One of our team members became ill with an abscess so Chris gave me a call from Cornwall where he was on holiday on the Thursday to try and find someone. Nigel Evans pointed me towards Richard Candy and we were soon back to a full team.
Fishing his second match this year for us was Leigh Wakefield, he hadn't fished the Huntspill for a few years so lots on info was exchanged to try and give him some guidance.
Team today was....
Chris Hook
Me
Dom Sullivan
Leigh Wakefield
Geoff Surman
Nigel Wyatt
Tony Goodland
Richard Candy
There was a decent bit of colour in the river on the Wednesday and after the heavy rain on Friday night and Saturday I was sure the colour would be maintained and the level up.
The draw was at Laburnham House again and on arriving at around 07:45 I saw Des Shipp England International and John Harvey Welsh International. Its good to see these guys turn up occasionally for these matches and they were just guesting for the day. Nice if you can call on quality anglers to fish for you although we did have Callum Dicks fish for us a few times last year.
Chris came back with the team draw and immediately I saw that Richard was on the peg I had been on the previous week (186), Geoff was on the peg Chris had been on (98) and Leigh was on 60 which Dom had been on.
I put Richard right on my peg and he went off a happy man.
I was on 73 which was in the worst Section above Woolavington Bridge. A least I only had this Section once, Paul Purchase of Sensas 88 was going there for the third time and he wasssssss notttttt happyyyyyyy!
On arriving at my peg it did look fine with a little bit of a bay right across and just a light breeze on the water. The sky was overcast with some rain forecast later on.
peg 73
I set up two feeder rods, one for right across and one for the middle. I didn't set the pole up and chose a waggler instead the theory being ... if they had not caught much on the pole line the last few weeks the fish might be a bit further out.
I feeder 10 feeder fulls down the middle at the start and began on the other feeder rod across catapulting caster and hemp over my waggler line. The first hour was terrible, only one bite on the feeder at distance which I missed. A 15 minute spell down the middle produced nothing either so had a look on the waggler. One ruffe was my only bite.
The wind started to get up now along with some heavy showers and you had to really punch the feeder out and hit the clip to reduce the bow in the line caused by the upstream wind.
I did start to put a few small skimmers in the net from my distance line but also missed loads on bites. I had no proper wrap arounds at all but persevered to the end adding a fish here and there.
Nothing else to say really just kept putting the bait in hoping for a lost bream but it didn't happen.
We had the scales again so was soon packed up and headed up to Nick Chedzoy who had the board.
The Section lived up to its reputation and I managed 3 points from 7 with 4lb 9ozs.
I met Leigh back in Woolavington Bridge car park who was cursing loosing a bream in some weed just before he was able to net which cost him 2nd in Section and £50.
He still had a couple of bream and done the business for the team with 9lb and 5 points from 7.
Leigh with his catch.
Welsh International Nigel Evans won the section Leigh was in with 18lbs from the same peg he had the previous week (stewards enquiry please). When pressed after he had a beer Nigel revealed the ''jelly babies'' helped him concentrate!
Nigel (aka ''same peg'') wins his Section again
Back at the results it was a bit doom and gloom for our team but Geoff had done OK with 18lbs and 5 points. Richard on 186 had just over 10lbs as the bream had moved back down to 187. Chris and Tony finished bottom in their Sections giving us a total of 23.5 points, not good.
The river had fished better than the previous week in terms of leading weights and at least others had a turn on the podium.
Individual results:
1st D Jarman Sensas Lobbys 69lb 12oz (end peg 101)
2nd Jon Tocknell Sensas Lobbys 44lb 3oz
3rd Mike Withey Sensas Nomads 41lb 4oz
4th Martin Barrett PI Thatchers 37lb 12oz (Martin has had a good run on the Huntspill)
5th Nigel Evans DGL 18lb 15oz
6th Neil Richards DGL 18lb 8oz
Teams on the day:
1. DGL
2. Sensas Lobbys
3. P I Thatchers
4. GBV
5. Sensas 88
6. Maver Cadbury
7. Sensas Nomads
A happy 2nd placed Jon Tocknell
No league match next week so fishing a Club match on Durleigh Reservoir.
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