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Talk Angling Forums were visiting the lake today, the match was been organised by Larry Teepot and Rive T. The draw was supposed to be at 9.30am but due to Larry taking a tour of Oxford it was delayed until 10.30. Fishing was then changed to 12-5pm.

I got to the lake nice and early having secured a last minute slot for the match as I had the day off work, Thanks Larry.

The draw was soon done and everyone headed off to their pegs for the day. I had drawn peg 32 and still had rigs made up for that peg so I was set up by 11am which left an hour to go and take some pictures.

The match was started at 12 by John ringing the bell and first angler that I could see in to a fish was Justin on peg 7. He had not even fed anything at 16 meters and foul hooked a fish. In which time I had lost a fish and hooked and landed a 17lb’er. Not a bad way to started the match.

Throughout the rest of the match Justin continued to suffer from fouled fish problems. Mugger was struggling for a bite until he went down the left hand bush and managed to finally find the fish but they came in a slow run. I had had a tremendous start but had lost the fish on the 7 meter line and all the fish from the two bush lines were foul hooked.

The Brick over on peg 9 was putting together a great weight fishing from his right hand bush line.

20 Meter bob was snaring fish fishing shallow and mugging the odd fish from the surface scum that had gathered in front of his peg. He was building a good weight up with a lot of big fish and making regular visits to the weigh station.

Down in the little lake peg 4 was really struggling which is quite shocking. Pegs 38 and 40 were having a good run of fish. Up in the big lake Rive T, Jay and Silverfish were putting a few in the nets.

Just minutes before the ringing of the bell to signal the All Out mugger on peg 8 hooked in to one last fish. It turned out that fish just put him in front of me by 4lb 🙁 TYPICAL MUGGER….

After a smooth weigh in todays winner was revealed and I had my revenge on Justin after his pee taking on Facebook all week, I didn’t give it him back as “What goes around comes around” in the world of fishing 😀

Results.

Position	Name	Peg	Weight
1	20 Meter Bob	10	187-8
2	The Brick	9	161-12
3	Jay 411	24	149-10
4	Silverfish	16	142-4
5	Froggy	38	126-8
6	Mo M	40	102-12
7	Larry Teepot	18	91-12
8	Peter Mugger	8	88-8
9	Simple Simon	32	84-0
10	Royst	30	82-12
11	Steve 123	13	80-12
12	Rive T	26	80-4
13	Budgie	2	52-12
14	Cov Blaze	34	46-4
15	Markco	14	43-4
16	Rives Mate	6	41-14
17	Justin Watkins	7	39-4
18	Mark C	28	28-12
19	Flexi Mo	4	15-0

After much confusion about the sections to be payed out the winner were sorted out….

Thanks Larry for another excellent well run match. It was a frustrating match for many but some good weights came from the lake at the end of the day.

Thanks for reading, Si and Eddie.