Sunday 16th October - Sensas Commercial House League Round 4, Bristol Avon, Swineford to Jack Whites

 On to Round 4 of this friendly league and we were back on the same pegs as a couple of weeks ago. Going into this round we were lying 2nd one place behind Bathampton and there wasn't much in it points wise with the other teams as well.

Leigh and I had gone to Swineford a week prior to this match on a Wednesday for a bit of a dable trying to catch chub. Leigh went in his winners peg and went in on the first peg into the second field. I was all set up ready when all of a sudden a wasp nest behind me came to life so had to vacate the peg quickly. Leigh had a nice net of chub and I had loads of perch on the Outfall right over on the tip.

I informed the peters for this match about the wasps and it was left out.

Draw was at the Crown again who continue to look after us very well.

Team today was.....

Me

Sam Johnson

Leigh Wakefield

Jan Van Myzak

Dave Lewis

Andy Cranston

I think we were last buy one to draw and ended up with average pegs.

Dave A4, me B3, Sam C5, Leigh D2, Jan E1, Andy F5.

Jan was on a great peg for the whip and Andy was on an end peg, I had a feeling they would do well.

When I parked up at Swineford Kev Boltz and Jerry Pocock said I was on the chub peg, a flyer. But .... I wasn't, Lee Warden was on that and I was the peg below. Dead water across and shallow down the middle.

I just set up a waggler, 3 gram bolo and a maggot feeder.

At the all in I put 3 balls down the middle and started feeding caster and hemp on the edge of the dead water. Going right over was not really an option as it was very very shallow and weedy.

First run down with the bolo I had a 2oz roach and then some dace but after 30 minutes nothing which was worrying. I put another small ball in and went over on the wag. Bleak, bleak and more bleak which was very frustrating.

Back on the bolo I had a few perch, another bad sign but at least it was something. A quick look with the feeder containing caster and hemp with double red on the waggler line just gave me more bleak when I managed to hit the rattle of the tip.

I was going absolutely nowhere on this peg and became very frustrated.

I got up and set up a whip to fish at 6 metres and started loose feeding hemp and caster. It took a while but eventually caught a couple of roach around 4 oz. It wasn't fast but felt I couldn't do anything else.

I ended up with 5lb 1oz and last in the section. Leighton Warden had 6lb off the end helped by a big chub in the last knockings, Kev Boltz had 7lb below me, Lee Warden had 15lb off the chub peg and Andy Pritchard had 5lb 15oz above him. So apart from Lee's chub weight it was pretty close.

If only I had gone on the whip earlier !!!!!

Walking back I caught up with Dave who was in A section, he weighed 12lb 3oz and managed to snare a bream giving him 3 points from 5 but that was OK and he nicked a point from Kev Dicks fishing for Bathampton.

Jerry Pocock had a great day in A section taking over 30 lbs of skim bobs on the peg that Leigh had 2 weeks previously, Leigh had 31lb of chub then. Just goes to show you can't always call it.

Back at the Crown the results came in from the rest of the lads.......

Sam done ok from the bay opposite the Soap Works and took 3 points with 9lbs 4oz, Leigh was on the high wall and also took 3 points with 7lb 11oz despite cows going in the river. Jan came back with a section winning 14lb as did Andy with 21 lb 14oz plus 2nd in the match.

21 points in total gave us a Team win on the day and we are going into match 5 at Newbridge with a 3 point cushion.

Jerry enjoying a pint after his victory

Andy with a great net of whip caught fish

Here is the match report from Vince Lunn.............

The 4th round of the Commercial House League 2022 was fished on the Bristol Avon from Swineford to Jack Whites. The river was still clear and low with bright conditions. It fished well again with 15 double figure weights from the 30 anglers.

The winner of the match was Jerry Pocock, fishing for Midland Spinner. He was drawn on the first peg in the 2nd field at Swineford and fished the pole over groundbait. In the first hour he had about 4 lbs of small fish and then after that, 8 to 12 ozs skimmers moved in and he caught these for the rest of the match to finish with 30 lbs 6 ozs.

2nd was Andrew Cranston who was guesting for Sensas Nomads. He was drawn on the last peg at Jack Whites and fished an 8 metre whip and put in 8 balls of groundbait at the start. He caught roach most of the day on castors, feeding odd balls of groundbait, hemp and castors. He weighed in 21 lbs 14 ozs.

3rd was Paul Purchase fishing for M & N Electrical. He was drawn on peg 6 at Swineford and fishing a long rod with bolo float 2 rods lengths out. He fed groundbait and loosefeed to catch mainly roach all day, plus a couple of 6 oz skimmers. He weighed 17 lbs 14 ozs.

4th Nicky Johns - Mosella Bathampton - 16 lbs 9 ozs

5th Lee Warden - M & N Electrical - 15 lbs 1 ozs

6th Jan Mazyk - Sensas Nomads - 14 lbs 2 ozs

Midland Spinner won on the day with 21 points. Sensas Nomads were 2nd with 20 points and take the lead overall. It’s close though with only 5 points separating the top 4 teams.

Teams on the day

Midland Spinner 21

Sensas Nomads 20

M & N Electrical 18

Mosella Bathampton 16

Crown 15

League positions

Sensas Nomads 82

Mosella Bathampton 79

M & N Electrical 77

Midland Spinner 77

Crown 42