Pre Pairs Weekend Invitational Match.6th Aug 2010

Dave Collier had booked the lake for a pre Maggotdrowing pairs weekend match. He invited some friends and Jinx members. This was to be a warm up match in preparation for the annual 2 day Maggotdrowning.com pairs weekend. This also allowed those attending to get their tents pitched and settled in.

The draw was at 12.30 and fishing was going to be 2.15 -7.15pm. Me, Gem and Budgie arrived late thanks to the traffic on the M40 so Pauline drew our pegs for us and what a drawing hand she has. Gem was on peg 9, I was on peg 26 and Budgie was on not so much of a good peg, Peg 40. As we arrived people were already setting up. We unloaded the car and got everything in to the tent and headed off to set up with only about 30 minutes to go before the all in was honked by Dave on his Gillette horn 😀

Geoff Palmer on peg 10 was the first person to catch a fish just a couple of minutes after the all-in. People were catching over the big lake and Dave Webster on peg 24 was on the feederless Feeder (as he call’s it) which is basically a pellet cone. He was having plenty of action and was taking an early lead in the big lake.

Clive had drawn peg 32 again after having it on the last Jinx match. He was not impressed to say the least as it was not fishing to its normal standards and he was breaking his pole in the process of getting out the carp from behind the bush.

I had been fishing the feeder for the first 15 minutes while my other lines were fed. I had not set up the pole as I had not had time. John Bennett came round and said he thought the fish would feed shallow, with that said I set up a shallow rig and had a go. It resulted in one fish a 16lb’er 🙂

At this point Dave was storming ahead in the big lake followed by Steve up the corner on peg 22. Ant Haywood over on peg 18 was also catching a few. In the little lake Malc on peg 38 was catching some big un’s and was the only person really catching. Gem was on peg 9 again and having a steady run of fish but struggling to keep the fish out of the left and right bushes.

I was fed up of watching Dave’s rod tip going round so I fed my 5 meter line and went for a walk with the camera.

Getting back round to my peg I saw a familiar sight. Dave Webster on peg 24 in to another carp 😀

Getting back to my peg I set up the rig for the 5 meter line and went in with a banded pellet, fish on right away and that was the story for the rest of the match for me. A nice steady run of fish. Like everyone else I was also suffering from loosing foul hooked fish 🙁

On the all out Hooter I thought Dave had managed the win but thought I would be close behind him. Word was the little lake had fished poorly and Malc had won that section.  On to the weigh in.

Going round the lake as usual from peg 34 it was clear to see that the little lake had indeed fished hard with Malc catching the most weight with the help of some big fish which have been showing around the lake again. Everyone was eager to see what Gem had done on peg 9 as a lot of people had struggled.

Gem put 52lb on the scales, from that point on people where just hoping not to get Minxed. Ant Heywood on peg 18 put the first ton weight on the board with 109 followed by another from peg 22 fished by Steve Akal. Next was Dave ‘Feederless Feeder’ Webster on peg 24, he weighed in 136lb and was looking good for the win until we weighed in my fish, Just one fish separated us. I put 144lb on the scales to take the win for the day. I was surprised as I thought I had about 120lb but have never been good at guestimates 😀 It was a good battle Dave thank you.

Results…

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Simon Mound	26	144-8
2	Dave Webster	24	136-4
3	Ant Haywood	18	109-4
4	Steve Akal	22	108-8
5	Malc Doyle	38	73-12
6	Peter Morton	28	62-0
7	Dai Thomas	2	56-4
8	Gem Doyle	9	52-12
9	Clive Pritchard	32	46-0
10	Methodgob	8	44-4
11	Cybermanc	13	42-4
12	Geoff Palmer	10	37-4
13	Mick The Chippy	34	33-8
14	Dave Collier	14	31-0
15	Terry Goff	7	29-12
16	Dave Moore	6	26-4
17	Chris Withall	4	19-8
18	Marcus Burgess	40	DNW
18	Tommodiesel	30	DNW

Thanks to Dave Collier for running the match.

After the match everyone settled around the BBQ to discuss the days fishing.

Saturday and Sunday’s Reports to come. Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.