Conditions again for this heat weren,t the best with a mod/strong northerly wind which meant everyone would have 2 pegs in the morning and 2 in the afternoon into the wind unless it dropped which it didnt
Off went the whistle at 9.00 and straight away 1st cast gareth84 was into a fish and landed it safely his next few casts lead to loads of plucks but nothing solid and unfortunately that was the way his day went,further round the lake was former champion peter appleby who was steadily picking away and putting fish into the net as was the same for last years day 2 winner rob frame,on the last peg before the break saw jim tuck hooking into 5 fish and dropping everyone so see you in the next one jim
come dinnertime there were a couple of 4s and 5s lots of 2s and 3s so everything was still to play for
after diner the going got slightly tougher and the fish were seemingly feeding in the top 6" on dries ie shipmans and hares ear sugar cubes
it was very noticable that ben race was having no luck on this ocation with hooking and dropping 9 fish on 1 peg then realising that azfter checking his hook that the bend had somehow snapped see you at stocks ben
going into the last session it was very tight between 5 anglers however 1 angler fishing opposite me in no mans land hooked and landed a fish then realised that he had been fishing the wrong peg for 30 mins after a mild breifing he moved on to the right peg and 1 st cast hooked and landed another fish which this one would be marked on his scorecard this could have been costly as at the finish when all scores were totted up the results were as follows

1st Rob Frame 12 fish

2nd Peter (the wrong peg )Appleby 11 fish

3rd Chris Macelliff 9 fish

fish caught 76

Rod Ave 5

A thanks to Aldin Grange for holding the team and individual heats which im sure we,ll be back next year a big thanks to all marshalls for giving up their time in not the best of weathers.

Next week Bankhouse in lancashire 1 place available please get in touch if you are interested

jim