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Monday 31 January 2011

29th Jan - Border 3 Islands

Well the talk at the draw was of the 80lb winning weight the week before with 60lb backing and 20's and 30's all round the lake!!

Needless to say it was solid.......with ice that is!!!

After 13 pegs were duly broken it was down to who could get the odd chub and skimmer to back up the roach that eventaully arrived for most after and hour or two - unless your Rick when they arrived gave with 4 bites and buggered off before he caught one.....coach? more like couch?

Ian Lloyd fished a tidy match dripping in pinkies to take the win with roach, chub and a couple of skimmers for 11.1lb with Ian Simpson fishing an almost identical match minus the skimmers and hence 7.6lb for second. Billy Gore had the skimmers but not the chub and managed 7.1lb for third.

Graham Aveyard with no island to fish to moaned alot and managed 3.6lb boosted by 2 better skimmers at the death when Rick had gone! Dougie Walsh had a virtaully all rudd 6.3lb for the other section.

Bitterly cold and a tough start to the season with 4 blanks.....bit of a change from 80lb to win

Result
1st - Ian Lloyd - 11.1lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 7.6lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 7.1lb
Sec A - Graham Aveyard - 3.6lb
Sec B - Dougie Walsh - 6.3lb

Sunday 23 January 2011

22nd January WL6 Gorsty

Well after a hastily re-arranged match with Conway still being refilled we made our way to Gorsty. Good reports of plenty of fish and not just roach, there were reports of carp, skimmers and crucians on pellet being the talked about method however......................

..............as with all best laid plans we arrived after several sub zero nights to find it three quarters frozen. The odd stone proved it to be breakable so 16 souls took to the draw, half ice free under the trees, the other half would have ice to break (and poles more later).

After a breif flurry with the landing net breaking ice to 3m I decided my pole was not going to see ice action and set off back round to the car. 30mins later the petrol can on a rope trick had swims sorted in the 8 icebound pegs but not before a Spectrum top 4 and TPro no4 had bitten the dust as some took their poles to the ice and the ice won!!

After a slow start it was obvious the ice free pegs were fishing slightly better (probably just lack of disturbance). Mick Flanagan, Dougie Walsh and Jeff Grantham fished a peg to peg battle with joint first going to Mick and Dougie with 7.9lb. Mick virtually all roach, whilst Dougie had skimmers and crucians as well. Jeff was just a few fish down with 7.2lb but spent too long early on trying to make the pellet work.

Section A went to Yozzer with 3.8lb from the very edge of the ice then Section B was proper ice fishing with no clear water and another joint finish with Steve Brew and Ian S pegged adjacent both weighing 5.4lb (good job we share!!)

Overall a really cold affair but very close weights and points. There was a joint first, joint fourth, joint 5th, joint 7th etc so winter leage points were hard won with 0.7lb seperating the top 3 and 0.9lb seperating 6th to 12th!!!!

Result
=1st - Dougie Walsh - 7.9lb
=1st - Mick Flanagan - 7.9lb
3rd - Jeff Grantham - 7.2lb

Sec A - Ian (Yozzer) Hughes - 3.8lb
Sec B - Ste Brew / Ian Simpson both - 5.4lb

With 5 matches now fished it gets interesting as peole start dropping their worst results or in some cases still have matches to fish. Mick Flanagan leads the points table from Dougie and Ste B, all three now start to drop ther worst results to improve (see league tables)

Sunday 9 January 2011

Blog Updates - Headers / additional pages

Just to confirm if you go to the headers above and click on them i.e.

Home - Match Calendar - Club Rules - Meetings - Leagues - Glebe

I have now updated the information re Matches 2011, Meeting dates, League tables, Glebe 2011 etc

Ian

8th January WL5 Conway

Officially Winter League 5 but actually our 4th match as the 18th Dec was cancelled due to the weather and we need to agree at the next meeting if this will move to a best 5 from 9 league or fit another match in.

Anyway onto the fishing, most unusually we had no floating features to fish to this week (ice) and nothing to do when we arrived other than peg out (to get warm a few suggested synchronised star jumps but with the combined fitness level of WBAC members that was never going to happen!). A reasonable day weather-wise other than a cold blustery wind making fishing long difficult.

The resident carp all but shut up shop and Ian S and Jeff fought it out for top spot going roach for roach for 5 hours on maggot. Ian kept having a odd look for carp long, but Jeff stuck to the roach as his appeared a smaller stamp. After 5 hours all agreed Ian S had it and was a good 5-10lb clear. The scales however disagreed and his 25.2lb only just sneaked ahead of Jeff's 24.6lb.

Billy Gore took 3rd with 16.9lb with a few decent skimmers in amongst another roach net taken mostly at 6m having given up on the carp to the island. Ian Lloyd took A Section with 12.6lb and Mick Flanagan B Section with 12.6lb but both admitted making the mistake of going for carp for too long. Conway seems to let you have an early carp / F1 just to play with your head......you can't resist then having a go for a few more!!!

With 4 matches gone Mick Flanagan leads the league from Dougie then Steve Brew but until 5 matches are fished and you start dropping results its still all to play for.

Result

1st - Ian Simpson - 25.2lb (Peg - 1st past tree LHS)
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 24.6lb (Peg - 1st past the boards)
3rd - Billy Gore - 16.9lb (Peg - first peg LHS to visible island)

Sec A - Ian Lloyd - 12.6lb (Peg - the boulder)
Sec B - Mick Flanagan - 13.1lb (Peg - the boards)