Hi all another match gone out the Adroit AC calendar fished in glorious sunshine at Manor Farm. Prior to the week there had been a festival on and weights had been excellent up until the Friday with plenty of tonne up weights from all over the lake but bear in mind there had only ever been 11 on the lake so this gives a better chance at the trophy weights.

The writing had been on the wall when just 60lb won the Saturday match with only 8 fishing it!

A superb turnout of 23 fished this match and only the jester from Essex AKA “Forest” Harper even though released from his Bird on day release could not turn down a Beano in Brum or rely on his self preservation “STOP BOOZING” staring at the porcelain bug switch……..

At the start prior to the draw the club voted to remember our friend “John Lester” RIP by naming a trophy after him for our 10^th Club Match that is then awarded each year.

This can be called the John Lester Memorial Cup and we will get it all engraved up and this years match will be fished at Tunnel Barn Farm Extension Pool. Mick if you have her telephone number it might be worth just letting his wife know this is what we are planning to do so she can take comfort that John is still very much in our thoughts.

It was the singles knock out this match yesterday and the aim to get 16 anglers down to 8 anglers.

The draw was duly done and right smack bang on the 1^st rope was Drawbag Denny with a big beaming smile as he had seen the results in the week and pegs 2-6 had produced plenty of tonnes.

12 down one side and 11 pegs down the other side with the ends completely taken out to avoid crossed lines, with anglers here being restricted to only fishing shorter poles and very short chucks.

To say it started off slowly was an understatement but gradually a few fish were being caught especially from The Don Saddle sore Sadler catching on the Pellet Wag and End Peg Roy (1 peg out) nicking one shallow on the pole.

Out in front come the final whistle was Alan Sadler peg 19 with an excellent weight of 72lb for 23 anglers fishing on the lake all on Pellet Waggler and 6mm banded pellet chucking a decent chuck.

That’s £50 winnings towards a new gel seat…….

In 2^nd place was myself on peg 12 and I had 2 skimbobs on tip for 1lb in first hour and then I tried the Pellet Waggler and couldn’t buy a bite of any description. Out to 14.5mtrs and started on the deck and eventually had my first 2Lb carp 1 hour 40mins into match and then 1 other carp on deck but then started catching a few shallow carp (decent fish) on 6mm pellet last few hours for 63.2lbs.

At one point I worried “The Don” but he snared about 6 carp last hour for a well deserved win!

In 3^rd place was the consistent Neil “Lurpak” on peg 13 with 35.4lbs he fished 13mtr pole on Worm for a start catching some skimbobs and odd carp but a change to pellet caught him the bulk of his fish later on. Neil is up near the top of the table and is pretty consistent after 3 rounds.

In 4^th place on Peg 7 was “Rumbold” Mick Edwards again Mr Consistent with 5-6 carp on pole long for 32.5lbs fish and another frame to go with his first two matches. I couldn’t see what he had on the hook and as he’s scared of his faggots getting cold and shoots straight off on a Sunday and don’t go to the pub to divulge his tactics J

The 1^st section was won by the other half of the Gruesome Twosome 😉  Mick “The Fish” Horton from peg 10 with 22.75Lbs  and he caught on the deck on the pole and had some carp one which was a good un.

The 2^nd section was edged by Roy peg 20 fishing Pole shallow with 29.1lbs from quite a few other 20Lb+ weights off that side, with a few lost fish costing him the chance of a place in the frame.

The banter was a bit subdued as for one I had a headache that kicked in about 11-1pm and everyone I think was concentrating hard….

Ben “The Student” Taylor came crashing down after his 2 x 1^st places in the previous matches and not only did his DAD batter him into submission (Rob did a Jig) but he also fell just 1Lb short of knocking Denny out the singles as well………..OUUUUUUUUCH!

Mick “No Barrow” Drew rumour has it I also hear was fishing not 1 x Pole Roller, not 2 x Pole Rollers, But 3 x Pole Rollers!!! and it looked like a Jaguar plant line by all accounts with all the hardware and technology around for his new shiny Daiwa Tournament pole that was rolling like a fiddlers elbow.

This brings me onto “The Chimp” who fully deserves a mention having come down to me prior to the match with a great smile on his fizz smug as you need gloating as in previous years the central area of the lake has performed best or in particular the pegs around the first rope for some reason?

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To top it all off he was also on the scales committee and returned a 16^th in match with Catmeat Causer duffing him up off the next peg and only a late carp for Denny making it look more respectable hehehehe

The drive home was in silence I hear on the grapevine….

SINGLES KNOCK OUT RESULTS

• “End Peg” Roy Ravenhill beat “Poncey” Paul Slater
• Denny “The Chimp” beat “Student” Ben Taylor
• “TBF” beat “Worms” Ivison
• Darren “Semi Pro”Mills beat “Taff” Tony Bearcroft
• Alan “The Don” Sadler beat “Rumbold” Mick Edwards
• “Lurpak” Neil Butterworth beat Gavin Young
• Mick “No Barrow” Drew beat “Alf” Norgrove
• Brian Dennahay beat Hamper John Hodson

The Don for some reason made the pub this week it CANNOT be linked to his mighty performance and praise being slung around? or it maybe linked to his new gel seat !

PS there is a knock up this Sunday 22^nd May on a venue to be confirmed and so far there are:-

TBF/Denny/Pete N/Mick Drew/John Hodson/Robin Ivison/Mick Horton/Neil Buterworth – 8

Anyone else wants to come along let me know by Tuesday night please so I can get it booked up!

TBF