Simple Match Fishing Forum

What a stunning, and may I say fair, venue Thorpe was.
Didnt stay for the final results, but there were some really good weights.
Myself, I had 17lb odd, mainly chublets on the feeder, and a few small carp with 1 barbel and 1 tench thrown in for variety. All on tip fished to island.
Could only catch gudgeon and small roach inside, they were even taking meat and corn. Hence I fished about 4 hours on the tip, which anyone who knows me will tell you its not my favourite method ::)
Watching some of the weigh in, I never heard one bad word said about the venue, so I should imagine TK may well want another look at it next year ::)
Its only 30 minute from my house, so I may pay it a visit or two again and try and sort out what I seem to be doing wrong on these types of venues.....any advice would be warmly welcomed

Perfectly put Mr v. It was a superb day for all and i would definetly recommend a trip or even 2 trips there next year if possible, was so nice to have a fantastic mixed net of fish,even though i didnt suss the place till the last 25minutes.

For those interested the top 6 or 7 results were approx

1st- Andy spruce 58lb
2nd- Mark Valente 48lb
3rd- Barry Astbury 45lb
4th Yamo 43lb
5th equal- Rich cashmore/ Les winyard 37-14-0
7th Dennis Jeffery 37-7

Cheers for the Results Yamo, you did well for 25 mins

Sounds like a good fishery, shame I missed it

Well done Sprucey

Hope someone got some pics

Put yer trousers on Simon

Sorry I'm just off down the shops

si
obviously with tk and his batteries away it was left to me to take piccies
so here they are.





my peg









to my right











to my left









couple of views















alright one more













nice isn`t it












who`s this denying yamo another end peg















but its ok dads keeping up family tradition of drawing end peg`s













our scribe after a very busy day (bear in mind he caught aseason`s worth of fish on the avon in one day )











mr t. cooper showing everyone the bream that escaped from his net on the last match






















yamo`s catch for the day















our scribes catch well done sir













yamo with a signal for mark v












denis with his bag












i was threatened into posting this one.if any small children can see your pooter avert there gaze now











another gent mr v
and no practicing on there thank you











could have sworn there was something in there














big baz modelling new and expensive clothing .........
ho and a few he caught











rich (l b )cashmore with the biggest fish of the day at 8lb 6oz

if you are wondering what the l b in brackets are the first word is lying












cotti for some reason wanted me to take a piccie of his behind ......ho well it takes all sorts









and last but by no means least.....
trying to keep his fish in the pic

si
nobody wanted to take a pic of my 16lb of gudgeon

looks like you all had a good day just whish i could have been there ,but never mind when this is all over i shall be back

why as TK got a orange hi viz vest and blue overalls on ?? .

May be you should of brought TK back sprucey instead of leaving he stood there so we could of had a report

Great pics Sprucey, looks like a nice venue. Good to see Mr V back on the scene.

How come Yamo always has someone on his peg with a Hi Viz jacket to give him tips

Lol simple

always seem to miss the best matches do tou think im scared

always seem to miss the best matches

i was that good tk aint got back yet

FULL RESULTS FOR THORPE AND HAVE TO AGREE TK NEEDS TO BOOK THIS ONE AGAIN

ANDY SPRUCE          58-0-0      1
 MARK VALENTE        48-4-0      2
 BARRY ASTBURY                45-13-0      3
PAUL JEFFERY                 43-13-0      4
RICHARD CASHMORE           37-14-0        =5
LES WINYARD           37-14-0        =5
DENNIS JEFFERY             37-6-0       7
MARK STANAWAY           37-1-0       8
PAUL MILLWARD            30-12-0      9
GEOFF CASHMORE         24-11-0     10
BARRY KENN          20-15-0      11
CHRIS DEAN          20-12-0      12
ROY COTTERELL      16-15-0     13
JOHN ROWLAND           10-9-0        14
PHIL BROADSTOCK       9-14-0       15
TONY COOPER        9-11-0       16
MICK KENN            9-4-0         17
BRIAN BRADLEY      6-6-0        18

A lot of 37's there, are you sure your scales are working right

Just seen the full results and with a 'treasurers hat on'...........

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The GP lives on for at least another match thanks to Sprucey putting a blocker in and stopping both MarkV and Big Baz from scooping the pot as they were both sitting on golden pegs and finished 2nd and 3rd ........

Another trophy for Sprucey to pick up at the presentation night.......... - all we've got to do now is 'teach' Sprucey how to fish the rivers