The week the Nomads decided on a small knock up match at The Vale Golf Club 

We were all keen to return back to the Vale golf club after two good recent matches there, where we all caught plenty of fish. This time the weather slowed sport down. The Vale is a cracking venue for small knock ups and full of fish but after several nights with frost and tempertures down from the last tme we fished it, weights were down. Robin Ballard and Andy Mitchell were the main players with Robin winning the match and beating Andy by 8oz.  Robin weighed in 52lb 0oz to Andys 51lb 8oz and 3rd was Mark Birbeck with 43lb. Other weights were Phil Seedhouse 38lb, Doug Smith 37lb, Stu Thomson 20lb