Cider Farm, Dabinett, 12 September (9 pegs)

With only nine booked in for this one everyone was guaranteed plenty of room and with only the form pegs in the draw bag a few fish were expected to come out.
Although, according to the grapevine, the fish were now spread out around the lake and anybody could be in with a shout.
Venue expert, Mike the paste Smith was particularly happy having drawn peg 28 seeing as it had recently broken the Dabinett match record on two occasions but Paul Elmes, on peg 7, was having none of it.
Fishing pellet and paste in open water and later pellet long across to the point of the island, Paul took a steady procession of fish from start to finish to weigh in a total of 101lbs 9oz.
Close on his heels, on peg 21, Paul's doubles partner, match secretary Steve Burgess started by fishing pellet shallow in open water at 13m with little success before changing to corn over pellet to the end of the reeds where he found the fish to be feeding confidently and cruised into second place with 91-15

Result:

1. Paul Elmes ...... peg 7 ...... 101-9
2. Steve Burgess ...... 21 ...... 91-15
3. Bob Warren .......... 1 ....... 79-13
4. Chris Szakacs ....... 6 ....... 72-0
5. Alan Healy* ......... 20 ....... 53-6
6. Mike Smith .......... 28 ....... 46-14
7. Ade Crawley ........ 16 ....... 33-11
8. Paul Reed ............ 12 ....... 24-4
9. Mike Wilson ......... 18 ........ DNW

*golden peg
Total Match Weight = 503lbs 8oz
Average weight = 63lbs

Cider Farm, 16 May 2010 (19 pegs)

As expected on Cider Farm's Dabinett lake the top three places were taken by the usual form pegs on the gap between the islands.  Venue regular Mike Smith took the top honours and his first win since joining the club this season with 73lbs 5oz from peg 6 all caught on paste.

Second place went to Mark Radford on neighbouring peg 7  with 68-3, again all taken on paste.  It seems as though Mark has finally shaken off his run of crap draws and returned to form having framed twice in two matches.
In third place, despite drawing the hottest peg on the lake, peg 21, was "rock steady" Eddie Wynne with 57-5 caught on pellet.  It's rumoured that since Eddie started match fishing (many years ago) he has never drawn a bad peg!

With the lake split into two sections, 1 to 14 and 16 to 28, another "paste-head",  Chris Szakacs took the first section from peg 3 with 41-4.  With nobody on peg 2 Chris was gifted another empty peg next to him when Alan Healy thought he had drawn peg 4 but in actual fact had drawn 14.  Alan practically skipped up the lake to peg 14 but only managed to weigh in 10-12 so in hindsight he probably wished he'd stayed put on 4 and saved himself a few pound coins!!
The second section went to Adam Caswell on peg 22 where, despite losing a shedload of fish in the infamous Cider Farm reeds, he still managed to foul hook 33-8  and put himself at the top of the PSV year totals!
In the knockout Adam Caswell goes through to the second round after beating Ade Crawley in 2 out of the 3 legs of the first round as does club junior member, Ryan Radford after beating Steve Wynne twice.
Adam Woodland and Simon Belcham face a decider at Campbell next week with Simon having a 3 point advantage. And Eddie Wynne and Mark Radford also face off next week with Mark ahead by just 1 point!
Mike Smith goes to Campbell with a 17 point lead over Yan, the flying Dutchman, and Steve Hutchinson and Ryan Jordan also meet again next week with Steve Hutch ahead by 5 points.
One-off battles at Campbell will be between Bob Warren and Paul Reed, Neil Mercer and Rich Jones and also Mike Wilson and Alan Healy


Overall Result:

1. Mike Smith ........ peg 6 ..... 73-5
2. Mark Radford ........... 7 ..... 68-3
3. Eddie Wynne ........... 21 .... 57-5
4. Chris Szakacs ........... 3 ..... 41-4
5. Adam Caswell* ........ 22 .... 33-8
6. Steve Burgess ......... 16 .... 25-2
7. Adam Woodland ....... 20 .... 20-13
8. Darren North ........... 19 .... 15-1
9. Steve Hutchinson ...... 9 ..... 13-12
10. Ade Crawley ............. 1 ..... 13-3
11. Alan Healy .............. 14 ..... 10-12
12. Rich Jones ............... 8 ...... 10-10
13. Stuart Riddle ........... 12 ..... 9-12
14. Ryan Jordan ............ 18 ..... 8-13
15. Paul Reed ................ 25 ..... 5-4
16. Yan (Jan / Colin) ...... 16 ...... 5-0
17. Derek Lucas ............ 27 ...... 4-7
18. Ryan Radford ........... 17 ..... 0-4
19. Steve Wynne ........... 28 ...... DNW

*golden peg

Cider Farm, 14 March 2010 (11 pegs)

Courtesy of Wikipedia:

Dabinett is a variety of apple, customarily used in Somerset for making cider. It bears green-yellow fruit with a distinctive bittersweet flavour, and is probably related to the Chisel Jersey apple. A number of cider manufacturers produce ciders made solely or primarily with Dabinett apples, including Thatchers and Sheppy's.

(Not a lot of people know that!!!)

PSV Match Secretary, Steve Burgess, was determined to improve upon his last visit to Dabinett back in July of last year when after taking a break from his holiday in Devon to fish the match, he drew peg 8 only to receive a complete battering from Craig Edmunds off the next peg and finish last with a dismal 6lbs 8oz (Trigger won the match with 65-10)! So, when the last peg in the bag was peg 21 and the golden peg, the pressure was on. Fortunately though, for Steve "pressure" is just a word beginning with "p".

Steve fished two lines, both kicked off with a small pot of damp micros and a few red maggots. One line at 14.5m straight out in open water and the other in the shallow water at 13m on the point of the reeds. On the "all-in" Steve was into a carp first put-in on the 14.5m line with double red maggot. Also quick off the mark was Alan Healy across on peg 6, again using maggot and micro pellet as well as Paul (The Reedinator) Reed on peg 7, who had chosen (oddly) to fish luncheon meat on the hook. Adam Caswell on peg 6 also started well but things soon returned to normal for him and a walk round the bank to skyline a few pegs was soon in order!

Meanwhile Steve Burgess was steadily catching carp to 4lbs alternating between maggot and 4.5mm soft pellet until a run of skimmers prompted a switch to the shallow swim. After taking a few small carp from the reeds on maggot, one particularly hyper fish chose to launch itself through the air and into the middle of the reeds, smashing his rig in the process. Swapping back to the open water line produced a couple more carp then more of the dreaded skimmers so a new shallow rig was made up and Steve managed to continue catching from the shallow line up to the end of the match.

Alan Healy had been matching Steve's catch rate for most of the match but had lost a lot of foul-hooked fish, Paul Reed reckoned Alan had hooked 150lbs of fish but, as they say, the only ones that count are the ones in the net! The bank-walking rumour mill (Adam Caswell and Mark Radford) were saying that Chris Zak on peg 16 had at least 30 carp, caught on paste and Ryan Jordan on peg 29 had also done well along with new member and CFL regular Mike Smith. However, Steve sealed a comfortable win and also secured the £22 golden peg putting over 77lbs onto the scales followed by Alan with 53-5 and Chris with 43-4.

Overall Result:

1. Steve Burgess* .. peg 21 ... 77-6
2. Alan Healy .......... 6 .......... 53-5
3. Chris Szakacs ...... 16 ........ 43-4
4. Paul Reed ............ 7 .......... 38-15
5. Ryan Jordan ........ 29 ....... 37-8
6. Mike Smith .......... 19 ....... 32-9
7. Adam Woodland .. 25 ...... 16-10
8. Steve Wynne ......... 12 ...... 15-6
   
9. Stuart Ashton ........ 20 ..... 9-0
10. Adam Caswell ....... 8 ...... DNW
11. Mark Radford ....... 17 ..... DNW

* golden peg


Year Totals (after 2 matches):

1. Steve Burgess ... 37pts ... 96-14
2. Alan Healy ............ 29 ........ 64-8
3. Chris Szakacs ........ 29 ....... 60-14
4. Steve Wynne ......... 25 ....... 33-15
5. Adam Woodland ... 24 ....... 30-9
6. Paul Reed .............. 21 ........ 44-9
7. Derek Lucas .......... 20 ........ 21-9
8. Ryan Jordan ......... 13 ......... 37-8
9. Mike Smith ........... 12 ......... 32-9
10. Rich Jones ............ 11 ......... 11-1
11. Adam Caswell ....... 10 ........ 10-9
12. Stuart Ashton ....... 9 .......... 9-0
13. Stuart Riddle ........ 9 .......... 8-15
14. Mark Radford ....... 8 ......... 8-0
    

Cider Farm, 15 November 09 (14 pegs)

Overall:

1. Dean Malin ......... peg 1 ...... 57-15
2. Stuart Riddle ........ 19 ....... 40-5
3. Bob Warren .......... 20 ...... 32-11
4. Adam Woodland ... 5 ........ 29-11
5. Simon Belcham ..... 13 ...... 28-10
6. Steve Burgess* ...... 15 ....... 23-7
7. Brian Shanks ......... 2 ........ 21-6
8. Paul Elmes ............ 17 ........ 20-11
9. Alan Healy ............. 4 ........ 14-5
10. Chris Zak ............... 18 ....... 12-14
11. Darren North ......... 21 ....... 11-1
12. Mark Radford ........ 9 ........ 11-2
13. Ryan Radford ........ 6 ........ 10-1
14. Mark Britton .......... 12 ....... DNW

* golden peg

Silvers:

1. Dean Malin ........... 14-2
2. Brian Shanks ........ 13-13
3. Chris Zak ............... 12-14
4. Mark Radford ........ 7-4
5. Darren North ........ 6-3
6. Paul Elmes ............ 5-12
7. Simon Belcham ..... 5-9
8. Alan Healy ............. 4-11
9. Steve Burgess ......... 4-7
10. Stuart Riddle .......... 2-4
11. Bob Warren ............ 1-3
12. Adam Woodland .... 0-15
13. Ryan Radford ......... 0-13
    

Cider Farm, 13 Sept 2009

1. Craig Edmunds ......... 63-15
2. Paul Elmes ................ 60-12
3. Mark Radford ........... 55-0
4. Alan Healy ................ 50-12
5. Adam Caswell ........... 42-9
6. Derek Lucas* ............ 39-6
7. Darren North ............ 38-9
8. Mark Britton ............. 33-0
9. Paul Reed .................. 29-13
10. Simon Belcham ......... 21-14

*golden peg
**silver peg

Cider Farm, 26 July 2009

1. Craig Edmonds ...... 65-10
2. Simon Belcham ..... 45-10
3. Bob Warren* .......... 41-8
4. Paul Elmes ............ 38-14
5. Alan Healy ............ 35-4
6. Yan / Colin ............ 30-1
7. Darren North ........ 28-5
8. Dave Tippett .......... 27-2
9. Derek Lucas ........... 24-0
   
10. Adam Woodland .... 22-0
11. Steve Burgess ............... 6-8
12. Eddie Perkins ......... DNW

*golden peg

Cider Farm, 17 may 2009

1. Mark Radford 72-10
2. Alan Healy 57-2
3. Steve Burgess 48-8
4. Simon Belcham 45-12
5. Dave Tippett 44-11
6. Bob Warren 40-4
7. Steve wynne 32-2
8. Adam Woodland 29-12
9. Adam Caswell 28-0
10. Eddie Perkins 22-8
11. Paul Reed 21-0
12. Mini-me radford (jnr) 7-10