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Southern Pairs Match 2008.
Twenty of us assembled at Hawkhurst today on the Match Lake for the 1st ever Maggotdrowning Southern Pairs organised by Vince.
Pulling into the car park most of the usual suspects were already assembled along with a few “virgins” in the form of Keith ‘Disco’ Driscoll, Gary ‘alltackledup’ Page and Steve Allen and his 2 lads, Pete & Nick and the banter was soon flowing.
Breakfast was soon consumed in the Café and the draw made so that we could get to our pegs and with the sun beaming down it looked like we could be in for a decent day with a lot of fish on the cards.
Pulling into the car park most of the usual suspects were already assembled along with a few “virgins” in the form of Keith ‘Disco’ Driscoll, Gary ‘alltackledup’ Page and Steve Allen and his 2 lads, Pete & Nick and the banter was soon flowing.
Breakfast was soon consumed in the Café and the draw made so that we could get to our pegs and with the sun beaming down it looked like we could be in for a decent day with a lot of fish on the cards.
Now Hawkhurst has a reputation for producing big weights and as I settled into peg 3 it was obvious that Matt, my Pairs partner for the day was expecting a real bagging session as he already had 4 keepnets in place !!!!!!!!
I just set up 3 rigs, all on top 3′s as I was planning to fish at no more than 3mtrs. 1 with a Mk3 Malman self cocking paste float on 0·18 to a size 12 Drennan Carp Match for paste and 2 for pellet, a Malman 0·3g MTD1 dibber on 0·18 to a size 18 Drennan Carp Match for shallow and a Malman 4×12 Snake IV on 0·18 to a size 18 Drennan Carp Match for on the deck. Bait wise I was going to keep things simple, with just 6mm hard pellet for both feed and hookbait and 8mm hard pellet and a few 6mm expanders along with some GOT Atomic paste as alternative hookbaits. 10 minutes prior to the off the aerators were switched off and plenty of fish could be seen moving around as anglers sat and considered the 5 hours ahead.
10·30am and Vince blew the whistle for the All-in and I fed a handful of pellet into the margin and another straight out at 3mtrs and followed it with a banded 6mm pellet on my deck rig. Bill over on peg 17 was into a Carp straight away as was Paul to my right on peg 4, but overall it wasn’t the hectic start that most of us had expected. Vince even had time to try out his new camera, I’m sure he must have been asking me how many fish I’d caught when he took this one………
Indeed within half an hour of the start things appeared to slow down all round the lake. Matt however did have his fan club turn up and caused a bit of excitement as they watched him take the nice fishy for a swim, though when Bill started singing a Gary Glitter song I thought Paul and I were going to split our sides ………
I was really struggling to find as much as a bite, though Terry didn’t seem to be having to much trouble, it was just getting them to stay on the hook that was proving troublesome ………
Paul had put as good a run of fish together as anyone, but then went through a stage of getting a load of foul hookers, none of which found their way to the net before he to suffered a lull in sport………
Fed up with struggling I went for a stroll to see if anyone had found the secret to putting a decent bag together on the day.
I found Dave Collier up on peg 6 admitting to 7 fish and preparing to have a go under the bush in his left hand margin ………
Clive was concentrating on his right hand margin over on peg 11, not that it appeared to be reaping any huge rewards……
Kevin seemed to be searching for some inspiration anywhere he could find it and was having an absolute mare with hardly anything to show for his efforts …………
Trevor was also fishing the margin to his right , but was handicapped by having to face Bill who was next door on peg 17 ……
Back to my peg and it was just a question of sticking at it, cutting back on the feed and fishing for bites and this finally started to produce a couple of fish for me though I did suffer with a few foul hookers.
With sport being so slow the banter was flying however. Keith”Disco” Driscoll on my left having been rechristened “Nightclub” by Bill and Nick on peg 1 and Vince on peg 20 being accused of having a separate competition to see who could make the best (Worst?) job of blowing a noted Flyer. Indeed at one point Nick obviously worried that Vince might win that one spent a good 10 minutes trying to lose a Carp, even wrapping it round his platform legs in an attempt to avoid netting it ………
Thankfully Vince blew the whistle for the All-out at 3·30pm to put us all out of our misery. With so little caught however at least the weigh-in didn’t take to long and it was going to make for a close result to the pairs competition.
Back at the Café for the results it was revealed that Dave Collier and Clive Pritchard were the Maggotdrowning Southern Pairs winners for 2008, tying on points with Paul East and Terry Goff but taking the result on weight with myself and Matt Love in Third just 1 point behind.
I’d just like to say a big THANK YOU to Vince who did his usual excellent job of organising the day’s proceedings, even managing to lay on the best weather for quite some while, Oh and he had to give me yet another £1 coin. Just a shame that the fishing wasn’t up to expectations, though everyone appeared to enjoy themselves. Here’s to the next one
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Back at the Café for the results it was revealed that Dave Collier and Clive Pritchard were the Maggotdrowning Southern Pairs winners for 2008, tying on points with Paul East and Terry Goff but taking the result on weight with myself and Matt Love in Third just 1 point behind.
I’d just like to say a big THANK YOU to Vince who did his usual excellent job of organising the day’s proceedings, even managing to lay on the best weather for quite some while, Oh and he had to give me yet another £1 coin. Just a shame that the fishing wasn’t up to expectations, though everyone appeared to enjoy themselves. Here’s to the next one
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Pairs Result
| Position | Pairs | Points |
| 1st | Dave Collier & Clive Pritchard | 16 points |
| 2nd | Paul East & Terry Goff | 16 points |
| 3rd | Peter Morton & Matt Love | 15 points |
| 4th | Keith Driscoll & Bill Gibbins | 13 points |
| 5th | Colin Sharrard & Pete Allen | 11 points |
| 6th | Tony Roberts & Jeff Driscoll | 11 points |
| 7th | Nick Gilbert & Trevor Little | 9 points |
| 8th | Nick Allen & Kevin Loveland | 9 points |
| 9th | Steve Allen & Vince Gould | 6 points |
| 10th | Gary Page & John Haigh | 4 points |
NB: Where points were tied, position was decided on weight.
| Position | Peg | Angler | Weight |
| 1st= | Peg 6 | Dave Collier | 38lbs 00ozs |
| 1st= | Peg 15 | Pete Allen | 38lbs 00ozs |
| 3rd | Peg 4 | Paul East | 35lbs 12ozs |
| 4th | Peg 8 | Nick Allen | 33lbs 04ozs |
| 5th | Peg 18 | Matt Love | 32lbs 12ozs |
| 6th | Peg 17 | Bill Gibbins | 31lbs 08ozs |
| 7th | Peg 9 | Tony Roberts | 29lbs 08ozs |
| 8th | Peg 3 | Peter Morton | 28lbs 08ozs |
| 9th | Peg 2 | Keith Driscoll | 28lbs 04ozs |
| 10th | Peg 19 | Terry Goff | 27lbs 08ozs |
| 11th | Peg 11 | Clive Pritchard | 27lbs 00ozs |
| 12th | Peg 16 | Trevor Little | 24lbs 00ozs |
| 13th | Peg 1 | Nick Gilbert | 23lbs 00ozs |
| 14th | Peg 5 | Steve Allen | 18lbs 00ozs |
| 15th | Peg 14 | Jeff Driscoll | 16lbs 04ozs |
| 16th | Peg 20 | Vince Gould | 15lbs 00ozs |
| 17th | Peg 7 | Gary Page | 13lbs 00ozs |
| 18th | Peg 10 | Colin Sharrard | 10lbs 00ozs |
| 19th | Peg 12 | John Haigh | 7lbs 00ozs |
| 20th | Peg 13 | Kevin Loveland | 2lbs 00ozs |
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