With warm weather all week and little wind all looked well with Partridge Covey 6. Its a 42 peg lake and Rick had done a deal to get the whole lake and yet only to pay for pegs used so when 15 turned up it meant everyone was gonna have lots of room.
With Rick away in Malta, thanks to Keith and Lloydy for helping with the draw and our own weighmeister Billy for weighing in.
Draw done and a few interesting sections with Ian Lloyd on the Golden Peg and sat between Ian S and Billy on the island in the lake with Ian and Billy having effectively end pegs.(we did offer to forgo weighing in for a split of the GP but Lloydy declined....hence he got chip shopped (battered both sides)). Dougie looked on a flyer at the head of an island were the ripple started with the rest of his section in the calm. H was drawn on a bridge and had Peter C on a bend and Jason Connah on the straight in his section.The final section had Ste G with the wind in his face and Jason Davies, Trevor and Ian Dodd all on the backstraight to contend with.
All in and for most it was instant with loads of 4-8oz F1's showing.....as time ticked by it became obvious it was fishing well and many managed to sort out a few better samples with an odd 1-4lber helping the cause. Billy was bagging in the margin, Ian S shalla, Ste G and H short pole....H going under the bridge when needed....Trev started to go longer down his margin with groundbait and found some better fish.......all the while Dougie was catching on maggot.
At the scales it was difficult to estimate as everyone was admitting to 60-200 fish and depending on the sizes that could be 50-150lb. First to weigh was Billy Gore with some proper 4lbers included from the margins on maggot to add to a shedload of F1's he fell just short of the ton with 95.6lb.....Ian Lloyd had lost the plot early on before sussing they wanted shallow water and went for it in the last 90mins with 15h and 0.16line and 16 hooks skulling better fish but was too late and the Golden peg fizzled to 65.9lb. Ian S completed the section with more fish than Billy and Ian L but smaller but they went 107.9lb confirming the late match comment...Ian L says "I'm 18lb behind Billy and 30lb behind you"....the somewhat tongue in cheek response was "try 30lb behind Billy and 50lb behind me".....which happened to be fairly close. Section 1 weighed and 270lb of fish.
The same story was repeated around the lake with Ste G weighing 63lb just pipping 'Daiwaman' (Jason Davies) with 60lb before being trumped by Trevor with 86lb. The top section was a little slower with 40-50lb weights from Alec and Keith out of the wind but Dave Grimes tipped on 68lb only to be topped by Dougie with 116lb who had even run out of bait and went back to the van for more. The final section ended up being the closest of the lot, H wrinkled out 41lb of barbel and F1's from under the bridge Pete Canavan managed 60lb 6oz only for Jason C to tip 60lb 10oz on the scales to take the final section.
Well I have to say its not often you catch over 100lb and don't win a WBAC match.....but today I managed it.........a great venue, well laid out lake and heavily stocked. We averaged 71lb excluding guests and had over 900lb of fish......
Rick was sooooooooooo looking forward to this one.......stay in Malta mate we had a lovely days fishing without you haha!!
Result
1st - Dougie Walsh - 116.5lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 107.9lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 95.4lb
4th - Trevor Allpress - 86.5lb
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