Telling's Times: August 2012

Friday, 31 August 2012

Gloucester Canal

Hempstead
Around 7lb (2lb common carp)
3 hours and 40mins

I thought I better had brush up on my silver skills ready for the Turner 400 this weekend, and therefore spent a quick short session on the Gloucester canal. I was very suprised the amount of small fish that I caught, a lot of these small silver bream, also a Zander (never caught one before), 2 small Eels, and some Perch, Roach, Bleak, oh and a CARP?!.

Sunday, 26 August 2012

Manor - Boundary Pool

Peg 10
44lb
Section win and 4th overall
24 fished

I haven't fished Manor Farm Lesuire for while, so was looking forward to it. It was on Boundary pool which is the toughest out of all the pools. A lot of different methods do work there, and dog biscuit and baggin wag are two key methods. However, a good breeze, I was hoping to catch skimmers and F1 on the pole at 13 meters on 4mm pellet.

I had an enjoyable day, I had 22lb skimmers and 22lb carp, but got battered by Rob who had 82lb on the "baggin waggler". The skimmers only feed in the first two hours and then switch off, not sure why. However pleased to win section and 4th overall.

Match Results – Sunday 26th August – Boundary Pool

1^ST ROB MCKENZIE 82-12-0
Glos Ang Cent Peg 9
2^ND MARTIN LUDLOW 74-4-0
MFL Peg 19

3^RD CHRIS VANDERVILT 44-12-0
Bait Tec Peg 37
4^TH CHRIS TELLING 44-0-0
Colmic Peg 10
24 fished. Commons, mirrors, F1s, skimmers and tench caught on pellet waggler, pole and pellet and groundbait feeder.

Saturday, 18 August 2012

Alders Farm

Peg 1
286lb 14oz
2nd Overall
14 people fished

Just a small part of Gary's match winning catch

Top 6

1. Gary Thorpe (GOT Baits) 302lb 7oz

2. Myslef 286lb 14oz

3. Colin Fergolick (Garbolino Appollo) 247lb

4. Trevor Price (GOT Baits) 245lb

5. Keith Asby (GOT Baits) 225lb

6. Miles Phillips (Milton Keynes) 222lb

Everybody weighed in and the lowest weight was 99lb

Rolfs Lake

Peg 6
79lb
4th Overall
16 people fished

The Colmic Airon F44 passed the Rolf's test

1st	Matt Edwards	4	134-03	Miracle Baits
2nd	Simon Mound	3	104-13	Rolfslake.com
3rd	Paul Jay	8	85-06	Rolfslake
4th	Chris Telling	6	79-14	Colmic / Vespe
5th	Geoff Edwards	26	75-04	Reading Angling Center
6th	Wez Hillier	38	70-09	Rolfslake
7th	Nick Williams	30	63-04	Miracle Baits
8th	Paul Corsini	9	59-13	Rolfslake
9th	Micheal Corsini	14	46-03	Rolfslake
10th	Jon Walker	34	42-05	Walker Floats
11th	John Bennett	16	36-00	Rolfslake
12th	Mick Chappell	39	30-04	Rolfslake
13th	Eddie Taylor-Green	28	23-00	Rolfslake.com
14th	Malc Doyle	1	2-00	Jinx League
15th	Dai Thomas	32	DNW	Jinx League
16th	Dave Whiteman	7	DNW	Hydro 200

Well done Matt who wasted me off the next peg!

see links

http://rolfslake.com/blog/

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Solhampton Evening Open

Peg 12
147lb
1st
9 people fished

Valley

1. Chris Telling (Colmic) 147lb
2. Karl Stephens (Colmic) 140lb
3. Paul Bailey 118lb

4 hour evening match, with 5 people weighing 100lb plus.

see links

http://christelling.wix.com/solhampton#!home/mainPage

I did go to Larford Lakes for the Maver match this, but draw peg 28 on the Specimen lake and therefore didn't go to my peg and fished the evening match instead. The results for larford were:

Angler's Name	Weight (lbs/oz)	Peg # / Lake
Ian Giddins (Maver / Bag 'Em Baits)	150-05-00	6 (Match)
Andrew Davies (Tricast Highfield)	90-05-00	67 (Match)
Richard Hull (Garbolino / Dynamite Baits)	87-05-00	32 (Match)
Mark Johnson (Maver Midlands)	85-04-00	53 (Match)
Alex Bates (Maver Bait-Tech)	75-11-00	28 (Match)
Pemb Wrighting (Maver / Bag 'Em Baits)	64-04-00	7 (Speci)
Paul Holland (Preston Innovations)	60-03-00	44 (Match)
Neil McKinnon (Preston Innovations)	59-00-00	12 (Match)

Saturday, 11 August 2012

MFS at Rolfs Lake

Peg 30
71lb 8oz
Section Win
5th Overall (i think)
18 Fished

Peg 30 at Rolfs lake wouldn't be a peg that I would pick out of choice, especially with pegs 8, 10 and 13 in my section, this would be a preferred areas. But this area can throw up some skimmers and these little (not that little) beauty's are worth catching. So if the lake does fish hard, then I am in a good area to catch these skimmer bream.

I have the prototype Colmic Airon F44 pole to test and no better place to test this fishing pole. Rolfs fish and big and powerful and will test your gear to the limit.

The lake did fish hard and I caught a couple late carp and about 15 skimmers for my 71lb 8oz.

Last fish was this 13lb common, which was hooked in the tail, and almost made it to peg 9's bush........ no joke. This tested my new pole to the limit!

see links

http://www.matchfishing-scene.co.uk/

http://rolfslake.com/blog/

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Thursday, 9 August 2012

Rolfs - Open

Around 32lb (2 carp, one was 12lb and 13lb of skimmers)
Peg 29
8 people fished
Last as I DNW

The lake was flat calm, and was always going to be difficult, a lot of fish cruising around before the match started but soon disappeared when the match started. I fished for carp for the first 40 mins, which result in one missed bite and then fished for carp in the last hour, but still couldn't catch. Fished for bream for the middle three, on worms, and caught two carp and only 3 proper bream. Hopefully, will fish a lot better on Saturday for our MFS match.

Rolfs's Lake carp do fight so hard, especially the 8lbers!!

Well done to Dai for winning.

see link

http://rolfslake.com/blog/

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Alders Farm

Peg 6
183lb 5oz
42 people fished
21 Pairs
Section win
2nd overall
5th on pairs, lost out on count back of weight.

Alders farm is great venue and is full of fish, in all the lakes. Today there is a pairs match so me and Jon Walker were the partners in crime. We decided that I would fish match lake and Jon would go to the silver lake. To be honest, Jon is fair better angler than me up in the water and this lake requires a little more finesse, whereas the match lake is normally aggressive lake, as in catching lots of fish and being ultra positive, which suits me down to the ground.

My approach was on the match lake was:

1. Casters and corn down the edge. With 0.3 and 0.4 float in 10 - 14 inches of water, may seem very heavy, but it gives the stability and gives proper bites when you keep a tight line.

2. Feed meat at 5 meters and maybe shorter if the venue turns into a bagfest, and hopefully fish meat over the top, however rudd are a BIG problem, which they were, then paste over the top. Why not fish pellets and paste? Well, in my limited experience on the venue, pellets can problems with hitting bites and bringing smaller fish. It worked well on the day....

3. Method feeder at 5m or further out

4. If I drew dam wall, I would fish up in the water because of the depth.

Top 6

1. Del Smith 198lb 10oz Herts

2. Chris Telling 183lb 5oz Glos

3. Simon Edwards 170lb 7oz Herts

4. Phil Dobson 165lb 4oz Yorks

5. Josh Blanins 153lb 12oz Middlesex

6. Rolly 153LB Herts

Top 5 Pairs

1. Phil Dobson and Andy Stone 13 points

2. Colin Spencer and Karl Williams 12 points

3. Ronan Ryran and Alan Oaks 11 points

4. Dell Smith and Richard Brain 11 points

5. Chris Telling and Jon Walker 11 points

see Alder site:

http://www.aldersfarm.com/index.php

Saturday, 4 August 2012

Harescombe

Peg 22
38lb 9oz
5th (must try harder)
7 fished

Top 3

1. Charile Vallender 54lb 14oz
2. Derek Jarmen 50lb 3oz
3. Terry Raybold 46lb 14oz

See links

http://www.harescombefisheries.co.uk/
http://www.colmic.it/

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Tunnel Barn

Maver Match This

Peg 28 Ext
47lb 12oz
No good, I think about 70lb would of won the lake.
97 anglers fished

Found tunnel a tough cookie, and would like to crack it...... a great venue

After spending two practice sessions I have learnt a little and has been an eye opener on the wide range of methods that do work at the moment. You have the bread man Paul Newell and Andy Jackson who have their fair share of success to say the least and they do deserve credit in prefect this method. At the same time, my team mate Kevin Fowell who does well on casters and Pete Rice catching well on maggot. Then finally Pete Caton and Stu Palser who have been catching on worms. So this shows that an awful a lot of different methods work, so will ensure that I will fish my own match, so worms and peat for me and paste short.

The Open matches have had good turn outs and has attracted good strong field of anglers and the ones that I have mentioned above and no doubts ones that I haven’t mentioned (sorry). This always makes it challenge to take on the venue experts, as the same as any venue. I have struggled with Tunnel Barn Farm, as it doesn’t suit my style of fishing and I do need to adapt more and need to rotate lines and defiantly feed less bait!! One thing that I have learnt on carp fishing is that you don’t always have to prime a line, if anything this is a negative impact, which has been against everything I have spent on a river or canal bank. As canal fishing you may have to build a swim up for 4 hours before going on it. Don’t get me wrong I fished two matches last year, drew canal 3 (good area) and was 2nd in the Fish O which was over 100 anglers, however drew on New 16 and blew out. However this year is was 3 – 0 to the fish!

Gareth Malham(Malham Floats)	152-13-00	31 (Top)
Paul Newell (Kingsmill Redditch)	140-13-00	8 (Top)
Warren Martin (Matrix)	135-02-00	24 (Club)
Jason Brown (Maver Gold)	128-13-00	9 (Club)
Lee Wright (Matrix / Dynamite Baits / Trentman)	125-10-00	20 (Club)
Chris Weeder Jnr (Leigh Tackle & Bait)	110-01-00	22 (Club)
Kerry Kirkwood (St. Helens Angling)	109-02-00	14 (Club)
Ronnie Biggs (OHMS)	106-02-00	19 (Club)