LLOYDS MEADOW,BADGER - 25/11/12 ~ Neil uses his loaf and wins easily

Gone are the days when Neil Paterson tries to fill the lake in with feed. He won't take a truck load to his peg either.

Feeding absolutely nothing, Pato shipped out a piece of punched bread, and from the word go he was into carp. Catching steadily all match, he totalled 58lb for a runaway victory. Nice to see the big man enjoy his fishing for a change, congratulations.
Trying to tell people you're catching 6oz ide doesn't really work when there's 10metres of elastic out of your pole and they take 10 minutes to land. So The Crafty Cockney didn't look too crafty at all, although he did manage to put some decent fish in the net and claimed an excellent second place with 36lb 12oz. Well done Tony.
After some below par efforts on his home water, John Heald proved that he travels well, as his 28lb carp net proved more than enough to get in the frame. More of the same please John.
Just to prove that winter is well and truly here, the weights deteriorated rapidly after the frame. Scratching a few small silvers for much of the match, Dave Cargill found a couple of late carp to win a section with 11lb 12oz, while Derek Warren won the other section with a meagre 6lb 04oz. Well done to both.
It hasn't happened for a while, but the first walks of shame this winter went to Gnome, Sumo and Gary Brislin, who all missed the last hour and a half.

CONWY, 11/11/12 ~ Two lumps help Jones to a sweet victory

First of this winter's visits to Conwy renewed the classic dilemma, Carp or roach? It seems that the debate will go on as Dennis Jones won the match with 42lb 10oz. He had maybe 10lb of silvers and 6 or 7 carp, two of which were above average for Conwy at about 8lb apiece. These definitely tipped the balance in his favour and earned another good win following efforts at Yewtree. Successful bait was pellet.Well done Den.
Fresh from his training camps at Cob house and Whiteacres in recent weeks, Pete Lucas showed the benefit as he grabbed the silver medal. Showing some finesse on the pole, he put a weight of roach in the net for the first hour. However, when Jamie had three quick carp opposite, the maestro lived up to his name. Out came the feeder, and Pete put carp and skimmers into the net on a regular basis to finish with 38lb 08oz.A good performance Pete.
None of the membership was threatened this week, although a female photographer from 'Ugly Fokkers Weekly' was given the opportunity to leave before she got a swimming lesson from the Maestro.
Third place, and showing that it's possible to compete with a roach approach was Yozzer. Maggot shallow at 5metres helped the Gnome put together an all roach net for 37lb 12oz (well I enjoyed it anyway).
Back to the carp, and The Crafty Cockney fished 8mm banded pellet to both catch, ...and lose...., some decent fish. Despite losing a sizeable ghostie (everyone was gutted for you), Tony still weighed in with 25lb 12oz to take a section win. Nice one.
The other section was won in good style by Ian Simpson. On a rare club outing for him, probably practising for Wirral's winter series, Simo was another to go with roach. One stray F1 and an even rarer tench blotted his silver copybook but 34lb 08oz proved a success and a well deserved envelope followed.

LINGMERE, 21 & 28/10/12 ~ Double choc chip Cookie

Only brief results from Lingmere, sorry.
Sunday 21st, Col had c60lb and beat Jamie by 2lb. Sumo managed 3rd with 48lb. Sections to Yozzer and Tony B. Bonus peg was won by Col.

Sunday 28th, Col won again with 60 odd, with Jamie 2nd and Sumo 3rd. Bonus peg went again.

One set of framers, but a double well done to all. Bring on the Xmas match..........