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

7th April - Chester Lakes

Just ten turned out for Chester Lakes and it fished okay with an average of 10lb per angler so at least everyone had some bites. Not much I can say as I wasn't on this one but Billy Gore ran out the winner with 22.2lb with Keith Williamson just smeaking second spot with 16.2lb with Rick Keeley one fish away with 15.9lb

Result
1st - Billy Gore - 22.2lb
2nd - Keith Williamson - 16.2lb
3rd - Rick Keeley - 15.9lb

15th March - Conway WL10

All calm at Conway and the whole lake was ours after John the owner took heed of our moans having let all the day ticketers on last time.....and god can we moan......we have Captain Moanamaximus in our ranks (alias JG/Bagpuss)!! On the league front there were still 3 possible winners and lots of the places still up for grabs with only the best 5 to count and lots to drop (nightmare working it out afterwards on the day though!!!).

Having not fished well all winter we left the first two pegs past the tree out and you guessed it the winner came from the next peg with Steve Brew fishing 17.5m long back towards the white buoy for a real mixed bag that included no less that 17lb of goldfish in his 44.6lb net all taken on pellet either shallow or on the sunken island at 4ft. Jeff Granthan drew 1 passed the rock and caught shallow a couple of carp, a few F1's and some big roach for 42.4lb and enough to take the winter league title with 8pts. Ian Simpson needed to beat Jeff but fell just short with 35.3lb with a few bigger carp up in the water but no F1's and only a smattering of roach making all the difference. Ian's third spot though crucially gained him one point to tie with Rob Dickenson for second in the league and on count back it went 3lb in Ian's favour.

After the match John the owner laid on a buffet and some beers whilst we presented the payouts for the leagues top 14, as always paying out everyone who supported at least 5 matches and there were lots of close battles from Sonny pipping H and John Heald for 12th to Rick pipping Keith by a point and Dave Grimes doing the same to Dougie for 5th having only fished 5 as well.

Conway was not at its best this winter but we managed 2096lb at an average of 16lb per angler slightly down on last years 19lb per angler.......the challenge now is to find a local venue that will still produce those averages next winter, thats not going to be easy.......Rick over to you, my votes to alternate Conway and a.n.other more local venue for 10 matches with best 5 to count as we still fish it in the bad weather!!

Result
1st - Steve Brew - 44.6lb
2nd - Jeff Grantham - 42.4lb
3rd - Ian Simpson - 35.3lb

Winter League Champion = Jeff Grantham with 8pts (3 wins, 1 second, 1 third)