Ay up folks! a bit of an up and down weekend this week im afraid!!! On Saturday I had the pleasure of fishing the Drennan All Winners Final at Moorlands Farm Fishery nr Kidderminster, infact I use the term ‘pleasure’ loosely as the fishing can at best be described as ‘patchy’!
A few of our lads had stopped down on Friday too fish the evening match, overall it fished reasonably well except one end of bank pool, about pegs 11-16 were devoid of carp, guess where yours truly went and drew!!!!! Bank 12, ouch! The team had a bit of a naff draw really but we were still slightly optimistic.
I got to my peg and didn’t know what the fuss was all about, a lovely long margin to my left and plenty of space I thought I was gonna bag- WRONG!!!!! I decided on a pellet and corn line at 13m a roach swim at 5m and down the edge, I also set a waggler and a bomb up for the crack. I kicked off at 13m with a grain of corn and my float never moved, now in 8 foot of water feeding pellets you would expect some kind of sign, not here!!!! I decided after 20 mins to put a maggot on to avoid a blank and caught a tiny skimmer.
I’d been feeding a caster swim at five metres from the off and decided to just get my head down as I wasn’t on the carp and the other end were all catching. After about an hour I had about 30 fish which was way off my target but with the odd better perch it wasn’t too bad.I couldn’t get any fish lined up shallow so it was a plodding day on a 4×12 Chianti and a 0.10 bottom and catch everything. I did have one carp of 2lb on the bomb but that was it. I weighed a disappointing 17lb but beat either side convincingly so I wasn’t too worried, the other end had caught though and all had 30-60lb!!!! Never mind.
The team finished 6th as Gary Jubb, Andy Geldart and Jonny Kenning all won there sections but other bad draws took their toll. When anglers like Steve Rothery only catch 7lb you know its bad!!!! Anyway Milo Bordon won it and deserved it after putting a weeks practice in, one final word on the subject though is the top 3 teams were all next to each other!!!! Please please please drennan can you put it on a decent ‘team’ venue next year!!!
On Sunday I was scheduled to go to Hayfield for the afternoon match, and a much deserved lie in!!!! until 7.45 when my phone rang ‘Joe can u fish with me in the pairs at Sessay, Craig has food poisoning!!!!’ as Id hate to let Geldart down I duly obliged but with only an hour to get up, sort my gear and get there for an 8.45 draw things were a little rushed!!!! The match was the Browning Quaker Pairs run over Poplars and Alders at Sessay and with 64 anglers its an event well worth fishing. It was the last round and Geldart had a chance of individual spoils and also a chance to come second in the pairs-no pressure then????
I was dead chuffed to draw Alders 9 as you can reach the island with the pole and also in a very good ide area, so my plan was to fish a 4×10 carpa shelf in 14inches of water tight across feeding pellets and fishing an expander on the hook, but also fish for the ide down the middle. My plan down the middle was to fish worms and casters and cut the worms out and hopefully catch them shallow with casters. I set up a 0.4gr mp3 for the deck and set up 6 shallow rigs, all with different sized floats and length lashes and different depths, all these where on 0.10 with an 18 808 hook.
At the start a fed a full black pot of worms and casters with loads of soil in to make a really nice cloud at 13m and then fed a small cad pot of micros across. First chuck resulted in a small f1 of about 6oz then another then another, then all of a sudden I had one 8lb!!! Happy days. I had 20 carp in the first hour for about 30lb which was a brill start but the line was fading so I felt a switch to the ide swim was in order, I started on the deck and caught a perch which wasn’t encouraging and I was soon fishing shallow. I was using a little float that ive doctored its basically a 3×8 Chianti with a wire stem but it still takes 6 no 13’s and the best way to induce a bite was slap the rig and hold onto it and usually the laggy just came out. I had a really good spell in the middle taking 10 in 10 casts at about 10oz each they where handy but I got the feeling there were not many there as everyone was fishing for them.
I was still catching more than the others though so I plodded on. My only concern was that I could see young James Dent bagging on peg 3, with 90 mins to go and about 25lb of ide snared, I decided to go back across. I had a really good 45minutes but it died again and I couldn’t buy a bite in the last half hour. Hopefully I’d done enough. I watched the scales and Denty had 62lb I thought it would be close but after three weighs and 87lb later id not only won the section but also the match! I was dead chuffed with that and couldn’t thank Andy enough for letting me fish!!!! Anyway a few beers and a watch of the presentation rounded off a great day.
On Monday it was the usual Woodlands pairs match with partner Mick Lodge again. I was really up for this one as they have started catching shallow which is my favourite method and also a few on the waggler so it would be interesting. Anyway I drew curlew 14 with every peg in around me- Not good. For the first 2 hours neither me nor the anglers either side had, had a bite!!!! But I plodded on and caught 4 in 4 chucks and either side had 3 in 3 and it was looking up WRONG AGAIN!!!! We never had another bite! Now woodlands is brilliant but when its pegged like that it just doesn’t fish. Lodgey also only had 4 fish so we retired to the bar and planned on fishing on after the match and getting our money’s worth!!!!
We bagged on the pellet wag and also geldart caught down the edge, it was daft really but cheered me up no end!!!! Anyway I’ve got no team commitments next week so I think im going to fish a Sessay double header, and will let you know how I get on!
“Top 3 teams all drew next to each other”?? We were on peg 4 mate,not a good draw at all. Milo won it off peg 8, the draw everyone wanted!!!! Well done for sunday mate, you fished a right tidy match. Bout time the Drennan Final come up North for a few years.
ang on it was hemsworth bordon and cleveland top 3 werent it they where all next to each other
We were joint 3rd on 50pts from peg 4, pegs 7 and 8 were the pegs you wanted to draw, both hemsworth and borden drew them!!!! Take nothing away from Borden, they put the graft in and were rewarded.
were cleveleand on 6 then???
No mate they were on 9, so you got it right in a way, 7 Borden, 8 hemsworth and cleveland 9.Don`t think Clevelands was a particularly good draw either. During the week Mal Watson reckoned 7 and 8 were the draws.
ye but they where next to each other!!!! its a dump anyway
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