Kev Perry Series Round Four. Sunday 8th May

If anyone wants to buy a 1000 piece Tourney Pro Jigsaw, keep an eye out on ebay, Dave Baker is selling one.......

As we were eating Breakfast in Bullock's Cafe, Paul(Faiers) phone rings and he relays to me the tale of the two Clevedon walking disasters, Darren 'Nuddy' Vowles and Dave(please think up and insert applicable nickname)Baker, on their way fishing, having strapped their rod holdalls to the roof of Daves car. Apparently the holdalls became detached from the roof on the motorway, 'Nuddy's'landing in the fast lane and suffering no real damage, Mr Bakers disappeared under a lorry, creating the unique Tourney Pro jigsaw from his new pole. This didn't cause too much piss taking in the Cafe!!

Anyway, I digress, we were 5 short today, but 4 mad fools keen anglers made up the numbers, so we only had one vacant peg. As this was an open draw, the 4 'ringers' drew the name of who they'd be for the day, so that when the sections rotate next week, it was done as fairly as possible.

I had my peg drawn for me, peg A1, permanent peg 2, oh well at least my rigs should be the right depth as I had peg A2 (3) in the last match. The peg hadn't produced a decent silvers weight in the previous 3 matches, but as I'd won the silvers from peg 3 in round 3, I thought I might get a few.

The Overall & Silvers tables indicated I should concentrate on silvers, which I intended to do, I had my usual maggot, caster & pinkie on the bait try, along with soft pellet (Gawd knows why I keep buying it and throwing it away at the end of the match, I never catch on it). I did have one tin of meat cubed to 6mm, as occasionally the crucians and fantails will have this and as a last resort, a few bits of catmeat to punch.

The wind was blowing from my right to left and a fair bit of debris and scum had built up against my LH margin, I cleared some of it with a landing net and it floated off into Lewis Jones peg - sorry Lewis, I saw you clearing it from your margin. I really didn't intend to fish the margin, but did set up a rig to fish it, just in case there was a queue of hungry carp waiting there.

I set up three rigs to fish the open water, a sensas pencil, with some strung out stotz, to 0.09 and a 22 63-13, a Malman Winter Wire, on 0.11 to a 0.10 hooklength and a 20 63-13 and a MW diamond on 0.15 to 0.12 with a 16 808 - this was to try the devils spawn (soft pellet) - it had very little use.

The wind was gusting and causing a heavy surface skim, thwarting my efforts with the pencil float, the Winter Wire with a small bulk gave better presentation, but I'm convinced I'd have caught better if I could have presented a slowly falling bait.

I fed three lines as per last match, pinkie/groundbait, a loose fed caster line (again the wind was making that difficult so I had to resort to a pole mounted cup for a while) and a micro pellet/soft pellet line that produce nothing(again!!).

By switching between the two 'real bait' lines I managed to keep the odd fantail and crucian coming, I only had one small skimmer and one roach - unusual of late when fishing caster - and towards the end had a run of perfect looking F1's about 6oz - where did they come from??

I did try the pellet line a couple more times to no avail, I had 10 minutes down the margin on maggot, then catmeat - nothing, not even a liner. As it went a bit quiet after about 3 hours, I started a new line at 11m with some of the cubed meat, over this fishing cubed meat I had 3 or 4 un-hittable bites and then nothing.

I managed one carp, I think it was the same one I caught on peg 3 in the last match, it was .850g then, today it had grown by .010g. I found it hard to judge the weight I had at the all out, I thought some of the crucians/fantails were small, but they must weigh heavier than they look, as, I admitted 7 or 8lb and was hoping for 10lb. I was surprised when they took two weighs to give me 11.550KG and first in the silvers for the second match running. I think Dave Wride was a bit pissed off as he informed me "that for an experienced angler, you're crap at knowing what weight is in your net" - sorry Dave, but thats a true statement.

That's taken me to the top of the silvers table now (taking into account the worst result dropped), with three section wins - no need to ask what I'll be fishing for the next two matches......

Interesting to see how close pegs 16, 17 and 19 were, peg 18 was the one not drawn.

1) D Wride 19.000KG peg 8
2) R Wootton 18.670KG peg 25
3) P Faiers 15.670KG peg 16
4) M Owens 15.510KG peg 17
5) S Kitteridge 15.400KG peg 19
6) A Hockin 14.620KG peg 24

Silvers

1) C Fox 11.550KG peg 2
2) D wride 10.950KG peg 8
3) L Tucker 8.050KG peg 22
4) K Perry 7.900KG peg 28
5) P Faiers 7.650KG peg 18
6) R Wootton 6.820KG peg 25


Kev Perry Series 2011 Overall Table
Table with worst dropped
Name Points Weight Worst
1 Lewis Jones 20 42.340 4 9.830
2 Sean Kitteridge 19 58.100 5 2.900
3 Kev Perry 17 48.670 2 5.590
4 Mark Bromsgrove 17 44.410 3 10.570
5 Paul Faiers 17 39.220 3 8.810
6 Andy Hembrow 16 38.710 1 3.900
7 J Huntbatch 16 35.870 0 0.000
8 Lance Tucker 16 35.850 1 4.980
9 Chris Fox 16 31.980 4 9.430
10 Andy Hockin 15 36.790 0 0.000
11 M Owens 15 35.050 3 7.850
12 Sam Johnson 14 42.690 0 0.000
13 Dave Wride 14 38.570 3 2.670
14 Nick Harvey 12 29.140 2 4.140
15 Clive Pettit 12 21.480 1 3.980
16 John Osbourne 10 16.880 1 3.450
17 Bob Gullick 9 26.310 0 0.000
18 N Vigus 8 21.690 1 2.080
19 P Bartlett 8 20.310 0 0.000
20 Charlie Barnes 5 9.430 0 0.000
21 Glen Calvert 3 6.810 0 0.000


Kev Perry Series 2011 Silvers Table
Table with worst dropped
Name Points Weight Worst
1 Chris Fox 21 27.000 3 3.200
2 Dave Wride 20 26.550 4 1.550
3 Lance Tucker 19 18.500 3 2.360
4 N Vigus 19 11.930 6 3.470
5 Mark Bromsgrove 18 17.240 4 1.750
6 Sean Kitteridge 18 13.420 5 5.550
7 Paul Faiers 16 21.130 2 0.280
8 Kev Perry 16 17.300 4 3.440
9 M Owens 15 12.190 1 2.740
10 Lewis Jones 14 7.200 3 4.530
11 J Huntbatch 13 6.770 0 0.000
12 John Osbourne 12 8.120 1 1.050
13 Charlie Barnes 12 7.890 0 0.000
14 Andy Hockin 11 9.240 0 0.000
15 Andy Hembrow 11 8.420 1 1.270
16 Clive Pettit 10 6.030 1 2.280
17 Nick Harvey 9 9.000 0 0.000
18 Bob Gullick 8 6.750 0 0.000
19 Glen Calvert 6 4.210 0 0.000
20 Sam Johnson 5 4.740 0 0.000
21 P Bartlett 4 3.560 0 0.000

Apologies for the cramped format, I'll try and suss out how to post a table in the blog.