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The weather Gods are not kind to the anglers in todays match.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n After the two day Jinx match on Friday and Saturday hopes were high for a good attendance in todays match, but with the horrid weather the previous night with gale force winds unpegging tents on the grass, John tells me that on reflection these anglers decided to call it a day and go home leaving only\u00a08 anglers to brave 5 hours of endurance.<\/span><\/p>\n The weather today was a right mixture of everything, strong gusting wind, driving rain and to tease the anglers a glimpse of the sun for two minutes so a very difficult days fishing lay ahead for our\u00a08 brave souls. With the strong wind making fishing long near on impossible most of the anglers fished between 4 and 8 metres to give them the best possible chance of\u00a0bait presentation { so paste fishing was a non starter today }.<\/span><\/p>\n John also tells me that all the anglers were pegged in the big lake today which was a shame as the small lake was black with carp feeding on the fly hatch rising to the surface, and with the lake rising over the platforms during the match it was a good job that they all had wellies on.<\/span><\/p>\n In first place for a change was lake owner John Bennett on flyer peg 8 but not when the wind is blasting through the gap so John opted on fishing two lines the first was a 4 metre line straight out in front and the second towards the bush to his left at 5 metres. John fished both lines on the deck using both soft pellet and meat as hook bait and feeding 4mm pellet which kept the bites coming until the sun came out then it went dead. John had the majority of his carp early in the match and these\u00a0included fish to 17lb in his final weight of 169-04 { well done John }.<\/span><\/p>\n