The 4th Bernard Brian memorial match saw some glorious sunshine at last. We were hoping the fishing was going to be as good as the weather. Er...... no!!!!
Early indication weren't good. some of the lads had been practising in the week and though a lot of fish were caught on Wednesday, Thursday was not so good. They just weren't having it.
I drew peg 2, which was towards the top right hand side corner of the pond as you come up from the car park. Last years winner came from peg 4 so I thought I might be in with a shout.
I set up one pellet rig at 9 metres to my left and fed caster to the right by hand for the stick as well as with the catapult long for the waggler.
I started with the waggler and slowly the fish started coming, luckily they were of a fairly decent size. I caught steadily most of the morning but things slowed after lunch. I came in on the stick and caught a couple but then that dried up too.
I had kept feeding the pole line with half a pot of pellets every hour just as a back up, it was time to try it.
I had a few skimmers and a couple of roach about 6 oz which were more than welcome.
The last hour or so saw the odd fish coming off each line before having to move onto the next. I kept feeding all the lines the same just to tempt a few fish before they backed off again.
At the weigh in I thought it was going to be a close one between me and peg 3 who'd been catching steadily all day albeit smaller fish. I thought he'd done enough to beat me though. No one else on the lake seemed to be catching at all so I thought it was between us both.
I weighed 13lb 9oz with 10lb 5oz coming off peg 3. It was enough to put me in 1st and finally get my name on the trophy.
Next weight was 7lb 10oz from peg 1, then the weights really went down.
All other weights were around 5lb or less with far too many around the 2lb mark. Very poor weights for a venue like this.
Cheers Bernard
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