Psv Christmas Extravaganza 11 December 2011

 

As you are probably aware, this years hotly anticipated Christmas Match is booked for Sunday 11 December at Westerleigh on both lakes.

The match format will generally be the same as last year with payouts for the top three overall and three section payouts (by default) on each of the lakes.

The winner will also have free membership* for next season *(not transferable).

There won't be a silvers pool unfortunately as I have enough to sort out already!

As before the match will cost £40 in total with £20 up front which covers the generous tackle prizes and £20 on the day to cover peg fees and pools.

By now I should have had all the money in for the tackle prizes however I am still waiting for a few which I need as soon as possible in order to get the prizes organised, so please bring your £20 along to Boyd this Sunday (if you are fishing) or to the meeting on the following Tuesday at the absolute latest thanks!

Likewise, anybody who is booked in but can't make it please let me know as early as possible so that I know exactly how many bait boxes and disgorgers to get!

And it wouldn't be a bad idea for everyone to confirm their place either by text or by using the comments box below (include your name)! as you probably already know that I can be a bit flaky when it comes to writing things down.

If the numbers booked-in remains unchanged the payout will be as follows or thereabouts:

First Overall: £55

Second Overall: £50

Third Overall: £45

Section 1: £40 x 2

Section 2: £30 x 2

Section 3: £20 x 2

The important bit!

In a change to previous years Mugger Shanks has kindly arranged for breakfast for everybody in the New Inn at Westerleigh which will be open from 8 and cost a fiver (I think). Also the draw will be at the pub and unlike our normal Sunday morning free-for-alls which so often in the past have resulted in general chaos,  redraws, and a suicidal match organiser, this will be a far more civilised affair run with military precision as follows:

• Order your breakfast
• Pay your £20
• Draw your peg and record it
• Eat your breakfast
• Fuck off to your peg 

This way, those of you who like to set up ten topkits and do your hair / nails / make-up before the all-in can get there nice and early and have all the time in the world to get themselves sorted! Special thanks to Derek Lucas for that bit of inspiration no doubt born from the frustration of watching me make a hash of things first thing on a Sunday morning as a result of Saturday night fever (alcohol abuse)!
Fishing time will be from 10 till 3, all the pegging will have been done in advance and there will be a set of scales and a board on each lake (maybe even two pens as well). Moaning about the pegging, or anything else for that matter, is strictly forbidden.
Naturally, the festive fun and frolics will follow at the Midland Spinner where we will be having the results, payouts and tackle prizes followed by a generous buffet (thanks to Chris Gay), raffle and maybe one or two alcoholic drinks.
Feel free to bring plenty of money for the raffle as no expense has been spared on prizes (I've had to forego my spray-tans for the last month to pay for it)!

If anyone is interested, last year's winner was Paul Elmes with 18-8 from peg 19 on the old lake followed by Adam Caswell with 17-2 from peg 1 (also on the old lake)
Sections were:
Old lake 1. Ryan Jordan ... peg 2 ... 15-0
Old lake 2. Trigger ......... peg 10 ... 14-10
Old lake 3. Stevie Wynne ... peg 15 ... 13-12
New lake 1. Neil Mercer ... peg 26 ... 15-6
New lake 2. Simon Belcham ... peg 33 ... 13-13
New lake 3. Eddie Wynne ... peg 21 ... 13-6
The lakes had been frozen for a fortnight previously hence the low weights!


The previous year Neil Mercer won with 43-5 from peg 2,  2nd was venue expert Darren North with 38-3 from peg 15  and 3rd was Ryan Jordan with 31-0 from peg 1
Sections were:
1. Tony Rixon (who)? ... peg 23 ... 17-0
2. Mark Radford ....... peg 31 ... 16-12
1. Paul Elmes ....... peg 9 ..... 15-6
2. Bob Warren ...... peg 5 ..... 13-12


In our most recent matches Alan Healy won by a whisker on the old lake (9 October) with 64-6 from peg 1  followed by Mike Wilson on peg 17 with 33-4.
And on the new lake (30 October) Paul Elmes won with 15-11 from peg 22  followed by Alan Healy with 13-6 from peg 25

Landsend, Match Lake, 14 August (14 pegs)

Overall Result:

1. Craig Edmunds ... peg17 .... 106-8
2. Simon Belcham ...... 11 .... 69-11
3. Paul Elmes ............. 5 ..... 69-8
4. Darren North** ..... 13 .... 64-0
5. Eddie Wynne ......... 19 .... 43-8
6. Mike Welling .......... 7 ...... 38-12
7. Steve hutchinson ... 21 .... 36-6
8. Bob Warren* ......... 24 .... 32-14
9. Alan Healy ............ 1 ...... 27-10
10. Keith Ray .............. 20 .... 17-2
11. Will Dearlove ......... 3 ..... 15-15
12. Steve Burgess ....... 15 .... dnw
13. Derek Lucas .......... 18 .... dnw
14. Chris Szakacs ........ 9 ..... dnw

Silvers:

1. Craig Edmunds ...... 20-12
2. Bob Warren ........... 19-6
3. Paul Elmes ............ 15-1
4. Alan Healy ............ 10-8
5. Keith Ray .............. 4-10
6. Simon belcham ...... 4-9
7. Eddie Wynne .......... 2-6
8. Steve Hutchinson .... 2-2
9. Will Dearlove .......... 1-9

Viaduct, Cary, 07 August (17 pegs)

I really should follow the examples set by Mr Nicholls and Mr Rixon and post these updates the same day (or very soon after) as at my age the brain loses more information than it stores however ....
By Psv standards with seventeen fishing it was a healthy turnout and at the draw, as per usual, it was Alan Healy that looked to be hot favourite in peg 90 which is in the far corner of Cary and has a long reedbed into the corner. With the wind blowing into that corner it was looking to be a repeat of the previous match at Ivy House that Alan won with ease having drawn the best peg on the entire complex!
Unfortunately for Alan though, match fishing is never as cut and dried as it seems and it soon became apparent that the carp in that corner weren't having it or (more likely)  he had fished it completely wrong and he was forced to abandon any plans of another win and instead concentrated his efforts on choking roach fry with maggots!
In the meantime, on peg 17, match secretary Steve Burgess was finding the carp in a more obliging mood and was catching odd decent fish on the straight lead with banded 8mm pellet while Rich Britton and Simon Belcham on pegs 88 and 86 repectively were also doing well with Rich catching on both the tip and the waggler and Simon opting for a "feeder" approach.
New member Will Dearlove looked to be having a good day although it later became apparent that he spent most of the match playing the same fish as was "will-he-won't-he" Mike Wilson (pictured below).
Top silvers went to Alan with 22-14 although this would have been more but a lot of his fish were so small they were able to swim back out of his keepnet through the mesh.  Bob Warren, who on his fourth match of the week finally managed some coin, took second with 16-2.  Just out of the silvers money (but worth a mention anyway) was Dave the worminator Tippet who found that £20's worth of worm and caster and a handful of river rigs were no match for Cary's larger inhabitants!

Undecided Chairman Mike Wilson plays one of Cary's "babies" whilst wondering how it will fit into his landing net!










Full Result:

1. Steve Burgess .. peg 97 ... 105-9
2. Rich Britton ......... 88 ... 94-14
3. Simon Belcham* .. 86 ... 79-5
4. Will Dearlove ....... 78 ... 75-11
5. Mark Radford ..... 100 ... 71-15
6. Mike Smith ........ 102 ... 67-5
7. Derek Lucas ........ 80 ... 64-11
8. Bob Warren ......... 81 ... 61-5
9. keith Ray ............ 96 ... 54-9
10. Paul Reed ........... 85 ... 50-10
11. Mike Wilson ........ 99 ... 46-13
12. Chris Gay ........... 74 ... 32-1
13. Alan Healy .......... 90 ... 30-6
14. Darren North ....... 76 ... 27-15
15. Dave Tippet ........ 94 ... 24-2
16. Mike Welling ...... 105 ... 10-11
17. Adam Caswell .... 109 ... dnw

Silvers:

1. Alan Healy .... 90 ... 22-14
2. Bob Warren ... 81 ... 16-2
3. Dave Tippet ... 94 ... 15-4
4. Mike Wilson ... 99 ... 14-3
5. Paul Reed ...... 85 ... 10-4
6. Darren North .. 76 ... 9-12
7. Chris Gay ...... 74 ... 4-9
8. Keith Ray ...... 96 ... 4-3
9. Simon Belcham .. 86 .. 2-13
10. Mike Smith .... 102 .. 2-0

*golden peg

Ivy House, 31 July (12 pegs)

Any regular readers of this blog could be forgiven for thinking that Alan  Austin Healy is some sort of match fishing legend however, the truth is that Alan has an uncanny knack of drawing fliers.
This week was no exception as the Knowle West pheasant beater drew peg 24 which, as any Ivy House regular will know, is without any shadow of doubt the best peg on the lake bar none!  Fortunately for the rest of us, he didn't manage to draw the £94 golden peg (that honour was bestowed upon Chris Szackacs on peg 15).
So with the winner already sorted before anyone had put their keepnets in (a good idea to do this before the match starts Chris Gay) it was effectively reduced to an eleven peg match.
Best of the rest was the ever consistent Darren North on peg 10 whose six carp totalled 40lbs 10oz. Darren chose to target the cruising carp with a shallow pellet approach and later switched to the margins with corn (nothing new there then)!
Third place was a tie between Steve Burgess and Rich Britton on pegs 14 and 22 respectively, both weighing in 23-3.  Steve caught two carp on the pellet wag and one good fish at 4m in his left margin where, due to boredom, he was fishing for "ronnies" with corn (didn't have any maggots).
Rich had a couple of smaller carp along with a thirteen pounder and a proper bream.  Unfortunately he found a roach in his keepnet after the weigh-in which would have secured him another £15 pools money but we won't dwell on that as the scalesman (eager to get home to his new wife no doubt) was a bit generous with his weight in the first place!
 The famous Ivy House bream failed to show, probably due to Steve Burgess' heavy duty groundbait attack, but the best  silvers weight on the day went to    Chris Gay who, despite trying at least ten different methods and bait combinations, still managed to avoid the shedload of carp that were swirling in his peg.
For anyone interested Alan Healy (below) won the match convincingly with 97-7 of carp on lobworm fished over chopped worm and caster in the margins with a little bit of pellet fired over the top.  He lost another 100lbs+ to the infamous gully in his peg that connects the match lake with the lake behind.

Full result: 

1. Alan Healy  ... peg 24 ...... 97-7
2. Darren North ...... 10 ..... 40-10
3. Steve Burgess ..... 14 ..... 23-3
4. Rich Britton ........ 22 ...... 23-3
5. Chris Szackacs* ... 15 ..... 23-0
6. Mark Britton ........ 8 ....... 22-11
7. Bob Warren ......... 17 ..... 17-14
8. Ryan Radford ....... 23 ..... 16-2
9. Paul Reed ............ 21 ..... 14-5
10. Chris Gay ............ 13 ..... 13-14
11. Adam Caswell ...... 12 ..... dnw
12. Mark Radford ....... 19 ..... dnw

Silvers:

1. Chris Gay ...... 11-2
2. Bob Warren ... 9-10
3. Chris Szackaks .. 6-8
4. Rich Britton .... 5-13
5. Paul Reed ....... 3-2

 * golden peg

Plantations Psv v Frys Inter-Club, 24 July (16 pegs)

Some of the South West's best anglers were in evidence at this Inter-club event between Psv and Frys although the Frys team could probably be better described as a bunch of ringers that Alan Healy dragged out from the midweek Docks matches to make up the numbers!
Anyway, on what proved to be a difficult day, one of Psv's newest members Will Dearlove hit the ground running on his first match with the club and weighed in 57-14  beating Pete Sivell by over 6lbs for the top spot.
Third place went to another of Alan's ringers, Andy Curry, with 32-15 and Alan was fourth with 31-8.
Top silvers went to Psv's Rich Britton with 22-6.
Psv won the match with their top 3 weighing in a total of 118lbs 12oz against the ringers' 103-3 although it was probably a foregone conclusion seeing as Psv fielded eleven anglers whilst "Frys" had five and two of those didn't weigh in!

Overall Result:

1. Will Dearlove ..... 57-14
2. Pete Sivell ...... 51-3 (Frys)
3. Andy Curry ..... 32-15 (Frys)
4. Alan Healy  ..... 31-8
5. Rich Britton .... 29-6
6. Paul Elmes ..... 21-10
7. Chris Gay ....... 20-3
8. Jason Bird ...... 19-1 (Frys)
9. Darren North ... 19-0
10. Trigger ........... 16-6
11. Andy Bush ...... 12-2
12. Simon Belcham ... dnw
13. Keith Ray ........ dnw
14. Lewis ........ dnw (Frys)
15. Hawaii 5-0 ? ... dnw (Frys)

Year Totals & Summer League (to 17 July)

After seven matches of the Summer League Darren North and Simon Belcham both have 47 points with Darren just in front by 26lbs.  The Knowle West Pheasant Beater is lurking behind in 3rd with 42 points and Steve Burgess & Bob Warren both have 40 points with Steve edging it on weight by 26lbs.
In the year totals Alan remains in front with 177 pts, ahead of Darren North (152)  and Simon Belcham (151).

Summer League:

1. Darren North ..... 47pts ... 265-13
2. Simon Belcham .. 47 ... 239-3
3. Alan Healy ......... 42 ... 225-6
4. Steve Burgess .... 40 ... 250-6
5. Bob Warren ....... 40 ... 224-4
6. Chris Gay .......... 37 ... 263-1
7. Ron Hardiman .... 30 ... 131-4
8. Paul Reed .......... 26 ... 164-11
9. Mark Radford ..... 21 ... 176-10
10. Adam Caswell .... 21 ... 135-3
11. Rich Jones ......... 20 ... 116-1
12. Brian Shanks ..... 20 ... 104-5
13. Mike Smith ........ 19 ... 159-7
14. Chris Szakacs .... 18 ... 142-0
15. Rich Britton ....... 18 ... 72-2
16. Derek Lucas ....... 17 ... 92-7
17. Mike Wilson ....... 14 ... 124-4
18. Mark Britton ...... 14 ... 62-2
19. Steve Wynne ..... 13 ... 73-4
20. Dave Tippet ....... 11 ... 92-10

Year Totals:

1.  Alan Healy ....... 177pts ... 685-3 
2. Darren North ..... 152 ..... 611-15
3. Simon Belcham .. 151 .... 564-6
4. Steve Burgess .... 110 .... 450-12
5. Chris Gay .......... 106 ..... 537-10
6. Chris Szakacs .... 95 ....... 507-4
7. Bob Warren ....... 94 ....... 368-12
8. Rich Britton ....... 88 ....... 382-13
9. Mark Radford ..... 81 ....... 457-3
10. Brian Shanks ..... 80 ....... 370-15
11. Ron Hardiman .... 80 ....... 313-1
12. Ade Crawley ...... 75 ....... 263-5
13. Rich Jones ......... 69 ...... 247-15
14. Mike Smith ........ 62 ...... 325-0
15. Adam Caswell .... 60 ...... 273-1
16. Derek Lucas ....... 59 ..... 200-11
17. Paul Reed .......... 54 ...... 270-8
18. Mark Britton ...... 38 ....... 153-5
19. Stuart Riddle ..... 38 ....... 70-4
20. Ryan Radford ..... 37 ....... 195-13

Sedges, Brick Lake, 17 July (11 pegs)

Fortunately, the torrential rain we had on the way down to Bridgwater eased off by 10ish and pretty much stayed off for the rest of the day but it was replaced by a strong wind that blew straight at the right-hand bank and meant that everyone on pegs 11 to 19 struggled to present a bait anywhere other than in the margins.
Quickest off the mark, on peg 13, was Psv's newest member Big Mike (who is so new I don't know his surname so for now he will be referred to as "Big Mike"). Mike had 2 good sized carp early on but Match Secretary  Steve Burgess in peg 8 (pictured above), after a brief spell on the pole fishing for skimmers that only produced two of them, took advantage of the favourable wind and switched over to the pellet waggler line.
Fishing 2 feet deep with 8mm pellet produced a carp first chuck and was followed by another nine fish which together with three slimy things made a total of 86lbs 8oz for top spot with almost 34lbs to spare!
Second on the day (and second in the silvers) was Paul Reed (yes , you read that correctly) on peg 15.  Paul fished 8mm cubes of meat mainly against the margin reeds for a near 50:50 split of skimmers and carp to over 12lbs for a total weight of 52lbs 4oz.
Mugger Shanks made up the frame with 40lbs 4oz from peg 3  edging Big Mike out of the money on his first Psv match by just one ounce!
With Dave Tippet unsurprisingly unable to drag himself out of bed, Alan Healy managed to make the most of a very poor performance at his jinx venue by taking the silvers pool from peg 6 with 33lbs 8oz of slimy things.
Interestingly (or not) Steve Burgess has a unique way of fishing the pellet waggler which involves feeding to one point and casting his rig to various points well away from the area being fed.
The thinking behind it is that the carp are attracted to the feed but are wised up to the usual method which produces only very cagey bites and foulhookers. However, the fish remain in the area and will confidently take a pellet ten or fifteen feet away from the fed area as they are tricked into thinking it's a stray pellet  that's safe to eat.  This method produces much more confident sailaway bites and properly hooked fish.
To the untrained eye this may appear to be wayward casting but is in fact a special technique that has been finely tuned over several seasons and which, on the right day (like today) can prove to be devastating.
As a match venue Sedges is one of the best around, Jamie and Denise are always very welcoming with tea and coffee provided before and after, the lakes are well looked after and comfortable to fish, all nets are supplied and Jamie (usually) does the weigh-in himself. In addition Brick and Tile lakes are due to receive stocks of tench in the near future which will add to the already excellent  silvers fishing.

Overall:

1. Steve Burgess ... peg 8 ... 86-8
2. Paul Reed ........ 15 ... 52-4
3. Mugger Shanks .. 3 ... 40-4
4. Big Mike ........... 13 ... 40-3
5. Ron Hardiman ... 11 ... 34-5
6. Alan Healy ......... 6 ... 33-8
7. Simon Belcham .. 5 ... 33-0
8. Mark Britton ..... 17 ... 26-11
9. Bob Warren ....... 2 ... 22-10
10. Darren North .... 19 ... 21-11
11. Mike Wilson* ..... 2 .... 19-1

*golden peg (worth £82)

Silvers:

1. Alan Healy .... 33-8
2. Paul Reed ..... 25-5
3. Mugger Shanks .. 24-0
4. Bob Warren ... 22-10
5. Mark Britton ... 21-11
6. Darren North ... 17-7
7. Simon Belcham .. 16-8
8. Mike Wilson ..... 14-1
9. Big Mike ......... 12-1
10. Ron Hardiman .. 10-7
11. Steve Burgess .. 4-0

Viaduct, Campbell, 10 July (13 pegs)

It's a little-known fact that due to the sheer number of matches he fishes at Viaduct, if you zoom in on Campbell using Google Earth and look closely you can actually see Rich Jones!  And as a result he knows every fish in every peg by name so when he drew peg 125 he spent ten minutes setting up (doesn't take long as he only has Campbell rigs and his conker rod is permanently set up) and an hour walking round the lake telling anyone who was polite enough to listen just how crap peg 125 is.

The video at the bottom shows how a "crap" peg can produce over 85lbs which, for some Psv members, is equivalent to winning the lottery! (Rich is the miserable looking bloke)

Peg 132 seems to be the peg to draw on Campbell at the moment and Mike Smith was fortunate enough to pull it out out of the bag and true to form, took the top weight of 122lbs 7oz.  Mike caught shallow on the long pole fishing and feeding with 8mm pellet and later in the margins with meat.

Chris Gay took second from peg 123 with 96lbs 6oz. It would have been a lot more but he decided to fish half the match with his t-shirt off which frightened all the tench away!

Third place went to Darren North with 93lbs 12oz from peg 115 and there were no surprises in the Silvers with Dave the worminator Tippet clocking up 51lbs 5oz on peg 128.  Dave caught mainly on the cage feeder fishing worm in conjunction with chopped worm and micros and never had a single carp.

Second in the Silvers (by default) was Bob the skimmer Warren who's "just a few silvers" took the scales round to 21lbs 4oz.

Entertainment in this match was provided (as usual) by Stevie Wynne who not only managed to lose 7 pellet wagglers but also managed to break 2 rings off his float rod when he chucked it in a tree after the match. Despite the fact that Steve has somewhere along the line upset the fishing Gods, he fortunately always manages to smile in the face of adversity!

Talking of which, Chris Szakacs managed to avoid making the frame when one of his nets went over the 70lb limit by 4lbs (like he did the last time he fished Campbell)

 

Overall:

1. Mike Smith .... peg 132 ... 122-7
2. Chris Gay ........... 123 ... 96-6
3. Darren North* ..... 115 ... 93-12
4. Bob Warren ......... 110 ... 90-12
5. Chris Szakacs ...... 129 ... 90-8
6. Rich Moans .......... 125 ... 85-9
7. Mike Wilson ......... 114 ... 68-7
8. Simon Belcham .... 119 ... 61-8
9. Paul Reed ............ 126 ... 61-1
10. Dave Tippet ......... 128 ... 51-5
11. Derek Lucas ........ 118 ... 44-14
12. Steve Burgess .......... 116 ... 43-15
13. Steve Wynne ....... 112 ... 30-8

*golden peg 

Silvers: 

1. Dave Tippet .... 51-5
2. Darren North ... 22-4
3. Bob Warren ..... 21-4
4. Chris Gay ........ 19-4
5. Simon Belcham .. 16-5
6. Chris Szakacs ... 13-0
7. Mike Wilson ..... 12-3 
8. Paul Reed ........ 12-2
9. Rich Moans ...... 8-13
10. Mike Smith ...... 8-8
11. Steve Wynne ... 5-0
12. Derek Lucas .... 4-14
13. Steve Burgess ...... 4-5