Saturday 18 February 2017

Saturday 18th February - Manor farm leisure

Manor Farm Leisure.
Final round of the winter league.
After struggling in the first 3 rounds I needed a miracle to do any good overall.
Last 2 rounds have been good.
Won the lake/match in round 4 and 2nd on lake/match in round 5.

Just wanted a days fishing, after drawing peg 12 on middle I really didnt think that was going to happen. The opposite end is where you want to be or middle of the lake can be a safer bet.

Started my match on popped up bread after feeding my pole line. A big F1 was the start I needed. The odd liner on the bomb gave me some hope of fish in the area so a quick look on the pole after 30 minutes and I soon began catching.

Took me a while to sort out how they wanted it but soon got into a rhthmn and caught some nice F1s!

At around 1:30 my match was fading.
I had around 14 or 15 F1s a a carp and was struggling for a bite.

Had to pick fish off for the rest of the day. Catching 1 then moving lines.

My 18 f1s and 2 carp went 76-0-0 which was enough to win the lake and 3rd overall.

Was nice to feed a little bit of bait today as I felt they wanted it! I thought I might of caught more carp than F1s today but to my surprise I didnt!

Hopefully this warm weather continues!
Not fishing tomorrow unfortuanlty.
Roll on next time!


 

Sunday 5 February 2017

Sunday 5th February - Manor Farm Leisure

I drew peg 7 on Ash pool.

22 anglers fishing.

I set up two pellet lines both at 14.5m where I would fish pellets.

The rigs were: A colmic big float in .5g, 0.135 F1 spider mainline and an 0.10 hooklength with a Colmic size 16 WN501 for fishing expander pellets to my right. I cad potted pellets on this line.

A Jon Walker diamond in .3g, same mainline and same hooklength to a size 20 B911 hook where id fish a lasso'd pellet and ping pellets on this line.

I had a really nice day with plenty of bites. Seemed to only catch skimmers and the odd F1 early part of the match then caught a few f1s and carp later on.

I ended the match with 4 carp, 5 f1s and 24lb of skimmers to weigh 54-0-0 which won my lake and was 6th overall.

Was really enjoyable catching those skimmers! Wish id of gone for them earlier!




Saturday 4th February - Lower park farm

I haven't fished this venue for over 2 years but really liked it when I was last there. As I remembered from last time all the lakes had a lot of stock fish in so I had already planned my approach.

36 anglers fishing.

I drew peg 11 on Lowland which meant nothing to me. Getting to my peg and not seeing any movement at all (no fish blowing/topping on the whole lake) I thought it could be really hard!

I decided to attack it like so:

13m to my right. With maggots and micro pellets. The rig was a F1 maggot chianti float in 4x14. 0.13 f1 spider mainline to an 0.09 stream hooklength, to a size 20 Colmic WN501 hook.

13m to my left. Where id feed 4mm pellets and fish an expander or hard pellet. The rig was a Colmic big float. In 0.5g. 0.13 mainline again to a 0.09 stream hooklength, to a size 16 WN501.

Top 6 straight in front. Exaclty the same rig as above just a slightly lighter float in 0.3g.

An edge line to the next pallet in 3ft of water. The rig was a Colmic Mike float, 0.152 F1 spider mainline to an 0.12 stream hooklength.

I kicked off on the maggot line to weigh it up and see how it was going to fish. An few moments passed and my float dinked and 3ft of Colmic 1.5mm hollow soon fired out, this resulted in a small angry, plump F1 which was just the start I needed. Before I knew it, another 9 f1s soon followed and I was flying.

After these 10 fish this line was starting to fade, so a quick look on my pellet line a was soon back catching again. Pellets seemed to be much better so decided to change my other line to a pellet line so they were both the same and got in a nice rythmn of catching 5 or 10 fish then changing lines. I caught best by hooking a fish and then rattling in 10 4mm pellets ready for the next fish.

I found the 1.5mm hollow elastic was best as I didn’t need to use the puller bung which would of slowed me down. The bites were really negative, tiny little indications on the float or just the float simply doing something unnatural.

With about an hour to go I had 65 fish on the clicker, I couldn’t catch short for some reason and I had been feeding a little bit of bait down the edge. Time for a look! I caught 2 f1s straight away down here, same size as I was catching in open water. The next fish was a little carp and then not a bite so for the last 40 minutes I decided to stay on my open water lines.

The hooter sounded and the match was over, a look down at my clicker and 78 was displayed! It really didn’t feel like I had caught that many… but I had!

The scales came round and my 75 small f1s and 3 carp weighed 62-8-0. Which to my surprise won the match!


I had a really enjoyable day catching those stockies and that’s the most stockies i've ever caught so also learnt loads of things!