The second league match of the 2008 series was to be held at Magiscroft Fishery, near Glasgow. The pools to be used were the Main Loch and the Island Pond. The Main Loch is well known to be a good Pellet Waggler water (despite being very deep), whilst the Island Pond is known to be a good draw for the Carp/Pellet anglers.

Once again the mighty Monklands All Stars were desperate to finish off the bottom, whilst the A team were hoping to open up a gap at the top of the league.

The Monklands teams for this round were:

Monklands A

Ian Whitson

Darrin Ferguson

Stephen McAveny

Ewan Weed

Monklands B

Davie McAuley

Simon Murray

Alec Napier

Dougie Garmoury

Monklands All Stars

Michael Neary

Mike Shaw

David Anderson

Bryan Hewitt

The match itself was hard for most, certainly on the Main Loch one Carp could promote you from last in section to the top half of the section. With the water very clear and the small fish not wanting to feed most anglers struggled - apart from a couple of pegs where the Carp seemed to be shoaled up and an odd peg on the Island Pond. Never the less, the match was enjoyable and rewarded the adaptable anglers.

Individually it was Monklands Stephen McCaveny who lead the way with a super catch of mainly Carp from the Island Pond:

Teamwise it was Monklands A that showed there class by opening up a 17 point lead at the top of the table, Monklands B finished 5th whilst the might All Stars finished in 11th.

Full results courtesy of Mike Weed (thanks Mike), can be viewed here.

My Match (Mike)

Just a few words about how I fished (or didn't fish!)my peg.

Not really knowing whether I 'd drawn well or not I approached the peg as if I was literally fishing for a bite. I setup two waggler rods, one with a conventional waggler and one with Pellet Waggler - both were setup to catch Carp but gave the option of switching to gauge the response.

In addition to these, I setup a deck rig at 6 sections for fishing worm/pellet, a paste rig for the same line later in the match and an up in the water rig for 14m.

At the hooter I started feeding my pole lines whilst Mark on the peg to my left started on the Pellet Wag and was into a Carp straight away. Once I'd fed the pole lines I went straight out on the Pellet Waggler, feeding 6mm pellets and fishing the same on the hair rig i promptly hooked two and both came off, one returning a scale indicating they were foul hookers.

Mark on the other hand was catching Carp after Carp whilst all I could do was try to coax some Carp from him - this wasn't to be and despite trying for most of the match I just could not catch a Carp! In the end I managed to scrape some bits together for the team and return some points but I still came last in section whilst Mark next to me had 27lb of Carp. Those Carp were like Bream, foul hook one and loose it and they wouldn't come back.