Current league positions after 10 Matches: (Top 6)
Championship (taking best 8 scores from the 11 matches)
1 - Jonty 55pts (counting 7)
2 - Ray T 54pts (8)
3 - Trev 53pts (8)
4 - Ron 45.5pts (8)
5 - Weas 44pts (8)
6 - Mike 28pts (8)
Winter League (taking best 3 scores from 4 matches)
1 - Ray T 23pts (counting 3)
2 - Trev 18pts (3)
3 - Weas 16pts (3
1 - Jonty 15pts (2)
5 - Ron 13.5pts (3)
6 - Mike 9pts (3)
Handicap Cup (taking best 8 scores out of the 11 matches)
1 - Mike 60pts (counting 8)
2 - Dennis 45pts (8)
3 - Stu 43pts (8)
4 - John E 41pts (6)
5 - Steve 40.5pts (6)
6 - Ray T 36pts (8)
Speci cup entries, as before. The full points and positions will be read out at the next meeting
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
2009 Fur & Feather
Grebe AC - fur n Feather match 2009 is to take place on Sunday 6th December 2009.
Fishing takes place at - Ramsey St Mary's, R.Old Nene, draw 0830hrs fish 10-3pm, £20 all in for members, £25 for guests wishing to fish the match and eat afterwards. This includes match pools, dayticket, meal contribution (the club is squaring up the remainder of the tab), £1 winner takes all and the 50p golden peg.
Eating to take place at - the Lion, Ramsey St Mary's (sat nav PE26 2TB) sitting down at around 4.45pmthe menu is a choice from;
STARTERS
Cream of Broccoli soup served with a warm bread roll
Prawn Cocktail with a slice of Wholemeal bread
Smooth Chicken liver pate, served with toast and salad garnish
MAINS
Roast of Sirloin Beef
Roast Breast of Turkey
Sea Bass Fillet
All accompanied with seasoned vegetables, roast puddings & parsnips, homemade stuffing, gravy and Yorkshire pudding.
DESSERTS
Traditional Christmas Pudding served with brandy sauce
Apple pie & custard
What I need to know is the following and also by the end of this current month at the very latest!
A) Are you coming to fish only, eat only or both? B) If you are eating what is your choice from the menu above?
Please let me know ASAP as it is important that we have the correct numbers and menu choices for the chef. We have reserved 15 places for the meal and provisionally booked 15 pegs on the St Mary's stretch, all of this can though be expanded upon if more of us turn up!!!
I look forward to hearing from you all in due course. If you wish I can be contacted on 07789 931031 or 01354 677753 (eves) to reserve your place.
Best regards
Steve G(Grebe AC Treasurer)
Fishing takes place at - Ramsey St Mary's, R.Old Nene, draw 0830hrs fish 10-3pm, £20 all in for members, £25 for guests wishing to fish the match and eat afterwards. This includes match pools, dayticket, meal contribution (the club is squaring up the remainder of the tab), £1 winner takes all and the 50p golden peg.
Eating to take place at - the Lion, Ramsey St Mary's (sat nav PE26 2TB) sitting down at around 4.45pmthe menu is a choice from;
STARTERS
Cream of Broccoli soup served with a warm bread roll
Prawn Cocktail with a slice of Wholemeal bread
Smooth Chicken liver pate, served with toast and salad garnish
MAINS
Roast of Sirloin Beef
Roast Breast of Turkey
Sea Bass Fillet
All accompanied with seasoned vegetables, roast puddings & parsnips, homemade stuffing, gravy and Yorkshire pudding.
DESSERTS
Traditional Christmas Pudding served with brandy sauce
Apple pie & custard
What I need to know is the following and also by the end of this current month at the very latest!
A) Are you coming to fish only, eat only or both? B) If you are eating what is your choice from the menu above?
Please let me know ASAP as it is important that we have the correct numbers and menu choices for the chef. We have reserved 15 places for the meal and provisionally booked 15 pegs on the St Mary's stretch, all of this can though be expanded upon if more of us turn up!!!
I look forward to hearing from you all in due course. If you wish I can be contacted on 07789 931031 or 01354 677753 (eves) to reserve your place.
Best regards
Steve G(Grebe AC Treasurer)
Dents Farm Shop - 1 November 2009
Match report by Mr T:
Expectations were high for the forthcoming match at Dents with the weather forecast favourable and a continuation of the Indian summer stretching ahead for the week, but days before the match came a weather warning for Sunday, Gale force winds and rain, and so it was, for once the met boys got it spot on. Looking out the window before leaving home there was no rain and just a fresh breeze, 20 seconds later and one foot out the door and it started raining, bugger!! from then on it got steadily worse.
A small group of soddened anglers gathered around big Ron for the draw, with news just in that Jonty had bowed out with a case of Delhi belly and had sportingly forfeited his place in the K.O.Cup, it was all to play for. With Mike unable to make the Fur and Feather which would have been the final, and the possibility of winning by default, it was decided to make this match the final between the last three( Trev, Mr T and Mike).
Ron went for another trek around the lake to try and find the best pegs to catch fish and also some respite from the increasing force of the wind. He made the wise decision to fish pegs 1 to 10 as this offered the best of both worlds.Also, who ever drew peg 1 gets to pick either peg 1 or 9, both flyer's? In goes cool hand Luke (Trev) and bingo, peg1.Now he's got a problem, which one will he take.Guiding his platform barrow with the reinforced axle and the contents of Preston Innovations warehouse, he heads for peg 9, after much deliberation he decides against it and heads back towards peg 1, this time battling against a strengthening head wind.
I drew peg 7 which was one of the bottom pegs which were more affected by the wind but were afforded some protection by the trees either side. I decide to keep things simple, one rig for the pole at 10 metres, no point in going out further as the wind made holding the pole at distance impossible. The rig is a .5grm with olivette to a 18's b911 on .10 line. I will bait two lines, to the right I put in pellet over hemp and to the left I put in choppped worm and caster in a groundbait Jus ( I picked that up from a snobbish resturant). I also make up a carp rod for the margin, no red hydro for me this time, the carp here just trash it.
On the whistle I cup in a small amount of bait to the left and right swims but leave the margin till later and keep topping up with a 'toss pot' every put in. I didn't get a bite for the first half hour and was starting to think either the fish were further out or it was going to be a tough one, but slowly they started to come, first a rudd, then a roach, then a skimmer, things were looking up. After the first hour I think I may have a couple of pounds and the fish were now coming steadily, but only on the chopped worm and caster line, I didn't have a fish on the pellet line all day.By twelve o'clock I thought I had approx 6lb and the crucians were starting to show in numbers although the skimmers seemed to be on the small side from what you would normally expect from here.
It was now time to have a quick look in the margin, not right close in but down the bottom of the shelf just beyond a top two. I cupped in some catmeat, then baited the size 10 Drennen specimen hook tied direct to 12.5lb through a 2.5lb test curve diawa carp rod ( I told you I was getting serious) I flicked out the lightweight waggler float and catmeat just beyond the baited area and held back to allow it to drift back on to the baited area and let the weght of the catmeat set the float.Within seconds the float buried, in disbelife and total surprise I overstruck, missed the fish and put the whole lot into the bramble infested tree to my left, arse!! With it all just out of reach, I had to snag the offending bramble with the landing net and heave it in until I could grab hold, the line snapped, the top of the cristal float broke off and sailed away and the thorns of the bramble had the last laugh at the detriment of my fingers,so I started again.When I recast the new setup back in no bites were forthcoming so I suspect it was rudd taking the meat, I tried every half hour on the meat line but only one carp fell to it,a fish of two pounds took the bait and the poor thing never know what hit it, as I wasn't prepared to give any ground with the snags either side of me, he was in the net before he could blink ( yes, I know they don't have eyelids but you get my drift)
So back to the pole line and with continual steady feeding and the wind turning to behind us, my swim started to bubble but even though I know the fish were there I was struggling to get them to take my bait. I think it was the crucians starting to gill feed and it was only by constently alternating between worm, maggot and bread punch that I kept fish coming to the net.Once again for me just lately, my swim died in the last hour and at the whistle I felt I had done ok but not enough to win.
Talking to Jon Bowland on peg 6 after the match he was of the same opinion, he thought he had got double figures but not fifteen plus, ditto myself. Unsurprisingly, word was filtering down that Trev had been catching but I didn't know if Mike had been able to get into any big fish down on peg 10.As the scrum of people around the weigh-in slowly edge towards me I could see reasonable bags of fish being weighed, this looks close? At peg 6 I look over Jon's shoulder at the score sheet and see Trev has 18lb, oh dear!! I haven't got anywhere near that. Then Jon Bowland weighs in 25lb only for him to receive a firm lashing from my tongue for vastly underestimating his catch.Err, time for egg on face!! When I put my fish to the scales they read 27lb, I can't belive it! I would have bet serious money on not having more than fifteen pounds, in my defence I didn't click my fish this time, also the weather was a big distraction as my umbrella constantly tried to unwind itself into tilt mode and at one point came down with me inside it.
Mike on peg 10 didn't get into any of the big fish and because I think it is shallower at that end he did well to put together 12lb of fish.
Trev I think made the right decision to fish peg 1 as he lost a number of big there but I feel he would have lost more on peg 9 and probably wouldn't have had the smaller fish in numbers to make the difference, but who knows.
At the end of the day no one was more surprised than me, very pleased mind you, but also slightly embarrassed.
And finally I'll finish with an apology to Jon B for being a little harsh in my comments from someone who can't add up himself.
Expectations were high for the forthcoming match at Dents with the weather forecast favourable and a continuation of the Indian summer stretching ahead for the week, but days before the match came a weather warning for Sunday, Gale force winds and rain, and so it was, for once the met boys got it spot on. Looking out the window before leaving home there was no rain and just a fresh breeze, 20 seconds later and one foot out the door and it started raining, bugger!! from then on it got steadily worse.
A small group of soddened anglers gathered around big Ron for the draw, with news just in that Jonty had bowed out with a case of Delhi belly and had sportingly forfeited his place in the K.O.Cup, it was all to play for. With Mike unable to make the Fur and Feather which would have been the final, and the possibility of winning by default, it was decided to make this match the final between the last three( Trev, Mr T and Mike).
Ron went for another trek around the lake to try and find the best pegs to catch fish and also some respite from the increasing force of the wind. He made the wise decision to fish pegs 1 to 10 as this offered the best of both worlds.Also, who ever drew peg 1 gets to pick either peg 1 or 9, both flyer's? In goes cool hand Luke (Trev) and bingo, peg1.Now he's got a problem, which one will he take.Guiding his platform barrow with the reinforced axle and the contents of Preston Innovations warehouse, he heads for peg 9, after much deliberation he decides against it and heads back towards peg 1, this time battling against a strengthening head wind.
I drew peg 7 which was one of the bottom pegs which were more affected by the wind but were afforded some protection by the trees either side. I decide to keep things simple, one rig for the pole at 10 metres, no point in going out further as the wind made holding the pole at distance impossible. The rig is a .5grm with olivette to a 18's b911 on .10 line. I will bait two lines, to the right I put in pellet over hemp and to the left I put in choppped worm and caster in a groundbait Jus ( I picked that up from a snobbish resturant). I also make up a carp rod for the margin, no red hydro for me this time, the carp here just trash it.
On the whistle I cup in a small amount of bait to the left and right swims but leave the margin till later and keep topping up with a 'toss pot' every put in. I didn't get a bite for the first half hour and was starting to think either the fish were further out or it was going to be a tough one, but slowly they started to come, first a rudd, then a roach, then a skimmer, things were looking up. After the first hour I think I may have a couple of pounds and the fish were now coming steadily, but only on the chopped worm and caster line, I didn't have a fish on the pellet line all day.By twelve o'clock I thought I had approx 6lb and the crucians were starting to show in numbers although the skimmers seemed to be on the small side from what you would normally expect from here.
It was now time to have a quick look in the margin, not right close in but down the bottom of the shelf just beyond a top two. I cupped in some catmeat, then baited the size 10 Drennen specimen hook tied direct to 12.5lb through a 2.5lb test curve diawa carp rod ( I told you I was getting serious) I flicked out the lightweight waggler float and catmeat just beyond the baited area and held back to allow it to drift back on to the baited area and let the weght of the catmeat set the float.Within seconds the float buried, in disbelife and total surprise I overstruck, missed the fish and put the whole lot into the bramble infested tree to my left, arse!! With it all just out of reach, I had to snag the offending bramble with the landing net and heave it in until I could grab hold, the line snapped, the top of the cristal float broke off and sailed away and the thorns of the bramble had the last laugh at the detriment of my fingers,so I started again.When I recast the new setup back in no bites were forthcoming so I suspect it was rudd taking the meat, I tried every half hour on the meat line but only one carp fell to it,a fish of two pounds took the bait and the poor thing never know what hit it, as I wasn't prepared to give any ground with the snags either side of me, he was in the net before he could blink ( yes, I know they don't have eyelids but you get my drift)
So back to the pole line and with continual steady feeding and the wind turning to behind us, my swim started to bubble but even though I know the fish were there I was struggling to get them to take my bait. I think it was the crucians starting to gill feed and it was only by constently alternating between worm, maggot and bread punch that I kept fish coming to the net.Once again for me just lately, my swim died in the last hour and at the whistle I felt I had done ok but not enough to win.
Talking to Jon Bowland on peg 6 after the match he was of the same opinion, he thought he had got double figures but not fifteen plus, ditto myself. Unsurprisingly, word was filtering down that Trev had been catching but I didn't know if Mike had been able to get into any big fish down on peg 10.As the scrum of people around the weigh-in slowly edge towards me I could see reasonable bags of fish being weighed, this looks close? At peg 6 I look over Jon's shoulder at the score sheet and see Trev has 18lb, oh dear!! I haven't got anywhere near that. Then Jon Bowland weighs in 25lb only for him to receive a firm lashing from my tongue for vastly underestimating his catch.Err, time for egg on face!! When I put my fish to the scales they read 27lb, I can't belive it! I would have bet serious money on not having more than fifteen pounds, in my defence I didn't click my fish this time, also the weather was a big distraction as my umbrella constantly tried to unwind itself into tilt mode and at one point came down with me inside it.
Mike on peg 10 didn't get into any of the big fish and because I think it is shallower at that end he did well to put together 12lb of fish.
Trev I think made the right decision to fish peg 1 as he lost a number of big there but I feel he would have lost more on peg 9 and probably wouldn't have had the smaller fish in numbers to make the difference, but who knows.
At the end of the day no one was more surprised than me, very pleased mind you, but also slightly embarrassed.
And finally I'll finish with an apology to Jon B for being a little harsh in my comments from someone who can't add up himself.
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