Drayton Reservoir. Northhamptonshire.July 8th, 2006.

The JINX Series 2006

Match 3.

Well after the disaster that was Earlswood, The Jinx Squad moved on to Drayton Reservoir for the 3rd match of the series

As with all things to do with The Jinx, things however weren’t as smooth as they could have been and instead of the pegs on the boards that had been fishing well beside the sailing club we ended up with pegs 1-20 in the shallows at the end of the walkway.
At least Malc had managed to arrive on time so we had plenty of time after the draw for the trek to our allocated pegs allowing us sufficent time to tackle up.

Things had been looking good in the week prior to our match, with all areas fishing well and plenty of fish coming out all over. However things can change and it was soon clear looking down the walkway that the weights would not be as high as we hoped when after an hour only a couple of fish had been landed.
I was on peg 7, and all I ended up with was 1 carp for 8lbs.
Eric on peg 6 however managed to put a few together late on to weigh 44lbs 8ozs and take 2nd place……
….just pushing young Dave Ashby into 3rd place by 4ozs.
Winner on the day however was Brian Bevan who managed 7 fish in the last hour on the long pole for a very creditable 68lbs 8ozs.
With 19 anglers fishing on the day and only 2 DNW’s the total weight put on the scales was 433lb 14oz, which goes to show just how hard the venue fished on the day.

1st	Brian Bevan	68lb 08oz
2nd	Eric Robathan	44lb 08oz
3rd	Dave Ashby	44lb 04oz
4th	Steve Wilson	42lb 00oz
5th	Paul Roberts	39lb 10oz
6th	Kev Lake	32lb 00oz
7th	Ant Haywood	27lb 08oz
8th	Tim Westmoreland	24lb 08oz
9th	Malc(The Jinx)Doyle	22lb 08oz
10th	Dave Moore	18lb 12oz
11th	Nick Williams	16lb 00oz
12th=	Nick Jones	11lb 08oz
12th=	Simon Rowley	11lb 08oz
14th	Mark Causer	9lb 00oz
15th	Peter(Mugger)Morton	8lb 00oz
16th	Geoff Eggison	7lb 04oz
17th	Keith(Gandhi)Ashby	6lb 08oz
18th	Derek Robathan	D.N.W
19th	Nick Watkins-Price	D.N.W

Next up it’s Stockton on July 29th.