After a couple of days on Eyebrook with Mike you would have thought we would have been shattered and fed up of each other but fortunately not. I was looking forward to this event again organised by Arnold Haddon for the Cancer ward that helped him recover and to show our support. They raised over £1000 last year and I am sure it won't be far off that again this.
The day started with me being on time this week and managed to say hi to a few people i hadn't seen for a while. We had heard that the Cliffs, Pines and creek had been fishing but with the wind blowing into North Farm Shore we couldn't resist it and dropped the anchor off Stone Barn Point as Mike calls it. It's great mickey take between us that he thinks the outer point is stone barn and the inner is North farm bay point. For me I call it the opposite way with North Farm shore point and stone barn bay point. Answers on a postcard too!!!
I started with a Di7 and a coral booby on the point and was into fish quite quickly and took two pulling quite quick. It then dried up and then we thought rather than drifting that we would work our way up North Farm shore anchoring for a short time. This was a great tactic and by 12 mike had put the next 5 in the boat on the same fly on a di5. In what was a great act he returned a brownie of over 2 lb too and it was great to see it swim off. In hindsight he would have won if he had kept it, but it is always nice to think you did the right thing.
We were getting a little restless by now as the fishing had gone off a little so we headed for the creek. After a few positions we anchored off the stumps down the creek and we were well into fish. I took two and mike one. They were however very small and when they dried up we headed back to North Farm shore.
The fish seemed to have come up in the water and we saw a boat near us have two on the floater and Bob Church next to us have one on the bung. I then changed up to a fast glass with black buzzers and the coral booby on the point - almost a reversal of the bung and fished almost static. It wasn't long and the line sailed away but would you believe it on the booby. I managed to have one more the same way as the fish swam along the shore and leveled us up on 6 a piece.
There was a lovely meal and presentation evening at the Royal Oak at Walgrave and it rounded the evening off perfectly.
In the final results my six went 10-14 and I pipped Mike into second place with 6 for 10lb 2. Julian Davies managed 3rd spot with 4 fish on his damsel and Bob Church in 4th place with four fish too. Bob was looking great this year now the medication has been corrected and he proved he can still hack it and enjoy the competition.
Thanks Arnold. A great day.
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