Sunday 14/06/2009 - Whiteacres Day Two - Gwinear Open

Day two, we are off to the “New” Gwinear Fishery to fish their open. The venue has been completely revamped, with the match lake being drained and every living organism “nuked” then the bottom scraped. The lake was then made into three separate lakes. Each lake then fitted with a new liner.


The pools are paid to the top two on each lake, which I think is fair. The lake pegging map (pictured right) shows the three Phases. Phase 1 has a lot of big Skimmers plus carp to 14lb. The other two phases are similar with smaller Skimmers and small Carp averaging 1lb. We had a walk around the venue. Off course I wanted to draw Phase 1! We were hoping that we had an angler on all three Phases, rather than all four of us on one Phase.

I drew peg 11 which is Phase 3 along Mark on peg 8 and Steve on peg 18. So one of us will be going home empty handed!

With no margin to talk of I set up two 4x14 Jolly’s to fish at 7 metres with 4mm expander pellet one at 10 o clock the other at 1 o clock. At both positions I had 8 foot of water and still shelving off. I started well with a few small Skimmers and some small 1 lb Carp. However, the wind decided to change, which left me becalmed and bite less for some time. It was obvious from the final result that the fish were following the wind. This is probably because the fish are “new” to the environment. The upshot was that I weighed 29lb 6oz which included 3lb 6oz of 4oz Skimmers. This put me 4th on the lake one behind Mark Tanner who weighed 30lb.

The Lake was won from corner peg 15 with 56lb with Steve a close runner up with 53lb and a pick-up of £45 for lake second. The video attached (bottom left) shows Steve weighing in and getting a rollicking for having one Skimmer in his net of Carp (the last fish he caught - blimey Skimmers are expensive in Cornwall) – shows how careful Andy Dare is being with his fish.

Glenn Bailey (pictured right being weighed in by Andy Dare) drew the corner peg 43 on Phase 1 and won the lake with 62-14-0. Glenn caught Carp from the end margin on paste. This also put Glenn third overall and a pick-up of £60.

The match was won from Phase 2 by Bob Rand (pictured lower right) with 81-0-0. Bob fished 16 metres with pellet.

My impression of the venue revamp is that it is far better than the latter years of Simon’s management. I do enjoy this type of fishing – small soft pellet, etc....

Full Result:

1. Bob Rand 81-0-0 peg 26
2. Martin Newstead 76-0-0 peg 41
3. Glenn Bailey 62-14-0 peg 43
4. Bowzer 56-0-0 peg 15
5. Gordon Maeers 55-08-0 peg 47
6. Steve Nicholls 53-0-0 peg 18

What are the chances of Bob drawing the same peg the next day and winning again? The answer is exactly the same as the first day. Amazing enough that's exactly what he did. Well done Bob, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.