Cotmanhay..........on paper looks good but........

[petebagup]

It is dismal :(

There was 90 odd there 11lb-Dave Brookes? won Dave Horton had 9 odd and Derek Jackson had a 4lb slab in his 3rd placed 6-12.First 2 had tincas and sergeants the rest of us caught naff all really

I had a peg to peg battle with the Sherrif from Maver NW and he battered me 61 fish to 40 but we both weighed in 13oz to share a defaulted section You always gotta weigh in never be embarassed to take money home!

Ours wasnt the worse section as Wezza topped his with 12oz and Macca also jointed his section with a small 2lb.

Bill battered them all one side of him but was in the wrong section :(

There were nests of small fish on the squatt but with no boats and a gin canal its rock hard.

I can hear Joff laughing from here

[petebagup]

And to make matters worse agent Harold phoned me to say he enjoyed Joffs match winning his section with 6lb odd catching on maggot over groundbait

[joffmiester]

pete the whole world heard about harolds section win and yes big red maggot over G/B he had a very good hemp angler next to him who weighed in 6lb 3oz so make your mind up
i'l put the result up later
but it didn't go all to plan
we are getting more and more boats mooring up over the weekend so it's back to the good old days of pegging out on the morning unless we can get it stopped

but i will say it fished well i drew one of the pegs you'd really wanted to leave out but can't and still had 3lb and out of the 10 pegs which will be in the summer league next week that would of put me 7th and i thought i'd done ok beating either side

[petebagup]

The sad thing is when he phoned me he was gutted he could not catch on hemp

Good luck with the match next weekend am away for 2 weeks so will miss all the national grief

[joffmiester]

nationals are nationals mate if you can remember the national we fished on the river soar and canal it just got flogged to death i had teams fishing Monday to Friday then they insisted on matches Saturday and Sunday its a nightmare  and where as before it did your local club a power of good our club waters lost out as clubs didn't want to fish it after
i'm glad to say the club seen is ok again now but only on the canal the river is getting less and less interest unless you are a barbel angler which means now your peg could of been fish the night before A  match

[joffmiester]

yesterday further up the canal kids were swimming in it and no signs of any grown up i had a bloke come up to me ranting and raving about he wanted to fish the canal because he has a license that tells him he could fish anywhere at any time  >:(i soon put him in his place then in between harold and me two people sat fishing in deck chairs  no licence no club book  so they got told
all i wanted to do is get on with my fiishing
but this must be the same up and down the country

[petebagup]

Same happening over here :(

People take one look at Dockholme and see all the weed and do not want to fish! What they fail to realise it the candocks are holding all the fish without them god knows :(

Anyway congrats to CWH on a superb win on the Avon-always good to have a spare peg but a good drag and he has qualified

[joffmiester]

as match organisiers you are never going to win i hope next week we have things sorted but after two or three weeks on commercials iit was a nightmare yesterday
lucky that the owners of the boat pub are willing to help and are asking and putting up notices asking the boats to moor in between pegs this might help but to stop every tom,dick and harry fishing the canal is a nightmare

[joffmiester]

brilliant well done choppie we might here about this one how did bucko do i think roger marlow won his section both days as well so i would think he's qualified as well

[joffmiester]

what about your parking mightmare

[petebagup]

One thing i did notice about Cotmanhay yesterday-and yes i did have plenty of time to look around was the people walking the dogs all had the same types you know them pit bull typos

Also went to see Jackos peg 103 and there was a brown re-cycling bin in the middle of the cut with a massive shoal of bream swimming about so it does pay to recycle .They were blowing away at the start and as the sun came out they came to the top too.He had one of 4lb but lost another when a kid on a bike tried to take him out He reckons he could have had 200 squatt fish but fished a positive match

[petebagup]

The parking nightmare was Saturday where we had the ok to use the car park at Sandicliffe only to be confronted by a jobsworth who wanted all of Long Eaton for his carnival :(

I thought Wrighty was going to explode! All this to run a match and then you have to fish.........you know what its like........not even Feds match he was doing it to help the Vic out :(

[joffmiester]

top bloke though alan are you onthe summer league this weekend with the long eaton team

[petebagup]

No away for 2 weeks

Going on a course to learn how to grow my own candocks

[bill yards]

Going for a game of Roulette Pete?

[joffmiester]

chicken

[petebagup]

It might be red cabbage tho just to remind me of the earwash

[joffmiester]

Cotmanhay AC, Erewash Canal, Cotmanhay, Derbyshire, Sun. 94. Dave Brookes (Maver Barnsley Blacks) 11-1-8, two tench, two big perch and small fish, peg 97; Dave Horton (Trabucco Midlands Van den Eynde) 9-12-0; Derek Jackson (Sensas Dams and Lock) 6-12-0; Helen Dagnall (Tri-Cast) 6-11-0; Mick Tamms (Pelham) 4-12-0; Les Waldron (Pelham) 4-8-8.

Long Eaton Victoria AS, Angling Trust Division Two Practise, Erewash Canal, Trent Lock, Derbyshire, Sat. 68. Tony Beech (Quorn Van den Eynde) 8-13-0, roach and pommies to punched bread plus a few perch to 6 oz on maggot, peg 124; Dave Trafford (Lostock Tackle Box) 8-12-8; Simon Preece (I and A Baits) 8-1-0; R. Francis (Spa MG) 7-11-0; Dean Guess (Leicester Sensas) 7-8-8; Andy Billington (Drennan North West) 7-8-0.

[preecy]

what length is the match on this sat(26th)?
who do you need to book on with?
and where is the draw?
thanks

[lloydy]

what length is the match on this sat(26th)?
who do you need to book on with?
and where is the draw?
thanks

Think Paul said they were going from above peg 1 at Tamworth road back to Dockholme and would think it would be Alan Wright. Text me if you need his number