Viaduct Winter League R4, Sunday 16th February 2020

No fishing last week, the Todber league called off because of the storm and another storm for this weekend, but not quite so windy, still with me being in the float only section on Lodge, it might be a challenge.

Glenn's turn to draw, he didn't do a bad job for me, 68, not usually a section winning peg, but usually worth a days fishing and a few points, he handed Mark 111 - nice, Rich 86 - nice, Paul 1 not so good and himself 2, not the worst peg on the lake, but not a first choice.

I thought the league was pretty much over after the last round, so told everyone to fish their own match - "fish for silvers if you want", I had only gone in the silvers pool, so intended to fish for them.

Set up a waggler to fish corn, 3 topkits for silvers, one with a Chianti with strung 11's to fish through the water, a 0.4g homemade diamond to fish at 13m
(no point going further with the wind that was forecast) and a light NG gimp to fish over that line as well.

I did set up a rig to go to the empty pallet of 67, set up with 0.20/0.18 in case I felt the need to go for a carp or two.

On the all in I fed two balls of GB/leam at 13m and one ball at 9m (just in case it got windier), then started on the caster at 2+2, this brought a few roach, but wasn't hectic, I gave it 30 minutes before going out over the 13m line, this brought a few decent skimmers, before I needed to re-feed, I had a couple more before it went quiet, I topped up again and came back on the caster line, this had roach and rudd not exactly lining up, but they were coming often enough and a decent enough size to stick at it.

I did look over the skimmer line again on several occasions and ventured past it with the waggler and corn, but it had slowed up, I was pretty convinced that going out to 16m and starting a new line would see another couple, but the roach, rudd, hybrids and perch (including one nigh on 2lb) were still coming on the caster line, so I stuck at it and ignored the empty pallet and the chance of a carp.

Glad I did, I managed 23.05 of silvers and second overall in the silvers, for a decent pickup and 12 points, so happy with that.  The team did OK with Rich winning Cary, Mark doing OK on Campbell, Paul was struggling, being in with match lake, which fished well, but he did grab 3rd in the silvers.  We were 4th on the day and still in with an outside chance of sneaking into the frame, although it will need all the stars to align on the last round.....

Overall
1. Adrian Jeffery - 86lb 9oz - peg 129
2. Dom Sullivan - 79lb 7oz - peg 20
3. M Ruff - 74lb 8oz - peg 41
4. John Gray - 72lb 7oz - peg 44
5. Richard A’Herne - 67lb 14oz - peg 86
6. Clint Wojtyla - 61lb - peg 43
Silvers
1. Adam Palmer - 25lb 4oz - peg 11
2. Chris Fox - 23lb 5oz - peg 68
3. Paul Faires - 22lb 9oz - peg 1
4. Dave Romain - 20lb 10oz - peg 38
5. Lance Tucker - 20lb 1oz - peg 126
6. Lewis Walker - 19lb - peg 61

Today’s Team Positions:
1. Thatchers Vets - 61
2. Sensus 88 - 60
3. Thatchers PI - 59
4. 2nd Time Lucky - 57
5. Team Keyford - 56
6. Fishing Tackle Warehouse - 50
7. Future Networks - 48
8. Trig’s Team - 46
8. Silverfox - 46
10. Guru Viaduct - 44
10. Parsigns - 44
12. PR Floats - 41
13. Wyvern Anglers - 36
14. Moaning Maggots - 33
14. Garbolino - 33
16. Team Amigos - 27
17. Viaduct All Stars - 25