Midwest anglers club preseason match results

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Midwest Anglers club preseason/friendly match results, Chicago river (March 12th)
What started out a nice mild day for March here in Chicago with the temps close to the 50's (f.) for the 10 anglers who turned up to fish this match changed at the halfway stage with a strong breeze blowing downstream and temps dropping by 15 degrees. Most anglers struggled for bites in the last hour and half...
17 year old Max Ford started his season off in style by winning the top overall on the day and adding another 1st place result to his growing list...
Max caught steadily from start to finish on peg 4 in section A with corn at 8 mts and and was even playing a carp at the end of the match which he unluckily didnt get into his landing net before the end of the match signal. Second place overall was Tracy Jordan with 3 carp on the feeder from peg 1 in section A. Third heaviest weight was also for section A with newcomer Darroslaz landing 2 carp for 20 lbs 5 ozs from peg 2. The winner in section B was Paul Wells with 2 carp including a nice mirror which dont show too much on the river here and some bluegills on the pole at 10 mts for a total weight of 18 lbs 7 ozs. Although the fishing was patchy today proberly again because of the drop in temps the fish seem to hold up in pockets this new stretch of river is one of the fairest we have fished yet for matches here with the winning weights coming of a different peg in every match so far over the winter league and the end pegs seem to be of no added advantage, each peg on this straight stretch is the same in depth and flow.
Well done also to Bob Anderson who after fishing the feeder for carp for almost 3 hours and not catching any switched to a float on a bolo rod to catch some bluegills close in and straight away hooked into an 11 lb carp which he landed after a long fight on a light rig and small hook... ;D
The golden peg (no. 6) was not won today and will be carried forward for the first league match. Fish caught today included Carp,Bluegills,Suckers, and gobies. Thanks to all that turned out and hopefully by our first league match on April 16th at Barth pond the weather will have warmed up a little. Check out here in the forum section for the draw times and details for this match
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Results
section A
1st Max Ford (MAC) peg 4, ......46lbs (*overall winner)
2nd Tracy Jordan (MAC) peg 1, ....25 lbs 3ozs (*section pools winner)
3rd Darroslav (CAG) peg 2 ,....20 lbs 5ozs
4th Bob A. (MAC) peg 5....11lbs 3ozs
5th Fred Rhodes (CBA)peg 3....DNW
section B
1st Paul Wells (CBA) peg 6....18 lbs 7ozs (*section pools winner)
2nd John Wilson (MAC) peg 10....18 lbs 6ozs
3rd Dara F.( BCUK Baits) peg 7...11 lbs 3 ozs
James W. (MAC)peg 9 and Ladislav (CAG)peg 8.... DNW
some pics also from today here
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The CBA's league matches for 2006 kick off next sat (18th) and Lake Arlington which may see some big nets of bluegills caught weather permitting.
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[Dave]

where the pics

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on here i think Dave............
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[Dave]

cool nice pristine fish

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MAC match 1 Results, Barth pond (April 15th)
The weather finaly has started to warm up here at last with the temps going into the low 70's for this event and we also had a nice breeze on Barth Pond today. 14 anglers fished and there were some big weights of small fish caught on both sides of the pond used. The bigger fish all were in section A on the north side of the pond and the top 4 weights came from there with some big catfish and a few carp also showing up too.The carp seemed to be getting ready for spawning and fish were seen rolling thru out the day there and this may explain why this section fished better.
Well done to all the new anglers who came out and it was great to see almost all of the classic division catching double figure weights of small fish in the match including new angler to the MAC matches Tony Scheidt from the JJC Angling Club. Tony weighed in 31 lbs 4 ozs of catfish,bluegills and 2 carp and certainly had some of the open division anglers under some preasure during the match.

Classic Division results
1st Tony Scheidt (JJC)...peg 6(section A).....31 lbs 4 ozs...carp,catfish,goldfish,bluegills
2nd Harold Fiene (MAC)...peg 8 (section A)....13 lbs 12 ozs....bluegills,and a few crappies(also had to leave before the last hour of the match because of work commitments)
3rd Bob Andrews (MAC)....peg 16 (section B)...10 lbs 15 ozs...bluegills,bullheads and some small catfish

The Open Division was also a close affair today with all the anglers breaking double figure weights. 1st place was an even closer battle in section A between another new angler to the matches here Trevour Burgess on peg 4 who recently has relocated to the USA from the UK and Chicago's Mick Thill on peg 5. Trevour's tactic of fishing and feeding pellet only on the pole at 8 mts for big catfish and carp seemed to be winning against Mick's method of fishing the whip for small fish with maggot for most of the match. Mick did manage to catch a carp of almost 7 lbs and some small catfish on the long pole and it made all the difference with his net of bluegills at the weigh in.At the end of the 4 hour match Mick weighed in 47 lbs 5 ozs of all small bluegills except for the one carp and a few small cats to Trevour's weight of 43 lbs 15 ozs of 2 carp,some catfish to 5lbs and just 6 small bluegills to take first place overall. Dara F. on peg 7 (section A also) was 3rd with 38 lbs 3 ozs of bluegills and a few shiners on the whip/maggot and 7 catfish on the pole/pellet and paste. Patrick Mills also fished well to win the section B pools with 30 lbs 5 ozs of bluegills and bullheads on the whip. Paul Wells was second in section B with 21 lbs of bluegills also on the whip and only had 10 fish going into the 3rd hour of the match. The fish in section B were alot smaller than section A and prob just averaged 2 to 3 ozs each and the bigger bonus fish didn't show there at all so well done to all who got some big weights from there.

Open Divison results
1st Mick Thill (Morton Grove AC ?).......peg 5 (section A)....47 lbs 5 ozs....bluegills, a few small catfish and 1 carp
2nd Trevour Burgess (JJC AC)...peg 4 (section A)....43 lbs 15 ozs....2 carp,goldfish,catfish and a few small bluegills
3rd Dara Finnegan (BCUK Baits/MAC)... peg 7 (section A ).....38 lbs 3 ozs....bluegills,shiners, and 7 catfish
4th Patrick Mills (JJC AC)...peg 17 (section B).....30 lbs 5 ozs....bluegills and bullheads
5th Paul Wells (BCUK Baits/MAC) ...peg 14 (section B)....21 lbs....bluegills and a few bullheads
Section pools winners
section A Trevour Burgess (by default)
section B Patrick Mills
The golden peg pot (peg 5) was also won by Mick Thill and a new pot will be starting at the next match...

here also are some pics from todays match
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The next MAC match is May 14th and is to be on Lake Arlington but please check on the website in advance in case of a switch of venue and to reserve a peg.There will also be a post on the forum to order maggots for all the matches from now on with the deadline for ordering being 1 week prior to the match.
www.midwestangler.com/