Christmas Match at Bushy, 27/12/2007

 

It was nice to see a few new faces at the match such as Ray’s brother. Stan was steward for the day keeping things under control.

This year after a 9.00am start the fishing was unusually kind to us with everyone finishing by late morning, one by 9.15am. Perhaps it was all down to a change in the temperature. A week earlier it had been below zero for most of the day but around Christmas it picked up to about 10C. It appears that this put them on the feed. There was a medium south westerly breeze, a bit chilly perhaps, that was not to strong to cast into. It gave a nice ripple to form a perfect day for winter.

At the start the fish were all around the lake and close in. They were taking any flies, buzzers, boobies, poly-stickles etc.. Most people were using a slow intermediate line to get it just below the surface.

By 10am nearly everybody had finished, except poor John who had 2 in the bag but had lost several. Unfortunately for him the fish moved out from the bank to the middle of the lake. One could see the boat anglers hauling them out – just out of casting range of John. Fortunately the commotion from the boat activity pushed the fish back towards the bank. Then, having got a broken hook on one fish, John was quickly able to finish off with his last fish and it was all over around 11.30am.

All the fish were around the 3lbs mark, nothing big. The only notable fish was a Browny of 4-5lbs caught by Ray and another of about 6lbs caught by Bill J, both of which were returned.

Because people had finished and were hanging around then the cooking started early. By the time John had finished the cooking was well under way, soup, burgers, sausages etc., - bought forward from the intended 1pm.

By 1.30pm everybody was on their way home.

 

 

 

 

Name

Num fish

Weight

 

Ray Simpson

  4

10lbs   8ozs

 

John Weaver

  4

10lbs   5ozs

 

Malcolm Golding

  4

12lbs   8ozs

 

Allen Dixon

  4

11lbs   5ozs

 

Ron Lusardi

  4

  9lbs 12ozs

 

Danny Peet

  4

11lbs 10ozs

 

George Bartlett

  4

11lbs   4ozs

 

Bill Johnston

  4

12lbs 14ozs

Best bag of the day

Brian Witty

  4

12lbs   6ozs

 

Colin Winterbourn

  4

12lbs   3ozs

Best fish 3lbs 14ozs

Bobby King

  4

10lbs 14ozs

 

Fath Small

  4

11lbs 12ozs

 

 Guests :-

 

 

 

Ivan Brimble

  1

  3lbs   4ozs

 

Adrian Simpson

  4

11lbs   4ozs

 

Bill Brooks

  4

11lbs 14ozs

 

D Jackson

  4

11lbs   4ozs