Sunday 24 March 2013

23/03/13 - Lands End - Match

Weight - 78lb 0oz (6lb 10oz - silvers)
Catch - 14 Carp, 6 Skimmers, 2 Roach, 2 Perch, 1 Golden Tench
Weather - Cold & cloudy. Heavy rain the day before
Match - Open - 1st out of 11

Winter is still hanging on and today's weather was more like January. Ideally with the 2nd round of the pole only series at Acorns next week, I should have gone there today. However, with the poor weather, match attendances haven't been great and the fish just sit in the quiet water, which meant there was no real advantage to practising. Also the forecast was for a cold easterly wind and Acorns doesn't afford any cover, whilst Lands End does. Plus I think Lands End is a better fishery, particularly in the winter.

At the draw, peg 9 was put in, together with 7 & 11, despite my protests, because 7 can be a flier, but becomes very ordinary when 9 is in. I think the reason is due to the pegs being slightly narrower and shallower. Peg 3 was left out and it doesn't take a genius to know where the carp were sat during the day.

As for me p21 was my home for the day, with Keith Builder on 19 and Allan Oram on 24. 21 won the Wednesdays match, but with a days worth of very cold rain falling yesterday and overnight everyone was expecting a bit of a struggle. So it was a bit of surprise to see fish moving around, they must be really confused at the moment. The increased light conditions, means they need to think about spawning, however the water temperature is more like January.

4 rigs for the day. HB Chump 0.3g > .12 > 18 silverfish pellet (soft pellet down the track rig), HB Shindig 0.2g > .12 > 18 B911 (to fish corn down the track), HB frostie 0.2g > .12 > 18 silverfish pellet (top of the shelf), Ackoo Powertrap 0.2g > .16 > 16 carp feeder (hair rig double corn).

Due to the cold conditions, I started cautiously feeding a pinch of micros 14.5m to my right at the bottom of the shelf and some caster/dead maggot on top of the far shelf.

Starting on the double corn rig 14.5m to my left, the float didn't even settle I was already in, although it was hooked in the wing. My next carp followed 10mins later and this one was hooked properly, but no more followed so after 45mins I decided put some feed into the LH swim. A switch to the RH swim with pellet I lost a 2lb skimmer at the net, before netting 3x smaller skimmers, by rotating between the LH & RH swims.

By the half way point I had added another 2 carp on pellet from the LH swim and knew I was likely to frame, although it was close between Allan, Nick Duckett (p1) and myself. Nick was catching carp & few silvers, whilst Allan was catching some decent silvers.

I tried the top of the far shelf with caster, but never had a bite, so that wasn't tried again. I also tried by the p22 pallet where I had been feeding caster from the off, however only had 2 small perch. I did try again later in the match and caught a cracking 1lb roach on double caster, but no other fish, so that line was binned with 90mins left.

I had been feeding a pinch of pellet into one swim and fishing the other, but it became obvious the LH swim was the stronger of the 2, so at the half way point I started to catapult 4s into the RH swim simply to try something different. In the LH swim I started cupping in slightly more feed. By continually rotating between the 2 swims I kept catching mostly on pellet, included a lovely looking common of 11-10 and a 2lb golden tench. I also tried the double corn rig, which produced 1 carp and the shindig rig which produced 2 small carp towards the end on corn.

A couple of pots of corn/caster was dumped by the p20 pallet, but never a bite so didn't waste too much time.

In the last 2 hours, I pulled away from Allan and Nick. I could see that most struggled and the grapevine suggested that those I couldn't see were also struggling, so a convincing win in the end and it was nice to be drawn at the right end of the lake particularly after my last 2 matches.

1st 78- 0 - Ken Rayner - p21
2nd 45- 7 - Nick Duckett - p1
3rd 40- 5 - Allan Oram - p24
4th 29-15 - Mark Walsh - p13
5th 26- 2 - Keith Walsh - p19
6th 25- 8 - Tom Mangnall - p11

Silvers
1st 17- 3 - Allan Oram - p24
2nd 13- 0 - Tom Mangnall - p11
3rd 7- 1 - Nick Duckett - p1
4th 6-10 - Ken Rayner - p21

Monday 18 March 2013

Lands End Winter League - Final Tables

Top 30 Overall League Table



Lands End Winter League - 2012/13 (Overall Standings)









Dropped Result



Final Total














Name



Total



weight




Total



weight




Total



weight




1




Tony Rixon


20



318.93750



9



21.75000



11



297.18750



2




Jamie Parkhouse


20



238.25000



8



5.81250



12



232.43750



3




Mark Poppleton


24



299.37500



10



8.56250



14



290.81250



4




Craig Edmunds


21



281.31250



7



21.56250



14



259.75000



5




Nick Merry


21



234.12500



6



20.37500



15



213.75000



6




Adrain Jeffrey


23



243.81250



6



16.62500



17



227.18750



7




Mike Duckett


27



233.75000



10



8.18750



17



225.56250



8




Tom Thick


23



278.18750



5



31.12500



18



247.06250



9




Clint Wotlyla


26



250.81250



8



28.68750



18



222.12500



10




Steve Seagar


27



236.50000



8



14.25000



19



222.25000



11




Bela Bakos


28



260.37500



6



29.62500



22



230.75000



12




Mike Nicholls


31.5



173.87500



9



0.56250



22.5



173.31250



13




Paul Elmes


35



227.25000



11



11.62500



24



215.62500



14




Kev Molton


35



205.56250



11



0.00000



24



205.56250



15




Nick Duckett


33.5



216.43750



8



17.62500



25.5



198.81250



16




Anton Page


37



129.31250



11



0.00000



26



129.31250



17




Bob Gullick


38



156.25000



11



0.00000



27



156.25000



18




Mark Brennan


40



198.81250



11



6.43750



29



192.37500



19




Ken Rayner


40



208.12500



9



9.37500



31



198.75000



20




Allan Oram


43



147.62500



11



0.00000



32



147.62500



21




Paul Homewood


44



184.62500



11



5.50000



33



179.12500



22




Ray Bazeley


45



144.31250



11



0.00000



34



144.31250



23




Tom Mangnall


45



142.62500



11



2.75000



34



139.87500



24




Mike West


45



131.50000



11



2.43750



34



129.06250



25




Aaron Britnell


45



122.37500



11



0.00000



34



122.37500



26




John Bradford


46



96.00000



11



10.56250



35



85.43750



27




Matt Tomes


47



119.68750



10



40.93750



37



78.75000



28




Paul Haines


49



124.93750



11



16.75000



38



108.18750



29




Jason Radford


48



103.56250



10



20.50000



38



83.06250



30




Phil Harding


52



70.50000



11



0.00000



41



70.50000




Top 30 Silvers final League Table



Lands End Winter League - 2012/13 (SILVERS Standings)









Dropped Result



Final Total














Name



Total



weight




Total



weight




Total



weight




1




Tom Thick


10



96.31250



3



4.31250



7



92.00000



2




Nick Merry


18



69.37500



8



5.18750



10



64.18750



3




Bob Gullick


23



76.62500



11



0.00000



12



76.62500



4




Mike Nicholls


19.5



61.81250



6.5



0.56250



13



61.25000



5




John Bradford


22



51.31250



8



2.62500



14



48.68750



6




Mark Brennan


27



64.25000



10



2.93750



17



61.31250



7




Craig Edmunds


26



48.62500



7



3.62500



19



45.00000



8




Tony Rixon


32



51.00000



11



0.00000



21



51.00000



9




Clint Wotlyla


32.5



37.62500



10



1.50000



22.5



36.12500



10




Mike Duckett


33.5



32.81250



11



0.00000



22.5



32.81250



11




Mark Poppleton


33.5



44.68750



9.5



1.12500



24



43.56250



12




Ken Rayner


34.5



40.68750



9.5



1.12500



25



39.56250



13




Mike West


33.5



32.18750



7.5



3.75000



26



28.43750



14




Tom Mangnall


37.5



47.43750



11



0.00000



26.5



47.43750



15




Jamie Parkhouse


36



32.62500



9



1.68750



27



30.93750



16




Paul Homewood


39



28.00000



11



0.06250



28



27.93750



17




Anton Page


40



30.18750



11



0.00000



29



30.18750



18




Steve Seagar


38



28.25000



9



1.68750



29



26.56250



19




Matt Tomes


35.5



32.37500



6



3.25000



29.5



29.12500



20




Aaron Britnell


41



34.31250



11



0.00000



30



34.31250



21




Nick Duckett


43



28.62500



11



0.00000



32



28.62500



22




Bela Bakos


43



25.81250



11



0.00000



32



25.81250



23




Adrain Jeffrey


43



25.43750



10



0.50000



33



24.93750



24




Paul Elmes


44



22.12500



11



0.00000



33



22.12500



25




Dale Howsen


44.5



21.87500



11



0.00000



33.5



21.87500



26




Kev Molton


48.5



18.37500



11



0.00000



37.5



18.37500



27




Allan Oram


50



29.31250



11



0.00000



39



29.31250



28




Phil Harding


50



24.50000



11



0.00000



39



24.50000



29




Pete Nurse


51



17.12500



11



0.00000



40



17.12500



30




Ray Bazeley


52.5



12.75000



11



0.00000



41.5



12.75000