Today 11 anglers turned up for the open match, a few people had dropped out last minute so this was more of a knock up match. At the draw John Bennett drew first for a change and held the peg in his hand until everyone else had drawn. Me and Marcus had drawn pegs 6 and 7 but also kept them in our hands. As everyone gave there peg numbers to Paul, John thought he was to be on either pegs 6 or 7 but was quite upset to find he actually had endpeg 26 in his hand 😀
Fishing today was from 1-45pm to 6-45pm. On the whistle Dave Whiteman on peg 8 was right in to a fish, his bait had not even his the bottom and the float buried. Chris Lovelock fishing from peg 32 had a bit of a nightmare breaking his topkit. He hooked a fish behind the bush which broke his pole, unknown to him his topkit had wedged under the platform on peg 33. He went round and picked it up and the fish was still on, as he lifted it up it broke again and he lost the fish 🙁
Endpegs 4 and 26 were producing a steady run of fish for Jeff on peg 4 and John on peg 26 but John on peg 16 who was fishing the grass to his right was flying along making regular visits to the weigh station. Marcus on peg 6 had been putting a few fish in the net also fishing over by peg 5 platform and Paul Jay on 30 was having a few fishing at 8 meters.
Poor Justin fishing on peg 9 was having a right nightmare with fish regularly taking him in the bush, having just lost a rig in the bush he tied a new rig and dropped it in only to have that one go in the bush too. Mark on peg 18 was fishing to the newly trimmed bush, Paul Jay and John had been round doing a bit of bush maintenance before the match.
I had a nice time fishing on peg 7 for the first time ever. Fishing was hard with lots of liners and foul hooked fish on the feeder and only a skimmer and one carp coming from the 6 meter line. I did manage to snare a 17lb 12oz carp from the margin to my right. Both me and Dave we getting lots of liners fishing across to the opposite bank.
Paul Blew the whistle and news came round the lake that John Hague had 202lb on the board but was it good enough to win today.
Results.
| Position |
Name |
Peg |
Weight |
| 1 |
John Hague |
16 |
238-12 |
| 2 |
Jeff Edwards |
4 |
232-4 |
| 3 |
John Bennett |
26 |
217-8 |
| 4 |
Paul Jay |
30 |
136-0 |
| 5 |
Justin Watkins |
9 |
130-0 |
| 5 |
Marcus Burgess |
6 |
130-0 |
| 7 |
Mark Orchard |
18 |
106-0 |
| 8 |
Dave Whiteman |
8 |
98-8 |
| 9 |
Simon Mound |
7 |
77-4 |
| 10 |
Chris Lovelock |
32 |
46-4 |
| 11 |
Bill |
10 |
DNW |
Yes it was, Well done John. Another big weight 🙂 It was a close match for the top 3 in the end, Only one fish separated Jeff Edwards and John Hague.
Todays Winner, John Hague.
Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie….
