This seasons Dun-No-More cup match was held at Beastie Lake, Decoy. For those of you who are not aware, the Dun-no-more Cup is held in memory of the late Ralf Webb, a tackle shop owner from Peterborough whose shop was frequently visited by many current and old club members. Our very own Martin Parker ran Webb’s for a duration in the 1990’s.
The Dun-no-more is different in 2 ways to our usual club matches. 1, it is held on a Wednesday and 2, it is the only match where guests are invited to fish.
14 club members at 8 guests fished on what was forecast to be a rather wet day. Fortunately the weather held off and plenty of fish were caught. At the draw, when Martin Howard drew peg 4, many of the guests predicted that Martin would win the match as he is a regular at the venue (as were many of the other guests!) who often frames.
In fifth place was Martin Parker. Martin drew peg 15 and started on the feeder with a 35-40 yard chuck to the recently trimmed island. After a slow start he decided to fish shallow like Andy Gausden to his right and Jonty to his left. He was frustrated by small fish until the odd better F1’s started to make an appearance. He decided to fish the pellet waggler at around 16m for the 2nd half of the match. Martin weighted in 84lb.
Amazingly there was a tie for 3rd between Kevin Wilmot and our very own Trevor Dew. Their catches couldn’t have been any different. Kevin on peg 24 fished pellet shallow for the duration to weigh in 94lb 8oz. This weight could have been more however he was knocked back 6lb for having 56lb in one of his nets. Trev, on the other hand was getting frustrated fishing shallow as he was again getting pestered by small fish on peg 25. He decided to concentrate fishing down the edge to his right for the resident lumps, with died red meat doing the damage. At the weigh in Trev’s 10 lumps and 32lb bag of shallow caught bits also weighted 94lb 8oz.
Jonty came 2nd with 96lb. He started fishing shallow from the off and first put in hooked and lost a lump at the net. After an hour fishing expanders shallow and getting ‘pestered’ by small carp and skimmers he decided to feed and fish 4mm hard pellets instead. After around 10 minutes he was into one of 60-odd F1 caught between 18 & 12 inches deep. He was frustrated as he lost between 20 & 30 fish after hooking them and before getting them in the net.
The 2009 Dun-no-more trophy went to Martin Howard with his catch of 131lb. Martin fished pellet shallow all day taking F1 carp which averaged 1.5-2lb from peg 4. Interestingly he mentioned he had lost between 30 & 40 fish after hooking them.
For the club result, the sections were split on the basis a 50:50 split of club members starting from peg one. As a result Jonty won the club match with Martin 2nd in section. Trev won the other section followed by Muzzy.
Result:
1st – Martin Howard (Guest) 131lb
2nd – Jonty 96lb
Jt 3rd – Trev & Kevin Wilmot (Guest) 94lb 8oz
5th – Martin Parker 86lb
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A great match with lots of fish and more importantly, lots of banter. Thanks or inviting me and well done to the winners. I must learn not to underestimate my weight!
ReplyDeleteyes a good match with more than one method making the frame. Next years match is booked for the 14th July so get it in your diaries. I think 22 was about right with 25 being the max. I do have a negative comment and that is we all disappeared at the end, me included. This left Trev and Keith to do the presentaion, next year we must make an effort to stay behind for a pint and do the presentation and payout properly. To help speed things up I suggest we have a scales man in each section to reduce the weigh in time.
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