Sunday 30/07/2011 - Carps AC Summer League - Round Six and Final Round - Viaduct Fishery - Campbell and Carey

The last round of the Carps Summer league with left with no hope of framing in either overall carp or Silvers I was left looking to pick up in today’s match. In to the draw bucket and out comes peg 132. I think this was lady luck compensation for spending the whole league between pegs 129 and now peg 132, fishing pegs 129 once, 130 twice, 131 twice and 132 once. I wasn’t disappointed. It could have been far worse such as peg 138 on the river Avon at Saltford (I knew it would all end in tears), but well done to matey Phil (Fabio) Harding for winning the match.

Because of my aches and pains I limited my self to 10 metres with 11.5 metres set up as counter balance. The plan was to fish the dark water area at 12:30 and down the RH margin at the same length which gave the same depth for the 0.3 gram paste float. Although this is an out and out Carp peg I still set up one Silvers rig (4x12 Jolly with a size 14 Tubertini) to fish meat at the same out in front position. Starting on the meat rig I had a few small Skimmers by light feeding 5 no 6 mm piece of Spam with similar on the hook. I then hooked a big Tench which I lost because of manufacturer error, I came back with a curly wurly end line – bugger the hook wasn’t tied correctly. For some reason I dwelled on this loss for half the match. However, as anticipated the Silver fishing wasn’t now an option, so on to the paste rig. By feeding hard 4’s carefully through the kinder pot in both swims I managed to keep a three Carp coming from each swim before the feed was over done to bring in the Carp with “For Stalking Only” written down their sides (foul hooker). It was a case on then switching to the other swim. Although I caught more fish down the RH side I reckon I had equal weight as the bigger fish were out in front (unusual). In the last hour I stopped feeding altogether and did have a run of 10 pounders. In between the Carp slaying I did have a proper Bream and three Tench which weighed in at 11lb 12oz. My 27 Carp weighed in 142lb 11oz fro a total of 154lb 7oz, which was enough to win the match overall – just. There was five tons in my section and ten tons overall - plus near tons backing weights. This fishery never ceases to amaze me as the conditions were total alien for such a result.

PS: Thanks to Paul Greenwood for offering to loan me a rod - however, I didn't need it!!

The Silvers was won once again by John Green (pictured with the Silvers winner) with 43lb 13 oz of Skimmers all caught on “The John Green” method from peg 110.

The overall league was won by Lewis Greenwood with 6 points.

The overall Silvers was won by Bob Gullick (pictured lower right with the overall league winner – must start wearing my glasses) with 5 points but with a better overall weight of 179lb 13oz. I know Bob worked rally hard to win this league spending a lot of effort catching small fish when needed from a difficult peg – well done to Lewis and Bob.

Full Result:

1. Mike Nicholls 154-07-0 peg 132
2. Chris Davis 147-07-0 peg 129
3. Steve Denmead 146-15-0 peg 98
4. Phil Cardwell 144-13-0 peg 78
5. Roland 129-02-0 peg 111
6. Dave Roper 128-13-0 peg 126
Top Silvers:

1. John Green 43-13-0 peg 110
2. Tim Pallant 38-11-0 peg 90
3. Bob Gullick 25-09-0 peg 96
Final League (Overall):

1. Lewis Greenwood 6 pts 651-15-0
2. Andy Neal 8 pts 689-13-0
3. Ray Hayward 8 pts 623-10-0
4. Lee Werrett 8 pts 524-08-0

Final League (Silvers):

1. Bob Gullick 5 pts 179-13-0
2. Tim Pallant 5 pts 158-06-0
3. John Green 6 pts 183-01-0
4. Paul Faiers 7 pts 172-13-0

Betting:

Bob Gullick £10 e/w @ 6/1
Paul Faiers £10 e/w top six @ 15/1