Pairs Latest

1. Darren North & Adam Caswell ........ 191 ...... 1,004-0
2. Alan Healy & Mark Radford ............ 180 ...... 1,094-11
3. Simon Belcham & Derek Lucas ........ 159 ...... 720-1
4. Paul Reed & Steve Burgess ............... 138 ...... 790-10
5. Mark Britton & Dave Tippet ............. 47 ........ 223-1
6. Adam Woodland & Mike Wilson ...... 33 ........ 260-15
   

Staunton Court, 30 August 2009 (8 pegs)

New Psv Club Match Record!

It's been a long time coming but Alan Healy finally stopped leaking pound coins and ended his dismal run of form stylishly today by smashing the Psv club match record, previously held by fellow "Cookie Crew" member Mark Radford, and posting the biggest match weight of the year at Staunton Court.
Drawn on the concrete bank in front of the brick cutting shed, Knowle West bagger Alan chose to fish pellet on the pole shallow and took full advantage of a peg that was obviously solid with carp, catching steadily all through the match, more than making up for the disatrous last placed weight that he posted here back at the end of June.
Alan suprised himself and everyone around him at the weigh-in as he was convinced he had only caught around 20 fish but after five weighs he was more than happy with a combined weight of 223lbs 14oz which was almost double the weight of second placed Mark Radford.
Mark was drawn on the well fancied corner peg 8 (where Craig Edmunds had won the last match) and managed a healthy 112lbs 6oz followed by Adam Caswell on peg 1 with 107lbs 13 oz making it a clean sweep for the Cookie Crew.



Overall Result:

1. Alan Healy .......... 223-14 [peg 2]
2. Mark Radford ..... 112-6 [8]
3. Adam Caswell ..... 107-13 [1]
4. Darren North ...... 90-8 [6]
5. Simon Belcham** .. 89-10 [3]
6. Steve Burgess ........ 73-8 [5]
7. Bob Warren* ......... 47-4 [7]
8. Steve Wynne ......... Dnw [4]
   

Silvers:

1. Bob Warren .......... 6-12
2. Darren North ........ 5-0

*Golden peg
**Silver peg

If you've ever wondered ......

If you've ever wondered how match fishing superstar and Avon Angling Select legend, Trigger, got his bald spot, now you know ........




(Gay love handle)

Trinity Waters, 23 August 2009 (11 pegs)

Unsurprisingly Craig Edmunds' first visit to Trinity resulted in his first win at the venue.
Craig caught mainly down the edge either side with pellet on the pole to weigh in 58lbs 8oz from peg 11. He could have won by a lot more but, due to a hangover from Barcelona the previous night, he actually only fished for 20 minutes and also lost a lot of fish under the empty platform next to him. (Apparently someone told him there were no fish in the lake over 2lbs).
He spent the rest of the match chatting to boy/girlfriends on the phone and asking his neighbour, Paul Elmes, how many fish he had!
Not far behind, on peg 9 was Paul Elmes who fished mainly on the pole shallow and ended up with 50lbs 4oz, followed by Mark Britton at peg 16 who had a tantrum-free day and put together 37lbs 10oz of carp and silvers caught down the edge on maggot.
Top silvers went to hemp and tares expert Simon Belcham with 18lbs (plus 13lbs 8oz of carp) from peg 19.
Stevie Wynne continued his run of bad luck, this time losing his 13m pole section when it was blown into the lake by a gust of wind and then discovering the underneath of his car had fallen off!
Well done to Adam Caswell for managing to skilfully avoid all the fish that were feeding in his peg aquarium!

Overall Result:

1. Craig Edmunds ........... 58-8 [peg 11]
2. Paul Elmes .................. 50-4 [9]
3. Mark Britton** ............ 37-10 [16]
4. Mark Radford .............. 32-7 [8]
5. Simon Belcham ............ 31-8 [13]
6. Darren North Shrek ..... 20-12 [4]
7. Steve Wynne* ............... 19-4 [14]
8. Steve Burgess ................... 17-4 [13]
9. Derek Lucas .................. 13-12 [ 1]
10. Ryan Radford ................ 11-2 [7]
11. Adam Caswell ................ dnw

* golden peg
** silver peg


Silvers:

1. Simon Belcham .......... 18-0
2. Mark Britton .............. 6-12
3. Paul Elmes ................. 5-0
4. Craig Edmunds .......... 1-12
5. Darren North ............. 1-8
6. Mark Radford ............ 1-7
   

Blanking in Holland!

Despite trying every method in "Mr Crabtree's Guide to Fishing" ......
Nothing!


Shrek, blanking but still smiling!
When all else fails try flashing at schoolkids and joggers!
New Venue, same result!

Pairs Updated

1. Darren North & Adam Caswell ..... 150 ..... 784-15
2. Alan Healy & Mark Radford ......... 129 ..... 726-0
3. Simon Belcham & Derek Lucas .... 124 ..... 585-3
4. Paul Reed & Steve Burgess ............ 116 ..... 699-14
5. Adam Woodland & Mike Wilson ... 33 ...... 260-15
6. Mark Britton & Dave Tippett ......... 32 ...... 185-7

Sedges, 16 August 2009 (9 pegs)

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A combination of inspired pegging and a long overdue return to form enabled Sedges venue expert Darren North to cruise to an easy victory.
Drawn at unfancied peg 3, Darren fished the pellet waggler to the aereator and shallow on the pole with pellet and hardly any feed to weigh in 90lbs 6oz of carp to over 12lbs despite at one point breaking his landing net and having to interrupt the owners' Sunday lunch for a replacement!
Popular club member Darren even included 8lbs of skimmers in his total caught on the pole just a few inches deep.
Darren's traveling partner for the day, Bob Warren, on another unfancied draw and his "jinx peg", corner peg 20 managed second place with 50lbs 12oz which included 17lbs of skimmers.
Third on the day was Match Secretary and recent winner of the prestigious Psv Knockout Cup, Steve Burgess.
Steve drew Golden peg 18 and fished 8mm pellet shallow and on the deck for 45lbs 10oz.
Top silvers went to carp-avoider Dave "the worm" Tippett with a very impressive 38lbs from peg 9.

Overall Result:

1. Darren North ........... 90-6 [peg 3]
2. Bob Warren .............. 50-12 [20]
3. Steve Burgess* ......... 45-10 [18]
4. Simon Belcham ........ 45-4 [14]
5. Dave Tippett ............. 38-0 [9]
6. Alan Healy ................ 29-12 [12]
7. Adam Caswell ........... 28-15 [7]
8. Mark Radford ........... 21-0 [16]
9. Paul Reed .................. 16-14 [5]

* golden peg

Silvers:

1. Dave Tippett ......... 38-0
2. Simon Belcham .... 21-2
3. Bob Warren .......... 17-0
4. Darren North ........ 8-4
5. Alan Healy ............ 6-4
6. Mark Radford ....... 3-10
7. Steve Burgess ........ 1-10
8. Adam Caswell ....... 1-2
9. Paul Reed .............. 0-14

Quotes from the day!

• 'I was just glad to catch a few fish for a change' ...... Darren North
• 'I was eating that sausage' .... Dave Tippett (To Colin Golding)
• 'Another 6 hours and I would have won it' ........ Paul Reed
  

Campbell, 09 August 2009

Second leg of the Campbell mini series
and the Knockout Final!

Ryan Jordan showed his true all-round class today winning not only the match but also taking the Campbell mini series superpool and also the "silver peg" money.
Ryan drew the noted tench flier, peg 123, where Bob Warren had weighed in 57lbs of them in the previous match, but wily Ryan ignored the obvious and instead went for the carp and it paid off with 142lbs of them finding their way to his nets!
More usually noted for his skill on the pole in Tony Rixon's "float only" series, Ryan caught steadily all day on the straight lead with pellet fished to the edge of Alan Healy's peg.
Meanwhile, the prestigious Knockout Cup final proved to be a nail-biter between Avon Angling superstar Craig (Trigger) Edmunds and Match Secretary Steve Burgess.
Drawn next to each other with Trigger on the famous "spit", peg 128, and Steve on the unfancied peg 127 it looked like being a whitewash but Steve, wearing his lucky pink t-shirt matched with shorts and flip-flops had other ideas.
Steve foul-hooked a carp on his first chuck with the pellet waggler and by the end of the first hour had six fish in the net to Craig's none. But as the day went on the fish in front of Steve had become cagey whereas Craig's peg began to improve steadily.
Steve, then started to catch well shallow on the pole at 14.5m but was hampered by a jammed topkit whilst Craig, bored of catching silvers, found the carp were "stacked up" on his pole line, but by then it was just too late for him to catch up.
Steve eventually weighed in 103-15 to Trigger's 103-7 to ensure his name would be added to the famous knockout trophy!
Meanwhile on the other side of the lake, Alan Healy on peg 118 managed to shake off his recent run of poor form by taking second spot with a healthy 136-7 and his travelling partner, Mark Radford, finally got his paste-head together on peg 125 to weigh in 112-14 for third place although it would have been 12lbs more had he not broken the Viaduct 80lbs per net rule!
At the other end of the lake Stevie Wynne provided the day's entertainment when one of the few carp that he managed to hook decided to take his pole for a swim around the lake until both the pole and the fish were rescued by Rich Jones!

Overall Result:

1. Ryan Jordan** ............. 142-5 [peg 123]
2. Alan Healy .................... 136-7 [118]
3. Mark Radford ............... 112-14 [125]
4. (joint) Steve Burgess & Paul Elmes ...... 103-15 [127 & 116]
5. Craig Edmunds ............. 103-7 [128]
6. Bob Warren* ................. 96-8 [114]
7. Rich Jones ..................... 79-9 [111]
8. Adam Caswell ................ 61-13 [110]
9. Paul Reed ....................... 47-10 [115]
10. Derek Lucas ................... 42-0 [112]
11. Adam Woodland ........... 37-14 [37-14]
12. Steve Wynne ................. 31-14 [130]
13. Darren North ................ DNW

* golden peg
** silver peg


Silvers:

1. Bob Warren ...... 28-3
2. Craig Edmunds.. 26-0
3. Mark Radford ... 16-3
4. Adam Caswell .... 5-11
5. Adam Woodland ... 4-6
6. (joint)Paul Reed & Rich Jones.. 3-14
7. Paul Elmes .......... 3-8
8. Derek Lucas ....... 3-5
9. Alan Healy......... 2-15

Silvers peg of £10 claimed By Ryan leaving a golden peg of £100

Pairs & Knockout Updated

Pairs

1. Darren North & Adam Caswell ..... 119 ..... 665-10
2. Simon Belcham & Derek Lucas .... 110 ..... 539-15
3. Alan Healy & Mark Radford ......... 107 ..... 675-4
4. Paul Reed & Steve Burgess ............ 92 ...... 637-6
5. Adam Woodland & Mike Wilson ... 33 ...... 260-15
6. Mark Britton & Dave Tippett ......... 19 ...... 147-7

Knockout

Semi-final at Campbell (2 August)

• Simon Belcham vs Steve Burgess
• Stevie Wynne vs Craig Edmunds vs Adam Woodland

The final will take place at Campbell on 9 August between Craig Edmunds & Steve Burgess.
Unfortunately, the result will be very predictable so this will we be one trophy that Trigger's name won't be appearing on
In fact, it's highly unlikely that anyone's names will be appearing on any trophies!

Year Totals & Summer Series

Summer Series

1. Craig Edmunds ......... 117 [720-12]
   
2. Bob Warren ............... 96 [366-1]
3. Mark Radford ............ 88 [430-0]
4. Adam Caswell ............ 88 [404-1]
5. Simon Belcham ......... 83 [283-0]
6. Steve Burgess ............ 79 [395-0]
7. Paul Elms .................. 75 [403-2]
8. Alan Healy ................. 64 [202-0]
9. Steve Wynne .............. 60 [257-5]
10. Adam Woodland ........ 54 [238-13]
11. Darren North ............. 52 [194-9]
12. Derek Lucas ............... 42 [164-15]
13. Ryan Jordan .............. 41 [269-1]
14. Paul Reed ................... 35 [133-6]
15. Dave Tippett .............. 33 [120-7]
16. Ryan Radford ............. 28 [72-12]
17. Eddie Wynne .............. 26 [59-8]
18. Jan / Yan / Colin ........ 24 [71-12]
19. Eddie Perkins .............. 22 [58-5]
20. Brian (mugger) Shanks 17 [85-12]
21. Rich Jones ................... 14 [85-0]
22. Tony Rixon .................. 13 [55-2]

Year Totals

1. Mark Radford ............. 198 [753-0]
2. Steve Burgess .............. 178 [672-3]
3. Bob Warren ................. 174 [610-2]
4. Craig Edmunds ............ 161 [854-3]
5. Simon Belcham ............ 157 [ 441-2]
6. Alan Healy .................... 153 [419-2]
7. Adam Caswell ............... 148 [626-13]
8. Adam Woodland .......... 133 [493-12]
9. Darren North ............... 124 [369-12]
10. Paul Elms ..................... 103 [522-15]
11. Dave Tippett ................. 100 [311-3]
12. Derek Lucas .................. 95 [288-2]
13. Ryan Jordan .................. 85 [390-2]
14. Paul Reed ...................... 85 [271-15]
15. Eddie Perkins ................ 78 [160-6]
16. Steve Wynne .................. 71 [289-7]
17. Jan / Yan / Colin ........... 45 [144-10]
18. Ryan Radford ................ 34 [80-6]
19. Tony Rixon .................... 28 [124-10]
20. Mark Britton .................. 28 [69-6]
21. Eddie Wynne ................. 26 [59-8]
22. Mike Wilson .................. 24 [59-12]
23. Rich Jones ..................... 20 [105-12]
24. Brian (mugger)Shanks .. 17 [85-12]
25. Dean Malin .................... 17 [78-2]
    

Campbell, 02 August 2009

Overall Result

1. Craig Edmunds ......... 139-15
2. Brian Shanks ............. 85-12
3. Ryan Jordan .............. 82-5
4. Stevie Wynne ............. 79-6
5. Bob Warren ................ 76-5
6. Steve Burgess ............. 65-13
7. Mark Radford ............ 64-12
8. Paul Elmes ................. 64-2
9. Rich Jones ................. 59-6
10. Derek Lucas ............... 53-9
11. Simon Belcham .......... 38-11
12. Dave Tippett ...............38-9
13. Adam Woodland ........ 31-10
14. Alan Healy .................. 24-2
15. Adam Caswell ............. 22-1
16. Darren North* ............ 20-2
17. Paul Reed .................... 19-5
18. Eddie Perkins ............. DNW

*golden peg


Silvers

1. Bob Warren ........... 57-7
2. Simon Belcham ..... 24-2
3. Craig Edmunds ...... 10-4
4. Dave Tippett .......... 10-3
5. Mark Radford ........ 8-7
6. Adam Woodland ..... 2-3
7. Ryan Jordan ........... 2-1
8. Derek Lucas ........... 1-11
9. Paul Reed ............... 1-8