Jinx 2 day Special. 27th and 28th April 2012

The start of a new year and the start of a new JINX Series. This year Malc was running a warm up for the series (Hardly a WARM up) in the form of a 2 dayer. Malc was unable to attend the first match due to having to work 😯 Friday morning and the JINX mob descended on the car park and started unloading their gear. With all the hello’s done with we decided to get on with the draw as the dark clouds were looming over the lake and nobody likes to set up in the rain.

As it was only 2 days all the pegs were in the bag for a random draw both days as you couldn’t fish a different section each day. Fishing was from 12pm-6pm so everyone had plenty of time to set up. Once everyone was set up the wind dropped and the heavens opened up.

Within the first 5 minutes Neil Riddy on peg 34 was in to his second fish and I was just landing my first fish on peg 9. Mat on peg 32 had hooked and lost a carp too. Due to the nasty weather I never got a chance to go and take any pictures like normal and was taking much notice of anything other than trying to stay dry.

The rain continued for the whole match 🙁 so there was not much banter on the day. Jinx virgin Dave Wall on peg 16 had been catching through out the match from the right hand side as had Nick Williams on peg 19 catching off the bush by the boat. Gem ‘THE MINX’ on peg 26 had not been having a good day and had only managed 1 roach much to the delight of the other 18 anglers, myself included 😛

As soon as the match was over the rain stopped and the sun came out for a short while. At least we could do the weigh in in the dry. Here is the tale of the scales….

Results. Day 1.

A Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Neil Riddy	34	125-8	1
2nd	Peter Morton	3	69-2	2
3rd	Dave Moore	6	65-4	3
4th	Geoff Palmer	8	63-0	4
5th	Marcus Burgess	39	56-2	5
6th	Simon Watkins	7	16-4	6

B Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Clive Pritchard	13	77-0	1
2nd	Simon Mound	9	49-4	2
3rd	Dai Thomas	30	37-4	3
4th	Keith Powell	10	27-8	4
5th	Kev Loveland	28	25-8	5
6th	Mat Edwards	32	22-8	6

C Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Dave Wall	16	79-8	1
2nd	Nick Williams	19	75-0	2
3rd	Paul Roberts	23	60-8	3
4th	Fred Parker	21	56-8	4
5th	Dave Collier	25	13-12	5
6th	Nick Watkins-Price	14	1-0	6
7th	Gem Doyle	26	0-8oz

Day Points

Points	Name
1	Neil Riddy
1	Clive Pritchard
1	Dave Wall
2	Peter Morton
2	Simon Mound
2	Nick Williams

Day 2.

We all woke up to the sound of strong gust of wind blasting the lake. The wind had done a total 180° and was now blowing from the little lake towards peg 19 and 21. Most people had been to the harvester for a breakfast and a warm up before the match.

With everyone ready for the draw we again got the draw under-way early so everyone could have some extra time to set up. Malc had turned up today to fish instead of Gem who was stick tucked up in the caravan in the warm. It was spitting with rain and extremely windy.

Much the same as yesterday there was not much banter as it was horrid conditions again and everyone was either to cold or could not hear anyone else as the wind was battering the anglers.

A section was a bit of a crazy section today as Dave Collier and Kev Loveland (both in A section) had decided not to fish due to the weather which left peg 6 and 39 out as well as 37. So Mat who had draw peg 3 had a nice day’s pleasure fishing with the nearest person to him being who ever was driving past on the M40 Peter Morton who was on peg 3 yesterday had draw the complete opposite and was sitting on peg 19 today with the full force of the wind blasting his face.

Most people today started on the bomb and feeder as the wind was blowing poles all over the place. The Odd fish was coming out. Malc fishing on peg 25 then made his first visit of the day to his weigh station with a 21lb 8oz common caught on the past by the bush. Picture below….

Simon Watkins on peg 30 had put the information John B gave him to good use and had started catching a good run of 14lb plus fish and was making regular visits to the weigh station. He was using a special Maver telescopic topkit 😆 Unknown to him, Maver topkits for his pole are not telescopic and we pointed out to his that they were in fact put over joints, small error but he was still landing the fish on them. Also doing well was Paul Roberts on peg 32 chucking the feeder down by peg 33, he was getting a good run of fish through out the match.

Mat all on his own was in fact doing a great job of catching after his miserable day on peg 32 and was putting together a good weight for second on the day. Mugger Morton on peg 19 was fishing to the boat and was storming along despite stopping and going for a walk for half an hour he managed to win on the day which ultimately contributed to his Overall win of the 2 days. 😀

Sorry for the lack of pictures, here are the results for the final day…

Day 2 Results

A Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Mat Edwards	3	130-4	1
2nd	Geoff Palmer	8	89-4	2
3rd	Marcus Burgess	7	62-12	3
4th	Keith Powell	34	59-6	4
—	Dave Collier	6	DNF	7
–	Kev Loveland	39	DNF	7

B Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Simon Watkins	30	121-12	1
2nd	Paul Roberts	32	119-12	2
3rd	Neil Riddy	9	116-12	3
4th	Dave Moore	13	73-8	4
5th	Nick Watkins-Price	10	40-8	5
6th	Simon Mound	28	28-0	6

C Section
Pos	Name	Peg	Weight	Points
1st	Peter Morton	19	140-8	1
2nd	Fred Parker	16	109-8	2
3rd	Malc Doyle	25	87-12	3
4th	Clive Pritchard	23	63-8	4
5th	Dai Thomas	26	63-4	5
6th	Dave Wall	21	30-0	6
7th	Nick Williams	14	27-0	7

Final Points (weight Countback on Ties)

Points	Name
3	Peter Morton
4	Neil Riddy
5	Paul Roberts
5	Clive Pritchard
6	Fred Parker

Not many pictures taken due to the very poor weather, but here is one of Malc with a 21-8 common caught from peg 25 on paste.

Well done to Peter Morton for the overall win and also taking Peg king for peg 19.

Some of the Jinxster’s stayed over to fish the Open match today but I think most had had enough of the weather, but 8 others turned up to fish despite this weather…..