North Norfolk Evening League – Match 9

Kelling – Monday 19th January

With a light South Westerly and a calm sea we all thought that those stonking whiting would show, wrong!!!. However, fishing bottom up on a small tide is just hopeless with no real tide to bring the fish in and this was just the case. With no serious fish appearing the usual band of 8 minus last year’s champion managed just 36 fish which was 58 less than last match.

Doing the business at last was a previous year’s champion Cavin “not too far” Reed (peg 2) with 2lb 3 1/3oz from 8 fish for his first top spot of this campaign. Following very closely was Ricky “no cley man” Hayward (7) with 2lb 2 2/3oz for his 6th podium finish but no top spot. Final podium place went to that man again Peter “orange-van-man” Simmons (6) with 1lb 11 1/3oz from 6 fish. With just one league match left it looks as though it is Peter’s title with 114 points closely followed by Ricky 112 who can only tie for the title. Currently 3rd is Tony 110 who can also only tie for the title.

Den again is slowly improving and he will probably shortly be moved to the Coleman Hospital for rehab. Well the season is slowly drawing to a close and the the great expectations of the good catches at the start has change to real frustration at the end although the cold weather and North/East winds haven’t helped. As discussed our last pools match is being moved to Friday 30th January under the cliffs at Weybourne to see if we can tempt a few codling!!!

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