With the holiday season and 'Dads' told to stay home on Fathers Day, there was only Eleven guys in attendance at Mike Duckett's little fishing jewel in the Mendips.
The match lake was our venue for the day and when the guys went to choose the pegs they found someone already on peg 10. He was asked to move and that peg was off the list. Perhaps there should be a board identifying when there are matches booked?
Discussion before the draw was that some large nets of carp had been recently caught but also the large skimmers were showing in plenty of pegs. I fancied a peg on the south side and out from the draw pot came peg 13. I had this peg last on a freezing day in the winter. I consider it a feast or famine peg, so what would today bring. The golden peg today was 3, a great silvers peg. And who's little fingers grabbed this number, yes, Bolton Boy George; the 5 foot man with a 10 foot ego!! He skipped off to the peg singing "The moneys mine".
At my peg and to the right was Tony Newell then Shane, Martin, Tony Fry and in the distance was Danny. Over the other side was Steve King being 'Billy no mates' on peg 9. He didn't fancy his peg but he did have a quarter of the lake to himself.
Unlucky for some..... Peg 13
I immediately new that I was going to fish 4 lines. A lead rod across to the corner of the island, 13 metres on the left margin, tight by the left hand bush and down to the empty pallet on my right. Baits today were 8mm meat, 8mm & 6mm pellet and dead reds. I also used ammino and betaine paste.
At the start I fed the lines and put the lead out tight to the island. There were fish moving so I was hopeful. Within 5 mins the tip went around and a small carp graced the net. I then went onto the 13m line with meat and small ghostie took the bait. Back on the lead and another. Then another at 13m. That was the first hour taken care of. They were all small fish and so I asked who had pinched the decent fish!!!
The next 6 fish took a lot longer to catch...... 5 hours to be exact!! I kept rotating through the 4 lines but could only manage 3 more carp and 3 large skimmers.
Tony Newell had started slowly but finally manage to get carp in the margins. He could obviously see what was going on further up because he put his fish back at the end of the match and DNW. I couldn't really see what Shane and Martin were catching but I did notice Danny was having lots of fun with carp on his silvers tackle..... lol. Steve was very quiet, which was unusual..... what could that mean?
The score sheet shows that he didn't have time to talk because of catching the winning weight of 132-1. Martin, who I thought was going for silvers, managed to get plenty of carp and give him the 2nd place overall.
Unfortunately, now is the time to tell of the bad news. Yes, you guessed it, George (now back to top silvers angler spot) put 21-4 onto the scales, taking 1st in the silvers and wining the golden peg plus a nugget from Danny. Oh how he laughed!!!! Well done George! Danny took 2nd silvers (and shouldn't have wasted so much time with the carp and beat George).
Steve's face doesn't betray the pain he felt when giving George the golden peg money.
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