A nice long weekend at Easter always means lots of fishing (and reports to write up which isn’t helping with the backlog!), kicking off five days of matches, it was on Longs for Good Friday. Only 11 of us fishing today including Big Bad Bob who’d somehow cut the end of his nose and couldn’t stop it bleeding, Bill ‘Healing Hands’ Hopping came to the rescue using Pete’s first aid kit and soon had the problem sorted. Although I’m not sure ‘Blue Nose Bob’ has the same ring to it (especially as he’s a Liverpool fan!).
Blue Nose Bob
Draw time arrived and as I was top of the list this week it meant I had to pull out the golden ball and it was number 32, a great silvers peg. Very often, even though the bucket is given a good shake up, the first angler to draw plucks out the bonus ball again but not today although I was very happy with 13 which is one of my favourite pegs.
Peg 13
On the whistle I fed a little groundbait and a few pinkies on two lines at top four plus another couple at 11.5 metres before starting short. It didn’t take long to get a bite and I had really nice first hour catching small skimmers, roach and two little tench for probably 3lb. The second sixty minutes was a bit slower but I was getting odd fish including a gorgeous crucian.
With bites beginning to dwindle on the short line, I’ve gone out to 11.5 metres where I’d been pinging maggots and had a little tench first put in. Next chuck I had another and basically it was solid, I couldn’t get the rig in fast enough and had a brilliant hour with lots of tench from 6oz-1lb, skimmers to 2lb, a couple a big roach and two more crucians.
I continued putting odd fish in the net and going into the last hour, I went out to 13 metres and added a few more to end up with 52 silvers and two carp. After packing up the scales started with Bob on 4 who had a nice day weighing 46lb, Kev ‘O had 17lb 8oz and Mark Leahy on 10 weighed 36lb 7oz including 14lb 7oz of silvers. Then my carp went 8lb 6oz and my silvers weighed 28lb, a lovely days fishing, Nick P to my left had 12lb 12oz and Dan T on 19 weighed 13lb 5oz (and gave my pound back from last week).
Mark Leahy had 14lb 7oz of silvers on peg 10
I had a great day catching 28lb of skimmers, tench, crucians and roach
Bruce Hunt had 33lb 15oz before Alex on 30 went into the overall lead with 66lb 2oz (which included 17lb 5oz silvers) and then Rob B weighed 13lb 14oz. There’s never a dull day at Summerhayes and Steve Raybould on 34 helped provide the afternoons entertainment. Fresh from chucking his number four section in during the last match, he bought a pole off me and managed to hook the far bank early in the match and had the top four sections fly off where they provided a nice feature in the swim for the rest of the day.
Captain Pugwash (Dan T) came to the rescue and was promptly launched in the boat by Nick (without any oars!) and managed to retrieve the missing sections – good work sailor! After all that excitement, Steve weighed 11lb 4oz of silvers (not bad with half a pole!) and then Bill H on 36 had a massive 107lb 13oz of carp for top spot on the day.
Captain Dan to the rescue!
Bill Hopping had the top weight with an impressive 107lb 13oz
1 – Bill Hopping (Summerhayes) – 107lb 13oz
2 – Alex Kerr (Summerhayes) – 66lb 2oz
Silvers
1 – Jamie Rich (Bait-Tech/Colmic) – 28lb
2 – Mark Leahy (Summerhayes) – 14lb 7oz
So a rather eventful day but also a very enjoyable one and I picked up £43 for winning the silvers.
Nick P kindly donated £4 and along with £2 from me and a nugget from Dan T the total rose to £263.
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