Well as the weather warms up so does the fishing. Our best weights of the year with 500lb+ of fish caught including guests and an avergae of 25lb per man at Conway.
Results
1. Jamie Pickup - 67.3lb
2. Jason Connah - 47.5lb
3. Dave Grimes - 43.5lb
Sec A - Graham Aveyard - 28.2lb
Sec B - Rick Keeley - 35.9lb
Jamie drew well, or should I say I drew well for him, first past the tree on the left and with the sun out the island was always going to fish well. To be fair he then proceeded to do the hard work at 16m and catch carp and F1's most of the day on pellet for what turned into a clear win - wupass duly administered this week!!!!!!
Jason from end peg on the right by the staging could have won it losing a fair few big fish, again fishing 16m to the island with pellet. He weighted 47.5lb, probably only one fish more then Dave Grimes's 43.5lb from the next peg, the other side of the staging. Similar tactics again with pellet fished to the island, although Dave was going to try an interesting "I snapped my landing net / to hand" method in the final 30mins.
Section A went to Graham Aveyard from down past the boulder, weighing 28.2lb on the pellet waggler after fetching a rod down after 2.5hours or so on the pole and proceeding to cast at Rick, Ian, Dougie, in fact anyone with a float out! Rick Keeley drew the "point", yes the "ton up" peg we all hope for and managed 35.9lb on pole and pellet waggler, well done Rick, faced the right way then and didn't throw his keepnet in this time.
Yozzer, H and Kenny P fished their 3 way knockout with Yozzer and Kenny P getting through to the next round, Yozza with 25lb of skimmers and roach from the bottom bank, Kenny with a hard worked for 19lb from the bottom left corner and H with 11lb ruing a lost hippocrocopig and a beast of a barbel.
John Heald in his knockout, ran to his peg opposite the point, well, had the motorised trolley at full pelt anyway, chucked in 3 keepnets and started chuckling away to himself, at Ian Simpson who had drawn the famous "Sonny and Jeff bottom bank". However at the weigh in Ian weighed 34.4lb whilst the "venue / ton up / carp expert", Mr Heald struggled to find a few fish in each net weighing less than 9lb per net, sorry John 26.8lb in total. Serves you right for insisting on fishing the knockout on Conway and not on the canal!!!
Overall a good days fishing with some good weights, 5 over 30lb and another 11 over 20lb.
Its the canal match next on May 8th so make sure you book on with Rick as it seems to be popular - must be a load of guests going then!!! (PS - John H - Top Tip, you won't need 3 nets on the canal!)
Great report Simmo, 16mtr shalow all day piece of p@ss when you got a Sensas 774 haha, i really enjoyed the day, some good banter goin on as usual, me Dad was a bit quiet though, not like him. But well done to all who framed especially me haha. Well done to Yozzer and me Dad on goin through in their knockout, unlucky to H who did loose a monster Barbel and as for Johnny 3 nets, well what can i say haha, Healdy you are a class act mate and one day them 3 nets may come in handy.....................But dont hold ya breath haha.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, i will distributing WUPASS tablets at the next match haha.