Bristol PSV Fishing Club: Viaduct, Campbell, 13 May (21 pegs)

Having heard good reports from Tony's midweek match regarding Viaduct's latest addition, Woodys Cafe, we were looking forward to the on-site breakfast. Unfortunately it seems that someone may have forgotten to inform Woody that there were going to be two matches on the venue and therefore quite a few hungry mouths to feed. Adding to his problems Mrs Woody had a bit of a problem at home to clear up thanks to a worse-for-wear teenage son which cocked up the supply chain a tad so as a result both matches had to be delayed a bit and poor Woody was looking a bit worn out by 10 o clock.
I've no doubt however that from now on everything will be fine and Woodys will prove to be a great success (once he's got an electrician in to move the smoke alarm away from the grill a couple of feet)!
Anyway, back to the fishing and for most it was an unusually slow start with not much happening for anyone early on, apart from Will Dearlove and Lionel Legge in 110 and 135 respectively.
As peg 110 had been producing huge weights recently, Paul Greenwood had suggested putting in 135 (which isn't often used) to even things out a bit and sure enough these two pegs produced right from the start but a change in the wind midway through the match pushed the fish across the lake towards the top left corner allowing Rich Britton on peg 124 to put his pellet waggler skills to good use and take a steady procession of carp for a total of 131-4 and a convincing win ahead of Mike Welling on the next peg (123) who similarly fished the waggler up into the corner for 99-3 and second.
Mike had a bit of a double disaster though as his no4 & 5 sections went for a swim and while he was hunting around for them he knocked in one of his keepnets losing most of it's carpy contents in the process. Fortunately for Mike nobody was brave enough to take the piss and Paul did eventually find the missing pole sections for him with the help of the Viaduct chest waders ... what a nice chap!
Alan Healy on peg 112 made amends for his Avalon nightmare last weekend by taking third place with 95-8. He had a shaky first couple of hours but after lashing in six pints of pellet on the 14m pole line the fish eventually moved in so by the last hour they were queuing up for him.
Brian Shanks was just 3oz behind on peg 117 for fourth place with 95-5.
The silvers were noticeable in their absence (spawning) so much so that Psv's resident silvers maestro, Dave Tippet (who wasn't looking too clever anyways) packed up early and went ~~home~~ to the nearest pub leaving Steve Burgess on 114 to take top silvers with a lowly 11-12 of baby tench and skimmers accidentally caught on banded 8mm pellet in the margins.

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