Mallory Park Fisheries - Snide Rumours & Dirty Lies

As we sat for breakfast in the Mallory Park cafe, it was evident that we were in for a bad day weather wise, a motorcyclist had already fallen off, and this was just one of the marshals driving down to the pits! The racetrack looked more like a river. As we arrived at the Glebe the rain had got even heavier and the southerly wind was getting stronger. As we waited for the usual late arrivals I had a few picture messages arrive on my phone. It was from the previous evening's Halloween party - some of our members had paid good money to fancy dress. Jarred was a skeleton, Master Bates went along as Dracula, our Netting and fish stock controller, Scott Brown, was in a pumpkin suit. Rob Bowser was quick to comment that the suit was not needed at all just some yellow paint, nasty.

We had 40 anglers this week, but for some reason our faithful mastermind duo, Mr Ward and Mr Clayton, aka TEAM ABACUS, once again had trouble counting up to 40 and I had to do some juggling to get every one on a peg with at least one empty swim one side. There were still tears from the week before after some anglers had been surrounded by others each side. In defence I must add that all the anglers in this situation last week had won money!

On to the fishing. This week I had been drawn on one of my favourite winter pegs, number four on pool one. I like this peg as it seems to have a bit more room on the far bank to allow for casting error! At the start it was difficult with driving rain and gusting southerly wind, but both myself and Dom Lanni, on peg five, were off to reasonable starts, both catching small buddy carp. I added three better fish before the wind swung round to become a really strong north westerly. I was now finding it impossible to get accurate with my feeder. Dom was giving me a real battering now and managing to cast his feeder amongst the small carp in a much tighter peg than mine. I was forced on to a long margin line, where I had been feeding micro pellets and few castors. After a couple of small fish I was pleasantly suppressed to hook a good carp. In the net it was around 8lb. I followed this with two more around the same size. Things were looking better. A couple more carp in the last few hours and two bream around 2lb had given me a reasonable weight.

Dom had fished brilliantly to win the section with 68lb of small carp, I was lucky enough to get the second place with Brian Hill in third on peg 8. We were lucky this week as Brian was the last peg in our section, around the bend the weights were much better with the big fish really having a go. Rich Morgan had 105lb to win the second section on peg 16 and Rob Bowser also had over a hundred pounds on peg 27 to win the third section. There were much better back up weights in these sections with no one frightened to weigh-in.

Pool 1
Section 1
Peg 5 - Dom Lanni - 68lb
Peg 4 - Kev Russell - 58lb
Peg 8 - Brian Hill - 43lb

Section 2
Peg 16 - Rich Morgan - 105lb
Peg 12 - Gordon Priddey - 73lb
Peg 11 - Mark Davis - 70lb

Section 3
Peg 27 - Rob Bowser - 101lb
Peg 21 - Gary Elliot - 77lb
Peg 29 - Carl Redman - 60lb

Pool 4 had been practised heavily during the week with good catches reported. A couple of one hundred plus weights were caught, Bob Eaton taking the win with 136lb and Mick Burrows in second place with 103lb.

Pool 4
Peg 69 - Bob Eaton - 136lb
Peg 67 - Mick Burrows - 103lb
Peg 71 - Jim Chessman - 89lb

Pool 5 was once again dominated by the end pegs, Chris Allen taking 92lb on the wide end and Gary Miller 67lb from the narrow end.

Pool 5
Peg 85 - Chris Allen - 92lb
Peg 76 - Gary Miller - 67lb
Peg 78 - Pete Exton - 65lb

Pool 6 however was not dominated by the usual peg. Andy MATCHCATCH Towers did manage third from the little girl's peg though. Apparently this is the first time he has had a go on this end peg! Really. Steve Conway was back to his best, with an empty peg either side, weighing in 94lb to take the win. Gary Sadler had pushed him hard though from the other end of the lake. Taking a well earned 84lb to the scales.

Pool 6
Peg 88 - Steve Conway - 94lb
Peg 96 - Gary Sadler - 84lb
Peg 86 - Andy Towers - 67lb

A story has just landed in my in box regarding a competitor on pool 7. It appears that Marukyu, the World's largest ground bait company, has invested fortunes in designing packaging for their new ground baits that is completely idiot proof regarding the mixing instructions. The packaging was tested on various species of animals including humans, monkeys, apes, parrots and mice. After spending millions on all of this research, it has now proven that it was all in vain and a total waste of money.

The research team for Marukyu included some of the best scientists in the World. They specialise in designing packaging that is totally idiot proof, alas they may now all be out of work. The scientists, knowing that they would be dealing with anglers, decided that words alone were not the answer to ensure that the product is mixed correctly. This posed a mammoth task because mixing correctly involves two important measurements - the product and the water:

The top brains thought this would be simple, just use pictures next to the words showing measuring bowls. For example, two parts product to one part water with big pictures and big words. Even the mice got it right. At this week's match Mr Ward, now known as Delia, made his ground bait into soup, yes, you guessed it, he did it the wrong way around. The bags are not big enough to contain building blocks, or a built in audio tape machine. We would all be grateful if anyone could break off from one of their many weekly practice sessions to pop along to Wigston and teach some literary and numeracy skills.

Even after this ground bait disaster Mr Ward managed a creditable second place on this pool just beating John Palmer and 'Robber' Roy. Apparently RM did feel sorry for Delia and fished with the soup, giving the TEAM ABACUS angler the correctly mixed bait. Kerry Dyson topped the lake with just under 70 pounds of carp taken on hair-rigged bread.

Pool 7
Peg 101 - Kerry Dyson - 69lb
Peg 105 - David Ward - 57lb
Peg 103 - John Palmer - 55lb

End pegs:
According to my records there are now two anglers that have drawn end pegs in the last two matches. They are Stu O'Donnell and Rob Hollis. Jammy? You decide.

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