Telling's Times

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Manor Farm Leisure

Peg 24 Island.

32lb.

No good

29 fished.

Shaun Little won it 190lb shallow on the pole. Peg 37 Island Pool.

Adi Mansfield was 2nd peg 22 Ash Pool with 150lb. Down the edge.

1ST SHAUN LITTLE 190-0-0
Map Marukyu Peg 36 Island

2ND AIDAN MANSFIELD 150-4-0
Shakespeare Peg 22 Ash

3RD SCOTT RHODES 95-8-0
Clampits AC Peg 4 Island

4th ANDY SIMMONDS 82-0-0
Arthur’s Angling Supplies Peg 14 Ash

5TH MARK MALIN 77-8-0
Colmic Bait Tec Peg 35 Island

6TH NEIL MCKINNON 75-4-0
Preston Innovations Peg 5 Ash

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Angling Trust Semi Final

4lb 6oz

2nd to last

9 section.

Team was 5th

I was excited with my draw and more importantly we seemed to have a decent draw.

Perch.

I do love my chop worm fishing on the Kennet and Avon canal. I have been lucky enough to have some success on chop worm fishing, but i have also wasted time and lost section win and even matches by spending too long fishing chop worm.

Like our last semi final, there is no fast or easy rules with chop worm on Kennet and Avon canal. One rule I would say Lob Worm is a must for these big perch. I've feed anything from 20 lobs to 150! So anglers mince their worms and anothers cut them up to little segments. I like to wash my worms and cut them to mush, unless I know that there's loads of perch present and then i'll but into segments. But drawing flyers don't happen that oftened! Well, I had one at Churches on one of the opens, and another today, end peg flyers!

Team Line Ups

Road Side

Peg 12 14lb 10oz

peg 11 5lb 7oz

peg 10 1lb 7oz

peg 9 4lb 2oz

peg 8 1lb 9oz

peg 7 3lb 12oz

peg 6 2lb 2oz

peg 5 3lb 1oz

peg 4 1lb 13oz

peg 3 5oz

peg 2 2lb 15oz

peg 1 3lb 5oz

Cottages:

However, but a long story short it was a struggle for myself, couldn't put a run of fish together. Caught the most perch over my chop all year put togeter, but they were all to small! Must of had 20 perch, which would of gone a disappointing 3lb and had 1lb ish of roach.

1. Starlets 66

2. Dorking 63

3. Gordon League 59

Individual

1. Dave Micklewright 22lb 1oz

2. Nigel Evans 17lb 4oz

3. Mark Gaylard 13lb 1oz

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Colmic F1 Spider

F1 Spider line is Colmic's premier line developed by Jacopo Falsini and the Colmic team. It is best used as a main line in match fishing for pole rigs. Designed for competition fishing, it is marketed by Colmic in order to satisfy the most demanding of anglers. As in all top-level sports, all innovations are developed prior to being launched as top of range and we have spent some time in developing this product. This monofilament combines the NXGEN polymer with top quality. The result being the most specific nylon for match fishing and commercial fisheries.
• High Knot resistance
• water repellent
• anti twist
• u.v. protection triple treatment
• extra strong
• ABRASION RESISTANCE (therefore tieing hooklengths without damaging the line and handles the moment of shot without damaging the line on pole rigs)

My review of the line

Colmic F1 Spider line is retailing at £6.00 - £7.00 for 100 meters, I would honestly say this in incredible value for a Fluro Tec line, and I have used this line for a few months, so not looking at it in a office, and not writing a review without even using it on the bank.

I've used it on a wide range of venues, but it stood out when I used the line on Windmill Pool, on Peg 24 at Manor Farm Leisure, which if you don't know the venue it is a snag pit. It has brambles and tree's whereby the fish did and all drag your pole rigs through these snags. I fished 0.188, which never got broke and caught 100lb of hard fighting carp from 5lb to 14lb, which included large ghost carp. The line has a great recovery rate, no memory, a degree of strecth, easy to tie hook lengths.

The line has a clear but has a blue tinge when wet. The only down fall is the spools are large, so take a little bit of room up in your box, but if you do your prepartation at home, then your unlikely to take them?!?! Class line.

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Kennet and Avon Canal - Road Side

Peg 4
1lb 13oz
70 roach

Friday, 21 March 2014

Ivy House Fishing Festival

Ivy House Lakes Fishing Festival 2014

2nd June to 6th June

For further details on Ivy House Festival, please see link:

http://www.ivyhouselakes.com

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Ivy House Lake - Cost Cutter

Peg 12
116lb 10oz
1st
24 fished
New venue record (it won't last long)

I haven't fished Ivy House Lakes for a long time, and i do have some fond memories of the place, as I did have a good run of matches fishing paste long. I reckon that will work this summer.

Andy and his wife are the new owners of Ivy House Lakes and they have restocked the lakes. The Big Lake/Match Lake have recently been stocked with these carp, which are little beauties, they range from 8oz to 1lb 8oz, most of the stock carp are around 1lb.