Date : 1/09/02
Venue: Hopsford Hall
Time : 9am to 3pm
Todays Lime Tree match was fished at Hopsford Hall between Rugby and Coventry ( their website can be found on the following link http://www.fisheries.co.uk/hopsford/index.htm ) although it's a bit dated as the island is now covered in trees.
We fished the main lake which has about 35 pegs and 1 central island and depths between 4 and 6ft
View from peg 22 (Dam end) towards the end of the island and pegs in the low teens
27 members fished and expectations were high before the match (most don't know about the effect i have on a water YET
).
The club has normaly had good matches here in past years and for the last 4 years Dirk has won each match here and last year he won with 98lb, (before my time though as i only joined this season)
.
So according to pre-match talk Dirk was the 1 to beat but a few of us had visited prior to today and we had all caught well so we were all confidant of a good days fishing.
Since joining Lime Tree a few of the club members have joined Maggotdrowning and now post (normaly moaning about me getting their names wrong
) the following club members and MDer's were in attendance.
Peg 6 Steve Wilson
Peg 7 Paul Roberts
Peg 12 Ken James
Peg 17 Geoff Eggison (aka Lurcher)
Peg 22 Malc Doyle
Peg 24 Dirk Williams
During the match as is normaly the case when drawn near Dirk
the verbal flowed almost non stop and as Geoff (lurcher)
was near as well it was more like a
verbal match between the pair of them almost all day
with the odd insult thrown in from the rest of us, (it did break the boredom though) especially when poor RED fell in then spent the rest of the match sunbathing on a bankstick to dry off.
Any way a few managed to get among the fish and the final five were as follows.
1st...Howard Humphrey..43lb 10oz including a 15lb 11oz Carp on Feeder
2nd...Ken James........40lb 8oz including a 18lb 12oz Carp on Pole
3rd...Mick Durrant.....30lb 14oz
4th...Steve Baker......30lb
5th...Malc Doyle.......18lb 2oz
Winner Howard with his 15lb 11oz Common
Unfortunatly no picture of Ken's 18lb+ Pole caught Lump as he was on the opposite bank and it was weighed and returned straight away.
As you can see by the top weights it did not fish very well and a few dry nets were recorded.
As to how the rest of the club members and MDers faired i only know the following (as normal Paul i only got half the info).
Steve Wilson..Blank
Paul Roberts..No idea
Lurcher.......I know Geoff caught (but don't know weight or position)
Dirk..........5lb 7oz (cheers for returning the 1)
Hopefully Paul or Lurcher can fill in the Blanks (not Steve's though)
Next match is next Sunday on Gearys at Packington Sommers.
Malc
Fish with Friends @ MaggotDrowning.com
Venue: Hopsford Hall
Time : 9am to 3pm
Todays Lime Tree match was fished at Hopsford Hall between Rugby and Coventry ( their website can be found on the following link http://www.fisheries.co.uk/hopsford/index.htm ) although it's a bit dated as the island is now covered in trees.
We fished the main lake which has about 35 pegs and 1 central island and depths between 4 and 6ft
View from peg 22 (Dam end) towards the end of the island and pegs in the low teens

27 members fished and expectations were high before the match (most don't know about the effect i have on a water YET

The club has normaly had good matches here in past years and for the last 4 years Dirk has won each match here and last year he won with 98lb, (before my time though as i only joined this season)

So according to pre-match talk Dirk was the 1 to beat but a few of us had visited prior to today and we had all caught well so we were all confidant of a good days fishing.
Since joining Lime Tree a few of the club members have joined Maggotdrowning and now post (normaly moaning about me getting their names wrong

Peg 6 Steve Wilson
Peg 7 Paul Roberts
Peg 12 Ken James
Peg 17 Geoff Eggison (aka Lurcher)
Peg 22 Malc Doyle
Peg 24 Dirk Williams
During the match as is normaly the case when drawn near Dirk






Any way a few managed to get among the fish and the final five were as follows.
1st...Howard Humphrey..43lb 10oz including a 15lb 11oz Carp on Feeder
2nd...Ken James........40lb 8oz including a 18lb 12oz Carp on Pole
3rd...Mick Durrant.....30lb 14oz
4th...Steve Baker......30lb
5th...Malc Doyle.......18lb 2oz
Winner Howard with his 15lb 11oz Common

Unfortunatly no picture of Ken's 18lb+ Pole caught Lump as he was on the opposite bank and it was weighed and returned straight away.

As you can see by the top weights it did not fish very well and a few dry nets were recorded.

As to how the rest of the club members and MDers faired i only know the following (as normal Paul i only got half the info).
Steve Wilson..Blank
Paul Roberts..No idea
Lurcher.......I know Geoff caught (but don't know weight or position)
Dirk..........5lb 7oz (cheers for returning the 1)
Hopefully Paul or Lurcher can fill in the Blanks (not Steve's though)

Next match is next Sunday on Gearys at Packington Sommers.
Malc
Fish with Friends @ MaggotDrowning.com
