with both lakes being used the preferred draw would be on brick lake as the average size of the carp is much bigger, also the skimmers tend to be bigger, so as i had drawn dave evans in the knockout i let him draw for me, and i ended up on tile lake peg 32, which steve seager drew last week and had a few on the pellet wag fishing out to an island, trouble was i had to share my island with the southwest waggler ace andy lloyd,
also dave evans drew on our lake and as he was 35 so at least i could keep tabs on him.
so after putting the wag rod together with a 3ssg j range stryro wag on as these floats being made of such light materials it tends to fly straight all the time rather than seeing it helicopter through the air causing tangles.
3 pole rigs, one for banded pellet on the deck at 13 mtrs, a rig for 5 mtrs on meat (never used) and a meat rig for the margins but only tried a couple of times and then it was battered about by bits so no more of that either.
after feeding the pole lines it was out on the wag feeding 8,s and using a banded 8 on a 16 b960 hook on .16 .
andy on 33 had a couple of fish before i had a bite but i was soon getting bites and catching so the race was on, the main problem with this lake is the size of the fish the can be on the small side so fishing the wag at 40mtrs means you tend to miss a few bites, also the wind wasnt helping as it was blowing into us at about 1 o,clock angle which was worse for andy as it was blowing his wag away from the island but mine was staying put for about 10 secs before it started towing back towards me forcing me to cast again, but by keeping the work rate up i kept fish going into the net.by the halfway mark andy had stopped catching ,mainly due i think to the wind blowing his float off the island as soon as it landed, also the fact he never had a wag heavy enough to give him a bit of weight to keep his float in place for those extra seconds i did offer to lend him one but he declined as he said he would never hear the last of it (true).
the pole line was difficult , although it was fizzing i really struggled for bites on it only giving me 2 small carp and 1lb skimmer on pellet, clayton hudson on 34 was fishing paste and catching towards the end (forgot mine) so i will take some next time.
by the end i had over 30 small carp and as far as i could see was going to be enough to win the section and get through the knockout, and to make things even better i had beaten andy lloyd like a stepchild(not that i condone beating stepchildren before mr anon starts), on the whole the venue fished very fair but as expected the top weights came off brick lake with phil(fabio)harding coming out on top in a peg to peg battle with bela bakos, phil on 20 won with with 12 carp for 76.7 mainly taken shallow at 16 mtrs
2nd and 1 fish behind on peg 19 was bela bakos with 69.9, shallow again
3rd chris fox 64.15 peg 6
4th john(turkey)thompson 63.15 peg 23
5th anton page 61.15 peg 8
6th tony rixon 60.9 peg 32
7th joe mcmahon 60.3 peg 24
silvers
shane caswell 39lb peg 18 on chopped worm and caster
Monday, 18 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
weds landsend open
since my last visit to the fishery mike has worked non stop to get the lakes clear, and he has done a brilliant job, on tues myself, fabio and mike west went down to do a bit and we got quite a bit done , we finished the 7 platforms on the carpark side of the speci lake, cut a couple of trees down(well big branches)and strimmed up the margins on the speci lake, that was until the end fell off the 10ft long hedge trimmer and the drive shaft fell out of the end and sank but that was on the last peg so it wasnt to bad. i think mike is going to glad to get back to the flower shows for a rest (only joking mr anon)
back to the draw and with 17 booked in we used the match and part of the speci, i fancied a speci peg if only to sit on the new platforms, mat tomes drew for me and gave me 22 which i wasnt complaining about as it has lots of form as you have the island to fish to aswell as being able to reach the end of the island, mat had 16 himself which he wasnt moaning about. it was good to see rod wootten back on the bank after his recent illness, he seems well on the mend which is good news.
back at my swim and with a few fish up on the surface the stalker rig was assembled which is a 4x12 dibber rig on .16 with a 18 b960 on for banded 6mm and set to fish about 8 inches deep,another shallow rig at 15 inches on the same line and hook, a 4x12 rig to use on the island shelf and at the end of the island by a bush ,same line but a 16 hook, and a meat rig for the margins on .18 with a size 14 middy 9313 hook on the end.
at the start and with the sun out the cruisers were to appealing and in the first hour i had 8 fish on the stalker but after that as is normal the fish started to dissapear, but i wasnt to worried as there were fish slurping on the island where i had been firing 4mm pellets, i gave it another 30 mins chasing shadows but they seemed a bit spooky. i dropped the stalker tight to the island and had one straight away, but these fish wont stand to much of this as they know when there is a pole over there heads and soon sink away when they see it, i tried the deep rig at the end of the island and straight out against the island but all i could do was foul fish so that was put on the bank never to be used again, so the rest of the match was spent fishing shallow against the island apart from the one bite i had down the edge on meat which was a 5lb ghostie.
i must mention steve kedge who was on peg one as he really must stop talking and cursing to himself ,if he continues the men in white coats will be picking him up, but then again he will be in good company as he will probably be in the same padded room as gary etheridge lol.
by what i could see and hear no one was catching much so thing were looking good, the slightly deeper rig seemed to work a lot better but you still needed to slap it on the water to for a better response, by the end i had 13 in one net 15 in the second as i thought they were a bit smaller and 5 in the 3rd so no problems going over today!!!!!.
by the time the scales got to me mat on 16 was top with 72.5, i got my first net out with 13 in and it went 68lb ,no probs today, got my second net out with 15 fish in, bugger guess i will only be getting the net net limit of 80lb for that one then, so with the 5 from the other net i ended up with 167.5 which was enough for first (its been a while)
2nd was tom thick on 34 with 91.13 which included top silver weight of 50.5 all taken on his favoured soft pellet approach
3rd ed wynne 82.10 peg 40
4th mat tom(m)es 72.5 peg 16
5 phil harding 68.3 peg 36 which also included second in silvers with 43lb
6th martin lenaghan 61.6 peg 11
a word of warning to the silvers anglers who fish here mike has imposed a 50lb weight limit for silvers.
back to the draw and with 17 booked in we used the match and part of the speci, i fancied a speci peg if only to sit on the new platforms, mat tomes drew for me and gave me 22 which i wasnt complaining about as it has lots of form as you have the island to fish to aswell as being able to reach the end of the island, mat had 16 himself which he wasnt moaning about. it was good to see rod wootten back on the bank after his recent illness, he seems well on the mend which is good news.
back at my swim and with a few fish up on the surface the stalker rig was assembled which is a 4x12 dibber rig on .16 with a 18 b960 on for banded 6mm and set to fish about 8 inches deep,another shallow rig at 15 inches on the same line and hook, a 4x12 rig to use on the island shelf and at the end of the island by a bush ,same line but a 16 hook, and a meat rig for the margins on .18 with a size 14 middy 9313 hook on the end.
at the start and with the sun out the cruisers were to appealing and in the first hour i had 8 fish on the stalker but after that as is normal the fish started to dissapear, but i wasnt to worried as there were fish slurping on the island where i had been firing 4mm pellets, i gave it another 30 mins chasing shadows but they seemed a bit spooky. i dropped the stalker tight to the island and had one straight away, but these fish wont stand to much of this as they know when there is a pole over there heads and soon sink away when they see it, i tried the deep rig at the end of the island and straight out against the island but all i could do was foul fish so that was put on the bank never to be used again, so the rest of the match was spent fishing shallow against the island apart from the one bite i had down the edge on meat which was a 5lb ghostie.
i must mention steve kedge who was on peg one as he really must stop talking and cursing to himself ,if he continues the men in white coats will be picking him up, but then again he will be in good company as he will probably be in the same padded room as gary etheridge lol.
by what i could see and hear no one was catching much so thing were looking good, the slightly deeper rig seemed to work a lot better but you still needed to slap it on the water to for a better response, by the end i had 13 in one net 15 in the second as i thought they were a bit smaller and 5 in the 3rd so no problems going over today!!!!!.
by the time the scales got to me mat on 16 was top with 72.5, i got my first net out with 13 in and it went 68lb ,no probs today, got my second net out with 15 fish in, bugger guess i will only be getting the net net limit of 80lb for that one then, so with the 5 from the other net i ended up with 167.5 which was enough for first (its been a while)
2nd was tom thick on 34 with 91.13 which included top silver weight of 50.5 all taken on his favoured soft pellet approach
3rd ed wynne 82.10 peg 40
4th mat tom(m)es 72.5 peg 16
5 phil harding 68.3 peg 36 which also included second in silvers with 43lb
6th martin lenaghan 61.6 peg 11
a word of warning to the silvers anglers who fish here mike has imposed a 50lb weight limit for silvers.
Monday, 11 June 2012
the sedges.tile lake
it was a bit of a practice match for next weeks float only series but with only tile lake available as brick already had a match on it so the 20 pegs were sold very quickly.
a quick look at a couple of weather forecast sites revealed that we may get a bit of light rain up till midday then it would be dry with white cloud, ok so it rained from start to finish but at least there was little wind so the brolly was out.
i think anton page drew for me and i ended up with 34 in my mit, which apart from the end peg corner its the only swim on this bank without an island chuck, but with joe thompson on 33 i could sneak a couple of yards but still couldnt cast to the island, but with anton on 35 i was out of luck that side. i still set up a 4ssg pelletwag as its a long chuck to the rope on this swim, also a meat rig for down the edge , a shallow rig for hard pellet and a deep rig for the same at 16 mtrs and a rig to fish worm over g bait with chopped worm and caster in.
starting on the pelletwag i did manage 3 small carp in the first hour, and they were small as the 3 probably went 5lb if i was lucky, and then i only caught when joe wasnt looking and i could get near the end of the island, by now anton was already ahead as was trig on 36 and steve seager on 32, so it was becoming apparent that if you could cast to and down the edge of the island there were fish to be had , after about 90 mins i had managed another 2 small carp but i was going nowhere, with anton, trig and steve constantly striking at liners and missed bites it showed that an island throw was going to be essential, oh well lets try the worm line then, that was even worse as the float didnt even twitch, the only bite i had there was on double caster and that was from a 12oz skimmer firmly hooked in the tail, so the g bait and worms will probably left at home next week, a quick look down the edge and not a bite so it was out to 16 mtrs on banded 6mm over the4,s i had been feeding from the start, i did get 2 more skimmers , 2 carp a 4.14 bream and a winged eel before the bites dried up, i tried worm over the pellet and had 2 good eels but that was it on that line, i managed one bite down the edge on meat 20 mins from the end and had a 9lb carp but that was it ,there were some fish down the edge at the end as the float was moving about a bit but i couldnt get another, anton seemed to be favourite to win as he had add fish on the was all through the match but a lot of the fish are on the small size, he did try paste in the last 10 mins and had 3 bites, landing one carp losing one and missing a bite, further down the bank paul elmes had tried it towards the end and had caught a couple .
in the end anton page just came out on top with 55lb, peg 35
2nd dave roper 52.9 peg 40 ,on meat at 5mtrs
3rd craig edmunds 47lb peg 36
4th gary etheridge 40.7 peg 29
5th tom thick 35lb peg 21
6th tony rixon 34.9 peg 34
silvers
nick collins with 25.7 of small skimmers and roach on worm peg 26
i think next week its going to be pellet, meat and paste if you are going to win overall, but you may need a few worms and casters if you want silvers, but then again the skimmers on brick pond a partial to some soft pellets, who knows ?
a quick look at a couple of weather forecast sites revealed that we may get a bit of light rain up till midday then it would be dry with white cloud, ok so it rained from start to finish but at least there was little wind so the brolly was out.
i think anton page drew for me and i ended up with 34 in my mit, which apart from the end peg corner its the only swim on this bank without an island chuck, but with joe thompson on 33 i could sneak a couple of yards but still couldnt cast to the island, but with anton on 35 i was out of luck that side. i still set up a 4ssg pelletwag as its a long chuck to the rope on this swim, also a meat rig for down the edge , a shallow rig for hard pellet and a deep rig for the same at 16 mtrs and a rig to fish worm over g bait with chopped worm and caster in.
starting on the pelletwag i did manage 3 small carp in the first hour, and they were small as the 3 probably went 5lb if i was lucky, and then i only caught when joe wasnt looking and i could get near the end of the island, by now anton was already ahead as was trig on 36 and steve seager on 32, so it was becoming apparent that if you could cast to and down the edge of the island there were fish to be had , after about 90 mins i had managed another 2 small carp but i was going nowhere, with anton, trig and steve constantly striking at liners and missed bites it showed that an island throw was going to be essential, oh well lets try the worm line then, that was even worse as the float didnt even twitch, the only bite i had there was on double caster and that was from a 12oz skimmer firmly hooked in the tail, so the g bait and worms will probably left at home next week, a quick look down the edge and not a bite so it was out to 16 mtrs on banded 6mm over the4,s i had been feeding from the start, i did get 2 more skimmers , 2 carp a 4.14 bream and a winged eel before the bites dried up, i tried worm over the pellet and had 2 good eels but that was it on that line, i managed one bite down the edge on meat 20 mins from the end and had a 9lb carp but that was it ,there were some fish down the edge at the end as the float was moving about a bit but i couldnt get another, anton seemed to be favourite to win as he had add fish on the was all through the match but a lot of the fish are on the small size, he did try paste in the last 10 mins and had 3 bites, landing one carp losing one and missing a bite, further down the bank paul elmes had tried it towards the end and had caught a couple .
in the end anton page just came out on top with 55lb, peg 35
2nd dave roper 52.9 peg 40 ,on meat at 5mtrs
3rd craig edmunds 47lb peg 36
4th gary etheridge 40.7 peg 29
5th tom thick 35lb peg 21
6th tony rixon 34.9 peg 34
silvers
nick collins with 25.7 of small skimmers and roach on worm peg 26
i think next week its going to be pellet, meat and paste if you are going to win overall, but you may need a few worms and casters if you want silvers, but then again the skimmers on brick pond a partial to some soft pellets, who knows ?
Thursday, 7 June 2012
acorn fishery, paddock lake
only 15 booked in today , i think we may have been suffering from the end of a long fishing weekend , but still not to bad for a midweeker.
even though we never had the full use of the lake most had an empty peg each side, i let the genial welshman(lee wherret) draw for me and he handed me peg 6 which is a bridge peg and a flier to boot, on our last match here mr shipp drew it and had 170lb fishing 4 inches deep against the bridge but with the wind blowing strongly towards me i knew that was going to be a bit of a struggle but i set up 2 rigs for it anyway one really shallow and one 12 inches deep and 2 rigs for over against the nasty spiky grass to the left of the island, one for front edge of the grass and one for against the bank after i had been over the bridge and cut myself a gap to fish in, all rigs were on .14 with 18 b960 hooks to fish hard pellet, for company i had a supermarket bait specialist either side in the shape of alan oram on 7 and dan white the other side of the bridge on 40.
i started off feeding 6,s and using a 6 in the band, fishing the slightly deeper rig on the edge of the grass in 2 feet of water, and tried to get some 6,s somewhere near the bridge but the wind was making it difficult, and it wasnt really happening , i did get a couple on the deeper rig but i was going nowhere fast as dan on 40 was catching well on meat against the bridge , looks like a dan whitewash on the cards , alan was also finding a bit of a struggle as apart from a couple of early carp the small skimmers had discovered his meat and annoying him, i could see the usual suspects catching with anton page and tom thick catching on 5 and 33 respectivley.
i switched to the bridge but couldnt keep the rig close enough to the bridge as the wind was blowing it back at me, with 3 1/2 hours gone and next to nothing in the net and with dan still catching a few and alan had had a couple of better fish to his left at the bottom of the nearside shelf i was looking at plum last, then we had the heaviest short storm i have ever sat in without a brollie, how did we ever manage without gore-tex, tom thick sat through it as normal in shorts and flip flops, he is really going to suffer later on cos you cant keep doing this without some health problems developing, i think his grandad ray needs to give him a stearn talking to.
after the rain it was like a different lake , the wind eased and changed direction meaning i could now get 4,s to the bridge and over to the grass, after a bit of a dabble in the grass i went over to the bridge with the really shallow rig but still couldnt get a bite even with the rig sat against the steel, hmm, back out with the slightly deeper rig and i started to catch, trouble was the fish were small f1,s of less than 8oz and if i did get a carp it was just under or just over a pound, dan now stopped catching , i dont know if it was because i was now feeding the bridge or his swim just died, also the fish that he had caught were twice the size of the ones i was now getting. i kept small fish going right up to the end of the match but i was never going to do any good but i was enjoying it which is the most important thing .
alan was now getting better fish on meat tight in down to his left but it was always going to be to late for him to do any damage either.
1st went to tom thick with 163.3 on peg 33, catching on soft pellet over micro,s
2nd tony page 124.9 peg 5
3rd lee wherret 116.12 peg 16
4th alan oram 91.7 peg 7
5th kev molten 89.12 peg 3
6th chri davis 75.2 peg 14
7th tony rixon 71.15 peg 6
silvers
john baker 18.12 peg 20
joe mcmahon 14.4 peg 1
even though we never had the full use of the lake most had an empty peg each side, i let the genial welshman(lee wherret) draw for me and he handed me peg 6 which is a bridge peg and a flier to boot, on our last match here mr shipp drew it and had 170lb fishing 4 inches deep against the bridge but with the wind blowing strongly towards me i knew that was going to be a bit of a struggle but i set up 2 rigs for it anyway one really shallow and one 12 inches deep and 2 rigs for over against the nasty spiky grass to the left of the island, one for front edge of the grass and one for against the bank after i had been over the bridge and cut myself a gap to fish in, all rigs were on .14 with 18 b960 hooks to fish hard pellet, for company i had a supermarket bait specialist either side in the shape of alan oram on 7 and dan white the other side of the bridge on 40.
i started off feeding 6,s and using a 6 in the band, fishing the slightly deeper rig on the edge of the grass in 2 feet of water, and tried to get some 6,s somewhere near the bridge but the wind was making it difficult, and it wasnt really happening , i did get a couple on the deeper rig but i was going nowhere fast as dan on 40 was catching well on meat against the bridge , looks like a dan whitewash on the cards , alan was also finding a bit of a struggle as apart from a couple of early carp the small skimmers had discovered his meat and annoying him, i could see the usual suspects catching with anton page and tom thick catching on 5 and 33 respectivley.
i switched to the bridge but couldnt keep the rig close enough to the bridge as the wind was blowing it back at me, with 3 1/2 hours gone and next to nothing in the net and with dan still catching a few and alan had had a couple of better fish to his left at the bottom of the nearside shelf i was looking at plum last, then we had the heaviest short storm i have ever sat in without a brollie, how did we ever manage without gore-tex, tom thick sat through it as normal in shorts and flip flops, he is really going to suffer later on cos you cant keep doing this without some health problems developing, i think his grandad ray needs to give him a stearn talking to.
after the rain it was like a different lake , the wind eased and changed direction meaning i could now get 4,s to the bridge and over to the grass, after a bit of a dabble in the grass i went over to the bridge with the really shallow rig but still couldnt get a bite even with the rig sat against the steel, hmm, back out with the slightly deeper rig and i started to catch, trouble was the fish were small f1,s of less than 8oz and if i did get a carp it was just under or just over a pound, dan now stopped catching , i dont know if it was because i was now feeding the bridge or his swim just died, also the fish that he had caught were twice the size of the ones i was now getting. i kept small fish going right up to the end of the match but i was never going to do any good but i was enjoying it which is the most important thing .
alan was now getting better fish on meat tight in down to his left but it was always going to be to late for him to do any damage either.
1st went to tom thick with 163.3 on peg 33, catching on soft pellet over micro,s
2nd tony page 124.9 peg 5
3rd lee wherret 116.12 peg 16
4th alan oram 91.7 peg 7
5th kev molten 89.12 peg 3
6th chri davis 75.2 peg 14
7th tony rixon 71.15 peg 6
silvers
john baker 18.12 peg 20
joe mcmahon 14.4 peg 1
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
short pole match at viaduct fishery
this proved to be a more popular match than i expected, as we were limited to only using a topset and 3 more sections so about 7mtrs for all, it was that popular 50 were booked in so we were using cambell, cary and lodge lakes, with cary being hard at the present a draw on the other 2 would be favourite, and i wasnt dissapointed as i pulled peg 118 which is 2 out of the corner which has been a form peg of late, that swim was occupied by alex murray today so there was little chance of me drawing any fish from that direction ,the other side and on 116 was alan oram , so the anglers either side would be fishing meat so i decided on a pellet approach in front and a meat swim down the edge, so i set up a 4x14 with a 16 b960 for pellet on .16 and a 4x12 rig on .18 for meat down the edge, with the tree,s behind me acting like a wind break i could put the brolly up which was nice as it was pouring down by the time the match started, it didnt take long to get my first carp probably about 3 mins, i was loose feeding 4,s and fishing a 6 in the band, and also all the time feeding a few bits of meat down the edge, the match went really fast as it was enjoyable fishing and easy on the joints a we didnt have to wave 16 mtrs about, the people i could see catching were des shipp on 135, barry fitchew aka black boris on 115 and i expected craig trig edmunds on 110 to be catching, the bankside bush telegraph informed us that the other 2 lakes seemed to be fishing hard with cary certainly being the most difficult, alex on 119 probably didnt have quite so many fish as me but his were of a better stamp, perhaps it was the meat or maybe it was just location that dictates the size of the fish you catch, who knows,in the end it was that man des again who took top spot on 135 with 225.11 of mainly meat caught fish, out in front ,then down the edge towards the end
2nd craig edmunds on 110 with 184.8 again on meat
3rd barry fitchew 179.03 on 115 again meat
4th chris davis 160.12 peg 59 again meat
5th alex murray 157.10 peg 119 again meat
has anyone spotted the best method yet
6th and should have fished meat but never and and had 3 1/2lb to much in one net so i had to give a quid to alex was tony rixon with 155.08, mainly on pellet except for 3 fish on meat down the edge
silvers
tony page 39.5 on peg 70 all skimmers on yes youve guessed it , meat but only 6mm chunks
oh well off to acorn tomorrow for another go and with des not fishing someone else may get a look in for first spot,
and no more mr ananomous please put your names to any comments ,ye like thats really going to happen
2nd craig edmunds on 110 with 184.8 again on meat
3rd barry fitchew 179.03 on 115 again meat
4th chris davis 160.12 peg 59 again meat
5th alex murray 157.10 peg 119 again meat
has anyone spotted the best method yet
6th and should have fished meat but never and and had 3 1/2lb to much in one net so i had to give a quid to alex was tony rixon with 155.08, mainly on pellet except for 3 fish on meat down the edge
silvers
tony page 39.5 on peg 70 all skimmers on yes youve guessed it , meat but only 6mm chunks
oh well off to acorn tomorrow for another go and with des not fishing someone else may get a look in for first spot,
and no more mr ananomous please put your names to any comments ,ye like thats really going to happen
Thursday, 31 May 2012
landsend weds open
firstly i have got to say the shipham breakfast is lovely so its good to see it has reopened as its a good stop off cafe for nearly all venues to the south, and as long as it keeps being good the new owners should do well, time will tell.
with 15 fishing we just stayed on the match lake, with the fish still spawning until tues morning it could be a testing day as the carp seemed to be happy to be laying back on the surface having a fag and a coffee to recover,
i let des shipp draw for me and he pulled out 2 tickets and i took the wrong one as i opened up and number 13 was looking at me, whilst des opened up peg 5 , bugger i chose the wrong one. and with tom thick pulling 19 i thought the writing was going to be on the wall again, best hope for the rest of us was 3rd place.
back to my peg and arriving at the swim there were plenty of carp on the surface sunning them selves, so i set up the normal mugging rig with an 18 b960 on .16. a 4x10 rig for fishing on the top of the shelf up the left hand margin in 2ft of water on .16 with a 16 b960, and a 4x12 for meat in the right hand margin, for company i had joe thompson opposite on 11 and the old granny fleecer himself ken rayner(fishinken)on 15.
at the start it was straight out on the mugger and i hooked one first attempt, which is normal, but after landing it most of the other shadows had dissapeared, i did stick with it for the first hour and did get another 3 but going in to the 2nd hour it became clear that it wasnt going to happen on this method today, so it was into the left hand margin and over to the island on banded 8mm, the left hand margin is full of snags with branches and brambles littering the bottom , but if you go 16.5 mtrs up the bank to just past a wooden post sticking out of the water the bottom is quite clean so you can fish properly, also its the same distance to the island so a hard day was in the offing. what made it more difficult was that you couldnt feed up the left as there is a tree at 8mtrs which has some sticking out which stops the flight of the pellets so everything had to be cupped to that spot which is hard work at that distance, the island was easier as the catty did the work, so the next 3 hours were spent swapping between the island and the left hand margin catching the odd carp but they were on the small side, my biggest fish were the two i had straight away on the mugger rig. i did try and catch short up the left hand side as there is a spot at 8mtr , i did manage 2 small ones from there but then got beaten up bably in more underwater snags so i binned that line, the meat line gave me 6 fish towards the end but again i lost 2 fish with rigs in a snag , if the fish swam out it was ok but if they skooted along the bank the snag got me, i will be taking the old stinger basher with stronger elastic in the future.
being up in the corner its hard to see whats going on ,i could see a bit of splashing from toms peg but that was the only real action i could see, ken had a few and joe opposite had begun to catch late on meat in his margin, but i never had a clue as to how the other bank had fished.
luckily mike duckett and tom thick had started the weigh in so i was just a scales spectator today which was nice, no one had much in the first couple of pegs but des was admitting to having a really nice!!!!!!!!! day on the silvers and he wasnt wrong as he put 75.8 of silvers on the scales and 49lb of carp for 124.8 and first on the day, he caught all his fish on single caster fished to the far bank between 6 and 12 inches deep and feeding with a catty was much better than cupping, he is certainly a hard man to beat on any method and venue he turns up to.
spare a thought for our own silvers ace john(the gimp)bradford on peg 6 who had sit and watch it and he only had one bite on caster, but i did warn him that des would steal all his fish off him
2nd tom thick 106.2 peg 19
3rd tony rixon 86.8 peg 13
4th ken(the savings stealer)rayner 59.7 peg 15
5th chris davis 58.15 peg 24
6th ed wynne 49.13 peg 3
silvers des shipp 75.8 peg 5 catching chub, ide,perch,rudd,skimmers,tench well everything really lol, the man is a bit of a fenomenom really. i know that word begins with a ph but the word i really wanted to use also begins with an f but i cant put it on here cos my mum reads it
with 15 fishing we just stayed on the match lake, with the fish still spawning until tues morning it could be a testing day as the carp seemed to be happy to be laying back on the surface having a fag and a coffee to recover,
i let des shipp draw for me and he pulled out 2 tickets and i took the wrong one as i opened up and number 13 was looking at me, whilst des opened up peg 5 , bugger i chose the wrong one. and with tom thick pulling 19 i thought the writing was going to be on the wall again, best hope for the rest of us was 3rd place.
back to my peg and arriving at the swim there were plenty of carp on the surface sunning them selves, so i set up the normal mugging rig with an 18 b960 on .16. a 4x10 rig for fishing on the top of the shelf up the left hand margin in 2ft of water on .16 with a 16 b960, and a 4x12 for meat in the right hand margin, for company i had joe thompson opposite on 11 and the old granny fleecer himself ken rayner(fishinken)on 15.
at the start it was straight out on the mugger and i hooked one first attempt, which is normal, but after landing it most of the other shadows had dissapeared, i did stick with it for the first hour and did get another 3 but going in to the 2nd hour it became clear that it wasnt going to happen on this method today, so it was into the left hand margin and over to the island on banded 8mm, the left hand margin is full of snags with branches and brambles littering the bottom , but if you go 16.5 mtrs up the bank to just past a wooden post sticking out of the water the bottom is quite clean so you can fish properly, also its the same distance to the island so a hard day was in the offing. what made it more difficult was that you couldnt feed up the left as there is a tree at 8mtrs which has some sticking out which stops the flight of the pellets so everything had to be cupped to that spot which is hard work at that distance, the island was easier as the catty did the work, so the next 3 hours were spent swapping between the island and the left hand margin catching the odd carp but they were on the small side, my biggest fish were the two i had straight away on the mugger rig. i did try and catch short up the left hand side as there is a spot at 8mtr , i did manage 2 small ones from there but then got beaten up bably in more underwater snags so i binned that line, the meat line gave me 6 fish towards the end but again i lost 2 fish with rigs in a snag , if the fish swam out it was ok but if they skooted along the bank the snag got me, i will be taking the old stinger basher with stronger elastic in the future.
being up in the corner its hard to see whats going on ,i could see a bit of splashing from toms peg but that was the only real action i could see, ken had a few and joe opposite had begun to catch late on meat in his margin, but i never had a clue as to how the other bank had fished.
luckily mike duckett and tom thick had started the weigh in so i was just a scales spectator today which was nice, no one had much in the first couple of pegs but des was admitting to having a really nice!!!!!!!!! day on the silvers and he wasnt wrong as he put 75.8 of silvers on the scales and 49lb of carp for 124.8 and first on the day, he caught all his fish on single caster fished to the far bank between 6 and 12 inches deep and feeding with a catty was much better than cupping, he is certainly a hard man to beat on any method and venue he turns up to.
spare a thought for our own silvers ace john(the gimp)bradford on peg 6 who had sit and watch it and he only had one bite on caster, but i did warn him that des would steal all his fish off him
2nd tom thick 106.2 peg 19
3rd tony rixon 86.8 peg 13
4th ken(the savings stealer)rayner 59.7 peg 15
5th chris davis 58.15 peg 24
6th ed wynne 49.13 peg 3
silvers des shipp 75.8 peg 5 catching chub, ide,perch,rudd,skimmers,tench well everything really lol, the man is a bit of a fenomenom really. i know that word begins with a ph but the word i really wanted to use also begins with an f but i cant put it on here cos my mum reads it
Monday, 28 May 2012
chilton trinity , wildmarsh lake
it was good to see shipham cafe open again and i must say it was a very good breakafast, so it is definately near the top of the breakkie stops for now,
getting to the fishery it was apparent that the fish had just finished spawning so we were going to be in for a dour day. trig edmunds drew for me and handed me peg 30 which is the same peg as last time, its a right flier for skimmers and last time i had 2 carp and a tench down the edge to give me second spot, being out on a spit you have a lot of water to play with but getting to the peg it looked decidedly fishless, with most of the carp around the corner to my right from peg 25 round to about peg 7,
i set up rigs for hard and soft pellet at 14 and for 3 spots as its the same depth , a meat rig for the margin and a caster rig for close and a pellet wag just in case, oh yes and a paste rig as the bigger skimmers aswell as the carp seem to like it, for company i had steve seager on 29 and he had much the same rig wise set up.
at the start i fed all lines and went out on the pellet wag just in case i could get an early mug fish, but as there were hardly any showing in this part of the lake i wasnt holding my breath, and i wasnt dissapointed after 15 biteless minutes that was up the bank, i did try it again at odd times when i could see a cruiser but they werent interested, the pole line wasnt much better as in the next hour i had 2 small skimmers on hard pellet over softened 4,s, there just didnt seem to be any fish there as there was no fizzing which you normally get on this venue, even when we fished it back in march it was bubbleing. halfway through i went down the edge and had a couple of liners before i hooked a 10lb skinny common so perhaps things were looking up, but no i had to wait until 15 mins from the end for another bite down there and i missed what i would say was an unmissable bite, and with it fishing hard i thought that would be my only chance of picking up a bit of coinage, by now steve seager had sloped off home as all he could muster were a few eels and small roach on caster, my caster line gave me one bite and that was from an 8oz eel, and that was my lot really, i could get bites on the long pole line on hard and soft pellet and corn but when i did connect it was just a small roach on the end, i weighed 12.2 which was not going to be any good today.
1st went to andy hemdrow on peg 9 with 6 carp for 33lb, all taken fishing meat down to empty peg 8
2nd adrian jeffery 32.13 peg 21
3rd mike west 32.6 peg 11
4th paul elmes 24.8 peg 63
5th craig edmunds 15.4 peg 14
6th dave roper 14.4 peg 67
silvers
glen calvert 11.4 on peg 57, lots of plippy roach and rudd on caster in the edge on his topset
i think it was just down to the rigors of spawning as to why it didnt fish also what fish were feeding had loads of spawn to munch on which obviously tastes much better than anything we had to offer.
getting to the fishery it was apparent that the fish had just finished spawning so we were going to be in for a dour day. trig edmunds drew for me and handed me peg 30 which is the same peg as last time, its a right flier for skimmers and last time i had 2 carp and a tench down the edge to give me second spot, being out on a spit you have a lot of water to play with but getting to the peg it looked decidedly fishless, with most of the carp around the corner to my right from peg 25 round to about peg 7,
i set up rigs for hard and soft pellet at 14 and for 3 spots as its the same depth , a meat rig for the margin and a caster rig for close and a pellet wag just in case, oh yes and a paste rig as the bigger skimmers aswell as the carp seem to like it, for company i had steve seager on 29 and he had much the same rig wise set up.
at the start i fed all lines and went out on the pellet wag just in case i could get an early mug fish, but as there were hardly any showing in this part of the lake i wasnt holding my breath, and i wasnt dissapointed after 15 biteless minutes that was up the bank, i did try it again at odd times when i could see a cruiser but they werent interested, the pole line wasnt much better as in the next hour i had 2 small skimmers on hard pellet over softened 4,s, there just didnt seem to be any fish there as there was no fizzing which you normally get on this venue, even when we fished it back in march it was bubbleing. halfway through i went down the edge and had a couple of liners before i hooked a 10lb skinny common so perhaps things were looking up, but no i had to wait until 15 mins from the end for another bite down there and i missed what i would say was an unmissable bite, and with it fishing hard i thought that would be my only chance of picking up a bit of coinage, by now steve seager had sloped off home as all he could muster were a few eels and small roach on caster, my caster line gave me one bite and that was from an 8oz eel, and that was my lot really, i could get bites on the long pole line on hard and soft pellet and corn but when i did connect it was just a small roach on the end, i weighed 12.2 which was not going to be any good today.
1st went to andy hemdrow on peg 9 with 6 carp for 33lb, all taken fishing meat down to empty peg 8
2nd adrian jeffery 32.13 peg 21
3rd mike west 32.6 peg 11
4th paul elmes 24.8 peg 63
5th craig edmunds 15.4 peg 14
6th dave roper 14.4 peg 67
silvers
glen calvert 11.4 on peg 57, lots of plippy roach and rudd on caster in the edge on his topset
i think it was just down to the rigors of spawning as to why it didnt fish also what fish were feeding had loads of spawn to munch on which obviously tastes much better than anything we had to offer.
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