Mallory Park Fisheries - Snide Rumours & Dirty Lies

Happy New Year to you all!

I must apologise to anyone who had been logging on for our weekly reports but work commitments and then Christmas came a bit sudden this year. I have only just managed to catch up with things.

Rob Hollis

I will start with a match from the 14th December. Unfortunately I had to miss this match due to the aforementioned work commitments but a few reports managed to reach me after the event. You may remember the week prior to this match the fishery had been partially iced over with only the aerators saving the day on pool 1. Now this was the reason for the first teddy being thrown out of the pram. Pro angler and TEAM ABU superstar Steve Conway was not happy fishing in a peg with the aerator opposite, in fact it was reported to me that he constantly whinged and whined all day about how the fish were put off by the moving water. He was apparently even whining when he collected his winnings for the section win!

The second teddy to be tossed out of the pram was poor Keith Hudson’s. He was in the next peg to Mr Conway so it could have been catching. Keith managed to foul hook and land three 6lb fish, you would think this to be very lucky and that he would be pleased, but all three of the fish were barbel and unfortunately Keith had to let them go without troubling the scales.

I also received complaint from the fishery owner. Roy claims that he was constantly abused throughout the match by the anglers pegged next to him, it seems both John Duncan and Stu O'Donnell were finding it quite enjoyable that Roy was unable to catch a fish. There must be a lesson learned though when Roy had four fish in the last half hour to win the section.

Down on the bottom lakes were a few very quiet anglers. It was reported that the angler on the little girl's peg, whose name sounds like Paul Bolsover, was so unusually quiet that it was not noticed that he had sneaked off before the weigh-in. Much of pool 7 were also very quiet, except for Rob Clayton that is, he had one of his best catches this year to come in second place. Mr Ward said it must have been solid!

Here are the results:

Pool 1

Section 1
Peg 1 - Tony Beresford - 20lbs 8ozs
Peg 4 - Pete Exton - 20lbs 4ozs
Peg 7 - Tony Woodings - 19lbs

Section 2
Peg 22 - Steve Conway (TEAM ABU) - 15lbs
Peg 24 - David Ward - 11lbs
Peg 26 - Gary Sadler (TEAM ABU) - 8lbs

Pool 4
Peg 71 - Roy Marlow (TEAM ABU) - 38lbs
Peg 69 - John Duncan - 27lbs
Peg 72 - Stu O'Donnell - 25lbs

Pool 5
Peg 84 - Gordon Parker (TEAM ABU) - 45lbs
Peg 82 - Andy Kind - 31lbs
Peg 85 - Jim Chessman - 17lbs

Pool 6
Peg 87 - Kerry Dyson - 19lbs
Peg 89 - Rob Hollis - 6lbs
Peg 92 - Rich Morgan - 5lbs

Pool 7
Peg 101 - Dave Hunter - 35lbs
Peg 99 - Rob Clayton - 27lbs
Peg 103 - Paul Gardener - 11lbs

The last of group two’s winter league matches was on the 21st December. At the draw Steve Conway was presented with the monthly whinger award. As you have read, he had managed to pack a month's worth of whinging and whining into one day, giving Mr Ward a headache.

The week prior to the match had been very mild and the fishing was a bit better. Bob Eaton once again drew me a good peg, and after a good match I took top spot with 63lbs, all caught tight to the far bank on hair-rigged bread punch with a tiny bread feeder.

Here are the results:

Pool 1

Section 1
Peg 5 - Kev Russell (TEAM ABU) - 63lbs
Peg 2 - Rob Hollis - 54lbs
Peg 8 - Eric Burton - 44lbs

Section 2
Peg 20 - Albert Bray - 41lbs
Peg 14 - Paul Bolsover - 38lbs
Peg 18 - Paul Bates - 31lbs

Section 3
Peg 26 - Chris Hall - 36lbs
Peg 28 - Gary Saddler (TEAM ABU) - 26lbs
Peg 22 - Ringo - 23lbs

Pool 4
Peg 71 - Steve Conway (TEAM ABU) - 49lbs
Peg 69 - Tony Beresford - 35lbs
Peg 67 - Rich Bedder - 19lbs

Pool 5
Peg 85 - Rich Morgan - 36lbs
Peg 84 - Ian Saiger - 22lbs
Peg 78 - Bob Conway - 19lbs

Pool 7
Peg 102 - Andy Kind - 23lbs
Peg 104 - Bob Eaton - 21lbs
Peg 101 - Gordon Parker (TEAM ABU) - 15lbs

The top ten league standings are now like this:

Kev Russell (TEAM ABU) - 84 points - 673lbs
Gord Parker (TEAM ABU) - 83 points - 522lbs
Gary Miller -79 points - 557lbs
Kerry Dyson - 78 points - 523lbs
Dom Lanni (TEAM ABU) - 77 points - 536lbs
Bob Eaton - 74 lbs - 342lbs
Roy Marlow (TEAM ABU) - 74 points - 322lbs
Paul Bolsover - 72 points - 325lbs
Pete Exton - 71 points - 327lbs
Ian Saiger - 70 points - 431lbs

Match winner Brian Hill

We had a members match over Christmas and with water temperatures only just above their freezing point the fishing has still been good with almost everyone weighing in. A big shout-out must go to Brian Hill who managed to win his lake section comprehensively, even frightening a few anglers from weighing-in their catch. There are rumours about that Brian was under pressure from his good lady to get some results on to the Internet. Well done Brian. I had a bonus fish of 15lbs 8oz from peg 1 - this must be one of the largest fish in pool 1.

Pool 1

Section 1
Peg 8 - Gary Miller - 55lbs
Peg 1 - Kev Russell (TEAM ABU) - 36lbs
Peg 4 - Jeff Reast - 17lbs

Section 2
Peg 12 - Rich Morgan - 12lbs
Peg 16 - Rich Wells - 11lbs
Peg 14 - Eric Burton - 8lbs

Section 3
Peg 24 - Trev Slater - 15lbs
Peg 28 - Rich Bedder - 11lbs
Peg 22 - Chris Needham (TEAM ABU) - 12lbs

Pool 4
Peg 70 - Steve Conway (TEAM ABU) - 51lbs
Peg 73 - Paul Bates - 35lbs
Peg 68 - Andy Kind - 32lbs

Pool 5
Peg 82 - Tony Woodings - 26lbs
Peg 78 - Jim Chessman - 24lbs
Peg 80 - Rob Clayton - 20lbs

Pool 7
Peg 102 - Brian Hill - 46lbs
Peg 103 - Ringo - 18lbs
Peg 100 - Paul Bolsover - 13lbs

And finally, details of our netting operations are here - if you can spare some time then please come along and help.

Russelli.

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