another pole only today and with 35 booked in it just goes to show people enjoy it .as i parked in the car park you couldnt help but notice all the fish sunbathing at the bottom end of cary, so most people egreed that 74 would be a good draw as it is the first peg up from the bottom on the left hand bank, so where did i draw , peg 74 !!!!!!!!, but would they feed or were they just enjoying the unseasonel sunshine(lmao).
3 rigs today 2 of 4x10 j range 3,s with a b960 to .18, one for the empty pallet to my left and one to go down the edge towards the tree,s to my right and a 4x12 with the same hook and line at 14.5 mtrs out to the edge of the tree,s.
at the start i cupped in some 6,s at 14.5 , some down the right and some to my left by the empty peg, which i did try several times but never had a bite there. i also cupped some in at 6 mtrs as dick bull had won the previous saturdays match with 180 lb fishing there and out by the tree,s.
by the time i had finished feeding , the swims out by the tree had begun to fizz, and it never really stopped all match, and a lot of people i spoke to on cary had the same problem, while it was fizzing strongly you would struggle for a proper bite ,but as the fizz began to fade you could expect a proper bite, but if i had a bite in the fizz it was a fouler. the best feed pattern seemed to be either pouch in a couple of pouches and fish it out or pot in a reasonable ammount and do the same. the right hand margin was fed with a catty, and i did get 5 or 6 fish down there but they were on the small side.
although cary was fishing quite hard cambell was doing ok with ray hayward on 110 seemingly running away with it fishing hard pellet mainly down his left hand margin at 16 mtrs, at the end he was admitting to 180 lb so we were all fishing for the minor placings and it was going to be close , by the end i had taken 16 carp which normally would go 150 to 180 lb but as i said they were on the small side, i was first to weigh on cary and my 16 fish went 112.5, a bit dissapointing for this lake, but i was top weight on the lake all the way till we got to paul blake on 105 who had fished meat at 10 mtrs to take 10 carp which weighed 120.12,
as expected ray hayward won with 192.9
2nd jamie parkhouse 124.4 on 123 also he had top silver weight with 25.3 catching tench on meat
3rd andy (the ginger prince)power with122.15 peg 114
4th paul blake 120.12 peg 105
5th tony rixon 112.5 peg 74
6th mike nicholls 106.00 peg 119
all in all it was another close match and the fact we had a frost probably didnt help as the water temperature is up and down like tom thicks under pants when he is out doing what he does best. trouble is the fish will probably spawn as soon as the water temp hits 18c ,as they normally spawn this or next week but they are going to be late this year as the water is only 12c and with the weather not warming up until this weekend it will be a couple of weeks yet
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Sunday, 9 May 2010
float only rnd 1 viaduct
another cold and windy day with a moderate north easterly blowing ,just what you need for a float only. we ended up with 56 fishing , the same number as last year which is good.
trigger aka craig edmunds was at the front of the queue today so he drew for me , the magic fairey dust off his head must have been on his hands as he drew 66 for me which is in the top left corner of lodge lake (another flier) a good section peg , and mike nicholls won the first round off it last year with 140 lb on paste .
3 rigs today , a 4x14 impact 6 with a 16 6313 to .12 for skimmers(hopefully)at 8 mtrs on meat, and 2 4x12 j range 3,s with .16 to a 16 b960 for banded pellet up to my left by the empty pallet and under the trees.
at the start i cupped in some cubed meat at 8 mtrs and started firing in 6,s to my left by the empty pallet.
starting on the meat line it took 15 mins to get my first bite and duly played the carp to the net , where it fell off, usual first fish lost then. i did stick with the meat for the first hour and a quarter just to let the inside line settle, i did land a 7lb carp during this time but bites were nearly non excistent on this so i put in a big pot of meat in and went down the edge, but apart from a good hybrid and a couple of iffy bites that was rubbish aswell(this wasnt going to plan). back out on the meat line and a skimmer was all i had in the next 20 mins, while i had been chasing my tail around a bit shaun townsend had been fishing further out than me on 67 and had had a carp and several skimmers on soft pellet, so i cupped in 1/2 a big pot of 4mm,s at 14.5 mtrs and went back down to my left, i had a bite within a couple of minutes and a 5 lb carp was in the bag, now there was some fizzing out in front where i had put the 4,s so i changed the hook on the skimmer rig to a size 18 b960 for hair rigged banded pellet, slipped a 6 into the band and shipped out , first bite and a 8lb carp in the net , back out and another one within minutes , after that i cupped in some more 4,s and went back down the edge all this time i had been firing 6,s down the edge . now the fish had arrived as i was getting indications and bites all the time and i started putting a few fish in the net, every time it went a bit quiet down by the pallet i went out in front , sometimes i would get a carp and sometimes i wouldnt get a bite ,either way it seemed to help the inside line as i would go back in and get a couple off fish. by the end i had taken 16 carp which would go over 100 lb, as i had my back to carey and cambell lakes i didnt really know how they had fished but as far as i could see i had done enough to win my lake .
due i think mainly to the shit weather my 16 carp which went 126.14 was enough for first on the day, even though i fell foul off the 80 lb net limit again as i had 3 oz to much in one net(lol)
2nd was fred roberts on 121(cambell)with 108.2 again on hard pellet
3rd martin pettifer 97.9 peg 86 on the wag
4th gary etheridge 87.5 peg 126
5th clayton hudson 84.15 peg 128
6th dave evans 83.3
top silvers niel mercer 35.9 on 125 skimmers and tench on hard pellet at 14.5 mtrs
even with the water only at 13c there is always one fool who is going to drop something in, and today it was the last of the southmead gnomes , leon hubbard who dropped in the 16 mtr bit off his tourney pro hence the reason he was seen strutting his stuff up and down the bank in a very fetching pair of boxers (not a pretty site), caroline must be a very understanding person.
also steve (the beast)preece is now offering his services as an angling guide at bullocks farm the only payment he is looking for is a tin of lidl,s economy baked beans , good value me thinks thats the beans ,not steve
trigger aka craig edmunds was at the front of the queue today so he drew for me , the magic fairey dust off his head must have been on his hands as he drew 66 for me which is in the top left corner of lodge lake (another flier) a good section peg , and mike nicholls won the first round off it last year with 140 lb on paste .
3 rigs today , a 4x14 impact 6 with a 16 6313 to .12 for skimmers(hopefully)at 8 mtrs on meat, and 2 4x12 j range 3,s with .16 to a 16 b960 for banded pellet up to my left by the empty pallet and under the trees.
at the start i cupped in some cubed meat at 8 mtrs and started firing in 6,s to my left by the empty pallet.
starting on the meat line it took 15 mins to get my first bite and duly played the carp to the net , where it fell off, usual first fish lost then. i did stick with the meat for the first hour and a quarter just to let the inside line settle, i did land a 7lb carp during this time but bites were nearly non excistent on this so i put in a big pot of meat in and went down the edge, but apart from a good hybrid and a couple of iffy bites that was rubbish aswell(this wasnt going to plan). back out on the meat line and a skimmer was all i had in the next 20 mins, while i had been chasing my tail around a bit shaun townsend had been fishing further out than me on 67 and had had a carp and several skimmers on soft pellet, so i cupped in 1/2 a big pot of 4mm,s at 14.5 mtrs and went back down to my left, i had a bite within a couple of minutes and a 5 lb carp was in the bag, now there was some fizzing out in front where i had put the 4,s so i changed the hook on the skimmer rig to a size 18 b960 for hair rigged banded pellet, slipped a 6 into the band and shipped out , first bite and a 8lb carp in the net , back out and another one within minutes , after that i cupped in some more 4,s and went back down the edge all this time i had been firing 6,s down the edge . now the fish had arrived as i was getting indications and bites all the time and i started putting a few fish in the net, every time it went a bit quiet down by the pallet i went out in front , sometimes i would get a carp and sometimes i wouldnt get a bite ,either way it seemed to help the inside line as i would go back in and get a couple off fish. by the end i had taken 16 carp which would go over 100 lb, as i had my back to carey and cambell lakes i didnt really know how they had fished but as far as i could see i had done enough to win my lake .
due i think mainly to the shit weather my 16 carp which went 126.14 was enough for first on the day, even though i fell foul off the 80 lb net limit again as i had 3 oz to much in one net(lol)
2nd was fred roberts on 121(cambell)with 108.2 again on hard pellet
3rd martin pettifer 97.9 peg 86 on the wag
4th gary etheridge 87.5 peg 126
5th clayton hudson 84.15 peg 128
6th dave evans 83.3
top silvers niel mercer 35.9 on 125 skimmers and tench on hard pellet at 14.5 mtrs
even with the water only at 13c there is always one fool who is going to drop something in, and today it was the last of the southmead gnomes , leon hubbard who dropped in the 16 mtr bit off his tourney pro hence the reason he was seen strutting his stuff up and down the bank in a very fetching pair of boxers (not a pretty site), caroline must be a very understanding person.
also steve (the beast)preece is now offering his services as an angling guide at bullocks farm the only payment he is looking for is a tin of lidl,s economy baked beans , good value me thinks thats the beans ,not steve
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
a landsend fish injection
christ that fabio can draw, this was the fifth time he has drawn 31 on the speci lake ,shame was though he drew it for me ha ha ha .getting to the peg and i was greeted with the sight of about 15 carp of varios colours and sizes on the surface sunbathing. i did set up a margin rig to fish corn down the edge but never used it even though i fed it for the whole match.
i set up a dibber rig to fish shallow at the start for the sunbathers with a 16 b960 to .18 for hair rigged banded pellet, and a 4x12 impact 1 for about 2 foot of the island in 2 foot of water and a 4x10 impact 1 for tight to the island both with the same hooks and line as the dibber,when i find a hook and line which suites me i very rarely change ,and the b960 hooks and xedion rig line very rarely lets me down so why change.
at the start i went straight out with the dibber rig trying to poach a couple of cruisers, and sure enough i had 2 x 6 pounders in the first 10 mins , and that was it as far as the cruisers went , these landsend fish dont stand to much chasing around the surface, after half an hour of that and with no more bites it was out with the 2 foot rig, and within 5 mins i was attached to a 12 pounder, which was duly netted , then the fun started as my landing net was a bit worse for wear and the fish fell straight through and back into the water , still attached to the hook, so i had to pass my topset through the hole, get off my box get a spare landing net screw it in , the whole time this was going on the carp just sat by my keepnet so i thought it would be easy to net , but i think it was just getting its breath back as it fought harder the second time around, and after that the match was really enjoyable with fish coming steadily for the whole match , although it did get better towards the end , so much so that i put 95 lb in my third carp net in the last 90 minutes and there is a 80 pound net limit in place (doh again). i never had to go in tight to keep catching though i did shallow up a bit more to about 18 inches and about 12 inches off the island and by feeding 2 pouches of 6mm,s after every fish and lifting and dropping an 8mm in the band i ended up with about 30 fish, the only other person i knew had caught well was dean malin on 26 who was admitting to 20 carp , but good ones . fabio turned up with the scales and started with stu taylor on 32 who had struggled and ended up with 30 lb.
my fish went 206.5 ,i just hoped the 15lb i had to much in 1 net wouldnt cost me but it did give dean a laugh being that i was so much over as he had done the same at viaduct the week befor, but he who laughs last laughs longest as when we weighed deans fish he was over in both of his nets giving him 178.3 and second (whose the loser now then)
3rd tony the past(e) master witcomb 98.4 peg 19
4th chris fox 84.4 peg 5
5th adrian bishop 60.00 peg 17
6th john(evergreen)smith 57.4 peg 22
silvers were won by the maestro john(the gimp) bradford with an excellent 53.2 on peg 3. mainly skimmers and tench on caster at 3 mtrs
2nd mike west 28.12 peg 11
after the crappy weekend i had today was just, what i needed roll on the weekend for the first of the float only,s
i set up a dibber rig to fish shallow at the start for the sunbathers with a 16 b960 to .18 for hair rigged banded pellet, and a 4x12 impact 1 for about 2 foot of the island in 2 foot of water and a 4x10 impact 1 for tight to the island both with the same hooks and line as the dibber,when i find a hook and line which suites me i very rarely change ,and the b960 hooks and xedion rig line very rarely lets me down so why change.
at the start i went straight out with the dibber rig trying to poach a couple of cruisers, and sure enough i had 2 x 6 pounders in the first 10 mins , and that was it as far as the cruisers went , these landsend fish dont stand to much chasing around the surface, after half an hour of that and with no more bites it was out with the 2 foot rig, and within 5 mins i was attached to a 12 pounder, which was duly netted , then the fun started as my landing net was a bit worse for wear and the fish fell straight through and back into the water , still attached to the hook, so i had to pass my topset through the hole, get off my box get a spare landing net screw it in , the whole time this was going on the carp just sat by my keepnet so i thought it would be easy to net , but i think it was just getting its breath back as it fought harder the second time around, and after that the match was really enjoyable with fish coming steadily for the whole match , although it did get better towards the end , so much so that i put 95 lb in my third carp net in the last 90 minutes and there is a 80 pound net limit in place (doh again). i never had to go in tight to keep catching though i did shallow up a bit more to about 18 inches and about 12 inches off the island and by feeding 2 pouches of 6mm,s after every fish and lifting and dropping an 8mm in the band i ended up with about 30 fish, the only other person i knew had caught well was dean malin on 26 who was admitting to 20 carp , but good ones . fabio turned up with the scales and started with stu taylor on 32 who had struggled and ended up with 30 lb.
my fish went 206.5 ,i just hoped the 15lb i had to much in 1 net wouldnt cost me but it did give dean a laugh being that i was so much over as he had done the same at viaduct the week befor, but he who laughs last laughs longest as when we weighed deans fish he was over in both of his nets giving him 178.3 and second (whose the loser now then)
3rd tony the past(e) master witcomb 98.4 peg 19
4th chris fox 84.4 peg 5
5th adrian bishop 60.00 peg 17
6th john(evergreen)smith 57.4 peg 22
silvers were won by the maestro john(the gimp) bradford with an excellent 53.2 on peg 3. mainly skimmers and tench on caster at 3 mtrs
2nd mike west 28.12 peg 11
after the crappy weekend i had today was just, what i needed roll on the weekend for the first of the float only,s
Monday, 3 May 2010
bank holiday landsend
30 booked in for today, probably a couple to many to make for a good match but if people want to go who am i to stop them, and there is 40 pegs to pick from. i was forced to pick my own peg today , and ended up on 38 on the speci lake, not a peg i would have chosen, in fact i had it circled to leave out if i could,(shit happens).
three rigs today a 4x14 rig with a 16 6313 for caster down the edge , a 4x12 rig with the same hook to .12 for soft pellet at 13 mtrs, and a 4x10 on .16 to a banded b960 size 16 for 8mm pellet on the island shelf over 6mm fed by catty.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 3mm , fired some 6,s to the island and fed caster each side at 3 mtrs, the first hour was a bit slow but i did manage 3 good skimmers and a 2lb f1 befor the small roach turned up and made soft pellet fishing a proper mare, by now mat tomes on corner peg 33 had taken about 6 carp so the writing was on the wall as far as the 2 quid side bet went . i normally see carp onthe far bank feeding on the pellet but they werent showing today, the odd fish was cruising through but didnt seem to keen to stop and feed, probably because there wasnt enough there to make them compete.up on the other side i could hear pete sivell on 31 and nick collier on 30 getting a few carp on pellet shallow towards the island, stange thing today was that there was 3 grass carp caught , 2 by russ peck on 29 and one by nick on 30 thing is i think it was the same fish as it went 12.3 each time it was weighed as you have to weigh and return theese fish straight away. i did have some reasonable perch and 3 good chub down the edge on caster but it was a real struggle. the last 2 hours of the match were spent on the far bank carping , but they didnt want to play, i did manage 5 and lost 2 , one of which was a good double which i knew would cost me the section , but judging by the way itwas fighting i dont think it was in the mouth , but some where close to it.when i weighed i had 16 lb of silvers and 23 lb of carpfor a 39lb total , not good enough for anything today, mat tomes caught steadily for the whole match to end up with 154.5 for a comfortable win, with most of his fish coming shallow up the edge or out to the aerator on hair rigged pellet with fish up to 12lb, fairplay matty it just goes to show that you can make the transition from lead linger to proper angler if you put your mind to it, and the gossip on the bank is about you taking antons place in the got baits team cos shergar seems to have lost it a bit.
2nd was pete sivell on 31 with 84.4 also taken on shallow pellet
3rd nick collier 75.8 on peg 30
4th mike west on peg 5 again he draws this more often than fabio draws 31, he had 70.00 which inluded the top silver weight of 52.8 all taken on soft pellet at 11 mtrs
5th leon(the imp)hubbard with 65.14 on peg 6 , again on pellet
6th phil(fabio)harding 54.8 on peg 15
2nd in the silvers john (the gimp)bradford on peg 7 with 33.06.
when is this cold weather going to end as i think the fish as well as us have had enough of it now , with water temperatures hovering around 12 c the fish arent to inclined to begin to feed properly, if we get a couple of warm days the fish really switch on, then we get more cold days and nights and it slows it all up again, its all just rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
three rigs today a 4x14 rig with a 16 6313 for caster down the edge , a 4x12 rig with the same hook to .12 for soft pellet at 13 mtrs, and a 4x10 on .16 to a banded b960 size 16 for 8mm pellet on the island shelf over 6mm fed by catty.
at the start i cupped in some soaked 3mm , fired some 6,s to the island and fed caster each side at 3 mtrs, the first hour was a bit slow but i did manage 3 good skimmers and a 2lb f1 befor the small roach turned up and made soft pellet fishing a proper mare, by now mat tomes on corner peg 33 had taken about 6 carp so the writing was on the wall as far as the 2 quid side bet went . i normally see carp onthe far bank feeding on the pellet but they werent showing today, the odd fish was cruising through but didnt seem to keen to stop and feed, probably because there wasnt enough there to make them compete.up on the other side i could hear pete sivell on 31 and nick collier on 30 getting a few carp on pellet shallow towards the island, stange thing today was that there was 3 grass carp caught , 2 by russ peck on 29 and one by nick on 30 thing is i think it was the same fish as it went 12.3 each time it was weighed as you have to weigh and return theese fish straight away. i did have some reasonable perch and 3 good chub down the edge on caster but it was a real struggle. the last 2 hours of the match were spent on the far bank carping , but they didnt want to play, i did manage 5 and lost 2 , one of which was a good double which i knew would cost me the section , but judging by the way itwas fighting i dont think it was in the mouth , but some where close to it.when i weighed i had 16 lb of silvers and 23 lb of carpfor a 39lb total , not good enough for anything today, mat tomes caught steadily for the whole match to end up with 154.5 for a comfortable win, with most of his fish coming shallow up the edge or out to the aerator on hair rigged pellet with fish up to 12lb, fairplay matty it just goes to show that you can make the transition from lead linger to proper angler if you put your mind to it, and the gossip on the bank is about you taking antons place in the got baits team cos shergar seems to have lost it a bit.
2nd was pete sivell on 31 with 84.4 also taken on shallow pellet
3rd nick collier 75.8 on peg 30
4th mike west on peg 5 again he draws this more often than fabio draws 31, he had 70.00 which inluded the top silver weight of 52.8 all taken on soft pellet at 11 mtrs
5th leon(the imp)hubbard with 65.14 on peg 6 , again on pellet
6th phil(fabio)harding 54.8 on peg 15
2nd in the silvers john (the gimp)bradford on peg 7 with 33.06.
when is this cold weather going to end as i think the fish as well as us have had enough of it now , with water temperatures hovering around 12 c the fish arent to inclined to begin to feed properly, if we get a couple of warm days the fish really switch on, then we get more cold days and nights and it slows it all up again, its all just rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, 2 May 2010
acorn on paddocks
why have the weather men got to get it right, we had early rain and a strong north easterly wind forcast , and thats what we got , and .it was cold with it.
another reasonable turn out of 27 , so i could leave a few corner pegs out , but i must have had a brain surge cos i left out a couple of pegs that i shouldnt have ,doh,
ryan summerhayes drew for me and handed me peg 2 (nice), i must admit i nearly ran to it as tim clark even had 60 lb off it last match so it must be solid.
it was going to be a mostly a maggot and caster job today so i set up only 2 rigs, both impact 6,s , one 4x12 with a 16 6313 to .12 for over , and a 4x16 on the same line and hook to fish at 4 and 11 mtrs as its the same depth, about 6 foot, over on the island i had about 18 inches a metre off.
at the start i cupped in some caster with a few dead mags on all 3 lines, then started at 4 mtrs, it wasnt long befor i started to get the odd perch up to 8oz on double caster but no carp. over on peg 9 ,the waitrose trolley dolly, aka shaun kitteridge was catching carp already, helped by the fact that he had an empty peg each side of him(blame it on the pegger), also 2 pegs to my left the clevedon dwarf paul faires had a couple of early fish on (horror of horrors)THE METHOD, but fairplay to him he did stop using it after a few choice insults from me , i should have let him carry on as it cost me at the end. i had a good first 2 hours catching perch on the 4 and 11 mtr lines, i also had a small carp and a 4 pounder at 4mtrs but that was about it really. the last 3 hours were really hard for me , i think i only had 5 more small carp, all taken by the island on corn or maggot and 3 more perch, all this time shaun had been catching steadily on 9 , also gary wall on 30, rod wootten on 11 were all getting a few as was tim ford on 5. paul faires was catching quality silvers after ditching the method.
as expected shaun kitteridge won with 135.13 all carp to 8lb on pellet at 11 mtrs on peg 9
2nd rod wootten 64.4 peg 11 on maggot over pellet
3rd gary wall 60.00 peg 30
4th martin rich 51.8 peg 16
5th tim ford 49.14 peg 5
6th paul faires 49.6 peg 4 also he had the top silver weight with 25.14 big skimmers 2 tench and some nice perch
rod wootten came second in the silvers ,but as he came second overall it meant i picked up 2nd silvers money with 16.6, if i had left paul with his method i may have even picked up first in silvers by default(bugger).
the wind was a real problem today and with the wind going with the trip presentation was hard , so i think the weights suffered as most people couldnt , stop there rigs blowing through .
off to landsend tommorrow and with 30 booked in and with a better forcast it should be good.
another reasonable turn out of 27 , so i could leave a few corner pegs out , but i must have had a brain surge cos i left out a couple of pegs that i shouldnt have ,doh,
ryan summerhayes drew for me and handed me peg 2 (nice), i must admit i nearly ran to it as tim clark even had 60 lb off it last match so it must be solid.
it was going to be a mostly a maggot and caster job today so i set up only 2 rigs, both impact 6,s , one 4x12 with a 16 6313 to .12 for over , and a 4x16 on the same line and hook to fish at 4 and 11 mtrs as its the same depth, about 6 foot, over on the island i had about 18 inches a metre off.
at the start i cupped in some caster with a few dead mags on all 3 lines, then started at 4 mtrs, it wasnt long befor i started to get the odd perch up to 8oz on double caster but no carp. over on peg 9 ,the waitrose trolley dolly, aka shaun kitteridge was catching carp already, helped by the fact that he had an empty peg each side of him(blame it on the pegger), also 2 pegs to my left the clevedon dwarf paul faires had a couple of early fish on (horror of horrors)THE METHOD, but fairplay to him he did stop using it after a few choice insults from me , i should have let him carry on as it cost me at the end. i had a good first 2 hours catching perch on the 4 and 11 mtr lines, i also had a small carp and a 4 pounder at 4mtrs but that was about it really. the last 3 hours were really hard for me , i think i only had 5 more small carp, all taken by the island on corn or maggot and 3 more perch, all this time shaun had been catching steadily on 9 , also gary wall on 30, rod wootten on 11 were all getting a few as was tim ford on 5. paul faires was catching quality silvers after ditching the method.
as expected shaun kitteridge won with 135.13 all carp to 8lb on pellet at 11 mtrs on peg 9
2nd rod wootten 64.4 peg 11 on maggot over pellet
3rd gary wall 60.00 peg 30
4th martin rich 51.8 peg 16
5th tim ford 49.14 peg 5
6th paul faires 49.6 peg 4 also he had the top silver weight with 25.14 big skimmers 2 tench and some nice perch
rod wootten came second in the silvers ,but as he came second overall it meant i picked up 2nd silvers money with 16.6, if i had left paul with his method i may have even picked up first in silvers by default(bugger).
the wind was a real problem today and with the wind going with the trip presentation was hard , so i think the weights suffered as most people couldnt , stop there rigs blowing through .
off to landsend tommorrow and with 30 booked in and with a better forcast it should be good.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
pole only at viaduct
it was a good turn out again as 26 were booked in, i thought tim pallant might have turned up to this one , but perhaps the zip on the back head was stuck so he couldnt get his brain back in, lol.
i ended up with 110 today which is a corner peg on cambell, its not shown to much good form of late but its warmed up so i did quite fancy it , and i think gary bedford had 70 or 80 lb on it at the weekend so there were a few fish about, i must admit i really fancied a draw on cary to win , but time would tell.
five rigs today , a 4x12 j range float with the line going through the body, a couple of 4x12 impact 6,s ,one for by the stump to my left and one for 16 mtrs to my left by the brambles , a 4x10 impact 1 for corn down to my right (which i never used), and an impact 10 for up in the water.
all rigs had my favourite size 16 b960 to .16 with a hair rigged band on.
on the whistle i cupped in some 6mm,s at 16 mtr straight out and some at the same distance down the left towards the brambles, fed some by hand by the stump to my left at 6 mtrs and put 1/2 a pot of corn at the same distance to my right.
starting at 16 mtrs in front it wasnt long befor i was playing my first carp, with that safely in the net it was out with the same 8mm pellet in the band but i lost the next 3(not so good). i started feeding with a catty now and began to put a few in the net, by the end of the first hour i had 7 in the net but had probably lost the same, as foulers were a bit of a problem, looking around i could see most people were getting a few so it was going to be hard to call today.
2 hours in and i had a look down by the stump and i had a good run of tench and a couple of carp, this lasted for 45 mins then it went off there so back out to 16 mtrs and 3 or 4 more carp including 2 shallow but that line was getting harder now , i had been feeding by the brambles all this time and with 2 1/2 hours to go it was time to have a look and i caught steadily up to the end , mainly carp with a spattering of tench, each time i looked round i could see dean malin, mark harper and vince brown all catching well, vince was shallow on pellet, mark was catching well down the edge on corn and dean was also down the edge on pellet, over on the other bank alan healey on 127 had been catching mainly shallow on pellet. on cary tony witcomb on 94 was admitting to 20 carp while tom (rent boy )thick had 17 carp and a lot of skimmers on 103 , and with the fish on cary being a lot bigger it was going to be very hard to call, i ended up with 40 carp and a bout 25 lb of silvers for hopefully 160lb ish only the scales would tell.
in the end vince brown had 216.2 on peg 116 shallow on pellet at 16 mtrs
2nd tom thick with 200.6 on 103 all falling to paste fished down his left margin
3rd tony rixon 183.3
4th mark harper 176.14 peg 115
5th dean (idiot)malin 174.14 peg 114 he had about 15 lb to much in a net haha
6th tony witcomb 167.7 peg 94
sivers
tom thick 34.14
charlie barnes 29.2 peg 76
what a good match ,with 17 weights over 100lb including 2 people wiyh over 200 lb , perhaps with it being pole only it encouraged the fish to come closer , as no one was feeding them out in the middle they had to come to the pole line or it could just be that they wanted to be there , who knows!!!!!!!
i was next to adrian jeffrey today who has been having it abit hard of late and really struggling to catch, even today he was getting lots of bites but failing to connect with anything, mind you it doesnt help when you fish with a hair rigged banded pellet and you dont have a hook on!!!!!!!!
it must be an age thing.
i ended up with 110 today which is a corner peg on cambell, its not shown to much good form of late but its warmed up so i did quite fancy it , and i think gary bedford had 70 or 80 lb on it at the weekend so there were a few fish about, i must admit i really fancied a draw on cary to win , but time would tell.
five rigs today , a 4x12 j range float with the line going through the body, a couple of 4x12 impact 6,s ,one for by the stump to my left and one for 16 mtrs to my left by the brambles , a 4x10 impact 1 for corn down to my right (which i never used), and an impact 10 for up in the water.
all rigs had my favourite size 16 b960 to .16 with a hair rigged band on.
on the whistle i cupped in some 6mm,s at 16 mtr straight out and some at the same distance down the left towards the brambles, fed some by hand by the stump to my left at 6 mtrs and put 1/2 a pot of corn at the same distance to my right.
starting at 16 mtrs in front it wasnt long befor i was playing my first carp, with that safely in the net it was out with the same 8mm pellet in the band but i lost the next 3(not so good). i started feeding with a catty now and began to put a few in the net, by the end of the first hour i had 7 in the net but had probably lost the same, as foulers were a bit of a problem, looking around i could see most people were getting a few so it was going to be hard to call today.
2 hours in and i had a look down by the stump and i had a good run of tench and a couple of carp, this lasted for 45 mins then it went off there so back out to 16 mtrs and 3 or 4 more carp including 2 shallow but that line was getting harder now , i had been feeding by the brambles all this time and with 2 1/2 hours to go it was time to have a look and i caught steadily up to the end , mainly carp with a spattering of tench, each time i looked round i could see dean malin, mark harper and vince brown all catching well, vince was shallow on pellet, mark was catching well down the edge on corn and dean was also down the edge on pellet, over on the other bank alan healey on 127 had been catching mainly shallow on pellet. on cary tony witcomb on 94 was admitting to 20 carp while tom (rent boy )thick had 17 carp and a lot of skimmers on 103 , and with the fish on cary being a lot bigger it was going to be very hard to call, i ended up with 40 carp and a bout 25 lb of silvers for hopefully 160lb ish only the scales would tell.
in the end vince brown had 216.2 on peg 116 shallow on pellet at 16 mtrs
2nd tom thick with 200.6 on 103 all falling to paste fished down his left margin
3rd tony rixon 183.3
4th mark harper 176.14 peg 115
5th dean (idiot)malin 174.14 peg 114 he had about 15 lb to much in a net haha
6th tony witcomb 167.7 peg 94
sivers
tom thick 34.14
charlie barnes 29.2 peg 76
what a good match ,with 17 weights over 100lb including 2 people wiyh over 200 lb , perhaps with it being pole only it encouraged the fish to come closer , as no one was feeding them out in the middle they had to come to the pole line or it could just be that they wanted to be there , who knows!!!!!!!
i was next to adrian jeffrey today who has been having it abit hard of late and really struggling to catch, even today he was getting lots of bites but failing to connect with anything, mind you it doesnt help when you fish with a hair rigged banded pellet and you dont have a hook on!!!!!!!!
it must be an age thing.
Sunday, 25 April 2010
cider farm
it was supposed to be a talk angling and bus company pairs match today ,but as the bus boys had an important meeting about closing a depot they couldnt make it , so i said i would take it over so as they didnt lose there deposit. we still managed to put 26 anglers on the bank so its another reasonable turnout.
steve lippett drew for me and handed me peg 40, as i havent been here to often i didnt ave any idea as to what the peg was like, but as i was next to venue regular rod wootten on 41 i thought it would probably be ok, to be fair it lokked good with an island opposite with 4 ft reeds growing off it, so i made up a 4x14 impact 4 with a 16 b960 to .16 for hair rigged pellet, the same rig would do for down the edge each side as it was the same depth . a 4x10 for over by the island to my right as i had bare bank to fish up to , and a dibber for shallow just in case , both rigs on .16 with the usual b960.
starting over against the reeds opposite it wasnt long before i was getting liners but no matter what i was really struggling to transfer anything into a bite , and the reeds were going potty, i did manage a couple of fish from the reeds but it was full of snags , no matter how i fed it i just couldnt make any sense out of it , even with odd fish showing and the reeds knocking i couldnt get a sensible resonse on the deck or shallow so dumped a big pot of 6,s in and went some where else!!!!!!!!!!.
a quick look down the margins each side rusulted in a couple off carp then it went quiet there so i turned my attentions to the right hand island,i took a few fish befor it went quiet , over to the reeds again but a snag had now appeared, 2 foot off the bottom where i had cupped in my pellet, it wasnt there just now so i decided to quit that line and concentrate on my margins and the right hand island . chris davis on 38 was now catching regular by fishing behind the weeds and dragging all his fish over the top, it seemed a bit brutal but it was effective, and funny cos those of you that know chris will bne aware of his tantrums , and ater pulling for a break again as he had snagged the reads again the float came back and hit his finger , he was off his box nurseing his finger and kicking his rod bag and swearing loudly(never a dull moment next to chris).
by rotating around my swim i kept odd fish going so by the end i had 26 carp and 1 skimmer and i thought i had upper 40 lb, i seemed that it would be out of chris and ryan summerhayes on 20 who had been catching steadily down his right hand margin on paste .
as itturned out chris davis,s skull dragging technique had paid off as his net went 77.11 peg 38
2nd was 15 year old ryan summerhayes with 69.12, some one to watch in the future me thinks
3rd phil (fabio)harding on 46 with51.8 and another 2 quid off me to boot
4th was cyril darks finest carpet fitter mitchell artus with48.6 off peg 58
5th tony rixon 46.10 peg 40
6th rod wootten 43.11 peg 41
silvers went to dean maln on 28 with 13.3 on maggot down the edge he had 4 good skimmers and lots of little roach and rudd.
its a nice venue that has matured well its just a shame the reeds have got such a good hold as the fish spend most of the day in them at the mo, hopefully they will be more inclined to come out and play as the weather and water warms up
steve lippett drew for me and handed me peg 40, as i havent been here to often i didnt ave any idea as to what the peg was like, but as i was next to venue regular rod wootten on 41 i thought it would probably be ok, to be fair it lokked good with an island opposite with 4 ft reeds growing off it, so i made up a 4x14 impact 4 with a 16 b960 to .16 for hair rigged pellet, the same rig would do for down the edge each side as it was the same depth . a 4x10 for over by the island to my right as i had bare bank to fish up to , and a dibber for shallow just in case , both rigs on .16 with the usual b960.
starting over against the reeds opposite it wasnt long before i was getting liners but no matter what i was really struggling to transfer anything into a bite , and the reeds were going potty, i did manage a couple of fish from the reeds but it was full of snags , no matter how i fed it i just couldnt make any sense out of it , even with odd fish showing and the reeds knocking i couldnt get a sensible resonse on the deck or shallow so dumped a big pot of 6,s in and went some where else!!!!!!!!!!.
a quick look down the margins each side rusulted in a couple off carp then it went quiet there so i turned my attentions to the right hand island,i took a few fish befor it went quiet , over to the reeds again but a snag had now appeared, 2 foot off the bottom where i had cupped in my pellet, it wasnt there just now so i decided to quit that line and concentrate on my margins and the right hand island . chris davis on 38 was now catching regular by fishing behind the weeds and dragging all his fish over the top, it seemed a bit brutal but it was effective, and funny cos those of you that know chris will bne aware of his tantrums , and ater pulling for a break again as he had snagged the reads again the float came back and hit his finger , he was off his box nurseing his finger and kicking his rod bag and swearing loudly(never a dull moment next to chris).
by rotating around my swim i kept odd fish going so by the end i had 26 carp and 1 skimmer and i thought i had upper 40 lb, i seemed that it would be out of chris and ryan summerhayes on 20 who had been catching steadily down his right hand margin on paste .
as itturned out chris davis,s skull dragging technique had paid off as his net went 77.11 peg 38
2nd was 15 year old ryan summerhayes with 69.12, some one to watch in the future me thinks
3rd phil (fabio)harding on 46 with51.8 and another 2 quid off me to boot
4th was cyril darks finest carpet fitter mitchell artus with48.6 off peg 58
5th tony rixon 46.10 peg 40
6th rod wootten 43.11 peg 41
silvers went to dean maln on 28 with 13.3 on maggot down the edge he had 4 good skimmers and lots of little roach and rudd.
its a nice venue that has matured well its just a shame the reeds have got such a good hold as the fish spend most of the day in them at the mo, hopefully they will be more inclined to come out and play as the weather and water warms up
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