Pewsey 31/01/11

Pewsey Open 30/01/11

·         30 people fished

·         3^rd overall and section win

·         3lb 3oz (40 tiny fish and 3 bonus perch)

Lucky big "billy" ( about 12oz)

Nigel Franks with 2lb 3oz, unlucky to loose the section by default.

Mr Pollard with 3lb for 4th

Nigel Crewe

Very hard match, 3lb 7oz won it (well done Gary O'Shea)

 see report on the Vespe site, see link below:

http://www.vespe.com/blog/

Manor Weekend 22/01/11 and 23/01/11

Windmill 22/01/11

• Peg 26
• 27lb 6oz
• 6th out 16
• 2nd in my section
• I had 3lb 4oz Perch (personal best)

Match Results – Saturday 22nd January – Windmill and Island Pools

1^st ANDY POLLARD 46-4-0
D G L / Mosella Peg 15 Windmill
2^nd CHRIS CAMERON 39-8-0
Mosella S W Peg 4 Island
3^rd MIKE POLLARD 31-2-0
Mosella Peg 24 Windmill

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Island 23/01/11

• Peg 34
• 16lb 4oz
• no good.... must try harder



Nigel Crewe on his way to 3rd overall.

Match Results – Sunday 23rd January – Island, Middle, Boundary and Windmill Pools

1^ST STEVE SEABOURNE 83-0-0
Wye Angling Peg 3 Middle
2^ND TONY SHEPHERD 64-12-0
Oxford Peg 28 Middle
3^RD NIGEL CREWE 52-12-0
DGL Peg 13 Island
4^TH ROB WILSON 46-10-0
MFL Peg 15 Island

 

Open at Manor Farm

Windmill Lake

• 27lb 10oz (lost section by 8oz)
• Peg 24
• 9 carp and 5 chub
• 2nd in section and 3rd on the lake

see full report on

http://www.vespe.com/blog/

match report via Manor Farm

http://www.manorfarmleisure.co.uk/latest-news/

Open Match at Manor

Manor Farm 9th Jan 2011

Peg 27 on Windmill, my kit neat as ever

• Weighed 3lb 10oz of all little roach
• I was lucky and won the 5 peg section.

Peg 27 which is in bowl, which is around 7 foot deep which is good depth, but the pegs to my left are 10 foot which are the hotspots.  Steve Ford had 128lb midweek match on peg 16, which was a superb weight for this time of year.  However, after speaking to Steve on the morning he reassured that is a good peg, but I wasn’t  so sure to be honest and was disappointed to be here. 

I thought it would be rock hard, and the match did turn out to be a real shocker.  I started by feeding two lines at 14.5 meters as I felt that wouldn’t catch any closer, so feed 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock.  The 10’clock line I fed around 50 4mm pellets and at the12 o’clock line I fed 15 pellets.  This would enable me to judge the response between the two.   The depths were the same, and therefore maybe life easy, as I could quickly rotate between the lines without changing rigs.  I fished 4mm skretting pellet on the hook, the same ones that I am feeding.

 I didn’t feed anywhere else but these two lines, and fished between the two for 1 hour and thirty minutes, and had one bite which I missed.  So I decided to fish 16 meters at 12 o’clock for half hour and again failed to get any bites.  Now I was beginning to think I wasn’t going to catch a carp, also no else had caught a carp in the bowl at this stage.  The guy to my left was catching silver fish, roach, so I got off my box and quickly made up a roach rig.  My roach rig was a Malman winter wire 4x14, 0.125 main line to a 0.75 hooklength and a 22 green gama.

I potted in 30 pinkies, 10 maggots along with 10 pellets at 14 meters at 12 o’clock.  Shipped out to 14 meters and caught a ½ oz roach straight away, and shipped out again and another quickly followed, so I decided to loose feed over the top, but this had a negative effect, as bites dried up quickly.  Therefore, I decided to put 30 pinkies with 10 maggots and 10 pellets every five fish and have a very quick look for a carp, just to left the roach settle on that line and give me a chance of catching a carp on both lines.  Also loose feeding didn’t work as the fish didn’t what to complete for food, as the water was so cold, I think this made them very lethargic and were getting spooked by lose feeding.  Inflection I think groundbait and pinkie would of been best for roach, but hey I went to a carp water to win!!

I caught around 40 roach and 4 small skimmers to give me 3lb 10oz.

See link for full match details

http://www.manorfarmleisure.co.uk/latest-news/

Bread fishing



The essential items for bread fishing

• Good quailty bread, Hovis, Kingsmill or Warburtons
• A good food blender or coffee grinder
• Flour sieve
• Good punches with a pin or needle





 Good punches, Drennan Brass, they cut the bread cleanly and the pin is there to unblock the punches when I am fishing.  Very effective when it is raining, as the punches do get clogged.



Cutting the crusts off will make the bread sink faster.  So if  pike are a problem or the canal is flowing then the bread will get to the bottom quicker.  Also cutting the crusts off will make the bread less filling.  However, if you fishing a canal that is full of fish or catching skimmers then leave the crusts on.

Once blender up, you may wish to put through a flour sieve or pinkie ridd.

The leftovers you can blend again

See the differnce between the sieved (left) and unsieved (right)

Sensas 21 floats from 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 is used

I use Gamakatsu or B511 size 22 for baggin on 4mm punch

Image Im1's in 24 or 26 or 95% of my bread fishing


South Cerney Club match on K&A canal station

Andy Burns winning the match on peg 1, with over 12lb. 

Dad on peg 2, with 2lb 11oz



My peg 8, same one as the Angling Times winter league



Andy Bright on Peg 11, the bush peg.  2lb 6oz.

Feeding bread

Or use your float




Only had 2lb 13oz, for 5th out of 12 anglers.  Couldn't catch a bonus.

 



My Dad

My Dad

Mick Telling (my dad) is an out and out club man and he enjoys fishing the South Cerney complex, especially Wickwater 2 (hence the photograph below).

My old Man with a nice mirror carp from South Cerney lakes

My dad and my uncle John were a major influence on my fishing in the early days of fishing as a Junior.  I was very lucky as John or my Dad was able to take me all over the place.  My Uncle wasn't so keen on the carping when it came into fashion, but my dad showed a lot more interest.  Me and my dad used to fish High Penn, Wootton Bassett water, this lake was solid with wild carp.  Also the canal at Dezives was awesome, but my pole wasn't long enough to reach the far bank!  The Pile and Willows were our hot spots, and there were hundreds of carp along the canal and I believe these parts are still good, but the boats are issue, as there isn't much access.

South Cerney is where most of our fishing was done, and my dad is still very keen on fishing there. He has had some good weights out of Wickwater 2 in the club matches and his biggest weight is 167lb on the method feeder.

Thoughts of 2010

2010 was a tough year, didn't qualify for fish o maina, should of as I was so close at Larford Lakes, but close isn’t good enough, as you must win the event to qualify. I will apply for all sixteen tickets next year to give me a better chance of qualify.  I would love to get back on that final, so fingers and toes crossed!


Also I have another two major events that I would like to qualify for is Phil Briscoe's £100K and UK champs.   I have bought 4 tickets for the Maver event, that cost me a whopping £200!  So more travelling this summer.   Then comes UK champs which is run by Nigel Harry, which is a fanatic bloke and awesome matches!  I will try and qualify for that, as I didn't finish in the top 40 this year to secure my place, I think I may even get the wooden spoon as I done so badly!!


I would like also to get through the county champs final.  I missed out last year at Hillview, a venue that I don't seem to connect with and I dare say the next fish off will be there, so better put some time and effort in next year.


I will hopefully fish Boddingtons a lot more next year, as I fished a MFS (Match Fishing Scene) match and I had 260lb and only came third!  What a venue, and this was with every peg in, so if I drawed an end peg or fished the Tuesday open matches were it's every other peg I hate to think what the venue is capable of!  I would like to beat the world record, which I believe it's still 489 in five hours.  The issue is that you need 20 anglers and to catch that amount of fish!!  I haven't even broke the 400lb barrier!!  Viaduct seems to be throwing some huge weights, so may even consider going there next year. 

Finally it would be nice to fish the angling times semi finals, which all rests on this weekend.  The team does have a huge uphill struggle, as we are 3 points behind and only one more match left.  However, the match may still get cancelled due to bad weather!

UK champs

http://www.ukmatchangler.com/match/articles/results/ukchampsrd3.php

Fish O mania

http://anglingtrust.net/landing.asp?section=25&sectionTitle=AnglingTrustCompetitions

Video through Match Fishing for the Maver Match This

http://www.matchfishingmagazine.com/Videos/category_6/video_96/