Club Boat Match at Bewl, Sat 2nd June 2007.

With a cloudless day and very little breeze the prospects were not good. As Ray said ‘ It is going to be hard today, perhaps a lottery. You will shoot me if you knew what I was going to use – a blob’. However, although it WAS a very hard day, those that persevered on the dam received their rewards for the day. Allen and Brian tried the cages but nothing. Then moved to the top end of Hook Straight to try there. By 10.00am Brian got broke up by a good fish and soon after that Allen caught a stocky. However, that was the last they saw all day and as the day progressed the sun beamed down harder, the rises disappeared and the slight breeze now only appeared occasionally to break up the ‘mill pond’ effect. Meanwhile Ken and Stan were trying everywhere including the dam and right at the far end of the opposite arm, ‘Rosemary’s Cottage’ down Bewl Straight. Nothing, although Ken did have a pull on his very first cast by the dam with a 30 foot leader and a gold head to get it down (‘fishing the hole’). For them, as the day progressed, they slowly got very disillusioned. Guest Bill Nash was also on the dam and did manage to pick up a small fish but again that was all. Floaters, Intermediates, Hi Dis, buzzers, lures, boobies, etc could not persuade the fish to take.

On the other hand, the other 4, Steve, Mick, John and Ray, stuck it out at the dam by continually drifting towards it and catching fish at the end of the drift, just before the dam. As you can see by the results they were the fortunate ones. Mick and Steve were using floaters with Diawle Bachs whereas Ray succeeded with a Di3 with a blob and John with a floater and buzzers. Their catches were scattered during the day. Right place, right time!

By about 15.30pm Ken, Stan, Allen and Brian had had enough and retired to terra firma before the sun destroyed them. The remainder had all had agreed to finish at 17.00pm instead of the usual 18.00pm.

At the weigh in Ray just clipped Steve to win the day with the heaviest bag.

Then an unusual event occurred. One angler had, in desperation, tried the cages. It paid off and he landed a superb 7lb 8oz fish. What a happy man he was! The interesting part was that John noticed the rod that he had been using. It was one that John had made decades earlier as proved by his logo on the rod. The rod had served the gent well for all those decades.

 

Name

Num Fish

Bag weight

(all Rainbows, no Browns)

Ken Williams

0

 

 

Stan King

0

 

 

Allen Dixon

1

1lb 4ozs

 

Brian Witty

0

 

 

Steve Radcliffe

4

8lbs 4ozs

Heaviest fish  3lbs 2ozs

Mick Hill

4

6lbs 6ozs

 

John Weaver

2

3lbs 2ozs

 

Ray Simpson

4

8lbs 8 ozs

Heaviest Bag

Guest :-

 

 

 

  Bill Nash

1

1lb 8ozs