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This visit to the Staffs Worcs at the Cross Keys Penkridge was the clubs first since 1996. Back then gudgeon were the predominant quarry, with odd pegs holding roach.

Times had changed since then - as well as a large housing estate built, target species had changed. Alan Scothorne was reported to have done 12lb of roach on the seed, plus a couple of 20lb chub weights had come off the section in the National a month or so earlier.

So it would be interesting to see how the Cashmores Crew faired on the cut………..

Half a dozen casualties had handed in bona fide sick notes, but on Friday night over a pint with Heinzer ‘totting up’ further likely absentees, I reckoned a maximum turnout of 18, but more probably just 15.

Arriving just after 8.00am with Heinzer, pegging was soon sorted, and I chanced my arm only putting 17 pegs in.

It was a tad disappointing later to find out that only 14 stalwarts had turned out - ah well, more chance of drawing a golden peg I thought to myself. GP’s for the day were going to be 8, 11 and 13 - with 11 and 13 potential ‘winners’.

A ‘short walk’ draw was sorted for Tommy Cooper and Brambles. Personally I wanted ‘low’ number - a) I knew they had ‘produced’ earlier in the week
b) some would call it lazy, I’d call it having a dicky knee

Pegs came and went and I was left with peg 8 in KOD’s draw bag. Ah well - a GP to ‘compensate’ for the walk.

Arrived at the peg and to be honest, fancied it for a few. Would it hold any chub? If it did, would they show?




Heinzer was also company for the day on peg 9, with Cotti being a fair way away on 7 as there was a moored boat between us.

Cotti in the distance to my left



Heinzer and Zorro to the right



Set up 5 rigs to cover a number of eventualities (hopefully)

The off, and I fed on the edge of the centre of the bush, down its right hand side, my feet and firtled a few casters and seed down the track.

A quick look to the tree bought a couple of micro sized roach - they wouldn’t go 2 grams a piece. A bait change saw the first of a number of small kinvers have a nibble, with the far lines being rotated.

The sun came up and the kinvers appeared to ‘retreat’ further and further into the shade afforded by the tree………….or was it just the boat traffic pushing them up the shelf………or a combination of the two

An interim look on the inside produced two more small perch and a gudgeon, then nowt. Heinzer had got me on the rack as he proceded to pick up sporadic clusters of kinvers, whilst I couldn’t buy a bite…………anywhere

I even ‘chanced my arm’ playing ‘suicide bite’, by pushing a rig with no 2 lacky into that tree, fully expecting sods law to prevail and to see the lacky come screaming out of the pole as a wily rub a dub would ‘have a go’ at the 0.06 line and 22 fine wire hook..........but it never happened

But after a real barren 1.5 hours which had probably only produced 2 bits, and no bites for a good half hour I decided to stretch the legs. Nobody had ‘walked’, so they must be bagging all around me.

I watered the horse and went ‘upstream’ for a gander.

A smile from Heinzer who was picking up a few kinver tigers



‘How many rub a dubs you had KOD?’ as I approached him



A resigned laugh and summat along the lines of ‘You’ve gotta be joking’ was the response.



Ditto the responses from first HaHa



Then big Geoff.

Meanwhile on end peg 14, Sprucey Ducey was having a few bites………………although he chuntered something about a boat going over one of his lines.



Legs stretched for 5 mins, it was back to peg 8.

Well not a lot happened for the next hour, but suddenly with about 15 mins left I started getting bites. Not massive fish by any means, but a bite a chuck literally, well every put over.

Could have done with another hour, or till I’d ‘ravaged’ the shoal of tiddlers, but the final whistle soon blew.

On the presumption that pegs 11 & 13 hadn’t suddenly turned on, it looked like the GP was going to be safe for another week as news filtered through that Big Baz and Phil B had snared chub.

Anyway, the tale of the scales………………

PEG Weight
1 Tommy Cooper 1.1.0
2 Yamo 3.0.0
3 Brambles 0.3.2
4 Big Baz 7.5.4
5 Rich C 2.12.3
6 Phil B 2.9.10
7 Cotti 1.12.8
8 TK 2.10.14
9 Heinzer 1.4.6
10 Zorro 1.8.14
11 KOD 1.13.0
12 HaHa 1.0.2
13 Big Geoff 2.4.1
14 Sprucey 4.2.1

Did I blow a flyer

Did we cop it on an ‘off day’

Did we fish it ‘wrong’

Or

Superb reading TK 

All them house's in them pics , I helped build. Surprised they aint fell down yet 

HAHA is on the peg where I broke my first pole, I was a preston  I took it back and bought a Tri Cast 

HAHA is on the peg where I broke my first pole

Was that on all them chub in that area

No, a branch when I was plumbing up

have a go’ at the 0.06 line and 22 fine wire hook

A 22    Didn't know you had any that big


Would liked to have been there.

Did we cop it on an ‘off day’

Probably not.  In my world, those are the sort of club weights i'd expect on a cut. An OK day I reckon.

Looks a nice stretch 

KOD was on the peg that won the Div 1 National on 8th August...HaHa was on the best chub peg on the canal.

My club is fishing it Sunday i wonder how we will get

on

Keep us posted Cheslynboy

Well unless Yamo throws a shoe and Zorro wins this one, it's all over bar the shouting

NAME TEAM WEIGHT POS PTS WEIGHT PTS POS

13  PAUL JEFFERY A 3-0-0 3 28 239-1-2 372 1
12  DENNIS JEFFERY D 1-8-14 10 21 142-8-3 343 2
5   GEOFF CASHMORE A 2-4-1 7 24 167-13-14 333 3 GP
6   RICHARD CASHMORE B 2-12-3 4 27 180-7-0 327 4
9   CHRIS DEAN E 1-13-0 8 23 116-7-12 316 5 GP
25  MARK VALENTE A - - - 131-12-13 278 6
17  TONY KULIK B 2-10-14 5 26 83-10-7 276 7 GP
24  MARK STANAWAY C 1-0-2 13 18 122-13-9 272 8
19  DAVE MEREDITH D 1-4-6 11 20 75-10-14 255 9
1   BARRY ASTBURY           E 7-5-4 1 30 113-7-13 235 10
2   BRIAN BRADLEY             C 0-3-2 14 17 37-6-13 233 11
23  ANDY SPRUCE D 4-2-1 2 29 104-8-14 215 12
3   PHIL BROADSTOCK       A 2-9-10 6 25 40-4-2 212 13
8   ROY COTTERELL B 1-12-8 9 22 50-10-7 197 14
20  PAUL MILLWARD C - - - 116-15-3 189 15
11  GEZ FRANCE E - - - 26-4-6 165 16
21  RAY PHIPPS C - - - 35-11-13 144 17
7   TONY COOPER D 1-1-0 12 19 33-12-10 138 18
15  BARRY KENN H - - - 54-0-2 132 19
22  JOHN ROWLAND D - - - 46-7-4 113 20
27  LES WINYARD B - - - 66-13-0 107 21
10  ROB DOUGLISS E - - - 20-0-13 105 =22
18  HARRY MAIN B - - - 32-11-15 105 =22
16  MICK KENN H - - - 21-7-9 96 24
4   MARCUS BURGESS E - - - 37-9-4 77 25
14  MARTIN KENDALL A - - - 30-8-0 59 26
26  KEVIN VESTE C - - - 7-5-11 43 27

Bloody hell - that gives you a migraine

Just thought I'd bump this up into view just to demostrate we do fish venues that have a few in..........and they aint all crap

Have a look here

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Poor turnout too looking back......... :(

Haha was on the peg or near it. Looks great doesn't it

I used to fish the matches up there 20 odd years back - well before those houses - loved it Simps

Mind it was a different kettle of fish those days...........predominantly gobies and no rub a dubs

just above big geoff the two willow trees i drew there in a super league i had 8lb and was well down in the section talk about shallow i had stu conroy next to me he just had bare bank and had 10 or 11lb won the section i'l never forget it as the only shot on his line was a number 4s and he fished 4 to 6in deep he said there was no more room for anymore shot on the line

That must be where I went wrong Joffie - I was looking for a line with 8 ins of water............should have shoved another section on and moved into 4ins of water

That must be where I went wrong Joffie - I was looking for a line with 8 ins of water............should have shoved another section on and moved into 4ins of water 

its a lesson lee showed me when practicing for the national you'd think you would see them but you don't and your laggy needs to be bang on or in lee's case knicker elastic

its like carp sometimes you can't see them yet you catch 6in deep :Dnow that does do my head in