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Monday Open Match. 7th May 2012

May 8, 2012 Simon 2 comments

Today 21 anglers turned for the bank holiday open match. The weather had once again taken a turn for the worse and the wind had done a 180° and the rain had started. The banks had only just dried out from last weeks heavy rain too.

All the anglers drew and there were 3 pegs left in the bag, Mick Hughes wanted what was left so that left me and Paul Glenfield. There was 8, 32 and 36 left in the bag and poor Paul put his hand in and pulled out 36, I pulled out 8 which left 32 for yesterdays winner Mick.

Fishing was from 12pm to 5pm. The all in was shouted by Paul Jay. Most of the anglers were in to fish right away but then struggling for bites for the rest of the match. Simon on peg 8 had a run of 6 weighers in the first 30 minutes adn then the wind picked up making presentation very difficult. Joff Rogers on peg 7 was having a steady run of fish throughout the match but he was being plagued by foul hooked fish which resulted in a broken 6th section on his Airity, he lost a total of 16 fish.

Mick Jones on peg 2 was catching steadily too chucking the bomb to the corner by peg 3. Just 4oz behind him was Dave Wightman on peg 34 who had more fish but they were a lot smaller in size. Phil Powell on yesterdays winning peg 6 was making the most of the fish that were still in the peg and was steadily edging away with the match helped along by a run of weighers in the last 30 minutes.

Up in the big lake Dan Jones on peg 10 was not far behind Phil but (source, John Bennett) he was spending too much time on his phone and loosing and missing bites, this probably cost him the match and certainly a ton weight at the lake but he still caught enough to take to section win, Well done. The C Section battle was between the purple plonker (Roger Young) on peg 16 and Robin Cave on peg 26. As with A section it was going to be a close finish with just 8oz separating the two. Robin just came out ahead, Well done Robin.

Phil Powell. Winning peg 6

Some of Robin Caves fish.

There's always tomorrow or Wednesday or Saturday or Monday or next Wednesday Dai 😛 😀

The only thing Mick Lane picked up today was Olly the dog 😀

Rain stops and the wind dies down AFTER the match again.

Results

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Phil Powell	6	137-12
2	Dan Jones	10	97-11
3	Mick Jones	2	93-12
4	Dave Wightman	34	93-8
5	Robin Cave	26	90-8
6	Roger Young	16	90-0
7	Simon Mound	8	82-12
8	Joff Rogers	7	74-4
9	Steve Waters	28	68-4
10	Mick Chappell	38	66-8
11	Mick Hughes	32	61-0
12	Dai Thomas	24	60-12
13	Steve Wilson	14	48-8
14	Neil Hutchins	13	40-4
15	Mick Lane	18	36-0
16	Ant Haywood	40	35-0
17	Neil Kiddier	4	27-8
18	Michael Corsini	9	23-12
19	Dennis Lee	30	20-8
–	Paul Glenfield	36	DNW
–	Derek Hammond	22	DNW

21 Anglers Fished

Todays Winner, Phil Powell.

A section Winner. Mick Jones

A Section Second. Dave Wightman

B Section Winner. Dan Jones

B Section Second. Simon Mound

C Section Winner and Section second, Robin Cave and Roger Young

Monday Open Match. 30th April 2012

April 30, 2012 Simon Leave a comment

Just to inform the Monday match regulars that Next Monday’s (7th May) match is a Bank Holiday open and the draw will be at 10.30 am NOT 1pm like normal Monday Opens. Thank you.

Todays Open Paul tried to peg it so the anglers were out of the wind much the same as John did yesterday.

Mick Chappell was making the most of being in the little lake on his own and scores his first double ton of the year, Well done Mick 🙂 Paul Jay was at his second home (Peg 18) and started fishing once he had opened his mail and fed the dog 😛 Paul fished down to the bush and on the waggler. Having 55lb 8oz Dai on peg 16 was not expecting to frame but nether the less he did. Well done.

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Mick Chappell	6	203-0
2	Paul Jay	18	111-12
3	Dai Thomas	16	55-8
4	Les Darvall	8	54-0
5	Ben	10	54-0
6	Steve Williams	13	51-4
7	Dangerous Dave	14	19-8
8	Andy Grims	9	DNW

8 Anglers Fished

Mick Chappell, Todays Winner.

Second place, Paul Jay

Dai Thomas, Third place completing the Frame

Match Reports

Friday Open Match. 6th April 2012

April 6, 2012 Simon Leave a comment

With a overnight temperature of -2 and a slight frost this morning the fishing was going to be hard. Initially there was loads of fish cruising around while the sun was shining. But they soon disappeared and then clouds and wind moved in.

Results

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Paul Jay	24	80-12
2	John Bennett	10	80-8
3	Phil Powell	18	79-8
4	Dan Deakin	14	78-4
5	Mick Lane	28	76-0
6	Kev Orr	31	66-4
7	Andy Johnstone	23	58-8
8	Jonny Broadbent	30	53-0
9	Chris Telling	26	45-4
10	Dave Wightman	13	44-8

13 Anglers Fished

Wednesday Open Match. 4th April 2012

April 4, 2012 Simon

It seems the fish had filled up on Monday and were not very interested in food today. Fishing today would prove hard for the anglers down the lake today. The water is still pretty cold as Mark Newbold found out by taking a dip in peg 8’s margin 😀

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Michael Corsini	6	146-0
2	Phillipe	26	119-12
3	Mick Lane	14	110-4
4	Mark Newbold	8	101-12
5	John Bennett	16	71-8
6	Malc Doyle	24	53-4
7	Paul Jay	22	42-0
8	Steve Williams	18	37-4
9	Dan Deakin	13	33-0
10	Dai Thomas	32	17-8

11 Anglers Fished

Monday Open Match. 19th March 2012

March 20, 2012 Simon 17 comments

Only 3 turned to fish today which is a shame. Hopefully more will turn up when the clocks go forward.

Pos	Name	Peg	Weight
1	Kev Dolton	14	155-0
2	Paul Jay	16	133-0
3	Steve Williams	32	114-8

Kev Managed to catch his fish shallow at 14.5 meters while Steve was plucking fish off the bush on peg 32. Paul also caught his fish from the bush on peg 16, The fish are moving in and hopefully breaking up from their winter shoal.