June 14, 2008
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Packington Somers Fishery. Molands Mere.
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Well an early start saw me have a trouble free 120 mile run up the M40 and beyond to Packington Somers Fishery arriving around 8am in plenty of time to dip my nets and grab a cuppa and a sausage sarnie, Soon the car park started to fill but a phonecall from Keith to let me know that his car had expired on the M6 put a bit of a downer on things.(Hope it’s fixed soon mate
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Linda, Bucko’s wife was soon into full raffle ticket selling mode parting us from our pennies, and i have to admit to a bit of a shock when I looked round to see Mark Downes (The England Manager) and Ken Giles unloading their kit
!!!!!!!!!! but they were there for another match.
9am and Vince got the draw underway for the 41 of us in attendance with his usual efficiency. Into the draw bag and 48 stuck to my fingers. Into the car and round I drove to find my peg. On arrival I found that I had Nick (Monkey) and Bucko for company on the day.
I have to say that the peg looked 1st rate A solid concrete slab to fish from with a raft of lilies in the margin to my left, a large bush overhanging the right and a comfortable chuck of around 25yds to the island. The only thing was that I didn’t see a single sign of fish moving.
I just set up a couple of rigs for the pole, one for the 6ft of water that I had at 11mtrs and another for the margins that would double up as a shallow rig. I also got the feeder out of its ready bag, but did change the hooklength from the one that had been previously employed at Rolf’s.
Bait would be a selection of dendra’s, casters, corn and pellet with the groundbait being Special’G’ with a selection of hook baits added.
With a bit of time to spare I had a stroll over to the pegs behind me to have a chat with Colin and Lee Richards (missabite) from where I could also see Vince setting up on his peg which he had got me to draw for him, and I have to say that it looked like i’d done him proud.
Just before the all in Vince popped over for a quick chat and blew the whistle for the off before returning to his peg.
I flicked a pinch of caster and pellet into my 2 margin lines and cupped 3 balls of groundbait onto the 11mtr line before picking up my margin rig and dropping it in next to the lilies with 2 casters on the hook. Almost instantly the float slid away and a small Tench of around 8ozs was soon into the net. Next put in resulted in a hand sized Skimmer. 2 fish in 2 put ins, unfortunately it all went pear shaped after that. The margin line appeared to contain nothing more than 1″ long Perch that seemed to be having their own competition to see who could swallow a bait the deepest.
Moving out to the 11mtr line to get away from the suicidal little buggers succeeded, but unfortunately the line seemed utterly devoid of any fish whatsoever. I tried under the bush to my right but apart from a couple of 2oz Roach that was it, while another look to the lilies showed the Perch were still in residence.
Looking across it didn’t appear that anyone else was setting the place alight, so the feeder was put into action baited with half a Dendra. After about 30 minutes of inactivity Paul (nomorelongwalks) phoned for an update just as I had a 2″ pull and connected with a Skimmer of around 1lb, but my report to him was hardly upbeat. I was having to wait far to long between bites to do any damage. Vince phoned but hung up abruptly, phoning me back to let me know that he’d just lost a decent Carp at the net, but had followed up by netting a decent Tench and Bream .
I sat it out adding the occasional small Skimmer and losing the one decent Tench, a fish of around 4lbs that I hooked when it spat the hook about a foot from the net
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Thankfully 4pm signaled the All-out to put an end to my torture, and at this point I have to say thanks to John Burchell’s team on the scales, because I can’t remember seeing a weigh-in conducted with such speed and efficiency for a long time, not that my 5lb 9ozs of bits taxed the scalesmen too severely
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So Back to the clubhouse where £1 coins were handed over to Besty, Dave and Dirk though somehow I’d not had a £1 with Vince today, and a buffet was laid on prior to the prize giving and the raffle.
So to the winners the spoils (apologies for the picture quality, must have set the camera wrong)1st place….. Lee Richards taking the Trophy and a new Matchbox S series seatbox system supplied by Jim Burton of Matchbox. 
2nd place….. Matt Nutt and a Matchbox seatbox.
3rd place….. Mike Globe and a Matchbox seatbox.
The Section winners all received Shimano reels supplied by John at The Matchmen, Nottingham.
The raffle was very well supported raising £224 which will be split between the Kent Air Ambulance and Great Ormond Street Hospital, and almost everyone appeared to take home a prize of some sort.
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In closing I’d just like to say Very Well Done to Vince and his team of helpers for his usual Superb Organisation.
A Big Thank You to Besty for all his efforts in sourcing the prizes that were generously donated by Jim Burton and all at Matchbox Tackle and by John at The MatchMen in Nottingham.
Thanks to Jon Burrell and his Team for the use of their fishery
.Position Peg Angler Weight 1st Peg 44 Lee Richards 43lbs 14ozs 2nd Peg 21 Matt Nutt 40lbs 07ozs 3rd Peg 12 Mike Globe 38lbs 15ozs 4th Peg 37 Vince Gould 29lbs 13ozs 5th Peg 54 Eric Robathan 27lbs 11ozs 6th Peg 29 Neil Jeacock 25lbs 12ozs 7th Peg 26 Midge Milnes 24lbs 09ozs 8th Peg 15 Dirk Williams 21lbs 08ozs 9th Peg 58 Steve Ford 20lbs 13ozs 10th Peg 11 Tony Roberts 20lbs 04ozs 11th Peg 27 Gary Thorpe 18lbs 01ozs 12th Peg 55 Alan West 17lbs 12ozs 13th Peg 13 Ray Best 17lbs 10ozs 14th Peg 18 Jake King 15lbs 13ozs 15th Peg 8 Chris Kendall 15lbs 04ozs 16th Peg 40 David Wall 14lbs 12ozs 17th Peg 25 Lee Swinborne 13lbs 10ozs 18th Peg 16 Dave Webster 12lbs 12ozs 19th Peg 43 Mark Gallagher 12lbs 04ozs 20th Peg 23 Steve Steak 11lbs 02ozs 21st Peg 31 Paul Scatt 10lbs 12ozs 22nd Peg 53 Mark Causer 10lbs 07ozs 23rd Peg 2 Andy Spruce 10lbs 02ozs 24th Peg 4 Simon Elsey 9lbs 12ozs 25th Peg 17 Roy Ravenhill 8lbs 01ozs 26th Peg 45 Colin Sharrard 7lbs 09ozs 27th Peg 33 Ant Haywood 7lbs 04ozs 28th Peg 19 Rob Powell 7lbs 02ozs 29th Peg 14 Mick Large 6lbs 00ozs 30th Peg 48 Peter Morton 5lbs 09ozs 31st Peg 57 Lee G 5lbs 06ozs 32nd Peg 9 Roger Embury 5lbs 04ozs 33rd Peg 50 Nick Watkins-Price 4lbs 12ozs 34th Peg 51 John Buxton 4lbs 02ozs 35th Peg 3 Simon Mound 4lbs 00ozs 36th= Peg 46 Brian Gray 3lbs 08ozs 36th= Peg 35 Steven Parker 3lbs 08ozs 38th Peg 52 Ian Venn 2lbs 05ozs 39th Peg 56 Clive Pritchard 2lbs 00ozs 40th Peg 3 John Haigh 1lb 00ozs 41st Peg 60 Steve Oswick D.N.W. Section Winners A Tony Roberts B Dirk Williams C Neil Jeacock D David Wall E Eric Robathan 
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