Pictures courtesy of Stephen Harper

I'm sure there was more fish than that!

From the Marshals...
The Marshals Stephen, Viv & Oliver Harper & Ian & Ann Nicol would like to pass on their thanks to everyone who supported them on their first Rally as Marshals. My thanks especially to Ian who put in a lot of hard work over the weekend (Yes Ian you will have more to do next year !   don't go on).

Not only was the weather absolutely superb, but as Wendy said "Not a jet stream in the sky". I don't know how we ordered it, but somebody up above was being very kind. What was so nice, was to see was the smiles on the rally field along with sunburnt bodies, I'm glad I was not the only one.

Thursday was a hard fun packed day pegging out the vans with help from Ian "How many more times have I got to more these pegs!!", and thanks to the Brinkhoff gang for helping to erect the marquee which turned out to be a laugh with no instructions (Yes I will agree with you Darren it does not have a flat roof !!). I was even treated to a wonderful Chilli.

Friday 10-30am on the button the first van arrived by 3pm we were done and dustered bar 2, the wives' arrived to keep us on our toes, 8pm was a welcome with tea and coffee in the marquee.

Saturday up bright and early to meet at the lakes for  0700hrs to draw pegs, setup ready for the shout at 0800hrs to drown those maggots in the adult match.

Lucky Darren was the first land a little beauty 3lb carp followed by a 5lb 7oz common carp, me i sat there for 3hrs twiddling me thumbs watching the float bob up and down then all hell broke loose and I landed a 1lb carp followed a couple tiddlers another small carp and to Darren's disgust 10 minutes from the end foul hooked a 6lb 2oz mirror carp in the rear fin. From where I sat I could see much action around the the lake but you could hear splashes. Steve Oliver  worked hard to land 40 small fish. The match finished at 1430hrs and the results were:-

1st Darren Brinkhoff 8lb 6oz

2nd Stephen Harper 8lb 3oz

3rd Tony Peggs 5lb 8oz.

Next it was the turn of the juniors for 2hrs and didn't they do well Lewis Brinkhoff landed the first and never stopped, then it was the turn of Nicole Brinkhoff who screamed her head off as she held on to her dad for dear life landing a 4lb 7oz Carp. The match finished at 5pm with:

1st Nicole not only taking top honours for the biggest fish of 4lb 7oz taking 1st place overall as well (not bad considering she did not want to fish)

2nd lewis Brinkhoff 3lb 7 oz and the most species rudd, roach,common carp & perch

3rd Tyler Brinkhoff 11.5oz's. I think we can safely say the Brinkhoff's wiped the floor!!

Good job there coming to the five centre's fishing rally.

Finally it was time to pack up and return to the vans quick wash something to eat and over to the marquee for flag and some lovely music new & old from Andy York.

Down came the marquee on Sunday morning never seen it done so quick!! by 4pm the vans had gone and what a shame it was all over so quick.

Thanks once again for all your support because without you ralliers us marshals would not have a job.

Stephen, Viv & Oliver Harper.