24th April - Conway Fisheries

Well as the weather warms up so does the fishing. Our best weights of the year with 500lb+ of fish caught including guests and an avergae of 25lb per man at Conway.

Results
1. Jamie Pickup - 67.3lb
2. Jason Connah - 47.5lb
3. Dave Grimes - 43.5lb
Sec A - Graham Aveyard - 28.2lb
Sec B - Rick Keeley - 35.9lb

Jamie drew well, or should I say I drew well for him, first past the tree on the left and with the sun out the island was always going to fish well. To be fair he then proceeded to do the hard work at 16m and catch carp and F1's most of the day on pellet for what turned into a clear win - wupass duly administered this week!!!!!!

Jason from end peg on the right by the staging could have won it losing a fair few big fish, again fishing 16m to the island with pellet. He weighted 47.5lb, probably only one fish more then Dave Grimes's 43.5lb from the next peg, the other side of the staging. Similar tactics again with pellet fished to the island, although Dave was going to try an interesting "I snapped my landing net / to hand" method in the final 30mins.
Section A went to Graham Aveyard from down past the boulder, weighing 28.2lb on the pellet waggler after fetching a rod down after 2.5hours or so on the pole and proceeding to cast at Rick, Ian, Dougie, in fact anyone with a float out! Rick Keeley drew the "point", yes the "ton up" peg we all hope for and managed 35.9lb on pole and pellet waggler, well done Rick, faced the right way then and didn't throw his keepnet in this time.

Yozzer, H and Kenny P fished their 3 way knockout with Yozzer and Kenny P getting through to the next round, Yozza with 25lb of skimmers and roach from the bottom bank, Kenny with a hard worked for 19lb from the bottom left corner and H with 11lb ruing a lost hippocrocopig and a beast of a barbel.
John Heald in his knockout, ran to his peg opposite the point, well, had the motorised trolley at full pelt anyway, chucked in 3 keepnets and started chuckling away to himself, at Ian Simpson who had drawn the famous "Sonny and Jeff bottom bank". However at the weigh in Ian weighed 34.4lb whilst the "venue / ton up / carp expert", Mr Heald struggled to find a few fish in each net weighing less than 9lb per net, sorry John 26.8lb in total. Serves you right for insisting on fishing the knockout on Conway and not on the canal!!!

Overall a good days fishing with some good weights, 5 over 30lb and another 11 over 20lb.

Its the canal match next on May 8th so make sure you book on with Rick as it seems to be popular - must be a load of guests going then!!! (PS - John H - Top Tip, you won't need 3 nets on the canal!)

17th April Partridge Lakes

Well a tale of two ends, with both Spey and Marsh canals throwing up 30lb+ weights if you were pegged at the right end. Over 407lb of fish caught at an average of over 17.7lb but a noticable difference in the spread of carp, double figures being good in some areas and not even close in others.

Results
1st Andy Thompson 48.7lb
2nd Ian Hughes 42.6lb
3rd Ian Lloyd 38.0lb
Sec S - Jeff Grantham 31.2lb
Sec M - Steve Brew 34.4lb

Andy Thompson started across catching F1's on Spey 5 but soon got them lined up at 3m in the right hand margin adding a few better samples on pellet to finish with 48.7lb. Ian "Yozzer" Hughes clinched second from Spey 2 with his usual display of short pole prowess, giving it all of 5mins on the far bank before bagging 42.6lb down the right hand margin on corn and paste. Ian Lloyd managed to break the Spey strangle hold on Marsh 3 and took third with 38.0lb on pellet on long and short pole on pellet.

Section wins went to Steve Brew with 34.4lb on Marsh 2 and Jeff Grantham with 31.2lb on Spey 9. With another 30lb+ weight on each canal it really was defintely about drawing the right end.

The majority of members fished their knockouts and Round 2 is to be completed on or before Larford 12th June.

At least I took a £1 off Yozzer he turned his back on me all day to fish the margin and he was convinced I had beaten him........had to take a side bet with 2 hours to go as I knew he had mullered me really!!! With Andy Thompson on my other side I was given a right seeing to, beaten either side and I was on the Golden Peg as well ("rollover" was a widely used phrase at the weight in!!!)

Conway next week but methinks it'll be carp not roach fishing for a change!!!

Glebe Update

Just a quick note to confirm for those fishing the Friday before our weekend away Graham has sorted the Glebe on pools 4+5 so thats:-
- Friday - Pools 4-5
- Saturday - Pool 1
- Sunday - Pool 6+7
The rest of the week to recover from baggin and weighing in!!!

Partridge Lakes 17th April - Venue Change

Guys - due to the higher than normal bookings for Covey due to its inclusion as a Fishomania and Maver Pairs qualifier we will now be on Spey and Marsh canals on 17th April.

Apparently similiar fishing, small stockies, F1's and ide making up weights to 50lb in recent opens and club matches so should be busy fishing for those on fish.

See you there.....and remember its the last round for Knockouts for Round 1.

Summers on the way - Southcombe Waters

Hi guys just a few photos to remind you summer is on its way!!!

These are a few of the carp I caught on a week in a place called Southcombe Waters at Easter - 88 carp over 5lb including 8 doubles in 4 days on the Specimen Lake on the pole and pellet waggler, the best went 14lb 14oz!!

Two private lakes, no day tickets, only 4 lodges - great accommodation, surroundings and superb pleasure fishing!! (see link in WBAC venues for further into)

Roll on Larford and the likes!!!!