Pole Only Series 2014. Round One. Acorn Fishery, Sunday 6th April 2014

First round of this years pole only saw 30 booked in, I think that is an absolute maximum number for this lake, Paul Faiers did a good job of  arranging the sections and hopefully has created 3 fair sections, one of which the pegging is a bit tight and two with a bit more space, as everyone will fish each section twice it should all even itself out.

After a nice Breakfast we got Charlie Barnes and Ken Rayner to draw the knockout, which starts in the next match and then got down to drawing.  I got Bob 'Bridge Troll' Gullick to pick me a peg, as he had already picked himself a bridge flyer, peg 34, but he handed me peg 14 on the back straight, the section where all the pegs are in, cheers Bob......

I had Tom Thick for company on peg 13 and Sensas Thyers captain Lance Tucker on 15 and we were a bit concerned that if the already blustery wind increased further, we'd struggle as it was blowing straight up the lake from L to R.  I set up a MW Pear on 0.14 to fish a banded pellet on 0.12 across, a0.4g NG Gimp to fish down the track over groundbait, again on 0.14 to 0.12 with a 18 63.13 hook, I also set up a another Gimp to fish across on the 'second' shelf, but never had a bite on this, so no more about it.

On the all in, I fed some groundbait down the track and then went across with a banded 6mm pellet, because of the wind I didn't put a pole pot on, preferring to feed 6mm pellets by catapult. Tom had a fish almost straight away fishing across, I then had one and a couple more before the wind speed increased and made it very difficult to present a bait where the fish were. We both had problems with a couple of foul hookers which came off, mainly because the wind blowing the pole around was dragging the rig into fish.

It seemed to be fishing hard, so I was still trying to catch a target weight of 40lb, but that might be optimistic, given the pegs we were on had been producing less than 30 in recent matches.  The wind induced Tourrettes was by now almost constant as if I managed to lower the rig in the right spot amongst the spikey grass tufts (which need trimming back), the wind dragged the pole round and put the rig into the grass.

This was also not doing my back any good, so a switch to the line down the track brought a run of small skimmers and a carp, fishing a maggot 1" overdepth.  Finally the wind dropped again and whilst it still remained a hindrance, I managed to land 3 or 4 more carp on the banded pellet, before the bites died off, with 15 minutes to go another look down the track produced another carp, giving me a total of 32.13 for 7th overall and 2nd in section behind Mark Bartlett on peg 18 who had 39.02.

No spectacular weights, but it was a fair match, as from 1st and 10th were only separated by 13lb, I'd rather fish matches like this than ones where some pegs chuck up astronomical weights, with others so far behind they had no chance, its possible to believe that better decisions or small tweaks could catch you 13lb, when you are 100lb or more behind the winner, there is every chance that no matter what you did, you couldn't have caught that much.

1: Andy France  43.08 Peg 25

2: Bob Gullick  41.15 Peg 34

3: Mark Bartlett  39.02 Peg 18

4: Lewis Jones  38.07 Peg 23

5: Kev Perry  38.00 Peg 21

6: Mike Nicholls  33.08 Peg 40

Silvers

1: Andy Gard 14.08 Peg 33

2: Mike Nicholls 10.10 Peg 40

A section 

1: Mark Bartlett

2: Chris Fox 32.13 Peg 14

3: Tom Thick 31.10 Peg 13

Silvers: Ken Rayner 6.11 Peg 2

B section

1: Bob Gullick

2: Mike Nicholls

3: Tony Thick 28.14 Peg 6

Silvers: Andy Gard

C Section

1: Andy France

2: Lewis Jones

3: Kev Perry

Silvers: Paul Faiers 10.10 peg 28

1	Andy France		10		43	8
2	Bob Gullick		10		41	15
3	Mark Brooomsgrove		10		39	2
4	Lewis Jones		9		38	7
5	Mike Nicholls		9		33	8
6	Chris Fox		9		32	13
7	Kev Perry		8		38	0
8	Tom Thick		8		31	10
9	Tony Thick		8		28	14
10	Eddie Wynne		7		28	2
11	Glenn Calvert		7		25	4
12	Lance Tucker		7		17	14
13	Nigel Vigus		6		27	5
14	Mike Owens		6		22	10
15	Paul Lasson		6		15	14
16	Russ Peck		5		18	9
17	Paul Faiers		5		16	2
18	Dom Sullivan		5		15	1
19	Harry Muir		4		17	10
20	Gordon Canning		4		14	14
21	Ken Rayner		4		12	0
22	Kevin Lloyd		3		17	0
23	Glenn Bailey		3		13	10
24	Brian Slipper		3		9	12
25	Nick Harvey		2		16	9
26	John Osborne		2		9	9
27	Norman Hugget		2		4	2
28	Pete Bartlett		1		15	14
29	Charlie Barnes		1		4	13
30	Rob Fogg		1		3	12

Silvers Table
Name			Points		Weight
1	Harry Muir		10		14	8
2	Paul Faiers		10		10	2
3	Ken Rayner		10		6	11
4	Mike Nicholls		9		10	10
5	Charlie Barnes		9		4	13
6	Glenn Calvert		9		3	10
7	Chris Fox		8		4	10
8	Paul Lasson		8		4	10
9	Gordon Canning		8		2	10
10	Bob Gullick		8		4	3
11	Kevin Lloyd		7		3	10
12	Norman Hugget		7		1	15
13	Brian Slipper		6		4	7
14	Nick Harvey		6		3	1
15	Glenn Bailey		6		1	2
16	John Osborne		5		2	2
17	Eddie Wynne		5		1	12
18	Mike Owens		5		0	10
19	Andy France		5		0	10
20	Pete Bartlett		4		1	10
21	Lance Tucker		4		1	0
22	Tony Thick		3		1	4
23	Rob Fogg		3		0	7
24	Dom Sullivan		3		0	15
25	Tom Thick		2		1	2
26	Nigel Vigus		2		0	14
27	Russ Peck		1		0	11
28	Mark Brooomsgrove		0		0	0
29	Lewis Jones		0		0	0
30	Kev Perry		0		0	0

Knockout Draw.

To not give anyone a bye, the highest weight knocked out in this round will come back in for round 2.

 

3	Glen Calvert	v	13	Lance Tucker
5	Pete Bartlett	v	7	Mark Broomsgrove
11	Rob Fogg	v	8	Eddie Wynne
30	Gordon Canning	v	17	John Osborne
12	Mike Owens	v	25	Andy France
6	Charlie Barnes	v	24	Russ Peck
26	Ken Rayner	v	29	Brian Slippper
21	Tom Thick	v	9	Dom Sullivan
16	Mike Nicholls	v	14	Paul Lasson
18	Kevin Lloyd	v	28	Kev Perry
19	Norman Hugget	v	2	Paul Faiers
22	Tony Thick	v	20	Bob Gullick
4	Nigel Vigus	v	27	Nick Harvey
15	Glenn Bailey	v	10	Lewis Jones
1	Chris Fox	v	23	Harry Muir