Angling Trust Winter League - Round 6

Avington

• F4
• 3.5oz (2 perch)
• Won section
• Team won on the day and won the league overall

Up the "rat holes" trying to catch anything..................didn't work

Worrying times, as at 1pm three of my team mates were blanking including myself

Never been so happy to catch a perch, my other perch was tiny

 

Good luck to Sensas A4 in the semi's which I believe they will be going to Gold Valley and I understand our semi could be on the Slough Arm at West Drayton, but not sure this is 100%, but they are the rumours!?

 

 

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Manor Farm Leisure - Boundary

• Peg 10
• 50lb (only used one net, went over 51lb 8oz)
• 2nd

The British weather has been all over the place and a feared the worse for today's match.  However, to be fair I had a really enjoyable day on the pole and wish I fished it all day as I would of pushed Paul for the top spot.

 

Just part of my catch

 

Match Results – Saturday 15th December – Boundary Pool

1^ST PAUL ALDER 55-8-0

Solihull Ang Centre Peg 34

2^ND CHRIS TELLING 50-0-0

Colmic Peg 10

3^RD ANDY STONE 35-8-0

MFL Peg 38

4^TH TREVOR WILLIAMS 35-0-0

Minor AC Peg 6

 

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Solhampton - Valley

• Peg 6
• 13lb 8oz
• 5th
• 9 fished

 

Angling Trust Winter League - Round 5

• E1
• 18 roach for a whopping 3oz and 8 drammes (one of the roach was 1oz which I thought about netting!!!!)
• 3rd in section
• Team was 3rd

With another hard frost, no boat traffic, canal gin clear, fourth match in as many weeks, it was going to become another "super tough Sunday". Now this canal is full of fish, but when it goes clear, you know that it is going to be rock hard (tough), and I hoped that I would be on an end peg for prue selfish reasons! This didn't happen and was two pegs away from where I was last Sunday, not a good area.

Simple approach, Bloodworm and Joker with Lob worms. Done.

I had a bite less 2 hours and was worried that I was going to have to wait until the last 10 minutes of the match to catch. However, caught a roach on my 4 x 8 rig, with 0.05 and 28 hook and single joker. Now, one you catch one roach there is normally more and had 8 more in as many chucks. No joke these roach were tiny and I reckon they wouldn't go an ounce! However, there were bites and then the line went funny, so fished my another 5 lines and returned to it and caught a couple more, but something was wrong. To be honest the water was too clear and I think the shoal moved, so started another line in 2 feet, which was strange as I could see the bottom, but this is the ONLY place I could get a bite and was the last place that I thought I would get a bite. This resulted in two tiny roach, then a pike rolled and that was it! No bites for the rest of the match! 18 fish in about 30 mins and then match over. Very cold, and never rotated so many lines in all my life and was gutted not to catch a perch!!!! Well done to Steve who won section with 1lb 11oz, all roach (80 fish).

A nice cold morning on the Kennet and Avon canal at "Cottages"

Road side.

Foxfield...............

 

All to play for at Avington in two weeks, as this is the final round of our Angling Trust Winter League.  We are one point infront of Sensas A4. 

 

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Manor Farm Leisure - Boundary

• Peg 34
• 29lb 12oz
• Section Win
• 5th Overall
• 14 anglers fished

After lots of rain and a few hard frosts, this match is going to be a tough one. 

I found it tough going, and caught some chunky F1's.  No carp and only a couple of skimmer bream

A very cold wind going to make Boundary pool even tougher.

Match Results – Saturday 1st December – Boundary Pool

1^st SHAUN LITTLE 75-14-0
M A P Peg 38
2^nd AIDAN MANSFIELD 71-2-0
Maver Gold Peg 6
3^rd ANDY GRIMES 38-0-0
M F L Peg 36

Well done to Shaun Little for winning

Manor Farm Leisure - Island

• Peg 17
• 52lb 4oz (9 carp)
• 5th overall, no good.
• 10 fished.

Lost a couple of fish, which cost me a frame place.
Also look for the "flat water", them carp like sitting in it when its cold (look on the point of the island)

 

 

Match Results – Wednesday 28th November – Island Pool

1^st ANDY GRIMES 85-0-0
M F L peg 32
2^nd MARK MALIN 80-12-0
Colmic/Bait tech Peg 34
3^rd MARK DAVIS 67-12-0
Ridgemere Peg 5

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Kennet and Avon Canal - Iron Bridge and Road Side

• Peg 17
• 1lb 14oz
• No good.

Canal fished very hard in places, lost a big perch at the net which cost me the section.

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