Winter League Round 4, Sunday 27th November:
Dave Allen made the most of the deeper water in the Lower Basin with a 6lb bag that included a couple of decent skimmer bream, enough to win the match and take a Plymouth Argyle sized lead in the winter league table (what could possibly go wrong now I hear you all say?). Ian 'Cosmic' Croxton also battered the silvers on the long pole, his 5lb bag of our deep water loving friends was enough for second spot. Dick Turner finished off the Lower Basin shut out for the second week in a row with a near 3lbs bag of silvers, third place on the day, and up to second in the over all league table. Matt Sampson took the Lower Basin section with 2lb 6ozs of silvers.
If like me you were one of the unfortunate anglers to be in the Second Basin where all 10 blanked and only one bite recorded all day (well done Tone Johns, but you have to catch it to win the section!), then you have my sympathy. It was day when the most important skill was to pull a red tile out of the bag.
I said last week it will be a hard slog from here on in, I didn't expect it to be this hard.
May you all draw well in the future.
Pos: | Angler | Lbs | ozs | Peg No. | Pts | |
1 | Dave Allen | 6lbs | 15oz | 17 | 18 | |
2 | Ian Croxton | 5lbs | 4oz | 15 | 17 | |
3 | Dick Turner | 2lbs | 14oz | 14 | 16 | |
4 | Matt Sampson | 2lbs | 6oz | 16 | 15 | |
5 | Trevor Vernalls | 1lbs | 7oz | 13 | 14 | |
6 | Adrian Hill | 2oz | 20 | 13 | ||
=7 | Peter Slade | 1oz | 19 | 11.5 | ||
=7 | Len Hancock | 1oz | 18 | 11.5 | ||
=9 | Tony Johns | 26 | ||||
=9 | Wayne Burnard | 27 | ||||
=9 | Steve Whitehouse | 28 | ||||
=9 | Mike Bowden | 29 | ||||
=9 | Kevin Hill | 30 | ||||
=9 | Simon Allen | 31 | ||||
=9 | Paul Braund | 32 | ||||
=9 | Jean Bowden | 33 | ||||
=9 | Rob Fuller | 34 | ||||
=9 | Tony Hilias | 35 | ||||
Winter League Table As it Stands: | ||||||
Pos: | Angler | No. Fished | Points | |||
1 | Dave Allen | 4 | 70 | |||
2 | Dick Turner | 4 | 58.5 | |||
3 | Rob Fuller | 4 | 55.5 | |||
4 | Peter Slade | 4 | 54.5 | |||
5 | Simon Allen | 4 | 52 | |||
6 | Trevor Vernalls | 4 | 49 | |||
7 | Adrian Hill | 4 | 47 | |||
8 | Ian Croxton | 3 | 44 | |||
9 | Matt Sampson | 4 | 43 | |||
10 | Len Hancock | 3 | 41.5 | |||
11 | Paul Braund | 4 | 36 | |||
12 | Tony Hilias | 4 | 34 | |||
13 | Mike Bowden | 4 | 33 | |||
14 | Peter Giles | 3 | 32 | |||
=15 | Derek Foster | 2 | 29 | |||
=15 | Steve Whitehouse | 4 | 29 | |||
=17 | Simon Hockaday | 1 | 18 | |||
=17 | Ady Larkins | 2 | 18 | |||
=17 | Kier Durrant | 2 | 18 | |||
20 | Mark Gratton | 2 | 17 | |||
21 | Jean Bowden | 4 | 16.5 | |||
22 | Colin Abbott | 2 | 12 | |||
23 | Tony Johns | 2 | 8 | |||
24 | Nathan Underwood | 1 | 7 | |||
25 | Wayne Burnard | 2 | 6 | |||
26 | Kevin Hill | 3 | 5.5 | |||
27 | Jim Escott | 1 | ||||