20th Dec - WL4 - Lloyds - Kingfisher / Badger

With 17 booked on Rick had sorted a section on Kingfisher and a section on Badger from peg 18 back towards the car park on the right hand bank.

The fishing was very hard for most and if you were not on the top island on Kingfisher in the main you struggled. Kenny Stuart fished to the island in the top right hand corner and struggled for bites before finding carp in the open water on bread and despite losing a fair few he managed to secure a second win on the run with 26.0lb.

Mike Richardson again on the top island but this side by the house went off like a train with 3 carp in 3 drops before they spooked and then it was a case of trying to work out what and how they wanted it. Mike managed a few more but fell just short of the win with 25.1lb. Billy Gore was also on the top island but the farside by the aerator and after a few early mug fish it got tough for Billy too but he wrinkled out a creditable 22.3lb on a tough day for 3rd place.

Top weight on Badger was Ian Lloyd with 20.1lb. Considering the space we had only two other double figure weights were taken and Lloyds was not in a forgiving mood with nearly a third of the field weighing less than 5lb.....certainly not the winter fishing we have been used to in previous years here.

Result

1st - Kenny Stuart - 26.0lb
2nd - Mike Richardson - 25.1lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 22.3lb

13th Dec - Hampton - Long & Willow

After heavy overnight frosts the WBAC Fur and Feather turnout was faced with cat ice on both lakes and with Willow having fished well the previous weekend the pegging resulted in more on Willow and less on Long....which proved to be a mistake for all bar the winner.

Kenny Stuart fished 5-7m next to the ice with maggot and caught carp to weigh in 38.5lb which was probably more than the rest of the anglers on Willow put together.......a star performance and good enough to win the John Heald KO trophy for 2014 having beaten the other 8 qualifiers at this match, well done Kenny.

Long Island was a different story with much better weights that saw Billy Gore catching carp on maggot on the tip and then on the pole at 11m feeding heavily despite the ice he ended up with 34.8lb for second overall. Ian Simpson managed to rotate a few lines and caught 3 carp from the deep margin at various times through the match but backed it up with skimmers, ide, roach and perch to just do enough for 3rd with 27.0lb from a fast finishing Paul Robinson and Steve Brew who both found carp willing to feed late on but fell short with 24.8lb and 22lb respectively.

Result

1st - Kenny Stuart - 38.5lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 34.8lb
3rd - Ian Simpson 27.0lb

22nd Nov - WL3 - Lloyds Badger

Result

1st - Billy Gore - 57.8lb
2nd - Phil Henry - 57.7lb
3rd - Jason Connah 30.8lb

8th Nov - WL2 - Conway

Result

1st - Phil Henry - 58.3lb
2nd - Ian Lloyd 50.9lb
3rd - Billy Gore 43.8lb

I wasn't there but a case of deja vu for Phil who drew the  same sunken island and matched his winning weight from WL1 to make it two in a row.

25th Oct - Border

Result

1st - Steve Brew - 37.3lb
2nd - Phil Henry - 35.7lb
3rd - Rick Keeley - 35.3lb

11th Oct - WL1 - Conway

Our first trip back to Conway this year and we were greeted with unseasonally fine weather, not too much wind and still loads of colour in the water and vegetation on the bankside. Phil Henry fished his first match at Conway, drew the sunken island and made no mistakes fishing long pole and pellet to record 58.3lb of carp and some silvers when he rested the long line for what turned into an easy victory.

Ian Simpson drew past the boulder towards the bottom corner and after two early carp in the margins of all places had a brilliant last few hours on the roach at 5m to end with 43.5lb and the runners up spot. Paul Robinson drew the area that is sometimes nomansland between the sunken island and the bowl but kept snaring a few F1's monging it ending with a respectable 38.6lb and the third spot.

Result

1st - Phil Henry - 58.3lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 43.5lb
3rd - Paul Robinson - 38.6lb

2014 AGM Update

1. Consider amalgamating WBAC and Rivacre as one club as the match calendar is already amalgamated. If agreed in principle 2015 would probably need to be a transition year to sort committee, meetings, rules, subs etc and may need a separate committee to run 2 weekends away per year i.e. Jason/Ian L for July and Ian S/Keith for Glebe

The proposal was voted against and both clubs will remain independent

2. Winter League matches to become part of the WBAC match calendar rather than be a stand alone league and thus it will be included in Matchman and Angler of the Year weight / points and count towards anything agreed in proposal 4 re matches fished with WBAC. Pools to remain open for non-members in WL matches only and remain unavailable in standard WBAC calendar matches.

The proposal was agreed and WL matches will be consider WBAC matches in future and considered towards Matchman and Angler of the Year. The only difference will be guests will be allowed to enter pools on designated WL matches 

3. Drop the current £1 Golden Peg given the above change to WBAC WL requires £1 towards league payouts and also introduce a Summer League using the existing calendar being best 6 from say 12 matches to use the £1 in summer. So WBAC will have a Winter League and Summer League based on best 6 from say 10/12 matches and the Angler and Matchman of the Year that run for every match.

The proposal was voted against and the current Golden Peg will remain as will the Winter League best 6 from 10 format

4a. Increase subs to £50 with £30 back once fished 4 WBAC matches (4 peg free matches per year?)

or

4b. Increase Glebe costs by £30 i.e. charge £150 rather than £120 for those not having fished 4 WBAC matches (to include Winter League assuming proposal 2 is passed)

or

4c. Leave subs at £20 and Glebe as is.

Proposals 4a and 4b were voted against and 4c was agreed i.e. to leave subs at £20 for 2015 and the Glebe event would remain open to all members irrespective of other match attendances

5. Committee of Henry (Chair), Rick (Match Secretary), Keith (Treasurer) proposed to stand again en masse (assuming proposal 1 is not accepted and WBAC remains standalone)

The proposal was agreed after Keith who originally expressed a desire to step down as Treasurer agreed to stand for 2015 with a view to looking for suitable candidates for the Treasurer position for 2016. The Committee of Henry, Rick and Keith will therefore stand for 2015.

TriClubChallenge 2014

This years TriClubChallenge will be held at Lingmere on Sunday 2nd November with three teams of ten looking to secure the win. It will be sections of three and both WBAC and Rivacre will be out to wrestle the trophy away from last years winners Eggy Ferry.

With lots of members unable to make the day itself I have again opened the online donations page via JustGiving so you can still do your bit for Claire House and support the event even if you cannot attend.

Just go to www.justgiving.com/TriClubChallenge/ and donate as much or as little as you wish as you know its for a great cause.

We have raised £5,557 during 2012 & 2013 so I have set a target of getting us to £7500 so please donate if you can't support on the day.

Glebe 3 Dayer

Wed
1st - Ian Simpson 197.12lb   (New WBAC Match Record - Lake 1 P8)
2nd - Steve Brew - 123.8lb   (Lake 1 P1)
3rd - Colin Cook - 115lb   (Lake 1 P4)

Thurs
1st - Colin Cook - 195.8lb    (Lake 1 P23)
2nd - Graham Aveyard - 125.3lb    (Lake 1 P4)
3rd - Rob Dickenson - 123.04lb    (Lake 1 P1)

Fri
1st - Dougie Walsh - 99.8lb    (Lake 1 P16)
2nd - Rob Dickenson - 97.0lb    (Lake 1 P22)
3rd - Ian Simpson - 79.3lb     (Lake 7 P99)

Teams of Three
Colin Cook / Barry Davis / Dave Gentile 18pts & 514lb (beat Ian Simpson / Jason Connah / Trevor Allpress also 18pts but 506lb)

A fantastic 3 days with over 5500lb of fish caught and 13 x 100lb+ weights recorded. lake 1 fished better than Lake 7 but we always expected that with more space on Lake 1.

The seeding worked well with 22 of the 27 anglers picking up during the 3 days and only 4 anglers picking up more than once.

12th Sept - Fir Tree

Result
1st - Barry Davis - 73.9lb
2nd - Dougie Walsh - 68.8lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 46.8lb

30th Aug - Hampton Long Island

Result
1st - Ian Lloyd - 90.4lb
2nd - Barry Davis - 73.6lb
3rd - Pete Canavan - 46.0lb

9th Aug - Old Hough - Big Max

Results
1st - Ian Simpson - 71.2lb
2nd - Mike Richardson - 70.5lb
3rd - Jason Connah - 53.2lb

Glebe News including Teams Draw

Hi all

Following Mondays meeting the following was agreed.

1. As we have 24 fishing Wednesday and then 27 fishing the Thursday & Friday which is the Ronnie Ashbrooke Trophy we decided to have teams of three instead of pairs.

2. The anglers attending have been seeded into top third, middle third and lower third and each team will have one angler from each seeding. So it will be sections of 9 paying top 3 per section.(sections of 8 on Wed). Payouts to be finalised.

3. Seeds will compete against each other on all three days although the Thuirsday and Friday only will count for the Ronnie Ashbrooke Trophy.

4. The top team on Thursday and again on Friday will win £45 (£15 per man per day). The trophy will go to the overall top team after two days. Team results will be decided on points per seeded section.

5. The bottom team over the two days will also win a booby prize funded by Rick's spotties!!

The teams were drawn as follows

Higher Seeds	Middle Seeds	Lower Seeds
Colin Cook	Barry Davis	Dave Gentile
Ian Lloyd	Rob Dickinson	Alec Raich
Steve Brew	Pete Walsh	Peter Canavan
Jeff Grantham	Dougie Walsh	Colin McPhail
Mick Flanagan	Jason Davies	Steve Gilmore
Paul Robinson	Andy Thompson	Harry Simpson
Ian Simpson	Jason Connah	Trevor Allpress
Phil Henry	Graham Aveyard	Keith Williamson
Billy Gore	Tyrone Davies	Rick Keeley

6. The Higher seeds will draw Lake 1 Pegs 1-15 on Wed, Lake 1 pegs 16-30 on Thurs and Lake 7 pags 98-109 on Friday

7. The Middle seeds order will be the same pags as above but Lake 7 then Lake 1 lower nos then Lake 1 higher nos.

8. The Lower seeds will again be the same pegs but the order will be Lake 1 highers nos then Lake 7 then Lake 1 lower nos.

9. Rick is cancelling one of the Makins lakes as it appears we have only c12 anglers wishing to fish Saturday as well.

10. Draw times and final payouts to be confirmed once all payments are in by the end of August please to Keith. £120 for 3 days 2 nights

I think the two favourite teams have to be Colin Cook, Barry D, Dave Gentile along with Billy Gore, Tyrone, Rick as all those anglers have done ton plus weights on the Glebe before although I have to say given its all about points scored from a seeded section there are no weak team!!!

Enjoy!

Ian

26th July - Lloyds Meadow - Badger

Result

1st - Ian Lloyd - 82.0lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 57.8lb
3rd - Paul Robinson - 54.5lb
4th - Dougie Walsh - 53.5lb

Saturday after the Glebe - IMPORTANT

The Glebe 2014 / Makins

Rick has booked Makins for the Saturday following the Glebe 3 dayer however we cannot get enough rooms at the Longshoot (I can only get rooms for 6 people so I am going to cancel them) so I was challenged to find somewhere else local.

Well the Travelodge Nuneaton called the Yeoman Harvester CV11 6EN is on the same road as the Longshoot and about a 10minute walk or 2min taxi ride away. Rick and Keith have stayed there before and you can then either eat at the Harvester onsite or go to the Longshoot Cavery at the extortionate £4odd each.

The only issue is you need to book your own rooms as its much cheaper to get a no cancellation room and they are paid for at the time unlike the Longshoot which I usually reserve and we just pay on the day. So if you sort out who you are sharing with and book with Travelodge on-line it's £29 for a double room, you request a pull out bed to be made up on-line and its then a twin for only £14.50 each. For breakfast you just go to the Longshoot or the onsite Harvester and pay there.

Here's the link http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/163/Nuneaton-hotel?gclid=CLWfq4CFor8CFSoCwwod_48A3g

By phone its 0871 984 6094 but they charge you a £2.50 booking fee!!!!

Remember to only book the Travelodge Nuneaton........do not book Travelodge Nuneaton Bedworth as that's the wrong place!!

It looks like a fair few aren't going to fish the Sat now so please let Rick or Keith know either way if you are fishing saturday or not as Rick may need to adjust the lakes booked. Additional costs for fishing Sat will now be just £15 as you will be booking and paying for your own room on the Fri night.

Here's those I know about, everyone else please let Rick and Keith know asap either way: -

    - Not staying and not fishing Saturday = Jeff, Rob D, Steve B, Robbo, Ian S, H, Mick Flan

    - Booking their own rooms and fishing Saturday = Billy, Alec, Barry, Rick, Keith, Dougie, Pete C, Ian L, Dave Grimes

21st June - Partridge Covey 6

With warm weather all week and little wind all looked well with Partridge Covey 6. Its a 42 peg lake and Rick had done a deal to get the whole lake and yet only to pay for pegs used so when 15 turned up it meant everyone was gonna have lots of room.

With Rick away in Malta, thanks to Keith and Lloydy for helping with the draw and our own weighmeister Billy for weighing in.

Draw done and a few interesting sections with Ian Lloyd on the Golden Peg and sat between Ian S and Billy on the island in the lake with Ian and Billy having effectively end pegs.(we did offer to forgo weighing in for a split of the GP but Lloydy declined....hence he got chip shopped (battered both sides)). Dougie looked on a flyer at the head of an island were the ripple started with the rest of his section in the calm. H was drawn on a bridge and had Peter C on a bend and Jason Connah on the straight in his section.The final section had Ste G with the wind in his face and Jason Davies, Trevor and Ian Dodd all on the backstraight to contend with.

All in and for most it was instant with loads of 4-8oz F1's showing.....as time ticked by it became obvious it was fishing well and many managed to sort out a few better samples with an odd 1-4lber helping the cause. Billy was bagging in the margin, Ian S shalla, Ste G and H short pole....H going under the bridge when needed....Trev started to go longer down his margin with groundbait and found some better fish.......all the while Dougie was catching on maggot.

At the scales it was difficult to estimate as everyone was admitting to 60-200 fish and depending on the sizes that could be 50-150lb. First to weigh was Billy Gore with some proper 4lbers included from the margins on maggot to add to a shedload of F1's he fell just short of the ton with 95.6lb.....Ian Lloyd had lost the plot early on before sussing they wanted shallow water and went for it in the last 90mins with 15h and 0.16line and 16 hooks skulling better fish but was too late and the Golden peg fizzled to 65.9lb. Ian S completed the section with more fish than Billy and Ian L but smaller but they went 107.9lb confirming the late match comment...Ian L says "I'm 18lb behind Billy and 30lb behind you"....the somewhat tongue in cheek response was "try 30lb behind Billy and 50lb behind me".....which happened to be fairly close. Section 1 weighed and 270lb of  fish.

The same story was repeated around the lake with Ste G weighing 63lb just pipping 'Daiwaman' (Jason Davies) with 60lb before being trumped by Trevor with 86lb. The top section was a little slower with 40-50lb weights from Alec and Keith out of the wind but Dave Grimes tipped on 68lb only to be topped by Dougie with 116lb who had even run out of bait and went back to the van for more. The final section ended up being the closest of the lot, H wrinkled out 41lb of barbel and F1's from under the bridge Pete Canavan managed 60lb 6oz only for Jason C to tip 60lb 10oz on the scales to take the final section.

Well I have to say its not often you catch over 100lb and don't win a WBAC match.....but today I managed it.........a great venue, well laid out lake and heavily stocked. We averaged 71lb excluding guests and had over 900lb of fish......

Rick was sooooooooooo looking forward to this one.......stay in Malta mate we had a lovely days fishing without you haha!!

Result
1st - Dougie Walsh - 116.5lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 107.9lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 95.4lb
4th - Trevor Allpress - 86.5lb

7th June - Old Hough - Lower Benbo

Results
1st - Kenny Stuart - 45.0lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 41.2lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 39.7lb
4th - Ian Lloyd - 39.2lb

I believe it was fished on Lower Benbo after some cock up or other that I'm sure Rick will take the blame for as he wasn't there hehe and neither was I!

24th May - Hampton Springs

Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 40.8lb
2nd - Kev Valentine - 38.3lb
3rd - Ian Lloyd 30.1lb

10th May - Lloyds Badger

Result

1st  - Paul Robinson - 74.0lb
2nd - Dave Grimes - 63.1lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 60.7lb

Makins - Saturday after the Glebe Wed - Friday event

Guys

It looks like the additional cost of the extra night and days fishing for those who want to stay over and fish the Saturday as well will be about £40 on top of whichever Glebe deal you are one i.e. one night or two.

Keith has agreed to collect the additional payments whilst he is collecting the Glebe cash but it is a seperate match and seperate bill at the hotel at present so Keith, Rick or I need to know asap and certainly by the end of May if you are staying on the Friday as well so we can try to book hotel rooms and confirm the lakes at Makins for definite.

There is a meeting on Monday 12th May so it would be even better if you could let us know by then!!

KO Round 1

Round 1 of the KO has now been completed with 14 qualifiers going into Round 2 which will run for May and June. So thats Lloyds Badger, Hampton - Long, Old Hough - Big Max or Partridge - Covey 5 you need to fish and catch 20lb.

Same simple rules apply you have to catch just 20lb in a club match to progress to Round 3.

Those qualifying from Round 3 will make the Final in September

26th April - Fir Tree

Overall a tough day with the wind not helping even if the new platforms do make the venue slightly easier to fish....its still nearer 16m than 14m from most pegs and in the wind that was difficult. Billy Gore found some  bigger stamp carp amongst the baby mirrors and ide fishing tight over to the island on meat and pellet. Ian Lloyd had a similar net but fell just short with 29.9lb on corn and pellet again tight to the island.

Ian Simpson was best of the rest who never found any better stamp car and had to settle for 40-50 baby carp and about 25 small ide for 3rd and 16.3lb fishing in the slightly deeper water with corn and pellet. The shallower ledge tight over proved barren and many just couldn't fish it in the wind.

Dave Grimes and Rick suffered pole damage as poles whizzed off rollers a few times and the palleted walk ways looks great but is not pole friendly in the slightest.......looks like and feels like a railway track around the fishery.....don't get me wrong it will be awesome once the surrounding and fish stocks mature in properly with 40 pegs all exactly 10m apart and with an island to target!!

Result
1st - Billy Gore - 32.5lb
2nd - Ian Lloyd - 29.9lb
3rd - Ian Simpson - 16.3lb

20th April - Jacobs

A strange little venue with a real pleasure fishing type setting but match type stocking. After a few cooler nights it seemed to put the fish down and the reported all action F1 bashing became a little more refined in terms of trying to string a few together.

Rick struggled long and at 5m's but then found a nest of F1's in the left margin and with space to his left and empty pegs he made the most of it to run out the winner with 41.5lb. Ian Simpson was the opposite end again with some space to his left and caught F1's alternating long and down the left margin to run Rick close with 38.5lb. Barry Davis took the third slot with 36.4lb fishing opposite Rick and again had space with empty pegs to his right after a pleasure angler packed up.

Rick is looking at another match or two here although we may need to limit numbers as the pegging is tight around the corners so may be a first come booking required situation and needless to say space seemed to make a difference.

Result
1st - Rick Keeley - 41.5lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 38.5lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 36.4lb

4th April - Gorsty

Result

1st - Dougie Walsh - 47.6lb
2nd - Colin Cook - 26.0lb
3rd - Ian Lloyd - 22.6lb

Glebefest 2014

As you are all already aware we were unable to book a Saturday this year at the Glebe and have booked Wed, Thurs, Fri at the Glebe with the Ronnie Ashbrooke pairs event taking place on the Thurs / Fri being the two days everyone can attend.

For the Saturday Rick has managed to book two lakes for about 24 anglers at Makins Phase 3 (on Derwent and Thames c50pegs so should be space).

It looks like the additional cost for those wanting the Friday night as well plus peg fee, plus pools will be around £45 each. If you are interested in the extra night please let Keith, Rick or myself know asap so we can sort extra rooms for the Friday night. Keith has agreed to collect the monies along with the Glebe cash.

29th March - WL10 - Conway

Result
1st - Barry Davis - 28.8lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 27.0lb
3rd - Colin Cook - 22.4lb

New KO Rules

Go to the "Knockout" tab above for details of changes for 2014 agreed at the last meeting.

Match Calendar changes - 2014

Message from Rick - Match calendar changes for 2014

- 5th April is now WBAC Gorsty Hall
- 12th April WBAC Gorsty Hall is now cancelled
- 23rd Sept WBAC Heronbrook Match Lake is now cancelled
- 4th Oct WBAC Heronbrook Match Lake is now cancelled

NB Both Heronbrook dates are however still on but are to be run as Rivacre matches

22nd March - WL9 - Conway

Result

1st - Steve Brew - 54.1lb
2nd - Colin Cook - 40.9lb
3rd - Jason Connah - 27.5lb

8th March - WL8 - Lloyds Meadow - Badger

Result

1st - Barry Davis - 57.9lb
2nd - Dougie Walsh - 50.6lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 49.5lb

22nd February - WL7 - Lloyds Meadow

Well no weather warnings to speak of this week a few gusts here and there nothing spectacular however we were rewarded with a heartening display from a new member Mike Richardson.

He recently failed miserably on his first guest outing to be welcomed as a member with "if you always fished like that you can have discounted membership matey", he then managed to catch 52lb on his first proper match and this week he had a starring role........no not fishing, he was last with 9lb odd but he managed to fall off his box backwards as his seatbox legs collapsed to howls of laughter and requests for "can we have a replay"......with no replay forthcoming and a bit of huffing Mike did the honourable thing and managed to smash his no4 section about an hour later like a gunshot to be greeted with "whip crack away, whip crack away, whip crack awaaaaay!"........to round off the day tipping four silvers onto the scales to top up a couple of carp he dumped 3 out of 4 on the grass "have you  done this before", " did you face the lake" " did you try using bait".....Mike the guys clearly love you as these are real terms of endearment reserved for the truely memorable feats performed on club duty!

Any way onto the match, a slow affair with few carp showing bar by the top island and Barry (BIIOGOR) Davis snared seven and some silvers from the top right hand corner to weigh 27.8lb. Colin Cook stuck with pellet on the right of the first island but the carp were few and far between but he did enough with 23.9lb of roach, chub, skimmers and 2 small carp. Jason Connah started slowly and finished slowly (sorry thats him rigging up and tackling down) He had a few early munters from open water in between he two island and added a few smaller samples before progressing to skimmer bashing until it all dried up on pellet and he struggled thereafter but managed 3rd with 23.6lb and took the shiny £1 off Mr Brew......I understand its 9 v 4 to Mr B at the moment.

Result
1st - Barry "bib it in / only got one rig" Davis - 27.8lb
2nd - Colin Cook - 23.9lb
3rd - Jason Connah - 23.6lb

8th February - WL6 - Conway

Well Conway was its usual wild self again this week with strong winds and driving rain from the off so we tried to peg most in the bowl in the slightly better pegs from a weather perspective. For those on the sides it was 5m pole max and in reality it was a tip job for the 3 on the bottom bank it was okay to fish 10m.

Ian Simpson wasted nearly 3 hours convinced the carp and F1's would show, having drawn the top end we could at least present a bait at 10-11m although feeding was a little hit and miss. Given the carp had been only a peg away the last few weeks patience gave way to reality and two hours roaching short saw some quality redfins and 15.8lb for joint first place. Rick's 15.8lb was hard fought having sat in torrential rain and wind on the feeder and stuck it out for a few carp backed up with skimmers and roach on maggot to tie for first place......after some debate about weight in rocks as well as fish it was agreed the revised weight was indeed enough to tie with Ian S.

Billy Gore draw the top end and had a similar het to Ian S, tried too long for carp and finished a roach or two short of the top spot fishing maggopt having given up on the carp! Dougie Walsh sat on the carp hole of late inbetween Ian and Billy but managed just one and a few roach for just 8lb after two weeks on the bounce the peg threw up 45lb+ weights.......unlucky Doug!

Result
=1st - Ian Simpson - 15.8lb
=1st - Rick Keeley - 15.8lb
3rd - Billy Gore - 15.2lb

25th January - WL5 - Lloyds Meadow - Kingfisher

A result dominated by two facing pegs who both had carp from the top island, Colin fishing pellet and bread on the pole and Mike chucking a feeder and double corn to record the best weights of the year on Lloyds.

Best of the rest was Ian Simpson with a 26.3lb silvers net including just two carp but plenty of chub and better stamp roach on maggot fishing pole to the first island.

The most impressive part of the day was the almightly squall that hit for five minutes and I mean hit, wild winds, thunder, lightening, hailstones threating to break poles that stung your hands and face and saw people packing poles away, bait tubs full of ice and a total whiteout in seconds that left us waiting several minutes after it ended for the hail to float away and melt before you could present a float. Steve Brew suffered 3 smashed top kits as his rodholdall started rolling along in the wind and crushed three kits.

Result

1st - Colin Cook - 68.9lb
2nd - Mike Richardson - 52.0lb
3rd - Ian Simpson - 26.3lb

11th Jan - WL4 - Conway

Conway was cold and relatively still for this weeks winter league encounter which made a pleasant change from the windswept armeggedon we had last time. In a tale of two halfs and two ends it was those on the right hand bank basking in sunlight and taking layers off whilst laughing at those on the left hand bank sat in the shade and shivering.

The top half nearest the car park was hard going with very few carp opening there mouths and even the roach being hard to line up as the recent cold rainwater had upped the levels and dropped any colour out of the lake. 14lb won the section this end, yet down in the bowl in the middle of the bottom bank it was carp city for Steve Brew (pictured right on a previous flyer...no change there) who hair rigged jpz's to cruise to an easy win with 49lb of carp on the straight lead from Billy Gore who had two lumps on the pole from the bottom left hand corner and around 8lb of silvers for a respectable 26lb. Barry (bin-it-in / only-got-one-rig) Davis did his thing and binned it in next to the point and then sat on his one rig and had a few late carp including a lump foulhooked for 22.2lb and third place.

Conway yet to show its best form but I have to say it appears all fisheries at present are struggling with the weather and rainfall volumes that are affecting any sort of consistency. Could be worse it was me who had 14lb and won the tough section of doom!!

Could be even worse it could have been solid in all our pegs with ice in any normal January. As it was only Steve and Bin-it-Ins pegs were sold (black they were!)

I think this is actually Billy Gore preparing the same peg he came second from today but about 4 years ago in January!!




Result
1st - Steve Brew - 49.0lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 26.0lb
3rd - Barry Davis - 22.2lb

Glebe 2014 - Three Dayer

We have confirmed the Glebe for Wed 17th, Thurs 18th and Fri 19th September. I could not book a Saturday for any month from June to September!!

We have Lakes 1 + 7 booked so 42 pegs and I'm going to limit to 27 anglers to ensure you have either an empty peg or end peg.

There will be an option to just do two days on Thurs and Fri which will be the Pairs matches. Wed will be a one off match. Rick is looking at sorting something for Sat for those wanting a extra match that weekend (costs to be confirmed for additonal hotel / match somewhere)

We will sort top, middle and lower rankings at the Glebe based on previous performance as this has worked well in previous years. There will be sections and overall payouts. Hotel is to be finalised but probably the Longshoot again with costs likely to be £120 for 3 days fishing / 2 nights hotel or £70 for 2 days fishing / 1 night hotel.

Deposits of £10 to Keith asap to gets your name down. You need to have paid £50 by the end of April and your balance of either £70tbc or £120tbc by the end of August.

Important: Can you let me know asap by text 07785 722289 or by email at the.simos@tiscali.co.uk if you are doing THREE days i.e. inc Wed or just TWO days. I need to amend deposits to Roy Marlow based on these numbers before 31st Jan.

THREE Days (21) IanS, Harry, Robbo, Ste B, Ste G, Andy T, Graham, Rob D, Jason C, Jeff, Dougie, Pete Canavan, Pete Walsh, Lloydy, Dave Grimes, Rick, Keith, Colin, Mick Flanagan, Trev, Dave Gentile,

TWO Days (2) - Billy, Alec