22nd January WL6 Gorsty

Well after a hastily re-arranged match with Conway still being refilled we made our way to Gorsty. Good reports of plenty of fish and not just roach, there were reports of carp, skimmers and crucians on pellet being the talked about method however......................

..............as with all best laid plans we arrived after several sub zero nights to find it three quarters frozen. The odd stone proved it to be breakable so 16 souls took to the draw, half ice free under the trees, the other half would have ice to break (and poles more later).

After a breif flurry with the landing net breaking ice to 3m I decided my pole was not going to see ice action and set off back round to the car. 30mins later the petrol can on a rope trick had swims sorted in the 8 icebound pegs but not before a Spectrum top 4 and TPro no4 had bitten the dust as some took their poles to the ice and the ice won!!

After a slow start it was obvious the ice free pegs were fishing slightly better (probably just lack of disturbance). Mick Flanagan, Dougie Walsh and Jeff Grantham fished a peg to peg battle with joint first going to Mick and Dougie with 7.9lb. Mick virtually all roach, whilst Dougie had skimmers and crucians as well. Jeff was just a few fish down with 7.2lb but spent too long early on trying to make the pellet work.

Section A went to Yozzer with 3.8lb from the very edge of the ice then Section B was proper ice fishing with no clear water and another joint finish with Steve Brew and Ian S pegged adjacent both weighing 5.4lb (good job we share!!)

Overall a really cold affair but very close weights and points. There was a joint first, joint fourth, joint 5th, joint 7th etc so winter leage points were hard won with 0.7lb seperating the top 3 and 0.9lb seperating 6th to 12th!!!!

Result
=1st - Dougie Walsh - 7.9lb
=1st - Mick Flanagan - 7.9lb
3rd - Jeff Grantham - 7.2lb

Sec A - Ian (Yozzer) Hughes - 3.8lb
Sec B - Ste Brew / Ian Simpson both - 5.4lb

With 5 matches now fished it gets interesting as peole start dropping their worst results or in some cases still have matches to fish. Mick Flanagan leads the points table from Dougie and Ste B, all three now start to drop ther worst results to improve (see league tables)