Owing to some technical issues and the time in sorting it all out and the fact I don’t want to spend more time than necessary this is a rather shorten version of a blog post than what is normally. Instead of having shall we say a format of a newspaper with a fair bit of writing and a few pictures, today’s time constraints has forced the outline to be rather akined to that of the Daily star. A Daily newspaper which has more pictures then writing and which only requires a reading age of six.
That old adage that is often uttered when bites are at a premium and it seems that the fish have gone AWOL (absent with out leave, for people who haven’t quite reached the reading age of six.) “Yea but it still great being out here on the bank than at home” or words similar was definitely applicable to the participants who took part in Watchet’s match fished on the specimen lake at Landsend fishery on Saturday 30th.
Although a commercial with pallets it snuggles in quite well with it’s rustic surroundings, this place is adorned with lush greenery and weeping willows and has the characteristics of a oil painting. So with the sun shinning on this bucolic setting the mood of the match was pleasant and the frame of mood amongst the anglers was jolly. There was a sense as always of competitiveness but the rustic scene added to the mix an element also of chilling out. Results are important but in this respect so was the sense of being. It could be said that regardless of out come a good day was had by all.
The top four
First on the day was our dear beloved NHS hero the one and only Dave Colley. Dave it appeared kept things simple and caught most of his fish with feeder to the island with pellet. From peg 31 Dave also landed the biggest fish of the day a 17 lb 7 oz carp, in total he had 86 lb 13 oz. Nice one mate.
Insecond place was man about the match scene Rob Dodd. Rob had corner swim that of peg 25. Just using pole he fished the margins to his left with corn as bait. Rob’s total weight was a reasonable 69 lb 13 oz. This guy managed 3rd in the slivers table as well.
Eric Searle one of the clubs veterans occuppied third place also from a corner peg. Peg number 33 was Eric home for the match. 48 lb 03 oz was the weight he put on the scales which was obtained mostly by feeder and pellet.
Peg 32 was pulled out the hat by Ian Grabham. A peg which got him 4th spot with a haul of 45 lb 09 oz. Pellet was the bait that was mostly used.
Congratulations must be in order for Mr David Nash who fished peg 39 and had the top silvers bag. Dave fished his much beloved bait that of caster.
Way back in the late 1990’s a series of VHS videos came out called the compleat angler. One video in the series was the aptly named Stoned With Hemp by local angler Mike Stone who you might see occasionally hanging around Somerset Angling. The venue for this video was the Bridgwater and Taunton canal at a place called Smithies which people who are not au fait with the Bridgwater and Taunton canal is located just the other side of Wide Waters passed the Huntworth bridge going towards Fordgate. I did purchase a copy when it first came out but the usual story emerged I lent it to some one to be never seen again. But last year scouring the internet and ending up on Ebay I came across a copy which I bought. I had it copied to DVD format and with a little technical difficulty which with some effort I managed to download it on to the site. Hence shortened version of blog. But owing to the way it was formatted on the disc it could only be downloaded in four parts, hence a slight niggling problem that it is not a continuous viewing.
The next match for the Watchet mob is this coming Saturday May 7th at Avalon on the road side so until then tight lines.
Pete C