If they need a site for a new wind farm in Suffolk we have just the place, it was Horrible, the wind blew more than Bear and Shane put together after a night on the beer (now that is a lot of wind) and it did nothing for the catch rate as the results show.
It was a triples week, and again wishing to remove all accusations of draw rigging the draw was sent through siber space to deepest Norfolk for an independent draw and the opportunity for his nibs to cast accusations that someone else had “rigged the draw”.
The teams of three where announced and as we only had 14 down to fish a “floater” was drawn, this was club stalwart and resident gnome Roy Moyse, so Roy was to be in two teams, then Ardo took the sensible option and stayed in bed so the floater was put into another team as well !! (come on stay with it this is the Pot Black), this resulted in Roy coming First and Second but only gets 2 points as his “real team” finished out of the top 3 so he therefore would have been better of only catching one fish and just weighing in !!.
The wind was down the lake so onto everybody’s side, some put up brollies others just ruffed it out, it howled a gale all day “pi- -d it down” a couple of times just to add to the fun, hats blew in the water then blew against the wind and up trees, most members had something blown in and it was generally uncomfortable.
New senior Lewis was fishing well and was visited by several members to “borrow” some of his successful bait, when he was unwilling to allow team leader to have any he was threatened with a long walk home if he did not had over the required bait, another year and he will have his own car and I am sure we will all have to “get our own bait” because he is getting far too successful at this fishing lark.
The juniors where both missing, Declan due to Granddad being on his pottery holiday and Kieran due to the fact that his Dad’s amnesia is so bad now he actually forgot to turn up, so it was a “Seniors Only Match”, the weights were respectable but not good, everyone caught although Bruce threw his back without weighing in (great help to your team that, cheers teammate), not the best days fishing but it was a day out in the fresh air and we all at least caught something.
You will need to study the results sheet posted by team leader to find out who actually won the day as to say it is confusing is a little of a understatement, all I managed to clean from the weigh in / points total was as expected, team leader got higher than average points and poor Roy who won and came second got only two points (told Roy he was catching to many fish and was starting to be a threat to some of the glory hunters !!).
We have a Thursday match at the ever popular Burgh Apton then we have our first Pot Black “change from the fixture list” (its lovely to know that some things never change), due to extensive practicing at a second Halesworth venue nobody else new was there we are moving from the published fixture to the new venue. Match times are the same and you just go to the venue as normal but go right instead of turning into the car park on the left (scene of the first Pot Black Traffic incident) and follow the track down past the first lake to another lake further along.
Hopefully the weather will be kind to us, and according to “The Wall” it will fish well and is a lovely place to fish, so until the next one tight lines.
The other bank.
