5th Feb - Conway WL7

After leaving the Wirral after a wild wet n windy night, with fences down, tree's in roads etc we feared the worst but to our surprise Conway was wet but well coloured and just a little breeze. Draw done it was a race to the pegs with some not in due to peg rebuilding so brolly's up and rig up. All in called and let the fishing commence!!

A slow start for the fishing and the weather but as the fishing started to pick up so did the wind. After a few hours it was brolly's down bar H who 'wore' his as it wrapped round his head a few times and poles, rollers, sections, bait boxes etc started whizzing around the banks. The end result was 11 soaked anglers, battered and bruised minus a no4, now in the lake, minus another no4 smashed and minus 2 no6's snapped like twigs coming off the rollers - Conway 4 v 0 WBAC on the pole front.

On to the fishing, Ian Simpson was left the point peg at the end of the draw and struggled for a few hours whilst the weather was better but switched to roach to save face. 17lb of roach later and the carp showed up with the wind. Presentation was dire but 12 F1's were fooled and 25lb added to the roach for a winning 42lb net. Rob Dickinson next door to Ian had to go to 16m to catch and started strongly finding the carp early but as the wind got up he had no chance to fish 16m, dropping to 11m by the chimney/concrete he continued to add to his net finishing with 30.7lb for second.

Mick Flanagan went for the roach and had an odd dabble for carp at the island early on but as the wind increased at the top end, he ended up on top 3 or 4 taking some dog roach close in to push Rob but fell just short with 28.4lb, a great result considering the wind at that end!! Final place went to Billy Gore with a similar story to Rob caught a few long but was forced short and ended with 21.7 for 4th having lost a few carp on paste and maggot along the way.

All told a 'wild one', tip rods required for next time me thinks, Ian Lloyd sussed how to get F1's on the tip late on, no dinks and dips on a 4x10 float for him, proper pull rounds he was getting and had 7 F1's on it!!

Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 42.4lb (point)
2nd - Rob Dickinson - 30.7lb (concrete tower)
3rd - Mick Flanagan - 28.4lb (2 before bush)
4th - Billy Gore - 21.7lb (2 after old boards)