Dun-no-more, Beastie lake, Decoy - 6 July 2011

Sixteen anglers fished this years match which is not a bad attendance but at one stage I had 23 booked in so hopefully more of you will make the effort next year.

A brisk wind was blowing down the lake into pegs 14 to 18 which would
make presentation difficult, Kev pegged it in a way which would provide everyone with a decent peg and not to many sitting in the head wind.

At the start many different methods were being used, shallow, feeder, method feeder, straight lead and pole on the deck. The wind was making it difficult to fish shallow but I started on this method and got of to a steady start on peg 22, Lee sitting comfortably on peg 30 with a dead backer was having a few on the deck but elsewhere it was a quiet start.

From my position I could see Kev was starting to put a few together having switched from the feeder to fishing shallow but it looked like Lee was an early front runner fishing on the deck at 5m.

Other noted anglers were not doing that well, Roop on Peg 9, big T on 11, even bigger Andy G on 18 and Mick King on 29 were getting a few but slipping behind Lee, Ron and Kev.

Coming towards the last hour most angles started to look at their inside lines but it was clear the big fish had not moved in as I could see no one with their elastic being stretched.

Andy on peg 18 really went for it putting handfuls of corn down the edge, unfortunately the fish did not show up until we started to weigh in as we could see the swirls of their large tails directly over the feed.

At the weigh in Martin Parker was the early leader form peg 3, he fished the straight lead and 8mill pellet for 77lb, Maca Campbell on peg 10 had a good day weighing in just over 80lb. Kev W (i think he was on either 14 or 15) took the lead weighing in 88lb, had he counted correctly he would have had 95lb as one of his nets went 57lb but was knocked back to 50lb. The next two were DNW's though they had some fish so then it was my turn.

I thought I had at least 80lb and was very pleased when the total came to 92lb which made me the front runner. I had a mixed bag fishing shallow, when they went I got my head down on the skimmers at 3m fishing corn, these fish averaged two or three to the pound which kept the weight ticking over. Once these fish start to average a pound they will play a very significant part in the match as they can be caught very quickly at close range.

I knew at this stage that Lee had won it as he thought he had around 130lb so my only thraet to 3rd place was Mick King who thought he had about 80lb.

Fortunately for me he weighed 68lb so I was second.

Lee weighed in a tremendous 142lb fishing cat meat on the deck over corn and hemp at 5m so for the second year running he won the match, well done mate, we will have to up our game next year.

1st Lee 142lb
2nd Ron 92lb
3rd Kev 88lb

Tight lines

Ron

Dun-no-more, Beastie Lake, Decoy 14 July 2010

With 159lb, guest Lee Kendall won this years dun-no-more trophy. Fishing from peg 18 Lee started off catching shallow before switching his attentions to target the margins later. Tony fished a blinding match on poeg 23 to weigh 170-odd lb but unfortunately had his weight knocked back to 153lb for exceeding the net limit with one of his net. Please can we make sure net rules are very clear in future to avoid these types of situation occurring in future.

Tony won the club match and bagged 9 points to tie the summer league with Jonty who managed 2nd in section with 109lb. They plan to fish a fish-off at Headfen in the next few weeks.

Martin won the other section to add 7 points to his league position followed by Ron who was 2nd in section.

Thanks to the numerous guests for attending the match.

Dun-no-more cup, WEDNESDAY 14 July 2010

This match is open to non members and currently we have four confirmed that will be coming and two more that will let us know by the end of the month.

We have the whole of beastie booked but we dont want any more than 26/27 as there are a few crap pegs.

Therefore can you let Ron know if you will be coming as he need an idea of numbers and doesn't want to be oversubscribed.

If any of you have a mate that wants to come please let Ron know and he'll see if he can get them in.

Beastie lake, Decoy - 8 July 2009

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