Sunday 4th May - Clevedon Club Match Avalon Fishery

I have only fished Avalon 3 times in the last 10 years and never done that well. We were on the main Match Lake, Moors which has 48 pegs and approximately 5 acres with an average depth of 6' - 7'. Plenty of room between pegs and central mature islands.

The venue is part owned by Mosella UK Boss Vic Bush who used to be a good angler on the Bristol Avon many years ago and before the Commercial Fishery trend began.

16 booked in today which was very good considering there was a Kev Perry Series Match on at Acorn, included in the 16 was a couple more new members and Darren Vowles, aka 'Nuddy' made his first appearance since the Boxing Day Pairs Match when together we made 3rd place. Darren has been down on the White Acres matches so fully fired up today ready to bag up on carp on the pellet waggler and method feeder. He was also dressed in 'plantation lake' green (gardeners uniform).

Adie read out the rules (as some anglers embarassed us last time) and Vic done the draw, I drew peg 9 with pegs 8 and 10 not put in! All of us were pegged down one side.

Moors peg 9

I started off on the striaght lead and snared 3 carp in the first hour and lost 2 foul hookers casting just shy of the island with 8mm banded pellet. I feed the 14 meter line with pellet via the catapult while waiting for the to go around plus some micro in each margin. Nuddy was off to a flier in the first hour catching on the waggler but not much elase was happening up my end (that I could see). First put in on the 14 meter line with banded 8mm the float sailed away and I took a carp around 4lb, it didn't half go and the elastic was like a washing line going across the lake. I took a few more smaller carp in the next 2 hours before trying the right hand margin with paste. After 10 minutes the float went under and a munter was on, took me for a merry dance under the platform, back out, back in, into the reeds and in an effort to get it out this was the result.

Top 2 now an top 3 and a finger full of carbon splinters!

So that was the end of that. I stuck on the 14 meter line the rest of the match and added the odd fish. my total weight was 35lb odd.

The wind was blowing down the lake for most of the day and the end pegs reaped the benefits.

1st Peg 23 Andy Hembrow 134lb 04ozs

2nd Peg 22 Mike West 102lb

3rd Peg 20 Adie Baker 84lb 13oz

4th Peg 5 John Woolstencroft 65lb 11oz

Silvers Dave Wride Peg 11 19lb 3oz

Weigh sheet.

Need some rest and a quiet place to recover as 'Nuddy' did not shut up all day.

Off to do some river trout fishing in Devon on Friday and then we have the blind pairs match at Shiplate on Sunday.