White Acres - Milo

Day One

Peg 40

10lb 9oz

3rd Section

Team Caravan

Martyn Howard 7lb 2oz - 2nd Section

Neil Richards 12lb 9oz 2nd Section

Mark Kimber 85lb 3rd Section

Day Two

Bolingey 

Peg 44

2nd in section

86lb

(45lb carp and 41lb of f1's)

A bit of a learning curve for me, as i have only ever seen this lake once before.

Shouldn't of put my nets in at the start and should of fished meat at 4 meters at the begining of the match, as Des Shipp caught a carp to begin with.

Team Caravan

Neil Richards 91lb 4oz (5th section)

Martyn Howard 141lb 9oz (1st section and 2nd overall).

Mark Kimber 4lb 2oz (4th Section)

Day Three

Peg 21 Match Lake

121lb

Won section

Won lake

A had lovely day fishing. Fished 16 meters to the point of the Island. I fished chop wot and caster with meat. I had 42lb of perch and a few skimmers and 79lb of carp and F1's. Great days fishing.

Team Caravan

Mark Kimber 140lb (2nd section and 3rd overall)

Neil Richards 44lb (4th section)

Martyn Howard 48lb ( 2nd section)

Day Four.

Peg 2 Twin Oaks

112lb 9oz

3rd section.

Lucky to caught on meat short in the last 45 mintues to caught 64lb (went over by 4lb) and had 52lb 9oz of skimmers and f1's.

Team Caravan

Martyn Howard 92lb (3rd section)

Mark Kimber 64lb (4th section) minus a 6th pole section.
Neil Richard 74lb ( 6th section)

Neil Richards swimming for Mark's 6th section.... which we didn't get!

Simon in action, giving me another lesson on "how to catch fish at Whiteacres".  I had to give him a £1, as I had over 90lb!!

Day Five

Peg 9 Acron

73lb

3rd in section

Needed a win, and went for broke. Cost me 2nd, but needed a win badly.

Team Caravan

Martyn 44lb 2nd section

Mark 166lb 2nd section

Neil ???

Top 3 of the Milo Festival

36 points 416lb Mick Jones

36 points 469lb Darren Cox

36 points 438lb Des Shipp

Summary of Milo Festival at White Acres.

An great 5 days away, a great holiday and had a right laugh. I came 25th overall out of 170 ish anglers.

I made a far too many  wrong decisions:

Porth feed to the pole line too long. Very bad mistake. 

Boilingey I feed groundbait down the edge, should of feed 8mm meat.

Match Lake i should of took more meat, only took 1 unit. The peg was worth 160lb, so should of had another 25% plus.

Twin Oaks, should of fished a method at the start withdead red's as hook bait. Fish the method for 30 minutes, then fish chop worm and caster at 4 meters. Didn't take caster. So fished chopped worms with pellets. Wasn't right, but managed to catch 50lb of skimmers copying Simon.

Last day, needed a win, to get 33 points, which we thought may get in the top 10, which it didn't anyway!  I feed groundbait down the edge and foul hooked 8 fish and lost everyone!!

I'm impressed with Colmic's Carpodromo nets. They range from 2.5 meters to 4 meters. The shorter length is ideal for 60lb weight limits. Also these nets are very easy to pull through as they are circle rings (no sharp angles to brake rings). The mess is thick and therefore they keep their stiffens in the water.  

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Fish O Mania - Larford Lakes

• Peg 33 Match lake.
• DNW.
• 130 Anglers fished

Another disappointment, never had a bite the last 2.5 hours. The peg got slowly worse.

I had 7 small carp, 2 f1's, a skimmer and a perch. I would of weighed about 17lb.

2 tickets gone!!!

Andy Geldart won the match on Match Lake peg 22,  with 110lb.

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Gold Valley

Peg 129

14lb 6oz

No good.

10 peg Section was won on Peg 123 With 30lb

This proved to be a very tough secton. 30lb won my section. Many people including myself struggled for bites. I had 3. 2 carp and a foul hooker, that ripped the rod in, which i played for a about a minute and came back with a huge scale.

I used my Colmic Pro Feed 10ft, nice rod for a retail of £60.  Set up wise was 0.20 method line and 0.18 F1 line,  to Drennan 16 carp feeder. Simple. 8mm pellet on the hook. Also caught on pop up, 8mm. Used a 14 carp feeder. 

I had one fish on pellet and the other on pop up.

Rolfs Lake - Easter Festival

Day 1

Peg 5

120lb (44lb silvers)

2nd in section

Malcolm Doyle had 244lb for a comfortable match win and more importantly section win. He caught fish to 20lb 11oz on paste at 4 meters on peg 17!!

Section Winners

Mark Newbold 161lb peg 34

Dave Wrightman 112lb Peg 29

Malcom Doyle 244lb Peg 17

Day 2

Peg 29

55lb 11

4th in section

Steve Waters 3 points

Mick Lane 3 points

Andy Flint 4 points

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Day 3

Peg 17

120lb

4th in section

10 points.

7th overall

297lb overall.

Gutted 9 points got in.

1st Steve Waters 3pts

2nd Mark Newbold 4pts

3rd Malcom Doyle 7 points

4th Mick Lane 7 points

5th Jon Walker 9 points

6th Frank 9 points

7th myself 10 points

8th Andy Flint 10 points

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Rolfs

Peg 15

109lb 12oz

4th

20 anglers fished

 I'm glad i fished today, a bit rusty and forgot how hard there carp fight at Rolf's. I ian 5 carp for 45lb and 64lb of bream.

64lb 11oz of skimmers

Weights were really tight

Top 4 

Steve Wilson 175lb Peg 4

Andrew Quarmby 111lb Peg 14
Paul Jay 3rd 110lb Peg 9
Chris Telling 109lb Peg 15

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Manor Farm Leisure

Peg 34 Windmill

172lb

Won lake

2nd overall.

16 fished.

I was concerned that the wind was blowing down the other end of the lake and therefore I could struggle. Dave Bird paid they were catching lots of fish there yetersfay. 

I fished 18 meters to island and caught about 100lb of F1's and a few carp. Fished 13 meters to my right side, and caught 70lb of carp, but no big ones, only up to 6lb. So plenty of bites! Good day.

Middle Lake fished really well, plenty of fish caught across the whole lake. Shaun Little won the match with 194!!

Open Match Results – Wednesday 16th April – Middle & Windmill Pools

1ST SHAUN LITTLE 194-4-0
Map Marukyu Peg 27 Middle

2ND CHRIS TELLING 172-4-0
Colmic Airon Peg 34 Windmill

3RD JASON COOKE 134-8-0
W B Clarke Peg 25 Middle

4TH NEIL RICHARDS 128-6-0
Colmic Airon Peg 10 Middle

5TH WAYNE POLLITT 114-0-0
T.R.A.C. Peg 24 Windmill

6TH MARK RUSSELL 108-2-0
Banbury Gunsmiths Peg 29 Windmill

Ivy House Lakes

Peg 35

63lb (7lb silvers 4 skimmers)

8th

No good

22 fished.

My second visit to Ivy House Lakes didn't go so well today. 

Des Shipp won the match with a very impressive 170lb, a new venue record, fair play. 

Ivy House fished really well in places! With 3 plus ton weights.

A lot people lost decent fish today, including myself, these big fish can be a waiting game and therefore feed 1\4 pot of 4mm and 2mm pellets and sit it out. Will have to fish heavier, as fishing 0.104 Stream was way too light. Will fish heavier and wait longer. With a lot of fish knocking 12lb to 18lb. These fish are proving hard to catch at the moment.  Give it another month to six weeks and I can see the lake fishing really well!!! I think a big 200lb will go very soon.

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