Weight - 18lb 14oz
Catch - 1 Carp, 34 Roach, 6 Skimmers
Weather - Cold start. Sunny, breeze picked up later
Match - Viaduct Winter League - 39th out of 95, 7th out of 19 section
I was asked to guest for Glyn Reynolds team for this round of Viaduct Winter League. Because my car is currently in the garage awaiting a repair on the cam shaft, Tim Clark kindly volunteered (or he was volunteered by Tony!) to pick me up. On the way we collected Fabio, who still cant go fishing for another 2 weeks due to the cast on his broken arm, planed on walking around the match to get some fresh air.
After paying my pools to Glyn I disappeared to get my kit out of the van. When I returned Fred Roberts congratulated me on drawing a peg he wanted to avoid, until he realised I didn’t know where I had drawn. So when I found Glyn he just said sorry, you are on p21, in the top right hand corner of Spring. Oh joy. At least I had loads of room, although it was pointed out the reason why there was so much room was because the peg was crap.
With plenty of time to set up I sat at the peg considering my options, waiting to see if anyone turned up on p23 (I forgot to ask whether the peg was in) and no one did. Asking around suggested I could get carp down the margin late on and there wasn’t many silvers, which meant I was likely to have a boring day.
On the all in 3 balls of groundbait with dead maggot & caster was cupped in at 14m, a pot of dead maggot & caster by the pallet on p22 and a small pot of caster at 14m to my left. The first 30mins I spent on the waggler and maggot cast towards the island (p24) and to my left, but no bites. Since I wanted to give my groundbait line plenty of time to settle, I cast the straight lead & double corn towards the inlet gap with the intention of waiting 30mins to see what happens.
After 20mins the tip flew round and 10mins later a big mirror was netted. At least that would secure good points and I could relax for the rest of the match. I topped up my groundbait & gave the lead another 30mins, however without success.
A switch to the pole produced 15 roach/small skimmers reasonably quickly. The rest of the match was a case of spending time looking for a carp on the lead, before switching back to the pole for more small fish. I had kept the margin topped up with dead maggot/caster and when I tried the swim with dead maggot on the hook, I only had 1 roach.
At least the pole was providing some bites and a 2lb skimmer was a welcome surprise. Come the end I knew I had done OK and in fact I quite enjoyed the day. I just missed out on picking up coin, because Alex Murray on p24 managed 25lb of skimmers, but those carp didn’t feed in any numbers on Spring except for Martin Preston on p4, but that side of the lake was in with Match Lake.
1st 191- 1 - Des Shipp - p86
2nd 175-10 - Dave Romain - p53
3rd 152-12 - Mark Poppleton - p116
4th 146- 2 - Richard Wyatt - p73
5th 136-14 - Martin Preston - p4
6th 128-13 - Mash - p78
Silvers
1st 32- 4 - Tony Rixon - p38
2nd 25- 7 - Alex Murray - p24
3rd 15- 7 - Matt Parsons - p56
4th 14- 7 - Gary Cross - p16
5th 13- 7 - Dick Bull - p39
Monday 18 February 2013
16/02/13 - Lands End - Match
Weight - 17lb 14oz
Catch - 3 Carp, 2 Perch, 1 F1, 1 Bream, 1 Roach
Weather - Cold, misty start, Sunny & no wind.
Match - Open - 12th out of 14
14 turned up for today’s match, which is one of the best Saturday turn outs for a while. We were all on Match Lake, which meant there was going to be a few pegs you didn’t want. I found myself on peg 7, which can be a match winner, but not when pegs 8, 10 & 12 are in. For company I had Mark Walsh on 8 and Allan Oram on 5.
Mark had 3 carp within 30 mins fishing across to a small bush and then picked up the odd carp throughout the match. Allan in the meantime rotated his swims to catch mostly skimmers on soft pellet.
As for me, it was a real struggle and I got battered each side. Initially started down the track and bumped a carp after 10mins, then I lost a skimmer when the hook dropped out as I was shipping back, but it took me 1hr 50mins to catch my first fish, a roach on maggot over my pellet line.
My short caster line failed to produce as did my island swim and the fish didn’t seemed to be settled over my pellet line. In the end to make something happen I started catapulting pellet to the point of the island and slightly to my right (to hopefully pull a few of the carp away from Marks peg). At one point I thought it would work, when I had a carp and missed a bite on pellet, but they soon disappeared again. I also started feeding meat at 5m, which can produce a few big carp late, but they never did, although I did manage to sneak one carp from under the pallet of p6.
A head scratcher of day, after such a slow start I was on the back foot for most of the match and I although I tried to make something happened, it ultimately failed.
On a separate issue Mike netted no4 lake today and reckons he has transfer 2000lb of fish into Johns (no3) Lake. Mostly pastie carp, loads of small silvers and 6 enormous 3lb+ perch.
1st 57-11 - Rod Wootton - p18
2nd 57- 4 - Chris K - p15
3rd 47- 8 - Mark Poppleton - p13
4th 41- 6 - Mike West - p24
5th 41- 5 - Mark Walsh - p8
6th 38-10 - Allan Oram - p5
Silvers
1st 31- 0 - Allan Oram - p5
2nd 16- 9 - Tom Mangnall - p19
3rd 12- 3 - Eric Fouracre - p3
Catch - 3 Carp, 2 Perch, 1 F1, 1 Bream, 1 Roach
Weather - Cold, misty start, Sunny & no wind.
Match - Open - 12th out of 14
14 turned up for today’s match, which is one of the best Saturday turn outs for a while. We were all on Match Lake, which meant there was going to be a few pegs you didn’t want. I found myself on peg 7, which can be a match winner, but not when pegs 8, 10 & 12 are in. For company I had Mark Walsh on 8 and Allan Oram on 5.
Mark had 3 carp within 30 mins fishing across to a small bush and then picked up the odd carp throughout the match. Allan in the meantime rotated his swims to catch mostly skimmers on soft pellet.
As for me, it was a real struggle and I got battered each side. Initially started down the track and bumped a carp after 10mins, then I lost a skimmer when the hook dropped out as I was shipping back, but it took me 1hr 50mins to catch my first fish, a roach on maggot over my pellet line.
My short caster line failed to produce as did my island swim and the fish didn’t seemed to be settled over my pellet line. In the end to make something happen I started catapulting pellet to the point of the island and slightly to my right (to hopefully pull a few of the carp away from Marks peg). At one point I thought it would work, when I had a carp and missed a bite on pellet, but they soon disappeared again. I also started feeding meat at 5m, which can produce a few big carp late, but they never did, although I did manage to sneak one carp from under the pallet of p6.
A head scratcher of day, after such a slow start I was on the back foot for most of the match and I although I tried to make something happened, it ultimately failed.
On a separate issue Mike netted no4 lake today and reckons he has transfer 2000lb of fish into Johns (no3) Lake. Mostly pastie carp, loads of small silvers and 6 enormous 3lb+ perch.
1st 57-11 - Rod Wootton - p18
2nd 57- 4 - Chris K - p15
3rd 47- 8 - Mark Poppleton - p13
4th 41- 6 - Mike West - p24
5th 41- 5 - Mark Walsh - p8
6th 38-10 - Allan Oram - p5
Silvers
1st 31- 0 - Allan Oram - p5
2nd 16- 9 - Tom Mangnall - p19
3rd 12- 3 - Eric Fouracre - p3
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Lands End Winter League Tables - rd5
League Overall Standing
Silvers Overall Standings
|
Dropped Result
|
Final Total
|
|||||||
|
Name
|
Total
|
weight
|
Total
|
weight
|
Total
|
weight
|
||
|
1
|
Mark Poppleton
|
14
|
290.81250
|
7
|
26.12500
|
7
|
264.68750
|
|
|
2
|
Jamie Parkhouse
|
16
|
204.50000
|
8
|
5.81250
|
8
|
198.68750
|
|
|
3
|
Tony Rixon
|
19
|
235.50000
|
9
|
21.75000
|
10
|
213.75000
|
|
|
4
|
Nick Merry
|
15
|
213.75000
|
5
|
40.93750
|
10
|
172.81250
|
|
|
5
|
Craig Edmunds
|
18
|
198.12500
|
7
|
21.56250
|
11
|
176.56250
|
|
|
6
|
Clint Wotlyla
|
21
|
224.43750
|
8
|
28.68750
|
13
|
195.75000
|
|
|
7
|
Mike Duckett
|
24
|
200.75000
|
10
|
8.18750
|
14
|
192.56250
|
|
|
8
|
Adrain Jeffrey
|
21
|
183.50000
|
6
|
16.62500
|
15
|
166.87500
|
|
|
9
|
Anton Page
|
26
|
129.31250
|
11
|
0.00000
|
15
|
129.31250
|
|
|
10
|
Tom Thick
|
21
|
205.18750
|
5
|
31.12500
|
16
|
174.06250
|
|
|
11
|
Mike Nicholls
|
25.5
|
146.31250
|
9
|
0.56250
|
16.5
|
145.75000
|
|
|
12
|
Bela Bakos
|
23
|
217.37500
|
6
|
29.62500
|
17
|
187.75000
|
|
|
13
|
Steve Seagar
|
26
|
153.62500
|
8
|
14.25000
|
18
|
139.37500
|
|
|
14
|
Bob Gullick
|
29
|
131.62500
|
11
|
0.00000
|
18
|
131.62500
|
|
|
15
|
Paul Elmes
|
31
|
180.12500
|
11
|
11.62500
|
20
|
168.50000
|
|
|
16
|
Mark Brennan
|
32
|
170.43750
|
11
|
6.43750
|
21
|
164.00000
|
|
|
17
|
Paul Homewood
|
33
|
179.12500
|
10
|
9.00000
|
23
|
170.12500
|
|
|
18
|
Tom Mangnall
|
34
|
142.62500
|
11
|
2.75000
|
23
|
139.87500
|
|
|
19
|
Aaron Britnell
|
34
|
122.37500
|
11
|
0.00000
|
23
|
122.37500
|
|
|
20
|
Kev Molton
|
34
|
115.31250
|
11
|
0.00000
|
23
|
115.31250
|
|
|
21
|
Nick Duckett
|
31.5
|
132.06250
|
8
|
17.62500
|
23.5
|
114.43750
|
|
|
22
|
Ken Rayner
|
33
|
178.62500
|
9
|
9.37500
|
24
|
169.25000
|
|
|
23
|
Allan Oram
|
35
|
125.43750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
24
|
125.43750
|
|
|
24
|
Mike West
|
36
|
116.37500
|
11
|
2.43750
|
25
|
113.93750
|
|
|
25
|
Matt Tomes
|
36
|
119.68750
|
10
|
40.93750
|
26
|
78.75000
|
|
|
26
|
John Bradford
|
37
|
88.06250
|
11
|
10.56250
|
26
|
77.50000
|
|
|
27
|
Ray Bazeley
|
41
|
117.56250
|
11
|
0.00000
|
30
|
117.56250
|
|
|
28
|
Stuart Barnett
|
42
|
85.62500
|
11
|
0.00000
|
31
|
85.62500
|
|
|
29
|
Jason Radford
|
41
|
79.68750
|
10
|
20.50000
|
31
|
59.18750
|
|
|
30
|
Nick Collier
|
45
|
37.68750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
34
|
37.68750
|
|
|
31
|
Paul Haines
|
46
|
70.06250
|
11
|
16.75000
|
35
|
53.31250
|
|
|
32
|
Dale Howsen
|
47
|
56.93750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
36
|
56.93750
|
|
|
33
|
Pete Nurse
|
47
|
51.93750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
36
|
51.93750
|
|
|
34
|
Phil Harding
|
47
|
37.43750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
36
|
37.43750
|
|
|
35
|
Dave Wescott
|
51
|
34.37500
|
11
|
5.50000
|
40
|
28.87500
|
|
|
36
|
Keith Builder
|
53
|
28.81250
|
11
|
0.00000
|
42
|
28.81250
|
|
|
Sections A > B > C
|
|
Sections B > C > A
|
|
Sections C > A > B
|
Silvers Overall Standings
|
Dropped Result
|
Final Total
|
|||||||
|
Name
|
Total
|
weight
|
Total
|
weight
|
Total
|
weight
|
||
|
1
|
Tom Thick
|
8
|
84.75000
|
3
|
4.31250
|
5
|
80.43750
|
|
|
2
|
Nick Merry
|
17
|
56.93750
|
8
|
5.18750
|
9
|
51.75000
|
|
|
3
|
John Bradford
|
14
|
48.68750
|
5
|
4.93750
|
9
|
43.75000
|
|
|
4
|
Bob Gullick
|
22
|
52.00000
|
11
|
0.00000
|
11
|
52.00000
|
|
|
5
|
Mike Nicholls
|
18.5
|
41.00000
|
6.5
|
0.56250
|
12
|
40.43750
|
|
|
6
|
Craig Edmunds
|
20
|
39.87500
|
7
|
3.62500
|
13
|
36.25000
|
|
|
7
|
Mark Brennan
|
24
|
53.37500
|
10
|
2.93750
|
14
|
50.43750
|
|
|
8
|
Tony Rixon
|
21
|
51.00000
|
7
|
9.00000
|
14
|
42.00000
|
|
|
9
|
Clint Wotlyla
|
25.5
|
34.37500
|
10
|
1.50000
|
15.5
|
32.87500
|
|
|
10
|
Tom Mangnall
|
26.5
|
47.43750
|
10
|
2.75000
|
16.5
|
44.68750
|
|
|
11
|
Mark Poppleton
|
27.5
|
36.12500
|
9.5
|
1.12500
|
18
|
35.00000
|
|
|
12
|
Anton Page
|
29
|
30.18750
|
11
|
0.00000
|
18
|
30.18750
|
|
|
13
|
Matt Tomes
|
24.5
|
32.37500
|
6
|
3.25000
|
18.5
|
29.12500
|
|
|
14
|
Aaron Britnell
|
30
|
34.31250
|
11
|
0.00000
|
19
|
34.31250
|
|
|
15
|
Mike West
|
26.5
|
23.81250
|
7.5
|
3.75000
|
19
|
20.06250
|
|
|
16
|
Ken Rayner
|
29.5
|
32.06250
|
9.5
|
1.12500
|
20
|
30.93750
|
|
|
17
|
Mike Duckett
|
31.5
|
23.00000
|
11
|
0.00000
|
20.5
|
23.00000
|
|
|
18
|
Paul Homewood
|
32
|
22.50000
|
11
|
0.06250
|
21
|
22.43750
|
|
|
19
|
Jamie Parkhouse
|
31
|
21.62500
|
9
|
1.68750
|
22
|
19.93750
|
|
|
20
|
Paul Elmes
|
33
|
22.12500
|
10
|
0.75000
|
23
|
21.37500
|
|
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