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Bank Holiday Open Match. 2nd May 2011

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Very windy down the lake again today

17 anglers turned up today on a very very windy day down the lake. It was windy yesterday as well but hopes of it dying down were shattered at 7.30 when branches started dropping off the tree’s as the wind picked up again.

Before everyone else got to the lake John had a bit of a problem with a cormorant. He had been eating the fish from the lake and then having a bath in the salt dips…

 

Naughty Bird

 

Pretty much everyone today was going to be suffering from the wind in one way or another.

More to follow…bed time 🙂

 

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Simon Mound 8 152-4
2 Paul Jay 34 111-0
3 Andy Camden 14 109-4
4 Pat Pritchard 22 87-8
5 Richard Doolan 9 78-0
6 Dai Thomas 16 75-8
7 Mick Hughes 26 75-0
8 Malc Doyle 40 73-8
9 Ant Haywood 18 70-4
10 Tony Wymmick 24 70-0
11 Dave Whiteman 6 59-4
12 Marcus Burgess 2 52-12
13 John Bennett 38 50-4
14 Nick Horne 4 46-8
15 Gem Doyle 13 37-4
16 Lol Summers 7 12-8 TB
17 Andy Johnstone 10 DNW TB

17 Anglers Fished    TB=Tipped Back

 

Paul Jay on peg 34

 

 

Birthday Boy John Bennett without his party hat 😛

Malc Doyle on peg 40

Chunk, I mean Marcus Burgess on peg 2 😉

Nick Horne on peg 4

Dave Whiteman sucking a cigar on peg 6

Laurie Summers on peg 7

Richard Doolan with a weigher from peg 9

Me with a carp caught on the tip from the far bank on my old faithful... boilie 😀

My weigher having a nice salt solution bath

Laurie getting in on the act too

Thanks for looking in on the blog. Eddie, Simon and John.

Saturday 16th April 2011 Open Match

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Waiting for the draw

 

The weather down the lake today was nice and sunny but as the match progressed it went cloudy. Very little wind on the lake today.

15 anglers turned up today for the open match. John had pegged to the little lake and the bowl and peg 14 and 16 in the big lake. There was also 2 pleasure anglers on the carp park bank.

Fishing today was from 12.15 to 5.15.

The actual fishing was quite hard going today. Everyone caught but it was very slow going. John on peg 16 was catching steady off the bush to his left but started catching regularly in the last hour of the match. Andy on peg 40 had been fishing shallow at 14.5 meters and had been picking fish off through out the match but could not put a good run of fish together. Simon on peg 7 had caught from the 6 meter line at the start of the match and then switched to fishing the bomb to the far bank but could only get a bite right next tot he bank in the cut out.

Nick Horn on peg 32 was picking up the odd carp from the bush and Simon Enticott on peg 9 started finding a few fish in the last hour also. Mick Hughes was catching from peg 4 along with Ernie on peg 38. Everyone else was struggling for bites. The lake fished pretty much the same as last Saturday.

 

Me in to a carp after 2 minutes of fishing

Nearly there

Not a bad start. 15lb 8oz

 

Geoff on peg 9 into his first fish

Nick on peg 32 with his first fish

I hooked this skimmer whilst reeling in, ooops. I still weighed it 😀

Where I was catching on the tip

Geoff with a 16lb'er

My last fish of the day, another 15lb'er

Mick Lane on peg 14 getting some practice in for the Easter Festival

The lake looking great in the sunshine

 

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 John Bennett 16 154-8
2 Andy Quarmby 40 99-8
3 Simon Mound 7 85-12
4 Mick Hughes 4 77-4
5 Mick Lane 14 61-12
6 Ernie Maylon 38 55-0
7 Antony Brooker 34 47-4
8 Simon Enticott 9 43-12
9 Nick Horn 32 43-0

 

1st place. John Bennett

 

2nd overall. Andy Quarmby

 

3rd overall. Simon Mound

 

A Section Winner. Mick Hughes

 

B Section Winner. Simon Enticott

C Section Winner. Mick Lane

 

There is an open match on this coming Friday bank Holiday. Please call John to book in and for more information.

Thanks for reading. Eddie, John and Simon.

Lake King broken in 3 days. 30th March 2011

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Wednesday Open Match. 30th March 2011.

Todays winner Jon Walker takes the lake king title and gets his picture in the banner. This is nothing new for Jon though as he often frames at the lake.

He thinks the reason behind the big weight was the change in draw and fishing times. 1pm draw, fishing 2pm-7pm

A nice backup weight from lake owner John Bennett shows the fish are clearly waking up and are hungry for some proper food.

Big fish also showing early with a 22lb carp coming from peg 7 to go with another 18lb’er for Jon Walker. Last year the big fish put in quite an appearance. Lets hope they continue this year.

Results. Top 10

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Jon Walker 8 248-14
2 John Bennett 16 177-0
3 Barry 9 136-4
4 Morris Woodley 18 102-12
5 Mick Chapple 27 88-4
6 Gary Kelsey 30 71-4
7 Paul Jay 21 59-8
8 Liam Barry 26 50-8
9 Graham Ridgley 15 50-0
10 Dave Ridgley 24 33-8

21 Anglers Fished today along with 5 Pleasure Anglers.

John Bennett may add a little more to this report later but has had to attend to some family business for the time being.

Thanks from Eddie, Simon and John.

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