Just as I'd started to string a few results together, the usual Match Fishing "Kick in the Nuts" arrived with a vengeance ! I love Pittance Lake and had been looking forward to Sunday's match for the past week, however with 14 angler sfishing there were going to be a couple of pegs I really didn't fancy - these being 8 and 10 at the dam end. So, where did I draw........Peg 8 ! That end of the lake hasn't fished for a while but arriving at my peg, the wind was blowing up that way and with pegs 7 and 9 being left out I actually quite fancied it. I set up a couple of paste rigs and a pellett / corn rig and first put in on my 11 metre paste line I had a carp of about 9lb, and prepared to spend the day "sacking up". I have to say that things didn't exactly go to plan as three hours later I still had one very lonely looking carp in my net as my efforts to place some of his mates in the net failed miserably. Two hours from the end (after a few laps of the lake) I had my second and final carp of the day and for the first time in ages packed up with about half an hour to go, feeling very disappointed. So disappointed infact that I actually put my fish back without weighing in and those who read this drivel regularly will know I hardly ever do that.
Mick Keeper (picture below with part of his winning catch) caught mostly on a method feeder to the middle of the island but also added a few on his pole line for a convincing victory.
Result
Mick Keeper....Peg 13 ....90-0-0
Sponge Bob....Peg 11....56-0-0
Malcolm Heaver...Peg 5...44-0-0
Terry Harrison..Peg 18..35-12-0
Everybody wants to draw next to Don Garnish on wednesday as both days this weekend he drew next to the winner and will be going for his hatrick.
Next week is going to be a busy one for me fishing wise as I am at Willinghurst on Top Lake on wednesday then Friday sees the start of the "Event of the Year" - The Steve Ramsay Memorial Weekend" at Withrington Farm, when a load of nutters from the "Match Fishing Scene" website take over Salisbury for 3 days for some drinking, loads of laughing and also a bit of fishing.
