MATCH
RESULT
Date : 2nd July 2009
Venue : Frogmore
Match : Evening Match #3
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Commentary by Stan: With temps nudging 30c it was good to see 18 fishing this match. Hopes were high after the big weights from the previous Sunday and the slightly reduced numbers would mean that we didn’t need to put too many in Deep Bay. The surface was alive with cruising bream and many had brought Chum Mixers in the hope of emulating Josh’s performance from the weekend. Golden Hand Nick thought he was in for a repeat of last weeks win when he pulled out peg 4 and Kev Marslin was soon racing to 37. But I think we all knew that on such a hot evening nothing was guaranteed. At least I was pleased to be on a short walk to Bastard (43) which provides a good view of what’s happening (and not much else). Neil, for a change, drew a good feeder peg on 5 and was soon picking up decent bream between 2-3lb on red maggot & feeder, about 50yds out in 8ft of water. To his right Colin was doing likewise but alternating between worm and corn. And to Colin’s right was Dave McGrath on peg 8 (Beaches). Peg 8 is very shallow, just 5ft at 12m, compared to depths of 30ft elsewhere on Smallford and is not often a good draw. But the warm and green coloured water draws the bream in and Dave went one better than Mark Jones, who was on it on Sunday, and used pole and corn or maggot to record 33.03 of bream and a few roach. He even had time to wander down to Neil to see how he was doing but missed seeing him loose a carp or big tench two minutes from time when it decided to circuit the lake clockwise!! Away from these pegs it was very hard and 8 DNW’s tells a story. Paul Bangs in Deep Bay went for the silvers and recorded a creditable 5-14 (he had 8-0 in five hours Sunday) and Kev Marslin spent too long chasing shadows with a floater rig, picking up only 6.14 of small skimmers from the island.
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Next
evening match is at Riverside
POSITION
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NAME |
WEIGHT
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COMMENTS |
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1 |
Dave McGrath |
33.3.0 |
Pole - peg 8 |
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2 |
Neil Anderson |
29.6.0 |
5 |
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3 |
Colin Winter |
21.4.0 |
6 |
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4 |
Kev Marslin |
6.14.0 |
37 |
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5 |
Paul Bangs |
5.14.0 |
14 |
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6 |
Nick Darke |
3.8.0 |
4 |
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7 |
Stan Kiddle |
2.12.0 |
43 |
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8 |
Peter Fell |
2.3.0 |
24 |
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9 |
Connor McGrath |
1.8.0 |
23 |
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10 |
Ian Waugh |
0.11.0 |
12 |
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11 |
Ken Sharp |
DNW |
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12 |
Graham Holt |
DNW |
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13 |
Josh Blavins |
DNW |
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14 |
Roger Smith |
DNW |
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15 |
Alan Thomas |
DNW |
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16 |
Martin Davis |
DNW |
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17 |
Kev Hawes |
DNW |
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18 |
Malcolm Jeffery |
DNW |
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Total Weight |
107lb |
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