I was made aware of this match out of the blue, it was not on any match programme I have but solved my problem of deciding where to fish this weekend. The last time I was there I won it off West Pool and to be honest although it's a bit of a strange venue I was looking forward to it.
I arrived in the car park in plenty of time for the 08:30 draw and there were already a load of the Frys guys there, I was surprised to only find a 3 other Clevedon member present, maybe the others had made alternative arrangements as it was not on their match programme either! I parked up beside 'my mum fed me paste when I was a baby Walsh', can't knock the guy he has so much faith in the method and he won the previous days open on Acorn. A couple of other Clevedon members turned up giving us about 6 versus 16 to 18 of Fry's.
The draw was called and a debate commenced regarding fishing times 10:15 - 16:45 or 17:00 etc etc 10:15 to 16:30 was the final decision, some of the Frys members fish the star light matches on the Bristol City Docks on a Thursday night so would not have worried if we fished until 21:00 (9pm in old money)!
Pegs were thrown up in the air, I fancied West Pool again as a match had been fished the previous day on Hawthorns. I picked up the peg card open it up and it just said 10 but on which lake. Dean Harvey (draw master) confirmed the pegs with just numbers were on West Pool. Not bad methinks and 2 pegs away from where I won it from a few weeks ago. I knew what to expect so was fairly happy, I also had a spare peg each side of me as only the even numbers were in except for peg 7.
There were fish moving along the far bank at 16 meters but not much else.
View of my peg below from the high bank which is real pain for pole anglers.
Eye level view of the peg.
I did have a plan which was hard 8mm across and feeding 6's at the bottom of the far shelf, micro and dead maggot down the middle and paste off the inside shelf. Question though - whty did I have 8mm, 6mm, 4mm, corn, worm, paste, dead and live mag plus meat on the bait tray!
The all in went at 10:15 and I was ready, baited up the target area's and started on 8mm across, the sun kept coming out and in and the light was rubbish, a change to a yellow top solved that and I had a small carp after 20 mins not much was happening at all from what I could see, others were fishing tight across very shallow feeding mirco. Peg 8 above me started to catch and lose fish (foul hookers). I got the odd carp at 30 min intervals and soon switched to the middle on dead read and caught a couple of skimmers but even they were not having it properly. 2 hours in the paste line failed as well. No point rambling on, West Pool anglers really struggled compared to Hawthorn which was surprising.
I weighed in 27lb 6oz which was good enough for a section win, the top silvers weight did come off our pool though but it was not massive.
The winner on the day was Bristol City Docks expert and seasoned Commercial angler Pete Sivell with 99lb 10oz.
1st Pete Sivell 99lb 10oz (Frys)
2nd Paul Chapman 81lb 13oz (Clevedon)
3rd Jason Bird 60lb 13oz (Frys)
Silvers - Derek Coles 16lb 1oz (Frys)
A good day out though despite the fishing and money well spread out (well done Dean).
Sunday sees us fishing an interclub between Frys (River squad) and Frome Vale on and wait for it the River Kenn (hard but fair), at least the bait will be kept simple!!!!!
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