The fourth and final league match of the summer 2008 series was to be held at Magiscroft once more. Going into this match there were 5 or 6 anglers in with a shout of winning the league indvidually, whilst the team league looked to be sewn up by the Monklands A team, but they knew that Magiscroft would be going all out to beat them on their own water.

As well as all the excitement at the top of the table, there was much much more at stake for the mighty All Stars. We were 5 points behind the Monklands B team - could the All Stars acheive the impossible and actually finish higher than the B team?

The Monklands teams for this round were:

Monklands A

Ian Whitson

Darrin Ferguson

Stephen McAveny

Ewan Weed

Monklands B

Richie Vernon (standing in for Davie McAuley)

Simon Murray

Alec Napier

Dougie Garmoury

Monklands All Stars

Michael Neary

Mike Shaw

David Anderson

Bryan Hewitt

With the draw completed in record time (9 minutes acording to Mike Weed) the anglers were off to their pegs. Stephen McCaveny was drawn on the far bank in the widest part of the Loch which is normally good for Carp on the Pellet Waggler, however, he had Magiscroft's Chris Paton on the next peg. Ian Whitson was drawn on the opposite end of the Loch in the narrow section, Ewan Weed was on permanent peg 16 whilst Darrin was pegged on the Island Pond. Overall it looked like Monklands A had a reasonable draw and would take the league winners title.

Individually it could still be any one of the 5 or 6 anglers that were there or thereabouts.

At the end of the match news started to filter through that Monklands member Darrin had finished 3rd in his section and this was enough to win the league with 52 points with 4 anglers finishing on 50 points:

Teamwise, Monklands A had a section winner with Stephen McCaveny, two third in sections from Ewan Weed and Darrin Ferguson and a 7th in section from Ian Whitson - this was enough for second on the day and overall summer league champions:

Full results courtesy of Mike Weed (thanks Mike):

Team Points - League 4

Match Results - League 4

Individual Points Overall

Team Points Overall

My Match (Mike)

Just a few words about how I fished my peg.

I drew peg B2, which was on the far bank almost opposite to the Cafe. I had no idea whether this was a decent peg or not, but there were plenty of fish showing prior to the hooter so I was confident of a few bites. I setup a Drennan Crystal waggler for the Carp up in the water, I also setup two shallow rigs, one paste rig and one on the deck rig. I was fully intending to fish up in the water most of the day.

At the hooter I fed my deck line and went out on the Pellet Waggler, I also started to feed my shallow line at 14m. After 30 minutes of the match I had one Carp in the net caught on the Pellet Waggler, I spent another 20 minutes or so on this with no more indications.

I then went onto the shallow pole line, cupping in worm and loose feeding caster I was soon catching small Perch, Roach and Skimmers, problem was they were very small and I needed some Carp or bigger skimmers to build a weight. Alternating between my three lines I was struggling to put together any number of fish (but then so was everyone else!), I spent the last hour of the match trying for a Carp on the Paste, Pellet Waggler and worm up in the water - it wasn't to be but I did pickup a few tips watching other anglers who did connect with Carp in the last hour.