Another windswept day in the valleys and 11 brave souls (stupid fools, you pick!) were at the draw for Conway. With recent form being so varied and not knowing whether to go for roach or carp it seemed to be everyone simply wanted a draw out of the wind for a comfortable days fishing but that was not to be the case for many.
Ian Simpson was left with the final peg in the hat and it was on the bottom bank out
of the wind with Graham Aveyard who eventually drew somewhere other than Peg 1!! Ian started with his customery roach up and down in the water approach at c11m but they were not playing and the stamp was very small on maggot with very few better samples. After Billy Gore and Rob Dickinson had caught some mid match carp on pellet Ian decided to sit it out at 14.5m for the last two hours on pellet taking odd better roach and skimmers along with four vital carp to record 24.0lb and a second win of the series.
Rob Dickinson drew well, as is becoming the norm, next to the point where the concrete tower is and managed to secure second with a hard fought 22.7lb of pellet caught roach and skimmers and four or five carp. The point has just not woken up this year at all yet. Jeff Gratham was in the brunt of the wind one down from the old staging on the right hand bank and struggled for a few roach at 6-8m until the wind eased enough for Jeff to go 16m+ to the island where we had five carp in the last hour to take 19.6lb and third spot.
Only two other double figure weights suggests Conway is not as prolific in 2011/2 as previous winters with no F1's caught and very few skimmers again. The weather clearly didn't help and Rick Keeley had a match to forget and then some. He had his 13m ProX section blown straight in and nearly lost the 4/5/6/7 when that also went in.......he managed to save that but only just and in doing so snapped the no7.......an expensive day in the swirling wind when you also add a broken landing net pole to the list of "Keeley Katastrophies"........lets hope 2012 improves mate!
Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 24.0lb
2nd - Rob Dickinson - 22.7lb
3rd - Jeff Grantham - 19.6lb
Ian Simpson was left with the final peg in the hat and it was on the bottom bank out
of the wind with Graham Aveyard who eventually drew somewhere other than Peg 1!! Ian started with his customery roach up and down in the water approach at c11m but they were not playing and the stamp was very small on maggot with very few better samples. After Billy Gore and Rob Dickinson had caught some mid match carp on pellet Ian decided to sit it out at 14.5m for the last two hours on pellet taking odd better roach and skimmers along with four vital carp to record 24.0lb and a second win of the series.Rob Dickinson drew well, as is becoming the norm, next to the point where the concrete tower is and managed to secure second with a hard fought 22.7lb of pellet caught roach and skimmers and four or five carp. The point has just not woken up this year at all yet. Jeff Gratham was in the brunt of the wind one down from the old staging on the right hand bank and struggled for a few roach at 6-8m until the wind eased enough for Jeff to go 16m+ to the island where we had five carp in the last hour to take 19.6lb and third spot.
Only two other double figure weights suggests Conway is not as prolific in 2011/2 as previous winters with no F1's caught and very few skimmers again. The weather clearly didn't help and Rick Keeley had a match to forget and then some. He had his 13m ProX section blown straight in and nearly lost the 4/5/6/7 when that also went in.......he managed to save that but only just and in doing so snapped the no7.......an expensive day in the swirling wind when you also add a broken landing net pole to the list of "Keeley Katastrophies"........lets hope 2012 improves mate!
Result
1st - Ian Simpson - 24.0lb
2nd - Rob Dickinson - 22.7lb
3rd - Jeff Grantham - 19.6lb
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