Old Bury Hill Fishery. Estate Lake. June 22nd, 2003.

Hawthorne AC club match.

Well after the giddy heights of yesterday, it was back down to earth today with a 20 peg club match at Old Bury Hill.
We had pegs 1-20 on the front bank of the old Estate Lake.

Now some of you may remember me mentioning that Hawthorne AC seem to have a peculiar talent for attracting the worst of the weather. Well today was no exception!!!!!!!!! Stepping out of the car in the car park, the first drops of rain began to fall, this was soon followed by Fork Lightning, Thunder & Driving rain.
A hurried draw was arranged, and having drawn no7, off I set to my peg.

Looking across the lake from peg7…..
Now I really hate fishing the pole in the pouring rain, and holding 14mtrs of carbon with fork lightning about has never struck me as too sensible, so I set up a waggler & feeder rod and left the pole in the rodbag.
At the off it was out with the wag at 3 rod lengths, fished 3″ overdepth. 6mm expander on the hook and a pouch of 3mm expanders fed over the top. Nobody was doing much, just a few small Roach falling to those fishing maggot when 1½ hrs in, news came down that peg 1 had caught a 13lb Common.
Finally after 2½ hrs of continual feeding the float slid away,and a minute later a 2½lb Bream was safely in the net. In the next hour I added another 5 and things were looking up, which prompted the knob head angler on the next peg to fill it in with groundbait, which promptly killed it stone dead.
So out on the feeder for the last part of the match with luncheon meat on the hook and 4 more Bream before the whistle.
At the weigh-in I had 21lbs 2ozs for 3rd on the day, a result that puts me through to the semi-final of the club KO Cup, which will be fished in 2 weeks time back at Old Bury Hill, but this time on Milton Lake.