Landsend xmas open

A bit of a belated xmas match, but surprising as there have been lots of rearranged events due to covid, i had a breakfast roll booked at the fishery, and very nice to, a 4.75, which is a good score for a takeaway, (well done rachael), mike got the draw underway and pulled me out anothwr corner in the shape of peg40, which is the opposite corner to last week, and not as good as i fulky expected the main shoal of fish to be at the other end, that was occupied by adrian clark on 33 and alan oram on 32, probably no mistakes on those pegs today then. And definitely a case of dejavue as i had dave(beany) westcott opposite me again. I only.set up two rigs, one for bread dobbing along the end bank and the other one for meat at the bottom of the shelf,and out towards the island at 14 mtrs.with the lales full to overflowing i expected to have to contend with some underwater foliage.

At the start i fed some.meat in the two intended meat lines then went out along the edge on the dobbing rig, thus peg haf a bay small bay between 13 and 14 mtrs and with a depth of about 30 inches , it was an ideal place to start.

I was.soon attached.to a nice fish of about 5lb which was soon netted, so a good start, hopefully there were a few about, to give me a chance of the lake win.

I did get another quite quickly after that but i felt there werent to many about, no liners and also no silver fish bites , which the week before were a nuisance, beany opposite soon gave up trying to catch carp which probably didnt help my cause as the carpnalways seem to back off to the quiet water where they are not being targeted, there is a wooden post in the water along the bank in the opposite peg and i saw it knock several times during the match where carp hit or, but i think beany made.the right choice as he was the only one i could see catchimg any silvers I did manage 8 carp during the day, 4 on bread fish half depth, one on meat at the bottom of the shelf and three on meat on top of the shelf at 16 mtrs.

As i thought would happen, adrian up on 33 had a steady day to end up with over 90lb for first on the day, catchimg most of his fish on maggot fished along the end bank, then alan oppsite had 51 to my 50, but i did get the section money by default. The weigh sheets below show how hard its fishing, but looking at other results lots of venues seem to hard at the mo, but i know that the fishery is about to undergo a restocking programme during january which shoukd see an upturn in sport, as ling as we dont go into another lockdown or we are put into tier 4 which would effectively stop competition fishing, we will have to wait and see what boris comes up with tomorrow, weds.30th.

Landsend and acorn

Sunday was the first round of Landsend fishery individual winter league, only 20 booked in, but with several matches being rearranged bue to lock down and tier restrictions it was always going to happen, damn you covid, anyway mike did the social distancing draw and pulled out peg 32 for me, certainly one of the better pegs at the fishery, its a corner peg on the speci lake so there is a long right hand margin to go at, an ideal left handers swim 😁.

Three rigs assembled, a dobbing rig for along the bank, a depth rig for along the same bank, a rig for meat in open water, nice and simple, no need for a silvers rig as its a ten peg section, so carp were definitely needed to do well, company today was merv clark to my left, and opposite was dave (beany) westcott, so nice company. I had a few Landsend legends in the section aswell, but they were definitely on inferior pegs so i shoukd be ok 👌. back to my swim and occasionally its possible to catch along the bank at a sensible distance, but ive fished the peg several times and found the need to go up to the trees to catch.

The match got underway and I started dobbing a piece of punch along the bank, and it was no suprise to me that i never had a proper bite until i got to 14 mtrs, first carp about 7lb in the net, two and a half hiurs in and i had 7 in the net, and that was my.lot, no more bread bites, i tried feeding a bit of meat, in the open water and along the edge but apart from a couple of lost foulers i couldnt get another fish, i am fairly sure that i had stuck with the bread till the end i would have had a couple more, but i cant keep my hands out of the bait box, over on 36 dan pither was fishing a tidy match, fishing bread or maggots along the far bank to end up with 14 carp and a lake and match win with 94.15, well done, and as he was standing in for martin pettiffer as a reserve , martin is off to a good start.picture of the winner and the weigh shhets below, without doubt it was rock hard in some areas, that will change, and looking at results from other fisheries it was a difficult weekend for many anglers.

Monday and i was down at acorn for the fortnightly knockup i run, with the forcast for lots of rain it was going to messy, every fishery seems to have a mud issue at the mo, but that cant be helped, no point in moaning about, just crack on.got the draw done, or so i thought, only thought 12 were fishing , wrong, 13 were in attendance, so the dreaded call for a redraw went out, i never drew in the first draw, but was happy for trig to pull out peg 5 for me second time around, bread dobbed along the far bank has been accounting for a lot of fish at this venue, so thats how i started, three lost foukers in the opening 15 minutes, then one landed correctly hooked, but no more bites , tried maggot over there aswell but only small roach seemed to be interested, so after a couple of hours i decided to go for some silvers as no one at this stage was catching to much, so i fed caster and maggot on three lines and kept rotating around, the best swim was topset and three where i had four good tench with some nice roach and a few skimmers of varying sizes from 4 to 12 ounces, the two other lines , one at 13 mtrs to the left in open water and the other at topset and three to my left just past the corner of the island, the two latter areas only produced a few roach and skimmers, i was suprised i never hooked any carp on any of the silvers line, apart from a tail hooked one which came off at the net, most peolke started catching towards the end with trig over on 11 without doubt doing the best, catching well on maggot to his left down the middle, and he did indeed win with 67lb, i managed to win the silvers with 27lb, enjoyable bit of fishing. And the rain set in with a vengeance half an hour from the end , and for the duration of the weigh in, thanks to ray cooper for doing the weigh sheet ,sheet below,no other pictures as it was a tad to damp to get the phone out.

An overdue catch up

Before i report on the fishing , a sad announcement, we lost another local star this week, unfortunately lance tucker who was an angling legend in the southwest, died suddenly at the start of the week, thoughts and condolences to the family from judith and me, he will certainly missed.And he won his last match which was the clevedon xmas match on the river kenn with a 7lb bream.

First match was a week ago at plantation on the main lake , silvers only, 18 fishing so a nice number affording everyone a bit of room, social distancing draw done and i ended up on peg 2, nice swim as its got a nice new wooden platform, , i had a nice days fishing catching 3 decent skimmers and the rest roach for 23lb and 4th on the day, dave wilmott winning off permanent peg 7 with 27lb, followed by lee waller with 26 then chris fox had 24, so a good close frame with most recording double figures, weigh sheet below.

Sunday and it down to viaduct for round three of the silvers league, i have no chance of doing any good in the leafue as i will miss three rounds so iwas just there to try and do well on the day, peg 88 was my home for the day, it can be good , but not today, 13lb, but a second in section double default section pick up softened the blow, LOL 😂. No weigh sheets availab!e as the fishery seems to have stopped posting them, and as far as i am concerned this was probably my last visit to the fishery for the foreseeable as no one can book anything other than Campbell lake for matches , the winterleague teams of 5 has been cancelled, i thing the spring league may go the same way, i normally had two rounds of my float only league on Campbell and cary , but there are no more bookings being taken for cary so i have had to go elswhere, a bit sad really, but onwards and upwards as they say. Monday and it was back to plantation for another silvers match, and it didnt dissapoint, i drew one peg further along from the last time, and again had a really good day, ending up with 28lb , a few decent skimmers and lots of roach, lovely fishing, dave willmott seems to have it sorted as he won again off permanent peg 11 with 32lb, which was 4 good perch to over 2lb and the rest was roach, all on caster at 7mtrs, 2nd was trig with 31lb and me 3rd with 28lb, then there was a couple of 24lb. Leon Hubbard and mat tomes, and again all had double figures, it is probably the best silvers fishery around at the mo, as its impossible to predict where the winner will come from, showing how unpeggy it is. lastly today and it was off to windmill for another Silverfox open, 16 in attendance and the draw put me on peg 12 which is on its own at the far end of the lake, its the shallowest peg on the lake, but it was still 6foot deep.

Fed for silvers in several spots and corn for carp in one spot, well i never had a silver of any description all match, i had 4 carp on corn at 13 mtrs, and anothe 4 at 16mtrs on maggot, made.a.grave.error in not going out to 16 mtrs earlier i should have even though i couldnt see my float to well as the sun went round directly in front, and the ripple was enough to make it hard, dave willmott won again over on peg 10 with 80 of maggot caught carp at 13 mtrs, well done

mike nicholls was 2nd with 41lb with me third with 36lb, top silvers.went to dave.poole with 7lb, weigh sheets below, for anyone who is looking for a match on monday, i am running one at acorn again, 8.30 draw, message.me.or give me a ring at premier angling on 01179867507, todays weigh sheet below.

Silverfox windmill open

With no cafe open it was a stop at maccy d for a cardboard breakfast, it nearly fills a gap but thats as good as it gets. Got to the fishery to find mark tanner doing the donkey work organising the pools and draw with mike nicholls assisting at a social distance, when my name was called out mike pulled out peg 7 for me, which is the gap between the islands, ok but a bit to far down the lake today. Any way i got to the swim and found a piece of tackle left behind by yhe previous angler to fish this peg but its ok i know who owns it and i will ensure gary etheridge gets his rod rest back as soon as i see him again.

any way inwas soon set up, a rig for maggot short (never had a bite). Another for caster or maggot over groundbait at 1 o'clock angle, and the same float and rig to fish over micros at 11 o,clock angle both at 9 mtrs with various hookbaits, the last rig.was.for corn over corn at 13 mtrs straight out.

It took me 90 minutes to get a fish and that was a lost fouled carp over the micros, then i had a waspy perch over the groundbait, that was the only over that line, then i had a small roach over the micros followed by a 5lb carp, it was proving a difficult ome today with the silvers not playing ball at all, i did get 7 carp on corn on the longer line which i thought may just sneak 40lb, i thiught i had done ok but as expected the other end fished better with kev winstone winning off peg 25 with 80lb, catching on corn at 14 mtrs, 2nd was gary bowden on peg 2 with 72lb catching his fish dobbing bread against the reeds at 17 mtrs, the silvers went to dave poole on 18 with a lowly 3lb, the venue has loads of silvers but the cold snap must have had an adverse effect on them, winners of each pictures below, for thise who dont know kev is the fat one on the right, who i would like to thank for helping with the weigh in, oh no i forgot you weren't quite ready but said you would catch up and help, luckily martin mcmahon was there to help 😂😂😂😂😂.