Neil Riddy’s Club Match. Ospreys AC

11th April

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Today Rolfs Lake was host to a club match. 25 anglers were fishing. The wind was blowing across the big lake towards peg 19. The sun was trying to break through the clouds and it looked promising for a nice sunny day. Carp were seen to be topping all over the big lake so it looked like shallow might be a good way to attack…. or would it.

With the draw done and everyone setting up the sun broke through and black shadows could be seen swimming around the top end of the big lake.  One thing was for sure today and that was that the person that drew peg 20 would get on the peg kings board as its not been fished for a while. That person was Mark Gilbert, new peg king of peg 20. 😀

With the match under way and the fish still topping a lot of people tried targeting the fish by fishing shallow but at the start people were foul hooking fish and loosing them. Paul Jay on peg 23 was fishing the pellet waggler and was having a few but he was finding it hard firing his pellets out due to the wind blowing them back towards him 😀

After starting on the pole shallow fishing Mick Whitmore on peg 17 has also switched to the pellet waggler and was catching regularly and pulling the fish off Paul. Mick had the wind behind him and had no problem firing out his feed pellets. Mick was storming away in the big lake.

The story on the little lake was that it was not fishing as productive.  Tex on Peg 8 was catching a few and so was Adam on peg 34 (his home peg :P)

Back in the big lake Mick on peg 17 was still doing the damage on the pellet waggler. Paul Jay had switched to the bomb and was catching a few more fish. Simon on peg 15 had also managed to catch a few on the bomb.

The Results.

{I could not read Neil’s writing, so apologies for some missing second names, will add them soon}

11th April Results.

NAME	PEG	WEIGHT
Mick Whitmore	17	136-4
Paul Jay	23	58-8
Ian Millin	18	52-8
Tex Marshall	8	43-3
Adam Griffiths	34	41-12
Chris Lovelock	25	34-8
Neil Riddy	10	33-14
Andy Waterhouse	26	32-2
Simon Mound	15	30-8
Brian Richie	19	28-8
Kiran C	28	22-0
George Kay	14	18-8
Bill Lovelock	38	16-9
Mark Brown	22	15-0
Neil Fenner	2	13-8
Tony Taylor	31	13-8
Owen Glover	4	6-4
Ken Sawyer	9	5-9
Ian Simner	6	3-6
Robin Lett	40	2-5
Mark Gilbert	20	0-8
Steve P	7	0-4
Mark Orchard	32	DNW
Steve C	13	DNW
Mark Barratt	29	DNW

Thanks for the invite to fish the match. Great bunch of lads. If anyone wants all the pictures from today use the contact form to send me a message and leave you email address and I will send you a zip file with the pictures in.

Well done Mick, you fished well on quite a hard day.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.