Sunday 22nd November - Manor Farm open, peg 24 windmill (FLYER!!!) 17 fished.

Well where to start! This is a very good peg but has had no form of late so kept an open mind. There's an island to the right slightly easily reachable with 13-14.5m of pole so this was my main attack but kitted up some open water rigs to.

Started off dobbing bread first 10 minutes without a bite! So went into open water and started catching steadily, leaving my island line with the intention of it being solid late!

Had an instant response after going on the deck in open water but it started to fade after 1 hour 30 so had a look on the island and had 3 stockie F1s in as many put Ins then nothing!

Caught the  bulk of my fish at 13m in open water feeding and fishing pellets. Not sure about the island line??? It just didn't produce and fish were to small! At the all out I had around 27/28 fish for 37-4-0 for 5th in the match and a lake win by default so picked up some money.
 It was a very strange day though, tried to catch a bigger stamp fish but didn't want to give it to much bait and didn't want to get to focused against the island.

Still really enjoyed the day and roll on next weekend!

Another awesome day today!

Saturday 21st November- Ash pool peg 20, 11 fished split over windmill and ash.
With a steep drop in temperature expected it to fish hard! Because the wind was so bad I couldn't fish the pole until 2:00 so fished the bomb and pellet, finally when the wind died at 2:00 I had 8 fish so had a look on the pole now I could present it! I then caught steadily on the pole at 13m on pellets to put a further 8 fish in the net taking me to 16 fish at the all out.
As the scales came round I was last to weigh and had heard Chris telling was winning overall off peg 12 ash with 34-00 so I thought I was somewhere near. I managed to tip the scales round to 45-00 resulting in a match win!

Overall really enjoyed the day with the middle part being a major struggle! Roll on manor again tomorrow!

Sorry! Bit late posting this blog!

Another awesome weekend for myself last weekend.
Saturday 14th November saw me fishing the open at manor farm leisure on boundary pool, I drew peg 32 and fished the pole most of the day and caught all my fish long on pellets to weigh 59-0-0 to win the match.

Sunday 15th November saw me fishing the first round of the winter league pairs on the river avon. I drew peg 35, a good peg which i was happy with, its a chub/waggler peg so with this in mind i only set up 2 rods as the wind was terrible for a nice positive approach! Ended the match with 5 chub and some bleak for 10-7-0 enough to win the match giving me 1 point.
Unfortunetly my partner up the common struggled meaning we're around 4th or 5th overall as it stands but all still to play for!

Roll on next weekend!

Awesome weekend this weekend!!!

Saturday 17th October saw me at manor farm on the open. 14 anglers turned up so both lakes were in, Middle pool and Windmill pool. I really fancied drawing on windmill pool and thankfully I did! Peg 22 stuck to my hand.

This is down the far end of the lake in the deep water and I had a bit of room. Kept my approach very simple and only kitted up a few rigs.

Started at 13m on the deck where I caught really steadily all match and spent pretty much all day on. I did come short when my long line died but only had a great big F1 on it! At the all out I didnt really feel like Id done enough to win my lake as heard Chris Telling next peg had been catching.

I weighed in 79-0-0 which was first on my lake and put me 3rd overall with 84-0-0 coming off Middle pool. Really enjoyed the day and was looking forward to the next day.

Sunday 18th October saw me fishing a team of 4 match at Cob House fishery in Worcester. I was pegged on Laugherne Island Peg 10.  The lake has a series of 3 islands and I drew right in the middle of the middle island. Again I kept my approach very simple and just fished pellets on the pole.

For the first part of the match I struggled for only a few fish but eventually got my head down and caught a few fish long.
I finished the day with 74-0-0 which was 2nd on my lake. With only 78-0-0 winning I was annoyed as I lost around 5 carp.

I had heard that my other team members had done well and Jordan Holloway won his lake on wyatts with 115-0-0 amd Owen Robinson won his lake with 62-0-0 and Andy had struggled on his lake for around 6th. So with 2 firsts places and a second we won!!! Really happy with that as we came 4th last year but was nice to come back and win it!

All in all a very nice weekend which I thoroughly enjoyed!

Manor farm leisure open - Saturday 10th October - Windmill lake

Love this lake, always had a decent day when ive fished this lake. Not many turned up so I felt I would need 100lb+ to be anywhere in the frame. I drew peg 15, this is on one of the islands and is a good peg! So was very happy to be on it.

Kept the set up very simple and very for wmet for an out and out pole and pellet approach. The islands at 17m so with 16.5m I could just reach a stump to my left slightly.

Rig 1 - Pellet line across to the island.

Rig 2 - 13m deck rig in open water

Rig 3 - Shallow rig

And a few duplicates.

Started off to the island pinging pellets and in the first hour had around 10 f1s and 2 carp.
This then suddenly died and couldn't buy a bite there!

So went on the deck at 13m and continued putting some fish in the net. After a while on the deck I had been pinging pellets so went shallow and had a few more.

Throughout the day kept switching between each line to keep fish coming. And had a great big mirror that was 14lb!

At the weigh in 118 was winning and I weighed 105-0-0. Chris Telling next peg had 122-0-0 which put him first and I ended up 3rd.

Really enjoyed the day and I feel I should of gone on the deck earlier as this produced bigger fish.

Manor farm leisure open - Boundary Pool - Thursday 1'st October.

Not very often but today I booked the day off work to fish the open at Manor Farm. Had been looking forward to it all week.

At the draw I saw myself heading towards peg 38. Love this peg! The last 3 matches I've fished on here I've been lucky enough to draw this peg twice! Its an out and out pole peg so set my stall out on mainly fishing the pole.

Rigs were as followed:

13m Pellet line - 0.4 float to 0.15 - 0.11. 18 B911.

Identical rig but with a spade hook for fishing expander pellets in case it got hard.

A bomb, for if I really needed it.

I really set my mind on staying on the pole and hopefully catching on it most of the day. At the all in I fed 40 pellets through a big pot and then shipped out my rig with 10 pellets in the cad pot and lowered in my rig. Had 2 early F1s within the first five minutes and then couldn't get a bite.

As the day progressed starting pinging on the pole and in the first few hours only had a few fish so picked up my bomb rod and sat on that for an hour and a half and by 2;30 I had about 7 F1s and was off the pace.

I decided to big 3/4 of a pot of pellets in at 13m and go straight on it, this was a good idea as after 5 minutes of lifting and dropping the float slid under and I was attached to an angry rather large common! weighing around 8lb. After that I went back in and foul hooked an F1 so got me thinking. I increased the pinging of pellets and decided to fish shallow. By now we only had 45 minutes left so It was a brave decision. But the right one!

After 15 minutes of working hard, slapping, feeding, repeat I had my first fish and from then on I caught really well till the end.

On the clicker I had 16 fish. 14 F1s and 2 carp. I weighed in 52-0-0. This put me 4th out of the 13 that fished.

Round up: I felt my match could of gone better and if the wind would of stopped earlier I could of fished shallow earlier on in the day. Really enjoyed the day as always and learnt a lot.

Fished Priory lake today in broad marston. 

Caught well down the edge on dead maggots and weighed in 60-0-0 for 3rd overall. Felt my peg was worth a bit more but still enjoyed the day.