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Sunday 20 February 2011

19th Feb - Conway WL7

Conway was back on song with an average of over 32lb per man for this weeks winter league with 27lb needed for 6th, thats better than our summer 2008 and 2009 best bar the Glebe!!

Steve Brew drew the point and it looked like a blowout after 2 hours as Steve struggled to catch, but as is often the case with this peg, the carp 'come home' at some point and Steve bagged up shallow at 14m with 6mm pellet for 3 hours and a superb 84.5lb of Carp and F1's. He would have had a 'ton' if he could have weighed the ducks in he hooked! Ian Simpson drew opposite the point and started on the roach at 10m before moving out to 14m and 6mm pellet up and down for a mixed bag with carp, F1's, tench and skimmers in his 58.9lb net.

Mick Flanagan was first past the tree on the left and roached it at 10m and 4m adding a few carp off the top of the island for 45.8lb but must have had 30lb of roach and lots of netters. Jeff Grantham drew opposite Mick next to the 'old boards' and did the reverse started for carp had an odd one, but then roached it falling just short of Mick with 43.2lb again nearly 30lb of roach.

Conway has to be one of the best roach waters in the North West!!

Just a quick mention our coach Rick who had a great day fishing pellet up and down from the boulder peg had 32lb and missed the frame......not often that happens with 30lb+ in the net!!

Craic of the day, Jeff shouts to Mick his partner and our resident leprichaun "feck Mick them roach look big your catchin", quick as a flash Keith 'the bandit' responds with 'they always will look bigger against a dwarf!!".........harsh but true.

Result
1st - Steve Brew - 84.5lb (point)
2nd - Ian Simpson - 58.9lb (opposite point)
3rd - Mick Flanagan - 45.8lb (1st past bush)
4th - Jeff Grantham - 43.2lb (1st past old boards)

Sunday 13 February 2011

12th Feb - Lower Ridge - Saughall

After many weeks of wind rain hail snow and frost.......finally the day dawned bright and sunny with a slight breeze after a mild week. Hopes were high for a few carp to add to the normal ide rations from Lower Ridge.

Ian Lloyd made it two wins out of two with WBAC and 3 from 3 if you include Rivacre, fishing pellet to the island for a mixed bag of F1's and carp and some silvers for a runaway 37.0lb win. Jeff Gratham ever consistent on Lower Ridge fished very long and managed 26.5lb again mainly F1's from the top corner. Dougie Walsh broke the pellet mould and caught on maggot losing several big carp that would have won him the match tight to the island.
Sections went to Ian Simpson with 17.9lb (mainly due to a 10.6lb carp) and Jason Connah who caught on the feeder and pole for 21.8lb.

Story of the match was again pole related. Rick managed to 'release' 7 sections of his into the lake. 'Oh my god' shouted Rick 'its a big carp', as his pole floated away. Several casts with the feeder and numerous attempts to snag it and finally he got it back - needless to say we had a laugh when the big carp had turned into a 10oz chub - some bleedin coach!!!!

H had an expensive day too and not a cruise in sight!! We think after having his pole blown of the roller a few times last week there was some damage....several hours in on Saughall and he struck into a small ide only to see his no5 section do a swingtip impression to much laughter. Safely recovered and telescoped an hour later we had an action reply and the no6 also did a swingtip job!! Methinks a call to S.Wales is gonna happen this week!!

Result

1st - Ian Lloyd - 37.0lb
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 26.5lb
3rd - Dougie Walsh - 25.6lb
Sec A - Ian Simpson - 17.9lb
Sec B - Jason Connah - 21.8lb

Sunday 6 February 2011

5th Feb - Conway WL7

After leaving the Wirral after a wild wet n windy night, with fences down, tree's in roads etc we feared the worst but to our surprise Conway was wet but well coloured and just a little breeze. Draw done it was a race to the pegs with some not in due to peg rebuilding so brolly's up and rig up. All in called and let the fishing commence!!

A slow start for the fishing and the weather but as the fishing started to pick up so did the wind. After a few hours it was brolly's down bar H who 'wore' his as it wrapped round his head a few times and poles, rollers, sections, bait boxes etc started whizzing around the banks. The end result was 11 soaked anglers, battered and bruised minus a no4, now in the lake, minus another no4 smashed and minus 2 no6's snapped like twigs coming off the rollers - Conway 4 v 0 WBAC on the pole front.

On to the fishing, Ian Simpson was left the point peg at the end of the draw and struggled for a few hours whilst the weather was better but switched to roach to save face. 17lb of roach later and the carp showed up with the wind. Presentation was dire but 12 F1's were fooled and 25lb added to the roach for a winning 42lb net. Rob Dickinson next door to Ian had to go to 16m to catch and started strongly finding the carp early but as the wind got up he had no chance to fish 16m, dropping to 11m by the chimney/concrete he continued to add to his net finishing with 30.7lb for second.

Mick Flanagan went for the roach and had an odd dabble for carp at the island early on but as the wind increased at the top end, he ended up on top 3 or 4 taking some dog roach close in to push Rob but fell just short with 28.4lb, a great result considering the wind at that end!! Final place went to Billy Gore with a similar story to Rob caught a few long but was forced short and ended with 21.7 for 4th having lost a few carp on paste and maggot along the way.

All told a 'wild one', tip rods required for next time me thinks, Ian Lloyd sussed how to get F1's on the tip late on, no dinks and dips on a 4x10 float for him, proper pull rounds he was getting and had 7 F1's on it!!

Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 42.4lb (point)
2nd - Rob Dickinson - 30.7lb (concrete tower)
3rd - Mick Flanagan - 28.4lb (2 before bush)
4th - Billy Gore - 21.7lb (2 after old boards)