The Easter festival this year is on the 7th, 8th and 9th of April. John is getting a list of names together for this year. As always last years entrants have first refusal on places. If you are wanting to fish again this year please confirm with John on 07774 618688.
The Sections for the Easter festival are as Follows…
Section 1.. 34, 8, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 26
Section 2.. 13, 14, 27, 31, 19, 9, 7, 2
Section 3.. 21, 40, 10, 29, 35, 38, 4, 6
With the really low temperatures at the lake this weekend all matches have been cancelled. The ice is very thick and conditions are very dangerous.
Its supposed to be thawing out through the week. Lets hope its nice for the next round of the Spring League this Sunday.
John would like to let everyone know that this round will still take place. If in doubt please ring John.
Is that big enough for you Michael 😛
I HAVE DECIDED TO CANCEL TOMORROWS OPEN MATCH DUE TO THE EXSTREME OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES, I WILL BE GOING DOWN THE LAKE MID MORNING TO HAVE A LOOK AND BREAK SOME ICE.
THE THICKNESS OF THE ICE IS NOT REALY A PROBLEM AS REGUARDS THE SPRING PAIRS MATCH AS WE HAVE BROKEN ICE IN MUCH COLDER CONDITIONS.
,HOWEVER WITH THE FORCAST OF SNOW DEPENDING ON WHICH WEATHER REPORT YOU LOOK AT, WITH A POSSIBLE 5 INCHES OR MORE I HAVE TO CONSIDER TRAVELLING CONDITIONS, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO PUT ANYBODY IN AN UNSAFE SITUATION, SO KEEPING A LOOK ON THE WEATHER REPORTS I WILL MAKE A DECISION BY 5-30 TOMORROW.
I WILL HOLD AN OPEN ON THE LAKE FOR THE INTREPID ( OR DAFT) ANGLERS WHO ARE DETERMINED TO GET OUT
After much discussion on the site and via phone calls it has been deemed necessary to alter the format of the pairs, the sticking point was fishing 5 anglers in each section, if on the draw you had 5 very strong anglers in the same section, it would be very difficult for those anglers to remain competitive in the rest of the rounds with only 5 points available. So we are now running with 2 split sections of 10 this should make it better and hopefully fairer.
On the first round the pairs will draw for A or B and then A section will draw from the following pegs. 31 34 THE NEXT PEG IS EITHER 36 37 OR 38 WE HAVE NOT TOTALY DECIDED ON THIS ONE YET, THEN PEG 2 this peg will relie on the anglers integrity with the weighing of big fish,The next pegs are 4 7 8 9 10 13.
B section will then draw from the following pegs, 14 15 17 18 22 23 25 26 28 29 ..
Payouts..on day one we will be one team short mick lane and phil powell are unable to attend so will drop this match from the series ( that will be 2 flyers left for us mere mortals to draw) Team money round 1 is as follows 1st team £82 2nd £72 3rd £62.
with 20 anglers the payout will be 1st team £90 2nd £80 3rd £70.
with 20 anglers fishing the final money payout will be 1st £150 2nd £135 3rd £115. at the end of the 6 match series
I MUST APOLOGISE TO JOHN DRAPER WHO HAS ALREADY HAS DONE ALL THE PAPER WORK FOR THE PREVIOUS FORMAT, WE WILL KEEP THAT ON FILE SHOULD WE DECIDE TO DO SOMTHING OF THE SAME IN THE FUTURE.
I think Andy Rayment cant make the first match i dont know if his partner Mark Newblold can get a partner or not it would make it a lot easier if he could please let me know.
THERE IS AN OPEN MATCH ON SATURDAY IF ANYBODY WANTS A PRACTICE ETC.
Listen out for Malcs topkit breaking on the night match video 😀