Well that’s it, all over the final curtain has been drawn over the Pot Black 2010 Championship.
And the winner is Mr Martin Dingit, defeating “The Wall” into 2nd position despite his nibs having top weight he was wiped out by one of his own “doubles draws”, well done Martin.
The knock out was also decided with Banjo and Nigee having a face off across the lake, age experience and the fact that Banjo never caught a fish means that Nigel has been true to his prediction at the start of the season and has “seen us all off and the cream has come to the top”, the winner of the knockout 2010 is Mr Nigel Blowers, well done Nigel.
As predicted in the last blog the weather at Windyclay surpassed its self, and in the words of Banjo “we had all 4 seasons in one go” it was windy (always is) it rained (usually does) but squalls and torrential downpours are a new version on bad weather even for the Pot Black Windyclay match, but the sun decided to shine for the weigh in and Nigel and Martins little faces shone all the more.
The club was ordered to be on early parade by Team Leader as he wished to suppress all accusations of draw rigging and conduct the draw live in the caravan prior to the match, this was duly obeyed by all members and we assembled in the caravan for the doubles / pairs / match draw (we forgot the golden peg , but this is the Pot Black after all).
The draw over with we set off to the lake, Bear tried ground baiting the path on the way round which is a new tactic (one that I cannot see catching on), peg 17 was “straight into the wind” but worth leaving in according to Stuart so no prizes for guessing who drew that peg (yours truly).
The camaraderie was lovely to see, Trevor was into fish early, the Wall hoped they all got off, Dingit hoped he caught more and more, (Trevor was Dingits partner) the Wall took fish early on, mainly from Bulti’s swim but he also had several casts into Trevor’s swim which involved going over young Kieran’s swim, but as usual he was unaffected by any comments directed towards him.
On the windy bank Nigee took fish and once he had reached two, sat back and was content to just torment poor Banjo and was only going to try again should Banjo catch a fish, Bruce managed to catch one of the “Windyclay Escape Artist Fish” which somehow managed to jump out of the net prior to the weigh in, Aaron proved that pole tactics were not the correct ones on the day, and yours truly sat face into the wind and just reiterated what a horrible place this is to fish.
Daddy Moyse was rather subdued and “Young Steve” showed the “Old Boy” up at the scales although as Roy reminded him he did teach him all he knew!, Daddy Bulti fishing next to the Wall had the only fish in his swim “nicked” by a couple of rogue casts by our team leader. A good day and Stuart and Nicola do a marvellous job with the catering / draw facilities etc etc, it seems strange that it is all over for another year but as they say all good things must come to an end.
So that’s it, Champion of 2010 is Martin Dingit winner of the knockout 2010 is Nigel Blowers, but we are all winners as it has been another marvellous season 11 Sunday matches, several times have changed, we even moved venues but generally Nigel has made it home at the predicted time so Brenda has managed to keep the catering to his requirements.
Congratulations and very sincere thanks must go to Michael (I know he is a bit temperamental and prone to the odd mood swings but we must let him know he is appreciated) for all his hard work in organising and sorting out the venues etc and please keep it going, also this year we have had a good set of “THURSDAY FRIENDLIES” and a very enjoyable and extremely well attended “Weekend Away” which again was enjoyed by all.
The last match will be a straight knockout at Burgh Apton were we are guaranteed a “Wally flexi peg” we may even see the old movable bush peg, and if we are really lucky we might even get the “ I ain’t never fished this side so I will go here” brought into play. But at a quality venue like Burgh Apton we will defiantly get a good match and if the weather is a little kind to us we might even see the magic “Ton Up” go into the nets for one or two of the club, till the last match.
Keep up the good work Wally
The other bank.
P.S. We have had another first with Mrs Boyce phoning in to say that Boycee was unable to make the match due to over celebrating his birthday the night before (bless) so belated Happy Birthday Boycee, least they were not stuck on idea’s for presents for you as you can always use some more tackle !!
And the winner is Mr Martin Dingit, defeating “The Wall” into 2nd position despite his nibs having top weight he was wiped out by one of his own “doubles draws”, well done Martin.
The knock out was also decided with Banjo and Nigee having a face off across the lake, age experience and the fact that Banjo never caught a fish means that Nigel has been true to his prediction at the start of the season and has “seen us all off and the cream has come to the top”, the winner of the knockout 2010 is Mr Nigel Blowers, well done Nigel.
As predicted in the last blog the weather at Windyclay surpassed its self, and in the words of Banjo “we had all 4 seasons in one go” it was windy (always is) it rained (usually does) but squalls and torrential downpours are a new version on bad weather even for the Pot Black Windyclay match, but the sun decided to shine for the weigh in and Nigel and Martins little faces shone all the more.
The club was ordered to be on early parade by Team Leader as he wished to suppress all accusations of draw rigging and conduct the draw live in the caravan prior to the match, this was duly obeyed by all members and we assembled in the caravan for the doubles / pairs / match draw (we forgot the golden peg , but this is the Pot Black after all).
The draw over with we set off to the lake, Bear tried ground baiting the path on the way round which is a new tactic (one that I cannot see catching on), peg 17 was “straight into the wind” but worth leaving in according to Stuart so no prizes for guessing who drew that peg (yours truly).
The camaraderie was lovely to see, Trevor was into fish early, the Wall hoped they all got off, Dingit hoped he caught more and more, (Trevor was Dingits partner) the Wall took fish early on, mainly from Bulti’s swim but he also had several casts into Trevor’s swim which involved going over young Kieran’s swim, but as usual he was unaffected by any comments directed towards him.
On the windy bank Nigee took fish and once he had reached two, sat back and was content to just torment poor Banjo and was only going to try again should Banjo catch a fish, Bruce managed to catch one of the “Windyclay Escape Artist Fish” which somehow managed to jump out of the net prior to the weigh in, Aaron proved that pole tactics were not the correct ones on the day, and yours truly sat face into the wind and just reiterated what a horrible place this is to fish.
Daddy Moyse was rather subdued and “Young Steve” showed the “Old Boy” up at the scales although as Roy reminded him he did teach him all he knew!, Daddy Bulti fishing next to the Wall had the only fish in his swim “nicked” by a couple of rogue casts by our team leader. A good day and Stuart and Nicola do a marvellous job with the catering / draw facilities etc etc, it seems strange that it is all over for another year but as they say all good things must come to an end.
So that’s it, Champion of 2010 is Martin Dingit winner of the knockout 2010 is Nigel Blowers, but we are all winners as it has been another marvellous season 11 Sunday matches, several times have changed, we even moved venues but generally Nigel has made it home at the predicted time so Brenda has managed to keep the catering to his requirements.
Congratulations and very sincere thanks must go to Michael (I know he is a bit temperamental and prone to the odd mood swings but we must let him know he is appreciated) for all his hard work in organising and sorting out the venues etc and please keep it going, also this year we have had a good set of “THURSDAY FRIENDLIES” and a very enjoyable and extremely well attended “Weekend Away” which again was enjoyed by all.
The last match will be a straight knockout at Burgh Apton were we are guaranteed a “Wally flexi peg” we may even see the old movable bush peg, and if we are really lucky we might even get the “ I ain’t never fished this side so I will go here” brought into play. But at a quality venue like Burgh Apton we will defiantly get a good match and if the weather is a little kind to us we might even see the magic “Ton Up” go into the nets for one or two of the club, till the last match.
Keep up the good work Wally
The other bank.
P.S. We have had another first with Mrs Boyce phoning in to say that Boycee was unable to make the match due to over celebrating his birthday the night before (bless) so belated Happy Birthday Boycee, least they were not stuck on idea’s for presents for you as you can always use some more tackle !!
