Sedges, Brick Lake, 24 June (16 pegs)

With sixteen fishing today on a very windy but, thankfully, dry Brick lake  it was decided that rather than face the agonising trauma of picking four pegs to leave out  all 20 pegs went into the very minging draw bag (it had spent the previous week in a bag with the equally minging weigh net) and let fate decide.
As it turned out, peg 1 was left in the bag which is a peg that often causes controversy as nobody ever wants to draw it but on the odd occasion that we've put it in it has done well.
I doubt if it would have produced today as the wind was blowing into peg 20 in the opposite corner where fate had decided to put Match Secretary and Club Chairman (me) who wasn't complaining to much!
Next door in peg 19, Bob Warren had decided to go for the skimmers as  there were good anglers in all the the carp pegs (his words not mine) which I found highly amusing!
As it happened, if you would have put a bet on the result you wouldn't have made much as the three corners that were in all framed. 
Peg 20 did the business for Steve Burgess (above left) who fished the pole straight out with meat at 11 meters for the first two hours which produced a run of decent skimmers (much to Bob's disgust) before plundering the corner margins with corn for a winning tally of 56lbs 14oz.
Mike Smith continued his run of form with a close second from peg 10.  Mike took two carp early on paste straight out at 14m before switching to 8mm pellet to weigh in 51-10.
Darren North took advantage of an empty peg 12 to take third spot with 49-15 from peg 11 fishing corn and worm (left over from his adventures in Holland last week) in his left & right margins and beating his boss (and idol) mugger Shanks into fourth place by just 9 ounces.
Alan Healy, who seems to have a knack of always going home with money, took top silvers from peg 4 with an impressive net of bream and skimmers totaling 35-8.  Alan caught at13m on soft pellet over wetted micro/ 4mm with green swim stim (presumably robbed from Dean Malin's bait stash).
Second in the silvers went to Bob Warren with 16-7 of skimmers from peg 19½ caught on soft pellet at 8m over micro feed.


Overall Result:

1. Steve Burgess (20) ..... 56-14
2. Mike Smith (10) ....... 51-10
3. Darren North (11) .... 49-15
4. Brian Shanks (13) .... 49-6
5. Alan Healy (3) .......... 35-8
6. Chris Gay (14) .......... 26-13
7. Bob Warren (19½) .... 23-9
8. Ron Hardiman (5) ..... 21-0
9. Steve Wynne (8) ....... 18-13
10.  Keith Ray (12) .......... 17-12
11. Pete Uzzell (9) ........... 13-13
12. Paul Reed (2) ............. 12-7
13. Simon Belcham (16) .. 11-4
14. Matt Williams* (18) ... dnw
15. Will Dearlove (3) ....... dnw
16. Rich Jones (7) ............ dnw 

*golden peg
 
Silvers:

1. Alan Healy ....... 35-8
2. Bob Warren ...... 16-7
3. Steve Burgess ... 14-7
4. Simon Belcham .. 11-4
5. Steve Wynne ...... 11-3
6. Ron Hardiman .... 10-9
7. Brian Shanks ...... 6-12
8. Pete Uzzell ......... 6-4
9. Paul Reed ........... 6-0
10. Mike Smith ......... 1-9
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