Clattercote 2008 Match Results

Rejecting the cold food and poor service they received from the local Tesco store in Banbury at the last Clattercote gathering in April, most of us met at the nearby Brasenose Arms public house for breakfast. So at least we got off to a good start with a wholesome and very enjoyable full English inside us. The pub did us proud and no doubt we’ll be back there next year.

And boy do we usually need a good breakfast, for our Clattercote fish-ins, no matter what date we choose, are traditionally on cold and very windy days where a good breakfast helps you to get through it unscathed.

Something had gone wrong this year though, contrary to the forecast we actually had quite a long spell of calm water, and when the wind did get up it wasn’t as bad as previous years. Even the rain didn’t set in until towards the end of the match.

As usual we were pegged along the car park side, starting at peg 13 and ending at peg 54. We left out peg 17 as it’s almost enclosed each side with tree branches. At the draw there were cries of “yes!” as the high numbers came out and anglers had visions of big carp being hauled from under the boards, and then more muted whinging as some drew the lower numbers and left the heavier gear in the car. Chris Barker, otherwise known as MankyBait and totally without sight, muttered, “oh yes, I’ve drawn a blinder,” when the peg number he’d drawn was read out to him.

There were three memorable catches, the best of course, being the winner, Steve Wilson with 40lb, especially memorable as he was using a method most of us had never seen before: a slow sinking bagging waggler, which paid off for him in the last hour or so of the match when he caught most of his fish, all carp except for a solitary tench. The all black waggler has a cage feeder on the bottom, and Steve fished it with a 3ft hooklength and a balancing shot. You cast to the swim and it sinks very slowly; obviously attracting bites at all depths through the water, with fish coming up from the bottom to attack the bait, or following it down from somewhere near the surface.

The next memorable catch was Mark Wintle’s, who fished maggot on a waggler at about two rod’s length, and took a, mainly, bag of excellent roach to well over a pound. A wonderful day’s fishing regardless of the match result.

And the third memorable catch was Neil Maidment’s, an almost all tench catch from the end peg in the shallows taken on a margin pole.

But let’s not forget Steve Spiller’s splendid effort that won him a coveted copy of the video ‘Getting Wet for Crappie’ presented by Bill Dance. This video was donated by John McLaren for the angler who put up the best performance. Steve caught one fish and lost nine under the boards. After losing the ninth fish Steve made a difficult decision and upped the strength of his gear to finally land one successfully.

Stu Dexter and Steve Wilson
Stu Dexter presents the trophy to Steve Wilson (right)

After the match most of us went back to the Brasenose arms for the presentation and chips and sausage, which went on FishingMagic’s tab. Stu Dexter presented the winnings, with 3rd place going to me, second place to Neil Maidment, and first place, and the trophy, to Steve Wilson. Well done Steve!

Many thanks to Nigel Connor for arranging breakfast and the after-match snack.

Sorry for lack of photos this year but most seemed to be too busy catching fish for a change to be bothered with taking photographs.

Full Results

NAME
POSITION
WEIGHED
PEG

Steve Wilson

1st

40lb 3oz

26

Neil Maidment

2nd

33lb 15oz

54

Graham Marsden

3rd

26lb 4oz

24

Mark Wintle

4th

22lb 14oz

34

Murray Rogers

5th

22lb 2oz

39

Nigel Connor

6th

19lb 11oz

19

Malc Doyle

7th

19lb

40

Dicky Fisk

8th

18lb 8oz

21

Stu Dexter

9th

16lb 9oz

28

Scott Whatmore

10th

15lb

15

John Mclaren

11th

11lb 11oz

44

Steve Spiller

12th

10lb 8oz

42

Chris Ponsford

13th

9lb 8oz

49

Steve King

14th

9lb 3oz

52

Paul ‘Pikey’ Howarth

15th

7lb 5oz

30

Yacko

16th

6lb 12oz

27

Geoff Furnival

17th

6lb 7oz

33

The Hood

18th

6lb 1oz

36

Bryan Baron

19th

6lb

37

Kevin Perkins

20th

4lb 10oz

45

MankyBait

21st

5oz

50

 

 

 

 

Brewery Boy

 

DNW

29

The Bagger

 

DNW

35

Blankety Blank

 

DNW

16

‘Chubber’ Lancaster

 

DNW

18

Graham Whatmore

 

DNW

14

Gary Knowles

 

DNW

48

Jeff Spiller

 

DNW

46

Derek Garner

 

DNW

51

John Fletcher

 

DNW

23

Phil Stazaker

 

DNW

31

John Huntley

 

DNW

25

Mark Hewitt

 

DNW

47

Dave Hewitt

 

DNW

32

Jeff Woodhouse

 

DNW

51

Hippy

 

DNW

20

Roger Hill

 

DNW

22

Chris Bettis

 

DNW

43

Trev Matthews

 

DNW

38

DNW: Did Not Weigh

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