Everyone has had loads of space with at least 1 spare peg and in many cases a spare either side although all the local info suggested its not a margin water as too barren yet and would be 10m into 6 ft and off feeder fish and that's how it proved to be. A couple of early better fish (3-5lb) on the feeder for a few was soon replaced with a stockie fish race with carp, F1's and barbel between 4-12oz for most with an odd 1lb fish thrown in.
Steve Gilmour fished a superb match and stayed focussed on the 10m line but swapped from pellet to corn back to dyed pellet over nuggets of groundbait over the course of the match and had, I reckon 120+ fish, but 4 proper carp in the last hour or so including an 8-10lber made the difference and he's weighed 73.12 for what in the end was an emphatic win as 20lb clear is probably 40 fish. Well fished Steve you fished a really neat and tidy match and me and Dennis either side were left trailing....albeit you made Dennis pack up early, he kept shaking his head and tutting all match!
Ian Lloyd managed to snare half a dozen proper carp from the windward end peg to add to less stockies than most of the main pack, but his decision to go for these better fish paid off as be took second with an impressive 61.08. Ian Simpson was best of the rest with 103 stockies and a solitary 3lb carp for 56.08 that took him ahead of Kieren 48lb, Jason 47lb and Billy 46lb so a really close pack and its obvious getting a few better fish in future matches here will be required to win it until the stockies put a bit more weight on.
I did enjoy the banter between Trevor and Dougie before the all in about who could chuck where and they had an empty peg between them as well!.......I did have a quiet chuckle as they banged on about it giving abuse and looking to people to take sides for at least 30mins before the draw even asking for a referee to decide and then, as suspected it turned into a pole match!!!......I love club fishing with WBAC! Maybe the venue management need to add island markers if they are going to put all the pegs in.
Result
1st - Steve Gilmour - 73.12
2nd - Ian Lloyd - 61.08
3rd - Ian Simpson - 56.08
