Sunday 27th September 2015 - Landsend Match and Specimen Lake.

Most fishermen will say that a day on the bank is better than any other. Well, this was a day to test that!!
20 of the HLS crowd assembled at in the Landsend car park and were joined by a guest in the shape of Lee Williams, a well known Bridgy boy. Horny Beards had returned from his two weeks in Morocco; I'm surprised they let him stay that long!!!
Chairman Bob informed us that he had selected all of the match lake and the north side of the specimen lake. I was quick to draw and out came peg 37 on Speci lake. I had never been on that lake before and so was none the wiser for what I had drawn. Peg 37......

I had come prepared for silver only and so I decided on 4 lines to fish; 2+1 in front, 11m in front and left and right margins on a top kit. To my left I had Shaun Larkham on peg 38 and to my right, Tony Fry on 36. The sun was going to be in our faces all day although down at pegs 35 and 34 they had a lot more shade cast over the water. On the all in I fed all lines with a ball of bread crumb containing a few hook baits. I started in the margins on single maggot  just to see if there was any signs of life. 10 minutes and a single small Rudd made me have a look and the lines infront of me. To cut a long story short, I alternated these lines for the 6 hours struggling to get bites. I found I would get ten minutes when I would get a bite a put in and then nothing for 30 mins, very frustrating. Tony said it took him and hour to get a bite and Shaun had his first bite on the hour, netting a 6lb carp. Bob and Rob Eagles were on pegs 35 and 34 and seem to be getting a steady stream of silvers. With an hour to go Shaun had his 2nd bite of the day and it was a huge lump that just steamed off and said bye bye to Shaun. So, there seemed little luck with silvers or carp. Word came that the situation was similar on the match lake.
On the all out there was a handful who had packed up and declared a DNW. I packed up and then Tony and I did the weigh; me recording the weights. We weighed in the speci pegs first and Paul Berry had the silvers target to beat with 12lb 1oz. My meager net of fish only troubled the scales too 7lb 13oz. Tony only just beat me with 8lb 2oz. Then we had the shining stars for the silvers. Bob posted 19lb and Rob had 16lb 1oz, although Rob also had 25lb 12oz of carp to give him a total of 41lb 13oz (4th overall for the day).

The match lake weights were also a tale of woe and Lee Williams posted the first reasonable weight of 44lb 6oz. Nothing bettered that until we got to Phil Beards on the corner peg, 13. Phil had fished the end bank on the pole with 6mm meat and had a steady catch of carp and a few silvers (I wondered if he had been using some Morocccan cannabis resin instead of meat, lol) . He notched up the winning weight of 56lb 10oz. However, he was closely chased by John Barker on peg 19 with a similar catch who posted 55lb 4oz.
Mr B with some of his catch....Well done Phil!

So, the winning weights were...
Overall
1st - Phil Beards 56lb 10oz
2nd - John Barker 55lb 4oz
3rd - Lee Williams 44lb 6oz
Silvers
1st - Bob Pascoe 19lb
2nd - Rob Eagles 16lb 1oz
3rd - Paul Berry 12lb 1oz

And the score sheet.....

Wednsday 23rd September 2015 - Summerhays Sellick Lake

Look out fish, 14 of Dad's Army are ready and quick on the draw, followed by the usual moan from G.F. .The fish saw us coming, and certainly kept their heads down, silvers being a rarity, with the exception of Danny.  The Sheriff mangaged to ease out 9lbs 6ozs to win silvers.

The overall winner was the Burnham Bomber Pete Cooke (with an E), his total weight being 35lbs 4ozs, well done to both of you, but you don't get a promotion.

Welcome to new member Graham Burbridge, who I am sure wil enjoy his fishing like the rest of us.

Look forward to next Wenesday at Shiplate on Hawthorns, names please

Chair Bob           Telephone number 01278683243 

Sunday 20th September 2015 – Viaduct Cary Lake

As the Rugby World Cup begins, 17 of our best Hookers lined up at the Viaduct Arena and listened to the team talk from Captain Bob. “Keep your hook lengths long and no rucking in the margins”. Well, there was some rucking moans at the draw when less than desirable pegs were drawn. I drew the ‘two fat ladies’ (88) and was not excited due to its poor performance over recent months. To my left I had Captain Bob Pascoe on 90, the Welsh wizard, Brian Chivers on 86 and yet again, in front of me was that man Fletcher!!!

Peg 88……

A crowd around Shaun on peg 81.

What words of wisdom were they giving you Shaun?

At my peg, Paul Berry gave me a tip about the left margin but apart from small silvers, nothing else showed up. My main approach was to target the carp on the lead at 20 metres in front with a second line on the pole at 2:00 o’clock at 11m. Bait was a mixture of normal pellet, robin red pellet and amino paste.

Captain Bob decided that everybody was ready 5 mins early and blew the all in horn. I fed the margin pole line and chucked out the lead and waited. Apart from liners, I was still waiting for a take on the lead, an hour later. I noticed there was plenty of bubbles over my 11m line and so investigated with a banded 6mm pellet but all I got was attention from small skimmers. I changed to paste and had a good take but the Cary ‘munter’ just took off until my hook separated! Back to my lead rod and I had my first take and fish in the net, a 12lb mirror. Then nothing but small skimmers on the pole lines. With an hour to go I had a flurry of takes, 4 takes in 4 put ins. 2 were landed, one shed the hook at the net and one which did an impression of a submarine which I couldn’t get to the surface no matter how hard I pulled. The hook length gave way and so that was my day. 3 fish for 30lb exact.

While sat there watching a still tip for most of the match gave me a chance to take in what the rest of the HLS mob were doing. There was plenty of splashing from Brian on my right but he kept say that he only had one!! Bob, George and Dave Harvey were a blur of activity as they netted their usual quantities of 'whitebait'. However word got around that Danny and his magic maggots was doing better on peg 80. The most carp action was occurring in adjacent pegs, 97 and 98 where Matt and Simon had steady action throughout the day. Matt ran out the winner with 9 fish for a winning 100lb 14oz. It was his first ton in a match and first win with HLS, well done!!

The scores on the doors were….

Overall

1^st Matt Culpin (97) – 100lb 14oz

2^nd Eric Searle (78) – 90lb 8oz

3^rd Simon Gardner (98) – 73lb 1oz

Silvers

1^st Andy Danahay (80) – 19lb 11oz

2^nd John Barker (99) – 17lb

3^rd Bob Pascoe (90) – 16lb 2oz

Score sheet….

Wednesday 16th September 2015 - Landsend Match Lake

Ten of Dads Army turned up smartly dressed, it was good to see Simon Garbutt (Private Pike), one of our younger recruits!!

I drew peg 1, a renowned carp residence, and so it proved. After six hours of toil, three hours trying for silvers, the last 1/2 hour in the pouring rain. I weighed in 78lbs 10ozs of which 11lbs were silvers, enough to win overall but only by 6ozs over young Pike, hard luck to him.  A really good match.  Bolton George wins the silvers with the same weight as myself 11ozs, lucky George.

The weigh in was a miserable affair, the rain pouring down, paperwork getting soaked etc.  Many thanks to  Simon for his help, but I must say the spirit of the lads was not dampened; so here's to the next one at Summerhays Sellick

Until then

Chair Bob

Sunday 13th September 2015 - Avalon Lake pegs 1 - 23

12 of the HLS disciples turned up to one of the Somerset favorite venues whilst others were still away, sunning themselves, or having emergency tooth surgery (Shaun Larkham). The fishery owner Leigh sorted out 12 pegs for us, including the dreaded peg 1. I was third into the bag and pulled out the well known carp peg, No.5, which threw me because I had come with silvers in mind. As I was walking off to my peg there was a howl of anguish behind me which turned out to be Bolton Wanderer George who had drawn peg 1.

My peg for the day….

So, I had peg 5 and I thought that I must fish the water in front of me. There was lots of carp moving around in the gap between the island so I thought I’d keep things simple and set up a pellet waggler and a lead rod to fish the gap. I did also set up a margin rig to fish down the edge to my right. I started out on the waggler and had my first common at 20 mins and then another 10 mins later. However, it did become clear that I was only getting any interest if I was putting the bait close to the reeds. On the hour I switched to the lead to see if they would like a double 10 mm pellet on the hair. I struggled for the whole of 6hrs alternating these approached and only ended up with 5 carp in the net although I lost some foul hookers.

With only 12 fishing it was hard to see what everyone else was doing. New member, John Barker, next to me on peg 6 was doing well with the silvers and would have done better if he hadn’t been pestered by the carp. Down on peg 1 there was a dripping of discontent from George, but he was catching a few silvers.

A pre-match lecture from Roger Coombs to Tony on the art of casting……..

At the weigh in I helped Leigh by putting the scores on the sheet and finding out what people had done for 6 hours. We’ll bypass my pathetic weight and move swiftly on. John Barker did post a reasonable silvers weight of 23lb 2oz plus 11lb 2 oz of carp. Tony Fry then put up the best overall weight, so far, from peg 10 of 42lb 10oz. On peg 17, Paul Bowyer then posted what was the top silvers weight of 27lb 9oz. He caught on a variety of baits but betaine paste appeared to seek out the better bream. Chairman Bob posted the second best silvers weight from peg 22 with 23lb 9oz. All that was left was Ninja Searle on peg 23 and through a lot of wheezing he managed to  tip out  the top weight of 48lb 8oz.

So the payout results were:-

Overall

1^st           Eric Searle           48lb 8oz

2^nd          Tony Fry               42lb 10oz

3^rd          Mike Davis          39lb

Silvers

1^st           Paul Bowyer       27lb 9oz

2^nd          Bob Pascoe         23lb 9oz

These weights were not really the best that Avalon has to offer and was considered a hard days fishing. A post match offer was made by owner Leigh to show how to catch silvers, particularly on peg 1.

Score sheet…..

Wednesday 9th September 2015 - Viaduct Match Lake

Before the start there was confusion (a)  How many anglers? (b)  Which lake?

Thanks to Badger Steve and myself all was resolved and 13 of the Homeguard took took up their positions on Match Lake.   Another close fought battle came up with the result:-
1st overall   Roger Coombs                             Peg 45     34lbs 7ozs
2nd            Brian Chivers (Welsh Mercenary)   Peg 43     33lbs 6ozs


1st Sivers   Chair Bob                                    Peg 44      23lbs 6ozs
2nd            Bolton Boy George                       Peg 42      22lbs 10ozs


Next week at Landsend 

Hope to see you all then,


Chair Bob.

Terry Orr...... Where are you???

We would like Terry Orr to get in touch, we miss him on the bank. Does anyone know where he is and can let him know about the club?

Regards Bob   

Contact number 01278 683243           

Sunday 6th September 2015 - Viaduct Cary Lake

The match was quite level with not much between the Carp boys and the Silvers anglers.  At one point watching Danny messing around with is third successive carp, I thought he would have a heart attack. Lucky for you Danny it could have been mouth to mouth with one of this lot!!!! 

Winner overall - Martin Coombs - Peg 100 with 81lbs

Winner silvers - Chair Bob Pascoe - Peg 86 with 16lbs 10ozs

Sept/Oct 2015 - Wednesday Matches

9th Sept - Viaduct Match Lake
16th Sept - Landsend Match Lake
23rd Sept - Summerhayes Sellicks Lake
30th Sept - Shiplate Hawthorns
7th Oct - Sedges Brick Lake
14th Oct - Viaduct Match Lake
21st Oct - Trinity Woodlands
28th Oct - Sedges Tile Lake

September 2nd 2015 - Shiplate Hawthorns

Eleven of Dads Army marched out to Hawthorns prepared their weapons and awaited the order to fish.  It turned out a er even contest with everyone catching (and losing) fish .  The winner Dave Tunstall with 32lbs, 2nd Tony Fry with 29lbs 8ozs, and Silvers Pete Cooke with 13lbs 12ozs

We are looking forward to Match Lake Viaducts next Wednesday

Thanks Lads

Chair Bob