Simon

The start of a new year and the start of a new JINX Series. This year Malc was running a warm up for the series (Hardly a WARM up) in the form of a 2 dayer. Malc was unable to attend the first match due to having to work Friday morning and the JINX mob descended on the car park and started unloading their gear. With all the hello’s done with we decided to get on with the draw as the dark clouds were looming over the lake and nobody likes to set up in the rain.

As it was only 2 days all the pegs were in the bag for a random draw both days as you couldn’t fish a different section each day. Fishing was from 12pm-6pm so everyone had plenty of time to set up. Once everyone was set up the wind dropped and the heavens opened up.

John Bennett starting the match with his new toy.

Within the first 5 minutes Neil Riddy on peg 34 was in to his second fish and I was just landing my first fish on peg 9. Mat on peg 32 had hooked and lost a carp too. Due to the nasty weather I never got a chance to go and take any pictures like normal and was taking much notice of anything other than trying to stay dry.

The rain continued for the whole match so there was not much banter on the day. Jinx virgin Dave Wall on peg 16 had been catching through out the match from the right hand side as had Nick Williams on peg 19 catching off the bush by the boat. Gem ‘THE MINX’ on peg 26 had not been having a good day and had only managed 1 roach much to the delight of the other 18 anglers, myself included

As soon as the match was over the rain stopped and the sun came out for a short while. At least we could do the weigh in in the dry. Here is the tale of the scales….

Results. Day 1.

Day Points

Day 2.

We all woke up to the sound of strong gust of wind blasting the lake. The wind had done a total 180° and was now blowing from the little lake towards peg 19 and 21. Most people had been to the harvester for a breakfast and a warm up before the match.

With everyone ready for the draw we again got the draw under-way early so everyone could have some extra time to set up. Malc had turned up today to fish instead of Gem who was stick tucked up in the caravan in the warm. It was spitting with rain and extremely windy.

Much the same as yesterday there was not much banter as it was horrid conditions again and everyone was either to cold or could not hear anyone else as the wind was battering the anglers.

A section was a bit of a crazy section today as Dave Collier and Kev Loveland (both in A section) had decided not to fish due to the weather which left peg 6 and 39 out as well as 37. So Mat who had draw peg 3 had a nice day’s pleasure fishing with the nearest person to him being who ever was driving past on the M40 Peter Morton who was on peg 3 yesterday had draw the complete opposite and was sitting on peg 19 today with the full force of the wind blasting his face.

Most people today started on the bomb and feeder as the wind was blowing poles all over the place. The Odd fish was coming out. Malc fishing on peg 25 then made his first visit of the day to his weigh station with a 21lb 8oz common caught on the past by the bush. Picture below….

Simon Watkins on peg 30 had put the information John B gave him to good use and had started catching a good run of 14lb plus fish and was making regular visits to the weigh station. He was using a special Maver telescopic topkit Unknown to him, Maver topkits for his pole are not telescopic and we pointed out to his that they were in fact put over joints, small error but he was still landing the fish on them. Also doing well was Paul Roberts on peg 32 chucking the feeder down by peg 33, he was getting a good run of fish through out the match.

Mat all on his own was in fact doing a great job of catching after his miserable day on peg 32 and was putting together a good weight for second on the day. Mugger Morton on peg 19 was fishing to the boat and was storming along despite stopping and going for a walk for half an hour he managed to win on the day which ultimately contributed to his Overall win of the 2 days.

Sorry for the lack of pictures, here are the results for the final day…

Day 2 Results

Final Points (weight Countback on Ties)

Not many pictures taken due to the very poor weather, but here is one of Malc with a 21-8 common caught from peg 25 on paste.

Malc Doyle. 21lb 8 oz. Well done Malc.

Well done to Peter Morton for the overall win and also taking Peg king for peg 19.

Some of the Jinxster’s stayed over to fish the Open match today but I think most had had enough of the weather, but 8 others turned up to fish despite this weather…..