Division 1 National Bristol Avon

#101

Oh next year's div 1 is on the T and M from Armitage to Burton, not sure if they are going to the Derbyshire Bit.

#102

Big well done to Dorking
Just tooo good.
I enjoyed my day 14lb of tare roach and a 2lb billy.
Thought it was a great day, met a few old friends, spoke to Chavey and Mullarkey after the match as they were in my section. What a lovely river, I know some had hard pegs but some of the pegs are to die for !!!! Wish it was closer !!!!!!!
Good Stewards in my section and very friendly. A bit of a walk but I would do it again.
I remember fishing a national on the river in the early eighties in Div 2, I enjoyed it then and more so this week. Nice weather (I was dripping walking back !) but could not think of a better place to be, it really is a nice area.
Well done to Angling Trust for pulling this one off and a big thank you to all who helped.
What a good national

crappity smack Dorking

Let`s hear it for Maver Image

Second without a practice

#103

Well Done Chris, sorry Mate !
See Gary caught a few as normal !

chavey · #104

Glad you all enjoyed it down in my neck of the woods, I hope you had a cider or two whilst you were down there. Good to see you Choppie and Mullarky, luckily we all had short walks,5-10mins? The bit we were on is used in our super leagues and its 4 stiles/fences and a narrow bridge to reach the early numbers at Bitton Brook. One of our guys drew it a couple of years back and it took him 40 minutes to get there! It was a shame there was a bit of extra water in the river, maybe a day or two later and without the last minute practicing it really would have fished its head off! I've just sent a blog and catch picture off to the Pole fishing magazine website, so hopefully you can see how I crappity smack up my peg when it appears on there! ha ha A Brilliant day with loads of atmosphere, great to see everyone, roll on next year!

Mullarkey · #105

nice to see you both Richie & Richie, (Choppie & Chavey) on saturday. You both done well in b section.
Choppie was telling me after the match that he had 15lb of roach on tares. Great angling. Don`t know what you caught Chavey but you had a similar weight so well done.

My match wasn`t so straight forward in that I was down in a quagmire surrounded by trees and I couldn`t see anyone. I threw 8 balls on to my pole line (11m) and 4 on a feeder line at about 22m. I started on the pole as I expected this line to die quite quickly so wanted to make the most of it. Those anglers nearby started on the feeder as I could hear em going in. I quickly caught dace and roach and two chunky gustas before the pike moved in after half an hour. Chavey told me that I`d need 10 lb to get good points so after an hour i `d got about 2lb, then I hooked a bream at the end of my swim which took a while to get in the net in the strong flow. It was about 3lb so half way to my target after 1hr 20 mins. I`d like to say that everything went great after that but for the next couple of hours I only put about another pound in the net despite switching between feeder, pole feeder and flat float looking for those elusive bream. Although I couldn`t see my neighbours I could hear their feeders still going in so guessed they were catching. After about 3 1/2 hours I decided to re ball my pole line with 6 balls. Straight away i started to catch chunky dace and the odd roach before it died away. So I balled it again and they come back! I kept repeating this until the final whistle and ended up with 5kg 450 for 40 points. What a knob end should have done it earlier and forgot about those bream. They definitely wanted that crumb, I got through seven bags of gb and even mixed my feeder crumb with my pole crumb to make it last.

Altough I got battered by bream either side of me I was lucky that i was in a good part of my section. The poor guy to my left couldn`t find his peg at the start and it looked like they had missed a peg out. The steward told him to get in above me on a cliff face with a massive tree on his nearside margin 3 yards downstream of his box. He ended up with 7 kg but lost three big bream and a chub because they kited downstream in the strong current and got stuck fast in the tree.

Anyway we had a good result inspite of doing no practise, most of us had never fished the Bristol Avon before, so no doubt we`ve had some good pegs line up.
Looking forward to the Preston Worlds fish off on the Newark Dyke in September, wouldn`t bet against Dorking though!

joffmiester · #106

some great results i'm glad it went well for everyone sounds like a good venue

#107

I hope you had a cider or two whilst you were down there.

I hope the cider down there is better than the bitter ! ........ proper nats p!ss !

#108

What was bath like dodge was it like longsight or worse

#109

What was bath like dodge was it like longsight or worse

Nothing like Longsight mate

Nice part of the world down there

they could do with some half decent football teams though !

chavey · #110

My National Blog has just appeared on the pole fishing site, if anyone is intrested you can view it here: http://www.polefishingmagazine.com/week ... f-war-time

#111

Cracking read Chavey

- but can envisage how frustrating it must have been for you. :(

#112

Just for a laff ....

10 members / posters on here with there div 1 individual points added up

Mullarkey 40
Danny Ash 39
Morrie88    49
Chavey    44
ChrisV       43
Chopwormhero 46
Pedro    37
Dazzla    47
Diddy Snedster      48
Dodge    45

Total 439

There,s Dorking beat !

Ps left Gorrell80 out coz he went to bed late !

#113

That's some stat Dodge