Cary and Lodge were in today, I had no real preference for which, lately, whichever lake I've been on, the other has won. 28 fishing today, I assumed my usual place near the front of the queue for the draw and pulled out 81, a peg that has not been top of everyones wish list recently. It was good to see my old travelling partner and drinking buddy, Graham Hunt today, one of his very rare appearances on a commercial.
I was inclined to fish for silvers, but when I got there, carp were visible, by their black shapes and the large blows off the end of the spit. With the wind off my back, I knew presenting the waggler wouldn't be difficult, so set up a full depth waggler to fish banded 8mm, a lead rod, two similar rigs to fish open water on the pole, MW diamonds one for caster/worm and one for banded pellet. A rig to fish the margins completed the set up.
I fed the margins heavily with caster and included some meat, suffice to say that I had one bite on meat and a couple of very small skimmers and one roach on worm, the margins didn't seem to have any feeding carp or tench in them.
I started the match on the lead, without so much as a liner, so after 20 minutes, switched to the waggler, this produced 5 fish in the first 2 hours, then I started fouling fish, they seemed to be coming up in the water, although I couldn't catch shallow, not even a bite. I then had a tench and a skimmer on the waggler - surely signifying that the carp had moved. All bites on the wag then dried up.
I persevered with the margins, to no avail, tried searching round the peg with the lead, not so much as a liner - the match was rapidly turning into a slog. In desperation, for the last hour I tried 6mm devils spawn, at 14.5m where I'd been feeding 6mm hard pellet and 3mm devils spawn. I had a few skimmers until the end of the match, although a carp did move in and push them out for 20 minutes. To really rub salt in the wounds, I was on the next peg to the winner (although the spit had meant I didn't know until the end), although I managed to avoid the battering either side by beating peg 85, with my 5 carp going 40.10 and 11.14 of skimmers and a tench for 51.14.
It will be good to get some settled weather and the spawning season behind us, as the fishing at most venues has been inconsistent lately.
1) P Cardwell 131.04 peg 80
2) J Parkin 127.04 peg 76
3) R Hayward 125.06 peg 102
4) C Davis 119.14 peg 99
5) D Bull 95.13 peg 105
6) D Vickery 83.09 peg 86
Silvers
1) J Green 49.12 peg 100
2) G Hunt 39.11 peg 68
3) N Easton 39.03 peg 69
4) R Coles 32.09 peg 97
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Monday, 30 May 2011
Viaduct Match Lake, Sunday 29th May 2011
An Avon Angling open (or Tony Rixon Pension Fund...)on Viaduct match lake had me fancying some silvers action, although when I drew peg 46 the consensus was that it wasn't the best of draws. Eddy Wynne said "I'll shake your hand if you get a weight from that peg" - a pint would have been better, but the challenge was on.
Not surprisingly, no island chuck for me (I've never drawn one on this lake), but I still set up a feeder to fish groundbait and dead maggot in open water, as it was forecast to be windy - although as usual, the weathermen were wide of the mark. I'd brough one waggler rod, in case it was windy and I'd got an island chuck (I can dream). I'd opted to bring my latest addition to my rod collection (from ebay)a Normark Avenger. This had a 3AAA insert peacock on 0.15 main line to a 0.12 hooklength and a 18 63-13 hook.
The pole rigs were simple, a sensas pencil to fish caster if the wind allowed, a MW diamond to fish caster, dead maggot or, as a last resort, devils spawn. I also set up a nondescript float to fish down the edge, but never hd a bite down there, so no more of that.
I started on the feeder after cupping in some g/bait and dead maggot at 11m towards my left and g/bait with caster to the right, again at 11m. The feeder produced a couple of knocks and a small skimmer, but it didn't seem right, I kept at it for half an hour to let the pole lines settle, before chucking it up the bank. I dropped in over the g/bait and dead maggot, with live double maggot on the hook and had 3 or 4 decent skimmers one after the other, then a wait, then a couple more, this pattern continued for an hour or so, but the biteless gaps got longer and the fish came in ones.
Peg 47 had started catching skimmers by this time, after a fruitless go on the shallow wag to the island, I looked over the g/bait and caster line, to no avail - infact I' won't mention it again, as I didn't catch anything from it. Martin McMahon was catching carp & F1's on the feeder from his island chuck on peg 45.
I wondered if I could pull the fish away from the island, so started loose feeding caster at the limit of my peg, the decision to bring the Avenger was the wrong one, I had three bites in the first three put ins and lost the hook on the strike on two and a broken hooklength on the third as the carp ran towards the island. I think using the 0.12 hooklength, I'd have been better with a Microlight. Probably cost me third place......
I upped the hooklength to 0.13 and didn't lose any more hooks, but got less bites, by keeping the caster going in by catapult, I managed a few more skimmers and a 4lb carp.
I thought the decent spell on skimmers that peg 47 had would beat me, but my run of fish on the waggler just got me 2nd in the silvers, picking up the first place money by default, as Ricko's pension fund was swelled by him winning the silvers and the match - even though the draw was a bit dubious..... Can Dean read braille???
1) Tony Rixon 43.10 peg 51
2) Martin McMahon 35.13 peg 45
3)= Dean Malin 29.03 peg 52
3)= Tom Mangnall 29.03 peg 40
5) Eddie Wynne 26.10 peg 48
6) Chris Fox 25.11 peg 46
Silvers
1) Tony Rixon 38.06 peg 51
2) Chris Fox 21.00 peg 46
Not surprisingly, no island chuck for me (I've never drawn one on this lake), but I still set up a feeder to fish groundbait and dead maggot in open water, as it was forecast to be windy - although as usual, the weathermen were wide of the mark. I'd brough one waggler rod, in case it was windy and I'd got an island chuck (I can dream). I'd opted to bring my latest addition to my rod collection (from ebay)a Normark Avenger. This had a 3AAA insert peacock on 0.15 main line to a 0.12 hooklength and a 18 63-13 hook.
The pole rigs were simple, a sensas pencil to fish caster if the wind allowed, a MW diamond to fish caster, dead maggot or, as a last resort, devils spawn. I also set up a nondescript float to fish down the edge, but never hd a bite down there, so no more of that.
I started on the feeder after cupping in some g/bait and dead maggot at 11m towards my left and g/bait with caster to the right, again at 11m. The feeder produced a couple of knocks and a small skimmer, but it didn't seem right, I kept at it for half an hour to let the pole lines settle, before chucking it up the bank. I dropped in over the g/bait and dead maggot, with live double maggot on the hook and had 3 or 4 decent skimmers one after the other, then a wait, then a couple more, this pattern continued for an hour or so, but the biteless gaps got longer and the fish came in ones.
Peg 47 had started catching skimmers by this time, after a fruitless go on the shallow wag to the island, I looked over the g/bait and caster line, to no avail - infact I' won't mention it again, as I didn't catch anything from it. Martin McMahon was catching carp & F1's on the feeder from his island chuck on peg 45.
I wondered if I could pull the fish away from the island, so started loose feeding caster at the limit of my peg, the decision to bring the Avenger was the wrong one, I had three bites in the first three put ins and lost the hook on the strike on two and a broken hooklength on the third as the carp ran towards the island. I think using the 0.12 hooklength, I'd have been better with a Microlight. Probably cost me third place......
I upped the hooklength to 0.13 and didn't lose any more hooks, but got less bites, by keeping the caster going in by catapult, I managed a few more skimmers and a 4lb carp.
I thought the decent spell on skimmers that peg 47 had would beat me, but my run of fish on the waggler just got me 2nd in the silvers, picking up the first place money by default, as Ricko's pension fund was swelled by him winning the silvers and the match - even though the draw was a bit dubious..... Can Dean read braille???
1) Tony Rixon 43.10 peg 51
2) Martin McMahon 35.13 peg 45
3)= Dean Malin 29.03 peg 52
3)= Tom Mangnall 29.03 peg 40
5) Eddie Wynne 26.10 peg 48
6) Chris Fox 25.11 peg 46
Silvers
1) Tony Rixon 38.06 peg 51
2) Chris Fox 21.00 peg 46
Monday, 23 May 2011
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
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
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Trinity Waters Two Day Festival 2011
Trinity Waters Two Day Festival
Saturday June 25th & Sunday June 26th 2011
£50 Entry – 100% payout + some extra prize money from sponsorship
Peg fees paid by sponsor.
Both days on Woodland Lake, limited to 20 anglers.
Draw: 09.30. Fish: 11.00- 1700
Payout if 20 fish:
Overall
1st - £250
2nd - £175
3rd – 125
4th - £90
Silvers
1st - £150
2nd – 100
3rd - £60
4 x sections of five, both days, £50 for section winner.
(all payouts subject to revision if less than 20 fish)
Result decided by section points and then weight in the event of a tie.
To enter, please contact:
Andy Hembrow 07880566943
Saturday June 25th & Sunday June 26th 2011
Sponsored by Brittons Ash Garage, Taunton.
£50 Entry – 100% payout + some extra prize money from sponsorship
Peg fees paid by sponsor.
Both days on Woodland Lake, limited to 20 anglers.
Draw: 09.30. Fish: 11.00- 1700
Payout if 20 fish:
Overall
1st - £250
2nd - £175
3rd – 125
4th - £90
Silvers
1st - £150
2nd – 100
3rd - £60
4 x sections of five, both days, £50 for section winner.
(all payouts subject to revision if less than 20 fish)
Result decided by section points and then weight in the event of a tie.
To enter, please contact:
Andy Hembrow 07880566943
Monday, 16 May 2011
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.
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.
Landsend Open Saturday 14th May
I'd already decided to fish for silvers as soon as I booked in for this one. Perhaps not the wisest way to approach a match.....
17 fished, so the match lake and the back bank of the specimen lake were used, I drew peg 7. Once I got to the peg I could see that the far bank looked fairly inviting for carp, so rather than stick to my all out silvers attack, I did set up one MW cookie on 0.17 /0.15 to a 18 B960 with a hair rigged band - just in case!!
The other rigs were my usual silvers attack, a Malman winter wire on 0.13 to 0.11 and a 18 63-13, a sensal pencil on 0.11/0.10 and a 20 63-13 and one that I never seem to catch on, a MW slim power on 0.13/0.11 with a 18 808 for devils spawn (soft pellet).
Caster was to be the main line of attack, at 7m and topset, soft pellet went in at 13m to my left towards the gap, that produced one decent skimmer and nothing else, so no more to say abouit that. The 7m line produced a few small perch and a couple of decent F1's, before a switch to the topkit line brought some bigger perch on double caster. It seemed to be fishing hard, although I could only see 19 opposite, the anglers on my bank weren't exactly bagging.
By the half way point, the silvers action had slowed and a few carp were showing themselves up on the far shelf (the water seems to be down 18" or so). The fish were 16m away, towards the gap, I had been pinging a few 6mm's over and decided it was time for a look. The gusting, swirling wind, which apart from making the pencil float useless, hadn't affected the 7m and topkit lines, but it was virtually impossible to present a bait properly at 16m. I stuck at it a while and had 5 carp, but it was getting more and more difficult to present and my back was suffering.
Back on the silvers and I had another carp on th topkit line, another F1 and a couple more perch before the all out. I'd managed to put myself one out of the silvers money by 1lb and one out of the overall money by 2lb 15oz - well done for not sticking to one or the other!!
Specimen lake produced a few munters to take the top spot, with the opposite bank to me on match lake making up the frame.
1) Dan White 88.13 peg 31
2) Rod Wootton 80.09 peg 19
3) Scott Puddy 77.14 peg 19
4) Tom Mangnall 60.00 peg 24
=5) Mike West 54.08 peg 13
=5) Tom Thick 54.08 peg 33
7) Chris Fox 51.09
Silvers
1) Tom Thick 22.00 peg 33
2) Tom Mangnall 19.12 peg 24
3) Chris Fox 18.12 peg 7
17 fished, so the match lake and the back bank of the specimen lake were used, I drew peg 7. Once I got to the peg I could see that the far bank looked fairly inviting for carp, so rather than stick to my all out silvers attack, I did set up one MW cookie on 0.17 /0.15 to a 18 B960 with a hair rigged band - just in case!!
The other rigs were my usual silvers attack, a Malman winter wire on 0.13 to 0.11 and a 18 63-13, a sensal pencil on 0.11/0.10 and a 20 63-13 and one that I never seem to catch on, a MW slim power on 0.13/0.11 with a 18 808 for devils spawn (soft pellet).
Caster was to be the main line of attack, at 7m and topset, soft pellet went in at 13m to my left towards the gap, that produced one decent skimmer and nothing else, so no more to say abouit that. The 7m line produced a few small perch and a couple of decent F1's, before a switch to the topkit line brought some bigger perch on double caster. It seemed to be fishing hard, although I could only see 19 opposite, the anglers on my bank weren't exactly bagging.
By the half way point, the silvers action had slowed and a few carp were showing themselves up on the far shelf (the water seems to be down 18" or so). The fish were 16m away, towards the gap, I had been pinging a few 6mm's over and decided it was time for a look. The gusting, swirling wind, which apart from making the pencil float useless, hadn't affected the 7m and topkit lines, but it was virtually impossible to present a bait properly at 16m. I stuck at it a while and had 5 carp, but it was getting more and more difficult to present and my back was suffering.
Back on the silvers and I had another carp on th topkit line, another F1 and a couple more perch before the all out. I'd managed to put myself one out of the silvers money by 1lb and one out of the overall money by 2lb 15oz - well done for not sticking to one or the other!!
Specimen lake produced a few munters to take the top spot, with the opposite bank to me on match lake making up the frame.
1) Dan White 88.13 peg 31
2) Rod Wootton 80.09 peg 19
3) Scott Puddy 77.14 peg 19
4) Tom Mangnall 60.00 peg 24
=5) Mike West 54.08 peg 13
=5) Tom Thick 54.08 peg 33
7) Chris Fox 51.09
Silvers
1) Tom Thick 22.00 peg 33
2) Tom Mangnall 19.12 peg 24
3) Chris Fox 18.12 peg 7
Sunday, 8 May 2011
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 4mad 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.
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
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.
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