VERULAM ANGLING CLUB

MATCH RESULT

 

Date :       26th July 2009 

Venue :     Frogmore

Match :     Championship #4

 

 

Commentary by Stan: There was a small sigh of despair when Nick Darke drew Golden Peg 27. Nick’s on form at Frogmore and we all thought the cash could go. But, as is often the case, Frogmore went moody and many struggled to even catch the abundant silvers, let alone a carp or two.

We had a very good turnout with 26 fishing and every match peg taken. Andy K got off to a good start with two carp landed in the first hour from peg 16 but another one lost killed his peg. To his left VAC President Brian Bangs (pictured above) was on platform peg 14 and after snatching silvers he put on a pellet on his light rig and hooked an angry double figure carp. After about 20 minutes he almost had it at the net when the hook pulled. I do believe he uttered a swear word or two. Ten minutes later, on a heavier rig he was in again and another big fish was giving him the run around. This one didn’t stay on so long as it tore off and ripped off the hook.

Opposite on peg 19 Brian’s son Paul was finding plenty of silvers and the odd skimmer fishing a light rig up in the water. Several looks on his carp line came to nothing then, as luck would have it, he hooked and lost a carp on his light rig. However, his bag of silvers went 14-08 and good for 3rd place.

Around the islands fishing was also slow and Tim Jones on peg 7 put together a good mixed bag of silvers with a few small carp to take 2nd place with 14-11.

Way in front with 23-03 was me – I was on peg 20 and my plan was to catch silvers for an hour and then target carp. I had about 4lb in that first hour then managed 3 small carp on pellet at 13m but things were looking bad and with 90 minutes to go I swapped to Plan C.

Fishing caster at 11m and feeding heavily I picked up a few better silvers plus three good carp to about 5lb plus a 2lb bream. One of those rare days when both luck and fate were on my side.

 

POSITION

NAME

WEIGHT

POINTS

COMMENTS

1

Stan Kiddle

 23.03

100

 

2

Tim Jones

 14.11

95

 

3

Paul Bangs

 14.08

90

 

4

Roger Smith

 10.11.8

85

 

5

Graham Holt

 9.12.8

80

 

6

Andy K

 8.15

75

 

7

Kev Marslin

 8.05.8

70

 

8

Colin Winter

 8.01

65

 

9

Matt Young

 7.02

60

 

10

Malcolm Jefferies

 6.07

55

 

11

 Ian Waugh

 6.04

50

 

12

 Kev Hawes

 6.01

45

 

13

John Cowling

 5.12.8

40

 

14

Mick Johnson

 5.07

35

 

15

Steve Burfoot

 5.05

30

 

16

Ash Adams

 4.07

25

 

17

Kev Laird

 4.05.8

20

 

18

Josh Blavins

 3.02.8

15

 

19

Nick Darke

 1.06

1

 

20

 Dave Cragg

DNW

1

 

21

 Dave McGrath

DNW

1

 

22

 Brian Bangs

DNW

1

 

23

 Connor McGrath

DNW

1

 

24

 Stuart Butterfield

DNW

1

 

25

 Alan Thomas

DNW

1

 

26

 Ken Sharp

DNW

1

 

 

 Total Weight

153lb