Saturday Open Match. 23rd October 2010

Jon and Pat waiting for the draw

A very hard match indeed, a sign of things to come for the winter league maybe ? The carp were very shy today but the silvers turned up in large numbers. I was on one of my favourite pegs, peg 26 and only had one bite before I had to leave. I Had a party to get back for but would have liked to have caught a fish before I left but I didn’t so another blank for me πŸ˜€

I took a few pictures before I left…

Mick Lane, the man with the golden drawing hand

Mick, Chris, Steve and Pat

Dai and Malc

Malc on peg 14

Paul Jay on peg 18

Chris on peg 24

Dai on peg 29

Dai with one of his many perch

Results. {thanks Pat πŸ˜‰ }

1st Steve Waters peg 6 69lb 4oz (included 13lb of silvers)
2nd Pat Pritchard pg 8 42lb 8oz (24lb of silvers and one carp of 18lb 8oz
3rd Paul Jay peg 18 41lb
4th Mick Lane peg 32 38lb 8oz (All silvers)
5th Chris Lovelock peg 24 34lb 12oz
6th Jon Walker peg 10 28lb 12oz (one carp of nearly 9lb and the rest silvers)
7th Ernie Malon peg 9 22lb
8th Mick Chappell peg 16 21lb
9th Dai Thomas Peg 29 20lb 8oz
10th Richard Doolan peg 13 12lb 8oz
11th Malc Doyle peg 14 7lb 8oz
Simon Mound peg 26 DNW

There is another open next Saturday the 30th October. Please call John to book in.

Saturday 16th Oct Open Match

It was almost a winters day on Saturday morning, it was cold grey skies and a blustery north east to greet the 12 anglers who turned up to fish the match.

Car park bank setting up

After the usual coffee tea and doughnuts the draw was made and the match got under-way, it was soon realized that it was going to be hard work with very little activity early on, during the course of the match the wind picked up and unforcasted heavy cold rain made things even more difficult,

The match itself turned to be very tight with the top six anglers with 1fish good making the difference between 1st and 6th.

The results were,

1stΒ  peg 7 Dave Whiteman 74lb-0ozs

2nd peg 14 Dave Stratful-way 62lb 12ozs

3rd peg 26 Mick Chapple 60lb-4ozs

4th peg 16 Simon Mound 59lb-4ozs

5th peg 4 Chris Lovelock 56lb -4ozs

6th peg 28 Adam Griffiths 53lb-4ozs

Simon with a 15lb carp

Gem was along to support Simon but soon went shopping when it rained

Osprey Angling Club Match. 3rd October 2010

Neil Riddy

Report to follow….

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Malc Doyle 36 99-0
2 Mark Orchard 2 91-10
3 George 18 80-0
4 Simon Mound 14 64-6
5 Andy W 16 50-8
6 Ian M 10 46-12
7 Tex 24 43-0
8 Bill Lovelock 28 39-0
9 Ginge 13 37-12
10 Neil Riddy 11 35-4
11 Steve 22 34-0
12 Ian S 26 31-12
13 Owen 4 29-14
14 Paul Jay 30 29-12
15 Tony 7 20-13
16 Mark G 9 18-7
17 Mike 34 14-0
18 Brian Richie 38 12-8
19 Adam Griffiths 6 8-8
20 Legs 8 7-8
21 Russ 40 DNW
21 Tony K 32 DNW

Malc Doyle, Todays Winner. Well done

My new PB, 20lb 10oz.

Saturday Open. 2nd October 2010

Report to follow…

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Jones 16 169-0
2 John Bennett 4 132-4
3 Dave Whiteman 9 112-0
4 Malc Doyle 38 109-8
5 Trevor Stanley 22 99-12
6 Adam Griffiths 26 79-12
7 Ginger 18 79-8
8 John Hague 19 56-4
9 Simon Mound 34 54-12
10 Mick Chappie 7 52-12
11 Kev Doulton 32 13-0

On form again. Match Winner, Mick Jones. Well Done

Open Match Saturday 25th Sept 2010.

15 anglers turned up today, some were already at the lake having fished the night match last night. The draw took place and as predicted by Neil Riddy John Bennett opened his hand to reveal peg 8. That rainbow goes from peg 8 to peg 9 πŸ˜€

Fishing today was from 1-05pm to 6-05pm. Fishing was also very hard today but Mick Jones was having no problems on peg 16 catching regularly from the bush on the right. Myself on peg 9 and Richard on peg 32 were suffering from major foul hook problems, both loosing 7 fish in a row.

On the car park bank Dave Whiteman on peg 26 and Del Smith on peg 29 both started catching well during the last half of the match but it was not enough to catch Mick up. John Hague on peg 11 was running past me with weigher after weigher.

John Bennett was also having a nightmare on peg 8, he had been catching ok in the first half of the match but then lost the fish for the last half without a single bite in the last 2 hours.

This was his last bite of the day πŸ˜€

John Bennett with a weigher.

The leaves are falling off the tree’s now at the lake and the temperature is falling meaning autumn is well and truly here.

The match was very hard going for most. On to the results…..

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Mick Jones 16 205-8
2 Dave Whiteman 26 138-0
3 Del Smith 29 128-0
4 John Hague 11 98-0
5 Gary Haisman 6 88-0
6 Ginger 18 88-12
7 John Bennett 8 74-12
8 Justin Watkins 38 57-4
9 Pete Arnold 7 54-8
10 Simon Mound 9 44-0
11 Kevin Cross 34 32-8
12 Paul Jay 4 31-4
13 Richard Doolan 32 DNW
13 Chris Lovelock 40 DNW
13 Marcus Burgess 2 DNW

Well done to Mick, top result for the day. Peg 16 continues to be the place to be.

Mick Jones, a fine win on a hard day at the lake. Well Done.

Friday Open Night Match. 24th Sept 2010

Night time at Rolfs

9 anglers turned up to fish the night match at the lake. A few people were also camping over so they could fish the open match on Saturday. Some people had dropped out meaning we could all get on the big lake.

The draw took place and the normal flyer pegs 32 and 9 went to Marcus Burgess (budgie) and John Bennett.

The weather at the lake was cold and dark anyway but as the all in came at 7.45 it was dark already and the lights were turned on. First to catch was Neil Riddy on peg 23 who was fishing on the tip rod. Mark Chard on peg 10 was also right in to fish and had a very good start catching 6 or 7 fish in the first hour.

Budgie fishing on Peg 32 was a different story though, his first fish was a skimmer followed by a chub and was struggling to get the carp to bite like most of the other anglers. I had managed to get 4 carp in the net in the first hour fishing from peg 18.

The temperature dropped throughout the match to 2 degree’s. We had a small rain amount of rain before the mist rolled in. Justin Watkins fishing from peg 11 had started catching well along with John Bennett on his home peg 9 πŸ˜€

The rest of the match was a complete struggle for most and everyone was very cold and eager to get round to have a warm by the BBQ by the end of the match. John had laid on some good food that was been cooked by master chief Dave Whiteman πŸ˜€

While the BBQ warmed up the weigh in was done but word was that Justin had won it and indeed he had. John thought he may have enough to beat him but was just a few fish short.

Results.

Position Name Peg Weight
1 Justin Watkins 11 142-4
2 John Bennett 9 129-0
3 Neil Riddy 23 86-12
4 Dave Whiteman 28 82-0
5 Simon Mound 18 55-0
6 Richard Doolan 15 47-4
7 Marcus Burgess 32 32-0
8 Mark Chard 10 DNW
9 Paul Jay 26 DNW

Neil Riddy had commented to John…. “Leave your gear round there as you will be on peg 8 tomorrow”

Neil was right too, John indeed drew peg 8 on the Saturday Open. More on that later…..

Well done to Justin, fine win on a hard match. πŸ™‚ He also takes the Peg King for peg 11 πŸ˜€

Justin Watkins (on the right), Tonights Winner from Peg 11

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