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Results for this fine match are HERE

A very wet day indeed. Not much to report on really... I caught all my fish shallow on the corn feeding caster and corn. I couldn't get a bite anywhere else.
I think I ended up 5th after Conna just pipped me. I will own up to loosing only one fish which pulled out because my pole was wet and I couldn't ship back properly.
I ain't fished that pool for over a year now too, only fished the evening matches on the brook pool.

The fishing was very pool with alot of DNW's. There was a match on there yesterday too so maybe that's the reason why. Poor day really.   :(

Pictures will be uploaded later after I dry all my kit out  >:(

Oooooops - what happend to the one half of the Wyrley W*****s

Didn't they turn up

What do you mean matey, Paul and Mark turned up

well it rained all day and stopped immediately on the whistle.


drew peg right near the entrance, it looked great altho several guys came round saying it was a bad peg and id drew the short straw. Started off on worm in margins and picked up a few rudd, odd stripey and then 2 smallish carp combined about 3lb. Tried shallow and got hasselled with small fish constantly even on meat,so back into margins for a dry hour. I thought enough was enough 20 hook on single caster and wallop. straight away out came the laccy and 5mins later i netted a 5lb mirror carp. This was followed by lots of roach from 6oz to a 1lb, a nice skimmer about 1.5lbs and several sporadic rudd. Lost one more carp which i think was a foul hooker,never stood a chance. Last 40 mins i went in search of a monster but to no avail.Ended up with about 15-16lb.

Thanks to simon and yale guys, was a well organsied match and even though i didnt do as well as expected i enjoyed it.

You did well then Yamo concidering what was caught round you

Pictures now uploaded HERE

It was a frustrating match for me to say the least. I fed 3 pots of hemp with meat at 10m, I won't bore you with the other lines as I didn't catch off them. After about 20 mins my peg started fizzing and my float was dancing around. Knowing the fish were on the top I put my blob out and had a carp straight away, then I pricked one and missed a few bites and then had another along with a few more missed bites. I was constantly catapulting hemp around my float throughout the match using 5 pints in all, after 90 mins or so and 3 fish my bites dried up so I tried other lines to no avail. I went back out at 10m and tried different depths but nothing. I then realised that my peg had stopped fizzing and wondered if all the bubbles earlier had somehow attracted the carp on the top so I cupped out 3 more big pots of feed, again 20 mins later it started fizzing again and low and behold I started catching again. I ended up with 27lb and I pulled out of 2 big fish. I was ghost hunting the night before and was up early on Sat so Sunday I was fishing having only had 2 hours sleep and was absoloutely knackered and going dizzy all day so I think if I'd been more alert I'd have noticed my peg had stopped fizzing earlier and maybe I'd have caught a few more fish to frame. Ah well there's always next time. At least I beat Simon on his own turf .

Thanks for collecting the pegs up Si, your a great lad.

Own turf  :-[
10oz ain't beating me really   its scraping through by the skin of your teeth  
And I will have you know, your peg is more favourable than mine  
But I know your response will be "10oz is 10oz" which is dead right.
But I Maybe you have forgotten about me beating you on YOUR home turf by 9oz   Evidence HERE  

Gotta love the banter  :D

Looking at the results I am glad I never got to fish this now

The only good thing was that it was not windy

[highlight]You did well then Yamo concidering what was caught round you[/highlight]  

Pictures now uploaded HERE

when i drew next to neese again i thought it was a good omen after the parish match. perhaps i should have weighed in after all

No 1 rule............always trouble the scaleman

You like drawing next to Nese don't you Yamo
I always weigh in, you have spent 5 hours trying to catch the buggers so you may as well weigh them in. Thats the way I look at it.