It’s The Pot Black, anything can happen ! and just when you thought you had seen it all, the all time classic a Wally “flexi peg draw”.
The match was rescheduled to enable the football fans in the club to be home in time for the 3pm kick off against Germany (with the benefit of hindsight we would have been better to have left the match as it was).
We met at the nice and early “sparrows fart” time of 6.30am in the layby by Mac Donalds Pakefield, once the usual “best time of the day” “we ought to do this more often” and various other daft comments issued by the insomniac’s in the club where over with we were informed of the draw for triples/doubles/knockout by our leader and everyone was thoroughly confused we set off for Halesworth with Banjo taking up “point” ( no sat nav) just good old fashioned directions, and we went straight to the water.
Another lovely day with warm sunny weather not at all what the Pot Black usually expects, but we must not complain, Banjo discovered how far “friendship” goes when Paul Chilvers announced he had previously fished the lake and was confident that his practice session would be sufficient to dispatch Banjo from the knockout (and he was right).
Some locals fishing “our lake” where removed to another water and our team leader set about the draw, a rarity with Pot Black draw 6, fish off 6 etc so all was simple, draw over with, we all set off to our allotted pegs. Then it happened “don’t like the look of peg 12” said our leader, I'm going to fish that one over there, looks loads better, and with that moved himself 5 pegs further round the lake to his chosen peg.
Its times like this that Wayne Moore and Mark Colman feel really envious that they are unable to fish with the Pot Black due to much more pressing matches.
From the off team leader was into fish and proved that the “flexi peg” draw was defiantly the right decision, young Kieran needed Uncle Bruce to take his first swim of the season to retrieve his tackle from the reeds. Bulti went to sleep (nothing new there) and was woken by his rod flying off the rest as the fish took his bait, Boyce continues his run of luck (another pole section) and a couple of other little mishaps.
Amnesia Dingit broke his landing net and generally most of us continued to ensure the local tackle shops stay in business, “flexi peg Wall” continued to take fish throughout the match and was individual top honours come the weigh in.
The weigh in was another first as it was over in near normal times and the Wall was not the last person to pack up and was very very nearly the first, the results are shown above along with the knockout results etc, you can now start to see the top rods pulling away from the rest of us.
It is very nearly time for the “Holiday” 3 days with 3 matches one on each day, it will be impossible to keep the blog up to date with all that information (and three nights/ mornings), so we may well only report on the actual “Match” which we believe is to be fished on the Sunday but as we know with the Pot Black “things can and indeed will change”.
Looking forward to the weekend away take care.
The other Bank.
P.S. Anyone want to buy 12 gross of St Georges flags!!!
P.P.S. This is another “Nigel free” blog, but he has asked if he can be mentioned in future blogs as Brenda now wonders if he is actually going fishing!
