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| | | | Scandal at Cleveley Bridge - Match II | | | | All anglers arrived the night before the match, planning to do a quick carp session to help Dave & Helen come to grips with the method before this leg of the contest. However this was the beginning of the controversy! | | During the night we unfortunately attracted bream, and with Phill and Dave losing carp in the lilies it was down to Helen to leave Phill the experienced carp angler with his head in his hands: “Without a doubt Helen is a great angler however, catching a 2lb roach on a 15mm boillie s just embarrassing”. | | After packing away the carp gear the match commenced and within a matter of minutes there were rumblings of a mutiny! Dave was beginning to notice that although he and Helen were catching, they were swinging in small roach......where as Phill was catching bream of 2 to 5lb! | | Dave’s quote: “There is something dodgy going on here and I think I have been stitched up.That carp numpty (Phill.) has spent most of the morning talking to Keith (the fishery manager) and I think he’s pre-baited the swim for himself!” | | |    |
Anglers left to right: Phill Broderick, Helen Dagnall, Dave Brooks. | | | | A couple of hours into the match Helen continued the barracking of Phill, who by now was becoming a little smug. | | Helen's thoughts at this point are: That git has set us up and I've had no sleep. Phill is in his bivvy talking in his sleep and Dave is in his snoring like a rhino! I think we’ll have a vote and call this match VOID. | | With that she wakes Dave, he laughs in agreement and then Helen decided to catch up on her Zzzz’s. | | |    | | | | Phill realising his efforts to keep the match going were wasted decided to nip the loo, to find on his return that his swim had been invaded by poachers and cries of: You’re cheating !*!*!, it’s like an aquarium, you’ve been up all night pre-baiting this peg! – Put the kettle on and we’ll show you how to catch.” | | Despite the pleas of innocence, Phill made the brew’s muttering something about one trip ponies, and how the cream always rises to the top. | | Although the weigh in was a farce, as the scales miraculously disappeared Helen & Dave had got over 20lb of rudd and roach each. Something tells us that they just didn’t take it serious. | | When asked about his moment of stolen glory Phill said: “I admit I feel that I fell lucky, all I did was put down a bed of 2mm pellets and liquidised bread, and then the fish took any hook bait presented. However, isn’t it amazing how it becomes a bit of a giggle when you lose! | | |    | | | | Never mind at least they’ve paid off their side of the bet. I will just have to give them another lesson when we fish the carp match, better still I might go to Hungry with them in a few weeks to coach them in the world championships – they’d love that!” | | Next leg of this match is supposed to be a carp, however it’s looking like all rules are out of the window so anything could happen! | | | If you'd like to know about fishing at Cleveley Bridge call Keith Holloway on: 01524 791 637 | | | | back |
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