23rd June - Chester Lakes

Well only ten turned out at Chester Lakes on Saturday on the middle lake, Jason Connah drew on the peg near to the car park on the road side on the way in down on the slope and fished at 6m and against the reeds and caught steadily throughout, lost a few too for a winning 25.2lb. Kenny Stuart did well with the severe wind in his face all day, he caught 20.8lb at 9m and on the inside. Ian Lloyd drw the Golden Peg and was comfortable at 8m with the wind behind and I'm told should have done a little better than 3rd with 20.4lb according to our resident coach!!

Damages on the day Jason Connah broke 5th section, Rick Keeley broke 5th and 4th section as the blew his pole out of the rollers 7 times (once is an accident 7 times is Rick being a ballon!!) oh nad his top 4 blew away 5 times down the field.

Rick's thought for the day " that place has cost me more money in sections than any other fishery, including Conway" and you need a top 5 to fish to hand

Result

1st - Jason Connah - 25.2lb

2nd - Kenny Stuart - 20.8lb

3rd - Ian Lloyd - 20.4lb

17th June - Fir Tree - Three Way Charity Match

Well 24 turned out and after fishing 8 sections of 3 Rivacre ran out the winners with five section wins, two seconds and a third.

 

Ian Lloyd ran out the individual winner of the first Three Club Charity event at Fir Tree with his catch of 35.6lb of mainly Carp + silvers caught at 17m on corn. Ian fed a pot of corn and pellet on this line, but started on the inside and had a couple of bits, but after an hour or so decided to try the far line on corn where he caught steady for the rest of the match.

Second was Billy Gore with 33.0lb caught on meat and pellet at 16m mainly down the inside and over. Billy was as doubled over at the end holding the pole for that length of time, and didn’t feel too good either suffering from food poisoning (could it be Dougie poisioning his butties to give us all a chance) third was Dave Cargill from Eggy Ferry with 20.7lb again caught over on pellet but managed a few from the track as well.

The total money looks like being over £2.000 and Rick has asked everyone to collect all their sponsors’ money by the 2nd July for the WBAC meeting on the 9^th so Clair House representatives can come to collect the cheque. Keith is organising a Big cheque from the bank for the photos.

Result

1st - Ian Lloyd - 35.7lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 33.0lb
3rd - Dave Cargill - 20.7lb

9th June - Weston Pools - Canal

Weston produced the goods again with more than 580lb of fish brough to the scales from the 19 fishing so an average of over 32lb per man. After much heated debate about pegging, which I have to say is always going to be the case at Weston Canal as its such a bizarre shape, we managed to all seem to disagree but drew and got on with it!!

Rob Dickinson had a great last hour at 5m on pellet to pull away from the field with 60.7lb of carp, F1's and barbel from peg 13. Rick 'the coach' Keeley followed advice and fished 16m over early on and then 5m and margins to record 2nd from peg20 with a similar mix. Ian Lloyd declared he had about 28lb from peg 33 but weighed 45.2lb for third and to win his knockout from Ian S (he had declared 30lb but weighed 40.7lb as well, we are rubbish at guessing weights at Weston).

Sections went to Tony Byers with 42.4lb from peg 8 (well done Tony beating Billy Gore off the next peg is going some at the moment!!) and Jeff Gratham (who had a little moan about his peg) on peg 23 with 41.9lb including a lot of smaller fish on pellet.

With 32.5lb not even making the top ten, Weston again proved to be one of the better venues despite the now standard pegging debate there!!!! Oh and fishing past the next pallet there is a bit of a farce on some pegs that we really need to review in my opinion.

Result
1st - Rob Dickinson - 60.7lb
2nd - Rick Keeley - 47.6lb
3rd - Ian Lloyd - 45.2lb
Section A - Tony Byers - 42.4lb
Section B - Jeff Grantham - 41.9lb

26th May - Brookside (Kingfisher)

Billy Gore our Club Angler of the year finalist continued his great form and obliterated the small field who returned to Brookside. Billy had the wind off his back which others struggled with and weighed 72.6lb for an easy win and took the golden peg as well. Colin Cook was the nearest challenger with a good weight of 33.4lb with Rick Keeley third with 15.6lb

With three of the twelve anglers not weighing and low backing weights it appears to have been hard for most. I believe the weather didn't help, but you cannot take it away fom the runaway framers, Billy and Colin weighed over 100lb between them with the entire rest of the field only weighing 70lb (a touch peggy methinks!)

Result
1st - Billy Gore - 72.6lb
2nd - Colin Cook - 33.4lb
3rd - Rick Keeley - 15.6lb

12th May - Partridge - Ribbon / Tweed

Results

Tweed
1st - Jeff Gratham - 42.0lb
2nd - Jason Connah - 28.8lb

Ribbon
1st - Mick Flanagan - 42.9lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 33.4lb

Glebefest 2012 Deposits

Guys, just a reminder you should by now have paid £60 deposit to Keith with the remainder, dependant on how many nights your staying due mid August.

Can I ask the 6-8 who have not paid the full £60 to sort out with Keith asap as we still have at least one member looking to book on. I'll ask Keith to let us have an update at the next meeting.

If you have not paid your £60 by the next meeting 14th May I'm going to recommend at the meeting its only fair to move to a first come first served with the £60 from that point so someone could miss out.

14th April - Weston Pools - Canal

Well in Rick and Keith's absence I thought this was superbly run and pegged to perfection resulting in rapturous applause from all who fished both before, during and after the match!!!!...........no seriously thanks to Ian L for help at the draw, Billy for help weighing as always and Rob and moaning hole (Jeff) for pegging it out to give us a decent and very close match in the end.
 
It was probaly no surprise that two of the current Weston Pools Winter League winning team ie Mick and Jeff took the top two spots but it was a close call with Mick alternating feeder and pole down the margins for 36.8lb with Jeff second on 35.1lb having so many margins to go at on his peg it was ridiculous. Steve Brew broke the winning teams gallop taking third with 34.3lb but only after kidding us all he had 50lb+

The sections were also close with Billy Gore on 33.2lb just ahead of Colin Cook with 29.1lb in section A. Ian Simpson caught late on to pip Rob Dickinson 28.2lb to 26.1lb in section B. In section C it was a case of double default win for Kenny Pickup after a hard fought peg to peg battle with his partner Kenny Stuart. The Pickup variety managed 13.9lb with the Stuart variety falling a fish shy with 13.6lb.

340lb of fish caunght at an average of 18lb per angler despite lots of cold rain and a bitter wind on the day.......roll on summer!!!!

Result
1st - Mick Flanagan - 36.8lb
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 35.1lb
3rd - Steve Brew - 34.3lb
Sec A - Billy Gore - 33.2lb
Sec B - Ian Simpson - 28.2lb
Sec C - Kenny Pickup - 13.9lb