sunday 30th november

PIKEY'S TEAMS OF SIX


Round five saw me back at willinghurst for another exciting day with the wind and the rain and the freezing cold.But with hope of a decent draw in a vain hope of a few fish ..well you never know your luck !! As i enter the cabin i see the usual face's greet you with smile on their faces on which doesn't normally last long once they know where they have drawn and that includes mine,as it's soon wiped off my face when i'm told by mick the bookie (my team captain) that i've drawn peg 2 in the bomb hole at top lake...great another very hard day ahead.
After quick chat to gleam any info i was gladly informed that the guy who was pegged there on wednesday ..blanked !!

Well with peg 2 has been know to throw decent weights up,but mostly in the warmer months as its a foot and a half deep and when its cold like it is today your on a pretty much hiding for nothing,and if ..that's a big if they are happened to be there you could have a day of foul hookers as the fish use the peg as a sort of high way from the back spit to the main lake...oh what joy !!
Right the task ahead was to try and catch a fish...so two rigs again was needed a near inside rig and an open water rig and funnily enough the same two rigs i had made up for the last round with slight adjustments and we were sorted.


The fat bloke shouts the all 'in' and we off, i cupped in a few 4mm pellets to the tree to my right and a few more to the 'tree' in open water,and with the wind and rain in my face i was really looking forward to this ..can't you tell !!
So with an exciting day ahead and beautiful weather what more could a man ask for..perhaps a few fish ??(yeah right !!)
Any way an hour in and i've not had a bite,not even a mear wobble ..nothing, and i'm rotating my pegs the two i've fed and the one i've not,on which is tight to the far bank of grass which i can easy reach with 13mtr of pole.
I'm now getting totally despondent and fed up, just staring at my pole float,then it dips and it slips under..fish on !! after playing it for what seemed an eternity i finally slip the landing net under it...a carp for around 6lbs safely in the keepnet.
The next ship out to the same spot and the float just flew under and another fish on,but i knew straight away it was fouled hooked by just the way it took off and kept on going and heading out to the main lake to my left....then every thing went slack and it was gone...well that was my day.
I kept on rotating my pegs but it wasn't going to happen...so in good despondent fashion i went for a walk to see dave 'pikey' pearson on peg 12 on pitance to give him some guidance(probably the best peg on the complex).

After my little exercise i returned to my peg ,had another look just in case there was a fish or two about but nothing,and there wasn't going to be either,so i packed up and my single fish weighed in for a grand total of 6lb 8oz,and as for the team we came........last !!
But as a final note.. mick the bookie on his last cast of the day and more or less packed up had a bite and nearly had his rod dragged in and only just managed to grab his rod...how spawney ??