Rookery Waters, Pidley, Cambridgeshire, 15th September 2013
With Mark now 4 points down we return to Rookery Waters, Pidley which could be classed as Mark's home water where he has grabbed some large bags pleasure fishing so the pressure was on me to try and beat him today... We had tried to contact the owners to request permission to use keepnets but could not get through to them in time. We arrived and found that a match would be on Magpie lake and the peg that Mark wanted to fish was in the match... We took a walk round and decided to fish pegs 31 & 32 which would not interfere with any of the match lads. The weather was taking a turn for the worse with high winds and rain predicted for the afternoon, so all the wet weather gear came out! We decided to zero our scales with a wet landing net and would weigh each fish, rounding up and down the weight of the fish and clicking away our weights. It was a good way to figure out who wins at the end of the day. The Set-up I had a method chuck to the reeds, so the method rod was