VERULAM ANGLING CLUB

MATCH RESULT

 DATE:           20th January 2008

VENUE:         Lake John - Bottom Lake

TROPHY:        Championship #15

 

 

Commentary:  Thanks to Global Warming we were bathed in the relative luxury of 12-14 degrees C and thankfully the precipitation stayed away until after the whistle. As a new venue for most fishing it was interesting to see just how fair it turned out with 1st, 2nd & 3rd each coming from a different bank (the lake is a square snake style with 12-14m to the island).
The advice was to feed very little but those who caught well did so with a regular trickle of hook bait.

Top on the day was Paul Bangs with 23-04 from peg 15. A gusty left to right wind made fishing right over very difficult so Paul opted to fish maggot down the middle and had a real mixed bag topped with a 7lb+ carp that took an age to land on no.6 elastic. This is Paul's 3rd Championship win this season - a great achievement.

Over by the car park on 24 was Kevin Hawes. This peg won the match the day before with 50lb. Kevin managed a dozen small carp for 20-01 on a mixture of maggot and corn. After a slow start he potted in a big load of bait and found the fish responding straight away. So much for 'minimal' feed.

It was Graeme Holt in 3rd from peg 9 who fished the 'proper' way, tight to the far bank at 14m with corn and tiny amounts of feed. A slow start and a few bumped fish was enough to deny him the win. Elsewhere, chunky roach, skimmers, crucians and some big perch to nearly 2lb (for Stan) made up the remaining catches.

 

  

POSITION

NAME

WEIGHT

POINTS

COMMENTS

1

Paul Bangs

23.4.0

100

 

2

Kevin Hawes

20.1.0

95

 

3

Graeme Holt

17.7.0

90

 

4

Kev Laird

16.10.8

85

 

5

Andy K

11.6.0

80

 

6

Clive Bailey

10.7.0

75

 

7

Mark Jones

9.8.0

70

 Silver Peg

8

Phil Rule

8.14.0

65

 Golden Peg

9

Eddie Hammond

8.10.0

60

 

10

Stan Kiddle

7.14.0

55

 

11

Cliff Myers

7.2.0

50

 

12

Roger Smith

6.14.0 

45

 

13

Ivan Coleman

5.6.8

40

 

14

Brian Bangs

2.14.0

35

 

15

Malcolm Jeffery

2.13.0

30

 

 16

Mick Johnson

 1.3.0

25

 

 

Total Weight

 155lb ish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Fished

16