Viaduct Winter League R3, Sunday 2nd February 2020

My turn on Cary for this one, Rich A'Herne doing the team draw, putting himself on 114, me on 96, Paul on 66, Glenn on 49 and Mark on 4 - not a terrible team draw..... or so we thought.

I was pretty convinced that I would have to catch carp to do any good and the peg has produced this league.  So, no pole today, two lead rods and a waggler set up.

I'm not going to wax lyrical about this one, it was a disaster, Cary has been my bogie lake in this league and this year it proved to be no exception.  Other were catching odd carp whilst my tip remained motionless, I managed a couple of skimmers on the waggler and corn and finally, about 2pm the tip went round - my reward, one of the 6lb stockies, everyone else was catching the big boys and girls.

I finally hooked one of the big ones with 5 minutes to go, it ran into a snag and the usually reliable robust Shimano Technium reel line was cut through but what ever the fish ran under -  branch I assume.

Well, that ended a fairly miserable day my stockie going 6.15 and the waggler caught skimmers matching that exactly and the team didn't fair too well either, coming in 12th, so onwards and upwards to the next one.

1. Callum Dicks - 111lb 2oz - peg 119
2. Des Shipp - 107lb 8oz - peg 131
3. Gary Coton - 96lb 14oz - peg 112
4. Nick Ewers - 92lb - peg 86
5. Steve Denmead - 84lb 8oz - peg 110
6. Henry Smith - 81lb 3oz - peg 123
7. Ivan Oakey - 81lb 2oz - peg 113
8. Clayton Hudson - 74lb 7oz - peg 85
9. Stu Woods - 68lb 2oz - peg 70
10. Dave Romain - 67lb 10oz - peg 64
Silvers
1. Adam Palmer - 21lb 8oz - peg 25
2. Shaun Townsend - 20lb 3oz - peg 105
3. Craig Edmunds - 19lb 2oz - peg 88
3. Mark Thorne - 19lb 2oz - peg 80
5. Nigel Easton - 18lb 10oz - peg 17

Teams Points on the Day:
1. Thatchers PI - 66
2. Fishing Tackle Warehouse - 60
3. Future Networks - 55
4. Parsigns - 52
5. Garbolino - 49
5. Team Keyford - 49
5. Guru Viaduct - 49
8. Silverfox - 48
9. Moaning Maggots - 44
9. Wyvern Anglers - 44
11. Team Amigos - 41
12. 2nd Time Lucky - 37
13. Trig’s Team - 36
14. Sensus 88 - 35
14. Viaduct All Stars - 35
16. PR Floats - 33
17. Thatchers Vets - 32