EVESHAM first B/J matches

[joffmiester]

Saturday August 4th
Wychavon Championship Qualifier
Evesham Town & Ferry Waters
68 Fished.

1 Wayne Swinscoe (Maver Bait Tech) 11-2-0 (peg 27)
2 Leigh Gardner (Shakespeare Superteam) 9-7-0 (peg 10)
3 Simon Willsmore (Milo) 9-5-0 (peg 41)
4 Nigel Davies (Shakespeare Superteam) 7-10-0 (peg 11)
5 Steve Hemmingray (Drennan) 7-6-0 (peg 16)
=Matt Godfrey (Sensas) 7-6-0 (peg 79)

With a heavy deluge of rain preceding this qualifier, the River Avon was once again carrying extra pace and a tinge of colour. Being the first of the bloodworm qualifiers, many anglers based their approach on balled in groundbait, bloodworm and joker and good nets of small fish were taken throughout.
Winner on the day was river legend Wayne Swinscoe. Drawn on peg 27, Wayne fished bloodworm and joker at 13 metres to take a succession of chunky roach, perch and dace. While he was catching these smaller fish, Wayne catapulted halibut pellets down the middle of the river, and as the last half hour of the match approached, he slipped one on to the hook and cast a bomb out in to the flow. Ten minutes later, and his gamble paid off, as a 7lb barbel intercepted his hook pellet. He finished with an 11-2-0 total.
In second spot was another Avon legend, Leigh Gardner. Leigh started his match on bloodworm, but after a disappointing first hour decided that targeting bigger fish on chopped worm and caster would be a better bet. He caught a few chunky perch on a short line fed with worms, before casting out his trademark chopped worm feeder. Several quality eels followed, and Lee finished with a 9-7-0 mixed net.
Milo ace Simon Willsmore also had to ring the changes in order to keep fish coming. Simon caught an initial run of roach over balled in joker at 13 metres, before switching to a shorter line where he enjoyed a really good spell catching quality perch. When bites dried up here, Simon targeted bleak, and added a further 3lb of these to his net in the last couple of hours of the match, to finish with a 9-7-0 total.

Qualifiers
Nigel Davies
Tim Kaye
Matt Godfrey

Sunday August 5th
Shakespeare Championship Qualifier
Evesham Town & Ferry Waters
72 Fished.

1 Scott Geens (Garbolino) 11-3-0 (peg 14)
2 Andy Murphy (Shimano Wales) 10-0-0 (peg 6)
3 Tony Bench (Shakespeare Superteam) 8-7-0 (peg 33)
= Sean Ashby (Sensas) 8-7-0 (peg 62)
5 Mark Brush (Daiwa Gordon League) 8-7-0 (peg 11)

Garbolino ace Scott Geens took the honours in Evesham’s second bloodworm qualifier of 2012, with a cracking 11-3-0 bag made up entirely of quality roach. Drawn on peg 14 on the Town Length, Scott put his faith in an 11 metre line, where he introduced a dozen balls of groundbait and joker. By varying his rigs and presentation, Scott kept quality roach coming for the duration of the match, and though sport was far from hectic, he enjoyed a large stamp of fish, having to use his landing net on almost every one!
Second place fell to the current Shakespeare Champion, Andrew ‘Spud’ Murphy. Spud also enjoyed a good initial run of fish on bloodworm, before bites subsided. He then picked up his waggler rod, and caught small chublets steadily for the rest of the match, to finish with a 10-0-0 total.
There was a tie for third place between England ace Sean Ashby, and Shakespeare Stalwart Tony Bench. Sean caught a net of small roach on bloodworm and joker from peg 62, while Tony caught a small barbel, and a couple of eels on a maggot feeder from peg 33.

Qualifiers
Scott Geens
Tony Bench
Pete Jayes

[joffmiester]

sat with Pete jayes for a while,he turned up on speck no B/J i'm sure he weighed in 7lb 14oz on hemp to qualify and i'm sure if it wasn't for pike he'd of framed easy

[MrV]

At the risk of starting a major debate.....Why oh why run bloodworm and joker matches on the river when weights have been relatively good in previous matches without it  I could understand the thinking behind this in late autumn/winter, but its August, the river has had plenty of water through it since the season opened, and its been fishing well. Does this just play into the hands of the sponsored anglers who can afford to pile in bloodworm/joker for the upcoming festivals.      Its coincidence reading this report and thinking of the "All our Yesterdays" post where Frank Barlow and Dave Harrel echoed similar sentiments  :( :( :(

[joffmiester]

yes MrV quite a debate went on about it sunday :-/i'm not sure if its better with or without .personally i don't mind as its easier to hook hemp than bloodworm them roach are small and getting raged off at 13mtrs ain't funny i sat with SAM wildsmith .but i would say from a spectators point of view its interesting to watch

[joffmiester]

probably see this weekend MrV just spoke sam not so many have ordered bait for this week i'l be taking it

[joffmiester]

2nd weekend B/J

[joffmiester]

Saturday 11th August
Shakespeare Championship Qualifier
78 Fished.







1 Ian Didcote (Garbolino / Bait Tech) 7-2-8 (peg 57)
...2 Ian Shepherd (Daiwa Gordon League) 6-11-8 (peg 59)
3 Sam Wildsmith (Ultimate Barnsley Blacks) 6-2-0 (peg 6)
4 Jack Jones 5-15-0 (peg 26)
5 Jeff Spiers 5-14-0 (peg 8)

Qualifiers
Jack Jones
Gary Pook
Tony Skinner
Howard Kaye

Hot, bright conditions greeted competitors on the third of the bloodworm allowed qualification matches. Top man on the day was Ian Didcote, who started his match on bloodworm and tempted a few small roach early, before turning his attention to targetting eels and perch when bites subsided. Ian fished a flat flat float at 13 metres, introducing chopped worm, casters and maggots via bait dropper, and caught five good sized eels, and a host of chunky perch.
In second place was in-form Daiwa Gordon League rod Ian ‘Shep’ Shepherd. After an early flurry of bites on bloodworm, Shep switched to his trusted hempseed approach, and caught small roach for the duration of the match to finish with 6-11-8.
Bloodworm maestro Sam Wildsmith took third spot, from peg 6 on the Crown Meadow. Sam put his faith in just one line fished with bloodworm and joker at 13 metres, and caught small roach for the duration of the session.

Sunday 12th August
Wychavon Championship Qualifier
80 Fished.







1 Glen Lawrence (Ultimate Barnsley Blacks) 8-9-0 (peg 61)
2 Hadrian Whittle (Kamasan Starlets) 7-15-0 (peg 69)
3 Leigh Gardner (Shakespeare Superteam) 7-10-0 (peg 24)
4 Paul Jackson (Worcester Sports) 6-6-0 (peg 21)
= Lee Kerry (Preston Innovations/ Sonubaits) 6-6-0 (peg 63)

Qualifiers
Paul Jackson
Tom Scholey
Glen Lawrence

With 80 anglers competing, the River Avon once again stood up to the pressure in the final bloodworm qualifier of the year. Coming out on top was Ultimate rod Glen Lawrence. Glen started his session on bloodworm, taking several dumpy roach. After half an hour, he switched to chopped worm and caster line fed down the side, and hooked and landed a 5lb tench! He took just a few small roach for the duration of the match, but his 8-9-0 bag was still enough to take the honours.
Hadrian Whitle took second spot, with a 7-15-0 net. Hadrian caught several big eels on flat float, as well as a couple of pounds of roach on bloodworm, and 1lb of bleak caught up in the water.
Ever consistent Leigh Gardner was third. Leigh caught 7-10-0 of roach on bloodworm, catching all his fish from one line at 11 metres.

[joffmiester]

SHOULD OF DONE BETTER
peg 8 is perhaps my favourite area with lots of choices on methods for most of the early numbers
Ive seen chub come off these pegs roach and eels as well
but i had one of those days fished b/j perhaps a little short at 12m still say that my stand was in the water, looking back the full 13 might of been better i just wanted to leave a option of eels or maggot feeder if i couldn't catch on B/J i measured 250ml into about 6 litres of G/B and soil this made up 8 good size balls i then cupped two rich balls with joker
after a couple of runs down i had a roach 5oz couple of perch and odd bites no one was catching i kept it simple and just ran it through after watching SAM i thought it looked right so i stuck with it thinking at any point the roach would come  all around anglers were fishing feeders and flat floats  had i read the day wrong knowing it had fished hard the day before  i phoned sam "catching mate"he replied "yep"  it must be me then i carried on just taking odd fish
Trev tomlin came down and sat with me,it was a frustrating time as the bites were hard to come by
so i asked if he'd walk the section as i knew tony mashell had drawn peg two the peg I'd sat behind SAM the week before
before long Trev was back"looks like Tony's catching a few on hemp but is getting piked out "
hemp,hemp,hemp i just wonder if  its a deadly bait so i went up the bank and sorted a rig out i topped up the B/J line and went 13m with the hemp line i feed it for half a hour before having a go as the b/j line had become painful 
right i thought last couple of hours and still time to put a weight together after 10 minutes of changing around i netted a roach and missed a couple of bites  things looked to be going right a nice 10oz roach.even trev stayed a little longer 
at this point it was looking good not fast but the fish were quality  odd eels were coming out but no one around me had fed any hemp,another roach netted only for this one to jump to freedom and bounced on the rime of my keepnet afew more roach later i hooked a real good fish [roach but they don't half fight in the Avon] took my time ::) only for mr pike to have a free meal  this happened three times and by this time the bites had slowed right up  trev had gone  :-/and the day seamed to get worse as young eric yeoman had put together a nest of eels and above spud had three late on  4lb 9oz but i really enjoyed the day 80 anglers how good is that and lots of pegs that can win if you do the right thing on the right day 

[joffmiester]

sam wildsmith is a legand at B/J fishing he's only been out fishing a handfull of times this year and three time he's been at evesham ive not seen him have below 5lb