Well we must be mad, having got the call on Thursday to say its match on and not fully iced it was solid by saturday morning. Following much ice breaking, boat hopping, throwing ropes and cans across the whole lake we set about fishing at 11.30am.......then the ducks decided to move the bleedin ice back----aaaaahhhh nighmare day.
The fishing was tough with just 2 small F1's being caught all day. It was all about silver fish and Ian Simpson started deep but ended deep shallow for an 11.9lb roach catch. Mick Flanagan managed second with an all roach 10.8lb with Dougie a close third on 10.4lb and Jeff Gratham a further 1lb back on 9.4lb.
Many rued the decision to have a "goldfish" sweep beacuse as the match went on it became apparent 1 goldfish would win the tenner, so a few went all out for them, goldfish flake paste, the works but all blew out so we agreed an extra £10 in the league fund.
On a positive note at least we broke the ice for Eggy Ferry and fed the swims for them!!!
Oh nearly forgot Billy "icebreaker" Gore decided to butt the ice as he slipped and went in the edge head first......the ice never stood a chance............he managed to only get his head shoulders and chest in.......looked weird Billy's legs sticking out of the ice then it was oh s**t is he okay. He surfaced refreshed but we reckon the cold got to his head - he fished paste on a 10 hook to 0.18 all day but insisted he had stepped down from 0.26 because of the ice and weighted 2.4lb!!
Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 11.9lb
2nd - Mick Flanagan - 10.8lb
3rd - Dougie Walsh - 10.4lb
4th - Jeff Gratham - 9.4lb
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