Winter League Round 4. 2nd Jan 2011

Nearly all the ice has gone now

Welcome to 2011. After the last match was cancelled there has been quite a break for some of the winter league lads. Frank Hardie, Steve Waters and John were at the lake on Saturday breaking up the ice and running the aerators to try and clear the ice for the first match of 2011 and what a great job they did too. Nearly all the ice had melted.

Nearly clear of ice

Most of the ice was in the little lake and up by pegs 19 and 20 in the big lake.

As the Christmas match was cancelled this would double up as the xmas match so everyone brought along a bottle for the raffle at the end of the match. And there was also a lovely hamper up for grabs, chosen by a peg number been pulled out the bag and whoever was on that peg wins the hamper.

No drinking and Driving πŸ˜€

The Hamper donated by John and Pauline

Everyone was milling around waiting for the draw and wishing each other best wishes for the new year.

John Bennett waiting the get the draw underway.

The draw is underway

Mick Lane writing him memoirs

The flyers going early

Gary Haisman and Jon Walker eager to draw

Steve Wilson, Malc Doyle, Paul Jay and Clive Pritchard

Jon is on 21

Gem Doyle and Dai Thomas

Its not that cold John πŸ˜€

With the draw out the way the match was starting at 10.30 so everyone was off to get ready. Only one peg needed breaking out and that was poor Gary Haisman on peg 16. Everyone else only really had to scoop out and move the ice from their swims.

Ady clearing his swim on peg 23

My Peg, Peg 24 clear to 13 meters

The match got underway and there was a lack of movement from anyone floats. In the first half an hour I had managed to hook and land a carp about 8-9lb (I thought :D) and comments were been shouted “Jammy bugger”

Malc had managed 2 roach fish at 13m :O He never fishes more than 6m so this is a rare occasion for Malc πŸ˜€ Ady on peg 23 had also managed 2 roach but had hooked and lost the first carp of the day as he was fishing on fine gear.

Not much to report on the middle of the match apart from Mick Lane on peg 13 and Derek Hammond on peg 10 locked in a silver fish battle, both catching regularly. It was going to be a close call between them.

During the last hour the action started πŸ˜€ Phil Powell over on peg 18 had managed to hook in to a carp but having light elastic and lots of ice in his swim was struggling to land it. After a nice fight he put the net under his carp. “Bugger” I thought and shouted over “How big is it” I thought it looked about 10lb from where I was sitting. He shouted back “Same as yours” πŸ˜€

Phil Playing his carp

The smile says it all

Then to put the nail in the coffin and stop me from winning my section Geoff Palmer over on peg 14 strikes in to his first and only fish a bigger carp. After playing it VERY carefully he lands it and it did look over 10lbs and indeed it was. 13lb 8oz to take the section.

With half an hour to go Jon Walker on peg 21 had a nice stream of elastic flowing from his pole, carp on……. Malc gets his camera out and takes a few photo’s ….. Carp OFF. It had straightened his size 22 hook.

The one that got away from Jon walker

With 25 minutes to go Pete Arnold on peg 8 decided to chuck the feeder across and this resulted in two carp to win the match. Fantastic, well done Pete.

The Little lake had been the hardest with only 2oz winning the section. There was a battle between Steve Waters on peg 2 and Frank Hardie on peg 7 who both had 4 fish, 2 roach and 2 perch. Frank just edged it by half an oz πŸ˜€

Overall and B Section Winner Pete Arnold.

Hard fought A Section Winner, Frank Hardie

C Section Winner, Geoff Palmer

Pauline supplying everyone with some hot soup after the match. Thank you

After the soup John drew a number from the bag to decide who would win the lovely hamper. Peg 34 was drawn, on that peg today was Clive Pritchard but he had gone home so another name was drawn. The Hamper went to Dai Thomas. You should have stayed Clive πŸ˜€

Results

A Section Peg Weight Team
1st Frank Hardie 7 2 oz Heavy Weights
2nd Steve Waters 2 1.5Β  oz Walker Floats
3rd Pat Pritchard 6 0.5 oz Pats Lot
John Bennett 4 DNW Rolfs Team Gold
Clive Pritchard 34 DNW Assassin
Mick Chappel 40 DNW Wooden Tops
Did Not show !! Rolfs Reject
B Section Peg Weight Team
1st Pete Arnold 8 19-8 Pats Lot
2nd Mick Lane 13 5-11 Rolfs Team Gold
3rd Derek Hammond 10 5-4 Walker Floats
4th Steve Palmer 28 7.5 oz Heavy Weights
5th Paul Jay 9 3 oz Wooden Tops
Steve Wilson 30 DNW Assassins
Dai Thomas 32 DNW Rolfs Rejects
C Section Peg Weight Team
1st Geoff Palmer 14 13-8 Heavy Weights
2nd Simon Mound 24 11-8 Assassins
3rd Phil Powell 18 10-4 Rolfs Team Gold
4th Jon Walker 21 8.5 oz Walker Floats
5th Malc Doyle 26 6 oz Rolfs Rejects
6th Ady Kinom 23 5 oz Pats Lot
Gay Haisman 16 DNW Wooden Tops
DAY TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Heavy Weights 18
1st Walker Floats 15
3rd Pats Lot 14
4th Rolfs Team Gold 11
5th Assassins 6
6th Wooden Tops 3=
6th Rolfs Rejects 3=

OVERALL LEADERBOARD

TOTALΒ  TEAM POINTS POINTS
1st Walker Floats 21+10+13+15 59
2nd Rolfs Team Gold 17+14+16+11 58
3rd Pats Lot 10+17+16+14 57
4th Heavy Weights 11+16+5+18 50
5th Assassins 9+15+12+6 42
6th Wooden Tops 9+3+13+3 28
7th Rolfs Rejects 7+8+2+3 20

As you can see its VERY close at the top now with only two matches remaining.

Well done to everyone that caught today as it was a very hard match indeed. Pete Arnold gets his picture in the banner as he is now the new Lake King, not sure 19lb 8oz will last too long though πŸ˜€

I have added the new 2011 Peg King board so everyone that caught in this match is now a peg king.

The next winter league match is on the 16th Jan.

Thanks for reading, Eddie, John and Si.

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