Julz and I went off to meet Nick at Moorlands Farm on the friday in the Buddy Bus, the main idea was to give Nick somewhere to have a good nights sleep befor the match.
We all met up at about lunch time and sat down for a cup of tea and a chat and decided it might be a good idea for Nick and I to have a few hours fishing just to see how the fish reacted to various methods and baits, so after getting some advice from the fishery manager we went down to one of the few pegs that were easily accessible for Nick and I fished next to him.
We tried various method at various depths and had vaying amounts of success although we both caught a few ‘Flying’ bream, as soon as these were hooked they jumped right out of the water an amazing sight. I did manage a nice carp which turned out to be a new PB on the pole
6lb 3oz
So with a rough plan of action formulated we retired to the bus for food and chat, Nick was also getting some more advice from his great friend Jim over the phone.
The day of the match and we were all up by 6am plenty of tea and bacon sandwiches, Mark (angler-mark) arrived at about 7.30 to lend his support to team ROW as well
Nick went up for the draw at about 8am and was back soon with his peg, he had drawn peg 43 on meadow lake, not a bad draw by all accounts, meadow was the fancied lake for the day and from Nicks point of view he could also park behind his swim.
Mark and I helped get all Nicks bits down to his swim and by 10.30 he was sitting waiting for the all in.
The weather started off over cast and pleasant but got hotter and hotter through the day so the fishing was very hard for everyone,
With only 2 carp Nick still wanted to weigh in…so he did it was a low weight of only 7LB 8oz BUT the scalesman said…if I had had one more fish I would have got section…so many weights were low.
By the end of the match we were all well and truely cooked and needed a cold drink before we all headed home.
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