Telling's Times: February 2012

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Manor Farm - Island

Peg 3
34lb
3rd
Section win

Match Results – Thursday 8th March – Island Pool – Affordable Open

1^ST PAUL ALDER                        70-8-0
Mill House Angling Peg 24
2^ND JOHN CLEGG                       70-6-0
Rexel AC Peg 14
3^RD CHRIS TELLING                    34-0-0
Vespe Peg 3
4^TH GRAHAM WHITMORE            30-12-0
South Redditch Peg 18
14 fished. Commons, mirrors and F1s caught on pole and pellet and maggot feeder.

Peg 4
34lb
4th
2nd in section

Still haven't got this pellet fishing sorted, I’m missing a couple of vital fish in order to more me into a frame place! Last couple of matches I have struggled to maintain a steady stream of fish.........

I'm unsure if to feed one line, gets exhausted more start another fresh line, then move onto another.
Rotating between two lines, feed one and then fish other and rotate, this gives the fish time to settle (have been doing this and feel this isn't 100% correct)
How much to feed? To each bite or fish?
Do you feed ten, fifteen, twenty, etc 4mm pellets?
Is micro’s better for these new stocky fish?
"Pinging pellets on top" (fish coming to noise, but can bring them up-in-the-water and you can over do it i.e. feed too much)

Generally speaking more positive feeding will result in more carp, Manor has a large head of carp, but today I only had one. Also speaking to other anglers not many carp fed today. Micro’s did result in a few missed bites once the carp was feeding on Middle's match on Saturday, but I felt that the micro bought more small F1's into the peg or encouraged them to feed, but when the carp feed I missed a couple of bites, and therefore only fed 4mm's and began to connect with the bites. But them missed bites maybe have cost me section win.

see link for Manor Farm

http://www.manorfarmleisure.co.uk/

Match Results – Wednesday 29th February – Island Pool

1^ST MARK RUSSELL                    43-4-0
Banbury Gunsmiths Peg 27
2^ND ROB BIRTLES                     42-6-0
Mosella Peg 8
3^RD ALAN AINSWORTH            35-14-0
Mid City Peg 34
4^TH CHRIS TELLING                    34-8-0
Vespe Peg 4
F1 carp caught on pole and pellet.

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Manor Farm Leisure - Middle Pool

Middle Peg 22
52lb
2nd in section (57lb won the section)
7th overall, 21 people fished.

see new site that I have done

http://www.wix.com/christelling/tellingstimes

Match Results – Sunday 26th February – Middle and Boundary Pools

1^st   Andy Pollard 97-8-0 D G L   Peg 8 Middle
2^nd  Rob Wilson 87-4-0 Alans Tackle Peg 6 Middle
3^rd Chris Cameron 71-6-0   Mosella U K Peg 31 Boundary
4^th Steve Seabourne 63-0-0   Wye Angling Peg 37 Boundary

Saturday, 25 February 2012

Gloucester Canal CIPS round 2

Peg 20 Hempstead
1lb 8 drams (a roach 12oz and small skimmer 4.5oz)
6th in section

This fished very hard and there were even two blanks in my section. Now you know it's super tough when Mark Harper and Sean Ashby are the people that blank. Only 2lb 7oz won the section and Scott Geens was second with 2lb 5oz.

Fair play Darren Cox won the match with 23lb.

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Manor Farm - Island

Peg 23
22lb 10oz
Last

Pole line was good for short periods for these new F1's and I wasted a lot of time fishing the feeder and bomb trying to catch some carp which produce nothing!

A bad mistake trying to catch bigger fish, as this has cost me the section, as 26lb won it, only needed 3lb 8oz

Last fish was the biggest, 37 F1's for 22lb 10oz.

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Avington- Round Five, final round (Denton's Canal League)

6lb 2oz
B2
Section Win
2nd overall

Cracky bag of fish, Micky with impressive 17lb 14oz

Avington is a cracking venue and has been fished a lot recently which has had a knock effect on the weights, and the weather hasn't helped! However, I have had a great days fishing, as I have caught small fish all day, whereas I think a lot of venues would of been a struggle to catch, yet alone Micky Ellyatt awesome catch!

Top 6

1. Micky Ellyatt 17lb 14oz
2. Chris Telling 6lb 2oz
3 D. Guntrip 5lb 1oz
4 Jeff Lewingdon 4lb 14oz
5. Rober Head 3lb 14oz
6 Mick Denton 3lb 10oz

Overall League

Myself 23 points
Micky Ellyatt 21 points
Robert Head 20 points

Thanks to Mick Denton for running all the matches.