Saturday 29 December 2012

Colmic Airon

Colmic Airon F55 Pole

Been using the Colmic Airon F55 for the last couple of months.

The "Dolly Butts" fit from 3rd section throughout the of whole pole! 
The benefits of the Dolly Butts.

  •  When your fishing short without a roller the Dolly Butt hits the ground first protecting your main pole.
  • Helps protect the pole from you putting your elbow through the section (not that you should as the pole really is solid)
  • Pushing it through hedges, fences, etc
  • If you like fishing your pole in a "pole seat"
  • Also helps you follow the fish out.


Colmic Airon F55 is strong enough to cope with big fish without any problems
Just to stop the rumours on the internet forums as I was told that someone mentioned that Colmic Airon F55 pole was going to retail at £4000.  This isn’t true.
Colmic Airon F55 (16 meters) is £2250 which includes:

CCX32P   PACK - AIRON F55  16,00mt
1 AIRON F55 mt 16,00
1 1° Mini Butt 850mm - Reverse = Multi Butt (16,00 + 14,50 + 13,00 + 11,50mt)
1 2° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 6° & 5° sect. (9,50mt & 8,00mt)
1 3° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 4° & 3° sect. (6,50mt & 5,00mt)
8 Power kit HM40-ST  (2,75mt)
1 3° sect. " FORCE-4"  (1,50mt)
1 CUPPING KIT HM-30 (3,10mt)
1 HOLDALL  RBS250




 
Mark Malin's Pellet Video's, using a Colmic Airon F55 pole.
 
 
Colmic Airon F44 is £1900 
 
CCX33P   PACK - AIRON F44  16,00mt
1 AIRON F44 mt 16,00
1 1° Mini Butt 850mm - Reverse = Multi Butt (16,00 + 14,50 + 13,00 + 11,50mt)
1 2° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 6° & 5° sect. (9,50mt & 8,00mt)
1 3° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 4° & 3° sect. (6,50mt & 5,00mt)
6 Power kit HM40-ST  (2,75mt)
1 3° sect. " FORCE-4"  (1,50mt)
1 CUPPING KIT HM-30 (3,10mt)
1 HOLDALL  RBS250

 
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Colmic Airon F33 is £1450
 
CCX34P   PACK - AIRON F33  16,00mt
1 AIRON  F33 mt 16,00
1 1° Mini Butt 850mm - Reverse = Multi Butt (16,00 + 14,50 + 13,00 + 11,50mt)
1 2° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 6° & 5° sect. (9,50mt & 8,00mt)
1 3° Mini Butt 600mm - Reverse = 4° & 3° sect. (6,50mt & 5,00mt)
6 Power kit HM40-ST  (2,75mt)
1 3° sect. " FORCE-4"  (1,50mt)
1 CUPPING KIT HM-30 (3,10mt)
1 HOLDALL  RBS250

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Colmic Airon Box



What you get:
2 x hinged rig trays 39 cm x 28 cm internal
2 x front drawers 18 cm x 30 cm internal
6 x 30 mm telescopic legs with swivel mud feet
Top quality pole seat with butt support
Fully adjustable spray bar with grooved neoprene rest
Fully adjustable double side pole rest
Strong slide away non slip footplate
Adjustable side tray 50 cm x 37 cm
Integral non marking easy grip adjusting knobs
Revolutionary wind resistant umbrella attachment
High quality padded shoulder strap
Adjustable keepnet attachment

All this for £399.99

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Wednesday 26 December 2012

Manor Farm Leisure - Island

    Thursdays Open
  • Peg 22
  • 8lb 4oz (2 carp)
  • No good
  • 37 people fished
The lake(s) fished really well in places.
 

Match Results – Thursday 27th December – Island and Windmill Pools – Affordable Open

1ST STEVE BEARD 105-10-0
Brewery AC Peg 4 Island
2ND PAUL ALDER 96-10-0
Solihull Ang Cent Peg 36 Island
3RD MARK HEMMING 82-2-0
Lodge Park Peg 10 Island
4TH STEVE PARTINGTON 72-0-0
Mosella Peg 15 Windmill
     
     
    Boxing Day's open

  • Peg 16
  • 46lb
  • 2nd. 
  • 13 people fished

All you need.
Soft, through action rod (Drennan Stillwater is what I use)
Colmic Trevis reel loaded with 0.18 method line
X5000 colmic line 0.145 - 0.185
Drennan Carp Feeder hook, size 14-18
Baits..... Bread, meat, boilies and some dips/glugs.

Mark Malin winning again with 95lb on peg 13.
 
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Tuesday 25 December 2012

Thoughts of 2012



The highlight’s of this year is me fishing for Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths (used to Be Drennan Oxford) and winning Turner 400 and winning our Angling Trust winter league.  Also been lucky enough to get individual sponsorship through Colmic and Vespe still support me. 

Winning the Turner 400 again was a good feeling.  (Jeff, Martin, Tom, Tom and myself)


I decided to leave Gordon League and move back to my old team and fish the Oxford Angling Trust Winter League again, which is some great venues and I have been lucky enough to have some good matches there over the years, however the Bristish weather soon put a stop to this.  All our river matches saw us fishing flooded rivers, and therefore the weights were down, don’t get me wrong there was still some decent weights to be had, but they weren’t as good as normal, a lot of anglers including myself struggled, but the beauty of team fishing is that you not fishing for yourself and therefore motivates you to continue as you don’t want to let anybody down.  Then we had the Kennet and Avon canal at Marlbourogh and Avington, which is again great fishing, but with a lock getting repaired meant we had no boats and the canal became very clear and fished rock hard, the hardest i’ve EVER seen the canal fish and I have been fishing it for 20 years!  One of the matches I had 18 roach for 3.5ozs, they were the tiniest roach that I have caught!  The last round saw me catch to late perch for win my section with another 3.5oz’s!!  The winter league for me was disappointing, was individually second on one of the canal rounds.  Not sure what the future holds for the Oxford winter league, will be interesting to see what happens in 2013.

Avington was super hard, but was lucky enough to draw an end peg and had a good days fishing
 
 Came 2nd overall and the team won the round which was more important.
 

Anyway starting at the beginning of the year, I went onto winning “Dents Canal League”, which was good, but some tough fishing again thanks to the English weather.  I do enjoy fishing Kennet and Avon canal.  Me and Avington do seem to get on most of the time..........

"Dents" canal league saw us fishing in VERY cold conditions
 
Avington, a great part of the canal

Bubbles with a good net of fish on a difficult day.


Martin Kirk came 2nd overall on the Oxford Canal in one of the rounds of Dents League
 
Micky Ellyatt came 2nd in Dents league, but had this cracking net of fish in the last round.
 

 
The Angling Trust Semi Finals were on the Gloucester Canal with my old team Daiwa Gordon League, which proved to be very difficult and despite my efforts I didn’t feel very confident.  I really struggled to catch and it was a tough nut to crack.  And after the practice match as Sims I said to Mark Tresure (our team captain) that I didn’t want fish as I felt that I wasn’t at the standard of the other team members.  The team done well and came second overall on the day behind the Starlets, which was a good effort.

Steve Long giving me a lesson on the Gloucester Canal

 

 
 

I fished a few Fish O’s which didn’t go to plan along with Maver Match This, which again didn’t go to plan, however 2013 is a year new and will hopefully have a bit more luck with the draw bag.  I also got through to Angling Times County Champs final at Heronbrook, which was again a letdown for me and our small team.  Doesn't look like there is going to be a county champs in 2013, I hope there is going to be.

Tunnel Barn a great venue, will have to go there more in 2013
 
Alders Farm proved to be solid with fish and we had some good matches there.  I enjoyed the pairs match with my mate Jon Walker and we were unlucky not to win, and therefore will be looking to do well in 2013.
 

Alders Farm proved to offer anything..... Jon Walker with another huge carp!

Still can't catch a 20lber!
 
Burgess with a stunning Ghost Carp at Solhampton.  We had some very enjoyable on the Sunday evening matches.

Rolfs tested my new Colmic Airon poles............... pulling fish away from snags a real test of strength


Whiteacres was great fun, had a real laugh despite having gout.

Our first open saw me win a 40 pegger at Gwinear

I hope Swindon on Tour 2013 is going to be as good as the last couple of years!
 

Me and Mick Lane won the random pairs

Still a lot to learn about carp fishing.


Paul Glenfield had an awesome winter league and proved his class on river and canals.


Spent a lot of time at Manor Farm Leisure this winter and the fishing has been very good.
 
Mark Malin joins the Colmic


 
Mark's had a great year, he won many matches inculding the Rolfs festival and won the Thames Championship.
 
Neil Richards, good friend, had a good year Winning the Manor Festival and Ireland festival as well!
 
Rolfs Lake was tough venue this year, but had some great days fishing, one match I had 294lb and equally I caught some good skimmer bags and broke my own silver fish record and I will be looking to do the magic ton of bream in 2013.
 
 
I had 77lb 8oz of skimmer bream and had just over 100lb of carp for a total 184lb 8oz. One of the best days if not the best days fishing in 2012.
 
 
I was 5th overall in festival, I blow out on the last day.  Another great festival, the fishing can be tough, but the company is very good, as always fished in good spirits.  I fish a lot of venues and Rolfs Lake is one of the best venues I know where there is some many large carp, never caught a 20lber, but will try, plenty in there!!!
 
 Phil loves carp...........honest


Not sure what Mark Malin was doing, but he won the Rolf's festival.

 
The carp are stunning at Rolfs Lake

These commons test your gear to the maxium, so ensure when you fish Rolfs lake ensure your gear is up to the job.

 

Some great big perch in the lake too!

 
 
To Do List for 2013
 
  • To win Rolfs Easter Festival
  • Catch 100lb plus silvers from Rolfs
  • A frame place at Solhampton Festival
  • A frame place at Manor Farm Leisure Festival
  • To beat Del at Alders Farm
  • Win the pairs matches at Alders Farm
  • Catch 400lb in five hour match
  • Team to win Turner 400
  • To get into the Fish O Mania final
  • Team to win the Thames Champs
  • To catch a 20lb plus carp on the pole.
  • For us (Drennan Banbury Gunsmiths) to win the Angling Trust semi finals (whereever they are).
  • Enjoy fishing
 
Happy new to everyone and see you on the fishing bank!
 
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Sunday 23 December 2012

Manor Farm Leisure - Windmill and Island

  • Peg 13 Windmill
  • 39lb 10oz
  • Won section (default)
  • 4th on the lake
  • 26 fished
 
     



Manor Farm Leisure has continued to fish well even with the temperature up and down like “yo-yo”.  I’ve never seen so much rain this year, and the lakes are full now, as I think Dave (the owner) was concerned in the spring, as the lakes were 3 foot down!  No shortage of water now. 

Manor has been a learning curve for me, as I have been messing around with different set ups and various boilie dips.  A lot of the fishing has been bomb fishing, either with bread (sinking and popped up), favoured meat, and boilies (again sinking and popped up). 

The biggest questions you need to ask yourself:

·         When to feed and when not too.

·         How long should you pop up should be..... (4 inches to 3 foot)

·         Tea bags (PVA bags)

·         Dips, what to use in certain water temperatures and clarity of water.

·         Time of day when the carp feed normally beginning and the end, but not always.
See link below for Mainline Baits

Match Results – Sunday 23rd December – Island Pool and Windmill Lake

1ST AIDAN MANSFIELD 86-4-0
Maver Gold/Bagem Baits Peg 6 Island
2ND CHRIS CAMERON 77-2-0
Middy Peg 8 Island
3RD ARTHUR HICKS 53-0-0
Colmic Miracle Baits Peg 11 Windmill
4TH RONNIE PHAROAH 52-4-0
Mosella Peg 34 Island

 
 
 
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Wednesday 19 December 2012

Manor Farm Leisure

  • Peg 4
  • 51lb 12oz (11 carp)
  • 3rd
  • 12 people fished
Some key products.......


 
 

Match Results – Wednesday 19th December – Island Pool

1ST HORACE DAVIS 97-12-0
Smithy’s Peg 27
2ND MARK RUSSELL 66-14-0
Banbury Gunsmiths Peg 25
3RD CHRIS TELLING 51-12-0
Colmic Peg 4
12 fished. Carp caught on pole and pellet and straight lead.