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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Match 30 - Final Club Match of the Season - Stock Pond, Sykehouse Lakes

Sunday 26th October 2014

This was the final match  of our 30 match series and the Individual Knockout, Individual Club Champion points and the Club Team weights would all be finalised during this match.  I was leading the individual points with Dave Webster and Stuart Wilson hanging onto my coat tails and my team were about 25lb in front on the team weights front, just leading Dave Horsfall and his band of merry men.  Stuart Wilson and Big Macca were battling it out for the Individual Knockout trophy.  Stuart was carrying about a 50lb weight advantage going into today's knockout match.  Macca was up against it today.

I had fished this lake once before and drew peg 15 on the top bank, opposite where you come in and all the weights came from the pegs in the 20's.

There was a very very strong wind blowing from about peg 5/6 diagonally across the lake to about peg 20.  Pegs 3 - 6/7 had the wind more or less off the back and peg 20 - 23 had the wind in their faces, for everyone else, it was a nasty side on wind.

I put my hand in the lucky bag and drew peg 17, a couple of pegs away from where I was last time.  I arrived at my peg to find that I had peg 16 empty, team member Craig McKenny was on peg 15 and I had Mark 'The Bomb' Wright next to me (Again!!) on peg 18.  Eric drew peg 23 (ish), Andy Limp-Biscuit drew peg 6.

I set up a pellet waggler rig, a bomb rig and two short line pole rigs to fish in about 7ft of water (top 5) and one margin rig to fish in about 4ft of water.  Stuart Wilson drew peg 13 round to my left and Dave Webster drew peg 26 ish.

The match got under way and I could see the odd fish topping at about 30 yards +, so cast out with the pellet waggler set at 5ft deep. The float settled, then started going sideways - due to the wind...time to re-cast me thinks.  I cast out again, the float shot under and I was in.  A carp about 3lb was soon in the keepnet.  The Bomb at the side of me started to get one or two fish on bomb and pellet.  I could not get any more bites.  Andy Limp-Biscuit and Paul 'Castaway' Wilson who were both more or less opposite me, were both catching fish on the pellet waggler, due to seeing them catching this way, I persevered with the pellet waggler, but could not get any bites.

I had one carp and The Bomb had about 7 or 8 carp.  I was getting battered off the next peg.

I decided to cast out my bomb rig - nothing, not even a liner.  I could not get a bite.

We were halfway into the match and I only had 1 carp in the net.  I could see Stuart Wilson catching on peg 13, The Bomb was still getting the odd fish, Castaway and Limp-Biscuit were still getting the odd fish on pellet waggler.

I persevered on the bomb a bit longer, but to no avail.  We were now into the last 90 minutes of the match and I decided to have a look on the top 5 rig.  I lowered in a 6mm expander, the float settled, shot under and skimmer about 4oz was soon in the net.  I dropped in again, and a roach about the same size was also soon in the net.  I was going nowhere.  I changed over to a hard 8mm banded pellet and lowered that in and started to flick a few 8mm pellets over the top.

I waited about 5-10 minutes and the float shot under and about 10ft of elastic came out of the pole tip, this was no skimmer.  After a brief tussle, carp number 2 was soon in the net, this one was about 5/6lb.  I stayed on this line for the duration of the match, catching carp quite regular.  That was it match over.

I could see that I had been beaten by The Bomb, Stuart Wilson, Castaway Wilson and Limp-Biscuit at least.  I was not sure who else had beaten me.

The scales arrived at my peg and Castaway was leading with 101lb, Stuart Wilson had 95lb, Limp-Biscuit had 80lb, now it was my turn.  I was very surprised when the scales went round and settled at 51lb.  The Bomb on the next peg had battered me and put 76lb on the scales.  Webster had struggled and managed to put 15lb on the scales.

Full Result:
1.  Paul Wilson (Peg 4) - 101lb 4oz
2.  Stuart Wilson (Peg 13) - 95lb 4oz
3.  Andy Limbert (Peg 6) - 80lb
4.  Mark Wright (Peg 18) - 76lb 2oz

I had come 6th as I had also been beaten by Frank Brook.

Given that Stuart Wilson had weighed in 95lb and come 2nd, that confirmed his position as ROBIN HOOD AC KNOCKOUT CHAMPION 2014.

My result today confirmed that I was ROBIN HOOD AC CLUB CHAMPION for 2014 amassing 214 points.  Stuart Wilson was 2nd  with 194pts and Dave Webster was 3rd with 190pts.

On the team front, we had managed to maintain our weight advantage and added to it to also be ROBIN HOOD AC TEAM CHAMPIONS for 2014.  Over the 30 match series, my team consisting of Andy Limbert, Eric White, Craig McKenny, Charlie Colefax and myself had a team total weight of 4500lb 11oz.  2nd place team was Dave Horsfall, Ian Waddell, Alan Hunter and Stuart Wilson who had managed to catch a combined total of 4447lb 13oz.

Well done everyone.

Tightlines over winter, I will post updates of how I get on.