A few of the juniors were on holiday but there were also some new faces to the Water Park which is nice. The weather was pretty appalling once again with a strong northerly wind and a couple of showers. The juniors coped very well though under the conditions and some nice fish were caught and some others lost or in one case, James, put back instead of into the keepnet! That fish may have cost you the match. We have all done it though James and hopefully a lesson has been learnt.
Anyway, we had 10 keen juniors fishing which considering the forecast and the colour of the sky for most of the day is a small miracle.
1st on the day was Liam Overitt with 8lb 11oz from peg 16. Liam fished the pole at about 6.5 metres down the track with sweetcorn on the hook over a bed of pellets. He had a nice tench, a carp, and a large skimmer. It was Liams first ever fishing match.
2nd was Robert Murphy on peg 7 with 8lb 5oz. Robert fished the pole at various ranges, down the margin, right across and down the middle. He had 2 small carp, some nice perch, rudd and roach mostly on maggot.
3rd was James Meadows on peg 7 fishing a method feeder across to the island baiting with maggot, pellet and corn. James had a tench and 5 or 6 skimmers for 7lb 6oz
4th Abigail Brewster on probably the windiest peg on the lake on the day. She did very well and had 71 fish including a large number of tiny perch. Good practice for the Junior National on the Grand Union Canal art Milton Keynes. She also had 2 small carp and lost a couple of others in the margin weeds. She totalled 5lb 5oz.
Other people who fished were Adam Overitt, Alex Gissing, Chris Harvey, Emma Reynolds, Reese Page, and Sophie Gissing. Everybody caught fish and in the fact the person who weighed in the lowest weight caught more fish in numbers than the winner.
We will be running a similar set of matches next year with perhaps 1 on the canal, 1 on the doughnut and the last one on M2.