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Sunday 20 March 2011

19th March Conway WL10










Result
1st - Steve Brew - 78.2lb (point)
2nd - Ian Simpson - 60.9lb (concrete tower)
3rd - Jeff Grantham - 53.0lb ( 3 past tree LHS)
Sec A - Mick Flanagan - 31.9lb (1st past tree LHS)
Sec B - Rick Keeley - 20.1lb (left of point)

The final match was always going to be about the draw for the winter league title as Mick Flanagan needed nothing other than a win to catch Ian S, and lots of others needed the win to sneak ahead of Jeff Grantham into 3rd, so the point peg that has been a carp hole all year was the place to be.

At the draw Steve Brew pulled it out again, 2nd time in 3 weeks and despite a few nervous moments early on as Ian Simpson on the next peg sneaked his fish away a few times, the point and its 5m advantage over the rest proved the winner. Steve fished shallow feeding and fishing 6mm pellet for 78.2lb of mainly carp to 14lb. Ian Simpson on the next peg was going fish for fish shallow on the 6mm pellet early on but as they backed off had to go for skimmers on pellet at 14m ending up with 60.9lb.

The catch of the day and in my opinion the series though was Jeff Grantham who decided and stuck to an all out roach onslaught and plundered 53.0lb on maggot shallow with just 1 small F1 - an awesome display of roach fishing (pity his pole is now worn out shipping in and out!!). Mick Flanagan knew at the draw his race was done but managed 31.9lb of roach and carp for a section with Rick Keeley bagging the other section after a late change to roach in the last hour hauling him into contention.

Another tremendous series over with some stunning weights, four matches averaged over 25lb per man and no less than 14 weights over 40lb recorded. Especially when you consider its winter it just goes to show what a tremendous venue it is. Special thanks to Conway Fisheries and to WBAC for donating £100 each and to all that fished as we were able to payout 11 anglers who had fished at least 5 rounds.


Winter League Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 7pts (3 wins 2 seconds)
2nd Mick Flanagan - 9pts (2 wins 2 seconds 1 third)
3rd - Steve Brew - 13pts (beat Jeff G on weight)

On a final note we have already agreed to leave the point peg out next year and put the two pegs in either side to make things a little fairer. We will also be looking at how to change the payouts for 2011/12, the points system is working fine for the league (I would say that!!!) but payouts are likely to changed, maybe pairs drawn on the day or pay £15-20 for every 3-4peg section and drop the 1,2,3 payout. We will discuss at the next meeting. Plans for next year are to have 2 winter league matches a month from Nov - March, again best 5 to count.

Thanks to all that took part, all who braved the weather, all who broke the ice and all the belly laughs throughout. What would you do if you couldn't fish with the following crowd (add the name of your choice): -
- Papa smurf.....................
- Leprachaun..................
- Bandit.........................
- Table dancer/two hats........
- Coach...........................
- Bananavan man...........
- Jbay n sons (fathers)...,
- Pissypants....................
- Tidymatch...............
- Silver fox / plant mgr..........
- Silverback...............
- H is for holidaymaker..............
- Dougie pastemeister................
- Speedy Gilmore.....................
- Apologies to those missed...!!

Monday 14 March 2011

12th March - Gorsty

A low turnout with Eggy at Weston and Spring League commitments at Heronbrook but 17lb per man average saw our best day of the year to date.......and the weather wasnt bad for a change.

Yozzer drew end pag and with a blank peg next to him so 'pleasure fished' his way to a cracking 36.9lb with some better stamp carp on 6mm pellet down the ledge. To be fair to Yoz he struggled for a few hours at 10m before switching to 4m the inside over riddled pellets (forgot his micro's!) and then cleaned up.

The rest of the frame was ridiculously close with Ian Simpson edging 2nd with 24.5lb of small carp and skimmers on 4+6mm pellet at 14m. Dougie Walsh had a late run of better fish and fell just short with 24.0lb including some better stamp carp on pellet. Andy Walsh took 4th with 23.9lb having struggled for the first half he also found some better stamp carp later on and was going fish for fish with Dougie towards the end. I had to endure synchronised bagging on more than one occassion as they closed the gap.

All told a good day and if the frame wasnt close enough Billy Gore had 23.olb virtually all on the pellet feeder for 5th!! So 1.5lb seperating 2nd - 5th.........but hats off to Yoz he walked it in the end!

Result
1st - Ian (Yozzer) Hughes - 36.9lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 24.5lb
3rd - Dougie Walsh - 24.0lb
4th Andy Walsh - 23.9lb

Sunday 6 March 2011

5th March - Conway WL9

After last weeks wild and windy weekend at Saughall it was back to Conway and still and misty.......

After much debate over breakfast whether to leave the point out (the notorious flyer), it was decided someone needed a good day so leave it in. The thinking is with it out the pegs either side would fish better and thus be fairer. It will be up for discussion for the final match.

Anyway the leading moaner re leaving the point out, drew it and ran to his peg shouting 'told you to leave it out!'. Needless to say Jeff Grantham then extracted 18lb of goldfish and another 52lb of mainly F1's on pellet alternating up and down for an easy win with 70.1lb and also pushing him into the top 3 in the league with 1 to go.

Guest Lee Pickup drew the 'boulder' and found some real carp on the pole, some of the few to show, and had a great day adding a few late fish on the bomb to record 47.9lb and push Mr G closer than all of us thought. Ian Simpson draw first past the bush and adopted the usual roach up in the water whilst the carp settle tactics. The carp didn't although an early one drew him to stay on carp too long (the usual Conway cock up!!!) but 29.1lb was just enough for 3rd.

Sections went to new members Ian Hughes (not Yoz) and Rob Dickinson with 28.3lb and 27.5lb respectively both having mixed bags of roach, carp, skimmers and tench in Rob's case.

Overall a good match with 27lb average and just one match to go in the league. Ian Simpson, leads from Mick Flanagan who needs a win to catch him with Jeff Grantham, Dougie Walsh, Steve Brew and Billy Gore all in the mix for the next 4 places as all can drop poorer scores.

Kenny Pickup, John Heald, Dave Gentile and Steve Gilmore are one match away from the minimum five so one more turnout will get then on the board and get them a league payout - virtually a free match then!!

Result
1st - Jeff Gratham - 70.1lb (point)
2nd - Lee Pickup - 47.9lb (boulder)
3rd - Ian Simpson - 29.1lb (1st past tree LHS)
Sec A - Rob Dickison - 27.5lb (2 before boulder)
Sec B - Ian Hughes - 28.3lb (concrete tower)