Manor farm leisure

Peg 17

89lb

1st place.

16 fished

I was lucky again with the draw bag, warm wind blowing into my face. 

Caught on pole and pellet long, on the  deck and shallow. Fished maggots down the edge, and caught 5 carp for 30lb in the last 30 minutes.

Open Match Results – Thursday 14th August – Boundary Pool – Affordable Open

1ST CHRIS TELLING 89-0-0
Colmic Airon Peg 17

2ND ROB DAWBER 56-0-0
Platt Bridge AC Peg 38

3RD DAVE DAWBER 49-8-0
Platt Bridge AC Peg 8

4TH MARTIN GOODALL 43-4-0
Arthur’s Angling Supplies Peg 36

5TH STEVE WILDMAN 40-0-0
RAF Garbolino Peg 10

6TH HOWARD KAYE 37-8-0
Sensas Peg 32

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Abingdon - open.

Peg 39

12lb 11oz

Section win

7th overall

48 fished

I've only ever fished Abingdon once before, and that was a devaster, i got battered either side. 

I drew peg 39, which i was told it is a good chop worm peg for perch and there is some proper BIG perch!

Abingdon is a famous for it's big bags of roach, and everybody thought that 20lb of red fins was going to win, but it wasn't the case today, as the river fished really tough! Didn't help with heavy rain and gale force winds!!

I had a cracking 2 hours on chop, and had 3lb 4oz perch. A bit slow in figuring out to catch these roach again!!

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Gear Used:

Choppy Rig

3 gram Colmic Stream Float.
0.185 x5000 line
0.145 Stream
Size 12 N600 hook.

Roach Rig

1gram / 2gram / 3 gram Colmic Stream Float
0.145 X5000 Line
0.08 Stream
16 / 18 N957 Hooks

Lux 0.5 gram for hemp. 

Top 5

1st - Colin Perry - 15lb 12oz.
2nd Kevin Holmes  - 14lb 14oz.
3rd Alex Graham - 14lb 8oz.
4th Mark Harrington - 13lb 15oz.
5th Mark Taylor - 13lb 5oz.

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Ivy House Lakes

• Peg 39
• 58lb 13oz
• Won Silvers
• 23 fished

After a busy week at work, i was looking forward to Ivy House Lakes, was eager to put all my wrongs right from last week...

Big Frank with 13lb 10oz Common Carp

Jon Walker with some units from Ivy House Lakes, 18lb 5oz Mirror Carp and a 14lb 10oz Ghost Carp

My mate, Jon Walker was second overall, and BIG frank was fourth overall.

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Oxford Summer league (Round 4)

• C2
• 10lb 2oz
• Section Win
• Sections of 6
• 36 fished the match

I haven't fished a river for almost a year, so i was and still a bit apprehensive about it all, as I felt wasn't prepared!

I've been told that the river is fishing really well and Folly is the place to be. So I drew Medly at Black Jacks. Paz advised it could be tough.

Carrying 2 ton of gear about a mile wasn't too fun!  A few issues on the way with peoples trolley's and as we all carry way too much gear! 

Had an enjoyable day, I had 6lb of perch on Lob Worms and 4 lb of hemp roach in the last 1 hour 30 mins. Lots 2 to pike. Missed too many bites. Should of had more.

Gear used

Pole used Colmic Airon F55

Hemp/Maggot rigs

Vespe 3 soild elastic. 

Colmic Lux Floats 1gram and 0.5

0.135mm Spider Line

0.08 Stream 

18 N957

Choppy Rig

Colmic Hollow 2.3.

1gram Stream Float

0.185mm X5000

0.125 Stream

N600 14 hooks

Only caught on hemp in the last 1 hour 30 mintues.

A lovely days fishing in the end, just struggled in the middle of the match.  VERY rusty, haven't fished Medley for a couple of years.

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Ivy House Lakes

Peg 31

59lb

No good

23 fished

My run at Ivy House finally came to an end, can't complain as i have won the last three opens at Ivy House Lakes.

My positive approach proved to be very wrong. I lost my section to my mate, Jon Walker beat me by 2lb.  I caught 3 carp and lost one in last 15 minutes.

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Ivy House Lakes

Peg 16

126lb 12oz

That included 17lb Silvers

Won silvers

Won overall

16 Anglers Fished

With flat calm conditions and red hot, it was always going to be a difficult fishing match.

I spoke to Mark Malin about last weeks match at Ivy House Lakes. Mark won the last weeks open with an impressive 213lb!!!  He caught carp up to 18lb down the edge on maggots. Mark have me some pointers on improving my edge fishing. So i was looking forward to the match, especially drawing in a good area.

I'm very keen to brake Steve Waters match record of 248lb, which I believe will go soon, hopefully by myself or one of the Colmic Airon boys (Mark, Kurtis or Frank).   

My last few matches I have struggled to keep fish going down the edge on maggots, the conditions have been very hot and no wind or ripple! This has meant that the fish have been spooking badly in the shallow water.   So looking forward to when we could catch down the edge for a longer period of time, as a big weight could be on the scales.   I have done a 170lb, my highest weight of the year, but is still 80lb off Steve Waters record, but I only caught for 3 hours down the edge and caught 70lb of stocky carp.

18lb 5oz Mirror Carp was my biggest carp of the day. There are bigger carp in the lake.

  There is some big Grass Carp in all four lakes at Ivy House Lakes.

The weights were reasonably consistent across the whole of the fishing match.

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Harescombe Fishery

• Peg 14 (flyer)
• 58lb 11oz
• 4th
• 7 Anglers Fished

It nice that Harescombe fishery is only 15 mintues drive from my house, as I normally used to driving miles to get to a venue.  The match lake is a very uniform lake and I would say is very fair, especially in these evening matches whereby we all have loads of room.

I was pleased to draw peg 14, as this seems to be an inform peg, but unfortunately I could get into a ryhtum of catching fish, and soon realised that I was going to be out the race at I could see Chris Cameron baggin on peg 17 and Adi Davis on peg 10.   You do need to be on the ball, as there's no get out of jail fish (big lumps). The biggest fish I caught was 3lb and had 11 carp, couldn't catch many F1's until late, but it was too late!!!

Top 3 overall

1st Chris Cameron 108lb

2nd Adi Davies 77lb

3rd Martin Hook 65lb 2oz

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