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