Wow.....what a windy day and it was bedlam towards the end of the match as gales and gusts started to make things a bit dangerous to be honest. No one could leave earlier though as a 4ft thick tree had come down completely blocking the entrance and exit to the fishery. By 4pm the chainsaws had it clear and we were free to go!
The match started in windy conditions bar the bottom bank and a few brave souls got poles out including Ian Lloyd with a shiny new MAP 901. I personally took out 5 m of pole but as the winds got worse after about two hours, away it went and I of all people sat it out on the tip! Paul 'Picasso' Robinson drew well again next to the point and made no mistakes sitting it out on bomb and pellet for carp and F1's and an easy win with 40lb. Well done Paul you set your stall out and stuck to it. Jeff Grantham took his pole out, plumbed up short then watched the whole pole get lifted off the ground and thrown into the fence....it was back in the holdall before the all in and Jeff fished a tidy match on a small method throughout for 2nd and 22.3lb. I was 3rd with 22.1lb having started on the waggler to snare an early carp then had some roach on the short pole before the weather became too much and it was the banjo and pellet for a few carp and F1's for the last half of the match.
Now for the tale of disaster.....there were keepnets with fish in being blown out of the water, H had his box slide 6ft along a wet platform and nearly go in. Dougie had a keepnet snap off at the attachment and lost a top it......bait boxes were flying all round the lake but worst was poor Ian Lloyd, he broke a no4 in the first hour or so when his 901 went off the rollers than as he got off his box to pack up at the end the wind lifted his Daiwa box, side tray, bait and two keepnets attached completed off the ground and then flipped it over landing on 3 x 901 topkits and a cupping kit smashing them to bits.........he then lost the section to me by an ounce.......did I feel quite quilty......yes for about a nanosecond....then I realised I'd won the goldfish sweep as well.
Its 5 days later as I write this and my gear and the inside of my car are still soaked. Officially the worst gusts of wind I have ever experienced!!!!
Provisional Results (waiting on Rick)
1st - Paul Robinson - 40.0lb
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 22.3lb
3rd - Ian Simpson - 22.1lb
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