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There will be a few fur and feathers on the canal this winter Dan, cos they normally have it as a reserve for the local river matches and there has been a bit of rain lately! The best person to call is Kevin Dicks of Bathampton, he'll know, 07775526437. ps Bring some spare trackies this year, Pink wasn't your colour! he he
http://www.matchfishingmagazine.com/News/article_1255/
here's the result for the winter league on there yesterday, nice

Pewsey Open Match 6/12/09. 25 Fished
This match was used as a practice for the final Hants Wilts and Dorset winter league match fished on the venue next weekend
Pegged on 3 sections; 'The Boats' 'Bristows bend' and 'Wilcott to Bowdens'
Winner on the Day was Richard Chave, Garbolino Blackmore Vale who drew the first peg in the Bristows section
Richard caught 123 fish on 4mm breadpunch over liquidised bread at 5 and 11M and on bloodworm and caster
at 13M to record the only double figure weight of the day with 11lb 4 oz Richard collected £104 for his efforts
In second Place was Gary 'dame edna' Etheridge also of Garbolino Blackmore Vale,who was on the boats section
and also caught well on punch, Gary weighed 7lb 7oz and won £80
Third was Stu Dabbs of Challis Tackle Andover who included two perch over 1lb in his 7lb 2oz bag from the straight at
Bristows. Stu had alot of his fish including the two perch on Bloodworm over Joker
Fourth was Gerry Blunt of Challis Tackle Andover who included an unseasonal 2lb+,tench in his bag of 6lb 6oz from the
Wilcott section, Gerry Topped up with roach and small hybrids on the pinkie, the bait he had his tench on.
And Finally in fifth spot was Andy Burntsen of Garbolino Blackmore Vale with 6lb 1oz of roach and skimmers from the boats section.

Well done Chavey  - back into pigeon mode 

Well done Rich, you aint got any better looking since I last seen you . Ill be alright for this semi I been round me grans and got some trousers from her.

Look at that expression on my face! it looks like I've just backed onto one of my skid bungs?

Dan, if you want to read about the semi venue at Bathampton. Tim Ford who fishes for thatchers has been blogging about their winter league and the last 2 matches have been on the K & A
http://www.cluckerspeg.blogspot.com/
Rich

Hants Wilts and Dorset Winter League Final Round - 13/12/09
58 Fished ( 1 team fished 2 short!!)
The Final round of the 09/10 series was fished an the Kennet and Avon canal at Pewsey. Both the top 2 teams and the top 2 individuals were close this week with only ½oz separating the top 2
Top individual on the day was Garbolino Blackmore Vale’s Richard Chave who was pegged on peg E2 on ‘the boats’ section. Richard had a good first couple of hours on the bread punch 4 sections out and in that time amassed 80 roach, but with the swim dying switched to a line at 10M and continued to catch on single and double joker to finish with around 150 fish for 5lb 3 ½ oz
In 2nd Place only ½ oz behind the winner was Steve Nadin of Spro Dorset Raiders. Steve was pegged on the Wharf section and fished Bloodworm and joker at 5 sections and at 11M for 5lb 3oz
3rd, from the winners section was Dave George of Spro Dorset Raiders who had 4lb 4oz of mostly roach on punch initially and later on the bloodworm
4th was Dave Tucker of Challis Tackle Andover with 3lb 15oz. Dave was pegged near the ‘crab apple tree’ and caught roach and small skimmers
5th with 3lb 14oz was Chris Albiston of Spro Dorset Raiders who was on the end peg at ‘Milkhouse’
And Finally in 6th was Gary Etheridge of Garbolino Blackmore Vale with 3lb 11oz

Teams on the Day:

1st Garbolino Blackmore Vale 54
2nd Spro Dorset Raiders 51
3rd Mossella Eastleigh 31
4th Andover 30
5th Salisbury 23
6th Test Valley 19

Final League

1st Garbolino Blackmore Vale 7
2nd Spro Dorset Raiders 15
3rd Mossella Eastleigh 17
4th Andover 24
5th Salisbury 29
6th Test Valley 34

Top Individual- Rob Randall, Garbolino Blackmore Vale 34 points from 36
Individual knockout winner – Jonny Atkins, Runner up Rob Randall both Garbolino Blackmore Vale
Team Knockout winners Garbolino Blackmore Vale, Runners up Mossella Eastleigh

Garbolino Blackmore Vale have nominated to fish the semi on the K&A at Bath, Leaving Spro Dorset Raiders the semi at Monk Lakes

Ok you’ve seen the results above, here’s  how I won the match:
I drew peg E2 which was about permanent peg 97 on ‘the Boats’ Section, to the left of Pewsey Wharf. I didn’t really fancy it as, in the practice match the previous week the section had got better as you went along, it also  included the end peg next to the wires plus one team was 2 anglers short, and one was in my section leaving a blank peg between pegs 3 and 5. I was up against it!
After winning the practice open the week before and catching a lot of fish on bread, I planned to use this again and on plumbing up I found 4ft at 4 sections out. A lot of anglers seem to think that the inside line is always top 3 with 2 on but on the narrow pegs (11m up against the boat) I feel this is too far over and as long as I have 4 ft I’ll fish 4 sections out, it also speeds things up as well.
I also plumbed up 1 section off the boat and found 3 ½ft there and up against the boat were I had 3 ft
These are the rigs I set up:
· 4x10 Trabucco Ultimate 1 on 0.09mm Garbo- line, with a string  of 11’s  and 3 no 12 droppers  0.06mm bottom to an 24  Image IM1  hook Fished just off bottom at 11.5M
· 4x12 Trabucco ultimate 1 on 0.09mm Garbo- line, bulk of no.11’s 3 no 12 droppers   0.06mm bottom to a 24 Image IM1 hook Fished just off bottom at 10M
· 0.4grm Garbolino DS9 on 0.09mm Garbo- line, bulk no 10’s 0.07mm bottom to a 22 Image IM1 hook - for bread at 4 sections
· 0.3grm Garbolino DS9 on 0.09mm Garbo- line, bulk no 10’s  0.07mm bottom to a 22 Image IM1 hook - for bread at 10M at an angle
· 0.3grm sensas red carp 1 on 0.14mm-0.10 to a B560 20 hook at 6 sections down the peg- chopped worm
· 4 x 10 Trabucco ‘Pole stick’ 0.12mm-0.08mm to a  Drennan 20 super carbon maggot hook for caster against the boat

And at the start I cupped  a  kiwi fruit sized ball of liquidized bread on both the 4 section line and at a staggered 9M line. Then cupped  200ml of joker onto the 10M line ant about 100ml+ a few casters on two lines at 11M each end of the boat opposite me.

I started at 4 sections with a 4mm bit of bread and had fish from the off, but despite catching one most put in’s I had to have the float dotted right down till it was virtually level with the water and drag the bait through to the left towards Devizes (the natural flow) to get bites. In the first hour I had 40 fish, with another 40 in the 2nd hour. But it was slowing so I had a go over onto the deeper 10M line and I continued to catch on single and double joker. I tried right over on bloodworm, joker and caster but only had about 3 tiny fish, it seemed the fish wanted to be in the deeper water? My one fish on the chopped worm was a 1oz Ruffe. I had a few drops back onto the bread in the last 3 hours but only had about 10 more fish on there mostly on 3mm punch.
At one point I thought I could be on for 200 fish but because the last couple f hours were slow I had to settle for just over 150 and weighed 5.3.8, and  My section went: 3.3.0. 5.3.8 (me)  2.3.8.  blank peg (one of 2 on the match length) 4.4.0 and  1.8.0 off the end peg!
I felt the canal had fished harder than in the practice match the week before, and  I was happy with my match, but  I was  Even happier when I got back to the pub and found out that it was much harder than I had thought, and I had won the whole match as well!  So for the second week on the row I bought the whole team a beer. ( one each, not one between them!!)

Well done on those back to back results Chavey

thanks TK

very well done Rich , i recieved a next peg battering.. just a shame im turning in to a blind old git and couldnt see my float when i dimpled it down, due to the sun reflecting off the boat window and the tree shadows!! ..... still did you in the individual league though