North Norfolk Evening League – Match 10

Salthouse – Monday 26th January

With the pleasurers having a bash at Weybourne it was off to Salthouse for a change for our last league match. Perfect conditions for those rod rattling bites, no real wind, flatish calm and top the tide to make it comfortable on a flat shingle bank. Plus that famous local digger and match tactician was heard to say “we’re going to bag up on dabs tonight” funny though, the same was heard the previous night and yes! it was the same result. Anyway, the usual 8 did manage 53 fish which was at least 17 more than last match!!!

Once again Peter “orange-van-man” Simmons (peg 3) showed his credentials by taking top spot at a new venue with 2lb 5 1/3oz from 13 fish. Next place was taken by Dene “geordieman” Conway (2) with 1lb 14 1/3oz from 8 fish, demonstrating the low order pegs were the favoured ones. Scrapping into the final podium slot by the length of a minature dab was Richard “fish forecaster” Ives (5) with 1lb 6 1/3oz from 6 fish.

Well that’s it for another year and congratulations to Peter for showing us the way in his rookie year taking the title with 117 points dropping only 3 points in the 6 matches that counted. Next came Ricky on 112 points which was achieved without a win, good consistancy! followed by Tony on 110 points. With last year’s champion going home in disgust after another failure we are all wondering and maybe hoping that this bug will strike this year’s champion next season. Pity the cold weather, easterlies and high pressure messed things up this year but by the time November comes round we’ll all have forgotten about this. We’ll try and sort out venues and dates next season to address this lack of fish. Let’s hope the predictions for our last match under the cliffs do not materialise and those codling really do show … tight lines …!!!

Results:

Final League Positions