

Soon its whistle time, so I pack up and go set up the balance scales.

First to weigh is Sprucey on peg 1 who’s put a few bream, the odd tench and silvers together. He’s complaining that the guy on the scales is a miserable b*****d who won’t give him an extra couple of drams. Now who could that be?

’15.15.14 has got a nice ring to it’ says the scalesman. ‘16lb sounds a load better’ was Sprucey’s retort.

Jonah, a guest on a few pegs away, is distraught. ‘How do you get them out of here?’ he asks as he tips a nice looking bream and some silvers in the basket. ‘I’ve been smashed up three times on 4lb6oz – I can’t believe it!’

Pleasing to see quite a few anglers tipping odd bream into the weigh basket as they’ve shown along most of the length……….apart from a few pegs.

Here’s the tale of the scales………

PEG
1 SPRUCEY 15.15.14
2 ROBERTO 1.3.5
3 JONAH 5.10.2
4 BRAMBLES 1.4.0
5
6
7
8 TOMMY COOPER 0.7.2
WOOD LANE BRIDGE
9 HEINZER 1.6.8
10 MGB 1.10.2
11 TK 2.6.5
12 ZORRO 4.2.7
13 BIG GEOFF 8.10.0
14 MILLIE 2.3.9
15 RICH C 5.10.4
16 BIG BAZ 1.5.10
17 KOD 1.3.13
18 COTTI 3.9.5
19 HOTLIPS 5.14.7
20 PHIL B 0.2.7
21 HAHA 11.3.9
22
23 BALL IT IN DNW
24 TINCA TED 1.13.14
25 YAMO 5.8.9


Well I’ve certainly had a battering today on my ‘beloved’ canal and I’m secretly disappointed with my catch which is only an indifferent ‘winter’ weight. A few weeks prior to the match I’ve had much better nets and today I’ve even failed miserably to put together my planned 3-5lb of bits plus those bonus fish to bump up the weight.

Never had a lackie stretcher at all………but you know what?

I’ve enjoyed it………

Well onto the next match in a fortnight’s time scheduled for the ‘virgin’ sections down Fishley Lane now I’ve secured a gate key from BWB.

Wonder what that match will hold in store for us

Will I get some more rechargeable camera batteries in time for it

Well, all in all a pretty good CLUB level match I reckon.

6 weights over 5lb, 15lb winner, 11lb second,
8lb third.

Always going to be some strugglers. Thaaats fishing.

Only disappointments due to high high expectations

and how many times have we all fallen for that one 

Sometimes you do ... sometimes you don't.

I didnt on sunday LOL

Nice one chaps, bring on another day when you can do it all again, or try again 

I didnt on sunday LOL

Do tell us more on another thread MarkV

Great reading TK

Well done Sprucey

I bet HAHA thought he had it
Because I would have thought the same

Anybody else got owt to add on how their match went

Anybody else got owt to add on how their match went 

Guess not then............

Hmmmm,.........more decent weights off the common......we must be missing a trick having 'overlooked' it for a season or two

I think ur right tk with weights like that its goto be worth a visit although there was a few craks out that day