Supercup Round 1

Long time no blog, but here goes nothing.

Bridges AC were the opposition for the day, We heard roumours that they were a good team with a few top anglers to boot and they also thrashed Crowle 8 - 0 or something daft last year on there home water which happened to be the same water they took us to, Lambwath Lakes on the very farest east coast you can get! Now we had a very close match with Crowle last year, so to be fair I was expecting us to get a proper thrashing.

Early start again for this one as we were meeting in the Scoff a lot cafe in Hull at 7:30, Easily a hour and 10 traveling from my end, so I was up with the morning chorus at 5:30 to get me woke up and sorted for a day of full concentration. I set off at 6:30 and plooded down the motorway to the cafe, Ariving at the cafe i was 2nd there as NOB was already there with a copy of Advanced pole fishing in hand, 2 large breakfasts ordered for me and Chris, cool this day is going well so far! 5 minutes later Monkstain arrived, then Nige, Tony and the rest of the mob. After the team plan being given to us from Nige we set off on our way in convoy to the pub where we was meeting Bridges AC which was 15 minutes away.

Arriving at the pub it was closed down ???? whats the point of meeting at a pub thats closed down??? Mine and Mafs idea of having a pint to settle the old nerves was blasted straight out the window, Instead we all stood shivvering our tits off for 20 mins while the draw was done. Chris and his golden arm picked the envolope for odds and evens, we got evens. next was the draw for the pegs, not sure how this worked but my peg got drawn for me and put me on peg 14, A decent peg where the carp had been showing, nice start, everyone else drew there pegs, Chris was against the flyer on the pond, Ade on the corner peg oppersite me, Tony on the corner peg on my bank, and I was next to corner.


Down to the lake and unloaded all the tackle out the car and hiked off to my peg,which i managed to walk straight past and continued all the way around the lake nearly back to the car park, what a pillock! After the walk back to my peg I saw that i was fairly well sheltered from the wind which was nice presentation should be decent. After a 10 min sitdown and to watch the water for movement I finally got my breath back and started setting up.

All my bait was set out nicely on the sidetray, 1/2 mags, 1/2 pinkies, 2 pints of Caster, Tin of corn, Micro pellets for the cone. Next was the task of setting up all the methods mentioned in the team plan which took ages.

Nearly whistle time, I'm shitting it as the guy next to me looks like he can fish a bit! Pressure is on today.

Whistle time and I start on the straight lead chucked to the rope with corn on the hook, I tighted up and the rod flys around, crikey I wasnt expecting that as i hadnt even put and feed out yet. Anyways I was too busy fannying around with my catty and I missed that bite. Second chuck and its in exactly the same place, I'm on fire! The rod rips around and I'm into the first carp of the match, A small stockie of about 12oz is in the net, I havent blanked and the 3 points is off the bored for a DNW, wahey! The next few chucks resulted in a few missed bites, Before I decided to spray some casters in on a waggler line and get some silvers in the net, these were there straight away and i started catching a few silvers.

Meanwhile blokey next to me is into a decent carp, oh dear the pressure is back on, He nets it and it looks a good 3 lb so im behind, I continue catching silvers quite quickly, Altough blokey next to me is into another good carp, this one is much bigger and it looks about 8lb, Oh shit, Ive had it now, I still keep going at the silvers and keep catching and he hooks into another carp and he nets it, at this point I'm not happy and am fearing the worst, Its about 12 lb to 3lb to him.

I wasn't having this, I went out on the pole at 7 metre and stated really bagging the silvers as anyone knows 7 lb of silvers is easy to catch if there having it at close range, Things started to look up when i got a tench of a lb, then I lost one next chuck, then another lb tench in the net, Then a 1lb perch graces the keepnet, whilst i'd had all these blokey next to me hadnt had a fish, He then plumbed up a line at 7 metre and had a blast on the pole, which proved fruitless for him, whereas I continued to bag the silvers, It was maybe his 12 lb to my 8lb, I was catching up.

We were now into the 5th hour and maf to my left had started catching on bomb and hair riged bread punch, So i tried the Corn on bomb again to see if there was a few on my rope, I sat for 10 mins without a knock and i was watching matey next to me net another carp, he'd now had 6 carp for about 18lb and I was still on 8lb, I was fearing the worse when my clutch started ripping out! Ah another carpy in the net for me, I chucked back in and the tip ripped round again. Another carpy in the net for me. Me and Maf were matching each other fish for fish and We were fishcaking the Bridges guy in the middle of us, We had double hookups a few times. His fellow team members were giving his some right stick about being battered off both sides, which was a great laugh for me and Maf. I kept catching all the way through the last hour and so did maf. With 5 minutes left and his team mates badgering the Bridges Guy in the middle of me and Maf stuck a bomb rod out, A few minutes later he hooked a lump, The whistle went and he continued to play this obviously large fish, before this guy hooked this fish Maf was a clear 6 - 7lb ahead, He landed the fish and it looked a easy double, Me and Maf were gutted, Maf had been pipped in the dying minutes of the match and it was close between me and the guy next to me.

Turns out the lump was enough to secure that section, I beat the guy next to me, Ade beat the guy next to him, Chris got beat by the geezer on the flyer, Tony looked like he had won the match. This was going to be close!!!

Following the scales around the lake, we were going section for section, until the final one, which we won, so that made it 4 all!!! close so that means it went down to a Final weights count, which unfortuatly we lost with there 112LB to our 95LB.

On to the pub to see who had won what, Tony (Carpmeister) got a round in, cheers dude! He also won the match with 26lb odd, 2nd place was 25lb odd and was a Bridges angler, 3rd place was me with 21lb odd :D

So all in all, We got 2 of the top 3 places and 4 of the section wins so we came away with the most prize money :D

Two years running and two years its been very close! Better Luck next year eh lads! Big up to everyone who took part in the Match and the practices, Top drawer performance by everyone.

Till next time.... Tight lines :D