Blakey's Fishing Blog

A Wild, Drizzy & Windy evening – with Just Six of Us (Die Hard’s minus Ron plus Big John).

We had an early watercraft draw with me having 1st pick. I was going for Peg 25 or 24 but having watched nothing come out of there much over the past few weeks and Olly said it hadn’t fished well during the week – I asked if he was sand bagging me – No was the reply – I chose Peg 18 I thought would be a best combination of Fish and affording the best shelter from the swirling wind. Guess where Olly went – you guessed It peg 24 !!!

We were are setup and ready to go at 5.45pm. Set up of my Match Kit / Middy Hot shot to 2lb Size 18 /light Pole float single red maggot. Straight in of the 1st put in with small Roach – In fact by 6pm I had already caught more than I did in the whole of last weeks match. Had to keep going long / short to keep them coming – nothing big but consistent.

Couldn’t see what Olly was up to but Mick Wagg was already into his obligatory Carp over on Peg 9 on a Silver Fish match. Big John was very quiet to my left on Peg 16 on a mxture of Feeder /Pole

Mason Mills popped round as he normally does and I caught a couple of nice Roach whilst chatting to him. I said 50 of those and I will be happy – he said another 50 of those and you might catch up with Olly who has a few nice Roach ¾ to 1lb stamp.

The light deteriorated and by 7.30 pm I was struggling to see my float tip and with all the leaves / twigs blown off the trees during the day it was getting difficult to find a spot to drop the line.

We called it a day at 8.15 weighed in and surprised to find I had 4lb 14ozs! Olly beat me by four ounces to win the match and jumped from 5th to 3rd in the standings on 107 with me 2 points behind on 105.

Now then Mick Byrne the long time leader is stagnating last week it was solitary baby perch – he went one better this week and had a baby Roach as well. That was enough to get him 3 points and with the point from last week – How important will those baby fish be next week in the final reckoning.

The 1st place is between the two Mick’s and third Place between Olly, Paul Pratley and yours truly. With the weather forecast looking a little better for next week and being All-In – we may have a few spoilers turn up.