Water Lily 2009 report
On Wednesday 22md July 9
young anglers turned up to have a bash at the the very old Water Lily
cup, I remember fishing for this when I was 8 and it was old then, they
fished opposite the boat club at the nearest end of "B" Section to the
river bridge.
It was really good to see increasing numbers over last years
event, I assume there was a power cut and they could'nt find anything
else to do. firstly big thanks go to Pete Milburn for the organising,
advertising and general overseeing of the event. The conditions were
good with a back wind and silver fish in evidence, the older over 13's
group was won by Michael Sparks with 1lb 13oz which in an hour and
a half was a good result, he caught silvers and Perch fishing maggot
over Hemp. in second place was Mahsin Khurshid with 1lb 5oz mainly Perch
with a couple of Roach and Dace, Mahsin managed to throw back a 5 oz
Roach and lose a couple of decent Perch which might have made all the
difference. Third place went to Ben Croker with 9oz followed by Lewis
Brant and Peter Gibbs.
In the under 13's group
young Rhis Nesbit carried off the title showing her dad how to do it
with a round 1lb of Perch and she was followed by Simon Budd with 2oz
and Brandon Evans with .5oz with Joe Welton in next place
At the end of the match
Pete presented all the entrants with prizes donated by the angling club
and everyone had a very reasonable prize to take home for their
efforts. As a final thought thanks go to several of the anglers from the
St Ives club who came to give the benefit of their experience to the
youngsters, Compo only managed to scare them and DNW and Senior both
said thank you to the lads they were watching as they had learnt loads,
not sure it was supposed to be the kids teaching the adults but some of
us are still grasping at the basics.
Results
Michael Sparks (13) 1 lb 13
oz 1st in 13 to 15 group
Mahsin Khurshid (15) 1 lb 5 oz 2nd in 13 to 15 group
Ben Croker (13) 9 oz 3rd in 13 to 15 group
Lewis Brant (13) 2.5 oz 4th in 13 to 15 group
Peter Gibbs (13) 2.5 oz 4th in 13 to 15 group
Rhia Nesbit (9) 1 lb 1st in 9 to 12 group
Simon Budd (12) 2 oz 2nd in 9 to 12 group
Brandon Evans (11) 1/2 oz 3rd in 9 to 12 group
Joe Welton (12) No Fish 4th in 9 to 12 group
Claude Smith Trophy 2009 reportThe attendance at
the Claude Smith on Wednesday 12th August was even better then the
previous Water
Lily with12 fishing, it was a very pleasent evening and other than the
millions
of Kamikaze Wasps all was serene and calm until the 12 individuals
kicked off at
the start and then lots of water was displaced and lots of foam created
due to
the thrashing of various whips, rods and poles.
The
fishing was ok
in general with a few Roach and Rudd showing plus the ever willing
Perch, the
winner oif the 11 to 12 age groups was Holly Sparks whose brother also
won a
section of the Water Lily cup this year, obviously its a family thing,
she
recorded 1lb 4 1/2 oz with Daniel Wing second weighing 6 1/2 oz
with Jacob
Johnson and Daniel Chapman in 3rd and 4th place
respectively.
In the
13 to 15 age
group our very own Tom "I'm not a miner" Myring managed 1st place after
he
decided to fish at distance with lots of lose feed maggot going in for a
weight
of 1lb 1/2oz with Lewis Brant 2nd with12oz and George Davies and
Scott Anderson
filling the next 2 spots.
A
really good
evening and many thanks again to organiser Pete Milburn and the senior
anglers
DNW, Senior Andrews and Mini me Myring for all the assistance and
passing on of
knowledge on the night. I was not completely convinced that the
knowledge was
not being passed from the Juniors to the Seniors in some cases, you know
who you
are and you should be ashamed.
Talking
of ashamed I
would just like to pass comment on the thieving, nasty individual who
stole one
of the competitors whips whilst he was attending the presentation I have
only
recently been made aware of this incident and be assured if the
individual is
traced he or she will be banned from fishing St Ives waters for a long
time.
Fishing is a friendly pastime and theft is totally unacceptable
especially from
a young lad just starting to build up his tackle.
County Windows Cup 2009 report
9 juniors turned up but the fishing was
very poor, several senior
anglers prowled the banks muttering how poor it was and what was the
next days
match on the same stretch going to be like.
In the end the
cup was won by young Tom Davies on the prime
swim opposite the rowing club with a hard fished 4oz, I watched Tom for
some
time and he was getting regular bites which he could not hit and I think
he had
lots of small Dace in his swim, he also hooked and lost a couple of
Perch and a
weight closer to 12oz would have been a better reflection of his swim
on the
day. 2nd was Tom "I'm not a miner" Myring who fishedcloser to the bridge
with a
few Bleak for 2.5 oz with once again several bites missed from small
fish.
Marcus Lath managed third with 1oz.
The owner Of
County Windows, Mr David Day, very kindly
provided the cash prizes and presented them on the bank to the fortunate
winners.
The fishing was
badly effected by all the elements, very
clear water, no stream, bright sunshine and a nasty wind plus a killer
to all
fishing, a full moon so well done to all 9 participants and, as was
proved in
the following days open, catching fish this weekend on the river was
very hard
indeed