My Individual National

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- 11/09/2010 at 7:15 am #41828
  TF_geepster
  Participant
  My Individual National.
  Made the calls in the week and got my head around the Staff-Worcester Canal which I’ve not fished before.
  Got back last night from London (misses picked up by bait from Ken Wade’s), stayed up late tying rigs and preparing tackle and bait etc. Got up at 6am, loaded car. Car wouldn’t start.
  The end.
- 11/09/2010 at 8:13 am #115942
  TF_joffmiester
  i’ve had afew days like that mate~sick ~sick
- 11/09/2010 at 9:06 am #115950
  TF_Tim_D
  Everything happens for a reason gareth! See you tomorrow at the tacklefest?
- 11/09/2010 at 9:03 pm #116018
  TF_yiddo
  anybody know how it fished?
- 12/09/2010 at 11:03 am #116035
  Castermaster
  Participant
  winner had 11 kilo something beat second by a massive 10 grams.
  
  I was below Shutt Hlll lock and there was an iron man type thing going on with loads of kayaks up and down all throughout the match. One poor bloke had a checkpoint in his peg in a tree opposite him, where they were all stopping which was unbelievably harsh. He just packed his tackle back up and never fished. Saints lad on the end had one capsize in his swim with about an hour left.
  
  It was ridiculous, unfishable for a fair amount of time. AT are refunding entry fees for us who fished there (last 27 pegs)
  
  By all accounts it fished very well.
- 12/09/2010 at 11:57 am #116037
  TF_justin case
  Amazing that when booking the venue someone failed to mention there was an iron man comp on
  
  thats disgusting really,
  
  I would be spitting nails if I had organised this event
  
  Geeps you will probably find your peg was the finish line 🙂
- 12/09/2010 at 3:05 pm #116039
  Castermaster
  Participant
  I guess it’s been booked for a long time now. I don’t know the situation entirely but from what I gather 160 pegs had originally been booked and 127 fished, and they knew this was happening the night before. Why they couldn’t re-peg the last 27 i’ve no idea, but it’s not like there’d be a lack of them, Staffs and Worcester is a pretty big canal!
  
  I threw a couple of pound back, there was a 9 kilo weight of chub and bream 2 pegs to my right on the same peg that Lee Kerry won his section on in last year’s div 1. Think he was 3rd.
  
  Didn’t enjoy the day at all, just glad it wasn’t a proper National!
- 12/09/2010 at 3:47 pm #116041
  TF_geepster
  Participant
  Guess what folks…. after writing the post I got a mechanic around and he’d fixed it by 8.40. Rang Mick Turner, draw was still going on so I thought sod it and got Tony Keeling to draw for me. Tony had a post code (near the X Keys) and arrived with 20 mins to the all in. Had to apologise my way past about seven anglers, set up two rigs, and had a bite a chuck for four hours (some bloody huge gudgeon in that venue had three that must have been nearly 3oz). Had around 100 fish and then last half hour fished caster for chub, and had one, but a small one about 8oz. Had four and half pound, great day’s fishing TBH, but didn’t weigh in as someone in section had five chub. Glad I went. Had been advised that if you feed chopped worm you won’t catch chub, but the guy who won the section fed worm and fished worm, and caught chub.
- 12/09/2010 at 4:58 pm #116042
  TF_baitchef
  Participant
  Sounds like you had a nice days fishing. But you have to ask yourself what sort of advice is chub dont eat worms?? Chub will eat anything, end of!! Match anglers don’t half talk some crap.lol
- 12/09/2010 at 5:53 pm #116047
  TF_bobby-jo
  Participant
  i heard stevie broome won it with just over 11 kilos
- 12/09/2010 at 7:54 pm #116061
  TF_geepster
  Participant
  BC the info came from someone who knows the venue very well.
- 14/09/2010 at 11:21 am #116213
  woodhouse
  @baitchef wrote:
  
  Sounds like you had a nice days fishing. But you have to ask yourself what sort of advice is chub dont eat worms?? Chub will eat anything, end of!! Match anglers don’t half talk some crap.lol
  
  You obviously know the venue better than most gobshite!
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