Slippery Nipple revenge is HMP Puking or looking for worms pre-match
The first match of the new season and the cafe at Tunnel was full of bright-eyed Villa fans revelling in the win the day before over the Dingles, some of the younger fans may have overdone the celebrations the night before and was a little queezy before the whistle blaming Taff and Poncey for buying him a slippery nipple in the pub, golden rule Matt … never mix your drinks or only put anti-slip nipples in your mouth 🙂
The venue looked in fair shape on the back of the recent cold weather and the usual telephone number weights were on the board in the cafe from previous matches just to really put the pressure on.
Calm before the Storm
It was a good turn out with 19 fishing the match with Stormin Norman making it a round 20 attending so thank you everyone for the support.
Thanks also to Hamper, No Barra, Taff and Worms for your work on the day.
The first match also saw the preliminary round of the Individual knockout with 8 head to heads to be fished to reduce the field to 16 and the remaining spare places were drawn in the cafe pre-match, results and the ongoing draws for the Individual and Pairs can be view below
Despite the best efforts of Worms to break the scales before the weigh-in we did get the emergency set to work and the club scales have been fixed for the next match.
The match didn’t set the world on fire regarding weights but saw Craig Williams “The Big Fella” come out in 1st place with a fine 16:06Lbs fishing Maggot down the edge and shallow on his long line in front so well done TBF, nice to see him smile after his hungover face pre-match.
Mick Edwards replicated last years performance finishing 2nd with a mixed bag delivering 11:44Lbs getting his season off to a good start while eyeballing Mark “Denny” Dennahay throughout the match who managed an excellent 3rd with 8:19Lbs in a peg which resembled an African drain.
4th place was tied between Matt “HMP” Holloway and Mark “Bru” Butterworth both weighing 8:12Lbs, while deciding how the position should be decided our suggestion of a synchronized naked swim was soon discounted and they very generously agreed to split the 4th place money leaving the sections prizes to be claimed in full by Neil “Lurpak” Butterworth and John “Hamper” Hodson, well done Bru and HMP excellent sportsmanship.
The only thing I got feeding in my peg all day was Mt & Mrs Mallard but the usual scenario of bites coming late was a typical reflection on my day going with the wrong method of dead whites on a 2 plus 2 line for far too long before changing to my top 2 on corn and pellet to return 6:20Lbs
So all that was left to look forward to was the banter in the Durham Ox Pub but even that pleasure was denied as it had been closed so no other option but to head home to the Red Lion and reflect and practice some new methods for next time.
Got more bites here
See ya next match, Tight lines
El Presidente – Al
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