14 turned up....well 13 and I promided to arrive at some point when I had dropped Kath and the kids off at the IOM Ferry......plan was to fish 10.30-4.30 with me getting there around noon!
Jeff Grantham found some early fish on P29 at 4-5m including some better carp but was soon caught and passed by Ian Lloyd who never looked back once his left margin kicked off on P20, he was pestered by roach and rudd at times but the carp bullied them out of the way to set a new 2013 WBAC best with 117.13lb.
Jeff struggled down the edge and shallow but caught well having gone back to the 4m line and finished second with 69.04lb. Kev Valentine found the munters down the edge on P25 (i think) a little late to overhaul Jeff but managed 61.02lb incuding one at 15.14lb, a proper hippocrocopig.
My match, well I arrived a bit early than planned, rushed to set up on P14 but never felt right.....watched Ian Cook bag crucians and carp at 5m off P10 for all bar 2 hours and hadnt set up a 5m rig! I could have piloted the ferry out to the Mersey bar arrived at 2.30pm and still had a similar weight as it was the late late show with 7 carp late on drown the gutter for 37lb but not enough to catch Cookie who weighed 41.6lb (I'd like to think the 90mins made a difference but it didn't really I caught sod all early on and just would have caught sod all for longer I reckon!!!
Overall best venue this year with 34lb per man average and 480lb caught. Hampton can be a great venue with a little space.
Result
1st - Ian Lloyd - 117.13lb
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 69.04lb
3rd - Kevin Valentine - 61.02lb
Sections
- Ian Cook - 41.06lb
- Ian Simpson - 37.7lb
- Rick Keeley - 27.0lb
WBAC
Good job Cheshire Oaks is only local
Monday 12 August 2013
27th July - Old Hough - Big Max
Well after the Weston match was swithched to allow Weston to run the Perry Delgrano memorial match we ended up at Old Hough on a new lake for most in Big Max.
It looks spot on to be honest but on closer inspection the pegging doesn't give everyone and island chuck and the margins are clearly rarely fished as its growing like mad but after some careful pegging everyone had an island chuck.
Barry went off like a train compared to the rest of us, nothing spectaclar but he was catching on the pole deep and then shallow......the rest seemed to start on the method tight to the island.....I was impressed with my own casting which is saying something but I felt it was too shallow and kept coming back with blanket weed, clearly the fish were not used to being there and clearing it and a few others had the same. Anyway Barry then chucked the thod about 4m round the corner from Ian Lloyd and catch there asd well....Lloydy was well perplexed. To be fair to Barry he fished a tidy match and caught off all his lines to win with 37.10lb of mainly F1's and small carp.
Yours truely, Ian Simpson was going no were after 3 hours and it was baking hot so trying to force thinks potted in groundbait and managed to snare a few in the last two hours. 3 carp, 3 proper bream and 3 little F1's was hard work but went 28lb for second. Rick had similar early struggles but found them later on shallow with the breeze they had and weighed 25.14lb for 3rd.
Overall a fab looking fishery, just a bit light on stocking maybe at present with too many tiny that are not even maggot worthy. I'd like another go when the weather was better though as it has loadsa potential.
Result
1st - Barry Davies - 37.10lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 28.00lb
3rd - Rick Keeley - 25.14lb
It looks spot on to be honest but on closer inspection the pegging doesn't give everyone and island chuck and the margins are clearly rarely fished as its growing like mad but after some careful pegging everyone had an island chuck.
Barry went off like a train compared to the rest of us, nothing spectaclar but he was catching on the pole deep and then shallow......the rest seemed to start on the method tight to the island.....I was impressed with my own casting which is saying something but I felt it was too shallow and kept coming back with blanket weed, clearly the fish were not used to being there and clearing it and a few others had the same. Anyway Barry then chucked the thod about 4m round the corner from Ian Lloyd and catch there asd well....Lloydy was well perplexed. To be fair to Barry he fished a tidy match and caught off all his lines to win with 37.10lb of mainly F1's and small carp.
Yours truely, Ian Simpson was going no were after 3 hours and it was baking hot so trying to force thinks potted in groundbait and managed to snare a few in the last two hours. 3 carp, 3 proper bream and 3 little F1's was hard work but went 28lb for second. Rick had similar early struggles but found them later on shallow with the breeze they had and weighed 25.14lb for 3rd.
Overall a fab looking fishery, just a bit light on stocking maybe at present with too many tiny that are not even maggot worthy. I'd like another go when the weather was better though as it has loadsa potential.
Result
1st - Barry Davies - 37.10lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 28.00lb
3rd - Rick Keeley - 25.14lb
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