Telling's Times: January 2018

Monday 29 January 2018

Manor Farm Leisure

Saturday 27th

I was fishing for my mate Gary Watts on the Manor winter league on Saturday and drew peg 23 on Island. Which I'm personally not a great fan of. So simple approach, rods.... chucked the lead for 1 hour to look for indications and look for liners and had 1 beautiful rod on 3 discs of 10mm bread! Therefore I chucked the pellet feeder for the next 4 hours with Method Feeder 2mm sweet fishmeal pellets and a white 8mm boilie on the hook. Had 9 fish for 48lb 2oz to win the lake and came second overall in the match.

25 fished the match.

Sunday 28th

Peg 5 Ash Pool

This is a good pole peg and I fished 4mm Amino Pellets, which are a great quality pellet, as they all sink and if you soak them right, you able to hook them or put them onto a lasso. Trust m e, soft pellets on a lasso get more bites. Won the lake 44lb 2oz

I fished long pole on a 4mm Amino Pellet, simply put a small amount of water to softener them up and I feed and fish them via a lasso. I find this very effective as you get more bites than a standard "dry hard" pellet.

Gear used;

Colmic Airon F66 Pole.

0.2 gram float, with a stung bulk to 0.145 to 0.10mm hook length.

Sunday 21 January 2018

Alvechurch Winter League. Round 7

Alvechurch Winter League round 7

Just for a change I was last in the draw bag, and there was only two balls left in the bag. Well, that was the highlight of my day.... I touched the winning ball.

Stephen Bellion won the match with 50lb. Peg 12. Legend.

Phil Evans was second with 14lb 10oz. Fair play on peg 4.

Paul was third with 14lb 6oz on peg 26.

So my good run continues and I came last with 2 small carp and 5 Ide for 5lb 9oz on peg 24.

Take the rough with the smooth.

Friday 19 January 2018

Manor Farm Leisure- Thursday affordable

Peg 26 Windmill Pool

24lb

1st place

6 fished the match

Thursday affordable open and drew peg 26 Windmill Pool. Unfortunately only 6 braved the weather, so nice and friendly match. After all the cold weather we have had, a expected it to fish hard..... which it did.

Gear used;

Colmic Airon F66 Pole.

0.2 gram float, with a stung bulk to 0.145 to 0.10mm hook length.

Sunday 7 January 2018

Manor Farm Leisure- Island, Windmill and Middle pools.

Peg 18 Island.
53lb
2nd overall
15 fished

Was hoping to draw peg 24 Windmill, one of my favourite pegs on the complex, but draw peg 18 on Island Pool.

I set my mind set that I needed 60lb to frame, therefore 10 to 14 fish from this area, so therefore only need 2.5 fish an hour, so cast can be 25 ish mintues each. So I ain't scared to chuck it and leave it. A bit boring maybe..... but it works. Trust me, results prove it.

The beauty of Manor Farm Is Dave always spreads us out where he can. Which is normally worth a few bites on most pegs and drawing peg 18 was an end peg on the day, so always worth a few.

Do love the Next Adventure 90. Makes the Island chuck with ease

Alvechurch. Colmic Canal

Peg 16
DNW
16 FISHED

Peg 16 on Colmic Canal.... been a good area, so hoped for a few bites. Unfortunately peg 14 was in and a cold wind was howling down our end of the lake. 2 carp and 1 massive Ide. For DNW and was home by 3.30pm

It fished well for most. Take the rough with the smooth.

Wednesday 3 January 2018

Manor farm leisure- island and windmill pools

Peg 12 Island
93lb 4oz
1st place
6 fished

Nice day in the end, considering I wasn't going until the mrs was called into work.

I arrived at 10am, 30 mintues late, last peg in the bag, which was a flyer peg 12 Island Pool. Simple match. Pellet feeder!!

One bit of advised I'd give is to be patient, bites can take a while, up to 30 mintues.... it's hard not to wind in. But I had 30 fish today, 6 fish per hour. 1 every ten minutes. If the carp feed, they can average 6lb to 8lb a piece. Don't take long to do a weight.