The day of the final round arrived, I'd done some rig tying the day before, but not too much to tempt fate. I had all the paperwork and swim cards ready, so enjoyed a leisurely breakfast. As the pools for this match had been pre paid with the series entry, breakfast wasn't disturbed by anglers waving tenners at us.
Series leader and serial flyer drawer, Shaun Kittridge drew early and offered to draw my peg - why not and had he given me the swimcard which revealed peg 25 in the first 2 matches, I'd have been pleased, it has got worse as the series wore on. Still, surely it would still throw up some crucians........
I'm going to struggle to write much constructive about the day, the wind was gusting and swirling into the corner, making 11m difficult, anything over that impossible. I was sure I'd get a few silvers, but when I resorted to 0.06 and a size 26 with single pinkie, to no avail, I knew that I may as well bugger off up the pub.
I had fed a line with the Devil's Spawn, this produced zero silvers and a few vermin (well they were today..), to say I was pissed off would be a major understatement. The silvers had moved round the lake, in my opinion proving that there are far too few of them now, to sustain a match lake, capable of meeting anglers expectations. My 2.000KG of silvers was pathetic, especially as I fished bloody hard for them, the 7.500KG of carp were just an inconvenience.. Thats all I have to say about my match, had I taken paste, I may have had a few more carp, although that wouldn't have given me a chance in the series.
Whilst I've given Shaun, (Kittridge) some stick about drawing well, you still have to catch the fish and Shaun won the series on points, with the top weight, well done.
All in all, the series was very patchy, the fish moved round the lake, leaving some areas virtually barren, the wind on the last match saw the tree to the left of peg 15 creaking a bit, Mr Bartlett who had drawn the peg, went to fetch Phil, by the time he came back, the tree was in his peg. Thanks to the anglers who helped cut through the snapped trunk and get the tree out of the peg.
On the day:
1) Shaun Kittridge 24.310 peg 12
2) Lewis Jones 22.420 peg 26
3) Dave Wride 19.570 peg 22
4) Sam Johnson 15.900
5) Kev Perry 14.540 peg 24
6) Andy Hockin 13.880 peg 5
Silvers
1) Paul Faiers 10.170 peg 6
2) Sam Johnson 9.450
3) N Vigus 8.850
4) Dave Wride 8.700
5) Sean Kitteridge 7.850
6) Mike Owens 6.350
Overall table.
Name Points Weight
1 Shaun Kittridge 33 104.840
2 Lewis Jones 31 74.590
3 Paul Faiers 29 64.290
4 Kev Perry 27 71.360
5 Dave Wride 27 73.190
6 Andy Hembrow 26 60.900
7 J Huntbatch 25 49.190
8 Andy Hockin 25 57.270
9 Lance Tucker 24 52.230
10 Chris Fox 24 49.180
11 Mark Bromsgrove 23 60.440
12 Sam Johnson 23 62.390
13 M Owens 22 51.250
14 Bob Gullick 19 51.590
15 N Vigus 18 44.320
16 Clive Pettit 17 34.590
17 Nick Harvey 15 36.360
18 John Osbourne 14 26.910
19 P Bartlett 11 26.730
20 Glen Calvert 10 23.740
21 Charlie Barnes 5 9.430
Silvers Table
Name Points Weight
1 Dave Wride 34 43.300
2 Sean Kitteridge 32 37.300
3 Paul Faiers 30 43.300
4 Chris Fox 30 35.050
5 N Vigus 30 24.250
6 Lance Tucker 28 28.910
7 Mark Bromsgrove 26 20.770
8 Kev Perry 26 25.180
9 Lewis Jones 21 14.490
10 J Huntbatch 20 12.790
11 Clive Pettit 19 16.160
12 M Owens 19 18.540
13 John Osbourne 19 11.670
14 Andy Hembrow 17 9.540
15 Andy Hockin 16 13.440
16 Bob Gullick 16 12.170
17 Glen Calvert 15 10.190
18 Nick Harvey 13 12.080
19 Charlie Barnes 12 7.890
20 Sam Johnson 11 14.190
21 P Bartlett 4 3.560
4 comments:
Well you removed my last comment on this issue but you must now agree with me that this venue is a waste of time for match anglers . Your series had some damn good anglers fishing and the weights were awfull proving that the fishery is rubbish
I didn't remove the comment, it seems blogger have added a spam filter, which automatically decides what is spam. Perhaps becuse the comment is anonymous?
Never going near the place again, it's the pits of commercial venues!
Chris, All i have to say is that the Kev Perry series has always been a pleasure to fish over the years with the banter and the standard of anglers fishing it, but the last 2 years the fishery has declined with the upkeep of it and the seemingly lack of fish declining each year, take nothing away from the way you and Paul have run it as it has always been well organised, but it summed the fishery up when half a tree fell in last week into a swim and basically the anglers had to sort it out.
Sorry didn't mention the owner produced a blunt saw for the angler to cut the tree back.
I feel you have been let down,
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