Sixteen anglers fished this years match which is not a bad attendance but at one stage I had 23 booked in so hopefully more of you will make the effort next year.
A brisk wind was blowing down the lake into pegs 14 to 18 which would
make presentation difficult, Kev pegged it in a way which would provide everyone with a decent peg and not to many sitting in the head wind.
At the start many different methods were being used, shallow, feeder, method feeder, straight lead and pole on the deck. The wind was making it difficult to fish shallow but I started on this method and got of to a steady start on peg 22, Lee sitting comfortably on peg 30 with a dead backer was having a few on the deck but elsewhere it was a quiet start.
From my position I could see Kev was starting to put a few together having switched from the feeder to fishing shallow but it looked like Lee was an early front runner fishing on the deck at 5m.
Other noted anglers were not doing that well, Roop on Peg 9, big T on 11, even bigger Andy G on 18 and Mick King on 29 were getting a few but slipping behind Lee, Ron and Kev.
Coming towards the last hour most angles started to look at their inside lines but it was clear the big fish had not moved in as I could see no one with their elastic being stretched.
Andy on peg 18 really went for it putting handfuls of corn down the edge, unfortunately the fish did not show up until we started to weigh in as we could see the swirls of their large tails directly over the feed.
At the weigh in Martin Parker was the early leader form peg 3, he fished the straight lead and 8mill pellet for 77lb, Maca Campbell on peg 10 had a good day weighing in just over 80lb. Kev W (i think he was on either 14 or 15) took the lead weighing in 88lb, had he counted correctly he would have had 95lb as one of his nets went 57lb but was knocked back to 50lb. The next two were DNW's though they had some fish so then it was my turn.
I thought I had at least 80lb and was very pleased when the total came to 92lb which made me the front runner. I had a mixed bag fishing shallow, when they went I got my head down on the skimmers at 3m fishing corn, these fish averaged two or three to the pound which kept the weight ticking over. Once these fish start to average a pound they will play a very significant part in the match as they can be caught very quickly at close range.
I knew at this stage that Lee had won it as he thought he had around 130lb so my only thraet to 3rd place was Mick King who thought he had about 80lb.
Fortunately for me he weighed 68lb so I was second.
Lee weighed in a tremendous 142lb fishing cat meat on the deck over corn and hemp at 5m so for the second year running he won the match, well done mate, we will have to up our game next year.
1st Lee 142lb
2nd Ron 92lb
3rd Kev 88lb
Tight lines
Ron
Monday 11 July 2011
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