16 fishing today but we only used the match lake as it fished so well with 15 on it on sunday, the chances of a repeat performance today were unlikely, but you never know.
as roger andoniou normally draws for me we had a bit of a change today and i drew for him and gave him peg 5 so he was quite happy as he tends to draw 24 a lot so it was nice to give him a bit of a change of scenery. after the way it fished after the weekend a draw between 18 and 22 would be nice but ray white pulled me 15 which is ok and shawn townsend had 101lb off it sunday and its always capable of throwing up a good weight be it silvers or carp, for company i had northern exile of 35years, ray bazeley on 15 and cockney reject adrian jeffery on 13, with the weekend slayer anton page drawing peg 10 and looking totally confused about things as it looked as though he may have to actually feed something to encourage fish into his peg and tom mangnal on 8 was doing the same.
3 rigs for pellet, one stalker/slapper rig, a 4x10 for on the deck on top of the shelf against the island and a 4x14 fir 6 mtrs all to fish hard 6,s over loosefed 4,s, and a 4x12 meat rig for the margins.
right on que as the match began the wind picked up making all but impossible for the anglers on the favoured pegs further down the lake to slap there rigs around properly so our more sheltered end was looking better all the time, the first 45 mins were spent stalking/slapping but with very few fish showing it was never going to be method today, i did get 1 and bump one and sneak two more during the match but i dont think there were enough fish at this end to make it viable , also the 6mtr line which can be good for quality silvers was only giving me roach which is always a bad sign and with not even a bubble coming up i can only guess that the skimmers had probably followed the wind and were at the other end of the lake, or they were just being to sneaky for me today.
most of the match was spent against the island, the carp were slurping up the bank but with the sun behind us causing the pole to cast a shadow the fish would dissapear so the deep rig against the island was the best rig , i did hook 5 fish on meat down the edge but lost 3 in a snag with the last one snapping the elastic pulling for a break (.20 is strong), i ended up with 16 carp and a few silvers for what i thought would go about 80lb.
first on the day went to tom mangnal on 8 with 102.10 catching on caster down the edge in the last half of the match, he also had top silvers weight on the day with 22.10 tom lost 7lb for being over the net limit but he didnt need it so nothing lost.
2nd tony rixon peg 15 with 87lb
3rd mike nicholls 79lb peg 1
4th adrian jefferey 70.12 peg 13
5th tom thick 70.5 peg 21
6th nigel bartlett 56.10 peg 24
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Monday, 9 July 2012
float only league, rnd 4 landsend fishery
full turn out of 40 today and i really needed a good draw as a section win was what i needed to keep me in contention for the league plus i was still in the knockout and was drawn against steve seager, i let steve draw for me and he handed me peg 3 on the match lake which section wise was only realistically worth 3 rd in section, that is unless i get a silvers angler each side on 1 and 5, but no such luck as tom thick was on 1 and even bob gullick on 5 would have to do something really bad not to catch(lol)
at least manged to draw himself a not to good peg on lake 3 (66)so at least my k/o hopes may still be alive.
there seemed to be a few fish on the top in the open water pegs and quite a few in groups following each other which makes you think that another spawning may be on the cards, this weather may be just as confusing to the fish as much as it is to us.
rigs today were mainly pellet rigs, a 4x14 for hard 6,s over loose fed 4,s at 5mtrs with an 18 b960 on .14. a couple of rigs for over against the island ,one for slurpers at 6 inches deep and one for on the deck against the islandboth on .16 with an 18 b960, and a mear fig for the left hand margin by a bush on .16 with a xedion txr 14 on the end.
starting at 5 mtrs on hard pellet after 10 mins i had 1 good skimmer and a carp in the net and by the end of the first hour i had 3 more carp and some more skimmers plus a tench, by now i was already behind bob on 5 who was trying to catch silvers but the carp were getting in the way so he decided to give in and fish for them, tom on 1 was having a temper tantrum and threatening to pack up as he was doing his best to drag the island closer but he soon settled down and began stalking a few and they were better fish so my 3 rd in section was looking like it was a certainty, i stayed on the 5 mtr line till the end of the 2nd hour but the area was now lifeless so a switch to the far side was called for but that was a bit of a non starter, you normally see fish against the bank but there seemed to be only odd fish moving and apart from two lost foulers i couldnt get a bite, a look on the inside meat line ended with a 7lb carp then no more indications , by now tom was ahead as he was getting odd fish shallow and i new bob was dtill catching as he is a right chatterbox when he is catching, also anton page on 19 was sacking and tom mangnal on 21 was getting a few so that seemed like first and second on our lake at least taken care of,
the last couple of hours of my match were spent switching between the far side and the margin meat line getting odd carp and a couple more decent skimmers by the end i had 12 carp and some good silvers but as expected i ended up 3rd in section with tom having 107lb and bob g having 120, i was suprised to have 104lb which included 31lb of silvers which was enough for second in the silvers today and with steve seager dnwing at least i was into the k/o final along with shawn townsend,niel mercer and craig edmunds so up against three draw bag merchants like that a flier peg is going to be needed at the sedges in the next round,
1st on the day was tony page on peg 19 with 279lb of shallow caught carp feeding 6pts of 6mm pellets
2nd tom mangnal 152lb peg 21
3rd bob gullick 120.11 peg 5
4th mike nicholls 116.9 peg 18
5th clayton hudson 107.8 peg 34(again)on worm and caster, which included the top silvers weight of 36.12
6th tom thick 107.5 peg 1
i will get the list of people who are in contention up on here by the end of the week
at least manged to draw himself a not to good peg on lake 3 (66)so at least my k/o hopes may still be alive.
there seemed to be a few fish on the top in the open water pegs and quite a few in groups following each other which makes you think that another spawning may be on the cards, this weather may be just as confusing to the fish as much as it is to us.
rigs today were mainly pellet rigs, a 4x14 for hard 6,s over loose fed 4,s at 5mtrs with an 18 b960 on .14. a couple of rigs for over against the island ,one for slurpers at 6 inches deep and one for on the deck against the islandboth on .16 with an 18 b960, and a mear fig for the left hand margin by a bush on .16 with a xedion txr 14 on the end.
starting at 5 mtrs on hard pellet after 10 mins i had 1 good skimmer and a carp in the net and by the end of the first hour i had 3 more carp and some more skimmers plus a tench, by now i was already behind bob on 5 who was trying to catch silvers but the carp were getting in the way so he decided to give in and fish for them, tom on 1 was having a temper tantrum and threatening to pack up as he was doing his best to drag the island closer but he soon settled down and began stalking a few and they were better fish so my 3 rd in section was looking like it was a certainty, i stayed on the 5 mtr line till the end of the 2nd hour but the area was now lifeless so a switch to the far side was called for but that was a bit of a non starter, you normally see fish against the bank but there seemed to be only odd fish moving and apart from two lost foulers i couldnt get a bite, a look on the inside meat line ended with a 7lb carp then no more indications , by now tom was ahead as he was getting odd fish shallow and i new bob was dtill catching as he is a right chatterbox when he is catching, also anton page on 19 was sacking and tom mangnal on 21 was getting a few so that seemed like first and second on our lake at least taken care of,
the last couple of hours of my match were spent switching between the far side and the margin meat line getting odd carp and a couple more decent skimmers by the end i had 12 carp and some good silvers but as expected i ended up 3rd in section with tom having 107lb and bob g having 120, i was suprised to have 104lb which included 31lb of silvers which was enough for second in the silvers today and with steve seager dnwing at least i was into the k/o final along with shawn townsend,niel mercer and craig edmunds so up against three draw bag merchants like that a flier peg is going to be needed at the sedges in the next round,
1st on the day was tony page on peg 19 with 279lb of shallow caught carp feeding 6pts of 6mm pellets
2nd tom mangnal 152lb peg 21
3rd bob gullick 120.11 peg 5
4th mike nicholls 116.9 peg 18
5th clayton hudson 107.8 peg 34(again)on worm and caster, which included the top silvers weight of 36.12
6th tom thick 107.5 peg 1
i will get the list of people who are in contention up on here by the end of the week
Thursday, 5 July 2012
acorn weds match on paddock lake
it shows how popular this venue is when you get over 20 fishing and today was no different as i had 25 names so a decent match was on the cards.
the oldest angler on the planet in the shape of roger andoniou drew for me and handed me peg 16 which is on the back bank straight, for company i had travelling partner dean malin on my right and toothy legend anton page on my left so no easy day today,
the three of us were all going to fish differently with dean mainly targetting the middle, anton going for the soft pellet approach to the far side and me , well the normal hard pellet was going in, i did want to bring some casters but i sold them all and as it turned out they would have been useful, i set up several rigs for across which included on the deck close in, 2 inches deep for in the grass, half depth and one for on the deck about a mtr off.
to say it was a difficult day would be an understatement as i had no problem getting fish up into the shallow water but they were hard to hook in the mouth, although i went over the bridge before the start and cleared the spiky grass away i dont think i did enough and i never cleared the dead stuff off the bottom as i was constantly catching dead stuff on the hook. then the ducks turn up and push a load of the cut stuff off the bank and onto the surface as they set about eating the overshoot of my pellets, the fish dont mind the ducks, in fact i think they like it as the water gets churned up and coloured and you can see tails amongst the wedded feet, the main problem was that when you got your pellet through the mess i couldnt lift and drop as the pellet would get stuck up on a bit of crap, so once the bait got to the deck i had to leave it but all that did was result in foulers, i did get a few in the grass but i never really got in contention during the match, i could see mike west on 5 catching and i thought i glimpsed mike nicholls on 31 sneaking some out, by the end i reckoned i had 60lb and i wasnt to far out i weighed 59.5, dean had 50.9 and anton ended with 59.7 so there possibly wasnt enough carp in the area to do any damage or we were just rubbish, anton did get some late fish on caster towards the end as did mat tomes on 13 and it turned out mike nicholls fish caster down his edge for over 100lb, so perhaps i will keep some casters for myself next time.
1st on the day was mike west with 112.5 off peg 5 on meat to the far bank at the start then paste down his left hand margin
2nd chris davis on peg 7 with 105.12
3rd mike nicholls peg 31 with 101.10 which included top silvers weight on the day with 36.2 which looked like a real mixture of all the species of silvers which inhabit the lake
4th nick collier 86.2 peg 38
5th tom mangnal 85.10 peg 26
6th mat tomes 82.3 peg 13
the oldest angler on the planet in the shape of roger andoniou drew for me and handed me peg 16 which is on the back bank straight, for company i had travelling partner dean malin on my right and toothy legend anton page on my left so no easy day today,
the three of us were all going to fish differently with dean mainly targetting the middle, anton going for the soft pellet approach to the far side and me , well the normal hard pellet was going in, i did want to bring some casters but i sold them all and as it turned out they would have been useful, i set up several rigs for across which included on the deck close in, 2 inches deep for in the grass, half depth and one for on the deck about a mtr off.
to say it was a difficult day would be an understatement as i had no problem getting fish up into the shallow water but they were hard to hook in the mouth, although i went over the bridge before the start and cleared the spiky grass away i dont think i did enough and i never cleared the dead stuff off the bottom as i was constantly catching dead stuff on the hook. then the ducks turn up and push a load of the cut stuff off the bank and onto the surface as they set about eating the overshoot of my pellets, the fish dont mind the ducks, in fact i think they like it as the water gets churned up and coloured and you can see tails amongst the wedded feet, the main problem was that when you got your pellet through the mess i couldnt lift and drop as the pellet would get stuck up on a bit of crap, so once the bait got to the deck i had to leave it but all that did was result in foulers, i did get a few in the grass but i never really got in contention during the match, i could see mike west on 5 catching and i thought i glimpsed mike nicholls on 31 sneaking some out, by the end i reckoned i had 60lb and i wasnt to far out i weighed 59.5, dean had 50.9 and anton ended with 59.7 so there possibly wasnt enough carp in the area to do any damage or we were just rubbish, anton did get some late fish on caster towards the end as did mat tomes on 13 and it turned out mike nicholls fish caster down his edge for over 100lb, so perhaps i will keep some casters for myself next time.
1st on the day was mike west with 112.5 off peg 5 on meat to the far bank at the start then paste down his left hand margin
2nd chris davis on peg 7 with 105.12
3rd mike nicholls peg 31 with 101.10 which included top silvers weight on the day with 36.2 which looked like a real mixture of all the species of silvers which inhabit the lake
4th nick collier 86.2 peg 38
5th tom mangnal 85.10 peg 26
6th mat tomes 82.3 peg 13
Monday, 2 July 2012
short pole match at viaduct fishery
cambell lake was being used today and with 20 booked in it looked like a good day was going to be had, after a good brekkie at lillypool cafe we got to the fishery at just gone 9 and were greeted bt fish spawning again with carp, tench and bream all seeming to be having a go, so perhaps it wasnt going to be so good after all.
i let fishery owner steve long draw for me and i ended up with 123 in my hand which is another corner peg which usually responds to a long pole approach up the left hand margin but with only the topset and three more sections allowed that wasnt going to happen, steve told me that an angler had 70lb of skimmers on paste at 3mtrs last week so i went to the peg quite happy.
not being the biggest fan of paste fishing i decided on a pellet approach so i set up a 4x12 rig with an 18 b960 on .16 for banded 6,s over 4,s its an approach that has been quite effective recently so i expected it to work today, that is of course as long as the skimmers havnt swum away, also a shallow pellet rig was put together but with a 16 hook on for banded 8mm(more noise) and a meat rig for the margin.
at the start i began feeding 4,s at 6mtrs and meat into the margin, it didnt take long for the fizzing to start but it was hard to get a proper bite and by the end of the first hour all i had to show for my efforts were a few small skimmers and one carp, looking down the lake i could see carp being caught with mike nicholls on 111 seemingly catching well, but i didnt realise he was losing lots , dean on 135 was netting a few as was andy bryant on 112.
the end of the second hour and i had added a couple more carp to the net but it wasnt electric by any means with the skimmers obviously far more interested in either making or eating spawn, so by the halfway mark a switch to feeding and fishing 8,s seemed to improve things, foulers were still a problem but at least i was now getting more fish on the end, a look shallow produced 1 fish and the pellet was being battered around by small fish , the best rig seemed to be something with only 3x10,s down the line and fished at full depth and keep lifting and dropping , the meat line in the margin only gave me 2 carp, one tench plus a few better skimmers, but again small fish battering the meat into a marble shape were being a problem.
by the end it was impossible to predict who had won as most seemed to have caught well, all i knew was that it wasnt going to be me !!!!, walking down to help with the weigh in sean townsend on 128 was admitting to 180lb so he looked a clear favourite, and with dean on 135 reckoning on 150lb there seemed only the minor berths up for grabs,
1st on the day went the way of sean with 191.12 caught mainly on meat into the corner by the spit
2nd dean malin 165.15 peg 135 with pellet shallow being the best
3rd craig edmunds 139.8 peg 120 with a late run of fish shallow down the edge
4th paul elmes 136.12 peg 127
5th tony rixon 115.14 peg 123
6th phil harding 110.4 peg 129
silvers
john bradford 19.12 peg 116 with a mixture on worm and caster
i think the spawning upset the fish today as they were hard to pin down for most and a lot of the carp had very little slime on so they obviousy had more than eating on there minds but still a very good match none the less, again proving that you dont need to fish in the middle of the lake to catch fish, especially on well stocked lakes such as cambell, and i have run short pole matches on landsend and i know that they run a topset series at the sedges and they are always close run things, also the joints dont seem to ache as much the next day
i let fishery owner steve long draw for me and i ended up with 123 in my hand which is another corner peg which usually responds to a long pole approach up the left hand margin but with only the topset and three more sections allowed that wasnt going to happen, steve told me that an angler had 70lb of skimmers on paste at 3mtrs last week so i went to the peg quite happy.
not being the biggest fan of paste fishing i decided on a pellet approach so i set up a 4x12 rig with an 18 b960 on .16 for banded 6,s over 4,s its an approach that has been quite effective recently so i expected it to work today, that is of course as long as the skimmers havnt swum away, also a shallow pellet rig was put together but with a 16 hook on for banded 8mm(more noise) and a meat rig for the margin.
at the start i began feeding 4,s at 6mtrs and meat into the margin, it didnt take long for the fizzing to start but it was hard to get a proper bite and by the end of the first hour all i had to show for my efforts were a few small skimmers and one carp, looking down the lake i could see carp being caught with mike nicholls on 111 seemingly catching well, but i didnt realise he was losing lots , dean on 135 was netting a few as was andy bryant on 112.
the end of the second hour and i had added a couple more carp to the net but it wasnt electric by any means with the skimmers obviously far more interested in either making or eating spawn, so by the halfway mark a switch to feeding and fishing 8,s seemed to improve things, foulers were still a problem but at least i was now getting more fish on the end, a look shallow produced 1 fish and the pellet was being battered around by small fish , the best rig seemed to be something with only 3x10,s down the line and fished at full depth and keep lifting and dropping , the meat line in the margin only gave me 2 carp, one tench plus a few better skimmers, but again small fish battering the meat into a marble shape were being a problem.
by the end it was impossible to predict who had won as most seemed to have caught well, all i knew was that it wasnt going to be me !!!!, walking down to help with the weigh in sean townsend on 128 was admitting to 180lb so he looked a clear favourite, and with dean on 135 reckoning on 150lb there seemed only the minor berths up for grabs,
1st on the day went the way of sean with 191.12 caught mainly on meat into the corner by the spit
2nd dean malin 165.15 peg 135 with pellet shallow being the best
3rd craig edmunds 139.8 peg 120 with a late run of fish shallow down the edge
4th paul elmes 136.12 peg 127
5th tony rixon 115.14 peg 123
6th phil harding 110.4 peg 129
silvers
john bradford 19.12 peg 116 with a mixture on worm and caster
i think the spawning upset the fish today as they were hard to pin down for most and a lot of the carp had very little slime on so they obviousy had more than eating on there minds but still a very good match none the less, again proving that you dont need to fish in the middle of the lake to catch fish, especially on well stocked lakes such as cambell, and i have run short pole matches on landsend and i know that they run a topset series at the sedges and they are always close run things, also the joints dont seem to ache as much the next day
Thursday, 28 June 2012
landsend weds open
with 16 on the bank , again mike let us use the match and part of the speci lake.
roger andoniou was fishing again so i let him draw for me so i ended up on 33 which is in the corner of the speci lake behind the porta cabin, a good draw although it hasnt produced a winner recently but its always in with a good shout. for company i had the owner of bridgwater,s finest wood butchery firm in the shape of mike west, so a bit of banter was going to happen and he would keep me entertained with his lady ga ga songs (but i never heard one all day he must have forgotten them, may be an age thing).
the plan of attack today was feed 6,s and fish 8,s and 6,s over them, rigs today were a deep rig to fish out to the aerater at 16 mtrs , a half depth rig(never used), and a couple of proper shallow rigs , one for 10 to 20 inches and a real shallow rig to fish 6 inches deep against the end bank if they started slurping off the bank.
at the start i began feeding 6,s out to the aerater and along the end bank, after 30 mins on the deck with nothing to show but a 1lb skimmer on banded 8mm i binned that rig never to pick it up again.with a bit of fizzing going on i fully expected to be catching carp shallow but all i could get inittially was roach, it took 30 mins before i had my first carp and during the next 90 mnis i had about 5 mre plus some f1,s but by now the fizzing had stopped which was a bit weird as you cant normally see the float for bubbles in this peg and i wasnt getting a bite from anything, mike next door had a carp early on but was now trying to catch silvers down the middle on a variety of baits from meat through to paste but wasnt really going anywhere, i could see the end of dean malins pole going in and out on 36 but that turned out to be mainly silvers, so i spent the rest of the match up the edge shallow fishing between 6 and 12 inches deep, fishing 6 inches when there were some fish visible and 12 inches when nothing was showing, i ended up with over 20 carp but they were mostly on the small side with the biggest probably only going about 8lb, normally you could expect a few good doubles but not today.
first on the day went to phil(fabio)harding on 21 with 129.8 fishing shallow to the far side
2nd was me with 124.11 peg 33
3rd tom mangnal 114.13 peg 15
4th tom thick 99.3 peg 19
5th dan pither 99.3 peg 1
6th john(turkey)thompson 60.3 peg 40
silvers
nigel bartlett 39.9 with a mixture of fish on peg 11 using chopped worm and caster
2nd dean malin 34.4 peg 36
it fished quite hard today with the weights coming from form pegs who knows why fish can be funny things
roger andoniou was fishing again so i let him draw for me so i ended up on 33 which is in the corner of the speci lake behind the porta cabin, a good draw although it hasnt produced a winner recently but its always in with a good shout. for company i had the owner of bridgwater,s finest wood butchery firm in the shape of mike west, so a bit of banter was going to happen and he would keep me entertained with his lady ga ga songs (but i never heard one all day he must have forgotten them, may be an age thing).
the plan of attack today was feed 6,s and fish 8,s and 6,s over them, rigs today were a deep rig to fish out to the aerater at 16 mtrs , a half depth rig(never used), and a couple of proper shallow rigs , one for 10 to 20 inches and a real shallow rig to fish 6 inches deep against the end bank if they started slurping off the bank.
at the start i began feeding 6,s out to the aerater and along the end bank, after 30 mins on the deck with nothing to show but a 1lb skimmer on banded 8mm i binned that rig never to pick it up again.with a bit of fizzing going on i fully expected to be catching carp shallow but all i could get inittially was roach, it took 30 mins before i had my first carp and during the next 90 mnis i had about 5 mre plus some f1,s but by now the fizzing had stopped which was a bit weird as you cant normally see the float for bubbles in this peg and i wasnt getting a bite from anything, mike next door had a carp early on but was now trying to catch silvers down the middle on a variety of baits from meat through to paste but wasnt really going anywhere, i could see the end of dean malins pole going in and out on 36 but that turned out to be mainly silvers, so i spent the rest of the match up the edge shallow fishing between 6 and 12 inches deep, fishing 6 inches when there were some fish visible and 12 inches when nothing was showing, i ended up with over 20 carp but they were mostly on the small side with the biggest probably only going about 8lb, normally you could expect a few good doubles but not today.
first on the day went to phil(fabio)harding on 21 with 129.8 fishing shallow to the far side
2nd was me with 124.11 peg 33
3rd tom mangnal 114.13 peg 15
4th tom thick 99.3 peg 19
5th dan pither 99.3 peg 1
6th john(turkey)thompson 60.3 peg 40
silvers
nigel bartlett 39.9 with a mixture of fish on peg 11 using chopped worm and caster
2nd dean malin 34.4 peg 36
it fished quite hard today with the weights coming from form pegs who knows why fish can be funny things
Monday, 25 June 2012
2 day comp at chilton trinity on sat and sunday
with 32 fishing there was going to be plenty of room as there were going to be 16 on each lake , and whichever lake you drew the first day you would be on the other next day. i must apologise for not getting the individual results for each day as i rushed home on sunday to watch england get out played by italy i should have known better.
first day i drew peg 66 which is right by the carpark on wildmarsh, its an area i tend to frequent quite a lot whenever we have a match on there, i wasnt to upset as its an area which always throws up some bream and carp usually to paste(yep i got a rig for that), but with the pegs being spread out i was up against it with some good carp pegs in my section, plus i had dean malin in my section was a bit of a bummer as we were sharing so we would be taking a point off each other unless we drew but thats unlikely.
my match went as expected with the 11mtr grounbait line producing small roach and nothing else, the margins were a waste of time, but the 14mtr line gave me 1 carp and 2 bream on paste and 2 more carp on 8mm hard pellet, i started the match feeding micro,s on that line but the peg didnt kick off until about 2 hours from the end when i began feeding 4,s. i ended up weighing 26.15 for second in section behind dean who had 3 carp and 31lb of skimmers taken on the lead and conker on peg 24.
second day draw saw me on peg 20 woodland which is up in the right hand corner, sat back in a bay, jason radford had it the day before and weighed 60 odd pound for second in section, to stand any chance of winning any money overall i needed a section win with a decent weight. i drew next to dean today but at least we were in seperate section, jason had got off to a flying start the day before fishing shallow at 14 mtrs but with the wind blowing a lot stronger today i decided to do that at 13mtrs, he also caught to his right at about 7mtrs and 16mtrs to his left against the end bank, all on pellet as the meat seemed to be attracting to many small roach so i based my attack around feeding 6,s and fishing an 8 in the band, the wind was getting stronger and blowing straight at me which wasnt to bad for the shallow fishing although it was hard to be consistent with the feed, i perseverred with the shallow fishing but only managed 5 carp plus some silvers, i went over to the end bank at 14 mtrs only as 16 would have been impossible to hold, and i began catching fish straight away, but the wind was increasing all the time, it got that strong i even had to retrieve my cap from the fence behind me twice, i had a good spell on that line until it became impossible to hold the pole in position, i switch to the right hand margin produced some fish but fouling was a problem as you need to fish off the bank a bit due to snags in close and the wind was blowing the rig through and into the fish so i had to keep lifting and dropping and most proper bites came as the bait was settling, at the end i hoped i had about 80lb which should be enough for the section win but with mike west on 29 admitting to 70lb it might not be cut and dried, but i neednt have worried as my net went 103.7 and mike had 75lb, he would have done better if trigger next door had lost his top 4 and had to retrieve from right where mike was catching(thanks trig)
overall the two days were won by paul elmes on 2 points and 156.11 over the two days , taking home 600 qui2nd was paul locke again on 2 points but losing out on weight with 103.1 and he had 400 quid
3rd was me on 3 points and 130.8 and 250 quid
4th dean malin 3 pts and 114lb and 60 pounds worth of veals vouchers
SILVERS
craig edmunds 2pts , 38.7 £350
nigel bartlett 3pts £200
glen calvert 3pts £100
paul faires 4pts vouchers
as usual herring family ran a good show and i will definately being doing again next year and hopefully a few more will to , the fishing had been a bit harder than normal but i think that has more to do with all the wind and rain we have had of late, theres more water in the lakes now than we normally see in the winter.
first day i drew peg 66 which is right by the carpark on wildmarsh, its an area i tend to frequent quite a lot whenever we have a match on there, i wasnt to upset as its an area which always throws up some bream and carp usually to paste(yep i got a rig for that), but with the pegs being spread out i was up against it with some good carp pegs in my section, plus i had dean malin in my section was a bit of a bummer as we were sharing so we would be taking a point off each other unless we drew but thats unlikely.
my match went as expected with the 11mtr grounbait line producing small roach and nothing else, the margins were a waste of time, but the 14mtr line gave me 1 carp and 2 bream on paste and 2 more carp on 8mm hard pellet, i started the match feeding micro,s on that line but the peg didnt kick off until about 2 hours from the end when i began feeding 4,s. i ended up weighing 26.15 for second in section behind dean who had 3 carp and 31lb of skimmers taken on the lead and conker on peg 24.
second day draw saw me on peg 20 woodland which is up in the right hand corner, sat back in a bay, jason radford had it the day before and weighed 60 odd pound for second in section, to stand any chance of winning any money overall i needed a section win with a decent weight. i drew next to dean today but at least we were in seperate section, jason had got off to a flying start the day before fishing shallow at 14 mtrs but with the wind blowing a lot stronger today i decided to do that at 13mtrs, he also caught to his right at about 7mtrs and 16mtrs to his left against the end bank, all on pellet as the meat seemed to be attracting to many small roach so i based my attack around feeding 6,s and fishing an 8 in the band, the wind was getting stronger and blowing straight at me which wasnt to bad for the shallow fishing although it was hard to be consistent with the feed, i perseverred with the shallow fishing but only managed 5 carp plus some silvers, i went over to the end bank at 14 mtrs only as 16 would have been impossible to hold, and i began catching fish straight away, but the wind was increasing all the time, it got that strong i even had to retrieve my cap from the fence behind me twice, i had a good spell on that line until it became impossible to hold the pole in position, i switch to the right hand margin produced some fish but fouling was a problem as you need to fish off the bank a bit due to snags in close and the wind was blowing the rig through and into the fish so i had to keep lifting and dropping and most proper bites came as the bait was settling, at the end i hoped i had about 80lb which should be enough for the section win but with mike west on 29 admitting to 70lb it might not be cut and dried, but i neednt have worried as my net went 103.7 and mike had 75lb, he would have done better if trigger next door had lost his top 4 and had to retrieve from right where mike was catching(thanks trig)
overall the two days were won by paul elmes on 2 points and 156.11 over the two days , taking home 600 qui2nd was paul locke again on 2 points but losing out on weight with 103.1 and he had 400 quid
3rd was me on 3 points and 130.8 and 250 quid
4th dean malin 3 pts and 114lb and 60 pounds worth of veals vouchers
SILVERS
craig edmunds 2pts , 38.7 £350
nigel bartlett 3pts £200
glen calvert 3pts £100
paul faires 4pts vouchers
as usual herring family ran a good show and i will definately being doing again next year and hopefully a few more will to , the fishing had been a bit harder than normal but i think that has more to do with all the wind and rain we have had of late, theres more water in the lakes now than we normally see in the winter.
Thursday, 21 June 2012
pole only at viaduct fishery
with 32 booked in today the match was spread over cambell and cary so a bit of room for most anglers, arriving in the carpark it was nice to see martyn woodington back in the southwest if only for a holiday as he was staying in one of the new lodges with mike nicholls, glen bailey and mark tanner, and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves as the lodges are spot on, after another good breakfast at shipham cafe i was ready for the draw, any peg on cambell would do as cary has been a bit hit and miss lately as there have been some oxygen problems on the lake but steve and paul are on top of it so it will be back to its good old self in no time at all.
i let dean malin draw for me so i ended up on peg 90 which was a bit spooky as i had said to dean on the way it was a peg i fancied as the south westerly wind would be blowing in to that corner, obviously the weather gods dont check on the internet to see which way the wind should be going as it seemed to be a south easterly which meant i would be in flat water all day which is never a good thing on this lake during the summer as the big fish in here seem more confident under a bit of ripple.
getting to the peg there seemed to be a few fish mooching about shalllow but the light conditions and water colour meant you couldnt see them coming till it was to late so no mugging today.
i know this lake has really been best fished with meat or paste , so what do i do , go and base my attack around pellet at 16 mtrs, with a meat line at the same distance at a different angle, plus meat in the margins each side and to the end bank again which is 16 mtrs, alan oram got it right next door on 88 and really only fished paste which as it turned out was the right thing to do.
i,m not going to bore you with to many details as i wasted the first 4 hours trying to make the pellet work but i dont think there were enough fish in this corner for it to work, i did lose a couple of foulers but all i had to show was 1 5lb carp and a few skimmers and a perch on meat to the end bank, the meat approach seemed to attracting the attentions of small fish as a square piece of meat was soon stolen or turned into a small pink marble.
i started firing pellet to the end bank and there were soon an odd fish slurping off the bank and i did manage one carp and a nice hybrid until the duck family turned up and made life difficult, by now tim ford had wandered around for a watch and he made a noise like a pissy swan and the ducks seemed to take offence and went away, but not for long as they returned with mum duck who stood watch whilst her kids made a nuisance of themselves, so the last 90 mins were spent on the paste over the pellet line at 16 mtrs and i did get 5 more carp , i should know better as the fish on this lake really do like paste, and alan next door had managed 9 good fish plus some good skimmers, further down the lake on 76 the bristol daffodil tony witcomb had landed 14 carp and lost 10 i think all on his normal slimy paste, also tom thick had caught shallow on 99 and steve jackson on 85 also caught shallow, all iether in or close to the ripple.
my 7 carp were on the small side as they only went 61.04 for no good, i think i would have had a few more had i fished paste earlier, but with this game you never know.
no suprise today who won as andy power drew 119 which has been the peg to draw of late and he ended up with 223.4 of shallow caught carp at 16 mtrs
2nd tony witcomd 167.2 on 76
3rd tom thick on 99 with 155.12
4th phil harding on 116 with 130.9
5th glen bailey on 112 with 119.2
6th mat tomes on 111 with 116.14
7th dean malin on 125 with 116.9
silvers were bought, i mean won by tim pallant with 39.9 on peg 81, tim fed 1kg of worm and a gallon of caster, i think he won just enough to cover the bait bill, i still dont think mike nicholls believes him when he told him how much he had fed , that ammount of bait would last him and the gimp(john bradford)for a month and thats for the both of them
i let dean malin draw for me so i ended up on peg 90 which was a bit spooky as i had said to dean on the way it was a peg i fancied as the south westerly wind would be blowing in to that corner, obviously the weather gods dont check on the internet to see which way the wind should be going as it seemed to be a south easterly which meant i would be in flat water all day which is never a good thing on this lake during the summer as the big fish in here seem more confident under a bit of ripple.
getting to the peg there seemed to be a few fish mooching about shalllow but the light conditions and water colour meant you couldnt see them coming till it was to late so no mugging today.
i know this lake has really been best fished with meat or paste , so what do i do , go and base my attack around pellet at 16 mtrs, with a meat line at the same distance at a different angle, plus meat in the margins each side and to the end bank again which is 16 mtrs, alan oram got it right next door on 88 and really only fished paste which as it turned out was the right thing to do.
i,m not going to bore you with to many details as i wasted the first 4 hours trying to make the pellet work but i dont think there were enough fish in this corner for it to work, i did lose a couple of foulers but all i had to show was 1 5lb carp and a few skimmers and a perch on meat to the end bank, the meat approach seemed to attracting the attentions of small fish as a square piece of meat was soon stolen or turned into a small pink marble.
i started firing pellet to the end bank and there were soon an odd fish slurping off the bank and i did manage one carp and a nice hybrid until the duck family turned up and made life difficult, by now tim ford had wandered around for a watch and he made a noise like a pissy swan and the ducks seemed to take offence and went away, but not for long as they returned with mum duck who stood watch whilst her kids made a nuisance of themselves, so the last 90 mins were spent on the paste over the pellet line at 16 mtrs and i did get 5 more carp , i should know better as the fish on this lake really do like paste, and alan next door had managed 9 good fish plus some good skimmers, further down the lake on 76 the bristol daffodil tony witcomb had landed 14 carp and lost 10 i think all on his normal slimy paste, also tom thick had caught shallow on 99 and steve jackson on 85 also caught shallow, all iether in or close to the ripple.
my 7 carp were on the small side as they only went 61.04 for no good, i think i would have had a few more had i fished paste earlier, but with this game you never know.
no suprise today who won as andy power drew 119 which has been the peg to draw of late and he ended up with 223.4 of shallow caught carp at 16 mtrs
2nd tony witcomd 167.2 on 76
3rd tom thick on 99 with 155.12
4th phil harding on 116 with 130.9
5th glen bailey on 112 with 119.2
6th mat tomes on 111 with 116.14
7th dean malin on 125 with 116.9
silvers were bought, i mean won by tim pallant with 39.9 on peg 81, tim fed 1kg of worm and a gallon of caster, i think he won just enough to cover the bait bill, i still dont think mike nicholls believes him when he told him how much he had fed , that ammount of bait would last him and the gimp(john bradford)for a month and thats for the both of them
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