Wednesday 15/05/2013 - Ian "Bloke" Pulsford Memorial Match - Bitterwell Lake

Another face from the past – Nick “The Stick” Iles (pictured right where has all that long dark hair gone). Nick is just getting back in to fishing again after a long lay-off limiting himself to pleasure fishing at the moment. However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him in a match soon.

 

It was a sell out of 20 pegs for today’s Blokes Memorial match. The match was organised by John Andres who had obviously put a lot of effort in getting some sponsorship from Bristol Angling Centre and providing food before and after the match.

 

In to the draw bag and out comes peg 4 on the road side. Happy with this as I would have a bit of cover from the awful weather, as it was only 5 degrees! For company I had fellow Coffin Dodger John Smith on peg 5.

 

I set up the usual Ronnie rig, a 4x14 Jolly for fishing at 10 metres with CW&C and a margin paste rig. I started on the Ronnie rig and caught Ronnie’s well for 15 minutes. The rest of the match was one of the worse struggles this year, just adding the odd small Ronnie and three micro Perch over the CW&C. My few fish weighed in at 5lb 1oz for a surprise third in the Silvers pickup. The Silvers were conspicuous by their absence. The paste was a non starter because on the shallow clear margin.

 

Fittingly the match was won by John Andres (pictured right with some of his catch) with 105lb 8oz from peg 18. John caught on the pellet waggler using banded 6mm hard pellet fished over lose fed 6’s. John caught both up in the water and on the deck where the majority of his catch came from – well done matey and thanks for today’s effort.

 

The Silvers was won by “Two Cars” Etheridge (pictured right with his catch) with 9lb 10oz. Gary as usual caught on various methods initially catching on caster and later switching to Pinkie (who takes Pinkie to a match in May?) to keep the Small Ronnie’s coming.

 

It was nice to see Blokes wife Marge at the match (pictured lower middle in the centre with a bouquet of flowers presented by John) with the motley crew that fished today.

 

Full Result:

 

1.      John Andres 105-08-0 peg 18

2.      Callum Dicks 86-02-0 peg 19

3.      Les Williams 86-0-0 peg 16

4.      Jeff Surmon 42-08-0 peg 17

5.      Paul Haines 37-09-0 peg 11

6.      Steve Dawson 32-0-0 peg 12

 

Top Silvers:

 

1.      Gary Etheridge 9-10-0 peg 20

2.      Andy Gard 7-9-0 peg 2

3.      Mike Nicholls 5-01-0 peg 4

 

 

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