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Fished on the Birmingham mainline in Wolverhampton.
42 fished.

Despite horrendous conditions with gale force winds the canal fished extremely well with 9 weights over 10 pound as well as another 5 over 9lb.

Winner of the first day from peg 281 was Drennan North West star Ian Moulton with 21-0-0 made up of 3 perch to a pound, 3 small skimmers and 200+ roach.


Second was Ade Shepherd with a skimmer net of 19-9-6


section winners

A. Mark Derry 9-0-0
B. Big Dave Williams 11-3-9
C. Ian Moulton 21-0-0
D. Neil Martin 11-7-4
E. Ade Shepherd 19-9-6

Section 2nds

A. Mark Taylor 6-10-8
B. Darren Massey 10-5-8
C. Rob Quinn 13-11-14
D. Matt Derry 10-2-0
E. Kevin Adderley 13-1-7

section 3rds

A. Paul Hughes 6-8-13
B. Ricky Teale 9-3-8
C. Matt Forster 11-2-12
D. Simon Mottram 9-12-0
E. Lewis Breeze 7-0-4

Cracking bag of fish there. Well done, some very good weights to back it up on such a crap day weather wise.

How did you do Lee ?

nice one i,d need a trawler to catch that many fish

Cracking bag of fish there. Well done, some very good weights to back it up on such a crap day weather wise.

How did you do Lee ?

My shoulder went after an hour and half, had 3lb and went for a walk, tried again and just couldn't fish.

Bloody hell that's choppy. Was it the wind that did your shoulder?
Trying to hold the pole in the wind.

Bloody hell that's choppy. Was it the wind that did your shoulder?
Trying to hold the pole in the wind.

I pulled the muscles in my neck and strained the ligaments in my shoulder about a month ago....by the time i packed up i couldn't ship back.

this was the veiw in front

Unlucky mate. Hope its ok for you tomorrow.

There is no way i'll be fishing tomorrow!

Gutted...i'm finding it hard to type!

Hard luck mate but what a bostin match and net of fish for Ian M - them roach certainly aint tidlers either




ps.......I'll pop round and pick that w&j now that you don't need it

sounda a great match were they all worm and joker fish

sounda a great match were they all worm and joker fish

Mostly, there were a few caster fish caught.

Good weights on a rubbish weather day, well done all

I'm kitted out for tomorrow after my no.6 been snapped today, my current super leigion, another super leigion and a premier leigion, i aint having a repeat of todays match!

Sounds like you are now tooled up ok for in the morn - how did you fair Ad, having had that disaster?

About 2 from last in my section mate, only fished the for the first hour and had 4lb 2oz, shame as there was a ruck of fish over there with quite a few proper fish mixed in amongst, good draw on the day but fate conspired against me!

Tough mate - flying in that first hour - hope you draw tomorrow to make amends

Couldn't you have telescoped it sladey ?

snapped about 3 inches off the end of the female section......was the worst place it could have gone really.........was agony, watching it in slow motion as the rollor just teatered over the edge of the canal before dropping on top of it.

And then that woodhouse gave me a pole that resembled a 10 meter bamboo stick with one top kit containing 2 inch of 20 elastic!