WATERSMEET 2ND AGGREGATE MATCH.

SUNDAY 30TH MAY.
VENUE. DRUMMONDS DUBB.
DRAW. 8.00AM.
FISH. 9.00AM TO 2.00PM.
ANGLERS. 9 FISHED.

PRE-DRAW.

Everyone that was fishing arrived on time. 5 anglers were not fishing this week,
so that cut the field down to 9. Drummonds as been having problems just recently,
with an outbreak of thick weed. All the years we've been fishing this place, we
have never seen, or heard of weed growing in this lake. So where's it come from.
Gawd knows, but what it has done, its knackered loads of pegs up. All that digging,
and building of new pegs, gone out of the window. Dick as a arranged for 5 opens
on here, 22 peggers, well thats been scuppered now. might get 16 on here if your
lucky, and thats if the weed does'nt spread. Graham decided to peg out only the
road side, and totally ignored the far bank. Can't work that one out, so peg 1
had only a small gap to fish through. 7 perfectley good pegs on the far bank gone
to waste. Might make sense to some people, but not me. Maybe the long walk had
something to do with it. Who knows. Weather wise it was'nt the ideal conditions
for skimmer bashing. The high pegs what i was on, had hardly any ripples on
the water. Mix that with sunshine, not the best. But being the brave warrior i'am,
i soldiered on, he he.

THE DRAW.

Last week a match on here was won with 28lb, from the shallow pegs, second came from
this area as well. So you can guess were i wan't to draw can't you, he he.
ANYWAY! i put my hand in the draw peg, and out popped peg 9. Farthest peg away
from last weeks winner. ERM! not a lot has changed there then, he he. So here
i'am in the deeps, which i could'nt draw for love nor money in the winter series.
I think i will cut off my draw bag hand, and replace it for a new one?.

PEG 1. L.BOLTON.
PEG 2. N.WILLIS.
PEG 3. M.HEWLETT.
PEG 4. J.BARNARD.
PEG 5. L.FORTY.
PEG 6. R.BOWD.
PEG 7. G.PUGH.(pegger outer).
PEG 8. D.LEWIS.
PEG 9. S.HAWKINS.(me).

THE MATCH.
 
I parked right next to my peg (suppose that was the good part), and unloaded my kit.
In fairness i still fancied my peg, has i have won a couple of matches off this one
last year. With weights of 24lb, and 28lb. So the fish do show this end in the summer.
Lets hope todays one of those days, because if not its going to be a not very
interesting day for me. Considering it has been a crap 2010 so far this season, i will
go with the no fish in peg syndrome, he he.

I set up the feeder, and clipped up for about a 25 metre chuck. Set up two top kits
for the pole, one at 7 metres in front of me, and one for the reeds to my left.
Won one of my matches fishing tight to the reeds. Fished this swim all day for the
24lb winning weight, on the pellet. So can't see why i should'nt try it again.

The whistle went at 9.00am for the all in. Fed four balls of groundbait on my 7 metre
line, laced with pellet, with a sprinkling of red maggots. My reed line was fed with
2 balls of groundbait, with a potful of micro, and 4mm pellets. Started on the feeder
line with groundbait, and pellet, with single red maggot on the hook.
The norm is to use chopped worm, but i could'nt afford to buy them, so had to go down
a different route. It took half an hour to get my first bite, which ended in a small
skimmer. After the hour mark, the skimmer was the only fish i had. Dickie on the next
peg, and Pughy on the peg next to him were in the same boat. Not a very good sign for
this place. So i thought plan B. The reeds. Placed my float by the reeds, and tipped out
my toss pot half full of micro,s, and waited. I had been flicking out about 20 maggots
on the 7 metre line about every 5 minutes or so. This would be my plan z line. (the
time to panic line, he he). Half hour on the reeds line resulted in zilch, nowt. So
i went back out on the feeder line just to see.(as i did'nt want to panic just yet, he he).
Nowt came on the feeder either, so with half the match gone, i pressed the panic button.
On went a single red maggot, and out went the pole on the 7 metre line. Now i know we
all make silly mistakes from time to time, but how silly is this?. For over an hour i
was fishing the 7 metre line, and had two small roach, and a small rudd. It took me all
that time to realise i was fishing with my reeds set up. So there i was fishing away,
two foot off bottom, instead of on the bottom (what a knob, he he). So after a little
in my head tongue bashing, i threw this rig up the bank, and put my plumbed up bottom
depth rig on, which is what i should have done an hour ago. (the pressure's of crap
anglers, sigh). For the next half hour or so, i started catching small skimmer, and
roach, which was shooting my weight up from what i had. This was good, i had an hour
to go, and maybe i might start clawing back the field. NOT SO!. There i was starting
to think good things, and then the swim died a death. Tried the reeds line again,
nothing. So finished the match on the feeder, which insidently i never caught nowt
on either. So there you go in a 5 hour match i had a mad half hour catching one after
the other.I had one hour of being a complete numpty fishing the wrong rig, and three and
a half hours just twiddling my thumbs. All in all a complete W----R!!!!!!.he he.

Fair play to Dickie on the next peg, he started to catch well on the feeder with a
couple of hours to go, and won the match. (stuffed from the next peg again, he he).
The middle pegs coming good with second, and third.

RESULTS.

1ST. PEG 8. DICK LEWIS. 13-11-0. 1 POINT.

2ND. PEG 4. JOHN BARNARD. 10-7-0. 2 POINTS.

3RD. PEG 5. LEE FORTY. 9-2-0. 3 POINTS.

4TH. PEG 1. LEWIS BOLTON. 6-13-0. 4 POINTS.

LEWIS HAS HAD THE GOLDEN PEG THE LAST

TWO MATCHES, AND HAS BLOWN OUT TWICE,

HE HE.

5TH. PEG 6. RICHARD BOWD. 6-7-0. 5 POINTS.

6TH. PEG 9. STEVE HAWKINS.

5-7-0. 6 POINTS.

7TH. PEG 7. GRAHAM (LA) PUGH. HE HE.

5-6-0. 7 POINTS.

8TH. PEG 3. MARK HEWLETT. 4-1-0. 8 POINTS.

9TH. PEG 2. NICK WILLIS. 3-10-0. 9 POINTS.

THE NON SHOWERS BELOW ALL GET 14 POINTS.

TIM PUGH.

BARRY MATTHEWS.

CHRIS FORTY.

(WORCESTER RUGBY GOT RELEGATED HE HE).

CHRIS ONLY PLAYED HALF THE SEASON FOR
WORCESTER, SO IT WAS'NT HIS FAULT HONEST.

TREVOR DIX.

PETE JONES. (NO PHOTO).

JUST A FEW PICS.

MY KIT SET UP ONCE AGAIN?.

DICKIE ON THE NEXT PEG.

PUGHY PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK.

FLAT CALM MY END.

PUGHY NOT SO HAPPY AFTER THE MATCH.

Well there you go another perfectly fished match, he he. Can't complain there's

always tomorrow. Maybe i could do okay in this one (yeah okay!) Tomorrows match,
bank holiday monday is being held at Elton Corner which is a twenty pegger. Steve
Evans has arranged this one, so its an open. Draw is at 1.00pm. Fishing from
2.30pm to 8.30pm. 6 hour evening match, so will the new match record of 157lb by
Steve Bee be broken. Steve Evans thinks so, he he. I will let you know how this
one goes tomorrow. So for now bye bye.


STEVE.