tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27033023965997573662024-02-20T20:36:24.708-08:00Ivan's AngleIvan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.comBlogger518125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-58078063536896353022023-03-08T06:00:00.005-08:002023-03-08T06:00:53.665-08:00The first post of 2023......<p>I have not fished many matches this year hence the lack of activity on this Blog.</p><p>I did fish a match on the Gloucester Canal back in early January but I basically went, drew peg 31, sat in the rain for 5 hours and caught very very little as you do on that peg. the 40's dominated as usual.</p><p>I also fished a Clevedon Club match on the River Kenn recently, drew the wrong area and blanked as did 9 others around me.</p><p>I have however had my best winter on the River Kenn. It's not comfortable fishing as you need to stand in the mud due to the level being dropped to half its depth (average 3 to 4 foot in winter, Dec - March).</p><p>I have adapted a few bits of tackle of make it more comfortable especially my waterproof side tray with broom handles!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtZfwcrAzvgWnU7hOdfHgigmVAOZEy_3DylGXNwdLPKZSv0Q4cyHfwf6SelGRjrEWMNxifaiyCFrkcTQ5VIKCaBj8jBISGROQtFB_KJbl5okiSghpIp_Sotjnw6QKGhkcExrgd0v5_9JtQRv8DN560ucpQ-6qNl-mdTXK8euwd113lCwgSFDrTjFq/s1237/4FC5C39A-D08B-4116-A070-174BDE34A0EE_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtZfwcrAzvgWnU7hOdfHgigmVAOZEy_3DylGXNwdLPKZSv0Q4cyHfwf6SelGRjrEWMNxifaiyCFrkcTQ5VIKCaBj8jBISGROQtFB_KJbl5okiSghpIp_Sotjnw6QKGhkcExrgd0v5_9JtQRv8DN560ucpQ-6qNl-mdTXK8euwd113lCwgSFDrTjFq/w388-h400/4FC5C39A-D08B-4116-A070-174BDE34A0EE_1_201_a.jpeg" width="388" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The last few years I simply used a ground bait bowl on a ring combined with a broom handle but everything got we when it rained. This way is much better and you can bring a long more items down to the water with you to save climbing up and down the bank, the top of which is generally at head height.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I prefer neoprene chest waders due to the rise and fall of the tide plus they are warmer than ordinary waders.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like I said the roach fishing has been out of this world as well as good catches of tench and big perch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was lucky to catch roach of 2lb 15 and 2lb 13 in the one session which won the Canal and River Trust catch of the month for January.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDCrKOznTKdy1O_4VN0L5YhhOxPWIzhkzP0SIWMrIc_11HAAuy0FXBObZlzF65D49VBN6wC-KbPD_phkwQbCmWlZbbsQM12ggu99St4zkWdL20HFGb1UTnjsE5QkMAd4psKzdhi2C8votMBFZR2eMBZ5RzMbVCEDd1CW72ngT3gfzdJCPOQoRmg4yT/s2048/C8155258-04EB-46B7-831C-0B6DDD38AAF9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDCrKOznTKdy1O_4VN0L5YhhOxPWIzhkzP0SIWMrIc_11HAAuy0FXBObZlzF65D49VBN6wC-KbPD_phkwQbCmWlZbbsQM12ggu99St4zkWdL20HFGb1UTnjsE5QkMAd4psKzdhi2C8votMBFZR2eMBZ5RzMbVCEDd1CW72ngT3gfzdJCPOQoRmg4yT/w400-h400/C8155258-04EB-46B7-831C-0B6DDD38AAF9.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The following week I had another going a level 2lb and another of 1lb 10 in a lovely mixed bag.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfD-LqjQiH6oVwyVGHKzKjpMqr6lS0N5VwROvU8aF78hz_Ukt3K1vSn92N80-bUyrtVIGp0_k0gY1T4mVbac16oB6Ovto-q3pVGhB-1_Eil3yMpj0LXB50HoW5KLpYxtI6D72Gq-NyGPzMucgpjeObbXZuc95oFcQe3ysqz4FpDBiWZ4hpVTGAX7q3/s600/B16FECCA-87C9-4691-9D9F-4EDC228BD30E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfD-LqjQiH6oVwyVGHKzKjpMqr6lS0N5VwROvU8aF78hz_Ukt3K1vSn92N80-bUyrtVIGp0_k0gY1T4mVbac16oB6Ovto-q3pVGhB-1_Eil3yMpj0LXB50HoW5KLpYxtI6D72Gq-NyGPzMucgpjeObbXZuc95oFcQe3ysqz4FpDBiWZ4hpVTGAX7q3/w300-h400/B16FECCA-87C9-4691-9D9F-4EDC228BD30E.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The most tench I have had this year in a session has been 4, lovely fish which go some on the waggler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1ebdvhlscL3IITbWq_ZKx-uS-da8EFuH_jo9r5xx-06wWwsZJG68miiwvijgMqv6417vLJXQrqM_jQDOf-mzF4tvyE-SbjcDZNPrt1NOiuBd9T9dw2QJiODgGuK0wetbt32qVScSxSUKSwdDvs0uwWZfdm2TRCYXqIn21I-I4P8eeCX8WEe45Lck/s640/1322275F-3A93-4F67-A14A-476F46C9DA0C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1ebdvhlscL3IITbWq_ZKx-uS-da8EFuH_jo9r5xx-06wWwsZJG68miiwvijgMqv6417vLJXQrqM_jQDOf-mzF4tvyE-SbjcDZNPrt1NOiuBd9T9dw2QJiODgGuK0wetbt32qVScSxSUKSwdDvs0uwWZfdm2TRCYXqIn21I-I4P8eeCX8WEe45Lck/w254-h400/1322275F-3A93-4F67-A14A-476F46C9DA0C.jpeg" width="254" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The River Kenn fished best late January to mid February after the previous heavy rain. The fish like a bit of flow and tripping a 2.5 gram waggler through a few inches over depth and feeding red maggot seems to work best. Two years ago in February I had 11 tench for 52lb when it was minus 2 degrees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In terms of total weight in a session on the Kenn I have had around 40lbs twice this winter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqowhV_7Fx4Cmi0L_mC320n7dWvD7pQC8AQ6BeAvy_pUmVK77KvHzeP80dydZBg58_JAm4pzv_Ngr8ORYlyFIK-PmJZdUlqHgnyf4KxkwLO4rsGVRTpiHVQOY1EeLpvO1Y1SkFxAV_aJIgfRQ0hCBDy9GSaE6SWGrJue6mUE-sCcJWb8pyfyn0bJkv/s4032/0BF663B7-3992-4AA0-8E1E-8CDFADB6A9EE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqowhV_7Fx4Cmi0L_mC320n7dWvD7pQC8AQ6BeAvy_pUmVK77KvHzeP80dydZBg58_JAm4pzv_Ngr8ORYlyFIK-PmJZdUlqHgnyf4KxkwLO4rsGVRTpiHVQOY1EeLpvO1Y1SkFxAV_aJIgfRQ0hCBDy9GSaE6SWGrJue6mUE-sCcJWb8pyfyn0bJkv/w300-h400/0BF663B7-3992-4AA0-8E1E-8CDFADB6A9EE.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have had a couple of session when I have blanked searching out new area's and a couple of sessions where I have just caught the odd tench but worth the wait and enjoyable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXfJ2oTF1pgTw41_5eyAjTKZRul8vExV79aDIlLjEN11vUfis1Bl4PHFWmzRlmUmJukigwEAgZmOQRh1xwhGsMX52y2w55FuGowz2Dqi6STfqYz7l-yE7EPRpyIexAlk8nCq5I2rpuBMU-Mq5P4Kw_qLoQg5sBQ50SbkNqrhqlPi1xjLE0-Fj9Sf0/s600/A26821EE-D55E-4AA9-BE44-A5ED9F991B0C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPXfJ2oTF1pgTw41_5eyAjTKZRul8vExV79aDIlLjEN11vUfis1Bl4PHFWmzRlmUmJukigwEAgZmOQRh1xwhGsMX52y2w55FuGowz2Dqi6STfqYz7l-yE7EPRpyIexAlk8nCq5I2rpuBMU-Mq5P4Kw_qLoQg5sBQ50SbkNqrhqlPi1xjLE0-Fj9Sf0/s320/A26821EE-D55E-4AA9-BE44-A5ED9F991B0C.jpeg" width="196" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpcan0KLYINKUHO3WfzbMtjbOuGPQJnWOnOW4J3PT2mNINuMnGHW3g1H1WKLcvVqrrHTvfcIZx3flK1eJ36FzWym7sk_xOH-8WLqfEYrTZViCs7mXwDqvyAkRT7S79cMdXx3sLlgEuVgIrzb77dHsoSXVAUyz4x_T_ThNpgkoX_vUkr39v9rdgKhnf/s4032/7941C90F-00D3-4014-87FC-A0B920816285.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpcan0KLYINKUHO3WfzbMtjbOuGPQJnWOnOW4J3PT2mNINuMnGHW3g1H1WKLcvVqrrHTvfcIZx3flK1eJ36FzWym7sk_xOH-8WLqfEYrTZViCs7mXwDqvyAkRT7S79cMdXx3sLlgEuVgIrzb77dHsoSXVAUyz4x_T_ThNpgkoX_vUkr39v9rdgKhnf/s320/7941C90F-00D3-4014-87FC-A0B920816285.jpeg" width="240" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was nice to see some of the Club's new and younger members on the river this winter James Howell took this little video of me catching a tench.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxUd7xcd_Z6VJiD6SovJ10a_mV4ztZZB_Y8jvs160dVQqCSEbTT2dq3GfFQN1f-xAHnQpBmpDdYbcH3YxdUNA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sunday just gone I fished the Lower Bristol Avon Champs, Newbridge to the Tree's at Saltford organised by Ben Rendall and Dean Harvey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1uC8G91_kkB5il5DYBCAVr2_zLp2oUfUCOvSR5B_m1lToB9M6lWHnwGMLKyFNRrIeqsogWDXKyKCOttme4FgC7Re977P5ssBuhbGkB5Z4MOWLpAGIUdPfvCEOi2PtF4oPHTRzJtKJC_bfufNTundk-JAq9TfgsgQDbMiIdUbuadnOAbCc2BuCNtF/s701/BF4C8DA3-6B0A-4ABD-AE60-73DE4BE1C9F7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1uC8G91_kkB5il5DYBCAVr2_zLp2oUfUCOvSR5B_m1lToB9M6lWHnwGMLKyFNRrIeqsogWDXKyKCOttme4FgC7Re977P5ssBuhbGkB5Z4MOWLpAGIUdPfvCEOi2PtF4oPHTRzJtKJC_bfufNTundk-JAq9TfgsgQDbMiIdUbuadnOAbCc2BuCNtF/w300-h400/BF4C8DA3-6B0A-4ABD-AE60-73DE4BE1C9F7.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Team mate Sam Johnson and I booked in for this one even though it's usually feast or famine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There had been some 50 / 60lb weights recently and a report of 120lb recently in the area.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The draw was in Stothert and Pitt Rugby Club Car Park from 07:45. On arrival there were some very good hardened river anglers there from across the West.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the draw got under way Sam and I were about a half way down the queue. Ben took the money and Dean was in charge of the draw bowl. When I opened my paper peg card I was delighted to see peg 8 which today was permanent peg 18. This peg has real form and you can park behind your peg, the only trouble is the Rowing Club is directly opposite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam drew down Newbridge straight somewhere which is a iffy area but ....Warren Bates did have 26 bream down there somewhere on the waggler during the week!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Off we went and I did manage to park behind peg 18, lovely.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had loads of time and managed to gain some information concerning where to fish as I had never drawn it before.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had 4 loaves of liquidised but Derek Coles who is a bream human hybrid advised me to just use ground bait as the bread might spook the bream in the low clear water. Sam said the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I took their advice and mixed up Sensas Black Lake and Sensas Black River 50/50, a really nice mix.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had plenty of worm, maggot and caster. Only set up 2 feeder rods both with 25 gram feeders, 6lb main line and a big 14 hook to 5lb hook length, proper hauling gear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below me on peg 20 I had Bridgwater Angling Centres Shane Robinson, above me on 16 was Bristol Avon legend Tim Ford and above Tim on 14 was match organiser supremo Ben Rendall. What a line up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>As I was setting up another angler who was behind the Pump House came up and asked if I had a spare Landing Net Handle. I did and loaned him it.<div><br /></div><div>Fishing today was 1030 - 1530 and I was ready with an hour to go. </div><div><br /></div><div>It was dry, hardly any wind but was very cold.</div><div><br /></div><div>There wasn't much activity over at the rowing Club and those that were there were pretty mature people, it's the learners that cause the issues as well as the safety boat.</div><div><br /></div><div>The whistle went and I cast a maggot and worm cock tail into the middle, I left it for 5 minutes before bringing it in and re-cast. Same again, another 5 minute cast and re-cast, left it a bit longer this time and the tip went round, bream on. The fish was around 4lb and Tim saw me get the net out.</div><div><br /></div><div>Darren Gillman came down the bank and was behind Tim for a while and then came down to me. I told him I had one, Darren said Tim had one as well. He stayed around for a while between me and Tim and when he left I think we had 9 bream each but when he saw me net a couple he thought that my fish were a bigger stamp.</div><div><br /></div><div>I wasn't putting a lot in the feeder as the fish were clearly there but did cast regularly, well I had to as I was basically getting a fish every 10 minutes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dave Micklewright also came for a walk along the bank. Dave had been down in the Tree's section and said it was poor so packed up.</div><div>He watched Tim and I catch for a while and reported that Ben was getting a few but Shane down on peg 20 wasn't catching.</div><div><br /></div><div>Towards the end of the match Shane did start catching.</div><div><br /></div><div>Tim came down for a pee behind my van and said he was stuck on 17 bream, I said I was on 22 and had a second net in.</div><div><br /></div><div>Well the bream feast continued and I ended up with 32 of them, what a day, my best on the Bristol Avon.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ben was first to weigh and put 85lb on the scales.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GEhm-LBO-XWgNs_9JNz6WfGbsNui4ilUkaz1PDhIVAQw9IUC48JakaxdHCb8gFufSxzTA17-d3w5ywuq4RQE7xFG4GoV0X0W_i5ZJQyNUqWkq_fnptLqL2OftC2uvb0n-pV_p0fuXfqjIsJQTTlTjJXHTut6w9MwS34MBz6CU6G1w8xmf8PyfbcX/s701/562C3C4A-0083-42EC-89BB-8C39F8F68A0B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0GEhm-LBO-XWgNs_9JNz6WfGbsNui4ilUkaz1PDhIVAQw9IUC48JakaxdHCb8gFufSxzTA17-d3w5ywuq4RQE7xFG4GoV0X0W_i5ZJQyNUqWkq_fnptLqL2OftC2uvb0n-pV_p0fuXfqjIsJQTTlTjJXHTut6w9MwS34MBz6CU6G1w8xmf8PyfbcX/w300-h400/562C3C4A-0083-42EC-89BB-8C39F8F68A0B.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tim was next and had a total of 91lb</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3iV-IY01Zo7EPpLpyuriPhyO1I1UytMV14OBWi1Ti5OwxM4MB55wNtfmTwtmLAQ0hxmqB8sc43ny-sElgXhbRfhzKSXBdgO8CMreUMgcGNoH9n4NQOEWDanZnxjp5fPIIewEYPX322LSr4ivcwU5dS18M_h1Z1MOSdyIspS6zMPFLSNE674DBZfb2/s320/FDED6B75-CF60-4648-A9E4-3DB03780702E_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixoi25vd0rCO252G--MouLBN-HNQ1QWGC2xNk5GbaY3u_PwG5tst7vPgJy-mhVLw9Q5jv-WhQXc1CJqt95xL63BtbeHAbDWq83Rg20T-MiHTTQgP4F_PeBB6PpZzAaDlGlyCmz97mMsnmtQs0nsi9kZ02TnrpPNTGdsAoaXEJgmpI51Iyh0uhtt308/s2048/B2FBCB63-3FD7-4728-9807-D106F449AF7F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixoi25vd0rCO252G--MouLBN-HNQ1QWGC2xNk5GbaY3u_PwG5tst7vPgJy-mhVLw9Q5jv-WhQXc1CJqt95xL63BtbeHAbDWq83Rg20T-MiHTTQgP4F_PeBB6PpZzAaDlGlyCmz97mMsnmtQs0nsi9kZ02TnrpPNTGdsAoaXEJgmpI51Iyh0uhtt308/w400-h300/B2FBCB63-3FD7-4728-9807-D106F449AF7F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Iv'e even got St. Patrick shining down on my head here lol</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was meant to pleasure fish the Kenn today but the snow stopped that. There was also meant to be a knock up at Newbridge tomorrow (Thursday) but that's been cancelled.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up is a small Club match on the River Kenn this Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-79255668885628737862022-12-30T03:44:00.004-08:002022-12-30T03:44:49.843-08:00Wednesday 28th December - Roy Carter Memorial, Gloucester Canal<p> This match is held annually between Christmas and New Year and organised by Steve Long and Dave Clapton. It's £25 to enter with £10 going to the Stroke Association, no peg fee and the rest in section and overall pools.</p><p>It is usually well supported with anglers looking to get out of the house after 2 or 3 days of festivities.</p><p>I kept checking the weather forecast leading up to the match and it didn't look good. Heavy rain and strong SW winds were coming our way.</p><p>I was up just before 06:00 and heading up the M5 at 06:40 to the draw in Widden Rugby Club. The forecast was spot on. Heavy rain, strong winds and spray, I did question my sanity but carried on.</p><p>I stopped in McDonalds in Hardwick and the only other anglers there were Jon Tocknell and Andy Jane which was a bit concerning as there are normally quite a few who call in there before a match on the Glossy.</p><p>When I got to the Rugby Club and booked in with Steve he said he originally had 46 but it was now down to 37. The weather plus sickness had put a few off, it was also the day of the funeral for Mike Pollard so some would be going to that. Still a decent match with 37 fishing.</p><p>Pegging today was simple, every peg in from 23 to 65. Obviously you needed to draw on the bend and anywhere between 45 and 49 would be nice plus 63 or 64.</p><p>I was 3rd in the draw queue and my drawing arm let me down again badly on the Glossy, peg 32 was my home for 5 hours in the wind and rain, bloody hell I thought, must have killed a robin on the way up.</p><p>I hate this area of the canal and have drawn it several times now and never, never done any good.</p><p>Simple set up today, bread feeder, ground bait feeder and short pole (top 7) due to the wind.</p><p>I fed all lines with a little bait before starting off on the bread, 30 minutes went by and not a sniff. Dale Maplas to my right on 33 landed a small roach as did the guy on 31 to my left, hmmm. </p><p>Went on the ground bait feeder for 30 minutes still nothing, saw a couple of fish caught on the feeder to my left but nothing substantial. Had a look on the pole when the wind allowed and not a touch either.</p><p>Was thinking of packing up just before 13:00 when the tip went round, couldn't believe it, a small skimmer. Knowing that my section was fishing rock hard I'd have to stay.</p><p>I had another bite which I missed at 14:50 and that was it. I weighed in 11 oz.</p><p>There were blanks in my section but it was won by Chris Jones who took a few fish on the pole and tip for 2lb 3ozs.</p><p>It was a different story down in the 40's as you will see by the results.......</p><p>1st Tony Davis 27 - 05 peg 43</p><p>2nd Mark Brush 24 - 06 peg 48</p><p>3rd Nigellas Baker 24 - 01 peg 45</p><p>Sections ....</p><p>23 - 32 C Jones 2 - 03 peg 30</p><p>33 - 42 A Storkey 20 - 12 peg 41 </p><p>43 - 52 N Pickering 18 - 12 peg 46 default</p><p>56 - 65 N Richards 7 - 02 peg 64</p><p>The draw beat me today but £375 was raised for the Stroke Association.</p><p>Well done the legend that is Tony Davis, Tony has helped me up at Evesham this summer which I am grateful for.</p><p>No more matches this year. </p><p>I have had an enjoyable year again and looking ahead I'll be on my local river Kenn, a few trips to Evesham and perhaps fish the Glossy over the next few months.</p><p>Happy New Year everyone and tight lines.</p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-24457357141027149692022-12-19T11:59:00.005-08:002022-12-19T11:59:55.847-08:00Sunday 18th December - Clevedon Freshwater Angling Club Christmas Match River Kenn<p>I fished the Kenn on the Thursday prior to the match with Matt Davis when it was -5 degrees and frozen over. After breaking the ice and the tide had turned we both managed double figures of roach each.</p><p>The weather for this match was much better with only an overnight ground frost and temperatures during the day forecast to be around plus 5 degrees. Strong winds and rain was also forecast.</p><p>I think the weather put some anglers off as we had 36 originally booked in but 9 cancelled. Can't blame them really as the weather coupled with standing or sitting in the mud is not the best advert. </p><p>The Kenn in winter can be feast or famine, there's not much in-between but I love it.</p><p>We met at Angelina's Restaurant in Warrens Village for breakfast and the all important draw.</p><p>Match Secretary Rob Fogg had pegged from the Car Park just below Kenn Road down to peg 22 below Strode Road bridge. </p><p>Rob was paying top 4 plus 5 sections and of course it being a Christmas Match everyone would get a prize. Scott Smallwood was also running a raffle.</p><p>Fishing was 1015 - 1515.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE2qv7JFacmv_tj4ikhCS3g7AvvEJq3ZiFlGTIdNdw73SQivBiV61YkwKbNq0VAJqH8ecYg3yqR8_D8_iLQy4hPMSoIzNzOy-wPJw12AePGGUG2_5r87SzA1_HSD4aY9nl9JbGyEmwUgB6eS5ivuND-pREQbyp3KJK-01ecvPtbJYGieqsCieF6_fi/s640/43D6D4DD-A1D4-4B28-84A3-AFE0FBE46F8A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE2qv7JFacmv_tj4ikhCS3g7AvvEJq3ZiFlGTIdNdw73SQivBiV61YkwKbNq0VAJqH8ecYg3yqR8_D8_iLQy4hPMSoIzNzOy-wPJw12AePGGUG2_5r87SzA1_HSD4aY9nl9JbGyEmwUgB6eS5ivuND-pREQbyp3KJK-01ecvPtbJYGieqsCieF6_fi/w400-h300/43D6D4DD-A1D4-4B28-84A3-AFE0FBE46F8A.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Breakfast at Angelina's we would also have the results etc in the adjoining club</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rob commenced the draw wearing his Christmas Jumper and tinsel covered bucket at 09:00 sharp. I was about halfway in the queue and finally dipped my hand into the bucket of doom. I had been to a carol service the evening before so I hoped the man above would reward me with a decent draw!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was reasonably happy when I opened the peg card to see number 38, not one you would run to but not bad either. I fancied pegs 33 to 37 would be hard to beat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a very short drive to the river along with a short walk. I had all my gear with me but left the pole in the van as I was going to get down in the mud (the level of the river is dropped by nearly 50% during the winter).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You need to go prepared for winter fishing on the Kenn i.e. lined waders or chest waders, a bait waiter, some bank sticks for rod rests and basin and hoop to store items of tackle. I wear chest waders and a gor tex jacket. I have also have adapted my storm shield tray with lid to take 2 broom handles so I can stand it up in the water and keep bait etc dry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a simple set up take wise today ...... 2 waggler rods and a maggot feeder rod.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both waggler rods had 2.5 AA floats on them, 18 B611 hooks to 0.11 hook length, it's best to gear up in case big perch and tench show up. One was set to fish the far shelf where it was about 2.5 foot deep the other for down the middle where it was just over 3 foot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Loose feed only today, red maggot and some bronze for the hook.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was still a fair bit of ice in the margins and ice coming down the middle of the river.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Scott Smallwood was above me on 39 and the angler on 37 below was a newish member. These pegs are quite tight together. Scott was down in the water like me but the angler on 37 below me was a bit high off the bank so I guessed he wouldn't fish the peg as hard as I would.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the all in I put in a pouch full of red maggot across and another pouch down the middle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second run through across the float dipped and it was roach on, a tidy stamp fish but for some reason it came off just before the net. I glanced up and Scott was in on the waggler as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back out again and this time success landing a 4 oz fish. I was aware high tide was around 13:45 so the river would back up around 13:00, it was important to catch well before this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Feeding is always key on the Kenn in winter and you really need to discipline yourself and get in a rhythm otherwise the fish will move away.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a few more stamp roach and felt it was going well, feeding regularly and swapping lines kept the fish coming but the size of the roach got smaller. A couple of grebes diving in my swim might have spooked the better fish. I could see Scott getting regular fish as well swapping between the wag and long whip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About and hour and a half into the match I was surprised to see Kev Perry behind me. Kev was down on the most comfortable peg on the river, 36A. He said he had cramp and asked if I was catching. I told him I had around 30 roach but most were on the small side. Kev said he hadn't that many and off he went.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I carried on working the peg on both lines. Best results were by using bronze maggot on the hook, single and double.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just over halfway through Paul Nichols came behind me. Paul had packed up and said he hadn't had a bite up in the 40's which was the same for others.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About 14:00 the wind got stronger as did the rain, Scott shouted down "I want to go home" lol, I was quite comfy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cracking on working the peg I was getting fish regularly but mainly fish in the ounce to 2 oz range. I would get the odd stamp roach but they were few and far between.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the end Simon Carvallo came up with the scales and started off with weighing Scott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Scott had done well putting just over 12lb in the net.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzfDJi__xZAqOISlhmEsoemrBOi3AwyHZvayOpEIkqj1WyqQHilYct3a9qdEtbtHMdD0NdZUYw3aZRwhLp2DV8_W68-htOFTDnx1jd7Fvt7l4tB-G54f6nqZ4bATWiOqlD_jZVyGeAv4WFV20mRtPK9nhFtI5HorpadB9IoVPVAFt_JUe_Mh0E0_V/s320/1EF2152C-BED0-45AC-915A-A389A9338512_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzfDJi__xZAqOISlhmEsoemrBOi3AwyHZvayOpEIkqj1WyqQHilYct3a9qdEtbtHMdD0NdZUYw3aZRwhLp2DV8_W68-htOFTDnx1jd7Fvt7l4tB-G54f6nqZ4bATWiOqlD_jZVyGeAv4WFV20mRtPK9nhFtI5HorpadB9IoVPVAFt_JUe_Mh0E0_V/w300-h400/1EF2152C-BED0-45AC-915A-A389A9338512_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scott</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was next to weigh and knew I didn't have as much as Scott. My catch went 9lb 12oz. Simon said I'd be well up with that as below Strode Rd has struggled as had the Car Park section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KVb8WgV-x5er4wgXzjZKSv9GxzJ_evyWkveHShabgdegVFGH2XtBqmfKKZ8E_QGyPsgFn68KWFSr0WmshMV2lqtyeW27sI6K7vasCpuvmEwK-NVl-hmUaMeuw4tFKVWzg3n20BUgtFS3OwXR2vyIPTfn5FGXGqYJRvesOwRNeSOf6ib9R_B4YbIp/s640/C6CA25A8-410F-4812-8430-78947DD99C5D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KVb8WgV-x5er4wgXzjZKSv9GxzJ_evyWkveHShabgdegVFGH2XtBqmfKKZ8E_QGyPsgFn68KWFSr0WmshMV2lqtyeW27sI6K7vasCpuvmEwK-NVl-hmUaMeuw4tFKVWzg3n20BUgtFS3OwXR2vyIPTfn5FGXGqYJRvesOwRNeSOf6ib9R_B4YbIp/w300-h400/C6CA25A8-410F-4812-8430-78947DD99C5D.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked down to see the angler on 37 weigh 15oz and then watch Kev weigh in just over 14lbs on 36A.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-6suilQh26m0hYMbpS0xJVAys4JeCE9L__mK7nq4vMcw0MbAJF3sACWUtoWsAivZ3VZf-TPVdPYUeIhvMiOwnlsPUImymHzv3rXHTifFb4ZAWMsxeQy-6S7m6y-V_XrnWEZ1LdGmgv4212gWSTBwQS0NIYT6IW2pgl_lpXvi58-DbiSYbSBQOjbk/s640/47BB5575-7A59-4244-A6C5-3BBF2B6658CF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-6suilQh26m0hYMbpS0xJVAys4JeCE9L__mK7nq4vMcw0MbAJF3sACWUtoWsAivZ3VZf-TPVdPYUeIhvMiOwnlsPUImymHzv3rXHTifFb4ZAWMsxeQy-6S7m6y-V_XrnWEZ1LdGmgv4212gWSTBwQS0NIYT6IW2pgl_lpXvi58-DbiSYbSBQOjbk/w300-h400/47BB5575-7A59-4244-A6C5-3BBF2B6658CF.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kev</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kev said he had heard Glenn Calvert had a good bag on peg 40 so I walked up and weighed him in as he had the scales.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37vq7Q9p0oUB8buV6a9slNT-8qAjjlqpM1Mw5e8GUq2BwWo00ksPrClXaDl5HGulkzXx5W3ZXVsgICeoisNCp-4OkCwqWJFTSrt2slK3F5M_ukd8ibgqX9m2FNn0nAsPqXX1GJRwYGRj2jQdjxkwd0_I21RLkXCEE0mS7CFAHS16_Tjs3aNlHKEx7/s640/B080EE78-86DA-47EF-A1F6-9D051FABE7A8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="447" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37vq7Q9p0oUB8buV6a9slNT-8qAjjlqpM1Mw5e8GUq2BwWo00ksPrClXaDl5HGulkzXx5W3ZXVsgICeoisNCp-4OkCwqWJFTSrt2slK3F5M_ukd8ibgqX9m2FNn0nAsPqXX1GJRwYGRj2jQdjxkwd0_I21RLkXCEE0mS7CFAHS16_Tjs3aNlHKEx7/w280-h400/B080EE78-86DA-47EF-A1F6-9D051FABE7A8.jpeg" width="280" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Glenn's net went just over 16lb</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back to Angelina's for the results and raffle it soon became clear that some sections had fished hard especially the Car Park at Kenn Rd and the section below Strode.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rob got the results under way starting with the sections .....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A Section pegs 20 - 25..... They all blanked so the sections was decided on a lucky dip draw which went to Mark Bartlett</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">B Section pegs 29 - 34 ..... Simon Carvallo 2lb 9oz peg 33</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">C Section pegs 35 - 39 ....... Lee Smallwood quadrupled default 1lb 15oz peg 36</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">D Section pegs 40 - 44 ....... Andy Devereux 2lb 1oz (default)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">E Section pegs 49 - 55 ........ Jeremy Salisbury 0.0.1 dram !!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Top 4 .....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1st Glenn Calvert 16lb 9oz (Team Sensas 88)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2nd Kev Perry 14lb 6oz (Team Sensas 88)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3rd Scott Smallwood 12lb 9oz (Garbolino CFWAC)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4th Ivan Currie 9lb 12oz (Team Sensas Nomads)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some nice prizes for everyone which made it a great day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The raffle was also good with prizes donated from Cadbury Angling and Reel Fun Fishing tackle shops.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_I9wWFmvqkhXxVu2GqIUmn7QoNZ5Onz82tfi4cSAUELw1wRRVdY2sMVf8tZfBxVqNSXUXZyVyD8Iq_i5WvaZtcazOnu2w9HwebW-U1F5r--Ral3lK6mLpDODrE_lxnj5KTkcseuyMjHVRlavhD0x6wPQyQTs5Cto5ykRW6_97Flt843vXDFF2hLeB/s640/7C7E32EC-E065-4017-8B8D-639513FDBFA9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_I9wWFmvqkhXxVu2GqIUmn7QoNZ5Onz82tfi4cSAUELw1wRRVdY2sMVf8tZfBxVqNSXUXZyVyD8Iq_i5WvaZtcazOnu2w9HwebW-U1F5r--Ral3lK6mLpDODrE_lxnj5KTkcseuyMjHVRlavhD0x6wPQyQTs5Cto5ykRW6_97Flt843vXDFF2hLeB/w300-h400/7C7E32EC-E065-4017-8B8D-639513FDBFA9.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next match for me is the Roy Carter Memorial on the Gloucester Canal 28th December.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Have a good Christmas everyone.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-89631764903000787782022-12-05T05:46:00.011-08:002022-12-05T05:49:35.080-08:00Sunday 4th December - Brian Britt Memorial, Kennet and Avon Canal, Bathampton - Claverton<p>In previous years this match was known as the Commercial House League Christmas Match but is now in memory of Brian Britt who was involved with the league for many years. Brians daughter Nicola and son Andy donated a trophy to be fished for every year in his memory.</p><p>Access to the town waters in Bath is difficult now due to the Clean Air Zone and residents parking only extended to 7 days a week. It's a real shame as the town stretch is quite prolific.</p><p>There was 26 booked in originally for this match but 3 anglers pulled out. They probably looked at the weather forecast. </p><p>I was surprised when I left the house that there was no frost but it was cold, 2 degrees. I had joggers on underneath the jeans and a couple of layers on under the fleece. </p><p>Due to the parking and access issues in Bath the match was pegged between Bathampton and Claverton so no parking issues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxUXVjj07OZsKZGtVk6hB-1Excfj5tpxq5mdd4e9L_tC9OUUNPE2WmidPMVvbCX4QY-1E5s0P-Pym34sxpKmxNSdrUIbGPmb77LlOJ8tGbM41EIb3uMdnP4pVr4yGLEI8033fBHkgoF5yDrbg7_ECz7lotZk8rFruvbEdickVcTJOcuNfCqjhM1PN/s701/9191EE90-47F7-4F36-8DC4-E81C7557454D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxUXVjj07OZsKZGtVk6hB-1Excfj5tpxq5mdd4e9L_tC9OUUNPE2WmidPMVvbCX4QY-1E5s0P-Pym34sxpKmxNSdrUIbGPmb77LlOJ8tGbM41EIb3uMdnP4pVr4yGLEI8033fBHkgoF5yDrbg7_ECz7lotZk8rFruvbEdickVcTJOcuNfCqjhM1PN/w300-h400/9191EE90-47F7-4F36-8DC4-E81C7557454D.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really didn't fancy Meadow Farm. There were a couple of decent pegs either side of Meadow Farm bridge but didn't relish the walk back up the hill afterwards. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The pegs at Bathampton fished ok in the final league match in November as did the pegs at Claverton.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got to the Crown in Keynsham around 7:30 after being up in the night a few times with stomach problems, really didn't want a breakfast so declined that but they were able to sell the one I had booked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Paid my pools etc and bought some raffle tickets, the prizes were donated by the Crown Pub which was brilliant of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was about 6th to draw and pulled out peg 19. Quite happy with that as it was at Claverton halfway between the bay and Ferry Lane bridge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fishing today was 10:15 - 15:15.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Off I went the long way around to Claverton avoiding the Bath clean air zone (up over Haycombe and Combe Down), it takes about 25 minutes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I parked up in the car park, unloaded and proceeded down to the canal bridge which you have to go down the side off through 2 gates. When I got to the bridge Andy Cranston was going to unload his trolley but I said with a bit of help there's no need. Between 3 of us we helped each other down the side of the bridge onto the towpath.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The pegs were well spaced out and Paul Purchase was right in the middle of the turning bay which is a good area for skimmers when there is colour and I mean colour (brown), it wasn't clear today but not that coloured either.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I soon got to my peg were a guy was sitting pike fishing, he had only been there 10 minutes and went off without any problems.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was a bit high off the water and there was only one feature across, a den of twigs and a couple of over hung bushes but there was a little gap in the middle. The canal was quite narrow here, 8 sections to the far bank so easy enough. Depth down the track was about 4 foot and right across in the feature was about 2.5 foot. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A 4 x14 for bread down the track, a 0.4 choppy float for in the feature with worm / caster and a 4 x 14 for the far shelf with pinkie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While tackling up I had a visitor ........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPyClNvV4UXFo8BlLPCUXJhz5nkGdEPiOS1h9p5KeEXgVjQdTsQmkgHbG60iBm8Y9E0Xk1W1-46nZO1oLsVpldYQKl6fo7-MCK1syX4ZMGLkx-G6ZTgp7BLOSHaVSK-G_-6sJdeWfFdlVQGueBfqUqE-GdzsZyNxlN3kB5sh1uaEb-Wni8dy18kJvr/s640/BAD1F1A0-16CF-46A7-BE46-058739A8C747.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPyClNvV4UXFo8BlLPCUXJhz5nkGdEPiOS1h9p5KeEXgVjQdTsQmkgHbG60iBm8Y9E0Xk1W1-46nZO1oLsVpldYQKl6fo7-MCK1syX4ZMGLkx-G6ZTgp7BLOSHaVSK-G_-6sJdeWfFdlVQGueBfqUqE-GdzsZyNxlN3kB5sh1uaEb-Wni8dy18kJvr/w300-h400/BAD1F1A0-16CF-46A7-BE46-058739A8C747.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ4rXxsylJ3v7ATD1Ostg0SvwjpmsFdz8tbk2lA_SAnKBUGtaiwQF5xXD5fsK7RqfZXfFD4dEHLlAVRn6H0MrCCtoeNM5YzxrcoLys5p-pwlo99De3uI_m_6ARz11Gu3-wTUk9bPCXXgPu3RXTM3qReUTxMhE2sDTqC2pSpn5rI8xU_Lm4XVPkNuzQ/s640/7C5E2D71-E6F7-4656-9180-BAC2EB980D7B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ4rXxsylJ3v7ATD1Ostg0SvwjpmsFdz8tbk2lA_SAnKBUGtaiwQF5xXD5fsK7RqfZXfFD4dEHLlAVRn6H0MrCCtoeNM5YzxrcoLys5p-pwlo99De3uI_m_6ARz11Gu3-wTUk9bPCXXgPu3RXTM3qReUTxMhE2sDTqC2pSpn5rI8xU_Lm4XVPkNuzQ/w300-h400/7C5E2D71-E6F7-4656-9180-BAC2EB980D7B.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That robin stayed around me all day and even landed on my knee !</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back to the match .....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After putting in one cup full of liquidised down the track I fed some sloppy minced worm and caster over to my snaggy feature and a few pinkies in ground bait at the bottom of the far shelf.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Starting of on the punch down the track the float was motionless for 5 minutes. I fed a little more bread but didn't make any difference. Jan Van Myzak was to my right and was fishing the same, he shouted down "I think we are in trouble". After 20 minutes I knocked it on the head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I went over onto the worm line, a bit too easy for my liking but needs must. I had about an inch of red worm on an 18 and the float soon dipped and headed off. A micro perch which I thought was a daddy ruff at first, it was about 1/2 an ounce.</div>Back out and the same again, really bagging now lol. A few minutes passed and a boat went through so re-fed some more worm slop and a few pinkies on the far shelf as well as a pot of worm down the track.<div><br /></div><div>Went back out over the worm and had a better perch, well I say better, it was about 2 ounces.</div><div><br /></div><div>It went quiet again so had a look over the bottom of the far shelf. I didn't see the bite but bumped a fish when I moved the float, didn't think it was very big though.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the worm line again and a few more micro perch.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jerry Pocock came walking down and said they were all blanking to my right and he walked on down to see how they were doing. He came back and said Andy Cranston had about 6 oz as did Andy Britt and that was it. When he was there my float went under and the 5 elastic came out. A jack pike of about 2lb which bit me off eventually.</div><div><br /></div><div>A few more perch came in spells and then Andy Britt came down for a walk off the end peg above Ferry Lane. He asked me what I had. I said about a pound, with that he said your winning the match. Meadow Farm and Bathampton were struggling.</div><div><br /></div><div>The end of the match couldn't come soon enough as it was now freezing.</div><div><br /></div><div>Andy Cranston came down on his way back to the car park and stopped to watch me weigh, he had weighed 1lb 4oz and that was about 30 perch and a roach on bloodworm and joker.</div><div><br /></div><div>My perch and a minnow sized dace went 1lb 6oz which was top weight at Claverton.</div><div><br /></div><div>Back at the Crown I found I was 2nd in the match with Kev Boltz catching a 2lb perch when he lifted his float 30 minutes from the end! Better to be lucky than good Kev lol.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRCC_b39AMWO3LsMKA1e1m_xAHvHqAirX39oRO-BFqxgFdTxutX9QCJvQryoPydzWllQKlu6r0KpDDFW7npfaep9-ya0VJSMmuZsEynBPTRuUlmdJPNHKqe_Lzd1evrIGGBk74ePVhapSWLK299dplmDkndqeWVo8fTGDeCAnGQmE7Zh6gra5jlVy/s960/A31F6322-531E-4763-B5BC-B626523C9098.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="722" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqRCC_b39AMWO3LsMKA1e1m_xAHvHqAirX39oRO-BFqxgFdTxutX9QCJvQryoPydzWllQKlu6r0KpDDFW7npfaep9-ya0VJSMmuZsEynBPTRuUlmdJPNHKqe_Lzd1evrIGGBk74ePVhapSWLK299dplmDkndqeWVo8fTGDeCAnGQmE7Zh6gra5jlVy/w301-h400/A31F6322-531E-4763-B5BC-B626523C9098.jpeg" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kev with his trophy and prize presented by Nicky and Andy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div>Here is the full report and results by Vince Lunn .......</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The Sensas Commercial House Xmas match has been renamed this year to the Brian Britt Memorial match, as Brian was involved with running the league for a long time.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It was fished on the Kennet & Avon canal from Meadow Farm to Claverton (22 pegs).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to Angling Direct for donating some prizes for the raffle. Also thanks to Cameron Malin for donating some nice engraved glasses for all of the winners.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The drop in temperatures made the fishing extremely hard for everyone, with <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>not many fish being caught other than tiny perch. The canal was fairly clear and there were not many boats moving around.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The winner of the match was Kev Boltz (Midland Spinner), who was pegged 1 to the right of Claverton bay. In the first 4 1/2 hours he managed to catch only 1 micro sized perch. With 30 minutes to go, he was fishing a small piece of worm on the inside when he lifted the float to try another line, but hooked into a large perch. After a bit of a battle he had the perch in the net which gave him a winning weight of 2 lbs 0 ozs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He won the Xmas hamper and is also the first angler to get his name on the memorial trophy!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd was Ivan Currie (Sensas Nomads) who was drawn 4 pegs to the left of Claverton Bay. He had a decent feature over and fished really tight to this with small red worms over chopped worm. He caught lots of small perch to weigh 1 lb 6 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd was Andy Cranston (Sensas Nomads) who was drawn next to Ferry Lane bridge. He had all of his fish on bloodworm, catching mainly perch next to the concrete wall on the inside and then right over on the far side. He weighed 1 lb 4 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th Nicola Goodhind (M & N Electrical) - 12 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th Shane Caswell (Midland Spinner) - 8 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6th Andy Britt (Mosella Bathampton) - 6 1/2 ozs</div></div></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-17446932742592958462022-11-28T12:51:00.005-08:002022-11-28T12:51:57.106-08:00Sunday 27th November - Tiverton Christmas Match, Grand Western Canal<p> Team mate Sam Johnson and I have fished this early Christmas match a few times now. It is always well run and the prizes are very good.</p><p>Sam travelled down the week before and picked up our tickets in Cullompton Angling Centre.</p><p>I contacted Russell Hilton to see if he knew where it was being pegged in order to get my bearings as I have been way out of Tiverton before and nearly got lost. Russell indicated that it would probably be from the town basin towards Tidcombe and sent me a couple of map images. He also said "you don't want to be in front of the houses at Tidcombe".</p><p>There had been a pairs match on the canal a few weeks ago and it fished pretty well with bream dominating but there had been a bit of colour then.</p><p>The Grand Western is a very shallow canal and in most places no more than 13 metres wide. Boat traffic is just about non existent. My tray of rigs for the Kennet and Avon would more than suffice so prep was minimal.</p><p>The draw was in the Canal Basin Car Park at 08:00 with fishing 09:30 - 14:30.</p><p>After meeting at McDonalds in Tiverton we headed off to the draw. </p><p>After registering we found that 41 were fishing today and everyone could walk to the pegs from the draw.</p><p>The draw was done after someone called a random number between 1 and 41, 25 was called so the person against that number was first. As Sam and I were 19 and 18 we would be near the end.</p><p>Most fancied pegs 1 to 10 and at the start a lot of high numbers were coming out. By the time it got to Sam there was only one peg left in the basin, peg 2 and Sam got it, he was happy with that.</p><p>I was next and number 31 was given to me, not good, Tidcome in front of the houses. I had to walk past the decent pegs and passed Russell on peg 8, needless to say he was quite happy as a bream weight had come off it during the pairs match.</p><p>I got to my peg and it did look inviting but I was conscious of what Russell and others had told me. Basically on the opposite bank were gardens coming right down to the canal from bungalow's. The area was also full of ducks and swans waiting for the owners of the properties to feed them. The ducks were all over the place chasing each other etc.</p><p>The towpath here had a bit of wear but I was able to set up a platform in the water.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-RjtJXNpxUSOffHe1VkreevFO7uwXTjQ1DWu-MKnan8aFwORlSPkRqyKSymlYzHn0-o9VbnOCVX6yUQ0T31874qyzPrsepSW-1XOW5tf9faHvGlETmVXlEYcaFLG3MMalFuBnUyIUJ9Xy6__5VfUicjOJLKnrmVC7nJqxzOIsB-E_nRujRx2Ibos/s640/C0CEE0C1-8446-4397-8FF1-F6AB7632D03C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="640" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-RjtJXNpxUSOffHe1VkreevFO7uwXTjQ1DWu-MKnan8aFwORlSPkRqyKSymlYzHn0-o9VbnOCVX6yUQ0T31874qyzPrsepSW-1XOW5tf9faHvGlETmVXlEYcaFLG3MMalFuBnUyIUJ9Xy6__5VfUicjOJLKnrmVC7nJqxzOIsB-E_nRujRx2Ibos/w400-h291/C0CEE0C1-8446-4397-8FF1-F6AB7632D03C.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Angling journalist Dom Garnett took the photo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I plumped up with a 4 x 12 and found that down the track it was less than 3 foot deep so set up two identical rigs one with a number 4 elastic and the other with a 5 just in case big fish turned up, yeah right. Size 20 hooks to 0.10 completed the set up. Across it was around 2 foot deep about half a metre from the bank. Another 4 x 12 with a 4 elastic covered this area and that was it, simples.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the start I put in a small amount of minces worm across to the left of the bush, loose fed pinkie right in front of me and another minced worm line to my right.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I then put a small ball of liquidised bread down the track to my right leaving in front of me and to the right free to see what happened.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First put in down the track over the bread with a 5 mm punch the float buried and a small roach about 3 ounces was caught followed by another then nothing. I put another pinch of bread in and had another then nothing. I gave it another 15 minutes and nothing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A small ball of bread then was put in to my right and as soon as I went over it a slow sail away bite brought me a small skimmer. As soon as I hooked it you could see it. No more bites on that line after that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hmmmmm what to do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I went over on the minced worm line a bit early but I had an immediate bite and had another roach around 4 oz, yes please I thought keep them coming. As with my bread lines, no more bites followed so re-fed more worm. A look across in front of me with pinkie produced nothing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dom Garnett was next to me on 30 and he was also struggling despite trying different lines. I was also ahead of the angler on 32 would as far as I knew only had a couple of blade roach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Get your head down Ivan and win the section I thought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The minced worm line across produced the most fish but you would feed, catch and then have to feed again wait 10 minutes and then nick another one. The middle didn't give me anything.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About 10 minutes from the all out Dom caught and landed a small pike which count in these matches.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bugger I thought but then remembered he was in the next section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the scales came down to me I weighed 0.975 which was made up of about 20 fish, I certainly had the most in the section but not enough weight as a couple of the 1kg weights had perch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I walked back to the car park I had heard that Russell had a good day catching skimmers and bream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I met up with Sam before he weighed, the basin area had fished poorly, Sam weighed 0.700.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Russell blitzed the match with over 9 kg, photo below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2EHMQPUSeOjMmqK0JUOJJecHHipsOONgV9MncWJQD3rPyN6GCHMDDyRhJLdeo_s9qlB-Wb7fZQcq9jqF7wspJ-U3BC7Bkan02Pq2YyUo9UEChAPmJXWNSvWBbcWQ5vUJg75DKzohFzsjyVFi9WY496Hg6PifadzSay_3JwZX88h_hblRT5lDc0hh/s640/1C1838DD-79D8-407B-97BB-05ED9532778C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="428" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2EHMQPUSeOjMmqK0JUOJJecHHipsOONgV9MncWJQD3rPyN6GCHMDDyRhJLdeo_s9qlB-Wb7fZQcq9jqF7wspJ-U3BC7Bkan02Pq2YyUo9UEChAPmJXWNSvWBbcWQ5vUJg75DKzohFzsjyVFi9WY496Hg6PifadzSay_3JwZX88h_hblRT5lDc0hh/w268-h400/1C1838DD-79D8-407B-97BB-05ED9532778C.jpeg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are the weigh sheets and full results, I actually finished 15 from 41 so not too bad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam got his section by quadruple default, unbelievable, lol.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAuPD2OLvMo0iQQrvyPq816P4pDlvQHfMdHm5NsR3r-2WNGUtiw0L2kWrMQn-EplNA6Hy1YeZNZoxrRiTH29C1mu__yGLvecjTZDE5t1dci9UcxQNgp3bssJfLPJGzogV_i034D2gZQ3rOSK8gO_Kt8BV6AR1gsjfyKzttAE_0Diwg5qJ4b7FmR0w/s640/31C135D2-4F06-4309-A673-3885214FA0ED.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Acorn fishery match tomorrow and then Commercial House Xmas match on the K & A Sunday.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-33109561867464369712022-11-14T12:29:00.002-08:002022-11-14T12:29:17.409-08:00Sunday 13th November - Bill Milton Memorial Poppy Appeal Open, Bristol Avon, Newbridge - Chequers<p>This match attracts anglers from all over the South West and beyond, even anglers who just fish Commercials most of the year come together to support this worthy cause. </p><p>As usual the organisation was superb and lead by Ray Bazely and Paul Benson with support from a number of others who regularly give up their time to ensure the match is a success.</p><p>Team mates Sam Johnson, Leigh Wakefield and I bought our tickets some time ago from Rich Lacey who promotes the match and sells them during the Sensas Bristol Commercial House League.</p><p>I met Sam at McDonalds on the Bath Rd around 06:45 before going to the Somerdale Pavilion on the old Fry's Chocolate site at Keynsham which is a great location for the draw.</p><p>We met up with Leigh and paid our pools. 100 pegs today and completely sold out.</p><p>The pegs were well spread out with decent access and parking for such a huge match.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="401" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijotfvvm4LoXUFVOspWg_eIl52pnocbcIqYsoEcM1RWllXcyvZZUcWsYI0bcjLjBqCLc3Tn-823iGfTlRfQ5v12SjkPX-bndwZT-u4KAmqaAxQX7gO6rY5nxYc-LU7c3Bml9xw96sC9e_uwX3cgi6iAqReEDa9sIGGNrWOHz790c0vmcM923Ucf8uY/w251-h400/5407A8B9-DC8A-4BD4-870A-42B22D2BBBC3.jpeg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We thought there would be a big bream weight today and Newbridge would be the place to draw especially after the rain in the week. Some of the pegs at Chequers could throw up a weight as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Brian Lloyd from the British Legion read the citation and after the 2 minutes silence the draw got under way. Sam was early in the queue while Leigh and I were a little way back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I drew 62 and initially I was quite excited but then thought you idiot its not permanent peg 62 at Newbridge your up the Crane which I didn't really want. Leigh was also up the Crane upstream of the High Wall. Leigh and I briefly caught up with Sam before he went and found that he was on permeant peg 59 at Newbridge 20 something in todays match and where I had a 31lb bag of bream and roach in a league match a few weeks ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was only a couple of minutes drive for Leigh and I to park up before heading up the Crane. The only person ahead of me up the Crane was Dean Harvey and I caught up with him on the gate just before the Little Ash Tip field. We helped each other with the gear over the style. Dean had helped peg the match the day before and said we were both in the Big Ash Tip Field so another fence to go over. Dean was on 63.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once I got to my peg I recognised it as I had 27 lb of roach from it a few years ago in a league match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZLdTh8ZhS0ZpbARAGXZ3w4HFrEvCJVcjRIuOLk9l6kG5pHJARlTJqAisbblOfU33Fnj5VPPeLr0xU0s1haxxlXHWE1DxDpY7DPZbHEkw3-MohgehIAS6vn0KnKjWUCTm-9BFZFM5ujWsrZZfEpZOlmGEO1Z9FWZVa6B_PQSzexVHxA-K7u7oJ_HE/s640/72AFC3C6-52F7-4CF0-8B15-26746891ACC4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZLdTh8ZhS0ZpbARAGXZ3w4HFrEvCJVcjRIuOLk9l6kG5pHJARlTJqAisbblOfU33Fnj5VPPeLr0xU0s1haxxlXHWE1DxDpY7DPZbHEkw3-MohgehIAS6vn0KnKjWUCTm-9BFZFM5ujWsrZZfEpZOlmGEO1Z9FWZVa6B_PQSzexVHxA-K7u7oJ_HE/w400-h300/72AFC3C6-52F7-4CF0-8B15-26746891ACC4.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bank was a bit steep but steps were cut out and I was able to get my platform in the water and set up nice and comfy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had take the pole with me but it wasn't an option today so just set up a 4 gram bolo, 2 feeder rods, one maggot and one open ended.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The river looked spot on although a bit pacey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had already pre mixed up 3 kilo of ground bait consisting of Sensas black river, gros gardons noire and a little black magic. Before adding more water I put 4 pints aside for the open ended feeder before adding more water and a little lean for a real heavy mix to get it down to the bottom in the 9 foot deep swim.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8 balls laced with caster, hemp, dead reds and a little worm went in a third the way out followed by 6 feeder fulls of caster and worm just past the middle and downstream for bream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I started on the bolo with the 16 foot rod and had a roach straight away on the size 18 B560 to 0.11. I started to spray red maggot up against the boat opposite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was catching fairly regular not huge roach but good weight builders if they continued to stay. I was surprised to see Ray and Paul come behind me about 40 minutes in. They watched me for a while and said I was doing it right as most of the others on the Crane were just fishing the feeder and not catching.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To my right going out a good rod length was a sunken reed bed and after about 2 hours while I was bringing a roach alongside it from downstream I had a pike attack. Pike count in this match but I had no chance of landing it took me back into the reed bed and bit me off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was the first of many pike attacks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put a few more balls in a bit further out to try and keep away from the reed bed on the retrieve and it worked for a while before the pike cottoned on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Changing to loose feeding did give me some respite but also meant I had to trot further down the peg to connect with the fish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I still had been spraying maggot across and took a look on the bolo, it was easy to cast the 4 gram rig across as the wind was light.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The float went under and it was a chub just over a pound. No more followed but I had some roach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up until the last 30 minutes I just chopped and changed the bolo down the middle and across. The last 30 minutes I put the maggot feeder across by the boat looking for more chub but it didn't happen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ended up with 11 lb 9 oz which was 2nd in the section to Jon Tocknell who had 12 lb 14 oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiGeo5iaK_Dc445fLLlN1QkX9VN0KP-sDzvJhaVMzK7RTV6jzjrNM-KihOPtDFEtYCKrC8GHbvohYHKd1tYID4Cg-K9_2fSfqVIay2_DbX1M0VzEbCKHqDSEAY-lYNxQFXzsdOOCr14pcpMOEe9rvHVzFfEXON598EE6TpkU5tdib3qa4NecrGlws/s4032/AB0EB989-9B5F-40C3-A6A8-4CFC42D05236.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoiGeo5iaK_Dc445fLLlN1QkX9VN0KP-sDzvJhaVMzK7RTV6jzjrNM-KihOPtDFEtYCKrC8GHbvohYHKd1tYID4Cg-K9_2fSfqVIay2_DbX1M0VzEbCKHqDSEAY-lYNxQFXzsdOOCr14pcpMOEe9rvHVzFfEXON598EE6TpkU5tdib3qa4NecrGlws/w300-h400/AB0EB989-9B5F-40C3-A6A8-4CFC42D05236.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">my bag</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELGFjsE-5mvLGvvG5HleE6GbxKtEeSWRu3P0roN8R4yJxF_eQFGm8_nsgu1E1wSWiRAnKkvCCuHU1ftn_BQ-bDPxzZlD3pjyS5Jm-SmGvCgBwEvyUOVccFjOkghbRYUqe9ra4WvCm2aXvVxFuRJgdkE7npLWxw3p0UHy2fmvH5qa6_zZXxMJDTfNl/s960/378ECBD8-6BA1-4026-A610-274E53DFC28C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELGFjsE-5mvLGvvG5HleE6GbxKtEeSWRu3P0roN8R4yJxF_eQFGm8_nsgu1E1wSWiRAnKkvCCuHU1ftn_BQ-bDPxzZlD3pjyS5Jm-SmGvCgBwEvyUOVccFjOkghbRYUqe9ra4WvCm2aXvVxFuRJgdkE7npLWxw3p0UHy2fmvH5qa6_zZXxMJDTfNl/w300-h400/378ECBD8-6BA1-4026-A610-274E53DFC28C.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jon Tocknell</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dean was making a few phone calls and found that the bream hadn't shown at Newbridge or anywhere else. The Tree's section had fished really hard as did Chequers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I caught up with Leigh back at the van and he said he had 7lb odd helped by a small pike.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back at the Club I spoke to Tim Ford briefly and when I told him my weight he said I might frame as they were paying the top 10.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well I didn't make the top 10 but Jon did so got the section by default and ended up one out of the main money so 11th out of 100 isn't bad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam done really well coming 2nd overall with 15 lb 12 oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Paul Issac's won from the Jack Whites section with 19 lb 1 oz and Kev Dicks was 3rd with 15 lb 2 oz from behind the pump house at Newbridge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbnWjMbtC7NAQ_jTDtzKe1lBwBjqMnTjsXHegESLwCSEtzScQKSDH0LSuk6lLPQxlTqYmx51NcGRDX8q-pNJKGRiiidxF1IjhA2u1mMIGwK7fusme7enAx4p3K1zV-Pf2G6l4273GABH4iGnfv2udoIPM5VLVThAJmOtLHODS1sWDt2ZwPAQKTUTO/s960/86773482-A48F-4155-A478-BDFF4DD5BE06.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbnWjMbtC7NAQ_jTDtzKe1lBwBjqMnTjsXHegESLwCSEtzScQKSDH0LSuk6lLPQxlTqYmx51NcGRDX8q-pNJKGRiiidxF1IjhA2u1mMIGwK7fusme7enAx4p3K1zV-Pf2G6l4273GABH4iGnfv2udoIPM5VLVThAJmOtLHODS1sWDt2ZwPAQKTUTO/w300-h400/86773482-A48F-4155-A478-BDFF4DD5BE06.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The top three, well done chaps</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvNIxru_YzaP76tbnV6Z0rTz80dFdxptRkEymR9M3e7p2CN_phTKgHEoH4SwhI4FRLTrSQGhT1fNwb6n4fS3bAYHuFI8LjuUhG8W7r6IQNTsBFa-f3KWrMapaem59RvVkP8E_XZODiczA4hr7Buto1UUogdiymle87WDfmfRpxv82-S0viynNbwix/s640/9CA0D1F4-24F6-4C28-AF61-6A65C1C0E0D1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="640" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvNIxru_YzaP76tbnV6Z0rTz80dFdxptRkEymR9M3e7p2CN_phTKgHEoH4SwhI4FRLTrSQGhT1fNwb6n4fS3bAYHuFI8LjuUhG8W7r6IQNTsBFa-f3KWrMapaem59RvVkP8E_XZODiczA4hr7Buto1UUogdiymle87WDfmfRpxv82-S0viynNbwix/w400-h361/9CA0D1F4-24F6-4C28-AF61-6A65C1C0E0D1.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Results including section winners</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ray announced that over £2000 had been raised but today (Monday) I see that the figure now stands at £2780.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilLRcVbgy3-IcfRM-BbJbwaowomXvb5PIi7xNssOnKhvDMwpjt6GVvx0xi23-yyE8r4jW3BxZIKv3rgTDqQBCZVWK_zNDyPHPz_K8N-a9poX-bejQRAOaZ-4-XdNHyDQK_AFky8yZTr-w6O-k-vaoOfjll0Nsb_KDiH1tVKCd14ZIsWRqqnbU_O3WI/s960/5B08EDB5-DC89-4455-9799-D1BBB3B9F650_1_105_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilLRcVbgy3-IcfRM-BbJbwaowomXvb5PIi7xNssOnKhvDMwpjt6GVvx0xi23-yyE8r4jW3BxZIKv3rgTDqQBCZVWK_zNDyPHPz_K8N-a9poX-bejQRAOaZ-4-XdNHyDQK_AFky8yZTr-w6O-k-vaoOfjll0Nsb_KDiH1tVKCd14ZIsWRqqnbU_O3WI/w400-h225/5B08EDB5-DC89-4455-9799-D1BBB3B9F650_1_105_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Up to fish a qualifier at Evesham on Wednesday and working on the River Kenn with a few guys on Friday doing repairs to pegs and pruning.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-54997406902395828632022-11-07T08:10:00.002-08:002022-11-07T08:10:15.466-08:00Sunday 6th November - Sensas Bristol Commercial House League final round, K & A Canal Bathampton - Dundas<p>In my opinion this has been one of the best series of the league for a few years. Although only 5 teams of 6 this year the contribution and support by everyone has made the 2022 league a great success.</p><p>A big thanks to Nicky and Mike Goodhind, Andy Britt and Vince Lunn for the behind the scenes work and organisation on the day of each match. Thanks must also go to the staff at the Crown Pub in Keynsham for hosting the draw and the results over 5 matches and the 37 Club in Puriton who hosted the first match on the Kings Sedgemoor Drain. </p><p>A few new faces fished the league this year which is great to see and will help the league to continue.</p><p>Due to various issues which couldn't be helped my Sensas Nomads Team struggled for anglers this year but we were covered for each match thanks to Baz Bright, Jack Jones, Andy Cranston and Dave Lewis.</p><p>Team fishing isn't for everyone but although you always want to come back with good points this league isn't serious enough to get too annoyed if it doesn't work out on the day.</p><p>The league itself was very tight this year and there were some great individual performances. The Lower Bristol Avon fished its head off although some of the pegs at Swineford and Jack Whites are getting very dangerous which could put off new teams joining, something that needs to be looked at for next year.</p><p>The draw at 08:00 sharp worked well and with an amendment to the fishing times (1015 - 1515) gave everyone a chance to park and set up.</p><p>Todays match on the Canal was pegged as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The George Bathampton A & B Section</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: inherit;">A1 Start of bay<br /><br />A2 White gate<br /><br />A3 Flag pole<br /><br />A5 Tree swing (rope)<br /><br />B1 Opposite tree between boats<br /><br />B2 start of bay<br /><br />B3 after bay reeds<br /><br />B4 before wires<br /><br />B5 after wires<br /><br />Claverton C, D & E Section<br /><br />C1 -C5 Claverton towards Bath around bend, all 5 in a row.<br /><br />D1 Claverton towards Ferry Lane near bench<br /><br />D3 This side of bay<br /><br />D4 Far side of bay<br /><br />E3 & E4 either side of wires<br /><br />E5 Ferry Lane<br /><br />Dundas Turning Bay towards Diggers F Section<br /><br />F1 – F5</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" /></p><p>Our Team today was.....</p><p>Me, I drew B5 above the wires at Bathampton (end peg)</p><p>Brian Melksham who drew A1 start of turning bay opposite Bathampton School</p><p>Sam Johnson who drew C2 which is not a great area</p><p>Jan Van Myzak (our dutch international) who drew D4, can be a great peg</p><p>Leigh Wakefield drew E3, not bad</p><p>Dave Lewis F2 at Dundas, right area</p><p>Off we went to Bath then, not far from Keynsham but I have suggested if we fish the Canal next year we do the draw a bit nearer to the venu plus a lot of us had to go the long way around to avoid the congestion charge in Bath.</p><p>I parked in the George Pub Car Park in Bath which Nicky had kindly agreed with the Manager as long as we scanned our reg in before we left after the match.</p><p>Brian's peg looked great opposite the School and he has fished here a few times so I expected him to do well.</p><p>Due to moored boats the pegs were well spread out and in particular mine and Neil Mercers.</p><p>It was a nice morning but due to lash down with heavy rain later.</p><p>My peg was in-between 2 boats but still plenty of room and they didnt look as if they were going to move during the day.</p><p>I was surprised to see the water so clear which was likely to be a problem. A nice bit of depth right across for choppy lines (approx 2.5 foot), 3 foot at the bottom of the far shelf and about 4 down the track, the same rig done under the boat to my left.</p><p>Various canal rigs were already set up with the appropriate hooks to save time and no adjustment was required.</p><p>At 1015 I cupped in 2 golf balls of bread down the track, fed 2 choppy and caster lines tight across and a soft ball with dead pinkie at the bottom of the far shelf.</p><p>Starting off on the bread line with 6mm punch I expected it to sail under pretty quick ....... nothing, not a sign even by slightly lifting and dropping. 15 minutes in and still not an indication. I put a white pinkie on and still no response. I fed another pinch of liquidised and it didn't make any difference. When the bread went in you could almost see it on the bottom. I gave this line a good 30 minutes but no joy.</p><p>Going across on one of the choppy lines with a worm head the float sat motionless, I was now very concerned. Nothing on the other choppy line either so re-fed more worm.</p><p>Just over an hour had gone and I had a look at the bottom of the far shelf with a fluro pinkie. The float went under and a barely half ounce perch was swung in. Not a good sign and no more bites there after 10 minutes.</p><p>I went back over the worm line while the tow was pulling towards Bath and let a worm tail run through all the way down the peg against some reeds. Under it went first time and a perch of around 4 oz was netted. I had another 3 small perch while the tow remained.</p><p>2 hours had gone so I phoned Sam, he was also struggling. Neil came walking up from the peg below me and said he only had a couple of small perch, Nicky below him had one and the others below were struggling as well.</p><p>So section wise at this point I was doing ok. Given that everyone seemed to be having a nightmare I decided just to go all out for perch.</p><p>Finely chopped worm was fed on all lines including under the left hand boat and the worm dobbing began lol.</p><p>The lifting and drooping did work in a fashion as I ended up with 1lb 9oz which got me 3 points from 5. The section was won by Shaun Townsend with 3lb plus maily small roach and Paul Purchase had 2lb 3oz of mainly small roach late, the roach caught were small even by canal standards.</p><p>In A section Shane Caswell won it with 9lb 7oz of mainly roach and our man Brian done the business catching 8lb 11oz for second in section.</p><p>Leigh done the best in our team taking 4 points from 5 with 5lb 14oz, Sam had 2lb 15 for 3 points and Jan and Dave blew out giving us a total of 16 points which wasn't good.</p><p>I haven't seen the canal fish that bad for ages but without any colour it was always going to be hard. The only place there was colour was at Dundas and the top 4 weights came from there.</p><p>Vince Lunn was at Dundas and made no mistake catching just over 13lbs of nice skimmers and roach to win the match.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2HGAc-PKfctH1JJicv2FzYCZiLqGkN-U7tcDfasTAliZGE2Pl9oV0lJs1b-Lf2I_PFcJ9ILiHvCxjwg5H_8z15aVI8DtnekEBorxOBouYedAYFskiOVsPYsxFHdP8w4GaO1M3GJGzMvqu-CTg43uytlSby0i5wOdNlibET0miaZ-8jkWNLl3h_ZF5/s645/C2FAB388-BAE0-4B23-A8F0-02A77EDC94E4_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="452" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2HGAc-PKfctH1JJicv2FzYCZiLqGkN-U7tcDfasTAliZGE2Pl9oV0lJs1b-Lf2I_PFcJ9ILiHvCxjwg5H_8z15aVI8DtnekEBorxOBouYedAYFskiOVsPYsxFHdP8w4GaO1M3GJGzMvqu-CTg43uytlSby0i5wOdNlibET0miaZ-8jkWNLl3h_ZF5/w280-h400/C2FAB388-BAE0-4B23-A8F0-02A77EDC94E4_1_201_a.jpeg" width="280" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Vince with his catch.</p><p>Here is the match report from Vince from the leagues facebook page.............</p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The final round of the Commercial House League 2022 was fished on the Kennet & Avon canal from Bathampton through to Dundas. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The weather was overcast for most of the day with heavy rain at times. The canal was coloured at Dundas, which produced the top 3 weights in the match, but it was clear in the rest of the sections.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Only 6 anglers caught more than 6 lbs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The winner of the match was Vince Lunn fishing for M & N Electrical, drawn on F4 at Dundas. He caught 6 skimmers from <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>6 ozs to 1 lb 8 ozs on the bread down the middle along with lots of quality roach. Then he caught more quality roach on red maggot over groundbait 3/4 across. He also caught roach, dace and bleak on castors right over. He weighed in 13 lbs 5 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd, on the next peg (F3) was Craig Pinker of Midland Spinner. He fished bread 2/3rds across and caught 7 skimmers and lots of small roach. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He then caught more small roach right over on pinkie having fed groundbait with dead pinkie and squatts in.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He finished with 11 lbs 1 oz.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd was Rich Lacey (Mosella Bathampton) from end peg F1. He fished bread at 5 metres and caught 3 skimmers from 1 lb to 2 lbs and some roach.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Then he put in some joker across and caught lots of roach and chublets. He weighed in 9 lbs 15 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th Shane Caswell - Midland Spinner - 9 lbs 7 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th Jeff Surmon - Midland spinner - 9 lbs 1 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6th Brian Melksham - Sensas Nomads - 8 lbs 11 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner won on the day with 27 points which is only 3 points dropped.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical were 2nd with 21 points, whilst the league leaders Mosella Bathampton were 3rd with 16.5 points. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">After the final round, only 8.5 points separated the top 4 teams, so it was very close.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton won the league overall with 123.5 points from M & N Electrical on 121.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Toby Bentham (M & N Electrical) won his section to claim the top individual over the series with 24 points. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Jeff Surmon (Midland Spinner) was 2nd with 23 points.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nick Coles (Mosella Bathampton) and Sam Johnson (Sensas Nomads) had 21 points, with Nick taking 3rd place on weight.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Andy Richings had the biggest fish of the series with a 6 lbs 14 oz bream.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Top of teams:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads: Sam Johnson</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton: Nick Coles</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical: Toby Bentham</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner: Jeff Surmon</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Teams on the day</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 27</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 21</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 16.5</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 16</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 8.5</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">League positions </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 123.5</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 121</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 119</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 115</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 53.5</div></div><p>Having a pleasure session on the River Kenn on Wednesday then the Poppy Match on Sunday.</p><p>Tight lines all.</p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-14209214262609520122022-10-24T09:10:00.003-07:002022-10-24T09:10:22.182-07:00Sunday 23rd October - Sensas Commercial House League Rd 5, Bristol Avon Newbridge<p>We were hoping for some rain before this match and we got it just in time, not a lot but enough.</p><p>Going into this round we were 3 points clear at the top and needed to do the business to maintain our position.</p><p>I checked all my rigs during the week making sure I had enough to fish top 5 with 2.5, 3.0 and 4.0 gram floats in case it was pushing through and to cover the deep pegs.</p><p>The pegging plan was published the day before which is always useful and we were going to be well spread out.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGwQXAYR3otW2xIrb346gMVq92xViPGpYeShYzJvuGj6HU6iXbDQSoinQP-hj6FCUHLeXpmqU0PHl2kamZvkzNAKhDC2n1PwHkMkuIaIbh3NiRxf684BtipzBKATB70UIl-bla7RkD1pDhNlkqZtPSZL1LypcKqavkI0mdWt9gMhLhchd86dQCTpX/s858/AE9C00CC-8C49-4C00-9976-C8A6BC1B52C8_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="608" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRGwQXAYR3otW2xIrb346gMVq92xViPGpYeShYzJvuGj6HU6iXbDQSoinQP-hj6FCUHLeXpmqU0PHl2kamZvkzNAKhDC2n1PwHkMkuIaIbh3NiRxf684BtipzBKATB70UIl-bla7RkD1pDhNlkqZtPSZL1LypcKqavkI0mdWt9gMhLhchd86dQCTpX/w284-h400/AE9C00CC-8C49-4C00-9976-C8A6BC1B52C8_1_201_a.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Team today was ...</p><p>Me</p><p>Sam Johnson</p><p>Leigh Wakefield</p><p>Dave Lewis</p><p>Jan Van Myzak</p><p>Brian Melksham</p><p>When I left home it was hammering down but due to stop around 1030 and then hammer down around 1600.</p><p>We were about 3rd to draw and I picked set 1 out of the bag of dreams, then D for the individual sections.</p><p>This put me on D4 (a long walk), Sam E3, Leigh F2, Jan A1, Dave B5 and Brian C2.</p><p>Arriving at Newbridge the Farmer had his pumpkin picking event all set up and one of his marshals sorted us out for parking to make sure we didn't obstruct the visitors today, it was well organised.</p><p>The walks can be long at Newbridge but all on the flat and no gates, note to self though ..... don't have too many layers on ! </p><p>Walking past Paul Purchase on the way down he asked me what I thought, I said I think its going to be a bream river later, he agreed.</p><p>The peg was comfortable even though it was about 3 metres off the water.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikz2rlcw0V7KuS_2zPck8smlU853lcgoBJXMKo2bFVd5TOCgyjbVvadg_dv1pyjHXLVMPYY9CBgFGqCIvtYw_viRFevuKuZkS4dOtWbXT7a7yXn-nyoB9K_-XOx-f-khAZKoiyKlMWyD9iunfIEm3m8ZcRybqqn5v6VPX-O9WE0MrQuklYMi3i3aiV/s640/4D5885A4-9C72-4BAD-9753-A95D87863FF6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikz2rlcw0V7KuS_2zPck8smlU853lcgoBJXMKo2bFVd5TOCgyjbVvadg_dv1pyjHXLVMPYY9CBgFGqCIvtYw_viRFevuKuZkS4dOtWbXT7a7yXn-nyoB9K_-XOx-f-khAZKoiyKlMWyD9iunfIEm3m8ZcRybqqn5v6VPX-O9WE0MrQuklYMi3i3aiV/w400-h300/4D5885A4-9C72-4BAD-9753-A95D87863FF6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was a slight tinge of colour and the flow was about 2/3rds the way across.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I plumbed up with a 2.5 gram rig set at top 5 and found it was about 15 foot deep at 7 metres with a nice clean bottom. My top set had a black 8 elastic in it for swinging those roach and hitting the bite at depth. That'll do I thought with the target being roach and maybe a skimmer or two. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I only set up a couple of feeder rods in addition to the pole, one with a 25 gram feeder and the other had a 30 gram.</div><p>I planned to ball it in at the start on the pole line and had 2 kilo of Sensas River and 1 kilo of Sensas Gros Gardons pre mixed. For the feeder I had 50 / 50 Sensas River and F1 dark.</p><p>I put 8 jaffa's in on the pole at the start with half a pint of caster and hemp mixed in then 3 down the middle with worm and caster.</p><p>I did expect to catch on the pole straight away and I did, a nice 4oz roach. The first hour was really positive, loads of bites and fish but as usual they tailed off a bit. Putting in a couple of egg sized balls again brought them back which doesn't always work but was soon catching stamp roach again and a couple of blade skimmers and hybrids. </p><p>Just before the 2 hour mark I phoned Sam who said he was still catching roach but it was very slow. I told him how I was doing and didn't know wether to have a look on the tip. He said it would be worth a look.</p><p>Ten minutes later I cast the 25 gram feeder out with double worm on a 14. I started to chop up some worm when out of the corner of my eye saw the tip go forward and then drop back. Bream on, couldn't believe it.</p><p>It was a stretch to net it but was soon in the keep net.</p><p>Next cast same again within a matter of minutes and another 4lb bream, boom !</p><p>Soon after Shane Caswell came down, he was 3 pegs upstream. He said he was catching roach on the pole but had spoke to Mike Goodhind above me who had 5 bream ! He also said Andy Richings above him was having a few. </p><p>That information made me stay on the tip the rest of the match but I did keep feeding the pole line just in case.</p><p>I was getting plenty of knocks on the tip from small fish and did catch the odd roach and perch.</p><p>Around 2 o'clock I had a good bite and thought I had hit it too late but wasn't the case as bream number 3 was netted.</p><p>The river was getting more coloured and thought that would be it. 30 minutes before the all out I had another bream so was well happy.</p><p>I packed up and started to weigh in from the peg below me. Craig Amos had a nice net of roach and a small bream for 11lb 8oz so I knew I would have at least 2 points.</p><p>Craig then weighed me in. We weighed the bream first as the scales only go to 20lb. My 4 bream went 17lb 10oz and the roach and other went 13lb 7oz giving me 31lb 1oz.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNROewLNlMeRecq4IV2UT5Vb8mzLPFB4D5E2_Y4x0jIQig0k4YspOlr3-guGsSihNh9Fl0yxZ65ZFjnv-rFAdefUZcn_VSxQq79w4D8-sYBc23kHjIXLEkTdWiA_9xvTe612COTjVdrxvVE9m7qt2QsSntArSyXxBuDx1tSLBsUQDFSYjJNFOCFe7/s640/D9991EA1-7EF0-48B0-A5A5-0C207E35847B_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="418" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNROewLNlMeRecq4IV2UT5Vb8mzLPFB4D5E2_Y4x0jIQig0k4YspOlr3-guGsSihNh9Fl0yxZ65ZFjnv-rFAdefUZcn_VSxQq79w4D8-sYBc23kHjIXLEkTdWiA_9xvTe612COTjVdrxvVE9m7qt2QsSntArSyXxBuDx1tSLBsUQDFSYjJNFOCFe7/w261-h400/D9991EA1-7EF0-48B0-A5A5-0C207E35847B_1_201_a.jpeg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">catch shot of my 4 bream</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I then went up to weigh in Mike, it looked like he didn't have any any more bream and some of them were smaller than mine. Mike weighed just over 23lbs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Shane was next and managed one baby bream on top of his roach for just under 14lb.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Andy 2 nets Richings was next and it took 4 weighs to give him a magnificent 81lbs</div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvV_NReDEgDl2MBrD9QerortUZ8u_UyJOfw4sCuHOIcJZxcIsWZcff7i2_AHa8gI0AZdBO1doR1EUt3buLWNVYMWDiKu3TnibL3bNXpmjdvKaFM_YGC8TmAsN8qANwssN3LnR2YN9YgLP202pnPlDLVxJ125RIzNeOk6rrdeN2dCgrESYAeuRD1CSp/s3024/587B7096-6800-4530-BCCA-952F818075BD_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2489" data-original-width="3024" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvV_NReDEgDl2MBrD9QerortUZ8u_UyJOfw4sCuHOIcJZxcIsWZcff7i2_AHa8gI0AZdBO1doR1EUt3buLWNVYMWDiKu3TnibL3bNXpmjdvKaFM_YGC8TmAsN8qANwssN3LnR2YN9YgLP202pnPlDLVxJ125RIzNeOk6rrdeN2dCgrESYAeuRD1CSp/w400-h329/587B7096-6800-4530-BCCA-952F818075BD_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">section board, over 160 lbs between 5 anglers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiBh0knwrT1BrXVD2dNZUMgazep_7vE1DhfDov7tnkP59HEzp2zdPkKkA5LJrxjSPUNSYpRjASSZSOGpShq5dnptc1roAWzVsxKCoG6PzZM8ZAJV0Wbxv4ZI4axb-rLMal-TGyh3zgZpUX76MV8kKN33DPpASRL0ojDz-pv_za0S5HzXLvnt33sttf/s694/EB3FBDF6-AF12-460F-AAA0-B504E738575B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiBh0knwrT1BrXVD2dNZUMgazep_7vE1DhfDov7tnkP59HEzp2zdPkKkA5LJrxjSPUNSYpRjASSZSOGpShq5dnptc1roAWzVsxKCoG6PzZM8ZAJV0Wbxv4ZI4axb-rLMal-TGyh3zgZpUX76MV8kKN33DPpASRL0ojDz-pv_za0S5HzXLvnt33sttf/w304-h400/EB3FBDF6-AF12-460F-AAA0-B504E738575B.jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Andy with part of his match winning bag</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I managed 3rd overall on the day but as a team we bombed out. Only one match left and I think the best we can do is finish 2nd. Well done to the Bathampton boys today, great result.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Full match report from Vince Lunn below..........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The 5th round of the Commercial House League 2022 was fished on the Bristol Avon at Newbridge. The river started quite clear but coloured up a little bit after the heavy overnight rain. It’s was mainly dry and mild during the match.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The river fished well again with 14 double figure weights from the 26 anglers. Only 1 angler had less than 6 lbs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The winner of the match was Andy Richings fishing for Mosella Bathampton. Drawn on peg 48 he fished the feeder 3/4 across and <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>caught around 20 bream and skimmers on a variety of hook baits. He weighed 81 lbs 9 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd was Andy Pritchard also fishing for Mosella Bathampton. He was on peg 40 and caught 2-3 lbs on the crowquill in the first hour. He then fished the feeder 3/4 across in the slacker water. With worm on the hook he caught 9 bream to finish with 33 lbs 4 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd was Ivan Currie of Sensas Nomads who was drawn on peg 59. He fished the pole for the first 2 hours catching 13 lbs of roach, hybrids and perch. He then tried the feeder and had 2 bream quickly on double worm so he stayed on it, catching 2 more bream at the end of the match. He weighed 31 lbs 1 ozs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th Paul Purchase - M & N Electrical - 27 lbs 15 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th Mike Goodhind - M & N Electrical - 23 lbs 9 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6th Steve Skelton - M & N Electrical - 19 lbs 12 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton had a good day, dropping only 2 points on the day and taking the lead overall in the league. M & N were 2nd on the day and move upto 2nd in the league, 7 points behind Mosella Bathampton. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Teams on the day</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 28</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 23</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 17</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 15</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 3</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">League positions </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 107</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 100</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 99</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 92</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 45</div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-66028985084286951922022-10-21T07:32:00.002-07:002022-10-21T07:32:11.764-07:00Sunday 16th October - Sensas Commercial House League Round 4, Bristol Avon, Swineford to Jack Whites<p> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>I informed the peters for this match about the wasps and it was left out.</p><p>Draw was at the Crown again who continue to look after us very well.</p><p>Team today was.....</p><p>Me</p><p>Sam Johnson</p><p>Leigh Wakefield</p><p>Jan Van Myzak</p><p>Dave Lewis</p><p>Andy Cranston</p><p>I think we were last buy one to draw and ended up with average pegs.</p><p>Dave A4, me B3, Sam C5, Leigh D2, Jan E1, Andy F5.</p><p>Jan was on a great peg for the whip and Andy was on an end peg, I had a feeling they would do well.</p><p>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.</p><p>I just set up a waggler, 3 gram bolo and a maggot feeder.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>I was going absolutely nowhere on this peg and became very frustrated.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>If only I had gone on the whip earlier !!!!!</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Back at the Crown the results came in from the rest of the lads.......</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-BithMyW1RfUm-DGlppbmrnlKk2aF1DakLGmN_tv8FS_agmqkJ1IzovEP24wHkJsEnzn7kv-Nd-se8plog-nQNswIvRbEzm9u6x1scE_v4qwQCAQKb5lH1ZPy_XVz5moqtmiM2QBiSj3pHNL7hPuyGZlLUZjri7DXuAEQnDxqAe2UVOD9oDVtmTA/s2048/27AAACD4-1D2D-4DBB-A2EB-7FFB41DEDF7D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb-BithMyW1RfUm-DGlppbmrnlKk2aF1DakLGmN_tv8FS_agmqkJ1IzovEP24wHkJsEnzn7kv-Nd-se8plog-nQNswIvRbEzm9u6x1scE_v4qwQCAQKb5lH1ZPy_XVz5moqtmiM2QBiSj3pHNL7hPuyGZlLUZjri7DXuAEQnDxqAe2UVOD9oDVtmTA/w300-h400/27AAACD4-1D2D-4DBB-A2EB-7FFB41DEDF7D.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jerry enjoying a pint after his victory</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusBsow5cLO_-Yoid8AMNs-sHl3uWHFfK5WzRsDybhotxP-lRS4bAs0Vw6HqbpPWZmyxN2SC09x8DVQqiBQvt4JzCA01okS0Sm9CXq9sD8CObA0x6V4usQbDnDYu54cFqDlVKUh0uCY1h91_6de_JtTsK931f3Z1Pdr3gPvAcJprK1veI9-JOfUwwx/s2048/19958F9F-59B2-4D97-8418-D01C2DA3DD86.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjusBsow5cLO_-Yoid8AMNs-sHl3uWHFfK5WzRsDybhotxP-lRS4bAs0Vw6HqbpPWZmyxN2SC09x8DVQqiBQvt4JzCA01okS0Sm9CXq9sD8CObA0x6V4usQbDnDYu54cFqDlVKUh0uCY1h91_6de_JtTsK931f3Z1Pdr3gPvAcJprK1veI9-JOfUwwx/w300-h400/19958F9F-59B2-4D97-8418-D01C2DA3DD86.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Andy with a great net of whip caught fish</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is the match report from Vince Lunn.............</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">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.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">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 <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>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.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">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.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">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.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th Nicky Johns - Mosella Bathampton - 16 lbs 9 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th Lee Warden - M & N Electrical - 15 lbs 1 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6th Jan Mazyk - Sensas Nomads - 14 lbs 2 ozs</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">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.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Teams on the day</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 21</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 20</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 18</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 16</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 15</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">League positions </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 82</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 79</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 77</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 77</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 42</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJa4B2kElzQh_T-lh4AjKn6LtqENMPMGhK3Yvq15Bjh2mlhypcoRQUFoozgoJcCdRh3va8JLn03KN2qNBv_avQVnvo4rtbG5aUzNMII_uHty3NZV5-Wayp1LxnRcrGN6sHHSJDhw0VlkfOg2bUkeg1qkAOnKi7zgJFAFZy_bTBJBSuOpHE7FMZFA3x/s960/68B0BE11-1CB8-4400-8974-AE522F73D769_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="960" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJa4B2kElzQh_T-lh4AjKn6LtqENMPMGhK3Yvq15Bjh2mlhypcoRQUFoozgoJcCdRh3va8JLn03KN2qNBv_avQVnvo4rtbG5aUzNMII_uHty3NZV5-Wayp1LxnRcrGN6sHHSJDhw0VlkfOg2bUkeg1qkAOnKi7zgJFAFZy_bTBJBSuOpHE7FMZFA3x/w640-h221/68B0BE11-1CB8-4400-8974-AE522F73D769_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-60500993288639663192022-10-17T11:58:00.010-07:002022-10-21T06:42:53.838-07:00Sunday 9th October - Clevedon Club Match River Kenn<p>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.</p><p>This year has been exceptional and it has been great to see the return of the roach and small skimmers throughout the river.</p><p>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.</p><p>Match Secretary Rob Fogg was in charge today and was well organised.</p><p>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.</p><p>At £20 per angler less a £1 peg fee Rob had plenty of money to play with so it was well spread out.</p><p>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.</p><p>I parked up on Strode Rd and only had to walk 3 pegs downstream.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>I had a size 16 B560 on the 7 metre rig.</p><p>A waggler was set up but not used and the feeder rod stayed in the holdall.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The question was do I feed much?</p><p>I decided on feeding the bare minimum and fed more really finely chopped worm than anything else.</p><p>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.</p><p>I ended up with 3lb 10oz, not great but the draw, clarity of the water and the bright sky didn't help.</p><p>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. </p><p>Not far behind was Paul Randell 10 pegs below Jeremy with 14lb 3oz, a few skimmers but mainly roach.</p><p>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.</p><p>Considering the conditions the river fished really well with most pegs in.</p><p>Full results below......</p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1st. - Jeremy Salisbury 15.02, peg 49.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>- Paul Randell 14.03 peg 39.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd - Kev Perry 9.06 peg 8.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th - <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.broomsgrove.9?__cft__[0]=AZX7BPXbr6brsylyDIOlBo-1Ecvvoniyye1rdv8R438gGGeYUljvH6tIMVTTz6TQI2EbPtxaIpjEOASG8NVYCqdbhrWU8CcZ236wdyAOban4hxNbeKLJ2Fry_iel_Wu07HFiRS7_IWEj-eqKcbYvpL402H31q3gzZOOAfgx7s0rgTRf6ufWFeNsctaf1HgkWWR4&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--accent); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Mark Broomsgrove</span></a></span> 9.02 peg 37</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th - Jeff Surmon 8.11 peg 35.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A section - Paul Smith 2.01 peg 3</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">B section - Steve Cox 2.06 peg 11</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C section - <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/paul.faiers.9?__cft__[0]=AZX7BPXbr6brsylyDIOlBo-1Ecvvoniyye1rdv8R438gGGeYUljvH6tIMVTTz6TQI2EbPtxaIpjEOASG8NVYCqdbhrWU8CcZ236wdyAOban4hxNbeKLJ2Fry_iel_Wu07HFiRS7_IWEj-eqKcbYvpL402H31q3gzZOOAfgx7s0rgTRf6ufWFeNsctaf1HgkWWR4&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--accent); cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">Paul Faiers</span></a></span> 6.14 peg 22</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">D section - Barry Fowler 8.00</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;">Really looking forward to fishing it when there is a bit of colour in the river, it will fish it's head off.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="-webkit-standard" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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Chris and Brian had to pull out due to health issues and Mike was up North somewhere on Saturday and wouldn't get home until late. </p><p>So with 50% of the team to replace it took a bit of phoning around but in the end I got enough cover with some help from Nicola Goodhind (thanks Nicky).</p><p>Sensas Nomads Team today was.....</p><p>Myself, Sam Johnson, Leigh Wakefield, Jan Van Mazyk, Andy Cranston (guest) and Jack Jones (guest).</p><p><span>We had a bit of catching up to do after a disastrous Round 2 as per the table below..... <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mosella Bathampton 45</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">M & N Electrical 38</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midland Spinner 37</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensas Nomads 36</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crown 22</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The draw was at the Crown Pub in Keynsham as usual and they do a great breakfast. After breakfast I handed over 5 boxes of Sensas ground bait and a set of whips which had been ordered by Kev Dicks and Ben Rendall who fish for Nomads in the Wye Winter League. All supplied by M5 Angling.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I collected the £20 pools money off the guys, Andy actually gave me a £50 note which Nicky bounced back at us because you have to change them up in a bank now, not that I'd know.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prior to the draw Mike Goodhind announced a thank you message on behalf of Vince Lunn who was running the London Marathon on behalf of Children's Hospice S W, a lot of the anglers including myself had sponsored him. Well done Vince.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oAMIRxbdtAyzNLXL2FPyS6zRMxZcKdTn2Wfgtul8JUE8shtBqFNirqv32fA2byz0VjfZtIRFuitZ27fcUat7ZamBhB6KW-QKyUqXESoJZs_JolQuBMsKG7fbp3Xnen6O-wBu9g6hPnnDoQXMBSvKVSc0GUqnDYW8iSdELQMWDgWTyZy8YYo3uKOb/s701/3582979B-238E-4255-8B0C-B1999A9E0B8F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1oAMIRxbdtAyzNLXL2FPyS6zRMxZcKdTn2Wfgtul8JUE8shtBqFNirqv32fA2byz0VjfZtIRFuitZ27fcUat7ZamBhB6KW-QKyUqXESoJZs_JolQuBMsKG7fbp3Xnen6O-wBu9g6hPnnDoQXMBSvKVSc0GUqnDYW8iSdELQMWDgWTyZy8YYo3uKOb/w300-h400/3582979B-238E-4255-8B0C-B1999A9E0B8F.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pegs</div><br /><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were last but one to draw, Sam was on A2 at Swineford, Leigh just into the second field at Swineford, Jan to of the Crane, Jack on the Cattle Grid on the Crane, Andy around E4 at JW's and me on F3 JW's.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a fairly wet start to the day and slippery underfoot as we walked to the pegs. On the way to the pegs at JW's everyone helped assist each other over the Kissing Gate which was the only obstacle.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When got to my peg F3 I recognised it as it was end peg here in this section on the last match. It was ok except for the fact your are about 3 metres off the water.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyB29jkp5qLL-Ag6u2Nf2Tv8U4d-r6A86QJDMyqQ7hJ6RjiwT0qG4-45ul01I98dHPR4qkboEQlujH3BxLJh3_3gm6JJEYehNITGDAQrfcJnE8ptjhPklwKBfznvg04dyT9ocmMeCL0G4hModTwx_W-Ik8RLXvQGiSqoEq6BPeocUD8wP-TjrV_iU/s4032/36640CE1-EE4A-47C7-A33F-A88EE8615D8A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEyB29jkp5qLL-Ag6u2Nf2Tv8U4d-r6A86QJDMyqQ7hJ6RjiwT0qG4-45ul01I98dHPR4qkboEQlujH3BxLJh3_3gm6JJEYehNITGDAQrfcJnE8ptjhPklwKBfznvg04dyT9ocmMeCL0G4hModTwx_W-Ik8RLXvQGiSqoEq6BPeocUD8wP-TjrV_iU/w300-h400/36640CE1-EE4A-47C7-A33F-A88EE8615D8A.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My view from the top of the bank.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I needed to use a rope to assist with getting up and down and put some dead grass in the mud to stop me skidding into the river, but by this time the rain had stopped. I also assisted Gary Gross get his box down to the water on his peg F2.</div><br /><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pole was left behind and I only set up a 3 gram bolo on the long rod, a 7BB crow quill and a maggot feeder. Ground bait mix was 50 /50 Sensas Black River and Gros Gardons Noire.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I shouted the all in at 1015 and put in 4 balls of hemp and caster down the middle.<div><br /></div><div>First trot down with the bolo I had a small chub which I netted, it was a stretch and used all 4 metres of the landing net handle. No bites for a couple of runs down and then some roach turned up . Not a bad size either but swingable. I did misjudge swinging some of them resulting in them hitting the bankside vegetation underneath me, nightmare. </div><div><br /></div><div>I was loose feeding a few casters and hemp but that only seemed to push the fish down the peg and I ended up catching a few roach there. Putting in a few more balls didn't improve the situation but for the first half of the match I was doing ok.</div><div><br /></div><div>During the last 2 hours I caught the odd dace and a few roach across on the maggot feeder but couldn't get the to settle so swapped between the bolo and the quill to nick a few roach now and then.</div><div><br /></div><div>I had no phone calls from the team which is usually a good sign but did have a couple from Gary above me who always like to know what's going on lol.</div><div>I had no idea how JW's was fishing.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is how my section ended up. Jerry who had 11lb odd had one bream and lost one plus broke his top set on the pole. He also had bream rolling in front of him but they wouldn't get their heads down.</div><div><br /></div><div>I sort of bombed out bring back only 2 points from 5 and the peg was worth more than that although most said their pegs died off in the last 2 hours.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIOtPTgLCA5vd9ej9_CkiYcFz1XPhX_kpf-ir9oWgmQ1rrlGmRzCOCAxoahnEnIcTsecB8IOxLsgiWs2PzEnoxbgE9IKOhC5s4QrlazaVaO-GMZgKKFhQcQZBJ1-CdkDqYn_5GRlALFJoF9TntkY7y9MoW2ILyF3fBgyWCTK-z5d5isbtG86dQWxD/s2852/DE936BAF-19E7-4499-9DEB-6B53261B974F_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="2852" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIOtPTgLCA5vd9ej9_CkiYcFz1XPhX_kpf-ir9oWgmQ1rrlGmRzCOCAxoahnEnIcTsecB8IOxLsgiWs2PzEnoxbgE9IKOhC5s4QrlazaVaO-GMZgKKFhQcQZBJ1-CdkDqYn_5GRlALFJoF9TntkY7y9MoW2ILyF3fBgyWCTK-z5d5isbtG86dQWxD/w400-h258/DE936BAF-19E7-4499-9DEB-6B53261B974F_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam called me to say he was 2nd in section as he had to get home quickly, he also said he thought Leigh had done ok.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the way back I caught up with Andy who won E section with 21lb odd on the whip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back at the pub it got better. Jan won his section as did Jack. Leigh was last back and he won his with 31lb of chub, it was also top weight on the day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKb9tcDbc-NE0T2Lm5b-wsr88XVAfMviHruQzTSxdpxnZyYqNOx359QYM-2lO_TMN6GqOlppkpKzZi1mpP6H_8hcOzr15DE8LsRIvuQEGK5inw9mhGMo_cv83cZwIdZEmS6-wRNnHvw3cN9CcsQU3k2ZHXeG1xgyt89Ump9SiiPSaMvxySyNe_Lyr/s853/3005B332-3DEB-48A7-A5FD-7CE7289C3EAE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitKb9tcDbc-NE0T2Lm5b-wsr88XVAfMviHruQzTSxdpxnZyYqNOx359QYM-2lO_TMN6GqOlppkpKzZi1mpP6H_8hcOzr15DE8LsRIvuQEGK5inw9mhGMo_cv83cZwIdZEmS6-wRNnHvw3cN9CcsQU3k2ZHXeG1xgyt89Ump9SiiPSaMvxySyNe_Lyr/w300-h400/3005B332-3DEB-48A7-A5FD-7CE7289C3EAE.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Leigh with his match winning bag</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So we ended up having 4 section wins and a 2nd in section plus me ...... lol totalling 26 points from a possible 30. (and the top 3 individuals).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Results on the day:</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensas Nomads 26</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">M & N Electrical Services 21</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midland Spinner 19</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mosella Bathampton 18</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crown 5</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The League Table now looks like this ........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mosella Bathampton 63</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensas Nomads 62</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">M & N Electrical Services 59</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midland Spinner 56</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crown 27</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">So job done and back in the frame, next match is on the same venue 16th October.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I also got my Poppy Ticket from Rich Lacey, biggest and best match in the area plus a great cause.</div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeo-LX8cc_rzQ1DoXxlLMs4sP08S1oMrT_Ta8jEOu_PcqjuydoQTIlVY-4_nPq5BYCYb45e4Qpv1AQwHvtiqpuXPrH6JB8_DAG6dN33P3ZADx0__-ciKPHOZOpr9FaCdPAbAJG1NkgwqBQNjg1_OlQVvZGzz_J9DG3nDIxN0yiOtCa0zu96Gw9LgrF/s3024/CD83D4C6-CE01-49CF-9843-0E0AABCFE8C3_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2206" data-original-width="3024" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeo-LX8cc_rzQ1DoXxlLMs4sP08S1oMrT_Ta8jEOu_PcqjuydoQTIlVY-4_nPq5BYCYb45e4Qpv1AQwHvtiqpuXPrH6JB8_DAG6dN33P3ZADx0__-ciKPHOZOpr9FaCdPAbAJG1NkgwqBQNjg1_OlQVvZGzz_J9DG3nDIxN0yiOtCa0zu96Gw9LgrF/w400-h291/CD83D4C6-CE01-49CF-9843-0E0AABCFE8C3_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div>Clevedon Club Match on the Kenn next Sunday.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-38574074955184851212022-09-19T12:00:00.005-07:002022-09-19T12:04:23.834-07:00Sunday 18th September - Bristol Commercial House League Round 2, Lower Bristol Avon<p> I missed the first round of this League due to returning from Ireland. The lads done ok finishing 2nd on the Kings Sedgemoor Drain.</p><p>The remaining 5 matches are on the Lower Bristol Avon, one of the finest stretches of river in my opinion offering great fishing at this time of year.</p><p>The draw for this match and the remaining ones are at the Crown Pub in Keynsham opposite the Rugby Club and they are great hosts.</p><p>Sensas Nomads Team for today was ....</p><p>Chris Hook, Sam Johnson, Mike Withey, Leigh Wakefield, Brian Melksham and myself.</p><p>The stretches used for todays match were Swineford, Crane and Jack Whites with the pegging as follows:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwC4e5UNQjkaECGcw-vOlIfV4LvhyPMlbsEojR-DxYbDS3ft-VBU-XgZP8AhLbkwioEzSu-UP7mzd2nvzH7LT0zZOMKALOH5gd6lR-e_bPQgDstiJmh9a9PldaKexBHvzq4fB6Y67eOUTu8kPz7d123rQ8RgtjwRuEm99yZdlFJCy_4fJrnnrl_LnH/s600/5F421446-DF8A-49F0-A783-E023C0EFD8DF_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwC4e5UNQjkaECGcw-vOlIfV4LvhyPMlbsEojR-DxYbDS3ft-VBU-XgZP8AhLbkwioEzSu-UP7mzd2nvzH7LT0zZOMKALOH5gd6lR-e_bPQgDstiJmh9a9PldaKexBHvzq4fB6Y67eOUTu8kPz7d123rQ8RgtjwRuEm99yZdlFJCy_4fJrnnrl_LnH/w266-h400/5F421446-DF8A-49F0-A783-E023C0EFD8DF_1_201_a.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Pools paid and Team Sheet submitted a little late than most I thought but not really as we were called out second to draw.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put my hand into the bags of doom which put us on the following pegs ......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam A5, that's what I wanted he said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chris B4 a fairly average peg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Brian C1, we thought he was well above the bay opposite the old Soap Works but he wasn't so very average.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mike D3 which used to be good and still is if there's a bit of colour and extra water but not today</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Leigh E2, not bad and a good chance of a weight using the whip</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Me F1, no idea of it's form.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Off we went with the scales and boards, we are doing the weigh in every match as it keeps continuity and at least the scales will be returned by the same team.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I parked opposite the Scrap Yard down near the Marina as I had hoped you could still get access to the field but its a double gate now so had to go back toward the Lock Keeper pub and down towards the old Fry's Chocolate Factory on the opposite bank.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After receiving help negotiating a Kissing Gate I was soon at my peg. It was a long and I mean a long way down to the water as most are at Jack Whites so out came the rope to help me scale down the bank (several times with all the gear).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I got set up nice and comfortable with the platform in the water. It looked nice with tree cover right across and lilies on the near side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I left my pole behind and only took running line gear plus a whip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was only about 3 foot at 6 metres but right across against the trees it was more like 7 foot with a deep hole in-between a gap in the trees then it shallowed up just downstream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So ...... 6 metre whip with a 2 gram float fishing maggot or caster over ground bait with caster and hemp. Maggot down the middle on a 3 gram bolo, waggler across in front of the trees and a feeder for the deep hole right across.</div><p>On the all in I fed about 8 feeder fulls of chopped worm and caster into the deep hole, a couple of golf balls of feed on the whip line and a pouch of maggots down the middle.</p><p>Starting off on the whip I was soon into small dace and roach but they were small. I put in a couple more balls and the better dace turned up but only had a few and they disappeared, couldn't get them back despite regular feeding with loose hemp and caster, I was still firing in maggot down the middle at the same time.</p><p>After about 40 minutes I was going nowhere so had a look down the middle on the bolo. A few better roach were caught but they really were not having it and the peg shallowing up towards the end didn't help either, in hind sight I should have set up a stick float.</p><p>About an hour and 15 minutes had gone so picked up the Feeder rod with a worm and maggot on a size 14 and cast it into the deep hole. It only took a few minutes and the tip bounced , I struck and was playing a decent fish, half way across aI could see it was a skimmer of just over a pound, lovely and more please I thought. A few more casts produced a perch of about 10oz and a stamp roach, then it went quiet.</p><p>I decided to feed some loose caster and hemp right across whilst trying the middle again. After 15 minutes and a couple of roach down the middle I went across with the waggler. I had the odd bite which produced a few dace and bleak but no roach.</p><p>There were no bank walkers and no phone calls so I couldn't tell how the river was fishing.</p><p>I was still lightly feeding the whip line, the middle and the far side which kept me busy if now confused at times lol.</p><p>It was a case of swapping between the lines nicking a few fish here and there, </p><p>The waggler line during the very latter part of the match was best as some roach turned up and even had a couple of puppy chub.</p><p>The all out was called at 15:15 and I scaled the bank again to get my gear up before heading downstream to start the weigh in. Andy Britt met me near the end peg and said he had a nightmare match saying he had about 4lbs, he also said one of his team had a big bag of bream at Swineford.</p><p>My section was quite tight and the end peg pipped me but second in section for the team was ok. Everyone had roach, dace and perch to make up there weights except Kev below me who had a lovely 3lb plus chub.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vn1M7pHQp0Hs-yQ6cj9xYlGoNE5QPtNbmCUVyU3DTc-LMJAFAr-4CmHZZOJWMJMU14USMaEEHdDQwgfE-CxT6EMUISsktuIJ0zJUNygTxufK-Z2m39xeJa6b0XAydz1sJL2hUkyp6b9CBfJu_5sVrbrHnlhOlGi0D9ZNN_ktLH9hgIGjY1LruIdd/s480/C25C53A7-7FFD-4FDA-8725-9DE246CC774F_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="480" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vn1M7pHQp0Hs-yQ6cj9xYlGoNE5QPtNbmCUVyU3DTc-LMJAFAr-4CmHZZOJWMJMU14USMaEEHdDQwgfE-CxT6EMUISsktuIJ0zJUNygTxufK-Z2m39xeJa6b0XAydz1sJL2hUkyp6b9CBfJu_5sVrbrHnlhOlGi0D9ZNN_ktLH9hgIGjY1LruIdd/w400-h260/C25C53A7-7FFD-4FDA-8725-9DE246CC774F_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I saw Leigh and Brian on the way back to the van, Leigh had 6lbs and 2 points and Brian had 3 points so not great.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back at the Crown I caught up with the rest of the guy's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam had 11lb at Swineford but was bridesmaid to two big bream weights and got 3 points, Chris had 6lb odd and 2 points and Mike bombed out having only 1 point, it happens.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Top weight of the day went to Bathampton's Rich Lacey who made no mistake on A2 at Swineford catching 66lb of slabs, the peg below him had 30lb of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXk8CCbekZc7MUk1-Z2V1sWLsJcvuw-O-B1IkxEO4cLqVR7gX7P63dnk8xTozFDauksHAiu4xsakOZmsQDj2gj_6Vyxfrkv1WOdcegbcxZh17NtJrYtu-d6TWtA4hs9xTans8bUNoei5b2XHxYYjgFOTuboa__KXvMNWP1ynbZ9bwTBo97t4PJ-zaP/s386/F995F359-6E45-43B7-A337-6C30F12E71F7_1_201_a.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="377" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXk8CCbekZc7MUk1-Z2V1sWLsJcvuw-O-B1IkxEO4cLqVR7gX7P63dnk8xTozFDauksHAiu4xsakOZmsQDj2gj_6Vyxfrkv1WOdcegbcxZh17NtJrYtu-d6TWtA4hs9xTans8bUNoei5b2XHxYYjgFOTuboa__KXvMNWP1ynbZ9bwTBo97t4PJ-zaP/w391-h400/F995F359-6E45-43B7-A337-6C30F12E71F7_1_201_a.jpeg" width="391" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Top man Rich Lacey.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3rd on the day with a 30lb bag of roach and dace on the whip from E1 was Lee Warden.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5KLOyUl7s2Z865jYt7lyaSN5aOGhSZQqOEHtOelyHU1CDQQGFovxH3xHZ5Pf2sJQ8IWipVtof3NlvFnIubtB0F1OCwJwOHZKt06cAe1GywhApXHFMHea05Wtlzb3bFE9r5R6sKmeSVAGuIgWxmo_MY7lgVaKjPxkoOK06-SWJr9s7_tk706Q-37L/s632/DC9584AA-A983-4E41-91B4-51146886FAA4_4_5005_c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="348" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW5KLOyUl7s2Z865jYt7lyaSN5aOGhSZQqOEHtOelyHU1CDQQGFovxH3xHZ5Pf2sJQ8IWipVtof3NlvFnIubtB0F1OCwJwOHZKt06cAe1GywhApXHFMHea05Wtlzb3bFE9r5R6sKmeSVAGuIgWxmo_MY7lgVaKjPxkoOK06-SWJr9s7_tk706Q-37L/w220-h400/DC9584AA-A983-4E41-91B4-51146886FAA4_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lee Warden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Team wise we need to play catch up and it's possible.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All was not lost though as Sam and Chris picked up for coming first and second in the Knock Out last year and Leigh for top in team.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The river fished it's head off, here's the match report from Vince Lunn........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The 2nd round of the Commercial House League 2022 was fished on the Bristol Avon from Swineford to Jack Whites. The river was clear with bright conditions. It fished well with 9 double figure weights and 22 of the 30 anglers catching at least 6 lbs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The winner of the match was Rich Lacey fishing for Mosella Bathampton. Drawn on the outfall at Swineford, he started on the feeder and had a few perch before catching his first bream after 40 minutes. Sticking on the feeder with <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>double worm, he finished with 16 bream for 66 lbs 7 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd was Paddy Merrett fishing for the Crown. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">He was on the peg below Rich and also fished the feeder over with worm. He had 6 big bream. He also caught a few smaller fish on the waggler for a weight of 33 lbs 10 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd was Lee Warden of M & N Electrical. He was drawn on the 1st peg at Jack Whites, above the fence. He fished a 5 metre whip with castor on the hook and fed hemp and castors to catch roach, dace and chublets. He finished with 151 fish for 30 lbs 13 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th Kev Dicks - Mosella Bathampton - 25 lb 2 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5th Nick Coles - Mosella Bathampton - 19 lb 6 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6th Jeff Surmon - Midland Spinner - 15 lbs 8 ozs</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">With 4 section winners, Mosella Bathampton won on the day to take an 8 point lead overall</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Teams on the day</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 23</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 19</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 18</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 15</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 15</div></div><div class="l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk gh25dzvf jikcssrz n3t5jt4f" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">League positions </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mosella Bathampton 45</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">M & N Electrical 38</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Midland Spinner 37</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Sensas Nomads 36</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Crown 22</div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bit of a pleasure session on the Kenn tomorrow with hemp and maggot.</div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-1872412910896764842022-09-12T12:41:00.003-07:002022-09-12T12:41:42.817-07:00Monday 5th - Friday 9th September Arva International Festival<p> The Arva Festival has had a couple of years break due to COVID and I was really looking forward to getting back on the Lough's around Arva (aka Arvagh).</p><p>4 of us travelled over on the Saturday before in 2 vehicles and took the Ferry from Holyhead to Dublin arriving at the Breffni Arms Hotel in Arva around 19:30.</p><p>A quick check on the advanced bait order and unpack the bags then it was straight into the bar for a few pints of the black stuff and a home made chicken curry, half rice and chips which is traditional.</p><p>Three of us fishing the Festival also paid our entrance fee.</p><p>The Breffni Arms is the HQ for the Festival i.e. Fee's / Pools, Draw, Daily Results and Presentation.</p><p>The Festival usually attracts around 75 anglers but numbers were lower this year (63).</p><p>I was in bed by around 23:00 as I had been up since 04:00.</p><p>07:30 the next morning it was up and down to a full Irish breakfast before we headed off to have a chill pleasure fishing session on Carrigallen Town Lake a few miles from Arva.</p><p>It's lovely venue with quite a few platforms and holds plenty of tench, bream, roach, hybrids and perch.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoSzJZRkaUwFVbRI2jD-67od2VmnUqHfNv4cm2bh-RdN_tOjSG4Q4foXN9VfRRxMfNls5WA7Hd_5HicSBR2Dx3sLLssU7JOuTsqhZtx_dW5oyJJYcAwRF-ec-FQsjCxA9SOQFIThWnwx87Q-r3JJVSLCZCUOLfuE7zF8tCsLBrGHufT1NZy0Y-gZRy/s600/A8862D5D-1AC4-48D3-9133-E9E33054316F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoSzJZRkaUwFVbRI2jD-67od2VmnUqHfNv4cm2bh-RdN_tOjSG4Q4foXN9VfRRxMfNls5WA7Hd_5HicSBR2Dx3sLLssU7JOuTsqhZtx_dW5oyJJYcAwRF-ec-FQsjCxA9SOQFIThWnwx87Q-r3JJVSLCZCUOLfuE7zF8tCsLBrGHufT1NZy0Y-gZRy/w400-h300/A8862D5D-1AC4-48D3-9133-E9E33054316F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I opted to go to the furthest peg away from the car park and just set up one rig on the pole. A 1 gram float with a size 16 feeder hook to 0.14, a number 8 elastic was through my match top 3.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I plumbed up at 13 metres and had around 6 foot of water to my left and right so fed 2 spots with chopped worm and caster about 10 metres apart. Maggot on the hook only attracted small perch or small roach. A switch to double caster or corn brought me 6 tench and plenty of skimmers for just over 29lbs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfn-E9h6gNGNONDwD301IGfTFYK4GxQKxN4HqpmHtY8p83d4tyzHy0G2W3vn_SwS02LkHRBrU6NEI-j-R2ifMlnZOVTrnWnmslH5vG5RRrznBFjqFPoTLIqJ4hXljJyFrBncf3LBqTDfs8N-B1P4C1oBa7sL_Vwn5pFHWgsu6U4-fhcDxFjUa-VEju/s600/7A0906E4-4DA6-4B7A-9872-139748EFD52F_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="338" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfn-E9h6gNGNONDwD301IGfTFYK4GxQKxN4HqpmHtY8p83d4tyzHy0G2W3vn_SwS02LkHRBrU6NEI-j-R2ifMlnZOVTrnWnmslH5vG5RRrznBFjqFPoTLIqJ4hXljJyFrBncf3LBqTDfs8N-B1P4C1oBa7sL_Vwn5pFHWgsu6U4-fhcDxFjUa-VEju/w225-h400/7A0906E4-4DA6-4B7A-9872-139748EFD52F_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tony had a lovely day on the caster and pole catching 7 big tench and some bits for 22lb.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0EsR0eC4zK2UWZyPY-sMepGRqVqz9CEl-P6-o-Ng5jQwg1V59fBY6V-kSAbo96FE2XgUzYj_q8dQywcEjtNTq9VVcykZSESJjN8kIS57upKEbnFGDaKlRwuYowNChxGjYHB-59BikXkQ3vSC8HaQ8JNfKovDPVAq1WOeTU8G54GsQnmwltRoN9nu/s600/8D5BFA4B-FC41-4BBC-8E54-A5EC76DCDE8D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="439" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp0EsR0eC4zK2UWZyPY-sMepGRqVqz9CEl-P6-o-Ng5jQwg1V59fBY6V-kSAbo96FE2XgUzYj_q8dQywcEjtNTq9VVcykZSESJjN8kIS57upKEbnFGDaKlRwuYowNChxGjYHB-59BikXkQ3vSC8HaQ8JNfKovDPVAq1WOeTU8G54GsQnmwltRoN9nu/w293-h400/8D5BFA4B-FC41-4BBC-8E54-A5EC76DCDE8D.jpeg" width="293" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Steve managed one tench and bits for 9lbs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAX6vR_3b_O331BaiAMrlzywtCvSGIL3L2cl5MimqqYggpduh6GmsRBGzoRiGYShAdlOEL-cMBf6EY0z9FQ5Ft5bIl__173NDC2RNY2WpNHbKDuL6_jbK77iGJWqDLKc1Za5tdffNSfaUqMb0SzoLW780S8noO65cscHVBVFZSqWwfaN7Rbi_jTn-J/s600/DEFCD6AA-23A5-4469-8E0A-395A2C66DE3A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="384" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAX6vR_3b_O331BaiAMrlzywtCvSGIL3L2cl5MimqqYggpduh6GmsRBGzoRiGYShAdlOEL-cMBf6EY0z9FQ5Ft5bIl__173NDC2RNY2WpNHbKDuL6_jbK77iGJWqDLKc1Za5tdffNSfaUqMb0SzoLW780S8noO65cscHVBVFZSqWwfaN7Rbi_jTn-J/w256-h400/DEFCD6AA-23A5-4469-8E0A-395A2C66DE3A.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Andy didn't trouble the scales too much as he was after specimen tench on the meat (Irish Tench don't like spam lol).<div><br /></div><div>It was back to the Breffni then for more Guinness, food and then the van draw on the evening prior to the peg draw the following day.</div><div><br /></div><div>As Andy wasn't fishing the Festival Tony, Steve and myself were travelling 3 up so the van draw allows you all to fish the same section.</div><div><br /></div><div>I done the draw on our behalf and pulled out 'C' so that meant we would rotate as follows ....</div><div><br /></div><div>Monday - C Section - Corfree</div><div>Tuesday - D Section - Dernafest</div><div>Wednesday - E Section - Hollybank</div><div>Thursday - A Section - Gulladoo</div><div>Friday - B Section - Kevins</div><div><br /></div><div>Corfree, Dernafest and Kevins are all part of the Lough Gowna system and Hollybank and Gulladoo are separate Loughs. I have fished they all before except Hollybank.</div><div><br /></div><div>Day 1 and I drew peg 13 on Corfree, never been down that end before and a new track had been put in along the shoreline in order that you can more or less park behind most pegs, before you had to be taken by boat which was still the case on the early pegs Steve and Tony drew.</div><div><br /></div><div>I made some errors by fishing the pole too long in deep water and when I did fish the feeder I fished too long but I'll know next time. Ended up with 7 kilo 250.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBfDegnbNYCLniS7OZjerdGE_X7ALR2zfrmz2v47YjTFxEvZAzVhNIXnOi4NAKTD2RGTuIvs-IeH2k0hAuArltpCy0g6InnU31gcuWr1_BW1rqjGRNxIfmt2X4S3-u0kRbVr_b3rSZ4KAjndgl0nOGtvUqdqaZI_VMzTOEwOE3Jrf4q-3rYq6KB5C/s600/DDC428C7-F3E3-4854-83B8-5277C59899DD.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBfDegnbNYCLniS7OZjerdGE_X7ALR2zfrmz2v47YjTFxEvZAzVhNIXnOi4NAKTD2RGTuIvs-IeH2k0hAuArltpCy0g6InnU31gcuWr1_BW1rqjGRNxIfmt2X4S3-u0kRbVr_b3rSZ4KAjndgl0nOGtvUqdqaZI_VMzTOEwOE3Jrf4q-3rYq6KB5C/w300-h400/DDC428C7-F3E3-4854-83B8-5277C59899DD.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The errors cost me and put me just below halfway overall in the Festival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Day 2 on Dernafest and I drew peg 12. I was conveyed to the peg by boat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I took everything but on arrival at the peg decided to simply fish 2 feeder lines, 20 turns and 35.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a great day catching decent sized hybrids short on a 25 gram feeder and worm for 14 kilo 250 and 2nd in the section. I was now lying 30th out of 63.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGqQPbW_KExztfpodAF2qq9NUasKJklCoo4-W4pgp0yhhq89jCvkYYM0Oh_2bwAbjKQrwb9hqko8lLGfYHSqAILCyqL3tcwUxYP7RoJA2DoTKYuc0OivhdYHgJr0whMrOvhX5mxLlNYn8bC7aFXnP-y_Ks9m-_olvnqXwLsNl1fArBrJRhgH0Wk4V/s592/E227DBD4-A9C0-44E1-B2C5-C7A3E25B6708_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="319" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigGqQPbW_KExztfpodAF2qq9NUasKJklCoo4-W4pgp0yhhq89jCvkYYM0Oh_2bwAbjKQrwb9hqko8lLGfYHSqAILCyqL3tcwUxYP7RoJA2DoTKYuc0OivhdYHgJr0whMrOvhX5mxLlNYn8bC7aFXnP-y_Ks9m-_olvnqXwLsNl1fArBrJRhgH0Wk4V/w215-h400/E227DBD4-A9C0-44E1-B2C5-C7A3E25B6708_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="215" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Day 3 I drew peg 13 on Hollybank and another boat ride to the peg. This end had not been fishing great but I got my head down and fished the pole all day catching quality roach for 16 kilo 500 for 3rd in section and another pick up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was now lying in 17th place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjGsEmVP8tozzFRWJF6GUpmK9iAmKIGj45yfiuDPejndU5kSWoE0nXq7X2gjgFkSQSXhZpu9f2Ki0BWOCAHyPU1FTs8LiycXMiiqXOViB7DEwtvUq4DmTsjg6OYpHe2h_pI-9SLFVHzGGVaulXWFJ2vR56Qf_riPdcagnpVhsXPV-KsmjnyzsMxMh/s583/343403CF-2540-41AE-92CF-20CC783F5DE3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjGsEmVP8tozzFRWJF6GUpmK9iAmKIGj45yfiuDPejndU5kSWoE0nXq7X2gjgFkSQSXhZpu9f2Ki0BWOCAHyPU1FTs8LiycXMiiqXOViB7DEwtvUq4DmTsjg6OYpHe2h_pI-9SLFVHzGGVaulXWFJ2vR56Qf_riPdcagnpVhsXPV-KsmjnyzsMxMh/w329-h400/343403CF-2540-41AE-92CF-20CC783F5DE3.jpeg" width="329" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Day 4 I drew peg 1 on Gulladoo narrows. Usually good for roach but they didn't feed. I went really long for bream and that was a mistake. Opened up a new line at 40 turns with 2 hours to go and snared some decent bream for 7 kilo. Another error and put me down a few places to 24th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxD6KH-aHPva_ZePbiQcWaUlN0fL0If87N2Jid-Ixz2Gr_RAqgtKmVG7F901FMYHAqyB24qABELvBVOmMPeXcycpdDzjOLySd9VxzGxkrrzKtVZgU9pMt2JPe1xFvT1rkIZV-BVYbCRNgaF1nepoJUfhWmBNwO56rAMIutKpihv9kd-rlO_qSp6Jg/s600/2EE6D040-5C7B-4B18-BCD9-FE8B2976A2B0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxD6KH-aHPva_ZePbiQcWaUlN0fL0If87N2Jid-Ixz2Gr_RAqgtKmVG7F901FMYHAqyB24qABELvBVOmMPeXcycpdDzjOLySd9VxzGxkrrzKtVZgU9pMt2JPe1xFvT1rkIZV-BVYbCRNgaF1nepoJUfhWmBNwO56rAMIutKpihv9kd-rlO_qSp6Jg/w300-h400/2EE6D040-5C7B-4B18-BCD9-FE8B2976A2B0.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The final day on Kevins Shore I drew peg 2, peg 1 wasn't in but I was at the wrong end, I needed 13 or 14 for the bream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Started off on the pole after feeding 2 feeder lines short and long but only caught small roach. After 20 minutes I switched to the feeder lines and didn't look back catching skimmers and hybrids for over 15 kilo and a section win.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_OAOLVXAhYvE_uQk5pAA3flPaijIhSuNUeU8IdGiPuPwT5prOpD4tFGV4fjRC9L2FJx886aoOIc2lr0LVtaXa5_a-TQ09vr8JgIKyRKmj6joU2ZRGB1Y7CFKzFiht3BkMrfWwi9FEJxZKAfhs5oYW09wHhfsDxDgBcUsC-HM0d4qGfIABYgPKP0KS/s584/0BCC5302-D818-45B2-B944-4C9C16778982.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_OAOLVXAhYvE_uQk5pAA3flPaijIhSuNUeU8IdGiPuPwT5prOpD4tFGV4fjRC9L2FJx886aoOIc2lr0LVtaXa5_a-TQ09vr8JgIKyRKmj6joU2ZRGB1Y7CFKzFiht3BkMrfWwi9FEJxZKAfhs5oYW09wHhfsDxDgBcUsC-HM0d4qGfIABYgPKP0KS/w329-h400/0BCC5302-D818-45B2-B944-4C9C16778982.jpeg" width="329" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ended up a respectable 19th from 63 overall. Absolutely loved the week and met some great anglers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswpzWbKHGGHUmyfQQ3E9zNxwrasf1RXAlPlMHYS4J7zXHnAF4pja4tbFe3I8ZKzt48uKH-nI5JNw3qtgrqLpgxAjwYAyBROZacsCDjrFms0yO4RwaSvEo2jPi6oJ88hl9oEUJTH-yIcftI2vZhS2kBgmrSGG35G8eo0sesZN1Hmio_uN_p8SoDqfo/s600/1B2C4B96-4247-4C38-B554-50A8DD7C48C6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="458" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswpzWbKHGGHUmyfQQ3E9zNxwrasf1RXAlPlMHYS4J7zXHnAF4pja4tbFe3I8ZKzt48uKH-nI5JNw3qtgrqLpgxAjwYAyBROZacsCDjrFms0yO4RwaSvEo2jPi6oJ88hl9oEUJTH-yIcftI2vZhS2kBgmrSGG35G8eo0sesZN1Hmio_uN_p8SoDqfo/w488-h640/1B2C4B96-4247-4C38-B554-50A8DD7C48C6.jpeg" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well done to Dave McManus on the Festival win.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFggvcEvfphqr2tIU_kV4mVe72MG-1-xLEo7Zq9B0edEJsGn9ZsU5UXTemop8M0fBWFwkTYePqtKXrPrFP7KIQl3a958Z4HHJH36AbrL5_xAx6p4nFatbmv_zkPLzr3l3Xh4cz1ze1Xhi9BpGBuy6xn-pb2dpRaTVBpbox5j7O8xS9pI_FovJyOJWq/s600/3FA8034B-9F0E-4E85-826D-E3B04C80B8F9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFggvcEvfphqr2tIU_kV4mVe72MG-1-xLEo7Zq9B0edEJsGn9ZsU5UXTemop8M0fBWFwkTYePqtKXrPrFP7KIQl3a958Z4HHJH36AbrL5_xAx6p4nFatbmv_zkPLzr3l3Xh4cz1ze1Xhi9BpGBuy6xn-pb2dpRaTVBpbox5j7O8xS9pI_FovJyOJWq/w300-h400/3FA8034B-9F0E-4E85-826D-E3B04C80B8F9.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am looking forward to next year and hope to improve on 19th. We had a few pick ups between us and pooled the money which treated us to a steak meal on the last night and paid for a third of our bait bill.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to M5 Angling for the supply of equipment and ground bait which was brilliant.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCxkPjOMZNTAQBK4ltZLbD-VCxaMfzAIevXFrnE15htOT_xMi_jNot7NSt6ov-t-FgCcEWFCax6wmW_u_VQZlbVbvAlVmuDaE2V7qPkVlEJuDMoQZHDMEzXil89Mw1FzaAwSQG7rccaOuTAPK8DYMAYGs9vqYziiCIPGsG_GqI5iYTg-QwJ6d9TSf/s225/C2BFF3B5-8178-4750-9B84-5B15E1645926.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCxkPjOMZNTAQBK4ltZLbD-VCxaMfzAIevXFrnE15htOT_xMi_jNot7NSt6ov-t-FgCcEWFCax6wmW_u_VQZlbVbvAlVmuDaE2V7qPkVlEJuDMoQZHDMEzXil89Mw1FzaAwSQG7rccaOuTAPK8DYMAYGs9vqYziiCIPGsG_GqI5iYTg-QwJ6d9TSf/w400-h400/C2BFF3B5-8178-4750-9B84-5B15E1645926.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-31974968438045140702022-08-30T14:19:00.000-07:002022-08-30T14:19:49.787-07:0027th & 29th August - Evesham Festival, Wychavon Final and Team Final, Warks Avon.<p>Saturday the 27th August was the Wychavon Final and I qualified for this match on 17th August with over 13lb of roach and chub, my best ever weight at Evesham.</p><p>Team Nomads was well represented with Sam Johnson, Clive Branson, Chris Smith, Kev Ellaby and myself.</p><p>I met with Sam at Hampton Ferry for breakfast nice and early as we had to register for the match by 08:45.</p><p>This was the first day of the Festival and when we arrived to register at the Crown Meadow the Angling Stalls, Beer Tent, Food Vans etc were all setting up.</p><p>80 anglers fishing so all but 8 pegs in along the Town and Ferry length but there had not been a match on it for over a week.</p><p>I was fairly well up the draw queue and picked out disc A5 on the Battle Ship Matrix, when it was turned over it was peg 20. I had been on 21 before which was the peg upstream of the bridge.</p><p>Pegs 19 and 18 above me were not in so a bit of room but 21 was in. I was happy enough with the draw but would not be a match winner.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5C2bYwvhbb6GkZkiXcs6FZf_HKsG_912lGcMRpxe8jBKl_oL_yXuN4YmEn-2BwX_CIzxRv2F4lCUoBv3l7wd13r7U2IFu681Krd60S9ZE3ClJg-akzmPkBzQoTbbQSfwqMcpvaPN0zIouovWMXPugbzNjWuubvpvkdFrn8d7OGb4gkuUxrcfLXAb_/s4032/0F80E7CA-AA8A-4238-B5CA-589ABFD841A5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5C2bYwvhbb6GkZkiXcs6FZf_HKsG_912lGcMRpxe8jBKl_oL_yXuN4YmEn-2BwX_CIzxRv2F4lCUoBv3l7wd13r7U2IFu681Krd60S9ZE3ClJg-akzmPkBzQoTbbQSfwqMcpvaPN0zIouovWMXPugbzNjWuubvpvkdFrn8d7OGb4gkuUxrcfLXAb_/w300-h400/0F80E7CA-AA8A-4238-B5CA-589ABFD841A5.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a bright warm day but I was confident I could catch. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was some cover across so a waggler was set up but not used much as there was a downstream wind which made presentation difficult. I also had a maggot feeder for the same line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My main line was going to be between 13 and 14 metres with 3 hemp rigs between 0.3 and 0.4 grams and a 1 gram rig at full depth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As I was setting up my board was placed behind me. When I completed my forms a week before the match under notable achievements (which really is for angling achievements) I put "married to the same woman for 44 years" lol and they actually put that on the board !!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaWMgyXc02MQHZBQMeFqzvaZr3GFymt8L6s4r5ThyuMkQexLaLzPcGC6tDMytGPigJQ8oduSys1zMWqRu1jqIceLzntHuNJATdFkVL2t9p-VeUo2PDhuYq9u4oZm80jMOzu16M4cdlqiujl6yAjLf7x3SvsmO2E2-CfBQUN4kKSv6K1Mrza26usL0/s1600/980CDB14-792D-453D-99CD-AA1230A3CB65.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbaWMgyXc02MQHZBQMeFqzvaZr3GFymt8L6s4r5ThyuMkQexLaLzPcGC6tDMytGPigJQ8oduSys1zMWqRu1jqIceLzntHuNJATdFkVL2t9p-VeUo2PDhuYq9u4oZm80jMOzu16M4cdlqiujl6yAjLf7x3SvsmO2E2-CfBQUN4kKSv6K1Mrza26usL0/w300-h400/980CDB14-792D-453D-99CD-AA1230A3CB65.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks to Rich Whitmarsh for the photo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As members of the public walked passed I could hear them laughing when they read it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the "all in" at 11:30 I started off on the waggler while pinging in hemp down the middle. I was soon chucking that up the bank due to the wind and cast out the maggot feeder still pinging in hemp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple of rattles on the tip saw me catch a small perch and a few sprats. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">30 minutes in and I went on the pole with caster on the hook. First run down on the 0.3 gram rig I had a 1 oz roach followed by a slightly better one which I netted. The wooden bannister at the side of me was a problem with the 4 metre net handle but there was no rush.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was ticking over nicely during the next hour, not bagging but getting bites and taking small roach. Then .... it went quiet and sun was overhead not ideal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple of chucks with the feeder didn't produce anything either.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back on the pole I fed a few casters with the hemp and with hemp on the hook got a few more roach but very small. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the halfway stage I had no more than 1.5 pounds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It didn't get much better for the rest of the match but in the last 30 minutes I put the hemp rig about 10 inches over depth and held back a little which got me a few decent gudgeon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Only weighed 2lb 3oz but if you look at the board below you will see how hard it fished.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkeM7g4-E7bjgQkKTxCrAezrBLdXGNKGFqpY2b7PMWVTCvGF47JkiJzu8SscN8Ldw5e96AESgawrBdorau9o1aEw4MFXKWgXx1e13pFtnG8cbz-K_UFjci-2TFxV8A09VQGhuj23K0XVyjQAzDioZVTvAWqetc8LITe1jR35oMkUCRQdZP8tkZjHx/s1600/E61E6E0D-8CD7-4F99-93C3-6B8A44895039.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibkeM7g4-E7bjgQkKTxCrAezrBLdXGNKGFqpY2b7PMWVTCvGF47JkiJzu8SscN8Ldw5e96AESgawrBdorau9o1aEw4MFXKWgXx1e13pFtnG8cbz-K_UFjci-2TFxV8A09VQGhuj23K0XVyjQAzDioZVTvAWqetc8LITe1jR35oMkUCRQdZP8tkZjHx/w400-h300/E61E6E0D-8CD7-4F99-93C3-6B8A44895039.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No real surprise where the winning weights came from.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Results below......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZaZY3gNMGogos5ItqGzWSHyn7iKp4l42Rsplb4oXRfyVK7QDUhejeQm8GJITOTQmhMJXm5kH7RzHdhZdCGgt3wji3_TaqLA4NmA-ccq2p54qc0Rj8i24Xmz23Li_SqQ8CbQj-yAbBMbpVIFz-19pdhCQwlFxXI9i9pLtsgw1ziNGZkPs-zv0niikM/s1337/F7BDE300-BD19-4CD9-944C-13BE77C3B578.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1337" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZaZY3gNMGogos5ItqGzWSHyn7iKp4l42Rsplb4oXRfyVK7QDUhejeQm8GJITOTQmhMJXm5kH7RzHdhZdCGgt3wji3_TaqLA4NmA-ccq2p54qc0Rj8i24Xmz23Li_SqQ8CbQj-yAbBMbpVIFz-19pdhCQwlFxXI9i9pLtsgw1ziNGZkPs-zv0niikM/w640-h258/F7BDE300-BD19-4CD9-944C-13BE77C3B578.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I was really shattered when I got home due to shipping back above my shoulder all day, went to bed at 11p.m. and woke up at 11:30 the next morning.<div><br /></div><div>Sunday 28th August was the Evesham Final, I don't think I would have been fit to fish it had I qualified. We had Clive Branson and Terry Parrott from Team Nomads on the bank. </div><div>Clive done ok with a big 5lb and won his section and only a pound away from a framing place.</div><div><br /></div><div>Monday 29th was the Team match and we had what I believe was a strong line up against the best.</div><div><br /></div><div>Team Nomads was ...</div><div>Me</div><div>Clive Branson</div><div>Kev Ellaby</div><div>Terry Parrot</div><div>Chris Smith</div><div><br /></div><div>Registration was supposed to open at 08:00 but when I got there at 07:30 nine Teams had already registered meaning we would be 10th out of 16 to draw.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before I went up to draw some of the guys said don't draw set .......... as if I could influence what I drew.</div><div><br /></div><div>Luckily I drew set 15 which they were happy with, thank goodness lol.</div><div><br /></div><div>Clive was on 15, Chris on 34, Terry on 50, Kev on 67 and I was on 85. </div><div><br /></div><div>A discussion on the approach for each peg was had and off we went to do our best.</div><div><br /></div><div>Peg 85 was the furthest I had been down the 89 peg match length. 2lb odd had come off it the day before which wasn't bad down that end so 3lb plus was my target to do well.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yUNqcJWXo3X3yHf1oAsKFp7TtvlGbUfY8mTShj1kMj-dYRRGrJVrrAg8RbHJd35frGHc8af0bLnX51vIkQoUrjfTthHFNM9f-1rVeKWUlZ6m242Tp3AQjPw3wa6tOvQqnLGIHmlwjq0WcPEhKBEKo0KillACD_AIq3BnoGmkQ0xYN75BSAYL4lFx/s4032/40112732-6724-4B8D-9ADA-BEF53155888F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yUNqcJWXo3X3yHf1oAsKFp7TtvlGbUfY8mTShj1kMj-dYRRGrJVrrAg8RbHJd35frGHc8af0bLnX51vIkQoUrjfTthHFNM9f-1rVeKWUlZ6m242Tp3AQjPw3wa6tOvQqnLGIHmlwjq0WcPEhKBEKo0KillACD_AIq3BnoGmkQ0xYN75BSAYL4lFx/w400-h300/40112732-6724-4B8D-9ADA-BEF53155888F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chris gave me a low down on the peg and said it was deep in the middle and then shallowed up from there to the far side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It would be a lot quieter down this end as most spectators would be on the Crown Meadow and the Ferry sections.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I did set up a waggler for across - not used all day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Maggot feeder - not used all day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 hemp rigs as used on the Saturday for 13 /14 metres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A 2 gram bulk rig for the middle 13/14 metres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">0.6 rig with number 8"s as bulk for down the edge 6 sections out for the worm line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While setting up an Evesham regular came down and said he was on the peg the day before and caught very small skimmers in the last hour down the middle over ground bait. Thanks mate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the start I put 2 bait droppers full of chopped worm in short and 2 balls of ground bait with choppy and dead pinkie plus a few casters down the middle I also pinged a few grains of hemp in on the same line as it wouldn't do any harm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Starting with a worm head on a 16 down the side I had a dumpy perch 2nd run down so blank avoided.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That first hour was great, I caught perch right down the peg and landed a couple of 6oz fish which I was more than happy with and estimated I had 1.5 lbs which was well on the way to my target.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Team mate Andy Thomas turned up as bank runner for us and when I told him what I had he said I was doing really well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A look over the ground bait after putting in some more worm with maggot got me a small skimmer straight away. I was also regularly pinging in hemp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Small roach also turned up and more small skimmers. I topped up with another ball of ground bait and had a look over the worm again but no more perch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back over the ground bait with caster or maggot still brought me the odd fish and I lost a couple of good fish (probably big perch) when the hook pulled out. I could have stepped up from the 18 hook but it might have cost me some smaller fish and every ounce was important today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCk7Vmwgx5_ezq2dmwDNJTPUv7kYaEHDt8cRtHfPC2MGtDU9CR89x1DF72gDr1Wrmo1ofGrUtBw3sqmCYlfWNn1S3J4KLo8JETx_I16-NHqw1NLHu2xtuLmvUARv_zAnplkJN82myNQjVpneaMb-f4zA6tSlu8SEcgjwDaIKSJh3_Rj7kL6WMHhmo/s858/809B1548-6BD7-45EA-9875-D1276852993C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCk7Vmwgx5_ezq2dmwDNJTPUv7kYaEHDt8cRtHfPC2MGtDU9CR89x1DF72gDr1Wrmo1ofGrUtBw3sqmCYlfWNn1S3J4KLo8JETx_I16-NHqw1NLHu2xtuLmvUARv_zAnplkJN82myNQjVpneaMb-f4zA6tSlu8SEcgjwDaIKSJh3_Rj7kL6WMHhmo/w299-h400/809B1548-6BD7-45EA-9875-D1276852993C.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYd2NDIjNWCeHp9prq2WSuB06pO-ta3a2gDsW0LHD8F946ZyKmD55HbchynqQxZpsXEXdFF-tdDhQPdwzfQoCmnB0fN2J3z0yuH7C9RpR4ZqbxJuAxRX6s5Gntix7AKAA88XuoscS_bGt6Nbps7tKiN3_V6QIcbGMJjiorCeyE7hHQuQFrhlrwsC7v/s856/D4F3A616-2276-409D-9746-D61386B5F352.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYd2NDIjNWCeHp9prq2WSuB06pO-ta3a2gDsW0LHD8F946ZyKmD55HbchynqQxZpsXEXdFF-tdDhQPdwzfQoCmnB0fN2J3z0yuH7C9RpR4ZqbxJuAxRX6s5Gntix7AKAA88XuoscS_bGt6Nbps7tKiN3_V6QIcbGMJjiorCeyE7hHQuQFrhlrwsC7v/w299-h400/D4F3A616-2276-409D-9746-D61386B5F352.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Andy kept me up to date with what was going on in my Section of 16 and I was doing quite well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A look on the hemp brought me a couple of roach but they were very small and due to there size I missed a lot of bites so abandoned that and went back looking for small skimmers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was a good move and they were easier to hit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The scales started on the end peg and as expected 89 done well putting over 7lb in the net which is mega down this end, the next peg up had 5lb. Below me weighed 2lb plus and I had a nice 4lb 8oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDOLILi3MJvs1qwAnpMP2krS1k9lJmp5SQnm8zSNQrGklKTxoy0dMomnpu2-O7NnVFSUj8nSo_Bh0UDIxIT8zh4lpVfxlE5LAq-WzVJxb1lOy6DPq3Cw1RDHpsf7jBxvgVZfXMuHtw1g9o4Acw8yZlBTNW0VoNXDLtwkHK8CHbsIrHMO3varlqfFX/s4032/C1CC406A-C45F-491C-A0DA-7944EB39F08B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDOLILi3MJvs1qwAnpMP2krS1k9lJmp5SQnm8zSNQrGklKTxoy0dMomnpu2-O7NnVFSUj8nSo_Bh0UDIxIT8zh4lpVfxlE5LAq-WzVJxb1lOy6DPq3Cw1RDHpsf7jBxvgVZfXMuHtw1g9o4Acw8yZlBTNW0VoNXDLtwkHK8CHbsIrHMO3varlqfFX/w300-h400/C1CC406A-C45F-491C-A0DA-7944EB39F08B.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Andy was up the other end of the section and phoned me to say I had come 3rd so 14 points from 16, that'll do I thought.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kev done very well taking 10 points from the worst peg in the team draw, Terry had a bummer, Chris done great contributing 12 points and Clive had a tough day after loosing a barbel on the whip above all things and 3 points.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We ended up 10th from 16 but we go again next year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyw3DZMY3dZEx4Hxg7cFnXL8CO5WQKxfgpi1CBgcHYKmEtK9g0jozqjaRFiIvZXCaY2lW0uRJRL0tBE3hH3mIH_rJUG8uV7AqwmsurqIMh_ccdtcCXuhskP_eFqvzx-lGgDmTV3ahMRJVDM7Jl83H83NcSW1jNlJ6ENXdhXP4KpmjBu_SSzhjM-hl/s960/459BF414-2B0A-4B88-B5A1-A4BC18799DE7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbyw3DZMY3dZEx4Hxg7cFnXL8CO5WQKxfgpi1CBgcHYKmEtK9g0jozqjaRFiIvZXCaY2lW0uRJRL0tBE3hH3mIH_rJUG8uV7AqwmsurqIMh_ccdtcCXuhskP_eFqvzx-lGgDmTV3ahMRJVDM7Jl83H83NcSW1jNlJ6ENXdhXP4KpmjBu_SSzhjM-hl/w640-h360/459BF414-2B0A-4B88-B5A1-A4BC18799DE7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's the end of Evesham for this year, I'm already looking forward to the campaign next year after having a lot of success on the venue over the last 2 months.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next up is the Area Festival in Co. Cavan next week ...... to be sure </div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-66004802133595509352022-08-18T13:00:00.003-07:002022-08-18T13:00:37.938-07:00Wednesday 17th August - Ray South Memorial, Evesham (Town and Ferry)<p>This match in memory of local angler Ray South would be the last match before the Evesham Angling Festival weekend (27th, 28th and 29th August), the South family also put in a generous donation of £500 which is added to the prize money. It is also a "veteran's match" and you need to be 60 plus to enter.</p><p>As usual I had my breakfast in Wetherspoons and while eating it a number of emergency vehicles raced down the High St. immediately outside the pub.</p><p>When I arrived at Hampton Ferry nice and early I took my usual walk along the river.</p><p>There was a nice bit of pace on it and a tinge of colour after the thunderstorm the day before. As I walked up near peg 40 I could see some blue flashing lights in the Corporation Meadow, as I got closer I could also see an Air Ambulance so walked back.</p><p>The draw was delayed a little because of the the incident, it turned out a 94 year old man had to be taken out of the river. I later heard he had died by the time he got to hospital and there were no suspicious circumstances. Very sad.</p><p>A few of my Nomad's Team mates were at the match today, real Welsh angling royalty in the form of ....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimz1IYo-kmUwSbHgkl49ieqchz1CCr4JKcBqf5Mtw3Nb8iLrWT_j6mt2__PcmbDRvyg-9yK13_9_JIiTBOAvp_I6sEsOksVUV1uXTHoklx1fbIlxBEtUMHIiMn1I-pR1VdAVva91m-I5MQXtkbSCT4wWYCKlsWz9JjDj_bLiAqYakszAMjhaMS9oF2/s416/AD99E754-3626-4EB5-81FF-D6266B7DC97F_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimz1IYo-kmUwSbHgkl49ieqchz1CCr4JKcBqf5Mtw3Nb8iLrWT_j6mt2__PcmbDRvyg-9yK13_9_JIiTBOAvp_I6sEsOksVUV1uXTHoklx1fbIlxBEtUMHIiMn1I-pR1VdAVva91m-I5MQXtkbSCT4wWYCKlsWz9JjDj_bLiAqYakszAMjhaMS9oF2/s320/AD99E754-3626-4EB5-81FF-D6266B7DC97F_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="246" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rich Candy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnXKzKV1Fki39PN3Bcb18h9uH4gCH6MhPsFQYCjKeKbOW7Fiuz9iAbv5lzbzjoXsA7FWMOFdqzxR5mr6bvZJ-bxOaLqdPFX4bA0WyImIF4TxCgrf5TiJwLLQCPhPNwLvZhoFeDCGnT2SSKSsCWu_KlUbYdLD-kTz2qH_UV3eiqEaFJgQ9mUsR3Mh8/s600/C901A204-3C0A-4146-9D34-36612683E31E_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnXKzKV1Fki39PN3Bcb18h9uH4gCH6MhPsFQYCjKeKbOW7Fiuz9iAbv5lzbzjoXsA7FWMOFdqzxR5mr6bvZJ-bxOaLqdPFX4bA0WyImIF4TxCgrf5TiJwLLQCPhPNwLvZhoFeDCGnT2SSKSsCWu_KlUbYdLD-kTz2qH_UV3eiqEaFJgQ9mUsR3Mh8/w223-h400/C901A204-3C0A-4146-9D34-36612683E31E_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Clive Branson</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-g16-s05cUbu3sMpPrEGrtzlNB1_uL_EhtEZFc9fpnnAM00l9sqeUb_5gZUJSd92OCMTo-6r7unaG5rJLPiu9nVBh82CLSBhQWIFEykfaQdzS0eRH8q-FtsqBwyP0RWgvcsoZeHO57BYSIo3Hv18YvwOZ5XihQ_mlu6750jsvTWHJhg2q_iTT95nS/s540/34209CAB-FCA0-4019-B4BC-AD3E06D13F15_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="423" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-g16-s05cUbu3sMpPrEGrtzlNB1_uL_EhtEZFc9fpnnAM00l9sqeUb_5gZUJSd92OCMTo-6r7unaG5rJLPiu9nVBh82CLSBhQWIFEykfaQdzS0eRH8q-FtsqBwyP0RWgvcsoZeHO57BYSIo3Hv18YvwOZ5XihQ_mlu6750jsvTWHJhg2q_iTT95nS/w314-h400/34209CAB-FCA0-4019-B4BC-AD3E06D13F15_1_201_a.jpeg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Clive Roberts</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">and of course me (did you hear the one about 3 Welshmen and an Irishman, lol).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">60 anglers had booked in and all of them turned up so the draw got underway once the police gave the go ahead after dealing with the incident.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Clive (B) some how managed to get right at the front of the draw queue and ended up on 61, I was halfway in the line up and to my amazement got peg 6, same as the Wednesday before so well happy with that. Richy ended up on 21 and Clive R on end peg 88, so not a bad draw.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No one was on 5 or 4 above me so a bit of room and I felt that peg 1 would be my main threat in the zone. Peg 7 and 8 were in directly below me. There would be a few qualifying places going today for the Saturday or Sunday of the Festival.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After doing well last week and with some additional information I set up 2 x 0.3 gram rigs, one on top 4 and one on top 5 long lining as it was only 4 foot deep at the most. One was just off bottom and the other just 2 foot deep. I also set up a 0.4 rig again long lining on a top 5.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also set up a maggot feeder and that was it. There was a gusty downstream breeze so the waggler wouldn't work plus the flow was too fast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is a lovely peg but you do have to ship back above shoulder height.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWTgDlI1dXTj_0fbzMpVii8q4qfstYMmqUr75ZpxEbokZ5hJFfQ7NTMLlZB87zlwQvn-wa9cqp1Qivdt0u4DIU22TNaelitk06ppWM-oh3d16_Q__Yz-jdOzq9I1eHB1DjwjS1aXMVfv_UYi0lJ4xH5JGOpasHysRQzqul6OJc4UA2Z45h5R-Ttgf/s640/6B1E8108-5F05-426B-B81C-E74B69B11D67.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXWTgDlI1dXTj_0fbzMpVii8q4qfstYMmqUr75ZpxEbokZ5hJFfQ7NTMLlZB87zlwQvn-wa9cqp1Qivdt0u4DIU22TNaelitk06ppWM-oh3d16_Q__Yz-jdOzq9I1eHB1DjwjS1aXMVfv_UYi0lJ4xH5JGOpasHysRQzqul6OJc4UA2Z45h5R-Ttgf/w300-h400/6B1E8108-5F05-426B-B81C-E74B69B11D67.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's the view looking up the bank directly behind my seat box.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Before the all in I was still thinking about the approach and decided to set up a 2 gram rig just in case.<div><br /></div><div>At the start of the match I began on the maggot feeder across while putting in some hemp and a few casters at 11 metres. </div><div><br /></div><div>The tip rattled straight away and came back with smashed maggots. When I cast in the tip went again before I could pick up the catapult to feed hemp and caster. Chublet about 2 ounces so up and running.</div><div>The bites on the tip were fast and furious but the fish were of no size so after 20 minutes picked up the 0.4 rig at full depth and ran it through with a caster on a B511 size 18. Boom and nice roach.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was catching at the end of the peg, not ideal so started feeding slightly upstream of me. Still putting caster on the hook I had a run of small chublet's, a much better stamp that those on the feeder.</div><div><br /></div><div>The fishing seemed to back off a little so I put the 13 metre section on and changed to a 0.3 rig up in the water. First run down, float slid away and the number 4 elastic came out quite a bit, a decent chub of around 1.5 lbs, simply lovely as Mike Martin used to say.</div><div><br /></div><div>About 2 hours in a line of dirty water came down the middle but after 30 minutes cleared and the pace of the river appeared to slow up a little, not much but better for presentation.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was having a busy session and also caught a few hybrids which seem to respond well to the condition of the river.</div><div><br /></div><div>I stayed on the up in the water rig the rest of the match occasionally putting hemp on the hook instead of caster. At one point I had to go out to 14 metres following the fish which was hard work but very rewarding.</div><div><br /></div><div>No one was walking the bank so I didn't have a clue how it was fishing above or below me.</div><div><br /></div><div>At the all out I knew I had double figures at least.</div><div><br /></div><div>With only pegs 1 and 2 in above me it didn't take long for the scales to arrive, I was told peg 1 had 19lb which included 2 big bream and some bits.</div><div><br /></div><div>My net went 13lb 9oz, the peg below had 4lb odd and peg 8 had 7lb plus. I guessed that peg 1 would frame so would get the section by default at least (£50).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KWO1PJwbgFu7g7bBXxvb_-bSD5mngdU3MerV_NYtv3QvaXQWApfYZkMI1X5WkCSD2xNLJS7If8vwZUYW5Dk4MEhQtKeDtWh01MricVxlq03hyk0MH4qRnDHK_fy89eCbYRe5haYq6XtrSosj473wbEqCgXx4oBT9MjLFyJnWDkCA6WN6pMw7C-qo/s640/B4062ABE-D75D-46EE-8EA0-7223D0A2D2F6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="377" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KWO1PJwbgFu7g7bBXxvb_-bSD5mngdU3MerV_NYtv3QvaXQWApfYZkMI1X5WkCSD2xNLJS7If8vwZUYW5Dk4MEhQtKeDtWh01MricVxlq03hyk0MH4qRnDHK_fy89eCbYRe5haYq6XtrSosj473wbEqCgXx4oBT9MjLFyJnWDkCA6WN6pMw7C-qo/w236-h400/B4062ABE-D75D-46EE-8EA0-7223D0A2D2F6.jpeg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I went back to Hampton Ferry for the results and as they came in it was clear the river had fished it's nuts off.</div><div><br /></div><div>I ended up with the section by default and 7th overall. They paid out top 6 so missed out on a framing place by ounces.</div><div><br /></div><div>The angler on peg 1 won my zone but didn't want the ticket for the Wynchavon Final on the Saturday so that was offered to me, which I accepted.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here is the board and overall results ......</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKVmCuRXWOv98TYdjmLHvw2yMZGTCYPP9OKdnBb_gLEv3ZqM3RWax1TOJlcvoq2VoT9B4FOr6pGEIiyw7gaRLmUSCcVJTo5MmG13j8wokIE_2x6zP3UIlZuYf9QcycZ3GNkI25K4dFn0aRcMwETUoUpxthnEImFqvEB_DvxZseVOa2mV6naiA4TcWj/s640/31DF42EB-030A-4DD3-A866-83BB30584130.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="640" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKVmCuRXWOv98TYdjmLHvw2yMZGTCYPP9OKdnBb_gLEv3ZqM3RWax1TOJlcvoq2VoT9B4FOr6pGEIiyw7gaRLmUSCcVJTo5MmG13j8wokIE_2x6zP3UIlZuYf9QcycZ3GNkI25K4dFn0aRcMwETUoUpxthnEImFqvEB_DvxZseVOa2mV6naiA4TcWj/w400-h278/31DF42EB-030A-4DD3-A866-83BB30584130.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxeNKAMMloB1D8oeEohymOHr7N0JTOULsUp68SF9aSRGJzpqt7L3mqoihu_XGJWholyHLr2h6VP1gqhbMw7PVQEo_QP9aVWcKv2hpTNQLixF16_1Foh5SxpYPrM-4T-zqMF_uazJI_ATdQprN9Tw8MvwhJZcQ6A-74oE4oglHKsDQCqVzvjU5S5WaP/s2048/64DEF336-46BE-4E82-AB0C-7706B95222EB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="2048" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxeNKAMMloB1D8oeEohymOHr7N0JTOULsUp68SF9aSRGJzpqt7L3mqoihu_XGJWholyHLr2h6VP1gqhbMw7PVQEo_QP9aVWcKv2hpTNQLixF16_1Foh5SxpYPrM-4T-zqMF_uazJI_ATdQprN9Tw8MvwhJZcQ6A-74oE4oglHKsDQCqVzvjU5S5WaP/w400-h138/64DEF336-46BE-4E82-AB0C-7706B95222EB.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Richy and Clive also won their sections, Clive R also done well in his area but just not enough.<div><br /></div><div>Well that's it now at Evesham until Saturday 27th August for the Wynchavon Final and then the Team Final on Monday 29th.</div><div><br /></div><div>Team Nomads have a strong presence over all 3 days so fingers crossed for some good results, it will be a tough gig especially on the Monday.</div><div><br /></div><div>This Sunday I am fishing the Angling Trust Canal Pairs Qualifier on the Gloucester Canal with team mate Chris Hook.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-3923306100093751912022-08-15T13:23:00.003-07:002022-08-15T13:23:59.574-07:00Sunday 14th August - Clevedon Club Match, Durleigh Res<p> I have not been able to fish this annual fixture for some time due to league commitments but a free summer this year changed that and I was looking forward to it.</p><p>Durleigh is well known for it's vast shoals of bream and large carp but there is also some very good roach fishing to be had as well.</p><p>Even though I had not fished it for some time I was aware of it's current form as there is a league on the venue this year with some regular posts on social media on how it has been fishing.</p><p>I spoke to Mark Bartlett on the Saturday when I was over at Acorn Fishery getting some bait. Mark had been fishing the league and he confirmed my thoughts on what the approach should be the following day. Mark was also running the match for us as Rob Fogg had other commitments.</p><p>It was still going to be a hot one and I planned to wear a pair of old trainers and shorts to wade out into the water, set up the rigger with my box on it with feet in the water to stay cool.</p><p>I arrived at Durliegh in plenty of time, 18 were booked in but 19 turned up ... lol ....so Mark had to squeeze in an additional peg.</p><p>After dipping the nets the draw got underway and a dip into the bucket after the mad dash saw me pull out peg 7, my favourite number which is permeant peg 5 on the lake.</p><p>A fairly short walk brought me to a nice open peg with Matt Vowles on 8 and Mark Birdseye on 6.</p><p>The lake was flat calm and some green algae on the surface.</p><p>I set up as planned and it was very comfortable.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYa_acdSmwqiQy5EegHF76xQH___fMQljX7ZXLcawTfwKIwD7kEVElFtze9wGLMK5eH7bfHpalF0ZuiIdgKPkaDu-octPd_Y5co68VYw3tilf8dYp_DN38POP0YP83OGwB13-UzAy8T4N-kbr12nNL-zZBOo_rqN-_oUHsAVlFviW2N7LjpOS06pTn/s640/707C3164-C076-4BB9-A41E-022720D8A567.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYa_acdSmwqiQy5EegHF76xQH___fMQljX7ZXLcawTfwKIwD7kEVElFtze9wGLMK5eH7bfHpalF0ZuiIdgKPkaDu-octPd_Y5co68VYw3tilf8dYp_DN38POP0YP83OGwB13-UzAy8T4N-kbr12nNL-zZBOo_rqN-_oUHsAVlFviW2N7LjpOS06pTn/w400-h300/707C3164-C076-4BB9-A41E-022720D8A567.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a bit like an Ireland set up to be fair and good practice for my Irish Festival campaign in September.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Everything I needed was out there..........</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 x 6 metre whips, 1 feeder rod (which I never used).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 kilo of mixed Sensas Gros Gardons Noire and Black Lake.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 pints of hemp, 1 pint of caster, 1/2 pint of dead reds, 1/2 pint live reds, 1/4 kilo of worm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the "all in" I put in 2 medium sized balls of ground bait with hemp, caster and dead reds. Mark next door put a method feeder out about 60 metres with one of them bandit thingy's or wafter on the hook. I thought he might have a long wait but then again if I wasn't fishing that far out or Nigel on peg 5 he would have that line to himself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Out went a small 2AA waggler on my trusty Sensas 175 record whip. I had a maggot on the 18 wide gape hook (B560) and it soon sailed away but it was only a 1 oz roach. Back out and the same again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A change to caster on the hook soon had me netting a small skimmer about 12 oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I quickly got into a rhythm feeding small nuggets every few minutes and the fish responded. Lovely roach some of which I netted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An hour must have passed and Mark next door was into a bream, not a bad fish at around 4lbs. If they rocked up in any numbers I'd be in trouble but thought I was ahead of him at this point. Matt next door on 8 was catching but mixing it between the feeder and waggler so not getting fish as quickly as I was, I couldn't see anyone else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Things were going well for me and then Mark on 6 had a few more bream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hybrids turned up in front of me which were good little weight builders but seemed to force the roach out but feeding a little heavier brought them back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About an hour to go my waggler rig got trashed, all knotted up so picked up the other whip which only had a 4 x 14 on it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was fishing about half a metre shorter now but it didn't make any difference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the end of the match I was covered in slim and algae but enjoyed the day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mark ended up with 5 bream and a couple of skimmers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked up along the bank to meet the scales, the bank telegraph suggested that Dan Dymond had 10 bream but that was a wind up. I saw Mark (Bartlett) weigh a lovely net of fish going 28lb 15oz. Mark said he saw me out in the water swinging in quite a few fish and asked did I count them, I never do that. That was the best weight from 19 to 12.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2fa90Gl4ihLlyx3K_ubDI0aWbnc6wopLydm_agbFrpq1SASDNGwDkGVx4gJVtH6P0gfQJudsZfBfRvy7o_7rhF-dBze-xfkER8-ufe6LiBVI0nRMtIBbuDFqFFTy7E33L_ho01dK1vtHWuc-JCHt9BX63G9IIF6oBX2LXhYuIeOmDXQ-RodwRIK4q/s600/4B288FB1-1102-4A42-9F6B-7A7F5F7F644C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="391" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2fa90Gl4ihLlyx3K_ubDI0aWbnc6wopLydm_agbFrpq1SASDNGwDkGVx4gJVtH6P0gfQJudsZfBfRvy7o_7rhF-dBze-xfkER8-ufe6LiBVI0nRMtIBbuDFqFFTy7E33L_ho01dK1vtHWuc-JCHt9BX63G9IIF6oBX2LXhYuIeOmDXQ-RodwRIK4q/w261-h400/4B288FB1-1102-4A42-9F6B-7A7F5F7F644C.jpeg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mark Bartlett</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I pulled my net out I knew it would be close, it was, I weighed 29lb 12oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BKULpJrZYwfVguEulVV8p8e9-wnLiwMXSkoUefmm9OV_NU07I1_qu5EZ59NrwQ0Impki_tm5A3V7hIgXB1VL5yhl-bSpOPRcXx8-hWfecIsR4G_8K-OZ_cj6cDVxDyT3maKWl_gen6qIxTXXftIpI6KbTi3bSZWKPkZ0fLmfl9nYxskwGdfs2Nph/s587/594A1A0B-1A97-48B2-B06D-A98275EE9D29_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="417" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BKULpJrZYwfVguEulVV8p8e9-wnLiwMXSkoUefmm9OV_NU07I1_qu5EZ59NrwQ0Impki_tm5A3V7hIgXB1VL5yhl-bSpOPRcXx8-hWfecIsR4G_8K-OZ_cj6cDVxDyT3maKWl_gen6qIxTXXftIpI6KbTi3bSZWKPkZ0fLmfl9nYxskwGdfs2Nph/w284-h400/594A1A0B-1A97-48B2-B06D-A98275EE9D29_1_201_a.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A great day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So that put me in the lead but Mark B next door was to weigh next. His bream bag went a level 20lb.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUsmtuBg-KhVwBALry9RE_awZ0PxtuW0MukGot9FXODDPD_L9Syyh3tZOyL39GzuQHw2iCsh2bT75e8FA2s1Y55Pezup_tY9Sjwr8Od60Ryb5clwsdyE7DAQZBynYBkXvqm-exirsaUu5Apvqv8CgZI0WSbUoTliiqgOmC1zjwCe1qQz0dBqHWyUs1/s600/4ADF6289-E514-42B8-89DD-4DC21A534EC3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUsmtuBg-KhVwBALry9RE_awZ0PxtuW0MukGot9FXODDPD_L9Syyh3tZOyL39GzuQHw2iCsh2bT75e8FA2s1Y55Pezup_tY9Sjwr8Od60Ryb5clwsdyE7DAQZBynYBkXvqm-exirsaUu5Apvqv8CgZI0WSbUoTliiqgOmC1zjwCe1qQz0dBqHWyUs1/w300-h400/4ADF6289-E514-42B8-89DD-4DC21A534EC3.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our own "Top Gun" Mark Birdseye</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The pegs after that weighed less so I came out top overall. It was great to beat bream nets using the whip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a photo of Dan Dymond with 8 bream less in his net lol but he won his section ......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSGRz3S-KFn6EPiqBmTMuzdixv_6Is79iWPZXFBNvqVGxS_tfHZCiwBfdbUxqQ1fyaMWei6TBJ5o4T3wgD7_M8kJcqDWeQGG62mBwGlrpmXQCGUY6nE1Oy1iGV4EsbQF-CUFbaHh4RgHthfvTxqc6AS1E0qnRwyK2uVC5ij3uIR-dwtv41qJEJkpc/s600/5777B6CC-280A-492C-AB87-A969798BCCC7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSGRz3S-KFn6EPiqBmTMuzdixv_6Is79iWPZXFBNvqVGxS_tfHZCiwBfdbUxqQ1fyaMWei6TBJ5o4T3wgD7_M8kJcqDWeQGG62mBwGlrpmXQCGUY6nE1Oy1iGV4EsbQF-CUFbaHh4RgHthfvTxqc6AS1E0qnRwyK2uVC5ij3uIR-dwtv41qJEJkpc/w304-h400/5777B6CC-280A-492C-AB87-A969798BCCC7.jpeg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dan with some lovely fish 20lb 06oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1st Ivan Currie 29-12 </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2nd Mark Bartlett 28-15</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3rd Dave Nash 23-09</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4th. Adie Baker 20-10</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>section Mark Birdseye 20-00</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">B section Paul Smith 15-13</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C section Dan Dymond 20-06</div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Evesham again this Wednesday for the final match before the BH Festival and then the Glossy on Sunday with Chris Hook for the Angling Trust Canal Pairs qualifier.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-46752173946525591012022-08-08T12:50:00.004-07:002022-08-08T12:50:31.308-07:00Sunday 7th July - King Sedgemoor Drain Open<p> I had planned to go to Evesham but due to the Battle of Evesham Festival there were no matches there this weekend.</p><p>Paul Purchase had posted that the Super League Practice Match on the KSD was an Open so I booked into that along with team mates Chris Hook and Andy Thomas. We are not in the Super League this year.</p><p>I rarely fish the KSD, its a cracking venue and full of fish, access is also very good with flat walks.</p><p>Breakfast was at the 37 Club in Puriton and when I arrived nice and early I found that 27 had booked in. I was expecting more as 48 anglers fish the League. Chris "Gappy" Parr was in charge today.</p><p>3 sections of 9 today, one above Parchy Bridge, one below and one above Bradney Bridge.</p><p>The pegs immediately above Parchy Bridge are usually the best ones as are the ones below.</p><p>I drew peg 42 which was one from the end above Bradney, Chris and Andy were next to each other above Parchy. I felt I was the right end of the section but an end peg would be more favourable.</p><p>Parking at Bradney is fairly limited now due the the expansion of the Water Depot but with only 9 of us parking there it was OK.</p><p>When I got to my peg the inside was full of duckweed but a few scoops with the landing net soon had that sorted.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG5IMlI5AUKZxb1s4IH_fkpjYz3F6FJpys6lAfZV0LlNlB5LeU9X_4ixsVTtQJ3ouK9ep4A06ZXs_ol80T565oM5yoa7XVwzkVF-ccCaldygbji8RkAYM1u6CZYI0tZ_HszMstUHR9jMiwf_U88O1r5w1xnsJKFdrDWucaYNN53hUfrSmjUWwSgpM/s640/BD6E491A-56CA-48C6-8292-C94FB6AC6C75.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG5IMlI5AUKZxb1s4IH_fkpjYz3F6FJpys6lAfZV0LlNlB5LeU9X_4ixsVTtQJ3ouK9ep4A06ZXs_ol80T565oM5yoa7XVwzkVF-ccCaldygbji8RkAYM1u6CZYI0tZ_HszMstUHR9jMiwf_U88O1r5w1xnsJKFdrDWucaYNN53hUfrSmjUWwSgpM/w300-h400/BD6E491A-56CA-48C6-8292-C94FB6AC6C75.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was way down the bank again so shipping back with the pole would be at shoulder height.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put a worm line in to my left but never went over it. Set up a cage feeder but never picked it up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I basically used a hemp rig all day fishing at about 3 foot deep.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the start I put a single ball of Sensas Lake and Gardons in at 5 metres but only had 2 very small roach over it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mark Broomsgrove who was on the end peg below me shouted up after 15 minutes asking if I had any bites, I replied 2 and he said he had 8 fish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There were lots of small fish topping so I had a look on the light hemp rig (0.3 gram) with caster on the hook over where I had been pinging in hemp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A nice rudd straight away which I netted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It took a while to get into a rhythm and shipping back above me all the time was knackering. Finally I got it sorted and put a few casters in with the hemp. I soon had the fish lining up and caught some nice roach along with a few more rudd.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wind changed direction and was blowing upstream so the duckweed that's down by Bradney Bridge came with it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a bit of a pain on the light rig and on reflection I should have changed to a heavier one with an Olivetti to get through it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the rig went through it though I caught a silver bream which are good little weight builders. I think the duckweed provided a lot of cover for the fish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The weed was more or less straight down the middle, the photo doesn't really reflect how bad it was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtecmy76yg6ReNacYHOXH32iipgHuOE-HfjPWjAtvZ6RpPByGdV1n--NP5-st0vpiRXYU-UZoXskUBdwJscPu_UKch5n56qkCrLurG3xkKXn2rdGp7fG8NLCSjvvdSLXiDzkPeKwxujd-Vo474KtVua_cKaGS7teTtIEwD9Vgf5mvntNos9P18u0F/s640/E71D7194-C9EC-4572-A07E-2FB690D328D8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtecmy76yg6ReNacYHOXH32iipgHuOE-HfjPWjAtvZ6RpPByGdV1n--NP5-st0vpiRXYU-UZoXskUBdwJscPu_UKch5n56qkCrLurG3xkKXn2rdGp7fG8NLCSjvvdSLXiDzkPeKwxujd-Vo474KtVua_cKaGS7teTtIEwD9Vgf5mvntNos9P18u0F/w300-h400/E71D7194-C9EC-4572-A07E-2FB690D328D8.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Charlie Vallender was upstream of me and towards the end I could hear him casting out a waggler, probably to fish beyond the duckweed over to the far bank.<div><br /></div><div>Come the end and given the conditions I had an enjoyable days fishing and guessed I had double figures.</div><div><br /></div><div>The scales came down and I weighed 4kg 600 (just over 10 lbs in old money). Charlie above me done 5kg and Mark had the best weight in the section with just over 7kg. I was equal 3rd with Gappy.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvhQfVLod1G7vFx94oFqGE4aLkx9vcb--BjBe1jRsuaor86upvtxqVJrSXYPWhk_h6_qsZjiOTqknkl9NrcldD3XI2GFqNT-s_VxnuCY6RrLdkqzifW_xfetHjLDwGY85dVrKjAXj6Mo9vfU0_waEkEmuh5FuCiHpYlpoHOfXXDEREFWaY9dsJiEx/s640/58A12D80-7B35-4C7F-B599-A6D9864E5378.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZvhQfVLod1G7vFx94oFqGE4aLkx9vcb--BjBe1jRsuaor86upvtxqVJrSXYPWhk_h6_qsZjiOTqknkl9NrcldD3XI2GFqNT-s_VxnuCY6RrLdkqzifW_xfetHjLDwGY85dVrKjAXj6Mo9vfU0_waEkEmuh5FuCiHpYlpoHOfXXDEREFWaY9dsJiEx/w400-h360/58A12D80-7B35-4C7F-B599-A6D9864E5378.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjOgExFeZRnYbaskJOZXBLmeR4mDDKZ03nQXY0eaEGctQ0XgS5HAAtdrrQBChMhlTo8fs6e7rwpjwE8HaMz_RJy_QvO2C42rJ7OXZIso0WcqTuuY5dUsffcPYDUQZJaA0nRVPQUw4FZ0bNSGeOuDgXqnOkgZc-_6_aawKqltaDGzvPeDYErdFICfv/s640/FA67A23C-2E10-4E7A-8626-478942236A3A_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="355" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjOgExFeZRnYbaskJOZXBLmeR4mDDKZ03nQXY0eaEGctQ0XgS5HAAtdrrQBChMhlTo8fs6e7rwpjwE8HaMz_RJy_QvO2C42rJ7OXZIso0WcqTuuY5dUsffcPYDUQZJaA0nRVPQUw4FZ0bNSGeOuDgXqnOkgZc-_6_aawKqltaDGzvPeDYErdFICfv/w223-h400/FA67A23C-2E10-4E7A-8626-478942236A3A_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks to Kev Dicks for the photo</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't go back to the results. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If I fished it again I would set ups heavier shallow rig as well as a waggler, it won't be much different when they fish the league match next week</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I found out when I got home that Liam Braddell won the match with 7kg 300 the 2nd peg up above Parchy, Mark below me was 2nd and Charlie 3rd so double default pick up spilt between myself and Gappy. He was paying top 2 in each section £40 and £20 so we had £30 each.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Paul Faiers picked up mine and brought in around in the morning, I gave him 4 paste floats which he didn't expect me to have lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's up to Evesham on Wednesday and a Club Match on Durleigh next Sunday.</div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-80813253076831097382022-08-01T13:09:00.002-07:002022-08-01T13:09:19.538-07:00Sunday 31st July - Avon Team Qualifier, Warks Avon, Evesham<p> This was our second and final chance to try and qualify for the Team Championship Match on the Warks Avon at Evesham on the 29th August. On the first qualifier we just missed out by a couple of points.</p><p>12 Teams of 5 fishing today with the top 6 going through to the final (6 qualified from the first match plus the top 4 Teams from last years final so there will be 16 Teams fishing on 29th August).</p><p>Todays Teams.........</p><p>Diawa Gordon League</p><p>Burt Baits</p><p>Alcester Sports</p><p>Cadence North West</p><p>Diawa Trentmen</p><p>Colmic A4</p><p>Sensas Smithy's</p><p>Evesham Youth</p><p>Manor Leisure</p><p>Sensas Allens Tackle</p><p>IFFERS Match Group</p><p>Sensas Nomads</p><p>We had one change in the Team today from the last qualifier. Kev Ellaby couldn't fish so in stepped Chris Smith.</p><p>Our Sensas Nomads Team was ...</p><p>Clive Branson, Terry Parrott, Chris Smith, Russell Millward and myself.</p><p>I was up at Evesham just before 08:00 waiting for Spoons to open as were a few other anglers. There was a Riverfest Match further upstream and some of the Drennan Oxford lads who had already qualified for the Evesham Team Match were there.</p><p>During breakfast I had a quick chat with Paul Passmore (Drennan Oxford) who does well at Evesham and asked if I was fishing the Team Match. The Saturday match was dire and Paul said it would be unlikely to catch on the hemp but wished me good luck.</p><p>I was down at Hampton Ferry by 08:30 and surprised to find that we were the last but one to register. The Team draw is done in order of registration.</p><p>The draw got underway just before 09:00, fishing would be 11:30 - 16:30.</p><p>When it was our turn I went up and picked an envelope with the 5 discs inside with the peg numbers on them. With the discs upside down I picked one out in turn for each of the Team in the order they were written on the Team Sheet.</p><p>Clive<span> <span> <span> </span>53 (which won Saturdays match)</span></span></p><p><span><span>Me<span> <span> <span> <span> </span> 22 (immediately below the bridge and not a bad peg)</span></span></span></span></span></p><p>Terry<span> <span> <span> <span> </span>88 (end peg)</span></span></span></p><p>Chris<span> <span> <span> </span>69 (in the deeps)</span></span></p><p><span><span>Russell<span> <span> <span> 41</span></span></span><span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>It was a decent draw to be honest and after a Team chat off we went to our pegs.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span><span>I have never had the same peg in any of the Evesham matches and today was no exception. 21 the upstream side of </span></span></span></span></span>the bridge was free as was 23 below me so plenty of room. Based on my knowledge of the peg it can throw up a few perch. </p><p>My 12 man section went from peg 1 to 22 so it was important to do well.</p><p><br /></p><p><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tfBZ1ZH-P2zx1UwvIzRyvSSDlrllqVGMvrFgx01ItF1wrleDb-vNDC9IOP8EwMBmM8zQweAbX4Pm5nt8UhqyJXLNm3NG48oL6x_2NzzLbt7SbYQfoUWMiYmq1ufMr_4tQNHp5GpayTC1Pix25W9SJTkMnt2WAjcgPw65ok6TVE9dLHa1lqSlLlrn/s640/499E7C2B-9ADE-4824-B71B-B15D9F974F40.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tfBZ1ZH-P2zx1UwvIzRyvSSDlrllqVGMvrFgx01ItF1wrleDb-vNDC9IOP8EwMBmM8zQweAbX4Pm5nt8UhqyJXLNm3NG48oL6x_2NzzLbt7SbYQfoUWMiYmq1ufMr_4tQNHp5GpayTC1Pix25W9SJTkMnt2WAjcgPw65ok6TVE9dLHa1lqSlLlrn/w400-h300/499E7C2B-9ADE-4824-B71B-B15D9F974F40.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As you can see I was literally on the bridge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tackle shop set up to cover all options.......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 gram rig to fish over worm down the side 6 metres out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">0.3 and 0.4 gram hemp rigs to fish 11 and 13 metres were most of the flow was.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Shallow and full depth wanglers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Maggot feeder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was very shallow across and I had to come out from the far bank about 2 metres to clear the weed were it was about 3.5 foot deep. The inside line depth was the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At 11 and 13 metres it was about 4 foot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was warm but showery fine rain now and then sometimes becoming heavy. It did look as if it put a tinge of colour in the water but soon dropped out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the start I bait dropped in some finely chopped worm on the inside and then feed some hemp down the middle and maggots across.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was expecting the worm line to produce bites immediately (well it has done every match I've fished here) but it didn't. Not a bite after 20 minutes, couldn't believe it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had still been pinging hemp in as well as maggots across.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a couple of chucks with the waggler but only caught chub minnows. Fry were being chased right across were I was fishing with the waggler so guessed it was perch. A guy had 9lb of them recently from this peg.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I picked up the maggot feeder and first cast had a good bite. It felt a good fish, a jack pike which in turn bit me off. I decided to leave that line for now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About 35 minutes of the match had gone now and although a little early I had a look with the 0.3 gram hemp rig at 11 metres about 10 inches off the bottom. The float sailed away and I connected with a small roach, only about an ounce but a good sign.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have been practicing and researching hemp fishing as I don't do enough of it. It has been getting better and I have been using Kamasan B511 hooks. Another thing I have been trying is hair rigged hemp. Sir Bob Nudd has a great little video on Youtube concerning how to do it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkaH3t1a0PJVrNWdXLemIRbXTAJkfdAIw0pQSafrI02yO6vZO9aRsImjEzcrixvitD7wEiQTgxYW65zRJ0fIMOe67v_ZI7RtxB0zMBYOYe-qQryg0CuBIlwxWd4BV4d0NS3ew-C30JVLUxvD6WLEzfgeOYX1JB7HIJgwtMRKg_STr2iEN9LOpKsxhM/s640/0E15A2E0-663B-46BA-AC24-BACDAB885C35.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkaH3t1a0PJVrNWdXLemIRbXTAJkfdAIw0pQSafrI02yO6vZO9aRsImjEzcrixvitD7wEiQTgxYW65zRJ0fIMOe67v_ZI7RtxB0zMBYOYe-qQryg0CuBIlwxWd4BV4d0NS3ew-C30JVLUxvD6WLEzfgeOYX1JB7HIJgwtMRKg_STr2iEN9LOpKsxhM/w300-h400/0E15A2E0-663B-46BA-AC24-BACDAB885C35.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I tied about 30 grains for the match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway back to the fishing ......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was getting a bite most run downs with the hemp but not hitting them so put on a hair rigged grain. Boom, started to hit them more often and they started to get bigger.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was doing reasonably well but without the aid of a bank runner it was impossible to know how everyone else in the section was doing. I was thinking of looking across again with the waggler or maggot feeder but that old saying .... "don't come away from feeding fish" sprung to mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unless the bites completely dried up I decided to stick with the hemp given the previous days weights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well the line did get better and I had a few decent roach, I netted most of them as a lost ounce here and there could cost me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">They did back off the 11 metre line but by putting on another section I had them back. Altering the depth also kept fish coming.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The flow changed throughout the session from being steady to almost still. When there was a bit more flow I let the rig run at the same pace. When it was slower I held back which seemed to work.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During the match I actually caught on the small loop of cotton when it pulled through the grain. The most fish I had on a single hair rigged grain was about 4 or 5.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">30 minutes from the end I trashed the 0.3 gram rig and ran out of grains, picked up the 0.4 gram rig, pushed the hook into a grain conventional style and caught straight away!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't know how much I had but thought it was more than 4lbs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It didn't take the scales long to come down which suggested there hadn't been much caught above me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was the last to weigh in the section and the best weight above me was 5lb 7oz from peg 1.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My roach went 6lb 4oz, so chuffed, maximum points for the team (I won the section in the last Team qualifier as well).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5ltvWLcLDl0qBuy750zdcQ3tA8P20J--GRuN_ymS_M4UOBBGQirRGgV_hFH6kRy8KXICpFMeNUlUDnzxDZqAXwc4MQ_0KeY9hW_DCDe6SBjes2JULmwEDEfNEPAIzORWGE5b8nAhIMTlq5e99wBLXXfCfIfSEDqG-Bz0da5I7nc66frMZuBbjTqU/s640/5F0FACBC-9FF2-4786-BE40-209B3409B350.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="429" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR5ltvWLcLDl0qBuy750zdcQ3tA8P20J--GRuN_ymS_M4UOBBGQirRGgV_hFH6kRy8KXICpFMeNUlUDnzxDZqAXwc4MQ_0KeY9hW_DCDe6SBjes2JULmwEDEfNEPAIzORWGE5b8nAhIMTlq5e99wBLXXfCfIfSEDqG-Bz0da5I7nc66frMZuBbjTqU/w269-h400/5F0FACBC-9FF2-4786-BE40-209B3409B350.jpeg" width="269" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I drove back up the road to Hampton Ferry and the first one of the team I met was Russell who congratulated me as the results were coming in and the board marked up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Russell apologised as he had weighed 14oz to come last in his Section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Clive arrived next and said well done to me as well, he was halfway in his Section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Chris came up saying he was second in his Section and also said he thought Terry had won his with 6lb odd.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4awIsLQy8Vcf7Z8-aECRBL9bxS2UtvfL9euQCnlySrs1f2-Hgu8neYyS18C-QpTr54pFIo1QDwsuxjwMZoCRNIQIQRcXLSr0WpFQXlcydtnqSUu6PTNwxbJHnULJ5-7jGRz3SxdJ6hzMyPjEBc1WvNGHKdraRsZ4T-F4179-bHty6-vmYHhXIp94/s640/6380F3B1-0EA3-4AB9-AA7E-7000D1D77F5C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="389" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4awIsLQy8Vcf7Z8-aECRBL9bxS2UtvfL9euQCnlySrs1f2-Hgu8neYyS18C-QpTr54pFIo1QDwsuxjwMZoCRNIQIQRcXLSr0WpFQXlcydtnqSUu6PTNwxbJHnULJ5-7jGRz3SxdJ6hzMyPjEBc1WvNGHKdraRsZ4T-F4179-bHty6-vmYHhXIp94/w244-h400/6380F3B1-0EA3-4AB9-AA7E-7000D1D77F5C.jpeg" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Chris caught on the hemp late.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Terry finally arrived and said he had 6lb 14oz which was second in the Section, Clive Feddery had 8lb plus above him.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Team sheet looked like this......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">53<span> Clive 2lb 2oz<span> <span> 6 points</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span>22<span> Me 6lb 4oz<span> <span> <span> 12 points</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>88<span> Terry 6lb 14oz<span> <span> 11 points</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">69<span> Chris 4lb 2oz<span> <span> <span> 11 points</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span>41<span> Russell 14oz<span> <span> <span> 1 point</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Total<span> <span> <span> 20lb 4oz<span> <span> 41 points</span></span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A great result for us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We had lots of envelops as well amassing £355 in cash which we divided among us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBwgcP7swcuYelNeA-Sa_CW8hSt0froH5OMTs0FfiQDhsHY-nRv18Tajq6iXR0gm6D-3Y7NBZj30T028Pz6qEPKofZWNdcgGYsEWCiGbrjGgDDC4ehaW2adc5L2r32cK8PrG9gL2H4vL1VuX8G4C_0NIEJEVcN-vBjCL-176UtKgKC0guK6vkLu-H/s640/93D0E0B8-8534-46C7-A35D-49DF4C0ED7CF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="640" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBwgcP7swcuYelNeA-Sa_CW8hSt0froH5OMTs0FfiQDhsHY-nRv18Tajq6iXR0gm6D-3Y7NBZj30T028Pz6qEPKofZWNdcgGYsEWCiGbrjGgDDC4ehaW2adc5L2r32cK8PrG9gL2H4vL1VuX8G4C_0NIEJEVcN-vBjCL-176UtKgKC0guK6vkLu-H/w400-h351/93D0E0B8-8534-46C7-A35D-49DF4C0ED7CF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can't fish Evesham this Wednesday but will probably go up Sunday as you need to keep in touch with this challenging venue which really needs some rain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Apart from cleaning up my kit today and tying rigs I have been cooking more hemp as well as hair rigging some more grains.Looks like it's going to be a busy month.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3hBZTLDjAHVXWLofRAqjuiccXS3U2uxI--teJFAWEMIismKQGs3H6GBquLkB3KjdpxNNEtNjDPmNsgkaBAc3HEiGTmfBSjheBOTngwuGxeoVoY4-YyDzWuziSYMOExWh4Kvo1qlTb3uLZvOx0GveB9YorVQ5duNdSjEbtjXIiYLNG6w-gkfULpqv/s640/2A4C2A8E-B3EE-4A44-8407-0EC208A67C12.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3hBZTLDjAHVXWLofRAqjuiccXS3U2uxI--teJFAWEMIismKQGs3H6GBquLkB3KjdpxNNEtNjDPmNsgkaBAc3HEiGTmfBSjheBOTngwuGxeoVoY4-YyDzWuziSYMOExWh4Kvo1qlTb3uLZvOx0GveB9YorVQ5duNdSjEbtjXIiYLNG6w-gkfULpqv/w400-h300/2A4C2A8E-B3EE-4A44-8407-0EC208A67C12.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Looking forward to the final as are the rest of the guys.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span><br /></span><p></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-21637533950934615732022-07-29T05:25:00.000-07:002022-07-29T05:25:01.255-07:00Wednesday 27th July - Anglers Choice Qualifier, Warks Avon, Evesham<p> Back up to Evesham for this Qualifier, I didn't go last week due to other commitments. We have another Team Qualifier this Sunday on the venue so it was important to fish it.</p><p>The fishing hasn't been too bad at Evesham given the lack of rain, bright sunshine and a low river.</p><p>I was up there early again and had the usual breakfast in Wetherspoons.</p><p>After that down to Hampton Ferry and walked the bank.</p><p>Two big buzzards were flying around and magnificent specimens they were too, managed to get a photo of one of them.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YYcaZKHMhQZu6pVLquIde5mKz2uuqbYOyrfSxqM7czTWWKFqCQewDD2_yu4crp4d3qc1b2DMpN9Qn-Z1ypukKV79aN8cfOWC9TO7GTguvIRBKTYvHI8Lm7PX1SJa3EL7d5ZvpRbvaaMqi4sTG-T_Ou9lmvj-zZMHW6WNSe6KLsF1RRzMYocWw-7I/s640/082554BA-445C-4018-95A1-087763BE0270.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2YYcaZKHMhQZu6pVLquIde5mKz2uuqbYOyrfSxqM7czTWWKFqCQewDD2_yu4crp4d3qc1b2DMpN9Qn-Z1ypukKV79aN8cfOWC9TO7GTguvIRBKTYvHI8Lm7PX1SJa3EL7d5ZvpRbvaaMqi4sTG-T_Ou9lmvj-zZMHW6WNSe6KLsF1RRzMYocWw-7I/w400-h300/082554BA-445C-4018-95A1-087763BE0270.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The swans and signets were on the river as well</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6_ZVkm3gkpepy5RHqyUGuUv9FD9jf8k7Y2IM_oayt6NK9sT4EMdwmGe6IkWA_ZvET5FRQjiTxKqFIyUBrGAb7EEwWBaRhs-8wYC5uPpZK_sah5L5oDJVnkJcmk6XQKb6xM0p7Z10KspgIVLOouUIM9rjbliBCvnr3d6ar4SHeV2c-ay81upbbKM7/s640/38E0B0D4-DAE7-4EAE-9BDE-19C571FEECD9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6_ZVkm3gkpepy5RHqyUGuUv9FD9jf8k7Y2IM_oayt6NK9sT4EMdwmGe6IkWA_ZvET5FRQjiTxKqFIyUBrGAb7EEwWBaRhs-8wYC5uPpZK_sah5L5oDJVnkJcmk6XQKb6xM0p7Z10KspgIVLOouUIM9rjbliBCvnr3d6ar4SHeV2c-ay81upbbKM7/w400-h300/38E0B0D4-DAE7-4EAE-9BDE-19C571FEECD9.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked up to peg 35 and had a good look at 36 as well, both these pegs would be in and are the ones you want on most matches along with the early 50's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No fish showing at all which was a bit of a concern.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked down to the Cafe and registered and had a chat with a few of the regulars which I seem to be now lol.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10:00 soon came around and Diana announced the draw, she had to shout instead of using the mike as the electric had gone off.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">49 were booked in today which is a great turnout for a Wednesday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I got to the "battleship" draw matrix I picked my usual A5 disc, turned it over and revealed peg 46. Another peg I haven't been on and I knew it did not have any form this year and if I was in the section with the 50's it would be game over.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I went to the peg with the attitude to do reasonably well as if it was a team match and would try to catch on hemp which I need the practice on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">All the pegs look nice at Evesham and its a very pleasant place to be for the day.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Peg 46 was no exception but it was very shallow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxNAv5aQ-8DYkIgQPcUGZFCJL8iGuAcHasUdkaJAQirzLOouzfli55-KKG3Extr1wI-TgEK-oCS2HoCEqezMD0mHyCUVK_6d4O9bER152TtccYSqTIKbvFRCKDHxBf0x8-8yHCUhNUzxcXecuRB6vDPwP68COhgqwpyf8QD1N-3GLnixuOO1B13zv/s640/19F83F2B-2D43-4B28-8786-D920EDDE9ADE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjxNAv5aQ-8DYkIgQPcUGZFCJL8iGuAcHasUdkaJAQirzLOouzfli55-KKG3Extr1wI-TgEK-oCS2HoCEqezMD0mHyCUVK_6d4O9bER152TtccYSqTIKbvFRCKDHxBf0x8-8yHCUhNUzxcXecuRB6vDPwP68COhgqwpyf8QD1N-3GLnixuOO1B13zv/w400-h300/19F83F2B-2D43-4B28-8786-D920EDDE9ADE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I plumped up 5 metres out on my worm line and it was no more than 3 foot deep. Still ok as I had an over hanging tree downstream and would put on a couple of sections for fishing long to my right rather than close to the peg.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At 11 and 13 metres out in front it wasn't much deeper, I set up two hemp rigs, one about 6 inches off bottom and one around a foot off bottom. I was trying the DH14 floats 0.3 gram recommend to me by Tony Davis for this type of fishing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had some undercooked hemp and some pinned done ready for these lines.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Two waggler rods one shallow one at full depth, hardly used tbh.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally a maggot feeder rod, again not really used.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One my worm line I have mixed it up a bit feeding with a small bait dropper as well as cupping. I usually chop up a few red maggots along with the worm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The inside line had a bit more pace on it compared to where I have been before so used the bait dropper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I edged the 1 gram float down while pinging in some hemp out in front, I had a worm head on and it didn't take long for the float to go under. The 6 elastic came out quite a bit and a perch of around 6 oz was netted. Good little weight builders these fish but it's unusual to catch them all match. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fishing down the edge was quite enjoyable, no snags and the perch responded to a little feed every 15 minutes. I must have had around 10 of them in the first hour which is usually the norm. They were not big but total weight was around 1.5 lbs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The bites dried up and I was out on the hemp line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have been watching numerous YouTube video's on fishing hemp, presentation and hooking the seeds so hopefully could put some of the tips into practice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The floats Tony Davis recommended were brilliant and I had them shotted spot on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First run through on a piece of pinned hemp (you need to put a hole in the flat end of the hemp with a knot picker, put the hook through this and then out the side of the seed).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-j98qoyYUThh1JDWNkLQvz--HsBtGuxB_Hk68AQbADcZDodNmNl_2fUuyiTiF1j4ZZHwYRsWFeVP72xfGfE_4uHRy8dJ61HWvP0IAes4tlTZWJNM_ZCkcq32SCBihc5rzadY3s2ds9_Gl0bqWwS75jYkqtgB5idbVC6SEf65q1ir880yLsJ0rbOcY/s274/2D3D4C5F-1778-4952-822F-4391A84E14B0_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="274" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-j98qoyYUThh1JDWNkLQvz--HsBtGuxB_Hk68AQbADcZDodNmNl_2fUuyiTiF1j4ZZHwYRsWFeVP72xfGfE_4uHRy8dJ61HWvP0IAes4tlTZWJNM_ZCkcq32SCBihc5rzadY3s2ds9_Gl0bqWwS75jYkqtgB5idbVC6SEf65q1ir880yLsJ0rbOcY/w400-h266/2D3D4C5F-1778-4952-822F-4391A84E14B0_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't know why but I was not expecting to get a bite first run through ..... but ..... I did.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was very positive and I had a roach on. Lovely little fish of around 4oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Straight back out using the same seed as it hadn't come off. More indication but I think the fish were nudging the small shot strung out shirt button style down the line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It is quite frustrating fishing hemp but I stuck at it. In the next hour I put about 5 small roach in the net but felt it should have been more, I was missing bites almost every run through. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I may have been holding the rig back too hard ad when I let it go through at the pace of the river it was better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had better success on the shallower hemp rig and then the dreaded pike attacks started, one after the other. What a nightmare, I trashed 4 rigs on them, the air was blue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The guy above me who was first in my section on 44 weighed 4lb 11oz, my net went 4lb 3oz, the guy below me packed up and DNW. I think i was 2nd in the mini section of 5.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I didn't stay to get the results as it takes about 1 hour 20 minutes to get home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I believe venue expert Leigh Gardner on 36 won it with high double figures.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well the hemp rigs have been re- tied, new hook lengths done and some hair rigged hemp done as well in preparation for Sundays Team Match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I will crack the hemp as its worth a few important fish on a challenging venue.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-71205386973863897162022-07-29T04:01:00.006-07:002022-07-29T04:01:53.981-07:00Saturday 23rd July - Clevedon FWAC Dave Fowler Memorial Charity Match, River Kenn, Clevedon<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">This years Charity Match was in aid of Bristol Area Kidney Patients Association as a result of Club Life Member Andy Law's son benefiting from their support and kindness.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The match was very well supported with 32 Anglers fishing. Pegs 1 to 43 were used (Sea Wall towards Kenn Rd).</span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Andy and his wife Jenny provided freshly cooked bacon rolls at the draw which was held in Kenn Rd. Car Park while Match Secretary Rob Fogg finalised proceedings.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Kenn looked spot on due to the recent heavy showers and bream weights were expected. Unfortunately they had other idea's and failed to show. The vast shoals of roach, hybrids and perch also proved a challenge for some reason and most anglers struggled.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Winner on the day was Paul Nichols from peg 36 with 5lb 8oz. Paul caught a mixed bag of small fish with some better roach on hemp.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This years Charity Match was in aid of Bristol Area Kidney Patients Association as a result of Club Life Member Andy Law's son benefiting from their support and kindness.</span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Runner up was Mike Fairless from peg 25 with 5lb 6oz. This was only Mike's second Club Match and he caught a lovely net of small skimmers on the pole and waggler.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Third was Dom Sullivan from peg 6 who managed a good tench and bits for 4lb 14oz.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fourth place went to Des Shipp who caught some better roach early in the match for 4lb 9oz.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Guess the winning weight prize went to Danny Watts who was spot on.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Blue Flame Public House hosted the BBQ, results and raffle after the match.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Club would like to thank H & H Burgers (Clevedon), Tesco (Clevedon), Andy and Jenny for cooking prior to the match, Katie Bonwick and Team for doing the BBQ, the Blue Flame PH, Cadbury Angling at Acorn Fishery, Olivers Angling Clevedon, Reel Fun (Portishead) and all who helped and attended at our Flagship Event.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over £1000 was raised for the charity which is fantastic.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are some photo's of the event .....</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Only sprat chub on the waggler across but I did catch some hemp roach down the middle but the pike attacks soon scuppered that line.</p><p>My section was won with 4lb plus, I weighed just under 3lbs and could have done a lot more if the pike hadn't took an interest.</p><p>Today I stayed local fishing my Club Match on our local River Kenn. We had a Committee Meeting on the Thursday evening and there was 8 booked in at this point. To my surprise Rob Fogg our new Match Secretary text me on the Saturday saying he had now got 16 which is a great turnout for a Club Match on the Kenn.</p><p>We were going to fish from peg 1 down by the Sea Wall to Strode Rd Bridge peg 32. </p><p>I saw Rob over at Cadbury Angling on the Saturday, he had just walked the bank and showed me photo's of a huge shoal of bream just under the surface around pegs 3, 4 and 5. This would be the place to draw then although with high temperatures they were unlikely to feed in any numbers.</p><p>We met at Strode Rd bridge for the draw, I had unloaded the van in order to walk to any peg downstream as there is a flat walk along the Environment Agency road.</p><p>We had a few new participants today which is brilliant. Our Club Matches are just a bit of fun and the money is very well shared out.</p><p>Into the draw bucket and I pulled out peg 18 so quite a bit away from the bream shoal.</p><p>All the pegs look good to be honest and with an average depth down the middle of 7 foot and 5 foot a few metres out there are plenty of options.</p><p>17 was free below me and John Sallis was upstream on peg 19.</p><p>Looking at the conditions I decided to set up a waggler for this side of the far shelf, the pole at 14 metres with a 1 gram float and a similar rig at 11 metres.</p><p>I feed neat worm on the 11 metre line, Sensas Black Lake and Gros Gardons Noire with caster and pinkie at 14.</p><p>Starting on the waggler feeding red maggot I had a small hybrid 4th cast at full depth (about 5 foot). We are seeing a lot of small roach, hybrids and skimmers in the river this year which is great for the future.</p><p>A few more bites on the waggler were missed but then I hooked the one of the culprits, a small skim bob, lovely little fish. </p><p>The Kenn was just about moving helped by a light downstream breeze but 30 minutes or so into the match it changed to an upstream and with little flow wasn't great for the waggler.</p><p>I had a look on the 11 metre line with a worm head and the float buried straight away, a skimmer followed by a small perch then it went quiet so refed a little more worm.</p><p>Onto the 14 metre line and not a sniff of a bite after 15 minutes, tried the waggler again and picked up a couple of roach.</p><p>I kept swapping lines picking up a fish every now and then.</p><p>Mark Bromsgrove came up for a walk which is unusual for him and sat with me for a while. I was on the waggler down the middle after adjusting it to about 1 foot off bottom. I missed a couple of bites but had another few skimmers.</p><p>Word on the bank was a few bream had been caught near the Sea Wall.</p><p>We finished at 15:00 which was just as well due to the heat.</p><p>Rob came past me to start weighing our B Section.</p><p>When he came to me the best in our Section was 3lb 4oz, I weighed 2lb 14oz.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-L3pMaMynKq_1p6zonT_G4rW8amVXqpx7mDGwG2F09alcWQlTfLgk1mjxZTBWqIhwRveklWJKdvNepqEfZ2vPkkddzqUmP-R_28lulq3QbpamUstSn18095RHUZwQxzfeC3oUre4JVSIaZuesSx89zUgFINS9B_6rQ6DmuZSkTEhPmOyKMWgAEcO/s487/4B6DC89C-1C4C-45DD-9260-B566A4309878_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="413" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-L3pMaMynKq_1p6zonT_G4rW8amVXqpx7mDGwG2F09alcWQlTfLgk1mjxZTBWqIhwRveklWJKdvNepqEfZ2vPkkddzqUmP-R_28lulq3QbpamUstSn18095RHUZwQxzfeC3oUre4JVSIaZuesSx89zUgFINS9B_6rQ6DmuZSkTEhPmOyKMWgAEcO/w339-h400/4B6DC89C-1C4C-45DD-9260-B566A4309878_1_201_a.jpeg" width="339" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I followed the scales upstream, Club Chairman and Trustee Steve Bonwick was on bend peg 22, a lovely peg with a big willow on the inside. When Steve pulled his net out we were surprised to see a huge bream which he caught on the whip !!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Steve weighed 10lb 15oz, that bream must have been almost 9lbs, this got him 2nd place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-Sr5xs0OMUVKV-F5NPKE_1NJ-0T6gXsi9sauhjfOsMd86x_3KMULloTtTzb9AqK9HGZDBBGSoePZog8oXjC_EgnW9pFglcuvDWU8q5Ysar0G-lfHrAfMKZCXGn_faQDglOjGIUMlhGw1V9Bjaw0Jksz-ft99eTzuL8MRx2nun8Qq3B4DpUfZPFpt/s4032/0639EB36-24ED-4B36-8AEA-3B96142DB07D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-Sr5xs0OMUVKV-F5NPKE_1NJ-0T6gXsi9sauhjfOsMd86x_3KMULloTtTzb9AqK9HGZDBBGSoePZog8oXjC_EgnW9pFglcuvDWU8q5Ysar0G-lfHrAfMKZCXGn_faQDglOjGIUMlhGw1V9Bjaw0Jksz-ft99eTzuL8MRx2nun8Qq3B4DpUfZPFpt/w300-h400/0639EB36-24ED-4B36-8AEA-3B96142DB07D.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Scott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a little video of Scott playing and landing one of them.......</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxJKTZb-NywB7nl6vlc8vcjbdSRsKier8T7Ck_WeGGC_rNU0tNacP1IgUPM2BaH07gduz00CKDyfDNn39TW7g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Third was newcomer Patrick Danelski with a single bream for 7lb 14oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3--LawS6sduCAp60QnvPkj8DUghFyl6qRidNx6-z-XBe9eQ8MivHUurPqfC-6Zpz8dABb1csUfWxGZP9qPUtufINvywkvmkXv3kfx_rhDfnAq2vfr7WzezQLC06TsbJSIbd6IA1JH9QiSb3wd9BpbNtf59Czunkx8X-jCjjb3lPhIzMZjq5AkOUD0/s1006/D48F0518-0D27-4E2C-92FA-BD1C7809D644_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="881" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3--LawS6sduCAp60QnvPkj8DUghFyl6qRidNx6-z-XBe9eQ8MivHUurPqfC-6Zpz8dABb1csUfWxGZP9qPUtufINvywkvmkXv3kfx_rhDfnAq2vfr7WzezQLC06TsbJSIbd6IA1JH9QiSb3wd9BpbNtf59Czunkx8X-jCjjb3lPhIzMZjq5AkOUD0/w350-h400/D48F0518-0D27-4E2C-92FA-BD1C7809D644_1_201_a.jpeg" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Patrick.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nigel Wyatt was 4th with 3lb 9oz which included a 2lb hybrid caught on corn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So a good turnout with big fish dominating. Had conditions been more favourable those small skimmers and hybrids would have made a difference.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not sure what I am doing Wednesday yet but guesting for Devizes Match Group in the Super League on the Glossy next Sunday.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br />Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-37289433678473840842022-07-04T09:59:00.004-07:002022-07-04T09:59:42.328-07:00Sunday 3rd July - Evesham Team Qualifier, Warks Avon Evesham (Town and Ferry)<p>We were a late entry into this Team Qualifier as not many were interested initially but it happened and we only got in as a team had dropped out.</p><p>16 Team of 5 fishing today and immediately after a Saturday Match on the same venues we knew it would be rock hard.</p><p>Our Sensas Nomads Team today was......</p><p>- Clive Branson</p><p>- Kevin Ellaby</p><p>- Terry Parrot</p><p>- Russell Millward</p><p>- Myself</p><p>I arrived first and registered our Team as Diane does the draw in the order Team's register, we were 4th to draw.</p><p>I went and had a look at the river before going for a sausage sandwich and coffee. Peg 63 is the one most look at on arrival as its right by the field were we park. There was a little bit of flow on it following the rain they had in the area on Saturday and I could see a few bubbles coming up in about 3 or 4 area's. Tench have been coming out in this area the last few matches.</p><p>The others arrived in plenty of time for the draw at 09:00, fishing today would be 11:30 - 16:30.</p><p>Clive asked me to do the draw for the Team as he wanted to video it, oh the responsibility.</p><p>When it was our turn drew..........</p><p>Kevin peg 11</p><p>Clive peg 31</p><p>Terry peg 47</p><p>Me peg 63</p><p>Russell peg 80</p><p>All in all not great on paper but it was a scratching match so you never know.</p><p>Well it didn't take me long to get to my peg, I had more or less parked behind it already. Terry came over to my van to collect a couple of boxes of ground bait, a bib and brace plus a fleece, all Sensas from M5 Angling.</p><p>I had loads of time to set up but I didn't need much.</p><p>Peg 63 is as near as an end peg as you will get as the Ferry is in-between 63 and 64. I wasn't sure what pegs were in my section at this point but found out later my 16 peg section was 55 - 71.</p><p>Its a fairly wide peg but generally doesn't produce a weight unless there is colour in it, then the bream show.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZDAQ5k5VAjouEQGy0TJE83ExpZhaC6_gxYgTybcZ4YnnrBUbxNSrDwp10sv7u1waldg8mCXEEjyBjCjwRPWDsUzXyvS1e9hvKvZHZqNrwFS8gSyf-SDQnrUm3eSnFFjHpQg-cF256H9t2rVpphyPFee9KB5VuZQY_m4Cx0XMYE0s2l7nzfyWH_kgr/s640/5C96D6C0-ED4E-4F62-9245-148E1AF57052.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZDAQ5k5VAjouEQGy0TJE83ExpZhaC6_gxYgTybcZ4YnnrBUbxNSrDwp10sv7u1waldg8mCXEEjyBjCjwRPWDsUzXyvS1e9hvKvZHZqNrwFS8gSyf-SDQnrUm3eSnFFjHpQg-cF256H9t2rVpphyPFee9KB5VuZQY_m4Cx0XMYE0s2l7nzfyWH_kgr/w400-h300/5C96D6C0-ED4E-4F62-9245-148E1AF57052.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I set up a 1 gram float to 0.14 with 0.13 hook length with a size 16 B611 hook, elastic was 12 hollow - tench gear to fish by the weed and lilies 5 metres out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another 1 gram float to 0.13 with 0.12 fluro hook length with a size 18 B560 hook, elastic was number 8 to fish about 6 metres out where there was a bit more flow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A 2.5 gram float to 0.13 with 0.10 fluro hook length with a size 20 drennan match, elastic was a number 6.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally a feeder rod for anywhere.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I mixed up a little ground bait, Sensas Black Lake and Black Bream just in case.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At 11:30 I bait dropped in some worm and caster with a few chopped up reds at 5 metres and then fed 2 small balls of ground bait with chopped worm and pinkie at 13 metres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was well prepared and focused for a tough match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I picked up the tench rig first and put on a maggot only to see the float fail to settle, minnow like chub were having a go at it on the way down, this happened several times.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A change to a worm head and there was no problem, I just inched it through and had a small perch so blank avoided, The same happened again next put in. The perch were only about 2oz but good enough for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The float went under again and I thought it was a bigger perch but then the violent sharp nodding told me it was a tench. The 12 hollow elastic came out quite a bit as it was only set very soft. I didn't rush it as this was THE bonus fish you needed today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Safely netted it wasn't big going probably just under 2lbs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I refed the 5 metre line again with the bait dropper and worm, not too much and had a look on the 6 metre line where I had fed nothing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Fishing with red maggot I had another perch about 4oz right at the end of the slow trott.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first hour went by and Tony Davis who was walking the bank asked me how I was doing, I told him what I had and he said I was walking the section, the pegs below and above me were struggling for ounces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had a look at 13 metres and nothing so came back in over the worm. A few more perch followed and they were a bit more chunky than the earlier ones but bites tailed off again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I bait dropped some red maggot at 6 metres to try and revive the swim. It didn't work initially but I did catch more perch right down the peg by adding a couple more sections on and just feeding the pole slowly through my hands.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">More bank walkers followed and they confirmed it was fishing rock hard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A look on the feeder with maggot down the middle produced nothing nor did my 13 metre line. I sort of knew I had decent points but wanted a few more fish to be safe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Over the worm line again after feeding it I managed to snare a 8oz perch which was a bonus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the last hour I didn't have a bite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I packed up nice and slow at 16:30 sorting everything out properly as the scales would take some time to arrive.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I walked up to peg 61 to meet them and see the weights so far, 3lb 1oz was the best from peg 55.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">62 immediately above me weighted 2lb 7oz, I knew I had more than that. I weighed 3lb 14oz. Leigh Gardener who was weighing said that weight would be mega in the section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tom Boulton kindly took a catch shot for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpDgsIM7sjZp-C5-bPqoWcTVhMXMfo6ABBZMdo2-_g3tWlz_89i1jFFqqadMGCgIlYyER0CTluoXpJNvoXPg5O7vqPgFMVXIqMEAINeFTgVQ8kFotVW1ZbJWalF9aDl6xRmZJS3vx7wl0H_jTUbhxZUo-wobbtdpNp2fYUFueYtHhlUvH73n5WTCb/s771/C4B893F3-52E9-4D94-B785-ABD32978BE51.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdpDgsIM7sjZp-C5-bPqoWcTVhMXMfo6ABBZMdo2-_g3tWlz_89i1jFFqqadMGCgIlYyER0CTluoXpJNvoXPg5O7vqPgFMVXIqMEAINeFTgVQ8kFotVW1ZbJWalF9aDl6xRmZJS3vx7wl0H_jTUbhxZUo-wobbtdpNp2fYUFueYtHhlUvH73n5WTCb/w216-h400/C4B893F3-52E9-4D94-B785-ABD32978BE51.jpeg" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lovely little tinca but those perch were important as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's my section weights.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">55 0-08-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">56 0-08-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">57 0-15-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">58 3-01-12</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">59 0-11-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">60 0-04-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">61 0-04-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">62 2-07-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>63 3-14-08</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">65 0-15-12</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">66 1-13-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">67 3-03-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">68 0-03-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">69 2-07-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">70 0-05-0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">71 0-04-08</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tough or what, anyway maximum 16 points for me and £50.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXshaQe72qf8M9Yo2g8fM9mc1x4WYIggbWKu-eu7xACOhL_KCTqUlsxsurx9PtJFpoPleyp5nGPayR5o5-OBu2U4N0PxphAgBCKqoNqj8Q6eLzVoT3LaNtMaDneun1tPy3MGhZWYwKlQmoVFW_SLfkc0t4irQyJvph35ntMXZuGyMFCxMPYS0m044/s640/7A062A2F-F63B-47A9-BAF5-BDDA8EA2E1CF_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="640" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXshaQe72qf8M9Yo2g8fM9mc1x4WYIggbWKu-eu7xACOhL_KCTqUlsxsurx9PtJFpoPleyp5nGPayR5o5-OBu2U4N0PxphAgBCKqoNqj8Q6eLzVoT3LaNtMaDneun1tPy3MGhZWYwKlQmoVFW_SLfkc0t4irQyJvph35ntMXZuGyMFCxMPYS0m044/w400-h234/7A062A2F-F63B-47A9-BAF5-BDDA8EA2E1CF_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Back at the results cabin the rest of the Team came back. Terry was first and said he weighed 1lb 7oz which gave him 9 points from 16, he said Clive had gone home straight after weighing in as he didn't feel well. Clive struggled big time in another tough section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kevin was next to arrive and said he had won his section with 5lb 3oz, he had hemp roach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqLy9dTai7UEXSL85dth_Mbt4dx3hOzycEW3eeZWRmebJPiBhStZGDpDPDhA_72XN2x4IaOMH7k46iJj9bGQkxs2NKqJsLcJzPOd_rQOkVUF9vzyqkXs3aE2RDE01xSfeco0Sb6ft1AoNrVaB316RQJlFF9u8560T8lUp5ewWgW0NZUaY38XpUxng/s960/DF5EFDA8-AF07-4EA5-AB47-AE8B73C743E8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIqLy9dTai7UEXSL85dth_Mbt4dx3hOzycEW3eeZWRmebJPiBhStZGDpDPDhA_72XN2x4IaOMH7k46iJj9bGQkxs2NKqJsLcJzPOd_rQOkVUF9vzyqkXs3aE2RDE01xSfeco0Sb6ft1AoNrVaB316RQJlFF9u8560T8lUp5ewWgW0NZUaY38XpUxng/w300-h400/DF5EFDA8-AF07-4EA5-AB47-AE8B73C743E8.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kevin with some quality roach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Russell was last to arrive and it was not good news but he landed a 12lb pike on red maggot!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The results were announce and we had missed out on qualifying by 2 points, the draw definitely cost us today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well done to all the qualifiers (6 teams went through) and we'll have another go on 31st July.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDxrOHlhcUjCS0ggLDE8qVwJGuBH-yIT2KeNa5e1ErnI7tU4VAXVuS6sJz6zY1zYehU_ccU6DpSrlxqhtlFImiULpvSOZYtbNNCB85TjErWeLCyUIgr_WgFoM18dDvOJ-uzjWw1AGpQ3F16hdvfvaysYmBPztOJZJ7rnkruw1XtnKRJ9L-T1viXF0/s640/D85072A5-7522-4ACA-9E9A-65E695A026A7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDxrOHlhcUjCS0ggLDE8qVwJGuBH-yIT2KeNa5e1ErnI7tU4VAXVuS6sJz6zY1zYehU_ccU6DpSrlxqhtlFImiULpvSOZYtbNNCB85TjErWeLCyUIgr_WgFoM18dDvOJ-uzjWw1AGpQ3F16hdvfvaysYmBPztOJZJ7rnkruw1XtnKRJ9L-T1viXF0/w640-h480/D85072A5-7522-4ACA-9E9A-65E695A026A7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-18181152559573973982022-06-30T05:33:00.003-07:002022-06-30T05:33:20.970-07:00Wednesday 29th June - Evesham Festival Qualifier, Warks Avon<p> Back up the M5 again, off at Tewksbury and on to Evesham for another bash at qualifying. We (Sensas Nomads) have also a Team in on the venue this coming Sunday 3rd July so it's important to stay in touch with the water.</p><p>The forecast was light rain showers and a fresh breeze but on arrival the wind was quite strong and blowing downstream.</p><p>As I was early I walked up from the Ferry up to pegs 35 and 36 to have a look as these have been the in form pegs, the early 50's looked nice as well.</p><p>The river had a nice flow on it as usual but very low and clear.</p><p>I spoke to Nomads Team mate Kevin Ellaby while waiting for the draw discussing options for Sundays match. Kevin has a fair bit of experience on Evesham.</p><p>For a change I was in the first quarter of the queue for the draw and when it came to my turn A5 was still there. I was going to pick another disc but decided to stick with A5 (Sam picked it in my absence last Sunday and drew a flyer). Could it happen again?</p><p>Well not too bad to be honest as when Diane turned the disc over it revealed peg 52. Now from my experience so far peg 52 hasn't featured that much lately, it used to but I believe 50 and 51 are the pegs to draw in this area,</p><p>With 50 anglers fishing just about every other peg was left out so 51 was free above me and 53 below, Kev Ellaby was on 54.</p><p>I got some advice from venue expert Leigh Gardner before heading off to my peg. He told me it was very shallow across with pandocks coming out a fair way but deep in the middle and the inside. </p><p>Peg 50 won the match last Sunday 10lbs so I was in the right area.</p><p>When I got to my peg it did look nice but due to the clear water you could see the pandocks on the far side coming out quite a bit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilzbLbiVHaBcdA5oGJe0f7ftSg-3ywwK2Uqw3XXT0zry8MzJ4pSP62pf5owQcMlGd-59valkqaXkhjqtAuRSwbM8MmCaASMBRR7hhbrUVm1hE4X6o3Po3ZaiZUMo2G1enZ6F33ADP430I7Jigxj8c5BHfk6zbKRjWhbgPhUY2w6XeE7t4_4S2rCQ0m/s4032/BF7312D0-EF99-49F0-85DD-CCC6EDBD9F93.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilzbLbiVHaBcdA5oGJe0f7ftSg-3ywwK2Uqw3XXT0zry8MzJ4pSP62pf5owQcMlGd-59valkqaXkhjqtAuRSwbM8MmCaASMBRR7hhbrUVm1hE4X6o3Po3ZaiZUMo2G1enZ6F33ADP430I7Jigxj8c5BHfk6zbKRjWhbgPhUY2w6XeE7t4_4S2rCQ0m/w400-h300/BF7312D0-EF99-49F0-85DD-CCC6EDBD9F93.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wind had more or less stopped at this point so I set up a 3AAA waggler at full depth down the middle, it was about 6 foot deep. I had 2 x No.10's as bulk and another 4 strung out below. 18 B611 hook to 0.11 power line as if I managed to hook a chub they would head straight into the pandocks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another waggler (same) was set up at 3 foot deep for fishing the same line or closer to the tree.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next I set up a 20 gram maggot feeder with a size 16 B611 to 0.13, animal gear for fishing to the snags.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My perch inside line was quite deep, almost match top 3 at 5 metres, the bottom was nice and clean. A 1 gram float went through lovely, a size 18 B560 was at the business end to 0.12 fluro.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally a hemp rig at 11 metres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Starting off I bait dropped in 2 lots of choppy, a few casters and red maggot on the inside and then fed some maggots across as well as pinging a few grains of hemp at 11 metres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am conscious of keeping the feed going in on all lines and it can be hard to discipline yourself to do this but I am improving.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I started off on my inside line just inching a maggot through. Second or third trot down a small perch was hooked so up and running. I was getting bites at then end of the trot and felt i was over stretching a bit so put another section on. Much better but wanted them closer so fed another half bait dropper full.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put another inch on the depth and held back a bit harder, bingo a better perch short and gave me a bit of a run around, a nice fish about 10oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had more small perch and then just before the first hour was up hooked another better fish which took me out into the middle. The 6 elastic done the trick, I knew it wasn't a perch. Lucky as well I had a 4 metre landing net. Chuffed to bits when I netted a chub just under 2lbs, you don't get many of them on the inside.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another bait dropper went in and I managed a few more perch but by 13:20 the line had died.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I had been feeding the other lines so had a look on the deep waggler line down the middle. The wind had got stronger again but by casting downstream, holding back hard and then controlling it as best I could I managed a couple of small roach.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Time and time again I trotted down and it must have been another hour before I got a bite on the drop, thought it was a bleak but then the line tightened right up, chub. thank goodness I had the strong gear as he went into the pandocks, but not for long. Another nice fish just under 2lbs fish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The hemp line produces nothing all match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another look now and then on the inside gave me nothing more.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A cast with the maggot feeder to the snags gave me 2 more perch, only about 3ozs each but welcome.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The last 2 hours I just swapped around while keeping the feed going in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple more puppy chub were caught, one on the maggot feeder one on the shallow waggler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bank walkers suggested it was fishing really hard.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the end of the match Kev asked me what I had and i said about 5lb plus, he said he had the same.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When the scales came down I walked up to peg 50 to see him weigh in, the best weight from peg 1 to 50 was 8lb 6oz (Mark on 50 weighed 4lb odd).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ended up with a level 8lb which I was really pleased about, Kev below me weighed 7lb 7oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirieh_KfZ-0_J8yiFT_4CRZiEa_ufCK76nTf9OfWweXQj-04JEAIxKZVcIrI3ZQLJKikw74xC54_EFkX_5MGBvV5fn4-NXlJHov499zf6csF58lO4O23DVoKVMDBEbalwXtC4Fzgd53qvMrmdaEAR4qb0w7bhmrThPA0Lqh2vIy30pgVblq1cZvQnr/s4032/99FAD63C-7F1C-446B-8C26-C97B2A65DC65.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirieh_KfZ-0_J8yiFT_4CRZiEa_ufCK76nTf9OfWweXQj-04JEAIxKZVcIrI3ZQLJKikw74xC54_EFkX_5MGBvV5fn4-NXlJHov499zf6csF58lO4O23DVoKVMDBEbalwXtC4Fzgd53qvMrmdaEAR4qb0w7bhmrThPA0Lqh2vIy30pgVblq1cZvQnr/w300-h400/99FAD63C-7F1C-446B-8C26-C97B2A65DC65.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not a bad effort</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Mark Newman on peg 61 (which never wins) had 2 tench !!!!! and ended up with a combined weight of 10lb 7oz and he was in my section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Luckily he won the match so it was a £40 section win by default.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I ended up joint 5th equal but they pay top 4 on a Wednesday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a really tight match, just one more chub would have helped.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Results and weigh board below.....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1 Mark Newman 10-7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 Rob McKenzie 8-06</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3 Tony Davis 8-03</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4 Mark Valentine 8-01</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmzS-JFSKYV0cJVmqspDMus14rsGT3GpZguyN3XtRFSftHcylT0TDNqq7bWaoO9CPIxqW_P2B7HNNogbfHE0tgCL0NMDEsn0XP4e0dZCIs9MZCXaSzwIMWIAiGj0wIuvV5jx39cieX-QvgblgKdkG8_3xhSka_iWyPLrCM-e10V0RG7QSTlKiPyqV/s544/92A37535-1721-4CA4-BAA2-AEB274000BF8_4_5005_c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="544" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmzS-JFSKYV0cJVmqspDMus14rsGT3GpZguyN3XtRFSftHcylT0TDNqq7bWaoO9CPIxqW_P2B7HNNogbfHE0tgCL0NMDEsn0XP4e0dZCIs9MZCXaSzwIMWIAiGj0wIuvV5jx39cieX-QvgblgKdkG8_3xhSka_iWyPLrCM-e10V0RG7QSTlKiPyqV/w640-h276/92A37535-1721-4CA4-BAA2-AEB274000BF8_4_5005_c.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Team match on Sunday which will be rock hard with just about every peg in.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-110161594362524212022-06-27T12:33:00.004-07:002022-06-27T12:33:59.927-07:00Sunday 26th June - Clevedon Club Match River Kenn<p>Team mate Sam Johnson was heading up to Evesham today to try and qualify for the August BH Festival but I had already committed to supporting my Club on the River Kenn.</p><p>New Match Secretary Robb Fogg was in charge of proceedings.</p><p>There was only 12 of us today as a couple had dropped out due to family commitments.Rob had us spread out more or less every other peg from 6 to 22 so there would be plenty of room for everyone.</p><p>When we met in Kenn Rd Car Park for the draw it was pretty windy and the forecast was for it to increase as the day went on. Fishing was to be from 1030 - 1630 which is a long day on the Kenn if its hard (and we know it can be).</p><p>I pulled out peg 13 which is a reasonable enough area and after parking in Long Acre Close which is adjacent to the river it was a very short walk.</p><p>I had my pole gear, waggler rods and a feeder rod, all options covered.</p><p>On arrival at my peg it was pretty calm due to being protected from the high bank opposite.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMNalFL-GmsoY1pccNNvTQaOoAN-QZuxpNI21gQZzTtRJBTx2dhfP8WNkmd7fBMXjgVT4Gn40RydcWeq4Ie__OKCndFD_kRJxQA-vwueVLQ-_oAGVlUph1yHbApFrKDbL0N-CBFXhEx4XFiUCfuaPO2Ig5LI9qdUHmE4RmoN0A0xZjeFqsXaKzVHw/s640/A61C8EB6-6805-4CFB-9A66-2E836FCBF072.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDMNalFL-GmsoY1pccNNvTQaOoAN-QZuxpNI21gQZzTtRJBTx2dhfP8WNkmd7fBMXjgVT4Gn40RydcWeq4Ie__OKCndFD_kRJxQA-vwueVLQ-_oAGVlUph1yHbApFrKDbL0N-CBFXhEx4XFiUCfuaPO2Ig5LI9qdUHmE4RmoN0A0xZjeFqsXaKzVHw/w400-h300/A61C8EB6-6805-4CFB-9A66-2E836FCBF072.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Due to the conditions I did set up a waggler for fishing across at the bottom of the far shelf where it is around 6 foot deep. The plan was to fish red maggot over maggot on this line. The feeder rod was set up with a small cage feeder and a B560 16 hook to 0.11to fish about 2/3rd's across but slightly downstream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2 x 1 gram pole rigs were also set up to fish at 13 metres where it was around 7 foot deep. 1 rig had a drennan 20 to 0.10 fluro and 6 elastic, the other a B611 size 16 to 0.12 fluro for fishing worm or sweetcorn, elastic was a 12 hollow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sam rang me from Evesham before the "all in". He was laughing and I sort of knew what was coming ... let me explain. I have usually picked disc A5 from the draw matrix board at Evesham and I spoke to Sam at the end of last week and I said pick A5. Before he could say anything I said you've picked A5 and you've drawn peg 36 the current flyer. He was still chuckling away and confirmed I was right. I said your bound to frame from there and said we'll speak after the match.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the start of my match I cupped in 3 balls of Sensas Black Lake and Gros Gardons laced with dead reds, a few casters and a little choppy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Starting on the feeder with worm and fishmeal ground bait I fed some maggots across on the waggler line while waiting for a bream. Several casts later it just wasn't happening on the tip although I did get a very small slow pull which was probably a liner. I gave it 40 minutes before picking up the waggler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The wind was picking up now and although I could get the waggler across ok and have some control over it feeding was hopeless. I gave the waggler up after I went squirrel fishing in a bush opposite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was over an hour into the match now and I picked up the light pole rig and put a maggot on the 20. I was long lining with the rig due to the wind and it was ok, it was just the odd gust that messed me up presenting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It must have been about 20 minutes before I had a blade roach but at least I was up and running. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was fishing about 2 inches over depth and had a few small lift bites which gave me some more small roach. I fed another soft ball and shallowed up a bit but didn't have a bite after doing this so went back to just over depth again. Boom another bite straight away and a small skimmer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We haven't seen small skimmers on the Kenn for ages so it was nice to see.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I put a small worm head on and I had a sail away bite on the drop. A good fish and the 6 elastic came rushing out. I did play it out in the middle but when I broke down it livened up again and done me in the rushes, it felt like a big perch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I decided to put some neat chopped worm and caster in and picked up the heavier rig with a tail of a worm on the 16 hook. Instant response and a net roach. More roach followed averaging around 3 to 4 oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Team mate Chris Hook who was not fishing came along the bank and said there was only a few small fish caught below me. He walked up to the other end and when he came back said the guy on the end peg to my left had a big tench and some roach. While Chris was there I had a few more decent roach on the worm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple more guy's I know came walking along the bank and confirmed most were struggling.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It did slow up but I put another few roach in the net before the "all out".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rob walked past me to weigh in from peg 6. When he came to me the best weight was 1lb 2oz.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I weighed 3lb 8oz so at least I would get the Section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9ZHO1dK7fvQ61hD0W1bWeaCh-E0cliktdoi7kaz0RunTR3oaPXhVGIwkwx_ywv5gYThFVorj4RN0-YDodPw_hlWIfOUuv3YHtRpKvlpSDL-J42FDS5hEWU87LcYpsKhJrmeqNtPWR3GqcaAe0Q-qghSthMWKWbLhgO_YRle7zVCDtc9aLt9ppTTw/s640/E6E00336-8E1B-4529-9828-92471E288F18.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="395" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9ZHO1dK7fvQ61hD0W1bWeaCh-E0cliktdoi7kaz0RunTR3oaPXhVGIwkwx_ywv5gYThFVorj4RN0-YDodPw_hlWIfOUuv3YHtRpKvlpSDL-J42FDS5hEWU87LcYpsKhJrmeqNtPWR3GqcaAe0Q-qghSthMWKWbLhgO_YRle7zVCDtc9aLt9ppTTw/w248-h400/E6E00336-8E1B-4529-9828-92471E288F18.jpeg" width="248" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My catch.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Paul Randell upstream of me on peg 11 weighed a level 3lb. He caught small roach short on the waggler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">End peg upstream of me Dave Nash weighed 6lb 7oz, most of that weight was a tench.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYq3e0Gwj0Q-Mr6BEA-Y2J6nCKQLxx5TDNaEKRv8JdZcGfE7PRVG4vUAvdL8pAdWko1sVSouoU943hVLs-RJwDa0bXLgGnonCs3k9XuUfJmXXT_vW78bCCKEK2L4L6_YcZphuw5ptEAgYwkGGLsjPI3rCMlZJZWqgcSXCXSKQttd6aD0uv8c_Y3Rin/s640/AF2DE10B-1F4B-4E4C-9089-78A45BB59D4E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="418" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYq3e0Gwj0Q-Mr6BEA-Y2J6nCKQLxx5TDNaEKRv8JdZcGfE7PRVG4vUAvdL8pAdWko1sVSouoU943hVLs-RJwDa0bXLgGnonCs3k9XuUfJmXXT_vW78bCCKEK2L4L6_YcZphuw5ptEAgYwkGGLsjPI3rCMlZJZWqgcSXCXSKQttd6aD0uv8c_Y3Rin/w261-h400/AF2DE10B-1F4B-4E4C-9089-78A45BB59D4E.jpeg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Full results as follows....</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1st Dave Nash 6lb 7oz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2nd Ivan Currie 3lb 8oz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3rd Paul Randell 3lbs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A Section Kev Perry 1lb 2oz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">B Section Rob Fogg 1lb 2oz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So a nice little £60 pick up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Had there been a bit of colour in the water less bright sky and less wind it would have fished much better (we don't want much do we).<div><br /></div><div>Back to Sam at Evesham ....... he rang to say he just sneaked in to qualify coming 3rd overall with 7lb plus and a £145 pick up, lovely job mate.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm back up Evesham on Wednesday and fishing the team qualifying match the following Sunday.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703302396599757366.post-61546096690313705932022-06-24T05:04:00.014-07:002022-06-24T05:09:15.241-07:00Wednesday 22nd June - Anglers Choice Qualifier, Warks Avon, Evesham<p> I headed up the M5 again to Evesham after booking in on the Monday evening via Score Fishing. I still left home at 06:45 even though registration is not until 09:30 and the draw 10:00.</p><p>Just as well I did as the rail strike clearly had an impact on motorway traffic but it was a steady run up and I was in Wetherspoons for breakfast at 08:20. </p><p>It was going to be a scorcher today with temperatures forecast around 27 degree's so wanted a bit of shade.</p><p>When I arrived at Hampton Ferry I had a chat with Tony Davis who is a mind of information on the venue. The attendance today was a healthy 40 anglers with 2 qualifying places up for grabs in the Evesham Festival at the end of August. Anglers who qualified could choose the Saturday or the Sunday match.</p><p>I was near the end of the draw queue (don't know how that happened) and I could hear some of the better pegs being drawn. I picked my usual A5 disc as it was still there and Diane turned it over to reveal peg 81!</p><p>"Bollocks" I thought, didn't want to be down there as it has been absolutely dire, it's ok when there's a bit of water and colour in the river. Last Sunday there was a dnw on it. The only bonus was it's an end peg.</p><p>When I got to the peg it did look lovely but looks can deceive down this end of the match length, there was no shade either so just as well I was covered in factor 50.</p><p>It's quite deep as well so the waggler rods stayed in the holdall.</p><p>Set up was a 2.5 gram at 13 metres with a drennan 20 carbon match to 0.10 fluro, 5 elastic, a 1 gram for 6 sections out trotting down the edge for perch, B560 18 to 0.12 fluro, 6 elastic, a strung out hemp rig, 4 x 14 for fishing anywhere depending how the match went. Finally a maggot feeder.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxW0sFvP0xDLTrUJg4Y2OQv6_hSvyxc7VWQiinRiG3Ty17rWA4THOMfL6b6VDJ_vTv9tcJraOgJ1XtEiL3NshIOaxd_9pluBkZNxojFYalhzxFNkdaDVHDJQcmhN-cQxG9xzI8W9iiVALCM65C2lJEGYvU-vgywV1Ae3M9JmK0u_wbsu6YXEb7rzyt/s640/A85554B2-740B-4490-A4BA-6C3EE3E68AAC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxW0sFvP0xDLTrUJg4Y2OQv6_hSvyxc7VWQiinRiG3Ty17rWA4THOMfL6b6VDJ_vTv9tcJraOgJ1XtEiL3NshIOaxd_9pluBkZNxojFYalhzxFNkdaDVHDJQcmhN-cQxG9xzI8W9iiVALCM65C2lJEGYvU-vgywV1Ae3M9JmK0u_wbsu6YXEb7rzyt/w400-h300/A85554B2-740B-4490-A4BA-6C3EE3E68AAC.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p>I mixed up some Sensas Black Lake and Gros Gardons Noire to get the bait down in the middle as it was top 4 deep but I would long line it fishing top 5. At 6 sections out it was about match top 3 deep and I would fish top 4 again long lining it to cover more water.</p><p>12:00 came and I fed half a pot of choppy and caster down the edge and 2 balls of the same down the middle. </p><p>Starting off short I had a small perch first put in, only about 2 oz but was off ...</p><p>It took a while to get the next bite but a better perch this time at around 8oz, keep coming I thought, and they did. I kept lightly topping up and caught quite a few perch right down the peg between 2 and 4 ozs.</p><p>Just over an hour and a quarter had gone and I had a look down the middle on a worm head. The float went under like a skimmer sail away bite but it was a small perch. Some more followed and I bumped one so changed up to a B560 18. Much better but I made two school boy errors swinging the perch in only for them to drop off.</p><p>I feel I am really disciplined with my feeding at the moment on all lines and know when to rest them as well.</p><p>At just over the halfway stage the bites on both lines slowed up to next to nothing so had a look on the maggot feeder, not a bite after 20 minutes so went back on the pole lines to try and snare some more perch.</p><p>The hemp rig with maggot short produced some very small roach and nothing else.</p><p>During the last hour and a half I don't think I had a fish and was sweating in places I never sweated before, 2 bottles of water were also finished.</p><p>Even though the match finished at 17:00 it took until about 18:15 for me to weigh in. </p><p>Drennan Oxfords Paul Passmore was above me on peg 79 and I watch him weigh 5lb 8oz but he had a big perch, I didn't think I had that.</p><p>I was correct, a pound short and 2nd in the section again in two matches.</p><p>No catch shot as it was too hot.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFaiGA64Fg_tV7DqNb_LtGbcNIsXxbvAwxPm5J636KUKFMlQlLr9b-NcVBIloWqsFnlqG5VCFo8AdsUn2MFZ8DyjjbqDjFgPSrJvHqQQx-vPkal6r2-381-mjuVZivlUgRCy0YTRUUoxW2OndRdKqUCbL0MagkTnS8Y0DnrobDYi_wq9-Y5VKtfzXD/s1440/4624D778-29CB-4C70-8D14-6798F8F3DCD0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="1440" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFaiGA64Fg_tV7DqNb_LtGbcNIsXxbvAwxPm5J636KUKFMlQlLr9b-NcVBIloWqsFnlqG5VCFo8AdsUn2MFZ8DyjjbqDjFgPSrJvHqQQx-vPkal6r2-381-mjuVZivlUgRCy0YTRUUoxW2OndRdKqUCbL0MagkTnS8Y0DnrobDYi_wq9-Y5VKtfzXD/w640-h296/4624D778-29CB-4C70-8D14-6798F8F3DCD0.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Top placings, qualifiers and section winners below.....</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6YvgsJDSbByFOana9i65MVsJ9wEpYUzE3ZAKI57gM-fw89R6dP1cZnXo06lzqptDrGUUIAjAySP4Zivb7x9jO88HKwknqyPPH0SuYObTvnAT3j5E0vhmisWLQGZ-gNSf88SJdJ_lXVaH0jBp9OF9kKLfMKDuqJFuTnSzpIMV4od5BwP7kS4xVUrz/s2016/C80A0A98-947F-48CF-A867-98CBC687C9A2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="2016" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6YvgsJDSbByFOana9i65MVsJ9wEpYUzE3ZAKI57gM-fw89R6dP1cZnXo06lzqptDrGUUIAjAySP4Zivb7x9jO88HKwknqyPPH0SuYObTvnAT3j5E0vhmisWLQGZ-gNSf88SJdJ_lXVaH0jBp9OF9kKLfMKDuqJFuTnSzpIMV4od5BwP7kS4xVUrz/w640-h178/C80A0A98-947F-48CF-A867-98CBC687C9A2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I do think I am progressing at Evesham, just need to draw better as well.</p><p>Clevedon Club match on the River Kenn this Sunday.</p>Ivan Curriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15541679766084121628noreply@blogger.com0