Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Solhampton - Open

  • Peg 29
  • 78lb (52lb of rudd)
  • 4th out of ten
Couldn't keep the fish coming

Karl is a very succesful angler at Solhampton.





Just part of his 105lb catch


Simple..... just pellets.


Karl talking through his pellet rig


New Kingfisher Paste

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Friday, 6 July 2012

MFS - Alders Farm

Day One
  • Peg 10 Match Lake
  • 207lb
  • Section Win
  • 3rd overall
Middle Lake, where the big fish live along with lots of bream and tench.

Match Lake


A video of the lake lake

A little disappointed to draw peg 10, as it is a bit too far down and going into the deeper water. However do have some move to my right and therefore hopefully catch down the edge and catch on the method feeder at 4 meters. My good friend Jon Walker had drawn peg 3 and peg 2 wasn't drawn, so hopefully he will have a great days fishing......

I started at 4 meters on pellet to catch three rudd in as many chucks and 4th cast caught a carp that was smaller than the rudd. So got the method rod out and placed it at 4 meters and it sat there...... After 4 quick casts I finally caught a carp about 8oz. This wasn't looking good and looking around the lake I was getting "wasted" and I do mean "WASTED". Dell next to me was baggin. So I had a few fish down the edge after 30 mins, so decided to go down there and sacked for hour and half. It was hectic fishing and was catching well, but went iffy and I struggled to catch out. But the last hour I got back to catching well again. Was surprised to weigh in 207lb and my mate Jon weighed in 160lb. What a venue, the fish are very fit and fight hard.

Day two

  • Peg 31
  • 52lb
  • 3rd in section
  • 11 carp
With Gary Thorpe drawing this peg the day before and weighing in only 7lb I was kind of worried that I was going to be in for a very tough day.  Gary Thorpe not only a great angler but also fishes the venue a lot as well.  However, hopefully the lake will fish better as it's seen so bait and more rain!

Looking at the peg it wasn't and proved to be like the "krypton factor" in fishing, as I fished 16 meters into the jungle

 Me and Trevor Price was 3rd overall which was good.  Will do a write up......

Fished the middle lake afterwards and caught a couple of munters......

One day i'll catch a 20lber in this country..........

Jon Walker with his 24lb 6oz




SECTION A
1 Mick the Fish 133:04 3
2
3 John Walker 159:10 2
4 Paul Law 198:08 1 4TH
5 Mad 108:03 4
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SECTION B
6 Nick D 174:03 3 5TH
7 Dell 231:07 2 2ND
34 Matt Foxman 147:06 4
36 Colin Spencer 229:00 1 1ST
38 Little Will 99:07 5
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SECTION C
27 Colin Merce 167:03 1
28 Colin Tosdike 98:05 3
29 John Beasley 82:05 4
30 Richard Brain 128:00 2
32 Alan Wickers 57:08 5
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SECTION D
10 Chris Telling 207:14 1 3RD
12 Dan Twine 84:12 4
16 Ian Pretty 42:13 5
20 Anthony 9856321 97:14 3
23 Martin Greene 154:15 2


1 Steve May 48:06 2
3
4 Mal Talbot 35:13 4
5 Mark M 76:06 1 3rd
6 Trev 45:13 3
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SECTION B
31 Gaz Thorpe 7:08 4
15 Clive 72:04 2
16 Sollie 21:08 3
17
18 Carl Williams 94:00 1 2nd
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SECTION C
10 Nigel Hargreaves 72:10 1= 4=
12 Happy Dangler 72:10 1= 4=
24 Baz 315 41:05 4
26 Terry Lancaster 43:02 3
28 Carpet Roy 8:10 5
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SECTION D
7 Les Alanos 69:04 2
8 P Hickson 34:15 4
19 Andy Gregory 120:08 1 1st
20 Kenfish 23:04 5
21 Steve 50-50 51:08 3


PEG NAME WEIGHT SECTION
POSITION 		MATCH
POSITION
SECTION A
1 Nigel Hargreaves 188:06 1 3rd
2
3 Carpet Roy 147:15 2
4 Sullie 104:14 3
5 Tangled up 100:04 4
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SECTION B
6 Alan Oakes 174:00 4
7 Carl Williams 181:14 2 4th
34
36 Mark M 181:10 3 5th
38 Andy Gregory 251:03 1 1st
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SECTION C
27 Clive 97:12 4
28 Ken 92:14 5
29 Baz 315 112:11 3
30 Gaz Thorpe 243:15 1 2nd
32 Terry Lancaster 130:08 2
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SECTION D
10 Steve 50-50 76:08 5
12 Mal Talbot 116:15 2
16 Steve May 101:09 4
20 Trev 180:12 1
23 Ricky 105:05 3


SECTION A
1 Nick D 16:05 4
3 Mick The Fish 30:12 3
4 Dan Twine 76:06 1
5
6 Mad 30:13 2
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SECTION B
31 Chris Telling 52:09 3
15 Martin Greene 171:14 1 1
16 Alan Wickers 39:01 5
17 Justin Case 96:05 2 3
18 JWB 41:01 4
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SECTION C
10 Del 104:14 1 2
12 Prit 76:12 3 5
24 Matt Fox 64:03 4
26 Jon Walker 82:09 2 4
28 Richard Brain 45:10 5
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SECTION D
7 Colin Spencer 48:10 3
8 Colin Merce 72:14 1
19 Little Will 33:01 5
20 Anthony 9857 38:09 4
21 Colin Fosdike 52:10 2
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Well done to Jon Walker and Andy Gregory for winning

Thanks to Paul Law for running the match

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Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Rolfs Lake

  • Peg 8
  • 291 lb
  • 1st place
  • 16 anglers fished

Was very pleased to draw peg 8,  however as always the pressure is on as everyone expects you to win off this peg.  This is my chance to try and do my 400lb in five hours, but this could be a difficult day as we have had so much rain over the last few days.  Also the weather has been unsettled and therefore these big fish can switch off, as any sudden pressure change could switch the carp off.  So bearing this in mind I will feed casters, with tiny amount of corn (1 tin limit) and feed pellets in the last hour when they switch on.......... also fed pellets at 6 meters in open water from the start.

Feeding casters will help me catch chub, as peg 8 has a good head of chub infront of it and also will catch some bream.  Phil Powell, venue expert, advised me that there are good head of silvers and possible to do 40lb of them off the peg and maybe even more.  The big bream shoal tend to be in the big lake at Rolf's lake, so doing a big bag of silvers is unlikely. 

I had a great day's fishing caught Carp up to 17lb, Chub up to 4lb and a couple of Bream up to 3lb.   I fished long all match, 14.5 meters.  I used 0.2 Colmic Carp 1 float straight through to 0.20mm Colmic Stream 16 Drennan Carp Feeder all match to Double 14 solid Vespe Elastic.  I looked around the lake and saw most people were stuggling a little and also bringing fish over my 6 meter line without spooking anything I decided to stay long and picked off fish most of the match.




Not all the carp are massive..... honest


The fish do fight hard, so ensure your gear is up to it

8lb common's seem never to give up.


1Chris Telling8291-0
2Jon Walker9162-4
3Paul Jay6162-0
4Pete Arnold7144-0
5Phil Powell26136-0
6Ashley Blunt2131-8
7John Bennett28102-8
8Dave Wightman1668-4

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Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Lindholme - Fish O

  • Peg 35 Laurels
  • 22kg 250
  • 2nd in section (got beat my 250 grams)
  • 3rd on lake (30 on the lake)
will write a report.

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http://www.lindholmelakes.co.uk/
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Tunnel Barn Farm

  • Peg 21 Canal
  • 60lb-70lb (DNW)
  • 45 fished
Just part of my catch, strange match as I couldn't catch at the beginning or the end.
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Saturday, 23 June 2012

Manor Farm- Windmill

  • Peg 6
  • 94lb 6oz (49lb 10oz of skimmers, roach and small f1's)
  • Won section and 2nd overall

Match Results – Saturday 23rd June – Windmill Lake

1ST STEVE FORD 111-8-0
DGL Peg 24
2ND CHRIS TELLING 94-6-0
Colmic Peg 6
3RD PHIL BENDALL 89-0-0
Tubertini/DGL Peg 15
4TH CHRIS CAMERON 58-10-0
Middy Peg 34
Carp, tench and skimmers caught on pole and pellet.

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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Rolfs

  • Peg 14
  • 180lb (77lb of skimmers)
  • 1st
  • 13 fished
John Bennett with 17lb common carp

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Rolfs lake was covered in carp and swimming around in big groups and with very little ripple on the lake, this could prove to be a hard match. So will plan to catch hopefully a early carp or two and then target skimmers for the middle of the match and if catch them well will try and do the magic ton! The bream are on average 2lb 8oz and there are a few biggers ones(4 lbers). Also be aware that the fish are weighing in light as they have just spawned. So i'm looking for 35 to 40 bream to do the magic ton. Also I don't want to get small fish fever, as the end of the day this is a carp lake and can be a baggin lake with 300lb weights to win!
So started on pellets and went straight out to the 13 meters with only a toss pot of 4mm pellet in hope of a very early carp, after a couple of minutes I had a bream and then a foul hooked 12lb 12oz common carp that gave me one hell of a fight. After an hour I had 7 bream and 1 carp and looking around the lake people were struggling. Therefore decided to start feeding my other lines, as primarily I wanted to focus all my strengths on one line. So fed a chop worm line, with chopped corn, a few casters and 4mm pellet that have soaked up all the worm juice and therefore mounds into a bit of a ball which sinks much faster. I've have tried it with groundbait, but get millions of roach and small skimmers in the past. I think this is best, but open to suggestions and will keep trying new things to see if I can come up with something that could be more effective. But the biggest issue is that carp came into the peg, which isn't a bad thing when they are 16lb and 15lb, but they do bully the bream out of the way. It was a strange and frustrating night, as some of the bites were the smallest of indications, which I think were due to the bright sunshine and still conditions.

I was pleased to beat my 75lb of skimmers by 2lb. But do feel that there is 100lb plus shoal of bream waiting for someone and also a very good chance of doing 400lb of carp, which I would love to do, as I haven't quite got there yet. Also in the winter I know my team mate Steve Walters and Phil Powell (dawg) do good weights of roach! So this year at Rolfs I would like to do 100lb of bream, 400lb of Carp and 40lb of roach in the winter.

The carp messed up the skimmer lines....... 

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