Sunday 31st May 2015 - Stannah

Well 5th match of the Blackpool Federation League today and when we got there at 7:30 we were again met by rain and windy conditions and looking at the weather forecast we were not expecting it to get any better . 

Match was fished 8:30 to 11:30 with high water at 10:25. 
 
All anglers were using peeler crab and most bluey or mackerel for tipping. 

I fished just up from the pylons opposite where the old Wardle's Creek pub used to be. Started off OK with a flounder on second cast and then odd fish continued throughout the match with a decent eel just before high water. Finished the match with 4 flounders and an eel for 168cm (75 points on conversions we use). 

One of the lads further up from me was going well even though he was complaining at the start of the match he ended up catching 15 flounders (10 in size) for 303cm (134 pts) fishing small pieces of crab with larger pieces of bluey. 

Winner of the match came from further up river on the bend 10 flounders for 329cm (179 points).

The lads fishing the creek end did not catch in the first hour with fish coming on just before high water.

The good news was that the high winds and the heavy rain that was forecast did not arrive so we only got slightly damp 

Final Results were:

Team Points
LMS A	Fish	Pts	Hotel & Apartments A	Fish	Pts
J. Gross	10	179	B. Scullion	10	134
I. Hewitt	4	84	J. Andrew	2	42
(2)		263	(2)		176
LMS B			Hotel & Apartments B
S. Clark	6	85	No Catch	0	0
T. Gorse	1	14	(0)		0
(3)		99
			Hotel & Apartments C
LMS C			B.T. Horrocks	7	130
P. Huttley	4	52	T.Tate	7	93
C. Huttley	2	34	(3)		223
(2)		86
LMS D
M. Chamberlain	6	107
H. Bosson	5	70
(2)		177

Current League standings are:

Team	Catch Points	Points
Hotel & Apartments C	1034	37
LMS A	854	33
LMS B	567	28
Hotel & Apartments A	427	25
LMS D	499	21
LMS C	435	19
Hotel & Apartments B	103	5

Next match is 21st of June, Knott End 9.00 to 12:00