Docklow
Two Day May Festival
As Written By
Steve 'Woody'
Wood
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DAY ONE, MATCH POOL 1st - Mark Hawthorn (Tims
tackle) 95-13-0 peg 31 Section winners (points, Mark Hawthorn & Des Shipp) DAY ONE, SNAKE 1st - Richard Thompson (Docklow)
41-14-0 peg 42 Section winners -- Richard Thompson, Tony Troth DAY TWO, MATCH 1st - Richard Hoskins (Fox
match) 95-8-0 peg 32 Section winners -Richard Hoskins, Stan Taylor DAY TWO, SNAKE 1st - Steve Mayo (Diawa
dorking) 60-8-0 peg 97 Section winners - Steve Mayo, Martin Amphlett OVERALL 1ST - STEVE MAYO (Daiwa
Dorking) 3 POINTS (155-12-0) £790 Match Report: Saturday Saturday arrived as you know, with a few bleary eyed faces worse for the wear. (myself probably close to the top of the pile) We were left with 7 no show faces who have now been black listed if not a good reason given! Everything ran smooth, money correct, pegs correct (pity about my sh*t draw-snake 19, the only peg not to be fished all week) Any how 11am start all in expectations were high, sun blazing, fish cruising and fizzing galore, how wrong we proved to be! After 2 hours the first person was walking the bank - STAN TAYLOR - it was desperate, the only fish being caught on the Snake were in the early pegs 2, 4, 8 and of course 97. Four hours later end of match. Burnt and puzzled we headed to the bar, what went wrong? GILES was the first to pop up, "why the hell did you put that one in for?" Peg 73 (roadside) Seemed he had car trouble all day, then Johnny Kinght put a point across that it was a good job that giles never pegged it after his last last attempt! Sat Evening. The bar was heaving, and those who were lucky to stop at docklow had free curry & lasagne courtsey of Mike & Josies mothers 80th birthday bash. The beer started to flow and flow and flow (I remember, just like last week. . . .Ed) One or two faces slipped away at 10.30. ERIC BANNER & MAL COLEY exhausted they said, too much pop we thought so we carried on. Finally the moment arrived, LAST ORDERS 2am, and bedtime at 3am. Day Two: Sun Morning. Morning awoke, and out we all strolled or fell, now that was a sight to see. Never again the cries came from someone, SIMON WILLIAMS aka BOMBER, we thought we felt bad until we heard his story. As Docklow was fully booked he, Vince & Rob Gandley stopped in Leominster and the night before fancied a nice meal, quiet pint and early night, fine by me was Robs words, now if you know Rob he is about my size compared to bombers 16/17 stone build, so when Rob appeared as bright as a daisy and bomber well out of it, it had us all guessing. Nice meal-lovely hot curry! Quiet pint-13 was the last count! Early night- when the club shut at 4am! Was bomber suffering, I should know he drew next to me on match pool peg 29! What a draw said Rob, i'll give it have an hour was bombers reply, and true it was to be. After setting up 1 pole rig Vince who was in peg 30 opened a tin of corn that bomber had given him and it was rotten, "have a look at this" Vince said, next thing bomber was around the back of the tree throwing up for all of England. Enough said match over for bomber. Everyone was catching, then came 4.30pm half an hour to go and the lightening and thunder erupted! The rain fell that hard and then hail stones the size of 10 pence pieces rattled on the poles, I have never seen a match vacated so quick in my life, not an angler was on a peg. So, realistically that was the end of the match. At the weigh in Trothy was captured on film by the anglers mail drenched through to the skin in a pair of shorts and t-shirt with a grin on his face (he knew he won money). So all ended well and everyone had a great time, HERE'S TO AUGUST SEE YOU SOON WOODY |