Hi all

Well today arrived and hopes were high that some good fish would get caught as in practice for some up to 48 carp were caught in a single sitting by “Hamper John” Alf Norgrove had had 5-6 nice carp as well and some smaller stamp, and Semi Retired “Worms” had bagged 14 carp as well last Tuesday all from various pegs.

So with the whole pool today we had a bit of room, but as always the angling pressure meant that this fished harder than any other match this season…..

Sorted

At brekky I was presented with not 1 x dummy but 2 x dummys one of which was a sweet one – so here I was on the river bank ready for the start of the match! The pool is a lovely looking lake and you cant see many other anglers from many pegs, the saving grace this week was i never had to look at

Mick “No Barrows “ Fizz so for a start it was looking good

I could only see “The Chimp” Denny, and Rumbold and down the bank Gaz the Spod and just about Poncey the other side of him

As stated it fished very very hard but out in front with peg 20 with 26Lb odd was Denny “The Chimp” who caught 3-4 carp on mini boilie across on tip and then came shorter on 2+3 pole

I think fishing corn over pellet for another 4-5 carp and a few skimmers. This was a well fought win and has started getting his club season back on track!  In 2nd place was our resident “TONTO” Alf Norgrove who caught 3-4 fish from peg 3 short walk including one right old lump for 19Lb 3ozs and a very welcome payout Well Done!

In 3rd Place was HMP Holloway peg 14 who caught most of his fish late (4 in last half hour) at about 10mtrs on the pole on meat with 18lb 9ozs 4th place was John Hodson Peg 35 who hooked a fish before the whistle, and I watched him land the right lump 7-8lb+ after “Fergie time” giving him  a frame and 16lb 8ozs

The sections were interesting with 1st section last peg in it was none other than Gaz “The Spod” on Peg 18 who weighed in 16lb 1.5!!! He caught on the waggler shallow and the tip and I am sat here shaking my head truly amazed as how someone caught when every time I looked down bank he was stood 10 yards back from his peg just sorting this lot out on his reel and top of his rod , Not only this but he caught another carp and promptly lobbed it back in the drink!!! Proper Environmentalist our Gazza!!!

Well Done Gaz a Top Result as he does gets some stick from us all hehehehee

The 2nd section was won by the other form angler Brian Dennehay on peg 23 other side of the tree to me with just half ounce behind Gazza and 16lb 1ozs

Brian caught 6 carp and lost a few carp as well on a very tricky weedbed that the fish do more laps round than Lewis Hamilton…… Well Done Brian!!!

For those that dont know Brian fished a match last week and Dennehay style drew the Golden peg and caught 10lb odd and walked off with £150 winnings

So at 15Lb a 1lb that aint a bad days graft for anyone hehehehehe

TBF Match

So that brings me onto my day which went downhill after the first rashers of bacon….

I caught one first chuck on tip and meat I thought we are gonna catch a few today, queue 2 hours then of not a bite then another small carp.

I tried mugging some of the fish and they never looked like taking a bait so i came down edge and caught a foul hooked decent one and just two more bites

yielding another carp about  4lb hardly edge munters…..  weighed 12lb 8ozs

They werent taking pellet and I was too lazy to knock up another groundbait mix as I knew damn well my pellet based one was wrong, 7th was not a disaster considering but I know damn well I left fish in the peg as I always evaluate what I could have done different.

Overall I got out what I deserved which was NOTHING LOL and to top it all I got chippied by the next best thing to the Kray Twins in the “Dennehays Six Finger Clan”

My new Sponsor is youngs – battered both sides!

However some people really struggled including a certain person that won both the opening matches of 2016 Ben “The Student” so this must be his new catchphrase,

Lastly I also have it on good Authority that after 2 hours in of the match, regular expletives were being uttered by someone- however due to litigation I cannot say who……

So they shall remain nameless but they may well have been other side of “The Spod” and not quite as far as HMP Holloway and he has ingrowing hairs on his head , Rumour has it I should have took one of my dummy’s back for this aforementioned person that was given to me this morning – wooohoooo  If at a loss for what to do7 items here, can you do 8?

Rumbold said he was going to the pub this week, but I think he must of meant in Brum as unless he went a different one close by I never saw him

Lastly next Sunday 10th July I am looking to sort a knock up somewhere?

Please let me know if your coming by Monday Night ideally, so I can try and sort a venue out: Woodlands or Daisys or Arden Lakes maybe?

Initial thoughts from the pub

• TBF – Yes!
• The Chimp – Yes!
• Mick No Barrow – Yes!
• Hamper John – Yes!
• Alf Norgrove – Yes!
• HMP Holloway – Most probably!
• Worms – Checking his calendar?
• Alan Sadler – checking his saddle sore cheeks….
• Roy Ravenhill – Looking into it?
• Mick the Fish?
• Neil Lurpak?

If we can get 10 we got more flexibility, if 7-8 we will still find somewhere anyways

TBF