So, it was a return to Landsend, a fortnight after we had a
hard match and we were therefore hoping the match lake was going to be kinder
to us. 18 HLS members turned up and the pre-draw banter seem to centre around
which were the favourite pegs for the day and the fact that the Rossiter Bros.
had turned up so the Preston vs Browning rivalry was raised along with the
‘pound’ wagers. Many did comment that Chris was looking in good ‘form’. He said
it was just a bulky body warmer!!
Mr ‘Pi’ himself, sat on flyer 11 ……
I had come with a desire to fish for silvers but had brought
meat, pellet and paste if I drew a carp flyer. I didn’t need to worry as peg 3
stuck to my fingers. Phil Beards drew 17 and was hoping that he could repeat
his victory from the previous match. The flyer pegs were drawn by Shaun (11),
Matt (13) and Chris (19) and not least, Chair Bob on 18, although he would not
be targeting the ‘vermin’.
When I arrived at my peg I found I had Roger ‘casting king’
Coombes on my left and Colin Lambert to my right. Then there was George Fletch
and then Shane Western, so I knew there was going to be some bitchy banter
happening to my right all through the match.
The water had a lot of leaves on the surface but the colour
was good and it was overcast, so I was hopeful. I repeated my 4 rigs from the
last visit with a light silvers rig to be fished at 11m, another at 2+1 and
then the left and right margin. I lined up maggots, casters, sweetcorn, 4mm
expanders along with some ground bait for attraction.
My peg for the day….
Phil blew the horn at 10:00 and I fed the forward lines.
Chucking a few maggots in the left and right margins, I tried them while the
fed lines settled. The match took on the same format as previous and bites were
very hard to get, even from small roach and perch on single maggot. A single
maggot at 11m was taken by a carp who gave me some good sport until it decided
to head for Colin Lamberts platform and the hook length explode and even left
my float bobbing halfway between me and Colin. I rescued that in the pole pot
and pulled out a fresh rig. So, alternating between my 4 lines I struggled to
catch some silvers but did have a bonus Crucian. Later on in the match I had a
take very close in to the platform and it was a carp who immediately went under
the platform and cut the line on the platform leg.
There was lots of anguished comments throughout the match at
the lack of bites but the odd carp were putting in an appearance. Due to the
lack of fish, there was lots more banter than usual and Bob ‘treated’ us to
more songs and poetry than usual. Fletcher's parentage was called into question
on many occasions to the point that he put tissue paper in his ears to block
out the noise. This had the effect of making him look like Deputy Dog (nice
call Phil, haha).
There was little excitement coming from the flyer pegs
although a few carp showed. If Phil had managed to land the carp that he hooked
then he surely would have lead the field.
In the last hour a number of guys admitted they were going
to DNW and some started packing up early. I was quick to pack and took my kit
back to the car before picking up the score sheet. Tony did not weigh and
accompanied me and Roger to weigh in. Starting at Dave Allen on 1 he posted,
what turned out to be, a reasonable weight on the day with 19lb 8oz!!!! My
handful of silvers went 5lb 3oz. As we progressed down to the flyer pegs,
George posted the top weigh so far with 27lb 7oz, including a monster Ghostie.
We got to Shaun on 11 and he had not managed to find much with 12lb 1oz. Matt
then took the lead on 13 by 4oz from George with 27lb 11oz. Phil on 17 weighed
18lb 1oz so he was looking good for the ‘pounds’!! Next up, Chairman Bob showed
us all how to fish on a very hard day. He took the overall lead and best
silvers weight with 28lb 4oz. Last but not least, Martin Western on 24 managed
a respectable 25lb 5oz.
The post match analysis showed that the silvers weights were
poor and some of the DNW’s regretted tipping back!! Well, the hope for a better
days fishing was scuppered and questions were asked as to where we had gone
wrong. Or, was the lake just fishing poor?
Next Sunday we were heading off to
Shiplate main lake. I wonder if peg 1 or 15 will win?????
The winners were…
Overall
1st Bob Pascoe (18) – 28lb 4oz
2nd Matt Culpin (13) – 27lb 11oz
3rd George Fletcher (5) – 27lb 7oz
Silvers
1st Ross Baker (3) – 5lb 3oz (default win after
Bob won the overall)
2nd Dave Allen (1) – 4lb 4oz
3rd Eric Searle (8) – 3lb 2oz (default win after
Matt won an overall prize)
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