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The final match of the 2012 series saw the Cashmores Crew turnout to do battle in the fur & feather on the Pheasant Pool at Elmbridge






And what an thrilling, action packed and eventful day it turned out to be................... 

Tell us more uncle TK!

OOOOOOhhhhh you tease TK.......

Tell us more please........

to many on the pool i bet

Gorra get meself a job.......



Then I might find a bit of time to knock up a report

go on boss tell us more

Aok then Tricast62






Well spose I’d better finally pen a few words about this action packed, fun filled, exciting instalment of the 2012 series.

Going into this final match there were a number of things to be ‘sorted’ – for instance who’d be declared the Cashmores 2012 champion ???? – nearly all the runners and riders had fallen by the wayside leaving it a two horse race in this final furlong. The odds on favourite was MrV who’d topped the leader board for some time – ever since he had started drifting to the ‘dark side’ earlier in the season with a string of decent results on venues far from his beloved cuts and rivers...........Only Zorro had the slimmest chance of catching him – and TBH that dependend on a massive landslide of a result today

The knock out was to be sorted too – the final battle again entailed Zorro in a head to head with KOD

That’s not to mention this was also the ‘fur and feather’ with a bottle or two up for grabs

Plus the Golden peg now stood at 200 sovs plus – would it survive the 3 golden pegs on offer today

Back to the morning............

My pleading with Heinzer not to pick up until 7.45am had fallen on deaf ears as he rolled up promptly as reluctantly arranged at 7.30am. In fact as it turned out I could have had another 45 mins lie in, cuss as we arrived at the fishery just after 8.15am it turned out that we, along with anglers fishing the open on the adjoining pool, were ‘halted’ just inside the fishery entrance because of an ‘impending’ shoot on the grounds.

After about another half hour, a couple of dozen fully tweeded bods sauntered past with retrievers on leads down to the shoot area. After what seemed like an eternity – well 15 mins – the sound of beaters, followed by gun shots, further followed by angler’s cheers as the odd pheasant flew past us having escaped the artillery

When the all clear sounded, we finally got to the adjoining fishery carp park, shown on the top left hand corner of the aerial shot of fishery. By the time we’d all gathered fully garbed, the time was 9.30am and with the ‘size’ of the pool it was agreed a 10.45am ‘kick off’

Whilst waiting for the draw I wandered down to the waters edge and looked at the first platform. Couldnt spot a number on it. Nor any no on the platform to the left ..........nor to the right

I’d got an obvious interest in what those peg numbers were as I’d decided beforehand – whether they were good or bad – I was gunna take advantage of a ‘short walk’ draw today cuss of a weakened ankle coupled with some tricky muddy terrain around the pool.

‘What’s that first peg no?’ I enquired to one of the Cashmore’s members who’d visited the water a time or two before and who was facilitating the pegging/draw with KOD. ‘Peg 11’ was the reply. ‘That’ll do me’ I thought.

‘Pegs 9 to 15’ were set aside for the walking wounded and the draw commenced..........

I say ‘pegs 9 to 15’ in inverted commas, cuss it didn’t quite turn out that way

In fact as members plodded round the pool trying to locate their pegs it quickly became apparent that there was a bit of a cock up on the catering front to coin a phrase.

Some ended on ‘their’ true peg, some ended on the peg they thought they should have been on, but wasn’t their peg, and some just plonked themselves down on an available peg in the ‘vicinity’ they would have been in............it was almost like a rover

(To give you some idea, it turned out my peg ‘11’ was in fact actually peg 3 although there was absolutely no indication on the platform as to what it was)

Anyway – onto the match.

I’d heard it was full of lumps – down the sides. And what’s more, those lumps reputedly got bigger and bigger as the date of the match neared. So in preperation I’d tied up a batch of tow rope rigs – well tow rope to me – 7.6lb reflo coupled with Kamasan animal hooks I’d had in a drawer for a decade or so, to some small Tyson floats for the margins and Nick Gilberts thingymybobs (forget the actual model) for open water. I’d also replicated those rigs with lighter lines for silvers JUST INCASE ::) the animals lurking in the depths didn’t play ball.

The game plan – as I’d been reliably informed – was fish for the silvers (you could do 20/30 lb easily - yep just how many times have I heard that one ::) ) and when it went quiet go out with a munster rig on cuss it meant the craps had arrived.

Well from the off and for the entire 5 hours my peg must have been solid with craps ..............cuss I couldn’t string more than 2 silvers together ........but the problem with all those craps in my peg was that they obviously weren’t very peckish either.............

Just to please Joffie – in between all this hectic action (not) on peg 11 – or was that peg 3 – I took a couple of snaps from my perch in Cripple Corner


Looking to my left, joining me in Cripple Corner were PhilB, Mick K and Tommy Cooper





To my right I stood every chance of being Brambletised





Looking to the right across the pool you might spot Cotti was lurking – obviously antagonising all the ducks in the vicinity as they never shut up all match – although in fairness they did drown out some of the reported moaning and groaning that was going on lower down the pool





Whilst it was ‘dead’ up our end apart from Big Geoff who wheedled a few out on some secret bait or other, ::) it was obvious that a few members were having a better time of it.

Tommy Cooper had bombed out on his golden peg – but would the pot survive the attentions of MrV and Rich C who were on the other golden pegs. From a treasurers perspective things were looking a little grim as when the final whistle went, rumour was that Mr V (along with Tricast62 for whom I have also got great concerns of him also turning to the dark side) had had a few.

The scales soon materialised and it didn’t take long to weigh in Cripple Corner. In fact a few others on that side in the immediate vicinity had also had a struggle.

Zorro - in the knock out final - had placed a ‘fair few’ on the scales and now waited anxiously for KOD, who would be last man to weigh in to find out who would win that trophy and the few bob that goes along with it.


And here is the tale of the scales.............


PEG
3 MIKE ELCOCK 6.4.0
6 ROBERTO D 11.8.0
7 HEINZER 8.14.0
9 BRAMBLES 7.2.0
11 TK 9.14.0
13 MICK KENN 5.2.0
14 TOMMY COOPER 3.8.0
15 PHIL B 12.8.0
17 ZORRO 34.0.0
20 RICH C 39.14.0
23 BIG BAZ D N W
25 KOD 38.0.0
26 TRICAST62 61.0.0
27 MRV 42.12.0
29 THE MILKY BAR KID 28.12.0
31 MGB 18.14.0
32 DAZ WILLIAMS 20.10.0
36 HAHA 72.4.0
38 COTTI 12.8.0
39 YAMO 32.14.0
40 BIG GEOFF 31.12.0

As it turned out dark horse HaHa saved the day on the Golden Peg pot front. For those not aware, the accumulated pot at the end of the year is split 50/50 – half to the clubs coffers, half as the starting pot for the next season.

KOD won the KO with the last weigh in of the season.

KOD also snatched another trophy weighing in the heaviest fish of the season – some crappy coming in at 11lb odd, beating the previous season heaviest which had stood for a few matches at 11lb 4oz.

MrV was declared club champion after a season of consistent results, winning a couple in the process too.

And to close off an action packed day.............


Remember that £100+ pot from the golden peg that was going into the clubs coffers?


Well it looks like it might be spent a little earlier than originally envisaged .................no not on another venue booking ..............no, not on new polo shirts for the members

But on a brand new set of Scales as during the weigh in, the set I purchased before the start of this season, hit the deck busting them (No names, no pack drill)

Final verdict on Elmbridge?

A well mature venue with pleasant owners. Just a few common sense rules and bait bans. Those pleasant owners trusted you and left the club to get on with it

Although I'm not a commie man, I'd certainly pay the place another visit on a club match

really good write up boss and good to see thee out fishin bout time .
well done to MrV club champ.
well done to KOD knock out champ
well done to all for making it an enjoyable match season.

brilliant i love these write ups
i'm sure if match fishing printed some of these it would increase the sales

Good write up once again T K thaks.
Well done Yamo, Mr V and HAHA.
An excellent weight for HAHA which, I believe included a fair amount of skimmers including the flying variety! as well as carp.
All in all a good season even though my results weren't brilliant I've enjoyed it.

Result from the following day...............

Elmbridge Fishery, Droitwich, Sun. 26, Pheasant Pool. Chris Whitehouse (Stevens Tackle) 63-0-0, carp, poled maggot, peg 28. Dave Harrison (Solhampton) 61-0-0. Nathan Lloyd (Elmbridge) 47-10-0.

Well,that was another "interesting" Cashmores match  I thought that once we got down to the water, things would go with their usual Cashmores "efficiency" but following "a few kindly exchanges" between one of our crew and the organiser of the adjacent open over a parking space, nothing was ever going to be smooth  . Got to my peg and it didn't look any different to Tricast or KODs pegs. Josh on next but one peg resembled a Jap sniper sitting behind his bush, and I really fancied him to turn us over on the day 
Fed lines either side in the margin, one with pellet, the other with JGG. 10 oclock line at 8 mtrs was fed with a pot of micros with a sprinkling of JGG. 2 oclock line at 9 mtrs was fed with a full pot of choppie, and loose fed over it with maggot. Started having a few silvers on the maggot or snips of worm. Eventually hooked a beast on a full piece of worm, and netted it backwards  Another one hooked in the right end a short while later was also bagged, but then I lost 2 foul hookers on the trot, which killed it for an hour. Had heard Josh net a few in his "undergrowth" peg, and Tricast had started bagging on the silvers methods he is so good at. Even KOD had started to have a few after eventually changing his plummet for a sinking one that told him he was 2 foot off bottom  . For the rest of the match it was a few silvers here and there. Decided to "wet up" a tub of micros and "give em a huge dollop" to see if I could kick a few Craps into feeding. It worked  3 more Craps in the last 45 minutes, and another foul hooker lost  :( Thought Tricast and KOD had beaten me, and not sure about the Jap sniper, but I had enjoyed the banter yet again....never a dull moment really with this lot  The weigh in was a marathon in itself, and I don't mind naming and shaming who dropped the scales. Take a bow ****.....bloody hell, TK was editing that as I typed it.  Thanks to the crew for another interesting season, and looking forward to the  .

Tricast had started bagging on the silvers methods he is so good at.

Gorra keep an eye out for him next year MrV

Was updating the trophy records earlier this week for next years presentation - by the way that's if the members want a presentation this year

If Tricast62 had been a member in 2012, not only would he have walked away with a couple of match winning trophies, doing a rrecount of points to include him, it would have been touch and go between thee and him for the championship if he hadnt have chucked away at the first match at Border

Looks like 15 slider matches for 2013 to test him out on that method........

only 15  like it boss brill 

I don't mind naming and shaming who dropped the scales. Take a bow ****.....

Scales now repaired by R H and back in Heinzer's clutches

Thanks to our new snapper in the ranks (Mike E) here's a few photos from this match...........


Mike obviously thought this looked a flyer on the opposite bank




And another view of the pool......





A few of the weigh in

Roberto D's efforts on the day





Followed by two dodgy characters who, for a few months, appeared to have gone to the dark side

First up MrV




And Tricast62

Another catch shot - this time of KOD






And KOD's heaviest fish of the season

Last but not least - match winner HaHa who had a smashing time