A fry up in the hotel and a couple of cups of tea and I was ready for anything. As the organiser it was all a rush. New people arriving, packed lunches sorted, boats arranged and I still had to get set up and do a briefing.
At 10am though it was all sorted and we were off. As everyone rushed over to Sam's Dyke and Mucky Bay to sit tight all day, Powie and I followed behind and headed off with Mike and Ash to the willows with no other boats in tow.
Drogue out, drift set and as we drifted towards a bank of coloured water it all went tight and the orange booby had struck my first fish. Another on the next drift, then one for Powie, another for me and we thought the decision was right.
Unfortunately though as the cloud came over it got tough and we struggled most of the afternoon. Around 3pm though the sun shone again and we started to get takes again. Powie was getting more than me but unfortunately his luck was out and they were dropping off.
While we were struggling, Mike and Ash joined us at just the right time and started catching immediately. I then pinched a yellow eyed tequila booby out of his extensive collection and started to catch myself. 15 minutes to go one needed to bag up and I could feel the adrenaline running again.
As our time was up we had 25 fish between us and knew not many teams would have beaten that on a tough day.
The rest of the crowd had had a good day too. We ended up with an average of 4 fish a rod which was very impressive.
The results were:
Radbroke A 25 fish for 60lbs 6oz
Barclaycard 25 fish for 44lbs 13oz
North East 16 fish for 39lbs 15oz
London Southern 16 fish for 37lbs 9oz
London Northern 15 fish for 29lbs
Radbroke B 13 fish for 28lbs 2oz
Clearing 13 fish for 24lbs 10oz
Thames valley 12 fish for 21lbs 8oz
Reading 3 fish for 6lbs
Congratulations to Kevin Walmsley who took the best bag of the day 8 fish for 20lbs 15oz and Ralph Painter who took 2nd with 8 fish for 20lbs 5oz. Dave kilburn had the best fish a 4lbs 10oz rainbow.
Unfortunately for us all the bigger fish had shown in Sam's Dyke and Radbroke had managed to find most of them. Well done guys.
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