This was a different venue that we don’t normally fish and there have been big weights coming from it from the “Open lads” and the potential for some quality fish. 20 anglers fished on the day.

A large café on site provided a good brekky first thing and then when the draw was to be made just prior to this Taff Tony presented Robin “Worms” Ivison with his new Halkon Hunt Rainstopper gear for the venue.

Match Section

Overall it fished well but with good sized fish it doesn’t take many to build a good weight and over the day almost 1000lbs of fish were caught but many more were lost which I will come onto later. 😉

With big fish comes “wise old fish” and within a short period many anglers were watching munters waving at you but getting them to take a bait with a hook in it proved to sort the men from the boys….

“edge dwellers” more akin to hooooorses!

Roy is having a purple patch to say the least and when margins are to be plundered he seems to have it squarely sussed! and he was the only angler to break the tonne and from peg 11 he slammed 124lbs-5ozs onto the scales for his 3rd match win of the season.

Can anyone stop this juggernaut from taking the individual crown ?

I think we all need to pull our fingers out but – Well done on the win Roy

2^nd place was Denny on end peg 37 and in fairness I feared he would make the most at the start when I found out where he had drew with a few spare pegs to his left. With the pressure around the lake and water levels down room helps and he could draw fish and he made no mistake for 90lb – 5ozs for comfortable runner up.

I am delighted that one of our newest members Mark “Irn Bru” Butterworth snatched 3^rd place from peg 33 weighing 80lb – 7ozs made up of 8 x munters which was a few on the tip and rest on pole.

I can see that he is going to be a consistent threat on the matches.

In 4^th place was non other than Neil “Lurpak” Butterworth his chip with 78lb 2ozs for another good performance and he was winding me up telling me he had only got 50lb knowing full well he was framing and sliding me down the places LOL

The 1^st section was won by default by “Hamper” John from peg 8 with 59lb-05ozs and the serial over practicer caught on the tip but couldn’t quite make the frame

The 2^nd section I managed to win from peg 36 with 71lb-08ozs on the pole, from a raft of other 50lb plus back up weights.

Now as people will know I am the soul of discretion and “Semi Pro” Daz Mills mentioned quite embarrassed that he had lost 14 Carp, so being as though I was told in confidence in a whisper I will not mention it……..

Especially as they averaged probably 8-10lb each almost 112lbs – 140lbs

Daz’s car was last seen gliding out the car park and I feel sure I could hear “The Smiths” playing on his car stereo to lighten the mood 😉

My Match Good or Bad Result

In summary I got a section win and finished 6^th overall but I was one of the anglers wasting too much time (2 hours+) early doors trying to catch munters that simply waved at me in edge when not feeding properly and I could have used a secondary plan 2^nd place was within reach deffo.

The aerator was causing loads of tow when I started fishing a longer line on the pole and despite catching 3 x carp and 2 x decent bream and a tench I feel a better choice at start was maybe a feeder approach.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but if you don’t learn you don’t improve….

I could have then fished margins latter half of the match when they had got more confident and got their heads down more etc

I gained a quid off Overpractice Mick Drew, but lost a quid to The Chimp!

TBF