Date : 6/10/02
Venue: Grand Union Canal at Hatton Locks nr Warwick
Time : 9.30am till 2.30pm
Well today saw 24 members of The Lime Tree Club turn up for our match on the G.U.C at Hatton Locks.
This section of the canal covers roughly 3 miles but also within that 3 mile length you will find 23 Locks ( almost 1 Lock per angler ).
Most of the Pounds between the Locks have room to fit between 3 and 5 anglers and with a width varying from 16mtr to 20mtr in most pounds it's also a bit wide.
View from lock no 36 towards a step of 10 Locks
The Pound in the above picture was one of the biggest with 7 permanent pegs in it ( the top 2 weights came from this pound ).
Full marks must go to the owners of the stretch as they supplied a full peg by peg brake down giving the best options and lines to fish along with target weights ( even if the weights were way off the mark ).
View from my peg (10) towards Lock 36 ( one of the smaller pounds with 3 pegs in)
Well thats enough about the venue onto the match.
At the draw everyone was talking about big weights as the peg sheet supplied was quoting weights from 10lb to 51lb being caught in previous matches this year consisting of Bream and the odd Carp with every peg producing at least 10lb weights.
Now every water has it's good days and they also have off days and sadly today was to be the latter and it fished terrible and the weights we all expected just did not show.
1st...Dave Watson.........9lb
2nd...Howard Humphrey...7lb 6oz
3rd...Steve Wilson..........4lb 3oz
4th...Dave Smith............1lb 12oz
5th...Steve Baker...........1lb 9oz
6th...Ray Evans.................14oz
7th...Steve Durrant............11oz
8th...J.Brooks.....................6oz
9th...Betty Rowlands............8drms
And 15 Blanks followed that.
The above is why there are no fish or catch pictures I NEVER SAW A FISH
Total weight caught was 25lb 13oz 8drms
Since joining The Lime Tree Club at the start of this season a few of the club members have now joined us here on maggotdrowning.com and of those Steve Wilson was the only 1 to catch which left all the following with dry nets.
Geoff Eggison (aka Lurcher)
Paul Roberts
Ken James
Dirk Williams
Malc Doyle
I must mention though that all the above did sit it out till the end in hope of a fish, except Dirk he i think had the right idea and left after a few hours. [
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Now since the above have been reading various reports on here (by me) they have also came to the conclusion the same as those who fished my Summer Series that there just might be some thing in the JINX theory
At least the sun shone all day and there's always next weeks match on the clubs own pools.
Malc
Fish with Friends @ MaggotDrowning.com
Venue: Grand Union Canal at Hatton Locks nr Warwick
Time : 9.30am till 2.30pm
Well today saw 24 members of The Lime Tree Club turn up for our match on the G.U.C at Hatton Locks.
This section of the canal covers roughly 3 miles but also within that 3 mile length you will find 23 Locks ( almost 1 Lock per angler ).
Most of the Pounds between the Locks have room to fit between 3 and 5 anglers and with a width varying from 16mtr to 20mtr in most pounds it's also a bit wide.
View from lock no 36 towards a step of 10 Locks
The Pound in the above picture was one of the biggest with 7 permanent pegs in it ( the top 2 weights came from this pound ).
Full marks must go to the owners of the stretch as they supplied a full peg by peg brake down giving the best options and lines to fish along with target weights ( even if the weights were way off the mark ).
View from my peg (10) towards Lock 36 ( one of the smaller pounds with 3 pegs in)
Well thats enough about the venue onto the match.
At the draw everyone was talking about big weights as the peg sheet supplied was quoting weights from 10lb to 51lb being caught in previous matches this year consisting of Bream and the odd Carp with every peg producing at least 10lb weights.
Now every water has it's good days and they also have off days and sadly today was to be the latter and it fished terrible and the weights we all expected just did not show.
1st...Dave Watson.........9lb
2nd...Howard Humphrey...7lb 6oz
3rd...Steve Wilson..........4lb 3oz
4th...Dave Smith............1lb 12oz
5th...Steve Baker...........1lb 9oz
6th...Ray Evans.................14oz
7th...Steve Durrant............11oz
8th...J.Brooks.....................6oz
9th...Betty Rowlands............8drms
And 15 Blanks followed that.
The above is why there are no fish or catch pictures I NEVER SAW A FISH
Total weight caught was 25lb 13oz 8drms
Since joining The Lime Tree Club at the start of this season a few of the club members have now joined us here on maggotdrowning.com and of those Steve Wilson was the only 1 to catch which left all the following with dry nets.
Geoff Eggison (aka Lurcher)
Paul Roberts
Ken James
Dirk Williams
Malc Doyle
I must mention though that all the above did sit it out till the end in hope of a fish, except Dirk he i think had the right idea and left after a few hours. [
][]Now since the above have been reading various reports on here (by me) they have also came to the conclusion the same as those who fished my Summer Series that there just might be some thing in the JINX theory
At least the sun shone all day and there's always next weeks match on the clubs own pools.
Malc
Fish with Friends @ MaggotDrowning.com
