Maggotdrowning.com Pairs Weekend. 7th, 8th Aug 2010

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.

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

Saturday

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

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 😀

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 😀 😆

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

Position	Peg	Angler (forum name)	Weight
1st	25	Malc(The Jinx)Doyle	211lbs 00ozs
2nd	3	Tony(Spamwham)Roberts	197lbs 08ozs
3rd	17	Simon(SimpleSimon)Mound	155lbs 12ozs
4th	29	Steve Wilson	113lbs 12ozs
5th	39	Jon(Hatchye)Hatch	100lbs 12ozs
6th	5	Geoff(GeoffP)Palmer	93lbs 08ozs
7th	8	AlexMalman	85lbs 00ozs
8th	31	Marcus(Budgie65)Burgess	84lbs 04ozs
9th	30	Ant(Antwood)Haywood	82lbs 08ozs
10th	20	Steve(Steak)Akal	77lbs 12ozs
11th	23	Terry(Wily Coyote)Goff	75lbs 08ozs
12th	32	Clive Pritchard	74lbs 12ozs
13th=	4	Paul(Nomorelongwalks)East	65lbs 08ozs
13th=	15	Richard(tricky)East	65lbs 08ozs
15th	13	Peter(Mugger)Morton	64lbs 08ozs
16th	9	Mick(The Chippy)Pearson	63lbs 12ozs
17th	18	Colin(The Pike)Sharrard	62lbs 12ozs
18th	14	Dave(The Fish)Collier	56lbs 00ozs
19th	16	Gaz Malman	54lbs 08ozs
20th	34	Mitch(mitch-fish)Auger	51lbs 08ozs
21st	28	Keith(Keith74)Powell	49lbs 04ozs
22nd	36	Dave Moore	48lbs 12ozs
23rd	7	Scott(methodgob)Weston	47lbs 12ozs
24th	1	Gemma(Jammy1)Doyle	45lbs 04ozs
25th	22	Dai(Dai Fish)Thomas	36lbs 08ozs
26th=	38	Jonathan(jonny_b1989)Broadbent	33lbs 08ozs
26th=	19	Tom(tommodiesel)Little	33lbs 08ozs
28th	26	Chris(cybermanc)Ellis	23lbs 08ozs
29th	11	Dave(Webbo)Webster	22lbs 08ozs
30th	10	Paul(tommyturtle001)Thompson	13lbs 12ozs

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.

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

Position	Peg	Angler (forum name)	Weight
1st	7	Chris(cybermanc)Ellis	111lbs 00ozs
2nd	26	Tony(Spamwham)Roberts	90lbs 04ozs
3rd	14	Clive Pritchard	60lbs 00ozs
4th	39	Gaz Malman	56lbs 04ozs
5th	5	AlexMalman	55lbs 08ozs
6th	8	Gemma(Jammy1)Doyle	50lbs 08ozs
7th	3	Geoff(GeoffP)Palmer	49lbs 08ozs
8th	18	Colin(The Pike)Sharrard	49lbs 04ozs
9th	36	Jonathan(jonny_b1989)Broadbent	49lbs 00ozs
10th	4	Dave(Webbo)Webster	42lbs 08ozs
11th=	20	Steve Wilson	42lbs 04ozs
11th=	32	Jon(Hatchye)Hatch	42lbs 04ozs
11th=	17	Paul(tommyturtle001)Thompson	42lbs 04ozs
14th	9	Dave(The Fish)Collier	39lbs 12ozs
15th	38	Ant(Antwood)Haywood	38lbs 08ozs
16th	25	Keith(Keith74)Powell	38lbs 00ozs
17th	34	Malc(The Jinx)Doyle	37lbs 04ozs
18th	16	Simon(SimpleSimon)Mound	34lbs 08ozs
19th	29	Terry(Wily Coyote)Goff	30lbs 08ozs
20th	23	Steve(Steak)Akal	29lbs 00ozs
21st	30	Paul(Nomorelongwalks)East	20lbs 00ozs
22nd	10	Dave Moore	18lbs 12ozs
23rd	19	Richard(tricky)East	18lbs 08ozs
24th	1	Peter(Mugger)Morton	13lbs 04ozs
25th	13	Scott(methodgob)Weston	10lbs 00ozs
26th	11	Mitch(mitch-fish)Auger	8lbs 12ozs
27th	30	Tom(tommodiesel)Little	8lbs 08ozs
28th	28	Mick(The Chippy)Pearson	6lbs 08ozs
29th=	22	Marcus(Budgie65)Burgess	DNW
29th=	15	Dai(Dai Fish)Thomas	DNW

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.

Pairs Results

Position	Pairs	Saturday	Sunday	Total
1st	Geoff(GeoffP)Palmer  &  Tony(Spamwham)Roberts	25/29=54	24/29=53	107
2nd	Ant(Antwood)Haywood  &  Steve Wilson	22/27=49	16/20=36	85
3rd	Malc(The Jinx)Doyle  &  Gaz Malman	30/12=42	14/27= 41	83
4th	Gemma(Jammy1)Doyle  &  Clive Pritchard	7/19=26	25/28=53	79
5th	Jonathan(jonny_b1989)Broadbent  &  Jon(Hatchye)Hatch	5/26=31	22/20= 42	73
6th	Marcus(Budgie65)Burgess  &  Colin(The Pike)Sharrard	23/14=37	1/23=24	61
7th=	Simon(SimpleSimon)Mound  &  Dave Moore	28/ 9=37	13/ 9 =22	59
7th=	AlexMalman  &  Tom(tommodiesel)Little	24/ 5=29	26/ 4= 30	59
9th	Keith(Keith74)Powell  &  Chris(cybermanc)Ellis	10/  3=13	15/30=45	58
10th=	Paul(Nomorelongwalks)East  &  Dave(Webbo)Webster	18/  2=20	10/21= 31	51
10th=	Dave(The Fish)Collier  &  Paul(tommyturtle001)Thompson	13/  1=14	17/20=37	51
12th	Terry(Wily Coyote)Goff  &  Mick(The Chippy)Pearson	20/15=35	12/ 3= 15	50
13th	Richard(tricky)East  &  Peter(Mugger)Morton	18/16=34	8/  7=15	49
14th	Steve(Steak)Akal  &  Dai(Dai Fish)Thomas	21/ 6=27	11/  1=12	39
15th	Mitch(mitch-fish)Auger  &  Scott(methodgob)Weston	11/  8=19	5/ 6=11	30

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

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

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.