Kev Perry Series Round Six, 22nd May 2011

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

Kev Perry Series Round Five. Sunday 15th May

The penultimate match in the series, with a chance of framing in the overall looking slimmer than Isabelle Caro, silvers had to be my main condsideration, as I led the table going into this one.

With nearest rival Dave Wride in the section, a good draw was imperative, peg 13 would be the kiss of death - hopfully Dave would draw it. No such luck, peg 17 stuck to Daves golden mitt and peg 18 was drawn for me, it would be very difficult to beat Dave today..... especially as there were fish blowing in the open water between 17 & 24, peg 18 looked ominously vacant.

I stuck with the tried and tested rigs and bait that had put me top of the table, a sensas pencil on 0.11/0.09 with a 22 63-13, a Malman winter wire on 0.13/0.10 and a 20 63-13, finally a MW slim power 0.13/0.11 to a 18 808 for the dreaded devils spawn. As the rushes were kicking, I set up a slim Mosella pattern float to fish tight to them with a hair rigged hard pellet - a couple of looks with this produced nothing.

I've had a fish first put in every match so far, not this one - the venue fished hard, the favoured open water pegs produced the silvers, the feature pegs produced some carp, but not many. I persevered with my silvers lines, caster at 6m, maggot at 11m and softened micros / devils spawn at 13m towards peg 17. As per usual, the devils spawn line was useless until I converted it to maggot. Switching between the lines I had the odd skimmer, fantail and crucian, except on the caster line. (With hindsight,I think all the pegs being in on the chicken shed bank is too many). Feeding meant I didn't get a bite for a while after, not feeding resulted in no bites.

It was obvious the fish weren't feeding, Dave Poole on peg 19 had 3 fish all day, the wind blowing completely the wrong way for our end of the lake.I ventured over to the rushes with my silvers rig and had two carp on maggot. After 5 3/4 hours of scrathing for bites, at 4pm, with 15 minutes to go, I had a skimmer over the 13m line, went back out and had one every put in, until the all out at 4.15pm - too little, too late.

Dave Wride had battered me, he caught silvers and carp in his open water as expected, all I could hope for was no one else had beaten me in the section (silvers), luckily, my meagre 4.850KG of silvers was enough to take 2nd silvers in section, leaving me & Dave on 27 points each, but Dave with a superior weight. All to fish for next week..... No doubt, golden mitt Wride will pluck peg 24 from the bucket, as we are in C section next week.

Lewis Jones surrendered his lead at the top of the overall table, struggling in peg 13, whilst Shaun Kittridge made the most of in form peg 28 (most consistent silvers peg in the series) to win the silvers and the match, taking topspot from Lewis.

1) Shaun Kittridge 22.430KG peg 28
2) Dave Wride 15.050KG peg 17
3) Andy Hembrow 14.500KG peg 22
4) Bob Gullick 13.510KG peg 12
5) Lance Tucker 12.900 peg 6
6) Paul Faiers 12.000KG peg 24

Silvers

1) Shaun Kittridge 16.030KG peg 28
2) Paul Faiers 12.000KG peg 24
=3)Dave Wride 8.050KG peg17
=3) Lance Tucker 8.050KG peg 6

Kev Perry Series 2011 Overall Table
Table with worst dropped
Name Points Weight Worst
1 Shaun Kittridge 26 80.530 5 2.900
2 Lewis Jones 24 52.170 3 3.660
3 Andy Hembrow 23 53.210 1 3.900
4 Paul Faiers 23 51.220 3 8.810
5 Kev Perry 22 56.820 2 5.590
6 Lance Tucker 22 48.750 1 4.980
7 Dave Wride 21 53.620 3 2.670
8 J Huntbatch 21 42.540 0 0.000
9 Mark Bromsgrove 20 54.980 1 1.350
10 Chris Fox 20 41.410 4 7.770
11 Andy Hockin 19 43.390 0 0.000
12 M Owens 18 42.900 0 0.000
13 Sam Johnson 16 46.490 0 0.000
14 Bob Gullick 15 39.820 0 0.000
15 Clive Pettit 15 27.740 1 3.980
16 Nick Harvey 14 33.280 0 0.000
17 N Vigus 13 32.870 1 2.080
18 John Osbourne 12 17.880 1 3.450
19 P Bartlett 11 26.730 0 0.000
20 Glen Calvert 5 13.120 0 0.000
21 Charlie Barnes 5 9.430 0 0.000


Kev Perry Series 2011 Silvers Table
Table with worst dropped
Name Points Weight Worst
1 Dave Wride 27 34.600 4 1.550
2 Chris Fox 27 31.850 3 3.200
3 Sean Kitteridge 25 29.450 5 5.550
4 Lance Tucker 25 26.550 3 2.360
5 N Vigus 25 15.400 5 5.250
6 Paul Faiers 23 33.130 2 0.280
7 Mark Bromsgrove 22 18.990 2 0.800
8 Kev Perry 20 20.740 3 1.550
9 Lewis Jones 18 9.960 3 4.530
10 Andy Hockin 16 13.440 0 0.000
11 Clive Pettit 16 11.360 1 2.280
12 M Owens 15 12.190 1 2.740
13 Andy Hembrow 15 8.920 1 1.270
14 J Huntbatch 15 8.640 0 0.000
15 John Osbourne 14 8.570 1 1.050
16 Bob Gullick 13 10.000 0 0.000
17 Charlie Barnes 12 7.890 0 0.000
18 Nick Harvey 9 9.000 0 0.000
19 Glen Calvert 9 5.770 0 0.000
20 Sam Johnson 5 4.740 0 0.000
21 P Bartlett 4 3.560 0 0.000

Once again, apologies for the cramped format, haven't had time yet to suss out posting tables into blog.

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.

Kev Perry Series Round Three. Sunday 24th April 2011.

My turn for A section, I asked Bob Gulllick to draw for me and he handed me A2, permanent peg 3, that was after drawing himself peg 26, another flier then Bob....

I guessed that I was already too far behind to compete in the overall, so decided to fish for silvers, just as well, I don't think there was a carp in the peg. I set up two rigs for silvers, a Malman float whose name I forget on 0.13/0.11 with a 18 808 for soft pellet - no more about this, I never had a bite on it. A Sensas pencil on 0.11 with a 0.10 hooklength and a 22 63-1 up 3 to fish maggot, pinkie, caster. I also set up a paste rig and a MW margin float for meat in the margin.

The signs weren't good, fish spawning, the hot sun both contributing to less than ideal conditions. I fed three lines at the start, micro pellet at 11m left, groundbait & maggot at 11m right and caster at 5m. I caught first put in over the gbait and maggot and had a few other fantails after. Then it went quiet, so a look on the pellet line - not so much as a twitch on the float.

I then caught well over the caster at 5m, skimmers, crucians and fantails, but as the sun rose up and hit the water, all the lines died, I had one small carp on caster and that was the last of the action. Nothing in the last three hours, I tried both margins, paste, meat, cat meat and banded pellet. I set up a shallow rig and went to 18m across to where there was some fish activity, I hooked and lost one fouler.

I managed to win the silvers in 3 hours, my 8.550KG being enough, my solitary carp went 0.880KG, the first three hours were quite enjoyable, the last three weren't!! K

1) Sam Johnson 26.670KG peg 22
2) Kev Perry 24.920KG peg 13
3) Sean Kitteridge 22.700KG peg 26
4) J Huntbatch 15.450KG peg 30
5) Mark Bromsgrove 14.720KG peg 12
6) Bob Gullick 12.230KG peg 25

Silvers

1) Chris Fox 8.550KG peg 3
2) Dave Wride 8.150KG peg 24
3) Sean Kitteridge 3.300KG peg 26
4) Mark Bromsgrove 3.250KG peg 12


Overall Table

1 Lewis Jones 20 42.340
2 Sean Kitteridge 18 45.600
3 Mark Bromsgrove 17 44.410
4 J Huntbatch 16 35.870
5 Kev Perry 14 44.010
6 Sam Johnson 14 42.690
7 Chris Fox 14 29.000
8 Paul Faiers 13 32.360
9 Lance Tucker 13 27.650
10 Andy Hembrow 12 28.480
11 M Owens 12 27.390
12 Nick Harvey 11 25.790
13 Dave Wride 10 22.240
14 Andy Hockin 10 22.170
15 John Osbourne 10 14.410
16 Clive Pettit 9 19.430
17 Bob Gullick 9 26.310
18 P Bartlett 8 20.310
19 N Vigus 6 18.090
20 Charlie Barnes 5 9.730
21 Glen Calvert 3 6.810

Silvers Table

1 N Vigus 19 11.550
2 Sean Kitteridge 18 13.420
3 Mark Bromsgrove 18 17.240
4 Dave Wride 18 17.150
5 Chris Fox 17 18.650
6 Lance Tucker 15 12.810
7 Kev Perry 15 12.840
8 Lewis Jones 14 7.200
9 J Huntbatch 13 6.770
10 Mike Owens 12 12.070
11 Charlie Barnes 12 7.890
12 Paul Faiers 11 13.760
13 John Osbourne 11 6.150
14 Andy Hockin 8 7.620
15 Clive Pettit 8 5.730
16 Bob Gullick 8 6.750
17 Andy Hembrow 7 6.090
18 Glen Calvert 6 4.210
19 Sam Johnson 5 4.740
20 Nick Harvey 5 3.850
21 P Bartlett 4 3.560

Kev Perry Series 2011 - Match Two

I spent around 5 hours Saturday evening/night sorting out elastics, rigs & bait - I wish I'd gone up the pub....

That was after a trip to Avon Anglingto collect some bait, a discussion ensued about elastics, Clayton Hudson & Tony both thought they'd got a bite from me, but when I questioned how many floaters were in Tony's casters, I got a huge wrap round. He grabbed a bag from the display fridge opened it and threw some into the toilet - "look, look, there are only four floaters to a handful" - having to look at the caster in the pan wasn't the issue, it's the "I've never seen bleach" appearance of the toilet pan thats worrying.....

I was due to be in C section, the section that produced the top three last match and should produce at least a winner or framer this. I asked Team Mate Mark Bromsgrove to draw my peg - he can draw flyers for himself! - but not for me, peg 21 he managed. The peg of doom in the section, not much open water and where there used to be boards in front of the rush beds, they have now gone.

I had it in my head to fish for silvers, I set up a pencil float on 0.11/0.10 with a 22 63.13 for pinkie/maggot/caster, another rig with 0.13/0.11 to a 18 808 for soft pellet, I guessed paste would catch some carp, so I set up a rig - just in case. I also set up a rig for down the edge.

The match started slowly and didn't improve from there, the silvers (well crucians and goldfish) were spawning in the rushes and margins and the carp would not come more than 6" from the rushes to feed. I fed a couple of lines, one with micropellet & 3mm expander and one with pinkie & groundbait. The only line I caught on initially was the groundbait line and this was slow, with the odd crucian and fantail taking the bait.

I switched to the pellet line, to no avail, I had fed a line near the rushes, but felt it was suicidal and so it proved to be - the rushes and carp claimed, several hooklengths, a couple of rigs and a rig complete with double No8 elastic and a PTFE bush. By 12.15 I was ready to pack up and go home, I couldn't get a bite in open water and every fish I hooked near the reeds went deep inside them.

I took a breather for 5 mins and then reassembled the cupping kit etc I'd taken down in temper, I managed a couple of decent roach on caster before the carp (small ones, moved in for a quick burst of two fish). I thought that peg 24 was catching crucians, I couldn't see 26, but assumed he was as well - no, a total misjudgement, I should have stayed fishing for silvers the whole match, but thinking I was behind I switched to paste on a heavier rig and landed some carp - as well as losing plenty in the reeds!!

I weighed in 3.200KG of silvers, 720G short of second in section (silvers), but ended up with 3 points instead of a possible 6 (I don't think there was 6KG of silvers to had to beat the section winner, who banked 7 points).

The crucians and goldfish seemed to be spawning, the skimmers were conspicuious by their absence and the carp showed up, but small ones in general and not in great numbers. All in all, a total waste of an evening staying in preparing, I can't say I enjoyed it. I managed 11.400KG which tied with peg 22 (Nick Harvey)for 4 series points and a lowly 3.200KG of silvers for 3 silvers points.

1) L Jones 22.350KG peg 25
2) S Kitteridge 20.000KG peg 18
3) L Tucker 18.500KG peg 15
4) A Hockin 17.850 peg 3
5) S Johnson 15.020 peg 16
6) P Bartlett 14.260KG peg 26

Silvers

1) M Owens 8.400KG peg 6
2) D Wride 7.450KG peg 12
3) S Kitteridge 7.220KG peg 18
4) L Tucker 6.280KG peg 15
5) N Vigus 6.000KG peg 19
6) M Bromsgrove 4.540KG peg 8

Overall Table Top Six

1) L Jones 14 31.040KG
2) S Kitteridge 12 22.900KG
3) L Tucker 12 22.670KG
4) M Bromsgrove 11 22.690KG
5) A Hockin 10 22.170KG
6) C Fox 10 19.570KG

Silvers Table Top Six

1) N Vigus 13 9.470KG
2) L Tucker 12 10.450KG
3) S Kitteridge 12 10.120KG
4) Mark Bromsgrove 11 13.990KG
5) D Wride 11 9.000KG
6) C Fox 10 10.100KG

Kev Perry Series 2011 - Tables after 1st match.

Kev Perry Series 2011 Overall Table

Name.... Points.... Weight
1. Mark Bromsgrove.... 7.... 19.100
2. Lewis Jones.... 7.... 8.690
3. John Osbourne.... 7.... 4.330
4. Paul Faiers.... 6.... 14.020
5. Chris Fox.... 6.... 8.170
6. Lance Tucker.... 6.... 4.170
7. Kev Perry.... 5.... 13.500
8. Clive Pettit.... 5.... 6.770
9. Sean Kitteridge.... 5.... 2.900
10. J Huntbatch.... 4.... 6.200
11. M Owens.... 4.... 6.140
12. N Vigus.... 3.... 5.610
13. Andy Hockin.... 3.... 4.320
14. Dave Wride.... 3.... 2.670
15. Charlie Barnes.... 2.... 4.240
16. Nick Harvey.... 2.... 4.140
17. Sam Johnson.... 2.... 1.000
18. Andy Hembrow.... 1.... 3.900
19. Glen Calvert.... 1.... 0.710
20. Bob Gullick.... 0.... 0.000
21. P Bartlett.... 0.... 0.000

Kev Perry Series 2010 Silvers Table

Name.... Points.... Weight
1. Paul Faiers.... 7.... 11.420
2. Chris Fox.... 7.... 6.900
3. Lance Tucker.... 7.... 4.170
4. Mark Bromsgrove.... 6.... 9.450
5. N Vigus.... 6.... 3.470
6. Sean Kitteridge.... 6.... 2.900
7. Kev Perry.... 5.... 7.900
8. Clive Pettit.... 5.... 2.700
9. John Osbourne.... 5.... 2.450
10. Charlie Barnes.... 4.... 4.240
11. Lewis Jones.... 4.... 2.020
12. Dave Wride.... 4.... 1.550
13. Andy Hembrow.... 3.... 3.900
14. J Huntbatch.... 3.... 1.850
15. Glen Calvert.... 3.... 0.710
16. Andy Hockin.... 2.... 3.020
17. Sam Johnson.... 2.... 0.500
18. Mike Owens.... 1.... 2.740
19. Bob Gullick.... 0.... 0.000
20. P Bartlett.... 0.... 0.000
21. Nick Harvey.... 0.... 0.000

A look back at the results of previous years first matches (I have records back to 2007, not 2009 as I commented in the last post) shows that this wasn't the best, neither was it the worst.

2007: 4.900KG Average (No seperate silvers league this year)

2008: 3.212KG Average
2008: 2.158KG Silvers Average

2009: 5.790KG Average
2009: 3.965KG Silvers Average

2010: 11.584KG Average
2010: 4.643KG Silvers Average

2011: 5.738KG Average
2011: 3.423KG Silvers Average

Kev Perry Series 2011 - Match One

Lets be honest about this, Paul (Faiers) and myself, were not going to run this series this year, no matter how hard you try to think about lakes, pegging, fairness of sections etc. etc. the fish, the weather, the anglers, high temps, low temps and inconsistent temps will give someone cause to moan.

So, that aside, at some point during the preceding year, we were persauded, but only if we had our own terms of a limit, that being 21, all on one lake - the match lake.

We achieved the 21, with others waiting in the wings, even after all the reports of fish deaths, especially carp. Phil has obtained some new fish ( not that, that easily, excuses the person who polluted the supply to the lakes!!)

I didn't fancy the back pegs 1-14, but thats where the swim card indicated I'd be, No10, right on the back bank. Just first match syndrome, they don't usually produce until the warmer weather. So after recording the draw and getting everyones queries sorted, I settled into peg 10. A simple approach, 3 rigs, one for maggot / pinkie, which was a 0.2g sensas pencil on 0.11 with a 0.08 hooklength and a 22 63-13 hook. A MW slim power, again 0.2g on 0.11with a 0.10 hooklength and a size 18 808. Finally a Daiwa float whose model eludes me, on 0.15 straight through to a 20 B911, for maggot in the margin.

On the all in I fed micro's and a couple of 4mm expanders to a line at 10'clock approx 10.5m and a groundbait and pinkie / caster line straight in front at 11m. I hooked and lost a decent fish first put in and could see Sean Kitteridge on peg 30 netting a fish on his first put in. I then had a couple of small fantails over the groundbait, to rest the line I had a look on the micro fed line, with a 4mm expander, this resulted in 2 more fantails and a skimmer - not much more to write about pellet, as I never had another bite on it.

Back onto the maggot and I managed to keep some reasonable skimmers coming, with a lone crucian and the occasional fantail. Interesting to see the skimmers show up - I guess there's not enough  (or enough active) carp to bully them out. With an hour and a half to go, the peg started to slow down, I'd switchwed to g/bait and maggot over the micro line and had another skimmer over that. I could see Lewis Jones on peg 12 taking carp from the margin, so had a look down to my left, that resulted in two small carp of just over 1lb each.

Paul & myself weighed in all the pegs and it was as predicted,(and bang on form for the first match of the series)with the popular pegs in the main bowl of the lake picking up all the money from the superpool. (The main pool payout is purely section money this year, £40 for a section win, £30 for second in section).

Two decent skimmers lost cost me the section, having to settle for second behind Lewis, although I took top silvers points in the section.

1) Mark Bromsgrove 19.100KG peg 25
2) Paul Faiers 14.020KG peg 24
3) Kev Perry 13.500KG peg 26
4) Lewis Jones 8.670KG peg 12
5) Chris Fox 8.170KG peg 10
6) Clive Pettit 6.770 peg 17

Silvers
1) Paul Faiers 11.420KG peg 24
2) Mark Bromsgrove 9.450KG peg 25
3) Kev Perry 7.900KG peg 25
4) Chris Fox 6.900KG peg 10
5) Charlie Barnes 4.240KG peg 22
6) Lance Tucker 4.170KG peg 28