As Secretary and Press Office for Clevedon Freshwater Angling Club I manage our Website and FaceBook page. I am always grateful to those members who report catches on the Kenn and supply photographs as it promotes the Club and in turn generates more ticket sales.
This year has been exceptional and it has been great to see the return of the roach and small skimmers throughout the river.
Due to all of the above we had a fantastic 29 anglers booked in for this match. Normally we only get this number on our Annual Charity Match.
Match Secretary Rob Fogg was in charge today and was well organised.
Due to the numbers attending Rob had to use the pegs just downstream of Kenn Rd Car Park and then most of them above and below Strode Rd.
At £20 per angler less a £1 peg fee Rob had plenty of money to play with so it was well spread out.
Into the draw bucket and I pulled out peg 29, not one you would run to but I had caught well on 22 the other week so you never know.
I parked up on Strode Rd and only had to walk 3 pegs downstream.
My plan for today was to use a 0.6 gram and a 1 gram rig at 13 metres and another 0.6 gram rig at 7 metres.
Chopped worm and chopped red maggot with a few casters and a little hemp in ground bait at 10 o'clock and at 2 o'clock the same but no ground bait. At 7 metres it was just going to be chopped worm.
On the long line I always use 0.11 hook length as you can come across proper bream, tench or big perch, a size 18 B611 hook usually handles anything big but small enough not to put the roach and skimmer off.
I had a size 16 B560 on the 7 metre rig.
A waggler was set up but not used and the feeder rod stayed in the holdall.
After feeding the pole lines I started off over the ground bait line with pinkie on the 0.6 rig and the float went under first put in, a small skimmer. Nothing on the same line after 15 minutes so came in on the 7 metre line with a worm head. As expected it went under and a 5 oz perch was swung in. A few more followed before I hooked a jack pike which bit me off so re-fed more worm.
Out long at 2 o'clock with a worm head and a decent roach was netted but then nothing. The water was gin clear and the sky was clear so not ideal.
The question was do I feed much?
I decided on feeding the bare minimum and fed more really finely chopped worm than anything else.
Even this only brought me the odd fish and I had more roach short over my perch line in the latter half of the match than perch.
I ended up with 3lb 10oz, not great but the draw, clarity of the water and the bright sky didn't help.
Jeremy Salisbury had a nice day from the end peg downstream from Kenn Rd getting a bite almost every put in. He ended up with a lovey bag of mainly roach for 15lb 2oz.
Not far behind was Paul Randell 10 pegs below Jeremy with 14lb 3oz, a few skimmers but mainly roach.
Below Strode Rd from peg 8 was Kev Perry who had 11 skimmers in as many put in's and then they disappeared but he done enough to come 3rd with just over 8lbs.
Considering the conditions the river fished really well with most pegs in.
Full results below......
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