chilton trinity with fry,s

as always you are going to get a good laugh with the fry,s club and today was no exception with pete sivell taking the p out of most people but i wont mention that he was last today , dean malin rolling around on the floor with mr chub, who came off worst with a suspected broken rib and a bruised kidney , all self diagnosed i hasten to add. and not forgetting the one and only steve preece aka" the beast".who if ever there was to be a stage show of punch and judy , he would get the lead role cos he has the laugh and he certainly has the nose for it.
back to the draw and i got 11 (frys own pegging)on the new bank. new cos the bank has been levelled and all the trees cut down to let the wind get to the water. setting up 2 rigs , the first was a 1grm rig with an 18 t6313 to .10 to fish over g bait at 13 mtrs and a 1.5 grm rig for 16mtrs with an 18 808 to .12 to fish pellet corn and maggot over micro,s.
merv sivell was busy chatting so the match was started 5 mins late , 3 balls of g bait were cupped in with a few casters at 13 mtrs and a ball of softened micros at 16. starting at 13 with a single maggot and the first bite after about 5 mins was a carp which i plyed for a couple of mins before the hook pulled under the pole tip, i dont think it was fouled so as i was trying a different hook for silvers i decided to blame the hook, in the next hour i took several small roach and a 12oz skimmer on maggot or caster but was going nowhere as paul(the fat brother)ratcliffe had taken a couple of carp and skimmers on soft pellet over micro,s at the next peg , so out to 16 mtr with soft pellet, first bite a fouler , then 2 missed bites , then as i dropped the rig back in it went sideways as i must have dropped the rig on the back of a passing carp and that soon came off. i switched to corn on the hook which resulted in a carp and a few skimmers before it went quiet and i had to re feed back to the 13 mtr line and several small roach soon found there way into the net, problem was they were to small to do any good, so i was soon back out on the 16 mtr line wit corn, i was getting indications but i didnt like the way the rig was behaving as the bite were slow small pulls which just didnt look right , so i took the rig off and made up a lighter one , 4x16 impact 6 still wth a 18 808 to .12 it may seem to light as it was 9 foot deep but it just seemed to work better , the bites certainly looked better as it was dotted down to dimple so bites were a case of now you see me now you dont, lovely. bites on the corn stopped so a switch to double maggot put another carp and a few more skimmers in the net.
all this time paul at the next peg had been getting the odd carp and skimmer on pellet , also the fish were fizzing over the micro,s he was putting in whereas i couldnt raise a bubble till the last hour when i began to get some bubbles appearing and i think i had 2 more carp and a couple of good skimmers plus i lost a couple of fowlers.
by the end i thought i had about 10 lb of silvers and 5 small carp for 12 lb, time would tell.
i thought i might be in with a chance of winnig the silvers as no one seemed to have had to much, even got baits finest clive petit with the wonder cloud additive atomic kitten could hardly raise a bite but as he spent most of the day on the tip i aint really suprised but he did have 3 carp. first on the day was john (gimp)bradford , the silver ace had to catch carp in the magins on peg 2 on maggot over caster for 49 .10 14 carp
2nd paul ratcliffe 45.13 12 carp and skimmers on pellet over micro,s peg 12
3rd gary bedford 36.3 peg 9
4th les(broken rib)williams 27.14 peg 10
5th tony rixon 24.11 peg 11 (beat both sides then)
6th the beast 19.8 peg 1
silvers
tony rixon 10.8
dave (the mouse)acherley 9.12
just seen the weather forcast i dont think i will be putting the ice breakers away just yet then