Sunday 20th July SW Super League River Huntspill

On the Huntspill for the 3rd week running now, the first 2 matches I was drawn on the North Bank which has fished awful. This time I drew peg 72 at Woolavington which apparently was ok.... really! My Section was won with 5lb and I managed a credable 5 points out of 8. I had a small skimmer first chuck on the tip in the middle and that was it. The remainder of my 2lb 13oz was on the pole made up of small roach and a couple of bootlace eels. The section above me was not that good either but did produce the winning weight of 50lb. Glenn Calvert won his Section at Gold Corner with 12lb plus beating England International Des Shipp. We scrapped a few other mediocre points to finish some way down the table on the day and now are at 6th overall. I miss this weeks match (on the Huntspill again) as I am off to Canada and Alaska. First week is a Cruise and the second week is fishing with my wifes cousins, salmon hopefully. I have mentioned the River Kenn over the last few weeks and it just seems to be getting better. Here is a fantastic bag of 37 bream caught by Simon Carvello from Peg 9 estimated at around 160lb..

July update on all fronts

It's been a couple of weeks since I last wrote on the blog. Life in general has been a bit manic. My new job is very demanding at present and I feel burnt out by around 3 p.m. each day hopefully it will start to settle down. I had the option to select early voluntary redundancy (no guarantee that I would get it) but ticked the option to stay, I can just see it on my headstone... here lies Ivan Currie, he ticked the wrong box'.

The fishing has also been full on with hours spent on preparation the Saturday before them match. We had a Super League Practise on the Huntspill 6th July following by an Angling Trust Teams of 10 on the same venue yesterday. I drew the middle section twice and within 5 pegs of each other. Generally a poor draw on the north bank and in the main only the end pegs produced, I only weighed in 3lb on both occasions, both times in the middle of the section. The strange thing is I did enjoy the venue, the potential is there, if only the fish were spread out a bit more. Bream dominated and if you were on them you had a decent day. In the middle sections were I was most anglers caught early and then little or nothing. Good turn outs with 70 anglers yesterday and about 50 odd the week before. Yesterdays Angling Trust match result was dominated by the Thatchers Team delivering a very consistent performance as a team and individual pick ups, quality.
We had a bit of a drains up after the match and Dom Sullivan made a very good point, we need to take on board what he said and put it into practise at this weekends Super League match back on the Huntspill.

On a more positive note the River Kenn has been fishing its head off, here is the press report I sent off a couple of weeks ago with Dan Dymonds picture.

New River Season opens in style

The fishing season on rivers commenced on 16^th June and North Somerset’s River Kenn which flows through Clevedon is producing excellent bags of bream, hybrids, perch and eels. The river from the M5 Motor Way bridge down to the outfall at the sea wall is easily accessible and suitable for disabled anglers. Most methods are catching fish but early mornings and evenings are the best times to go. The fishing is controlled by Clevedon Freshwater Angling Club who also have 5 miles of fishing on the Bristol Avon and Paddock Lake at Acorn Fishery Kingston Seymour. A season permit for fishing the rivers is £20 or £35 just to fish the Paddock Lake, a combined permit is £50, concessionary rates and day permits are also available, all through local tackle shops. For more information please visit http://clevedon-fwac.webs.com.

Pictured is Dan Dymond with a fantastic 90lb of quality bream caught in the first week of the season on the River Kenn.

Dan

 Last weekend there was a match on the Kenn, here are the results.........

1st Dan Dymond 71lb 10oz

2nd Adie Baker 71lb 9oz

3rd Steve Bonwick 53lb 4oz

4th Scott Smallwood 51lb 4oz

Here is a pic of one of the nets being carried up to the scales.

Dan and Aidie

Club Chairman Steve Bonwick with part of his catch.

The match was dominated by big bream caught on the wag or feeder. I have yet to get on the Kenn this year which is disappointing.

So that's a quick summary, off to tie more hooks, lets hope they get put to good use.

Sunday 29th June SW Super League Bristol Avon - Staverton and Barton Farm

This was the 2nd Match of the series and following the practice match we had last week we were fairly confident of catching a few fish. All I can say is after this match the only way is up. We finished last on the day, Chris and I had only 1 point finishing last in our sections. Young Lewis who fishes for us occassionaly drew Barton Farm and lost a couple of decent fish and came home with 3 points, the rest of the team came around the halfway or just above mark in their sections. Not good. My section (a) was won by Liam Bradell (Thatchers)with 7lb 13oz of mainly bleak)from peg 1. I was on peg 8 and had 2lb 5oz, the first peg in b section, Paul Purchase weighed even less 1lb 10oz, the weight above me was 4lb odd and ten it got better as you went up. I did fish a positive match and don't think I could have done much better. The swim was plumbed at 6 foot at 13 meters but due to the weed I could only get it to run through at about 4 foot and then it shallowed up again towards the end. I set up a wag as well for the far bank but againg impossible to fish it properley due to the weed. A few roach came on the inside on hemp but bites were few and far between. The match was won with 50lb odd, Andy Powell and Gary Eitheridge had 30lb, both down at Barton Farm, can't remember who and the consistent Thatchers Team won the day but their captain Mark Harper had a bit of a nightmare day weighing 2oz. There lots of low weights and lower than mine but that's fishing on natural venues.

 I complemented the swims at Staverton last week, here is a picture showing you what I mean, very clear and no chance of being washed away in a winter flood.

and here is my peg for what its worth



Sunday coming see's us on the Huntspill for the 1st of 4 matches although I will miss the last one. Practice match this week, followed by the Angling Trust match then the 3rd Super League match.