Mallory Park Fisheries - Snide Rumours & Dirty Lies

After heavy rain early in the morning the day looked to be okay, a brisk southerly wind would hopefully get a few fish feeding. 44 anglers this week were all counted and paid up correctly for the second week running Team Abacus. As the days are shortening we moved to a 10.45am start, finishing at 3.45pm to get weighed in before dark. There weren't many end pegs left when Bob Eaton went in the bag for me, he pulled out no 2 which was a winner last week so I was hopeful of a good day. I knew I would have to concentrate and cast well as the gap on the far bank looks quite tight. I started on the liqqy bread feeder and hair-rigged bread punch and caught from the off a move to ground bait after ½ hour seemed to get the fish in a frenzy and I caught well, a switch to a banded pellet proved to be a wrong move and a number of good fish were lost. This seemed to spoil the swim and I had a quiet spell before a switch back to bread in the last hour gave me four good fish.

It was difficult to see what had been caught in the section although I knew Tony Woodings, to my right, had caught well throughout the match on straight lead and corn at the bottom of the far shelf. We weighed in from the far end, which this week was only peg 25 - I had been talked out of using the far end after it had been poor the previous week. The top weight in this section fell to Jarrad Smith with 84lb, all Jared's fish were caught on meat fished tight across to the boards on peg 20. Second in the section at the next peg was Mick Burrows only just behind with 77lb.

The second section was won from peg 12 by ‘honest’ Jim Chessman , he admitted to 80lb and actually weighed 81lb, all Jim's fish were also caught on the meat. Jim and Jarrad had apparently practised hard the day before! John Duncan was second and Dave Colkin fished an unusual Polaris float for third. As we moved down the first section it was clear it had not been easy on the corner pegs. The first good weight was Gary Saddler with 58lb, Tony Woodings just pipped that with 60lb and my fish weighed in at 77lb, slightly more than I had estimated!

Pool 1
Section 1
Peg 2 - Kev Russell - 77lb
Peg 4 - Tony Woodings - 60lb
Peg 5 - Gary Saddler - 59lb

Section 2
Peg 12 - Jim Chessman - 81lb
Peg 11 - John Duncan - 58lb
Peg 15 - Dave Colkin - 40lb

Section 3
Peg 20 - Jarrad Smith - 84lb
Peg 21 - Mick Burrows - 77lb
Peg 18 - Dave West - 63lb

Pool 4 was trounced by the man in form and the early league leader, Dom Lanni. Dom has already scored a maximum 40 points with a match in hand. He caught on both paste feeder and long pole with cat meat to take 16 carp for 97lb, the highest weight on the day. Second place, from the far end peg, was Carl Williams.

Pool 4
Peg 68 - Dom Lanni - 97lb
Peg 75 - Carl Williams - 39lb
Peg 73 - Kerry Dyson - 30lb

All the weights on pool 5 this week were caught on the pole apparently. Dave Hunter was back to form beating both the ‘flier’ end pegs. New member Jamie Adcock did manage a second from peg 85 and Gordon Priddey came in third at the next peg. Mr Ward had apparently shipped his pole in and out so much at end peg 76, catching gudgeon of around 1oz each, that he had loosened his no 6 section and alas as he was playing one of these monsters it fell off, never to be seen again. This cost him a good weight as he was unable to keep the rhythm. He did add though that it was enough to batter Rob Bowser at the next peg, Rob is now apparently on suicide watch!

Pool 5
Peg 79 - Dave Hunter - 47lb
Peg 85 - Jamie Adcock - 37lb
Peg 83 - Gordon Priddey - 31lb

Pool 6 had an influx of rain water and didn't fish well Gordon Parker drew the little girl's peg and took the win. Steve Conway fished hard for 31lb of silver fish at 16mtrs for second place, with Tony Berresford in third from peg 92.

Pool 6
Peg 86 - Gordon Parker - 38lb
Peg 94 - Steve Conway - 31lb
Peg 92 - Tony Beresford - 17lb

Paul Bolsover took the win on pool seven with 44lb against stiff opposition from the Staffordshire posse. Chris Downs was close behind in second, with draw bag expert Chris Allen third from the end peg.

Pool 7
Peg 104 - Paul Bolsover - 44lb
Peg 106 - Chris Downs - 41lb
Peg 98 - Chris Allen - 36lb

Chris Allen has now managed three end pegs from four matches and will no doubt also win the lottery this week. It was noticed though that some other anglers are still drawing end pegs on a regular basis, watch this space.

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