Sunday open chilton trinity wildmarsh lake

19 fishing today so plenty of room , I didn't mind where I drew as its a lake which can produce the winner from anywhere, I had last but one ticket and ended up with 29 which is one back from the point peg, my main line of attack today was paste so I set up a rig for that and a meat rig for down the edge , and a pellet wag as there have been a lot of fish coming to this on this lake at the mo, but with the wind coming in and across from the right it was always going to be hard to control to get to work.
Plus with Paul elmes and kev molten chucking there wags into my peg there were never going to be enough fish to share out(lol).
Starting on the paste I had two carp in the first 30 mins but that proved to be a bit of a false dawn as apart from two lost foulers that was my lot on the paste line, the wind was making it hard with the hook getting blown out of the paste, the meat line down the edge gave me two more carp one of 6oz and an 8lb fish and a tench , I lost two more foulers down there aswell, and to be honest that was my match done and dusted, I did set up a full depth wag about halfway through just to see if I could get some liners but I never had any movement on that so it appeared to be a bit of a fishless area, Scott puddy to my right had two fish and left before the end, opposite fabio had 7 on the shallow wag, kev molten had 5 and Paul elmes had 3, mainly due to the wind being a bit more favourable as it was mainly off there back, but most of the action came around the corner to my right with dean malin on 9 and Martin McMahon opposite on 25 both ending up with 11 fish a piece , all taken on the wag and pellet fished shallow, dean malin came out on top (just)  with 63.15
2nd Martin McMahon was an ounce behind with 63.14
3rd phil(ip) Harding on peg 58 with 49.2
4 th joe McMahon on peg 7 with 43.14
5th kev molten on 61 with 38.15
6th Alan oram on peg10 with 26.13
Silvers
Nick Collins on peg 22 with 13.8. Of small roach and a couple of skimmers taken on small. Pieces of worm,
Off to windmill fishery next week which is a new one for me, I,ve had a few mixed reports on this one so the best way to find out is to have a go, I may have a couple of spare places , so if anyone is interested ring me at the shop

Short pole match, Campbell lake , bait tech viaduct

23 fishing today which is a lot on this lake but as we could only fish a top set plus 3 it doesn't make any difference, into the draw tin and out pops 132, a corner peg with plenty of form, a bit disappointing today as the wind was blowing up the lake and with Craig Edmunds and two pots bailey on the end bank it may be harder than normal. Only three rigs today, a meat rig for 11 o,clock and a pellet rig for 2 o,clock both at 5 mtrs and a pellet rig for my right hand margin, at the start I began on the pellet 5 mtr line and I lost two foulers quite quickly but that was the end of the action for me for a long time , glen on 135 began with a bit of a false dawn with a couple of early fish on paste and trig on 134 was sneaking an odd fish out n meat, opposite on 111 Tom thick was catching as was lee wherret on 112, even the acorn silver ace fabio up on 118 couldn't get his rig in quick enough, also on 115 fishery manager Paul greenwood was flying, back into my swim and it looked like a bad day for me , steve Seager on131 had a few (literally) fish and was sniggering at me, I couldn't even get small fish to nibble my meat, after 3 1/2 hours I had 3 carp and a few small silvers, then I saw a swirl down the edge, and the rest of my match was spent down there chasing shadows, the last 2 1/2 hours were enjoyable as I put another 17 carp in the net but it was obviously to little to late, I ended up with over 100lb but that was going to be way off the pace today, top weight came from the irrepressible Tom thick over on 111 with 230.1 mainly on 8mm hard pellet
2nd Paul greenwood on 115 with 201.2
3rd Philip Harding on 118 with 184
4th lee wherret on 112 with 180.3
5th trig Edmunds on 134 with 172.6
6th glen bailey on 135 with 162.9
Silvers
Joe McMahon on 123 with 31lb of meat caught skimmers
Chiton trinity wildmarsh lake Sunday , still a couple of places left so ring me at the shop on 01179517250

Landsend Sunday open

24 fishing today so we were on match and speci, with the. Bristol psv club in johns , all lakes were being match fished today. Trig pulled out two tickets stuck together so I took the one sticking out, I opened it to reveal peg 15, I didn't mind where I drew as all pegs were ok. For company I had Simon ryall on 16 and Adrian Clark on 13,  trig ended up on 5 and with Anton page sat on 18 I thought they would be the ones to watch, luckily I couldn't see the speci lake , which had fished well on Saturday with beany winning with just over 200lb his best match weight to date, and today it looked good for some more good catches, back to my peg and I set up the meat rig for 6 mtrs , a rig to fish meat in the right hand margin and the same rig for maggot over groundbait in the left hand margin , a stalker rig and a pellet rig for on the deck as near to the island as I could get as the islands need a bit of a trim,
At the start I fed all lines and began on the meat line at 6 mtrs but after 30 mins and a roach a perch and a lost fouler I binned that line and went over to the island and started catching straight away, and for most of the match that's where I stayed, I had been feeding meat down to my right so I had a go, Hooked a 3lb fish in the belly and had a proper torrid time trying to keep it out of the tree in the water then having to extradite it from behind my keepnet but it all came good and it was safely netted,  but it was all to difficult so I left that alone , Simon on 16 was having a terrible time fishing down the edge back towards me snapping a top set and all his rigs cos those margin fish in by the sunken bush are proper buggers, but it made for some good entertainment for me , also there was a large splash from peg 5 , it turns out trig has fallen on hard times and whilst playing a carp his elastic snapped , and instead of kissing it goodbye decided to jump over his nets and make a grab for his rapidly disappearing elastic, which he did and he landed the fish, I still can't think why we call him trigger.
The groundbait line down the left hand margin gave me two carp but I lost 4 in snags so didn't bother to much after that .
The far side was the best and I ended up with 32 carp a couple of tench and IDE and an f1 and a couple af smalls for what I thought would go 150lb,  but the grapevine was saying the speci lake had fished really well, and it did with dave roper coming out on top off peg 32 with 176.13 on. Meat fished down the margin at about 6 mtrs
2nd was dean malin on 29 with 163.9
3rd was me with 160.11
4th craig(trig)Edmunds on 5 with 148.11
5th dave Westcott on 33 with 145.14
6th Anton page on18 with 135.4
There were another 4 weights over 100lb , so it was a good match with good weights but quite close really
Silvers were won by John green on 26 with 36.12 , skimmers and f1,s on soft pellet over micros doing the trick
2nd in silvers went to mike nicholls on peg 3 with 21.9
Next Sunday I have an open at chiton trinity on wildmarsh lake so if you fancy it give me a ring at the shop on 01179517250 to book in

Weds landsend open

13 fishing so still plenty of room, I had the last ticket in the draw and opened up peg 5, happy with that as it is one of the narrowest pegs and its in the gap between the islands, and with me having hurt my back somehow, not from hard manual work I must say, before someone else points that one out lol.
Setting up a stalker rig but its getting a bit late now for that to be effective, and so it proved today as it never gave me one fish, a rig to fish meat in my left hand margin ,which produced two roach , and the same rig for dead maggots in my right hand margin, I say margin but this bank is very deep close in so it's not the best margin fishing , the opposite bank has a nice shelf all the way along which the fish seem to like. A meat rig for 6 mtrs and a pellet rig for on top of the shelf out by the island which was about 15 inches deep. At the start I fed all lines which included firing 6,s to the island, trying to drop the feed slightly short of the island but it never happens and it wasnt long before I could see tails out on the shelf. But my plan was to start down the middle on the meat , I gave that to long as after the first 45 mins all I had was an IDE of about 2 1/2 lb, whereas trig up on 11 already had half a dozen good fish on meat and kev molten next door on 3 also got off to a good start on meat , but no one else seemed to catching, Martin lenaghan seemed to be losing a few judging by the cursing coming from that end of the lake (peg1), I went acros a bit earlier than I really wanted as I like to feed  the island for at least An hour before going over, as the fish seem to really gain confidence the longer you can leave it, I was met with a foulhooking problem, but fishing on the deck in shallow water it's always going to be a problem, I tried fishing shallow but the fish are to cute for that, if you could slap the rig in you would get a few but there is a bit of foliage hanging over making that impossible, so the depth rig was best, but a lot of the proper bites came on the drop ,and as the match went on most fish were mouth hooked, dean on peg 7 put some groundbait down his margin which seems to be a popular thing to do and you can't argue that it is effective especially in shallow margins, and it's quite exciting as you can generally see tails waving at you, as if to say catch me if you can, and dean did catch a few in the last couple of hours on bunches of dead maggots, trig slowed up towards the end, and he ended up with 35 fish with lots of good size fish in his net I thought he would be the one to beat, I had 10 more fish than him but I had a fair smattering of of small fish, so I guessed that I would
Have about 160lb whereas trig was admitting to 170, as it turned out we were both close on the estimating with craig(trig) Edmunds winning with 178.15 on peg 11. Catching on meat to begin with then on 8mm pellet later in the match
2nd was me with 167.13 on peg 5
3rd dean malin, on peg 7 with 126.8
4th Tom thick on 21 with 100.6
5th Martin lenaghan  on peg1 with 87.1
6th John Thompson on peg13 with 61.13
Silvers went to dave blakemore on peg 15 who saw off the landsend silver ace on peg 16 in the shape of Philip(fabio) Harding , dave weighed in 24.8 of mainly skimmers on soft pellet over groundbait, which beat Phil into second place with 18.4.
Stu barnett made the trip over from Wales to fish , and will be going home with a very nice collection
Of scales a he had a torrid time losing fish, at one stage he was 21 lost to 4 landed , it happens .

Round 5 float only lge ,sedges fishery

Still had a full house today with 40 fishing which isn't supriseing as this a popular well run fishery, and it always makes for a nice break when the fishery owners arrange to do the weigh in,
I wasn't to sure where I fancied drawing and with a strong southerly wind blowing up the lakes, I ended up on 35 which is halfway up the right hand bank on tile lake which is ok, for company I had Scott puddy on 34 and bristol s number 1 roofer bela bakos on 36, with an island out at about 40 mtrs I set up a wag rod but with the wind blowing my rig off the end of the island which was my side I tried it but but it wasnt going to work so I won't mention that again, I was a bit torn at which rigs to set up, my head was telling me to go with an all out meat approach as this works well at this venue, but no I set up a pellet rig to fish on the deck at 13 mtrs as this was all I fish as the wind was to strong, I set up meat rigs for 5 mtrs and the margin, and a shallow rig for pellet, but that was a waste of a hook !!. After a few chucks on the wag it was out with a banded 8mm pellet over some cupped in 6,s! And I had bites straight away landing a couple of carp and a good eel, Scott stayed on the wag a bit longer than me but as soon as he came in on the pole fishing paste, he caught steadily , I didn't set up a paste rig which turned out to be a mistake, bela to my left was struggling aswell but league leader Craig Edmunds on 37 was catching on meat at 13 mtrs, I got the feeding totally wrong today as I picked up the catty and began firing 6,s over the 13 mtr line, I think if I had just kept potting a few in I may have had a better day on the pellet, by the halfway mark I only had 12 small carp in the net , Scott was still catching as was Paul elmes and chris fox up in the corner peg, and as I needed a section win to stay in with a chance of doing well in the series something had to change , bela was now catching on meat at 5 mtrs, I had been feeding this line but apart from a lone skimmer I wasn't getting bites there either, a look in the margin resulted in one carp then it was small roach turning the 8mm meat cube into a small marble, in desperation I upped the feed at 5 mtrs and it did work a bit as I had some better fish in the last 90 mins but it was always going to be to little to late ,
Tale lake was certainly fishing better than brick, judging by the talking I could hear, and by the end there was going to be several people on tile with over 100lb with trig looking to be the best of the bunch, the only people who may beat him were Scott next to me who had caught well all match but a lot of his fish were on the small side and des shipp over on 21 had been catching but there was an island in the way so I couldn't see him, well not all of him anyway, just the edge off his Buddha belly poking out around the edge of the island.
In the end it was Craig Edmunds who won with 162.8 on peg 37, which is a new lake record, and it seems as though he now has the league sown up
2nd des shipp on peg 21 with 147.4
3rd Scott puddy peg 34 , with 141.9
4 th Tom mangnall peg 27 with 114.10
5th bela bakos on 36 with 114.4
6th Paul elmes on 32 with 110.9
Silvers
Dave(diddly bonk) Haines with 23.14 of whitebait off peg 40. Just ouncing out Gary etheridge with 23.13
As for me it's one to forget ,I did end up with 87lb but I was last but one in my section, I think roger crago felt sorry for me and threw back, I can't say there were. No fish about as I was in the middle of 5 weights over 100lb , so I think I just got it totally wrong on the day, it happens.
At least it will give the anonymous low life's a chance to have a comment or two lol

Weds open , acorn fishery , paddock lake

A couple of Sunday opens coming up soon, the first is at landsend fishery on 11th August and one the week after at chiton trinity on wildmarsh lake the following week on the 18th, as normal ring me at the shop on 01179517250 to book in, back to today and with only 13 booked in we had plenty of room , it should have been 14 but mike chapman had to bow to the petticoat government and stay home!
Bob gullick drew for and I was hoping not to find myself on peg 1 again so I was more than happy to see 5 on the draw card, always a good peg ,but it hasn't figured to much in recent matches, but I certainly wasnt about to complain, .
I set up a rig for the margins, one for the far side on the deck , a stalker/ shallow rig and one for the deck at 5 mtrs ,all rigs had a b960 size 16 tied to .16 line as all I had with me were 6&8mm hard pellets, the worst part of the day was that I had to sit and look at dean malin over on 9 and he was going to fish the method, I did make a bit of a rash statement that I would sell my kit if he won on that, but after shouting the all in, it must have aken dean all of 10 secs to. Be connected to his first carp, the writing was on the wall, anyone interested in some hardly used kit lol.
I wasted the first hour trying to catch deep and shallow at 5 mtrs but only managed 3 carp on the deck, so after that it was over to the far bank fishing on the deck in about 12 inches of water, by now dean was flying and he was probably about 15 fish up on anyone else already, I began to catch steadily but the fish were of a small average size , about halfway through I went in at half depth and started to catch some slightly better fish, but with dean still catching I was starting to look at my stuff and try and work out what it was worth, probably not a lot so I best keep it then , other people catching were gabe skarba on peg one but he was giving us all a chance today and was pulling off more than he was netting, mark poppleton  on 33 was also catching steadily, over on 26 bob gullick was using his landing net quite often , so for him to be catching it must really be fishing well, I kept catching right to the end I even had to borrow a net off the gimp next door as I had used my 4, by the end I had about 95 carp but with a lot of smaller fish I thought I would just have over 200lb , but I thought dean had well over 300lb and he did , he a staggering 351lb but as he was over in 4 nets his final weight was only (lol) 327.15 for a new venue match record, so well done to him.
2 nd and well off the pace was me with a mere 230.14
3 rd mark poppleton on33 with 203.11
4th gabe skarba  on peg 1 with 193.15, losing 21lb for going over the limit ,so he would have been 3rd
5th mark Walsh on 24 with 136.14
6th bob gullick on 26 with 135.11
Silvers
Philip Harding on. 36 with 42.8 of mainly skimmers on worm and caster, fished down the middle

Pole only , chiton trinity , woodland lake

A couple of things first, I,m running an open at acorn on weds so if you want to book in ring me at the shop to book in 01179517250,
Second thing , for those of you that haven't heard or bumped into Tim Clark , he has managed to wing his way into the k/o final in the float only league ,is that ok Tim,
Back to the match today , and why would someone turn up with no seat box, bait bag and keepnets for a match, we don't call him trigger for nothing, well done Craig Edmunds, what an ender, then he tried to lay the blame on Paul elmes cos he picked him up and should have realised according to trig, but he managed to scab enough bits to fish with though.
Alan oram drew for me and handed me peg 20, which is up in the right hand corner, at least it was the least windy peg on the lake, I set up a meat depth rig for 5 mtrs, a shallow pellet rig for 14 mtrs and a pellet rig for the left and right margin, the left was to fish at 14 mtrs under a tree which is normally a banker area and only 5 mtrs to my right against some reeds, for company I had Martin McMahon on my right in 19 and Martin Alexander around the corner on 23. At the start I fed the margins, the 6 mtr meat line and then started on the shallow rig, and I had a carp straight away, but that was it , I flogged it for the first hour but apart from a couple of roach I never had another carp on it, so onto the meat line and that did produce a few carp and skimmers but it wasnt fast enough as Shaun Townsend over on 11was catching as was Gordon canning on 13, the empty peg in between them was probably helping especially  Gordon who was catching down towards the empty pallet quite early on, after a few fish on the meat line , most of the rest of the match was spent in the two margins, the normally productive left hand margin didn't really kick in and only gave me 4 fish, most of my fish came on banded pellet to my right , by the end I think I had about 25 carp plus a few silvers , but the clear winner looked to be Shaun  over on 11 who had caught really well down towards peg 12 pallet on meat . And that was as it ended with Shaun Townsend running out a clear winner with 163.11
2nd was me with 115.1 on peg 20
3rd Adrian jeffery on 15 with 113.1
4th Alan oram on 31 with 107.6
5th glen bailey on 6 with 106 lb
6th Gordon cannings on 13 with 101.15
7th Craig (ender) Edmunds on 24 with 101.13, but he did win the silvers with 26.8 of skimmers on meat at 6 mtrs
It fished really well today with lots of fish caught all round , shame there are no spare Sundays available so we could get down there again.