The second round of the winter league was fished at the lake today. With Walker floats team sitting at the top of the table would they manage another clean sweep and hang on to the top spot or did the lake have other ideas for them ??

With everyone at the lake on time John got the draw under-way early to allow everyone some extra time to set up. The draw format today was whoever won A section drew first for their peg in B section and so on down to last place getting what was left in the bag.

Today there was a cold wind blowing from peg 40 towards the big lake making a nice ripple on the water. It was cloudy all day and we had a few spots of rain but nothing major.

Everyone drew their pegs and set off to set up. How the lake would fish was anyone’s guess 😀

Pat Pritchard signalled the all in with a hooter that sounded like a strangled donkey 😀

I was fishing on peg 2 which everyone kindly left in the bag for me today and hoping to have a bit more than 8oz. It was not long before I saw the first carp being caught by Liam over on peg 34, he was fishing the tip. I was next to catch, a small 4oz perch which I was chuffed with as it was half my last matches weight and meant I avoided the DNW.

Jon Walker over on 37 was struggling but Jon normally gets the carp going so I was expecting him to start catching but it never happened for him this week 😯 Poor Gary Haisman on peg 4 was much the same and had managed to hook a carp first drop on his long line but as he shipped back it came off. Geoff On peg 40 had managed to foul hook a perch whilst reeling in his feeder 😀

Phil Powell on peg 6 was fishing 16 meters on the bloodworm and joker and putting a nice net of silvers together before he had something stealing his fish….

The pike lead him on a merry dance around his and Malc’s pegs. Malc help out when the pike went round the back of his platform by pushing it back out in to the lake with his landing net 😀 This was not the only pike to put in an appearance today, Clive Pritchard on peg 28 also caught a 10lb 8oz pike which fell to double maggot on the bomb.

In the last 2 hours the big lake started to produce some fish, Roving reporter Marcus Burgess fishing from peg 9 was keeping me up to date with who was catching which was keeping him busy as he was not catching much unfortunately.

The lake fished hard overall but least different people caught some fish this week instead of watching other catching 😀

As for my match, I managed 5 carp this week fishing corn in to the corner on the pole and bomb rod which was a massive relief. I had to laugh when Malc came walking past me and said he was off to unhook his hook from the rope by the lilies on peg 34 after casting a little to far 😀

The results tell the rest of the story.

Results.

	A Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Liam Bough	34	47-12	Pats Lot
2nd	Simon Mound	2	37-8	Assassins
3rd	Malc Doyle	7	28-0	Rolfs Rejects
4th	Phil Powell	6	26-0	Rolfs Team Gold
5th	Jon Walker	37	0-4	Walker Floats
6th	Geoff Palmer	40	0-1	Heavy Weights
	Gary Haisman	4	DNW	Wooden Tops

	B Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Ernie Maylon	13	50-4	Heavy Weights
2nd	Clive Pritchard	28	23-12	Assassins
3rd	John Bennett	8	19-8	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Pat Pritchard	32	12-6	Pats Lot
5th	Steve Waters	30	10-0	Walker Floats
6th	Marcus Burgess	9	2-8	Rolfs Rejects
7th	Frank Hardie	10	0-4	Wooden Tops

	C Section	Peg	Weight	Team
1st	Steve Palmer	21	91-0	Heavy Weights
2nd	Pete Arnold	18	72-0	Pats Lot
3rd	Mick Lane	24	68-8	Rolfs Team Gold
4th	Derek Hammond	23	55-12	Walker Floats
5th	Steve Wilson	16	39-0	Assassins
6th	Paul Jay	14	29-4	Wooden Tops
7th	Dai Thomas	26	22-8	Rolfs Rejects

	DAY TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Pats Lot	17
2nd	Heavy Weights	16
3rd	Assassins	15
4th	Rolfs Team Gold	14
5th=	Walker Floats	10
5th=	Rolfs Rejects	8
7th	Wooden Tops	3

OVERALL LEADER BOARD

	TOTAL  TEAM POINTS	POINTS
1st	Rolfs Team Gold	17+14	31=
1st	Walker Floats	21+10	31=
2nd	Heavy Weights	11+16	27=
2nd	Pats Lot	10+17	27=
5th	Assassins	9+15	24
6th	Rolfs Rejects	7+8	15
7th	Wooden Tops	9+3	12

Pete Arnold was fishing instead of Dave Whiteman.

Top Silvers Weight went to Phil Powell With 26lb including his 12lb pike.

Top carp weight went to Steve Palmer with a cracking 91lb on a hard day at the lake.

Its tight at the top of the table and with 4 matches to go its all still to play for. Everyone switches sections again next match.

Next Saturdays Open match is a normal open where carp will count and there will be a separate pool for the silver fish. Please ring John to book in.

The next Winter League match is on the 5th December. 9.30 Draw again.

Thanks for reading, Eddie and Si.

One last picture which I got off Johns Phone today and was asked to put it on the blog…