Pole Series Silvers Table After 5 Matches

Table showing worst result dropped.

Name			Points		Weight			Worst Points		Weight from Worst Points
1	P Faiers		40		83	11		9		33	6
2	M Bromsgrove		40		74	1		10		11	3
4	G Calvert		34		73	10		8		5	3
3	D Wride		33		69	1		3		2	15
5	K Rayner		31		44	6		3		2	9
6	A Hockin		30		41	5		0		0	0
7	M Owens		27		55	2		5		0	12
8	R Wootten		27		54	15		0		0	0
9	C Fox		27		52	3		3		6	0
10	L Tucker		27		46	2		0		0	0
11	B Slipper		27		22	0		0		0	0
12	S Carvello		27		10	14		0		0	0
13	J Osbourne		24		31	14		0		0	0
14	K Perry		23		22	2		0		0	0
15	D Poole		22		11	10		0		0	0
16	M Walsh		20		15	8		0		0	0
17	R Lovering		20		28	3		0		0	0
18	S Johnson		18		46	5		0		0	0
19	G Mewdell		14		7	4		0		0	0
20	R Heatley		14		27	12		0		0	0
21	N Harvey		13		26	3		0		0	0
22	P Lasson		13		11	8		0		0	0
23	D Baker		12		6	2		0		0	0
24	M Michalski		11		19	0		0		0	0
25	M Tomes		9		21	2		0		0	0
26	S Parrtridge		6		3	7		0		0	0
27	A Maysom		5		5	15		0		0	0
28	L Walker		5		11	10		0		0	0
29	P Nicholls		3		1	0		0		0	0
30	D Vowles		0		0	0		0		0	0

Pole Series Overall Table After 5 Matches

 Table showing worst result dropped.

Pole Only 2012 Overall Table
With Worst Result Deducted After 5 Matches
Name			Points		Weight			Worst Points		Weight from worst points
1	R Wootten		39		240	8		0		0	0
2	L Walker		37		220	15		0		0	0
3	S Carvello		36		215	6		0		0	0
4	D Wride		35		299	5		8		22	0
5	M Bromsgrove		34		186	0		6		11	11
6	B Slipper		33		167	14		0		0	0
7	G Calvert		33		124	4		5		24	4
8	L Tucker		32		282	1		3		6	1
9	K Rayner		27		221	4		3		10	3
10	M Owens		26		112	3		5		54	10
11	N Harvey		25		173	3		5		12	1
12	P Faiers		25		168	14		4		10	4
13	K Perry		24		133	6		0		0	0
14	A Hockin		24		91	4		2		29	14
15	G Mewdell		23		117	11		0		0	0
16	R Lovering		22		186	11		0		0	0
17	R Heatley		22		134	15		0		0	0
18	C Fox		22		94	9		3		48	10
19	S Johnson		20		86	14		0		0	0
20	D Baker		16		95	1		0		0	0
21	D Vowles		16		72	9		0		0	0
22	M Walsh		15		114	5		0		0	0
23	P Nicholls		14		35	0		0		0	0
24	P Lasson		13		83	0		0		0	0
25	D Poole		13		36	6		0		0	0
26	J Osbourne		12		50	10		0		0	0
27	A Maysom		11		75	10		0		0	0
28	M Tomes		6		40	5		0		0	0
29	S Parrtridge		5		12	0		0		0	0
30	M Michalski		3		29	2		0		0	0

Pole Only, Round 5 Acorn & Plantation

My turn to fish Acorn, Paddock lake. Out of the bucket comes peg 6, not a bad draw, but with the wind blowing straight down the peg, I wasn't too convinced that today was a good day to draw it. Looking across the bridge to pegs 38 & 40, they had mill pond like conditions and could present light rigs anywhere in their pegs - no surprise to see Lance Tucker and lewis Jones sat there......

I set up a a couple of rigs to fish banded pellet across, one shallow and one at the depth of the shelf. Another pellet rig for full depth and a silvers rig for fishing caster short. There were some fish across to the left hand edge of the bridge, but presenting a bait correctly was impossible, Nick Harvey on peg 7 was emitting strings of expletives, also suffering from the wind wrecking any sort of presentation.

The RH end of the bridge produced four fish in as many drop ins, great, but that was it, not another fish to be had from that line. I gave up and started fishing for silvers after 3 hours, I had some lovely roach to about 14oz on caster, four tench, although three of them were 4 ouncers!! Several carp took a liking to the caster, but the peg seemed to be short of skimmers, which without, I'd struggle in the silvers.

At the end my carp went 33.12 and silvers 14.14 for a dismal nothing in either category, Plantation had fished hard for silvers, with B section only producing 2 fish. Great, I'm in that section next!!

Results on the day:

A;
1) Lance Tucker 122.06 peg 38
2) Lewis Jones 116.14 peg 40

Silvers
1) Paul Faiers 31.00 peg 1
2) Lance Tucker 20.04 peg 38

B:
1) Simon Carvello 58.13 B4
2) Darren 'Noddy' Vowles 33.00 B10

Silvers
1) John Osbourne 1.02 B1
2) Simon Carvello 0.04 B4

C:
1) Glenn Calvert 46.07 C5
2) Mark Broomsgrove 31.05 C8

Silvers
1) Mark Broomsgrove 12.09 C8
2) Andy Hembrow 9.04 C6

Maver Match This - Viaduct Sat 19th May

Really not too much to write about this one, Tony Rixon told me the brekkie in woddy's cafe was good, they only did rolls on the morning, which were good, but not the same as a full fry up.
Peg 90 in the corner of Cary was to be my home for 5 hours and a boring home it proved to be!!

I set up a lead rod, two wagglers, one shallow, one deep and a three pole rigs, a margin rig, a meat rig for 6-7m and a banded pellet rig for 14.5m.

I struggled to get a bite, but I wasn't alone, it took an hour or so before I hooked and landed, what turned out to be a solitary carp, by casting towards the tree overhanging the end bank by peg 92 (I think).

That was it, no more carp, two nomadic skimmers completed by days efforts and I packed up with half an hour to go, so I don't have the results.

Pole Only Series Tables After 4 Matches

The Overall Table

Name			Points		Weight
1	R Wootten		39		240	8
2	D Wride		35		221	8
3	B Slipper		33		167	14
4	M Broomsgrove		31		166	8
5	L Walker		29		192	3
6	G Calvert		28		102	2
7	S Carvello		26		156	9
8	M Owens		26		112	3
9	L Tucker		25		159	11
10	P Faiers		25		128	15
11	K Rayner		24		157	13
12	K Perry		24		133	6
13	N Harvey		23		108	5
14	R Lovering		22		186	11
15	C Fox		22		94	9
16	A Hockin		18		92	3
17	G Mewdell		17		105	4
18	D Baker		16		95	1
19	M Walsh		15		114	5
20	R Heatley		15		106	6
21	S Johnson		14		62	10
22	A Maysom		11		75	10
23	P Lasson		9		74	6
24	D Poole		8		25	0
25	J Osbourne		7		39	14
26	D Vowles		7		39	9
27	P Nicholls		7		14	1
28	M Tomes		6		40	5
29	S Parrtridge		5		12	0
30	M Michalski		3		29	2

Silvers Table

Name			Points		Weight
1	M Broomsgrove		40		72	11
2	P Faiers		39		86	1
3	G Calvert		34		73	10
4	D Wride		29		55	9
5	K Rayner		29		37	8
6	R Wootten		27		54	15
7	B Slipper		27		22	0
8	D Baker		24		43	5
9	M Owens		24		37	4
10	A Hockin		23		39	12
11	K Perry		23		22	2
12	R Lovering		20		28	3
13	M Walsh		20		15	8
14	C Fox		18		46	5
15	L Tucker		18		25	14
16	N Harvey		18		10	10
17	D Poole		16		11	2
18	J Osbourne		14		30	12
19	R Heatley		14		27	12
20	S Carvello		14		7	4
21	G Mewdell		13		26	3
22	P Lasson		13		11	8
23	S Johnson		12		6	2
24	M Michalski		11		19	0
25	M Tomes		9		21	2
26	S Parrtridge		6		3	7
27	L Walker		5		11	10
28	A Maysom		5		5	15
29	P Nicholls		3		1	0
30	D Vowles		0		0	0

Pole Only Round 4, 2012Sunday 29th April

If I wasn't helping Paul organise this one, the forecasted weather may well have had me crying off and watching some football on the telly!! The drive down was eventful, a Mondeo flying down into the dip by The Airport Tavern and hitting the large flood was evidence of someone not paying attention to the road.

Once at the draw, there were some requests to cancel the match and some others to reduce it to 5 hours, we did put back the draw back 1/2 an hour and the start time, as it was reported that things should improve later in the day.

It was a free draw today and I managed to get C section, the island of Horseshoe Lake at Plantation. We had to reduce the numbers in the sections, due to no shows - it would be good if people rang!!Who'd be a match organiser....

There were some trees down at Plantation, but that was on the main lake, not Horseshoe, it looked nicely coloured but the ferocity of the wind and rain gave the portent of the day ahead. I set up a MW diamond 0.6g, which might seem excessive given the depth, but it did sit stable in the wind and severe surface skim. This had 0.10 and a 20 6313, a lighter diamond with a B960 and a band, just in case...... Yes, you're right it was a waste of time, so no more about it, as it stayed in the rig roost. I also set up a margin rig, more in hope than expectation as the margin was only 15 - 18" deep, too shallow I felt in the cold wind and rain.

I started at 5m maggot over caster and had 3 small carp in the first hour, then a 12oz perch, silvers being hard to come by. It then took me nearly an hour to get another bite, which came as I was struggling to get a neoprene glove on (as my fingers were numb and siezing up), Mark Broomsgrove opposite saw the elastic coming out and told me, the fish tried to get into the bankside rushes and in my attempt to turn it, with stiff and freezing arms and shoulders, it rolled on the surface, a huge perch, 3lb I reckon, sadly the roll on the surface disgorged the hook as neatly as any slammo.

I suffered a biteless 3rd hour and tried groundbait/pimkie and some chopped worm, to no avail The visits to the margin proved equally fruitless, as I suspected they would. It took until 35 minutes before the end before I had another bite and I landed 3 more carp and a roach not far off 1lb before the all out.  I wasn't disapponted to finish, miraculously with 10 minutes of the all out, the lakes tempest  ravaged surface took on a smooth glass like sheen - it happens far too often to be mere coincidence, doesn't it?

My 2 quality silvers went 1.11 and the carp 14.11, the middle 4 blank hours being costly. Acorn lake saw only 3 left at the end to weigh in, it was some of the worst weather (and the coldest April day) that I've fished in. I have some soggy weigh sheets to try and decipher now, I doubt if I will put an update to the tables until next weekend.

Thanks to Ken Rayner for the use of his Salter scales.

A Section (Acorn Paddock Lake)

1) Lewis Walker 47.04 peg 40
2) Simon Carvello 23.00 peg 6

Silvers

1) Simon Carvello 3.08 peg 6
2) Scott Smallwood 2.00 peg 36

B Section (Plantation Horseshoe Outside bank)

1) Rod Wootten 26.04 peg B7
2) John Page 24.12 peg B6

Silvers

1) Mark Broomsgrove 11.03 peg B4
2) Glenn Calvert 8.09 peg B5


C Section (Plantation Horseshoe Island pegs)

1) Brian Slipper 29.09 peg C3
2) Lance Tucker 27.00 peg C10

Silvers

1) Paul Faiers 8.04 peg C1
2) Brian Slipper 5.03 peg C3

Maver Match, Viaduct, Sat 28th April 2012

In January I had a spare £100, so booked tickets for the two Maver qualifiers on Viaduct. It seemed a good idea at the time and Viaduct does seem to be the place, where my luck at the drawbag, sometimes exceeds my usual dismal dips into hats, tins or bait boxes.

Simples. That was the plan for today, one waggler rod, two lead rods and a couple of pole rigs, the waggler being one of those middy clear wagglers, they cast well and just need a little shotting (or a big swivel) to get them sat perfectly. The two lead rods were virtually identical, except for the hooklengths, one was 12" of 0.16 and a Guru 16 with a band, the other 18" of 0.18 with a 16 Guru and a quickstop for meat or bread. Pole rigs were a MW diamond on 0.18 to 0.16 with a 16 B960 and a MW slim power on 0.16 with a 16 Drennan Hair Rigger on 0.14.

Bait tray was simple, 8mm meat, 8mm pellet and 6mm pellet, with a, reduced to 30p in the Esso garage, loaf of bread to pop up should that be necessary - as it wasn't (or didn't work) no more of it and the bread became duck food.

Sadly my consistently shite drawing arm, once again played a blinder, putting me on one of the best skimmer pegs (70 on Lodge) - with no silvers qualification, nor money to fish for. I started on the lead and 8mm pellet and had my one and only liner within 10 minutes of the start, no ther indications on the lead on the several occasions I tried it. The wind (just for a change) was rendering the waggler a waste of time, as the surface drag from L to R and the undertow in the opposite direction thwarted all attempts to keep it in one place for more than a few seconds.

The pole at 12m produced a 5lb carp on the fith or 6th put in and that was to be the sole representative of Cypry's relatives to grace my net. I had a nice days fishing, I filled the bottom rung of my keepnet with skimmers and bream, 45-50lb would be a conservative estimate, but it was, in the context of the day, a total waste of time. I wasn't alone with most pegs on my bank, except 73 (who caught a few carp down to the tree) not weighing in. Oh well, I've another opportunity on 19th may, a carp peg would be nice.....

Rather than my usual photocopies of the weigh sheets, Steve gave me some hand written results, including some info on baits etc.

1) Tont Gilbert 196.08 peg 64(The Monk) 31 Carp on double 8mm meat at 16m in the margin
2) Martin Preston 165.07 peg 81 18 Carp on 11mm pellet on the lead
3) Jeb Attwood 158.08 peg 110 pellet on the waggler
4) Miles levy 139.13 peg 86
5) Ray Hayward 134.12 peg 102
6) Roland Lucas 128.14 peg 85

Avon Angling Open, Wildmarsh, 22/04/12

I like fishing Wildmarsh, it usually fishes a lot harder in matches, than pleasure fishing and it doesn't take huge weights to frame. I was grateful for the 10.00 draw, as I had been into town the night before on my leaving 'do'. (Large quantities of Jaegerbombs and then fishing really don't mix.......)

Still once I'd got to peg 29 and set up a small groundbait feeder, a waggler and two pole rigs, I was feeling much better, the two rigs were a 0.5g MW diamond to fish at 12m and a Carpa Chimp 4x14 to fish close in. On the whistle I fed caster short, micros, caster and dead maggot at 12m, then had 1/2 an hour on the g/bait feeder, which produced on tiny roach. That went up the bank and I had a look over the 12m line and almost straight away hooked and lost a good fish, straight after I had a decent skimmer. Then another, but bites were hard to come by, a look on the close rig produced a few roach, but not at anywhere near the rate needed to make it a viable option.

Back to 12m and a tench was gratefully netted, by now the rain in the face had stopped, but the wind had increased making presentation at 12m impossible. A switch to the waggler brought a bream to the net, but even with 12" of line on the bottom and 3 No8 shot, the wind was pushing it through as if it was rigged with sails.

I started a new line at 7m to my left, hoping that the presentation would be better, that produced nothing, the feeder was resorted to again, but I had nothing on it. I did wonder if g/bait was the problem, as I didn't catch over it at all, only where I fed micros and caster. I tried a new feeder line with micros and dead reds, all to no avail. So the odd roach and motherless minnow were all I could manage for the last hour or so, the match ruined for me and the others on the spit (with the exception of the method slingers...) by the wind.

My 11lb odd was just out of the silvers money, one more decent skimmer would have done it, still you can change the way you fish, but you can't change the weather - unless of course you are a water company and announce a drought, hasn't it rained most days since they told us the South West was in drought??

1.      Adrian Jefferies 32-14-0 peg 25

2.      Dean Malin 27-08-0 peg 42

3.      Tony Rixon 26-09-0 peg 30

4.      Steve Kedge 26-02-0 peg 9

5.      Steve Tucker 24-07-0 peg 58

6.      Glen Calvert 23-01-0 peg 6

  Silvers:

1.      Steve Tucker 16-10-0 peg 58

2.      Paul Faiers 16-05-0 peg 20

3.      Tony Rixon 15-0-0 peg 30