Grueller Match 10 2011 - Punching his weight......

#1

Just an appetiser

A lacky stretcher on the boatyard..........

Drynet · #2

I cant see the elastic mate.

#3

Click the picture to make it bigger and you can even see a bit of weed round the line

Glyncar69 · #4

i can see the connector just on the wateline of the boat

#5

Well, having whetted your appetite with that picture of Mark O playing a tinca,

I’ve finally found 10 mins to knock up a write up and the results of this concluding match in the series that you’ve all been so patiently waiting for……….

The weather forecast wasn’t pleasant…………………and it wasn’t wrong either. Light rain as I loaded my gear into Heinzers car, but by the time we’d made the 5 minute journey it was chucking it down.

We’d a couple of ‘regulars’ missing for this one - KOD was ‘upto his neck in it’ and MrV was saving himself for the AT Supercup practise match the next morning.

Alongside Big Baz we pegged ‘The Boatyard’, returning to find a dozen hardy souls up for it, so pegs 1 and 14 were withdrawn.

The draw and pegs came and went from The Hunters trilby I was using

and I found myself left with last peg in the hat, no 10. At least it wasn’t too long a walk,

but I was flanked to the left by ‘new’ venue crack Dead Peg,

whose recent form would seem to suggest he’d finally sussed the cut out, and to the right by Mancub - also known in other circles as The Assassin.

Now my ‘best laid plans’ for the day already lay in tatters……..well a third of ‘em did. Punch, caster and chop…………but when I’d gone into the garage for my worms that unmistakeable smell of rotting worms

greeted my nostrils - sign I hadn’t lovingly cared for them since I’d slung the bag in the garage a fortnight earlier………so it was banker punch and I was determined to have a least one bonus fish on the caster today

The off…………..and Extension cut crack Dead Peg gets off to a flyer and is wiping the floor with me……….

he picks up several 2-3 oz skimmers one after the other to open up an early lead. It’s a bit quiet for me and also looking down the cut to my right I cant see a lot of activity for the next few pegs.

I start to wheedle a few bits and pieces out, but I’m struggling to see what I’m doing with the restricted light from under that brolly.

Periodical looks on that caster result in a motionless float

and several Mugger moments pass me by…………..mind it’s hardly one a bung on the punch either.

Two hours in and the rain stops. Brolly down - at least I can ‘see again’

Dead Peg gives me the nod that MarkO is playing that tinca in the picture above, so I take the opportunity for a ‘call of nature’ and also take a few more ‘all action’ shots.

Now Simps had clocked a ‘bit of weed’ in the picture…………well it was a bit more than that as MarkO tussled with the fish………..it had managed to get it’s head into a cluster of twigs.

The battle continued for several minutes and just when it all seemed over with the fish at MarkO’s feet……………….it was gone - an estimated 3lb plus’er

With the rain now cleared a few tales came down the bank…………..

OBI had lost a couple of fish off the hook

Cotti had lost a skimmer around the lb mark second put in

Big Baz was struggling,

but had clocked a beastie carp cruising around and was now ‘gunna go for it

’

A strange phenomena now occurred with the cessation of the rain…………whilst it hadn’t exactly a fish a chuck up to this stage, most reported after that bites also ceased once the rain stopped - myself included

In fact during that last two hours I only managed to snare another couple of small roach, and they came late on.

Even Dead Pegs secret method

that he’d clocked the last time on the boats failed him as he too chased another elusive bite.

The only bit of action of note - other than I did hear that Big Baz had hooked and lost two beasties

- was MarkO with another lackie stretcher which I snapped.

After a few minutes a smaller sample this time around the 1.5lb mark was netted

This was the view down the cut as I headed back to my peg

Heinzer blew up and whilst I packed away, reflecting on no bites on the caster again

Big Baz started the weighing in…………so sorry no ‘trophy shots’ this week as I struggled to get my rigs back on those fox winders with the black sliding ‘anchors’ on the sides………

With peg 2 being furthest away and closest to the A5 and peg 13 first peg by the new road bridge, the tale of the scales was as follows…………

PEG

2 HEINZER 1.14.6
3 COTTI 1.11.6
4 BIG BAZ DNW - TB
5 BULLAH 2.1.5
6 THE HUNTER 3.12.3
7 TERRY TURNIP DNW - TB
8 BLUES4EVA 0.9.11
9 MANCUB aka THE ASSASSIN 0.12.0
10 TK 1.10.0
11 DEAD PEG 1.14.3
12 MARKO 3.8.5
13 OBI DNW - TB

So MarkO’s tinca wasn’t suffice to upset The Hunter who now had fished two, won two.

Also interestingly the punch seemingly consistently outscored the w&j……………or was it all just down to the peg on the day

But despite having a bit of a grueller on this final day, Blues4eva finished the series as 2010/11 ‘champ’

#6

Well done Blues4eva

Top report as usual Tony

The one that got away hey.

Have you got a list of the grueller champs from previous years Tony

#7

Have you got a list of the grueller champs from previous years Tony

Now that's a question and half Simps

I'd have to do a bit of digging/head scratching

Can remember the last 3 years if that will do ya

2008/9 Simps
2009/10 TK
2010/11 Blues4eva

#8

I know who won it it back in 1989 Simps.........

#9

The Hunter who now had fished two, won two

Forgot to add.............

On the punch

but I spose the title was a bit of a give away

Blues · #10

Cheers Simps

Thanks again Tk another hard but enjoyable series. with a great bunch of lads

#11

only fished the 1

this year but enjoyed it as per usual,

hooked into a few skimmers but lost all of em,bad preparation & a bit ring rusty after not bothering for nearly 4 months

at least i now know i still want to go

well done blues and well done hunter 2,on the trot,not bad

#12

Likewise, though I only fished a couple, Id like to pass on my thanks to Tk... and next year, Il be back!!

#13

I know who won it it back in 1989 Simps.........

Where's mine

joffmiester · #14

great read again boys ,well thats another year over