Antiques Roadshow update

 I've just been told that my appearance at the Antiques Roadshow will be included in the programme to be broadcast this Sunday, Nov 30th at 8pm.

It's beastly cold on Beastie

Peg 15, Beastie
Strange how life will suddenly turn a corner, either for good or bad. Because after a long string of drawing pegs I didn't fancy - in many cases the very last swim I would have chosen - things have brightened up. The mice in my garage and shed have started throwing themselves onto my traps, I've started playing great bowls (my last game resulted in the opponents withdrawing after ten ends with the score 28-0 in our favour), and now I'm getting some pegs I really fancy in my fishing matches.

Of course the weather holds the trump card at the moment, but I'm managing to avoid the really dodgy areas at Decoy. After drawing pegs 12 and 11 on Six-Island in the JV club matches, the latest one saw me on peg 15 on Beastie. It's in the main bowl of the lake, at a time when the ends - from 25 round to peg 3, and the back of the spit (8 to 13) - are currently the spots to avoid drawing. There are fish there, but rarely enough to win.

The day started dull and cold, and it was easy to see where we were casting.
Pegs 15, 16 and 17 can cast to the island, but 16 was left out.

The coldest swims
I had Pete Molesworth next to me on 17, and without doubt these were the coldest two swims on the lake, with the cold SW wind blowing into us from the right. I started on a small Method feeder cast to the island - 37 turns of my reel to retrieve if you're interested - but had nothing for over an hour, while Pete had two on a feeder.

I took another look at Pete's rig, which I had thought was a small Method feeder, but now saw that his bait was hanging free when he cast. I the realised it was probably a maggot feeder, so I changed. Within minutes I had a drop-back bite on two reds, and a 2 lb F1 came to my net, followed by  two more in the next half-hour. 

When the clouds blew over the wind became stronger, and the sun was in our eyes, and we were casting blind, unable to see our feeders as they went out.
 Here Pete Molesworth on peg 17 nets an F1, taken on maggot feeder.

At that point Chris Saunders, over on peg 20, started catching on a pole. I didn't see it, but I had a quick chat with Roy Whitwell on 13 and he told me; he also knew I had some fish. How the hell did he know? He was sitting with his back to both Chris and myself!

Nowt on pole
Pete now put out a pole and had two fairly quick fish and then a blank spell. I tried a pole very briefly, long and against the platform at 16, but I had no offers, so stuck with the maggot feeder, which brought six more F1s and two small bream while Pete added another on his feeder rig. The last hour, though, was fishless for both of us I think. I had been leaving the rig out for 20 minutes, and while two took within seconds of the feeder hitting the water, some took after that 20 minutes.

Round to my left I had seen Lee Kendall catch fish on a feeder cast to the island, and he later changed to pole and had some fish. But behind me, on the back of the spot, sport was terrible. The match finished with Pete and I both cold, and behind me Shaun Coaten said he had just three F1s - and Shaun has been framing  a lot recently so it must have been been bad.

The weigh in
Before the scales got to us Pete said I must have enjoyed myself, and I replied: "Beating Pete Molesworth on the next peg - yes I have!" In fact I'm happy not to come last in JV matches, as the standard is high, and they fish Decoy every week.

Lee Kendall was leading with 28 lb 2 oz from peg 5, but poor Dave Parsons on 8 told me he never had even a liner, and Russell Gray on 9 never had a fish either. My 21 lb 14 oz beat everyone else on the spit, and brought me just a section win, as the top three places came from the fancied pegs in the 20s - pegs 20, 22 and 23. Then, as happens often in the Winter, the famous pegs of 25, 26, 29 and 30 produced no big weights.

Then we were back to the warmth of the cafe and a hot coffee before the presentations. And we all agreed that the sudden drop in temperatures over the last two nights - down to freezing - had their inevitable effect. I expect things to be better by the time the Winter League final is fished here in late February - two full sections (approx 40 pegs) on Decoy, two on Rookery, and one on Float Fish Farm (plus five sections on the drains).

Marks out of ten
There's still a lot of luck in these Winter matches, but I felt I took a good advantage of finding a few fish. My casting was pretty good, especially considering that the low sun was in our faces, and both Pete and myself were, at times, quite unable to see our  feeders as they were flying out to the island.

Basically we were often casting blind, and with an overhanging bush right in front of me I had to hit the clip nicely and bring the rod back to just the right spot to avoid hitting that bush, I managed that, never missed a bite, and never lost a fish - so I give myself 8/10. I perhaps should have realised sooner what Pete had his first two fish on and changed.

Next match was the Spratts Christmas match, the last of the year, moved to Cedar, which is where the next JV match is scheduled.

THE RESULT

I'm below average on Elm!

Peg 7, Mon, Nov 17
Our penultimate Spratts match, and there had been a drop in the overnight temperature. The NW wind was cold, and Trevor was able to peg us so it was on our backs, mainly over our left shoulders. And it turned out to be fairly typical cold-weather fishing. 

There are 12 pegs on this side of the lake, with the higher numbers often having a slight edge. But in the first hour it was the low numbers, to my right, who started catching occasional fish. There was more ripple towards that end, and Martin Parker, on peg 5 to my right, had three fish early on. He told me later it was on bomb and bread punch. To his right I also saw Kevin Lee and Trevor Cousins land carp.

Cold and bright, and not much ripple at our end to start with.

On my left was Roy Whitwell, who has magic feeders in his box, but today after a couple of hours he had not had even a liner. Around that time I had three fish on bomb and sweetcorn cast to the far bank - they were a 2 lb F1, a 2 lb barbel, and a nice 8 lb mirror carp. To be beating Roy on the next peg was a novel experience for me...but it didn't last.

Eventually his little method feeder and red wafter found good carp and he had about four in the next 90 minutes, the best of which looked to be around 10 lb. I also saw Mike Rawson, down on peg 10 land a couple of fish. But for the next 90 minutes I never had a touch on bomb, so changed to a tiny Method feeder and red wafter and that brought two 3 lb carp, one of which took when the rig had been out for almost 30 minutes, and I was confident of getting more if I was patient.

Roy Whitwell plays his first fish - more than two hours after we started...

  ...and it was a nice big common carp.  

But then I managed to snag my feeder over near the far bank. I walked round with my long hook and tried to hook my line and perhaps free the feeder, but I couldn't move the hook properly - it felt as though there was line down there. Roy had my rod and said he felt one quiver from my sweepings, but I never found my line and Roy had managed to pull and break the line close to the feeder by the time I got back to my peg. I re-tied the rig with a new feeder but no more fish were forthcoming. 😔

By now Roy had seven or eight fish, and said that Mike was also catching, but with the match ending at 3 o'clock, in the gathering gloom, we had to finish just when the fish were biting. John Garner on corner peg 12 had two or three late on the pole, and Dick Warrener on 11 did the same. I put a pole out but didn't stick at it long enough.

Yet another for Roy, in the last hour of the match, he ended with seven or eight.

The weigh in
The weighing started at peg 1, where Peter Spriggs, who is always well up in the field, had two fish for 3 lb 8 oz. I have long considered Elm peg 1 to be one of the least consistent pegs on the complex. Matches have been won from there (even by me) but generally it's not a peg you would run to. Actually it's right near the car park, so if you did start to run to it, you'd not be able to stop in time, and you'd take a dive headfirst into the lake. Which might manage to stir up the fish a bit!

Roy Whitwell - second with 41 lb 12 oz.

Kevin had managed to add about four more fish for his final 29 lb 1 oz, but Martin overtook him with a couple of late fish to add to his earlier one, totalling 35 lb 12 oz. Next to me Mick Ramm had left his feeder rod behind and never had a touch on his pole, but my five fish went 20 lb 14 oz.

John Garner had a late spurt on pole.

Then Roy weighed in 41 lb 12 oz, and to our delight Mike Rawson on 11 managed to top that with his 43 lb 9 oz, all taken on feeder and ordinary pellets. This won the match, leaving Roy second, Martin Parker third, and John Garner fourth...and me nowhere. Well done, Mike.

Marks out of ten
I still can't work out why I should have those two good session, with those huge blank hours in between. But since Roy had hours at the start without a touch I must assume it's down to luck. However I will now concentrate on feedering in my Winter matches, unless conditions are warmer and good for the pole. I was probably worth 6/10 for this match, but should have tried worm (on which which Rod Melnyk, peg 9, had three fish late on, on the pole), or bread, both of which I had with me. 

  Mike Rawson had three bream in his winning 43 lb 9 oz.  

My next match is Sunday on Beastie, which will probably be very difficult because of this early stretch of cold weather. In a couple of months, when the fish are used to it, things might be a bit better.

Then next Tuesday is our final Spratts match - the Christmas event, with prizes all round, though history suggests there may not be many fish. It was booked on Oak but Karen at the fishery will allow us to move it, probably to Yew. She's been so helpfull all season. Thanks, Karen. Meanwhile, I did win this match once, so wish me luck...

THE RESULT

1 Peter Spriggs            3 lb 8 oz

2 Bob Barrett              3 lb 5 oz

3 Trevor Cousins      10 lb 3 oz

4 Kevin Lee              29 lb 1 oz    

5 Martin Parker        36 lb 12 oz         3rd

6 Mick Ramm            DNW

7 Mac Campbell       20 lb 14 oz

8 Roy Whitwell        41 lb 12 oz        2nd

9 Rod Melnyk           20 lb 2 oz

10 Mike Rawson       43 lb 9 oz        1st

11 Dick Warrener      26 lb 6 oz

12 John Garner         36 lb 4 oz        4th

On a flier on Six-Island

Peg 11, Sunday, Nov 16
Very happy with peg 11 in this JV club match, where 18 of us were split between Six-Island lake and Four-Island, especially since peg 11 won it last week. However, when Roy Whincup walked by me to peg 13 he pointed out that the wind was now in the opposite direction, coming into our faces from the North, and it was cool. Still, I started out brimming with confidence that I ought to catch at least a few fish.

I had the previous match's rigs with me and was surprised to find that this swim was a foot deeper than I had had  last week on peg 12, perhaps due to the downpour we'd had on Friday, but also probably because the depth increases towards this end. Anyway, with the water being fairly calm I started out at 11.5 metres in open water, with 4mm expanders and a tiny amount of hemp. 

Things were slow to start with, though on the opposite bank on peg 6  Chris Saunders foulhooked an 8 lb carp early on, which he managed to land, while Roy Whincup, opposite, fumed, because they have a regular £1 side-bet with each other. Roy was still complaining about that fish at the end of the match! I also noted that Shaun Coaten was on the same peg 7 that he had drawn the previous week, and I saw him have some fish from a long pole line.

Shaun Coaten, opposite, had some fish early on, on a long pole.

A slow start
It took me an hour or two to catch about three fish - an F1 and two nice carp - from that long swim, followed by a few casts on a feeder, which produced not even a liner, and I decided I simply had to have a look in the margin, where several others were now fishing. I started to the left, preferring to leave the obvious hot spot on the right, against the reeds and irises, until a little later. 

I immediately hooked and lost a good fish in about three feet of water a couple of metres from the bank, but then managed to bag about three more carp to 8 lb, two of them being hooked on the outside of the lip and giving me a long, hard, fight..

I had an occasional liner in that swim, and it seemed that every proper bite came within 30 seconds of the bait hitting bottom. I tried off bottom, but never had even a liner there, so I had to assume that the fish were interested in the bait on the bottom, and sort of swimming round it wondering whether to take it. But then I hooked - and lost - five big fish in the next two hours, presumably foulhooked by the way they fought. 

Fish to the right
With about 90 minutes left, I went to the right margin, putting in dead maggots, which Mick Timson had used to win the previous week. I noticed that Shaun was now fishing close to his lefthand bank, and I saw him hook a big fish there..

One fish on the first half hour in front of my reed bed, and several liners, saw me switch to 4mm expanders, and this gave me three carp very quickly, best about 7 lb. Then there came a blank spell, wqhen I tried mussel and corn, and with 20 minutes left I dropped in the shallower water closer to the bank - in less than two feet. I didn't really expect to get anything, because I'd seen no swirls, but I quickly had two beautiful 'bites' that I missed. So there were obviously fish there.

With only a minute or two left I tried again with a bunch of dead maggots on a size 16, and hooked a fish which came off immediately. With only seconds left I dropped back, and amazingly hooked a big fish straight away. That was a surprise because I had assumed that the disturbance caused by hooking the lost fish would have scared away every carp. But no, this fish stuck, and seconds later the whistle went to end the match.

Shaun had small fish on his long line.

I shouted 'Fish On', and two minutes later landed a lovely 7 lb common carp, which I put into my second net as I thought I had about 40 lb in the first one, and I would have to pull it out when we weighed in!

The weigh in
On peg 3, Dan Pettigrew was able to cast a feeder right across the lake to a platform on the far side, as nobody was pegged there. Last time I fished on peg 2 the angler on peg 3 had won doing the same thing...and sure enough Dan had won it today, with 87 lb 7 oz. Shaun was second on peg 7 with 72 lb 7 oz, taking his biggest fish late in the margin. He told me he had fed three pints of maggots.

His last two fish went 20 lb-plus.

To my right on peg 10 an angler I don't know, Russell, had caught several fish and I thought he would beat me. But they were smaller than mine, and he had 46 lb 14 oz to my 51 lb 7 oz, which consisted of about ten fish, a weight which put me third in the match, that last-gasp carp having overtaken Russell.

With Roy paying the top two on the lake I won my section, and was happy with that. I should, though, have tried bread or worm, as I knew that there were fish in the swim some of the time. Worth 6/10.

Four-Island's weights were smaller, Ian Frith winning with 47 lb 6 oz from peg 5. Next match for me was the Spratts, next day on Elm.

THE RESULT

Six-Island

Four Island

FULL FENLAND RODS RESULTS 2025

 

Here's the final table. Well done, Roy. We give 15 points for a win, 14 for 2nd etc.

Back on my favourite Six-Island

Peg 12, Sunday, Nov 9
This was my second match of the Winter with the JV club, and I was happy with peg 12, though peg 11 dominated Winter matches last year. There's a big clump of irises and reeds in that swim, which is an obvious holding spot. But the swims from 6 round to 14 are all potential winners in most conditions.

We had sun at the start, but later it became so gloomy
I had trouble seeing my cloured tips, and
had to change them all to black.

I had John Emerson to my left and Mick Timson on 11, to my right. I had a cut-out each side of me. and right at the start I went into about 18 inches of water to the right , with corn, and thought I had a knock. But 15 minutes later I gave that up. I'm happy to fish this lake in the very shallow margins, but with a cut-out the fish have to come in from deeper water and swim up to the shallow water. Much of the rest of the lake has reeds growing along a straight bank, and the fish can easily patrol along the edge in the shallows, and I think that makes it more likely that they can come to you.

Sean Coaten, fishing opposite me, hooked a carp in the first hour. This was his
first attempt to land it, but seconds later the fish came off.

Into the bush swim
Then I went long in open water, where I found 4 ft 2 in, which meant that the water level has risen considerably from the Summer. But like most I got nothing there. My next move was close to a bush to my left, where there was well over 3 ft, and I put in a few casters and hemp, hoping that either barbel or carp (and preferably both) would respond.

The wind was over my back, a little from the left, so presentation to the left was easy, and eventually I started getting touches and landed a gudgeon. The next two big fish pulled straight off - probably foulhooked - but then I did land a carp approaching double-figures on maggot. Almost immediately John switched to fishng towards the other side of the bush, close to the bank, and he started catching fish which looked to be around 3 lb.

John Emerson found most of his fish in his right margin.

It took me a long while to catch another fish there, though I kept getting liners. With an hour left I had landed three more to about 6 lb on maggot, but lost three more foulhooked. By now Mick on my right had found fish on dead maggots next to the irises. He said he'd put a few in and after a while saw dead maggots being swirled towartds the surface, so carp were obviously there, in about two feet of water.

Mussel sort of works!
Mick then had a brilliant spell, landing about seven big carp. Meanwhile my first drop into the right margin past the cut-out saw a bite on corn, which I hit, but only a scale came back to me! That was followed by a liner or two. I saw Mick using what I thought was mussel at one time (though I later realised he was just resting his maggot swim), so I tried half a mussel. Immediately I had a fish on which fought very hard indeed, and turned out to be hooked in the side of the mouth...but they all count.

Mick Timson plays a carp hooked on dead maggot...

...and it was a good one!

So I ended with five carp and a gudgeon, having lost six carp foulhooked. I thought Mick on my right probably had around 80 lb, while I had 25 lb-plus.

The weigh in
I had seen Roy Whincup on 6 land a carp early on, so was amazed when he weighed in only 6 lb 8 oz.  Next to him Shaun Coaten had 40 lb 15 oz; I had seen Sean start to catch long after about an hour, but hadn't watched him. I think his fish were mainly F1s and small carp. On 9 Chris Saunders was rubbing his hands after weighing in 8 lb 1 oz - because that meant that Roy would pay him a golden coin.

Round the end of the lake, and Carl White, who organises everything for us, totalled 41 lb 12 oz, which cheered everybody up because Carl hasn't had a lot of luck fishing lately, so it was a very popular result as he was now leading. 

Carl White with his third-placed
41 lb 12 oz from peg 10.

Mick next to me had 63 lb 9 oz (funny how you always overestimate other people's catches). and I had 32 lb 7 oz. John on my left had mainly F1s for 36 lb 11 oz, and Eddie McIlroy on 14 had 58 lb 10 oz, mainly fishing maggot 18 inches deep to his left margin.

The rest of the pegs at the car park end fished hard, and I think every fish caught was an F1. So Mick won, Eddie was second, and Carl third. I missed my section (by double default) by 4 lb, so just one of those lost fish would have boosted me. 

Winner Mick Timson - his last two 
carp weighed over 20 lb.

Marks out of ten
The annoying thing was that I had fish in my swims a lot of the time, so why couldn't I catch them? I know fish have been difficult to catch for the last few months, but I should have had more. I honestly think I was worth 3/10.

The next JV match, due to be on Oak, will probably be moved to another of the strips. That's next Sunday, and I shall be there.

The result - courtesy of Chris Saunders

Peg

2 Pete Harrison 8 15 A

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6 Roy Whincup 6 8 B

7 Sean Coaten 40 15 B SECT

8 Kev W DNW B

9 Chris Saunders 8 1 B

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10 Carl White 41 12 C 3rd

11 Mick Timson 63 9 C 1st

12 Mac Cambell 32 7 C

13 John Emerson 36 11 C SECT

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14 Eddie McIlroy 58 10 D 2nd

17 Ernie Lowbridge 22 3 D

18 Adrian Hunter 13 12 D

20 Roy Whitwell 25 7 D SECT

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22 Karim 12 10 A SECT

23 Pete Molesworth 8 6 A

25 Mick Corcoran Snr DNW A

Eveyone catches on Cedar (even me!)

 Peg 7, Cedar, Friday, Nov 7
It was a typically grey November day for this Spratts match fished on pegs 1 to 13, with a ripple flowing towards the higher numbers. And although Cedar often fishes better towards the car park end I fancied the far end, where fish started to top. Actually, topping doesn't describe what they were  doing - they were coming out of the water and splashing; big splashes; like someone had dived in. At our end we saw perhaps six during the match, but in the first few hours there were dozens at the far end.

Looks peacefull but the wind got up and became colder.

Yet again this isn't going to take long. I started, as did almost everyone, on a feeder but after three hours I had just one 3 lb carp; Bob on my left had just landed his third on a feeder, and to my right Kevin Lee had had two on mussel in quick time about an hour after the start out at about 14 metres on a pole. And down on peg 11 we had seen Roy Whitwell already land four or five. The wind became colder as we fished, and the sun never showed its face.

Bob with big friend caught on his feeder and red wafter.

Out on the long pole I eventually managed to catch a better carp on corn, and a look in the margins produced not even a liner. But yet again the last 45 minutes were best - three more carp, incliding a five-pounder which took my feedered corn cast halfway within seconds of it hitting the bottom, and a double-figure fish also on corn cast right across to the far bank. Strange that after using a banded 6mm light-coloured pellet (which had caught for me the previous Snday) the first cast with corn on a hybrid feeder caught me a fish! 

Kevin lands a fish towards the end of the match,
when the wind died down a little.

So I finished with five, obviously beaten by Kevin who had caught another two or three towards the end, and probably by Bob who also ended with five.

The weigh in
On peg 3 Mick Ramm had had a 3 lb 5 oz carp in the margin very early in the match, and it was his only fish. I never spoke to anyone else who had caught a fish in the margins. The best weights towards that end were Martin Parker on Golden Peg 4 with 34 lb 8 oz and Dick Warrner, who had five big carp on feeder for  49 lb 7 oz.

To my surprise Kevin's five carp went only  25 lb, which I thought was about what I had; but no - my five weighed 32 lb 14 oz, to put me third, beating Bob Barret by 11 oz (sorry, Bob) 😞. But down on peg 11 Roy Whitwell had yet again worked his magic with his little feeder and his  83 lb 14 oz was the result - an outstanding win. He'd used mainly 6mm pellet cast right across, though he told me had had had some a bit short of the far bank as well.

Dick Warrener - 2nd with 49 lb 7 oz.

Roy Whitwell sprinkled
his feeder with Tommy
Cooper's uffle dust
and won with 83 lb 14 oz.

The results show that the far end where fish were splashing didn't dominate, but the catches were spread reasonably well. However signs are that the fish have bulked up in places, though with big catches not on the cards now,  that last half-hour can bring anyone into contention.

Difficult to give myself marks out of ten as at the moment there's a lot of luck needed to frame...but I managed to get some in that last hour, ending fourth. Next match on Six-Island on Sunday. Give me peg 11, which dominated Winter matches last year.

THE RESULT

1 Joe Bedford            10 lb 11 oz        
2 Wendy Bedford        2 lb 15 oz
3 Mick Ramm            3 lb 5 oz
4 Martin Parker        34 lb 8 oz         3rd
5 Dick Warrener        49 lb 7 oz        2nd
6 Kevin Lee                25 lb
7 Mac Campbell        32 lb 14 oz     4th
8 Bob Barrett            32 lb 3 oz
9 John Garner             7 lb 7 oz
10 Tevor Cousins        25 lb
11 Roy Whitwell        83 lb 14 oz        1st
12 Mike Rawson        30 lb 1 oz
13 Graham Ward        13 lb 13 oz

Catching up on Damson and Yew

 First the result of a Spratts match on Damson that I was unable to fish, but at least my wife and I won in a triples bowls match!

Damson, Thurs, Oct 30

Again the hgher-numbered pegs fished best, with Roy Whitwell fishing Method and wafter for his winning 69 lb 9 oz, followed by Peter Harrison, who also fished Method, with pellets; and Trevor Cousins, who fished (guess): Method and wafter. NOTE that bread is allowed on Decoy from Nov 1 to Feb 28.

1 Joe Bedford            17 lb 11 oz
2 Wendy Bedford     8 lb 8 oz
3 Bob Barrett           12 lb 10 oz
4 Mick Ramm        8 lb 14 oz
5 G Ward                14 lb 13 oz
6 Mike Rawson        22 lb 3 oz
7 John Garner        17 lb 15 oz
8 Peter Harrison        55 lb            2nd
9 Roy Whitwell        69 lb 9 oz     1st
10 Martin Parker        32 lb 8 oz
11 Peter Spriggs           35 lb            4th
12 Trevor Cousins        40 lb 14 oz    3rd

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Yew, Sunday, Nov 2

I fished with JV club, who used Yew and Oak. Frankly there's not much to report from my swim 9 on Yew. Within five minutes of the start John Knight, on my right, had hooked a big fish, and while he was playing it I hooked a big one on bomb and mussel. Less than one minute later my fish came off...and I was left with a big scale, obviously from a mirror. But John landed his fish, and a short time later landed another, fishing a hybrid feeder with dead maggots - the method he had used to win a Winter match on this lake last year, I remembered. he went on to total 54 lb 9 oz for fourth on the lake.

The day started with sun, but for much of the match
the sun went in and it was quite cold.

I didn't have anything to do for the next five hours except watch the occasional liner on my feeder and take a few pictures. Then with half an hour left a near-double-figure mirror took a light-coloured 6mm pellet on my hybrid feeder and micros, and ten minutes later a smaller common fell for it. Total: two fish, for last on the lake, but actually I felt I had fished OK - my swim seemed to be in the worst area. Hardly a fish was caught on pole, but not all were taken from right across - Roy Whitwell had two or three from the middle of the lake.

John Knight was in action within five minutes.

Kev Bell fished a bomb paternoster-style with a very long drop, baited with a wafter cut in half (to give the bait a slow fall), and bread. He ended with 102 lb 3 oz, which was only slightly less than the total of the 11 anglers on Oak, which fished badly. 

Dave Parsons, on my left, ended with just three carp.

Pat Neal - 36 lb 6 oz.

John Knight - 54 lb 9 oz.

Dan Pettigrew weighs in his
80 lb 5 oz from peg 14, wich
put him second on the lake.

He had seven fish like this
in the last 75 minutes,
on a feeder.

YEW

OAK