29/01/17 - Viaduct - Spring Lake

Weight - 17lb 1oz
Catch - 20 Roach, 13 Skimmers, 1 Ruffe
Weather - Rain - lots of it!
Match - Winter League - rd 2 - 7th in section, 2nd overall in silvers

After the first round's good start, team Colmic were hoping for a decent draw, however what we ended up with wasn't great where the previous team came 13th in the first round. Martin Preston was on p118, Mark Wynne p85, Nick Merry p56 and Mark Poppleton p9. As for me it was my turn for Match Lake, which included 6 pegs on Spring/Middle. I ended up on p24 and was pleased to avoid the corner pegs on Match and the 2 pegs on Middle.

The weather forecast was for rain and it certainly did, but at least the wind wasn't too bad.

On the all in, 3 balls of black gold groundbait with a few dead pinkies was deposited at 13m, whilst that settled I started on the straight lead and corn cast towards the island. On the 2nd cast I had a decent skimmer. The intention was to stay on the straight lead until I stopped catching, before switching to the pole and/or the waggler were I had been feeding caster at 20m.

I didn't switch to the pole for nearly 2hrs, however all I caught was plippy little roach, whilst on the waggler the roach and small skimmers were only slightly bigger. I had also been feeding caster under the tree to right hoping for a late carp, but only caught a roach.

The rest of the match followed a similar pattern, stay on the tip until bites dried up, before switching to the pole and waggler picking up a few small roach, then switching back to the straight lead when bites slowed. In the last 10mins I managed 2 good skimmers which was a nice boost finishing with 9 proper skimmers.

Fortunately with no carp being caught in my mini section I won the section and picked up £40. I was also 2nd overall in the silvers and picked up a further £100 in the superpools, so a profitable day.

As for the team, we had an excellent result, Martin was 5th on Campbell, Mark Wynne won Cary, Nick fished a blinder to finish 3rd on Lodge, Mark Poppleton as expected took one for the team on Spring and I was 7th on Match. In total Colmic won the day with 69pts and we are leading the league.

Overall

1. Richard A’Herne (Frenzee SW) - 143lb 2oz - peg 53
2. Steve Seagar (Maver) - 131lb 14oz - peg 119
3. Jason Radford (Viaduct All Stars) - 119lb 12oz - peg 113
4. Andy Neal (Natural Talent) - 119lb 11oz - peg 66
5. Steve Tucker (Thatchers Vets) - 113lb 4oz - peg 129
6. Craig Edmunds (Mosella) - 92lb 14oz - peg 127

Silvers

1. Dave Romain (Team Keyford) - 24lb 8oz - peg 124
2. Ken Rayner (Colmic SW) - 17lb 1oz - peg 24
3. Simon Hebditch (Garbolino BVMG) - 15lb 4oz - peg 125
4. Nick Chedzoy (Thatchers Vets) - 14lb 14oz - peg 18
5. Gordon Cannings (Silverfox) - 14lb 2oz - peg 69
6. Ricky Mills (Moaning Maggots) - 13lb 6oz - peg 41

Team Points On The Day:
1. Colmic SW - 69
2. Viaduct All Stars - 68
3. Natural Talent - 67
4. Thatchers Vets - 63
4. Mosella Bathampton - 63
6. Silverfox - 61

Teams Overall League

1. Colmic SW - 128

2. Thatchers Vets - 124

3. Natural Talent - 121

4. Frenzee SW - 114

5. Future Networks - 112

6. Garbolino BV - 111