HLS Angling Wednesday 12th September Shiplate Hawthorns

Shiplate Hawthorns was the venue today, fourteen well turned out veterans of many conflicts were well prepared.   Steve and Carol were in charge, they made us very welcome as usual, it's always so relaxed and friendly here.

The lads willingly? parted with their coin, so the business was quickly completed.   All fifteen pegs went into the bag, with peg two the Golden one, which was drawn by George.   Danny got peg one, he grimaced, or was it wind?   I eventually got peg three, the other side of George.

When we reached our pegs everyone commented on the large number of carp swimming near the surface, and we all agreed it would be a difficult day. 

At the all in it was pretty quiet, except for George, whose description of the fish who supposedly were not in is swim, can not be printed.   This prompted Danny and myself to have some fun at his expence, which lasted the whole match. In the end we beat him on both sides.!!

Danny and I started the weigh in on peg 15, and we could not believe it when Ninja, the carp machine, said only two, we thought he meant nets, but he had just two fish!!

The match was only memorable because all the lads were wondering around due to the lack of fish. So it is only a short blog this week.

Simon won overall with 44lbs 9ozs,  Danny second with 29lbs 6ozs.   The Big Bird Rob won silvers with 7lbs 15ozs, and myself getting second by default.   We all agreed this was not the normal results for this venue, and we are looking forward to returning in the future.

This was another good turn out, let's hope we can keep it up.

 Next week it's Emeralds, which we have not fished for a while.  So don't get rusty, let's do it.

                                                 Bob

PS: The Wednesday lads convey their condolences to Phil and family on the  loss of his mother.