After the long freeze Saturday finally saw in the second leg of the long running Winter league, Allandale Tarn ~v~ The Paisley Patterns!...

Allandale Tarn came into this leg with an early lead of 20lb 01oz after the first match hosted at Arran View last November. But we knew all to well that our old adversaries have a knack of doing us some damage on our home water, so it was never going to be a relaxing days fishing for anyone!..

The first half of the day wasn't seeing either team with a discernible lead, as the Team Captains gathered a rough tally of fish numbers and tactics over lunch. Fishing had been steady & continuous so far and thankfully the 70+ mph winds even The Tarn saw the day before, had long gone prior to the teams setting up for the days event that morning.
It was a tense start after lunch. Fishing had finally slowed, very few breaking the waters surface, but for most this lull wasn't to last long at all. Some of the Paisleys Patterns soon started picking up fish at different sections of the water & soon it was looking like they had nailed the tactics that were going to work. Then finally some of the Allandale lot started to pick off fish too & it was starting to look like an even competition again & fingers were crossed that we might make back some of the numbers we had lost so soon after lunch! However with the speed some of the other teams guys were hooking up & landing fish, it was becoming evident that luck wasn't with The home team today!
The match bag limits were 4 fish then 2lb allocated for every fish released after. All fish capped at 4lb max.
The days results were:
Allandale Tarn - 55 fish landed @ 112lb 09oz
Paisley Patterns - 86 fish landed @ 169lb 6oz

After taking into account the results of the first heat, the Paisley Pattern's are now in the lead with a 40lb 10 oz advantage over Allandale.

John Airlie was Allandale's Top Rod of the day, with a solid 14 fish landed by himself. Tempted on a floating line to either his own blood worm buzzer or Pink Blob.
The Paisley Pattern's Top man of the day was Dean, finishing with a staggering 33 fish tempted to his own UV pink Apts & also a Chartreuse Apts variants.

Despite the running lead after the second match, Paisley Pattern's team Captain Robert Lamb reminded us all that this kind of defasit has been won back before and so his team shouldn't get too comfortable going into the 3rd match in two weeks time!..

There's no escaping that todays battle was well & truly lost on our home water, but as Robert stated 'it's been won back before', so I say bring it on!.. Lol......

Tight lines team Allandale!..

I spoke with Dean last night. He is a really good angler and a top fly tyer as well. Easy the Paisley boys!!!

Ha ha ha! Are you politely saying that the Paisley boys enlisted a 'Ringer'?Ha ha ha!..
Yes, Dean did the team proud. Next time he should teach the rest of his team how to catch fish too! lol..
Acht, we'll pull a few numbers back yet. It ain't over 'til it's over and I'll have a few 'specials' tied before the next match too...

C'mon The Tarn!...
Ha ha ha!..