YEWTREE, 14/10/12 ~ Dennis hands out advice....and a lesson

Members appointed Dennis Jones as the venue officionado following his mid-week open success at Yewtree. Freely advising that a softly softly approach with 4mm pellet was the way to go, Dennis then proceeded to hand out a lesson by adopting that strategy and put 60lb odd of assorted carp on the scales to record a comfortable victory. Now that's a venue expert, well done Dennis. He did fish 17metres though, thanks but no thanks. Thinking of other members, he didn't want to win by too much, so employed a catch n release attitude for half the match, hooking carp, shipping back to his topkit, then pinging them off at the net! What a guy.
Jamie Pickup drew the flier (nowt new there), and managed five fish. They did add up to 25lb 10oz though, and gave Staff Bull the silver medal. A good effort to secure the bonus peg, but ultimately no cigar. Unlucky.
Close behind was the mastercatcher that is Ken Stuart. After trying for his trademark skimmers, to no avail, Kenny came down the margins and had 6 carp in 6 chucks. He then lost 4 in a row and that was that. A level 25lb saw him take a worthy third place.
A couple of other 20lb nets, so all in all not a bad day out. Them ide haven't half put the weight on, and there are still big tench to be had.