Dogs Bollocks Team Match Sat 20th Mar 2016.

Hi all.

This match has been running now for 3 years involving 4 local clubs fishing a team of 12 at Partridge Lakes. The match is run as a friendly get together with the bonus of the winning team having the bragging rights for the next 12 months. The match was split over Covey 6, Marsh and Spey Canals. My team draw gave me peg 137 on Covey 6, which was end peg in the 4 man section but also included 133, the peg I was second off the week before, so could be a tricky match.

I set up the usual rigs for Partridge as described before and started fishing on maggot in 3 ft of water slightly to the left. I lost a fish early on and after no more bites I moved onto dobbing bread against the far bank grasses. I caught 2 fish here but had to wait for bites. I tried fishing pellet on the far bank but again no bites. So I went back to fishing in 3 ft with maggot. At one point I managed a run of 5 fish one after another but in general the pattern was to try different areas of the peg and hope to get bites. Again as of recent matches the maggot line down the middle was slow.

I ended the match with 15 F1's and small carp with a few small chub for 22lb 4oz. This was second in my 4 peg section and third in the split section, so was pleased to get a bit of money back. The results from Covey 6 were a bit mixed for POHAS and it looked as though Marketgate had done well. Back at the cabin we awaited the results and no one was sure who had won. Eventually the results were read out in reverse order and POHAS are the Dogs Bollocks for 2016 with a score of 26 points 5 ahead of Marketgate on 31. To average just over 2 points per man is a great result. To cap it off Alan Lamb won the match outright with 77lb off Spey 3, catching most of his fish dobbing bread and in the margin. Full result can be found on the following link:

http://www.pohas.co.uk/news.html

Well done to everyone in the POHAS team, all the other anglers taking part and Paul at POHAS for organising the event. Due to the popularity next year will include another match in the same format but in July so hopefully the weights will be much better and plenty of bites for all.

Tight lines.