Broads Fishing Weekend 2005
Broads Fishing Weekend 2005
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Fishing Results
Nige Caiger for a 6lb Bream. Their was some debate about the true weight of the fish since with the net it reached the limit of the hand held scales! (but equally we had no idea how much the net weighed and didn’t get round to finding out). It was a bloody good fish though!
Dunk Penny for a final impressive total of 62 fish [59 with eel penalty, see below]. Full results for all fishers below. It was just as well he won this as he would have been seriously sulking otherwise and as it was adopted some dodgy practices to ensure he got something!
All fishermen collected at least one Bream, Perch, Roach and Gudgeon but this award was graciously donated to Phil Houghton on his first fishing adventure with the team.
John Evison for not winning an award anywhere else! It was however a close run call with Dunk doing some outstanding fish juggling with his 5lb bream breakdancing over the front of the boat in the middle of the night and successfully demolishing rods, drinks, torches and calm in the process – highly amusing though.
This award had no physical form but which was recorded for posterity on Dunk’s video diary. It was awarded much against the form of historical precedent, by all accounts, to Chris Penny (Cake No.1) in a hard fought and closely scored battle with the Laura Evison Cake No.2. Notwithstanding any scoring both cakes were readily consumed in remarkably short order!
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2. Ranworth Night 2 13 7 7
3. St Bennetts 5 13 7 8
4. St Bennetts River 10 14 17 24
5. Ranworth Early PM 10 18 17 26
6. Late PM 10 21 18 28
7. Early AM 10 21 21 28
8. Horning 36 24 27 62
- Nige swiftly bagged best spot under the trees and was rewarded. Managed to avoid fee collector (£6 for any part of 24hrs) by about 30secs, getaway not especially speedy due to Phil’s inept use of clutch causing much noise and little motion. Well worth a revisit.
- Free berth outside pub and close by to shop and loos. Best Bream caught overnight here
- Trotting in good flow generated a reasonable number of fish during the day.
- ‘Our boat’ spotted doing some odd manoeuvres which included berthing their dinghy in the reeds. Also needed to assist wooden sailing boat in berthing into wind. First ledgering session
- Back at the pub in time for the football match required some more A level berthing but got in easily enough with a bit of walking in.
- Very nice spot almost opposite the boat yard where the boat came from. Individual swims well suited to ledgering and generated biggest catch rate of the weekend
1. Dunks car is so full of stuff it can only possibly take one passenger!
2. Allow at least 30mins for futile discussions on fishing with nutter in the Wroxham (but not Roys) fishing tackle and bait shop.
3. 5 pints of maggots is probably enough.
4. Washing up liquid.
5. More home baked cakes.
6. Take ready or precooked meals in case the masterplan changes and it is all too much hassle to go and find a pub.
7. Where the water pump switch is!
8. Raise anchor weight before moving off rather than dragging it half way across the Broad!
9. Ron Jon’s fishing guide.
10. Spade for worms.
11. Don’t letthe maggots go crawling all over the boat.
12. Larger set of scales – though possibly over optimistic!
13. Car type telephone charger.
14. Torches or Headlight.
15. Guitar.
17. October is a good time to go as its not too busy and weather is fine.
18. What Dunk said about the Boatyard lady.
Originally posted on breamdreamer.blogspot.com 10 Oct 2005
posted by Jeremiah @ 12:22
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A few photos from the weekend.
