RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY COME BACK ANOTHER DAY!
After low weights the previous day, a forecast of pouring rain and cold temperatures , plus all lakes being hit hard the previous day at Lakeview by matches and pleasure anglers - we - the fishermen of MTC - having thought long and hard about it, watched weather forecast, surfed the internet, prayed, bored the chief in the pub and talked rubbish on the tram - decided on, wait for it - yes - Lakeview!
Harbour for shelter, its unknown fish stocks, our reluctance to fish it previously. It looked dead, fishless, biteless and many would argue pointless! I might as well, right! we must be mad etc etc
Thats how its done.
Nico had a carp almost first put in on pellet. Pressure was on. Was this the bag up day?
Nicholls needed to come in the top 2 to be crowned champ.
PC started as ever confident - put in eventually after a Red Indian style dance with brollie to the fish Gods. What followed was? Nothing, rig too short, down the middle nothing, other side nothing, maggot nothing, pellet nothing, more brollie dancing nothing and corn nothing. In one word nothing.
Nicholls carp second put in on corn, then a tench and then caught a fish every 40 minutes or so for a bag of 19lb. Slow, blue hands cold, wet, windy, White Acres revisited.
Nico tried hard, really hard - if he was a striker he had a 100% record of chances to goals. One bite, first put in and one carp! It must have drove him mad - why wasn't he catching? End peg might have been the reason, boxed into a corner, nowhere to turn, up against the ropes and doing down.
Do we ever learn?
PCs net for Day Three - you will have to look closely
Nico one bite and resulting fish.
Weighting in another solid performance - PC 'Are those what we are after - if I'd only known!'
20lb and the winning weight by a long way.
Nico not sour. Champ for now Nicholls.
Nicholls 8 points 42lb
Nico 6 points 15lb
Papa Chav 4 points 7lb
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