2009 Knock-out Cup, 3rd Round Draw

The 3rd round draw as follows:

Trev vs Weasel
Ron vs Jonty
Mike vs Karl
Mr T vs Pete

This round is to be completed by 18 October and the result that counts will the the earliest match both anglers attend.

Cuckoo, Townsend Lakes Fishery - 13 September 2009

Directions:

The fishery is off the A1101 just north of Threeholes near Upwell. Post code for SAT NAV users is PE14 9HJ.

Selected rules for Cuckoo lake:

Barbless hooks only, max size 14
All fish must be netted
Keepnet and Landing net supplied by fishery
No floating pole; pole rigs must have a float
No Bread
No Meat
No Paste
No Groundbait
No fishing shallower than 12 inches deep
Fishery feed pellets only (£1 per bag from the onsite shop)

Please make sure you are aware of the full venue rules before the match.

SUMMER LEAGUE 2009

With an 8 point per match average, the winner of the 2009 Grebe AC Summer League is Jonty. 3 match wins, a section win and a 2nd in section make up his 40 point from 5 match score.

He said; "Fishing the pellet shallow has really helped me out this year, accounting for match wins at Beastie, Willows and Magpie. It also helped me sneek a few extra points on the Kingsland Silver Fish Lake early on this year where it accounted for a few Chub on the waggler. Lets hope the 2nd half of the season is as successful. Good luck to the rest of the lads for the Winter League, Handicap Cup and Champtionship. Lets enjoy it."

Scores on the doors

Current league position after 7 Matches: (Top 6)

Championship (taking best 8 scores from the 11 matches)

1 - Trev 44pts (counting 7)
2 - Jonty 40pts (5)
3 - Ron 38.5pts (7)
4 - Ray T 31pts (5)
5 - Weas 28pts (5)
6 - Ray S 22pts (4)

Summer League (taking best 5 scores from the 7 matches)

1 - Jonty 40 pts (counting 5)
2 - Trev 34pts (5)
3 - Ron 31.5pts (5)
4 - Ray T 31pts (5)
5 - Weas 28pts (5)
6 - Ray S 22pts (5)

Handicap Cup (taking best 8 scores out of the 11 matches)

1 - Mike 43pts (counting 6)
2 - Dennis 36pts (7)
3 - Stu 35pts (6)
4 - Steve 34.5pts (5)
5 - John E 34pts (5)
6 - Trev 26.5pts (7)

Speci cup entries, as before.

The full points and positions will be read out at the next meeting, date TBC.

Magpie Lake, Pidley - 16 August 2009

12 members attended our latest outing to Magpie Lake at Rookery Waters, Pidley. Having reserved pegs 1-22, Ron had a chat with the venue bailiff and old Grebe member John Dighton who advised on leaving out the early and late pegs and peg the match from 5-17.

All members caught fish on what was a warm and breezy day.

Drawn on Peg 14, Mr T caught well close in on his left hand margin to take carp to 8lb on pellet to win the section. Ray Sladden was 2nd in section with his catch consisting of past caught carp.

Ron, Trev & Jonty drew in a line on pegs 5, 6 & 7 respectively. Ron fished tight to the left and right hand margin and caught steadily all day for his weight of 70lb 8oz and 2nd in section. Trev fished shallow with pellet and with some fruitless looks on the inside weighed in 69lb 12oz for 3rd in section. 

Jonty started fishing paste at top2+1 in 6 feet of water. He caught a few early fish but the swim was very slow. He also took a few carp from his margin swims but the depth as tight as he could get being 4.5feet ment he suffered lots of frustrating line bites. So at 1pm he decided to try and catch up with Trev who had been catching well shallow during the first part of the match. It was a fish-a-chuck for Jonty on 4mm banded pellet over loose fed pellets and at the weigh-in he put 90lb 12oz to win the section and pip Mr T to a match win.

Result:

1st- Jonty 90lb 12oz

2nd - Mr T 88lb 12oz

3rd - Ron 70lb 8oz

4th - Trev 69lb 12oz

Magpie Lake, Rookery Waters, Pidley - 16 August 2009

For your info, below are the rules and directions to the fishery.

Rules:

GENERAL

1) OPEN DAWN TO DUSK BUT NOT LATER THAN 9PM.
2) JUNIORS UNDER 16YRS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT.
3) NO CARS OR DOGS AROUND THE FISHERY.
4) ALL VEHICLES & EQUIPMENT LEFT AT OWNERS RISK.
5) TAKE ALL LITTER HOME.
6) FISH FROM PLATFORMS ONLY.
7) DO NOT FISH UNTIL YOU HAVE PAID AND TAKEN A TICKET.

TACKLE

1) ALL NETS MUST BE DIPPED.
2) FISH FRIENDLY NETS ONLY.
3) 50 LB MAX WIEGHT PER NET.
4) EMPTY NETS AFTER MAX OF 5 HRS.
5) MIN OF 2 KEEP NETS IN MATCHES.
6) MANUFACTURED, BARBLESS HOOKS ONLY UP TO SIZE 12.
7) NO FIXED LEADS OR BRAID.
8) METHOD (IN LINE) & BAGGIN WAGGLER PERMITTED ON ROOK ONLY.

BAITS

1) NO FLOATING BAITS.
2) NO SEED BAITS OTHER THAN SWEETCORN.
3) NO NUTS OR BOILIES.
4) MEAT- 2 STANDARD TINS MAX.
5) ROOK - GROUNDBAIT ALLOWED 2 KGS MAX.
6) MAGPIE/JAY – GROUNDBAIT IN FEEDER ONLY 1 KG MAX.


Directions:

- Leave A14 at Huntingdon exit, signed A141 March
- Follow A141 to Warboys- Turn right on to B1040 towards Pidley
- After passing Pidley Church turn left into Fen Road next to village pond
- Rookery Waters is 2.5 miles down Fen Road and is signed along Fen Road
- Sat Nav PE28 3DF

Scores on the Doors

Current league position after 6 Matches:

(Top 6)

Championship (taking best 8 scores from the 11 matches)

1 - Trev 39pts (counting 6)
2 - Ron 32.5pts (6)
3 - Jonty 31 pts (4)
4 - Ray T 24pts (4)
5 - Weas 23pts (4)
6 - Steve 19pts (5)

Summer League (taking best 5 scores from the 7 matches)

1 - Trev 34pts (counting 5)
2 - Jonty 31pts (4)
3 - Ron 29.5pts (5)
4 - Ray T 24pts (4)
5 - Weas 23pts (4)
6 - Steve 19pts (5)

Handicap Cup (taking best 8 scores out of the 11 matches)

1 - Mike 36 pts (counting 5)
2 - Stu 35 pts (6)
3 - Steve 34.5pts (5)
4 - Dennis 31pts (5)
5 - John E 25pts (4)
6 - Trev 22pts (6)

Speci cup entries, as before.

The full points and positions will be read out at the next meeting on 7 September 2009.

Six Island, 19 July 2009

By Trev:

Speaking to the owner Pete Band in the shop before the match, he advised a softly-softly approach to the feeding as they had an incredible three inches of rain on the Friday including massive hale storms that had chilled the water considerably. With the lay of the land cold water was still seeping in to the margins making them considerably cooler than the main body of water. 

I pulled peg six and in true fashion moaned. Martin Parker raved about it stating I should plumb up on bottom of the shelf on the island as well as fishing shallow close to it. Now, I don’t know what pole he has but mine doesn’t reach the necessary 20 metres it would take to get there? 

I arrived at my peg and stuck my arm in the water. It was very cold.

I set up half of Shelton’s tackle shop which included the pellet waggler, (that being a short thin pole with strange twists of wire down it), a at-depth 0.5 gram rig on a white-hydro as a scratch rig, a 4x12 sweetcorn margin rig for my right hand side swim, a 0.5 gram meat rig which I plumbed up on a small shelf between the margin and full depth. It was about eighteen inches deeper than the margin and eighteen inches shallower than main depth. It was also just off a bush to my left with the prevailing wind banging in to that bank. I also set up two up-in-the-water rigs to bag on banded pellet….. 

The wind was at Hooley strength, but I thought at the whistle I would start on the pellet waggler to the island hooking a carp first put-in and promptly losing it. After a few more chucks in to the wind and vain attempts to loose feed a tight pattern of pellet it went up the bank. 

I was feeding hemp and luncheon meat on my meat swim, hemp and corn on the two others. I kept pinging pellet on my “banker” up-in-the-water swim although in the wind the feed pattern was a bit “loose”. 

I had chopped a few worms only bringing the few I had left over from Beastie and cupped them in on my scratching full-depth 3+3 swim. The float immediately buried to a 1.5lb tench. A couple of F1 and a small barbell quickly followed but with little worm left I decided to cup in 4mm soft pellet and leave it. 

A quick look on both corn swims brought the inevitable zero and so I slipped a piece of luncheon meat directly on to my size 12 Drennan power barbless hook 0.14 to 0.16 with a 0.5 gram thick bristle float. I was using a toss-pot for the meat but cupping and throwing, (for the noise) hemp over the swim. I missed the first bite but hooked and landed a 5lb lump on the second. 

Although I topped up and tried all the swims throughout the day, I kept on the meat swim catching lumps regularly throughout the match. Hours three and four were the most productive mainly as I had to thin the meat feed down as I was running out of the four chopped tins I had prepared. Interesting I could not buy a bite on a 6mm soft pellet or sweetcorn over the meat swim. At one stage I was fishing a yard off the feed area as it was liner-city directly over it. 

Although I fed it when I went for my third net, it took ages to get a bite on my return. True to form, I also did not get a bite once the lads on horseshoe started to pack up. Clearly the bank disturbance is a factor.

I was pleased that my clicking was far more accurate than I thought with a 46lb and 48lb first two nets with a round 40lb in the third making the 134lb total. 

I had used, 4 tins of meat, a few worms, 4 cans of can that produced nothing and pinged pellets all day to no avail.

Great match though with Ray to my right realising where I was fishing in the last two hours and bagging like crazy to pull him up to third in section. Ronnie was always a threat in the corner but the cold water put pay to his shallow peg and he done well to finish second.

As it stands, 5 matches fished

(Top 6)

Championship/Summer:

1, Jonty; 31 pts
2, Trev; 30 pts
3, Ron; 26.5 pts
4, Ray T; 19 pts
5, Steve; 17 pts
6, Weasle; 16 pts

Handicap Cup:

1, Stu 31 pts
2, Steve; 29.5 pts
3, Mike; 27 pts
4, John E; 25 pts
5, Dennis; 24 pts
6, Ron; 17.5 pts

Specimen Cup Entries to date:

Ron, Chub, 3lb 8oz, Kingland.
Trev, Golden Orfe, 2lb 8oz, Kingsland.
Ray T, Common Carp, 16lb 4oz, Farmshop lake, Dents.
Ray T, Bream, 6lb 1oz, Button Hole
Trev, Bream, 6lb 1oz, Button Hole


The full points listings will be advised duiring the general meetings.

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