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Red Leader, Match organiser and Maggotdrowing.com owner. Dave Webster

The weekend had arrived for the annual maggotdrowing.com pairs match. Forum members from the site do battle for bragging rights and a nice trophy for the cabinet. Trophies for this years match were organised by Peter Morton as Dave was having problems getting hold of them.

The Trophies for the lucky winners

Some of the anglers were already at the lake having fished the match yesterday but it wasn’t long before everyone arrived for the draw. Fishing today was from 2pm-7pm

People arriving for the Draw

Saturday

While people were setting up Crystal and Liam  Doyle went round and collected people’s guesses on ‘Guess the Weight’ competition.

Liam and Crystal

The fishing today was quite patchy with people catching fish but certain pegs were doing better than others. Malc Doyle in the big lake on peg 25 was catching plenty of fish and making regular trips to the weight station fishing short. I was having regular fish fishing the feeder and short pole lines from peg 17. Steve Wilson on peg 29 was putting a few fish together also. Steve Akal fishing peg 20 was doing a fine job of taking the peg king title.

Down in the little lake only 2 pegs were heading towards a ton weight today. Tony Roberts on peg 3 was blasting past Eddies peg king weight and heading towards a double ton and Jon Hatch on peg 39 was nearing the ton but it was to be some silver fish that made it possible

Nearly a Double but still a new Peg King. Tony Roberts

Jon Hatch on peg 39, praise to the silvers

Clive Pritchard looks to be camped on peg 32

Two club angler appeared at the lake in preparation of their match to have a look round. They arrived just as Steve Wilson was weighing in a 21lb carp. They went over to have a look and were astounded with the size of the fish. They went back over to John and said..

“That bloke just had a 21lb’er and never even smiled or blinked”

“Do many poles get broke here then with fish that big ?”

“Not really” John replied.

Just then a thunderous “CRACK, BANG” went out round the lake. Mitch Auger fishing on peg 34 had broke a top kit. This was followed by Clive on peg 32 breaking a section trying to get a fish from behind the bush and to top it off Malc also broke a topkit too.

The blokes then went to the tackle table and promptly brought some stronger elastic

A special mention now to Dave Webster who’s new method that had taken the the lake apart yesterday found out that it only works on peg 24 He was on peg 11 today and the ‘Feederless Feeder’ had failed to produce for him. Fine tuning needed some might say

Dave Webster. Pioneer of the 'feederless feeder'

With the match over it was clear that Malc had won with a cracking performance from peg 25. Tony was admitting to a large ton but secretly hoping for the double. On to the weigh in and the results for Saturday.

Saturday Results

The top weights for the day were quite spread out but the lower weights were quite close. Poor Tony was just one fish away from the magical double ton but had taken the peg king title from fellow blogger Eddie Taylor-Green

With most people staying at the lake everyone settled in for the night with a BBQ and beer.

Match tactics talk

Not everyone liked the camera

Dave missing his £1 coin

Almost the whole Doyle Clan

Lakeside Entertainment

Are you pleased with your 20lb plus Steve ??

Sunday

Today the draw was going to be a lot earlier to allow people that have travelled a long way to get home. Fishing today was from 11am-4pm, not normally a very productive time to fish at the lake.

After the first hour of the match it was clear that the fishing today was going to very hard indeed. The sun was blazing and the carp were cruising around the top layers of the lake not much interested in getting their heads down and feeding.

The only person heading towards a ton weight today was Chris on peg 7 fishing the feeder to the back of the lilies. Tony fishing peg 26 today was also catching quite well. Another 20lb plus carp from peg 25 today too, this time caught by Keith fishing the same lines that Malc had fished the day before.

4pm came round very quickly and people were saying their swims had just started to produce some fish. Chris had indeed caught a ton weight and was the only one today to do so.

Sunday Results

With the match over and the weigh in complete Dave went off to sort out the final positions for the pairs results, what this weekend is all about.

Everyone gathering for the results

Pairs Results

Tony and Geoff had managed a fine win with Tony finishing second overall on both days. Well done Gents

Tony Roberts and Geoff Palmer, 2010 Pairs Champions.

Day one Winner, Malc Doyle

Day Two Winner, Chris Ellis. Also his first ever Match Win. Well done

Tony Roberts, Second on both days.

Tubertini had kindly donated goody bags for all the anglers fishing the weekend.

Dave handing out the Tubertini goody bags

Big thanks to Dave for arranging the weekend. It was good fun again. Also thanks to everyone for keeping the place clean and tidy.

Thanks to Peter Morton for sorting out the results also

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.