Talk Angling Rive T Match. Thurs 9th 2010

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.

Larry and Rive T sorting out the pegging and monies

Justin making some hooklengths

Anglers gathering for the draw on a sunny morning

Mugger catching up with a blast from the past.. Mark C and Roysty

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.

Roysty on peg 30

Mark C on peg 28

Rive T one peg 26

Jay 411 on peg 24

Larry on peg 18

Silverfish on form peg 16

Markco on peg 14

Steve 123 on peg 13

20 meter Bob on peg 10

The Brick on peg 9

Mugger on peg 8

Justin on Peg 7

Rive's Mate on peg 6

Flexi Mo on peg 4

Budgie (TA) on peg 2

Mo M on peg 40

Froggy on peg 38

Cov Blaze on peg 34

My peg. Peg 32

Pauline doing a bit of gardening

Eddie keeping a watch over the anglers

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.

The Brick tempting the fish out from the bush

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.

Rive T with a weigher

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

Larry sorting the results out, well trying too....

Rive T sorting the money out

Record breaking payout time.. The Longest 😀

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

Overall Winner. 20 Meter Bob

2nd Overall. The Brick

3rd Overall. Jay 411

Section Winner. Peter 'mugger' Morton

Section winner. Froogy

Section Winner. Silverfish.

Mugger looking smug and Justin nursing his 'Baggers Elbo'

John and Pauline relax

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.