first winter league match 2015/16

well here we go again summer has gone and don't we know it! today saw 11 brave souls fighting it out at lavender hall on the dragon pool. in all this years matches we have had no rain at all, today we had a bloody years rain fall on us in one day! well draw done at off we trudged to our pegs well some of us did some fished next to the cars they arrived in and walked all of two bloody yards! i had alfie mobbs for company on the far sid of the pool. as we set up the heavens opened and down it came . alfie on inspecting his rod bag found out he hadn't packed his brolly! oh dear said alfie well not quite in those words he was to end up getting soaked through he must have been frozen five hours later, poor old sod.anyway off we went i couldn't see many of the others but i could see the lads on the other bank were struggling, shame i was catching small stockie mirror carp from the off on maggots and paste at about 8mtrs on the pole feeding pellets and ground bait.things were going well untill the last hour and a half when the wind changed direction it went really dark and the rain got even heavier and the tempreture dropped. carp fishing just died and all i could manage were a few small skimmers god knows how many of them i bumped off on the other bank i was told darren who was fishing his first ever match with us had caught a carp of around 10lb and dropped it back in the pool before reaching his keep net! bad luck mate and i mean that as for the other 10 git well iv'e never seen em so happy!
anyway in peg 8 we find mr consistant and he finished 3rd on the day mr john goode.

and here we find another dopey git without a brolly mr mcalinden the younger

2 pegs from me we find the beast getting ready to weigh in his second place net of fish.


looking across the pool from the car park side as you can see it was tropical weather out there today!

the way big pete is dressed i think he thinks the sun is about to come out! sad git!

stewart had a very nice bream in his net today well done mate.just wish i could understand what he's bloody well saying

oh dear lets move on quickly shall we

a bit late to be sheltering over there out of the rain mobbsey!

next we find the worlds most happy man dave gordon he's starting to make mr mobbs seem cheerful

next we find new boy darren the carp juggler well done mate.

and here we find winner on the day jim langston who had 2 good nets one of stockie carp and another one of nice silvers, well done jim

oh dear i forgot my selfie stick

well thats the first one out of the way well done all. lets hope the weather is kinder to us in 2 weeks time at the riddings, see you all there boys.
sorry the pics are not brilliant but it was wet out there