Westerleigh Winter league Rnd 1

Winter league Rnd 1
It was off to a good start for last weeks winner Steve Rogers (practice makes perfect apparently)
Drawing peg 21 on the canal lake Steve did what others didn't and went on the attack from the off.
Fishing treble caster over ground bait in three different places around the peg managed to keep the carp coming steady throughout the day.

2nd on the day was Brian Shanks from peg 2 with 23-5 on the big lake who just scraped a section win by 4 oz from Marcus from Bitterwell

Westerleigh WL practice match

Steve Rogers left his bread at home this week which done him a favour,
Drawing peg 6 on the main lake and using up his ground bait limit he was soon into a run of decent carp down the right hand margin and manage to amass a total of 49-10.to secure an easy victory.

 2nd on the lake from inform peg 2 was Mark Taylor with 38-6 also catching down his left hand margin on maggot

The canal lake fished the best it has done in the winter for 4 years due to the restocking  bought from last years peg fees.
Brian Shanks secured 1st on the lake with a 6lb carp in the last 10mins to just pip Darren North by 4lb

Winter league final Rnd

A cracking spring day was the setting for the final round of this extended winter league.

With a frost on the floor and a bright day ahead the going was going to be tough, proved a bit to tough for a couple of guys as they were spotted driving off to another venue, if your going to commit then commit, its that simple.

All the presure was on Johny Clark to day as he was at the top of the leader board going into this final round, with a £100 prise money up for grabs  johny's nerves must of been on edge as he spent most of Saturday walking around the lakes asking people what they were catching on, it did him no harm as you can see by the results.

1st on the day was Brian Shanks from peg 13 on the big lake who fished single maggot for a mixed bag of tench,skimmers and small carp for 16lb  2nd  was mark Taylor from peg 2 also fishing maggot for 8.13lb

Brian Shanks                16.00
Mark Taylor                  8.13
Steve Rogers                 6.14
Marcus Bitterwel           5.1 canal lake
Simon Belcham              4.12
John Clarke                    3.12
Shaun Putley                 2.14
Bela Bakos                     1.14
Joe Godfery                   0.15
Ron Hardiman               0.12
John Whintle                 0.01
Darren North                dnw
Martin Macmahon        dnw
Ryan Shipp                   not Present
Ricky mills                   not Present
Jake                              not present

Best silvers
Brian Shanks 8.12
Marcus            4.2



League Results & Payout

1  John Clarke              11 points     105lb      £100
2  Brian Shanks           11 points     79lb          £70
3  Bela Bakos              14 points                      £60
4  Steve Rogers            16 points                     £40
5  Marcus                     21 points
6  Simon Belcham       26 points
7  jake                           26 points (missed two matches )
8  Darren North            27 points
9  Martin Macmahon    27 points
10 Ricky Mills              28 points
11 Shaun Putley            28 points
12 Mark Taylor             30 points
13 Ryan Ship                 33 points
14 John Whintle            33 points
15 Ron Hardiman          34 Points
16 Chris French             45 points

Top Silvers over the league
Steve Rogers 14-12   £50

More of the same next year
Thanks everyone
Brian

Winter League Rnd 7

Johny the legend Clarke made no mistakes on this the penultimate round of our extended winter league.

John drew peg two on the old lake and fished the island with expanders and squats to manage lb32-15
close behind was Bela Bakos with 28-7 who sat on peg 15.
Best weight in the silvers went to Marcus from the bitterwel crew who weighed in 5-4 of small skimmers and roach.

Last Round sun 17th April

John Clarke           32-15
Bela Bakos             28-7
Darren North          14-10
Ron Hardiman        8-13
Marcus                    7-13
John Whintle           5-4
Steve Rogers             4-3
Martin Macmahon   3-6
Simon Belcham       3-0
Brian Shanks           2-3
Joe Godfrey             1-7
Shaun Putly             0-10
Ricky                        0-8
Mark Taylor             0-5
Ryan Shipp             no show
Jake                         no show

Slivers
Marcus        5-4
Martin         3-6
Steve           2-9

Winter league Round 5

Bright sunshine all around was the forecast for the 5th round of this series and they weren't wrong.
With a little colour left in the lakes from the rain earlier on in the week expectations were running high for those drawn on the canal lake,that was all to change as the day progressed as the top weight on the canal was Marcus from the bitterwell tribe with 3-2 of small roach and skimmers.

Over on the old lake saw Mark Taylor draw peg 13 and there was no messing about with pinkeis and faggots, it was straight out at 16 mts with corn and 30 mins in Mark was on his 4th carp and a new lake record was starting to form.
Wrong, things did slow up  and he only managed a few more after this frantic start.

Trying to catch up was Brian Shanks on peg 8 who had a mixed bag of silvers and small carp for 27lb  but it was not going to beat Marks 36lb.

Mark Taylor              36-11  
Brian Shanks             27-3
Steve Rogers             6-13
Shaun Putley             6-10
Ricky Mills                4-5
Marcus Bitterwell      3-2
Martin Macmohan     2-7
Jake                            2-4
Joe Godfrey               1-10
Bela Bakos                1-6
John Clarke               0-15
Ron Hardiman          0-11
John Sparky              0-6
Darren North            DNW
Simon Belcham        DNW
Chris French             DNS

Silvers
Brian Shanks    11-9
Steve Rogers    6-15
Ricky Mills      3-7


Round 6 3rd April

Winter League round 4 Bitterwell lake

Steve Rogers made good use of his bread fishing finesse to take a well deserved victory in the 4th round of the Westerleigh Winter league.

This round was held on Bitterwell lake and due to the horrendous weather conditions it was going to  be a tough one, Steve Rogers  drew one of the calmest spots on pond and proceeded to catch skimmers to 2lb about 30 mins into the match ..Feeding liquididised bread and fishing punch on the hook he soon had the match in the bag, Ryan Shipp had a late run of two carp but they weighed just shy of Steve's all silver weight of 14-12

Steve Rogers     14-12
Ryan Shipp        14-5
Chris French      12-10
Bela Bakos        8-0
Joe Godfrey        7-5
Jake                    6-8
Ricky Mills        4-9
John Clarke        4-2
Marcus                4-0
Ron Hardiman    3-12
Darren North       3-0
Martin                  2-14
Brian                    0-12
Shaun Putly         0-8
John Whintle       0-5

Top Silvers Ricky Mills  4-9  ( Default )

Winter League Rnd 3

Winter league Rnd 3

Johny Clarke the mill expert is the man to beat at the moment at westerleigh, Drawing the same peg as he did on Rnd 1 he fished identical tactics but only managed half the weight this time.
It was a tight finish after a gruelling winters day between Martin McMahon and Johny,with only 3oz separating the two come the end. Both weighed in a mixed net of small carp and silvers for there respective weights.

A special mention to third place this week as i did manage to leave him off the results on the last blog, His name John the sparky, persevering with his right hand margin he managed to connect with the biggest carp caught on the day 7lb 6 oz which he was well pleased with.

Notice DATE CHANGE 
Sunday 27 March has now been moved to 10 April due to lost Easter eggs.

1 John Clarke             14-3  peg4
2 Martin McMahon   14-0 peg 20
3 JOHN SPARKY      8-0 peg 4
4 Simon Belcham      6-13 peg21
5 Marcus Bitterwell   6-4 peg2
6 Jake                         5-9  peg11
7 Steve Rogers           5-6  peg 15
8  Brian Shanks          4-9  peg  25
9 Ricky                       4-6  peg   32
11  Shaun Putley         3-1  peg 23
11 Mark Taylor           3-1  peg 24
12 Bela Bakos            2-8  peg  27
13 Darren North        1-12  peg 13
15 Ron Hardiman      1-11  peg 26
15 Chris French         1-11   peg8
16  Ryan Shipp          0-14  peg 31

Silvers
Jake    5-9   peg 11
Martin 5-5  peg 20

Next Rnd Bitterwell 21/Feb
Open draw (all 16 pegs in the hat)if you draw pegs 1 to 8 you will be on the old lake at westerleigh in the next round.

Winter League Rnd 2

Full turn out today with 8 on each lake and with it being so mild no one could predict what was going to be caught. With  both lakes being frozen only  three days ago it was going to be tough.

First on the day from peg 15 on the old lake was Brian Shanks who caught carp down his right hand margin fishing maggots over mag,corn ,micros,pinkies hemp tares paste lob worm and bread.

1   Brian Shanks                  25-3 peg 15
2    Ryan Shipp                    22-0  peg 2
3    Bela Bakos                    14-7  peg 13
4    Shaun Putley                 9-1    peg 11
5   Simon Belcham             8-15  peg 8
6   Darren North                 8-14   peg 21
7   Ricky                             7-4    peg 6
8   Mark Taylor                   6-10  peg4
9   Jake                                3-11   peg31
10 John Clarke                   3-2  peg 23
12  Steve Rogers                 2-10   peg 24
12  Martin Mcmahon          2-10 peg25
13  Ron Hardiman              2-4  peg 20
14  Marcus                          0-8   peg27
16  Chris French                  DNW

Winter league Round one

Rain,rain & more Rain,

The first of seven winter league matches was held today with a full house of 16 anglers,8 on each lake.

Top weight today was Windmill Expert Johny Clarke catching down his right hand margin using all sorts at half depth. 2nd was Bristol Psv renegade Darren North fishing 16 mts across to the island from peg 20  fishing maggot over everything



Big lake results
1st  Johny clarke            26lb 14  peg 4
2nd Darren North          20lb   peg 20
3rd  Steve Rogers          10lb   peg 15
4th  Martin Macman     4lb 12  peg 2
5th  sparky john            4lb 8     peg 9
6th   Jake                       3lb 9     peg 11
8th   Marcus                  2lb 8    peg 13
8th    Chris french         2lb 8     peg 6

Silvers  Jake    3lb 9oz


Canal lake Results

1st Bela Bakos                 8lb 4         peg 23
2nd Brian Shanks            3lb 14       peg 32
3rd  Ricky                       3lb 12       peg 20
5th   Shaun  Putly           2lb           peg 24
5th   Ryan Shipp             2lb           peg 27
6th   Simon Belcham      1lb 8    peg 31
7th  Ron Hadiman           1lb       peg 26
8th    Mark Taylor          DNW    peg 25  (on holliday)    

Silvers    Shaun & Ryan 2lb      

Westerleigh open 3 Jan

Results Open Match Sun 3rd Jan

Very good turn out for this  pre winter league  open.
Bela Bakos and Martin Mcmahon had a close battle to take the top spot on the day.
Both fished a copy cat match on the long pole with casters across to the islands.

The canal lake fished extremely well thanks to the small carp which were purchased from the money raised in last years winter league, Ryan Shipp amassed 75 carp for his 35lb

Bela Bakos  ..................50lb 2oz     peg13
Martin Mcmahon..........46lb  2oz    peg 20
John Clarke...................39lb 5oz     peg 2
Ryan Shipp....................35lb 9oz    peg 23
Darren North.................25lb 2oz    peg 21
Vince Shipp...................22lb 12oz  peg 6
Brian Shanks..................13lb 13oz  peg 26
John Wintle(sparky).......6lb 10oz    peg24
Ricky Mills.....................6lb 8oz     peg 27
Shaun Putly....................6lb 4oz     peg 9
Simon Belcham..............4lb 4oz     peg 11
Steve Rogers .................2lb 8oz     peg 4

Silvers
Brian Shanks  6lb 11oz
Rick Mills      6lb 8oz