Manor Farm Leisure

Peg 23 Middle Pool.

82lb 8oz

2nd overall.

15 fished.

I had a good days fishing at Manor Farm Leisure, lost my way in the middle of the match, lost a few fish, so put lighter elastic on, which made was a lot better, 1.5 Colmic Hollow Elastic from yellow 2.1 and even pink 1.8 bumped couple on that!!!  

Lots of my fish were hooked in top skin of the lip (if that makes sense).  A few outside of the mouth!!! F1's are nightmare at the moment.

Open Match Results – Saturday 15th November – Middle and Ash Pools

1ST STEVE RICH 93-8-0
Cotswold Angling Peg 12 Middle

2ND CHRIS TELLING 82-8-0
Colmic Airon Peg 23 Middle

3RD STEVE LISTON 57-0-0
Cotswold Angling Peg 8 Middle

4TH PHIL SMITH 54-0-0
Throckmorton AC Peg 21 Middle

5TH STEVE PARTINGTON 51-8-0
Arthur’s Angling Supplies Peg 6 Middle

6TH NEIL SILMAN 51-0-0
Banbury Gunsmiths Peg 25 Middle

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Manor Farm Leisure.

Peg 12.

43lb 6oz

1st place.

7 anglers fished the match.

The wind made it difficult for all to fish, and 3 of us had the wind howling in our face. 

I chucked the method twice, which resulted in a lost small skimmer. Went onto the pole at 13 meters, and had 4 f1's and a skimmer bream in a many puts. Then I started to miss a few bites, so put a expander pellet on and caught small skimmers, 3oz er's, going no where. Wind got really strong, therefore went on the pellet feeder, method and straight lead (not at the same time) and this resulted in a tiny F1.

Went down the edge, and got myself out of trouble, but not on the pole, on a tiny method feeder. Caught all F1's and 4 dog roach!

Unlucky to Barry, as i just beat him by a pound and he had a carp jump out of his net!

1ST CHRIS TELLING 43-6-0
Colmic Airon Peg 12 

2ND BARRY DUGGAN 42-0-0
Baileys of Warwick Peg 39

3RD MARTIN GOODALL 33-0-0
Arthur’s Angling Supplies Peg 37

7 fished. Commons, mirrors and F1 carp caught on pole and pellet and straight lead.

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Manor Farm Leisure - Island and Middle Pool

• Peg 28
• 66lb
• 2nd Section
• 7th overall
• 25 fished the match

Nice days fishing, but couldn't catch any Carp.

I fished my Colmic Airon F55 pole 14.5 meters to my right where the peg was slightly deeper, and this my only productive line, which was my down fall.  Also I pushed my peg too hard with feed in hope to try and catch some carp which did cost me as I messed up my peg, and my last 45 minutes saw me catch nothing!  I watched my match fade away again!!! 

 

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Manor Farm Leisure - Winter League

Manor Farm Leisure, as a teams of 3 Winter League starting the 30th November.

(See details below)

Winter weights regular exceed 100lb

Match weights can be huge, I had 353lb from Middle Pool.

Manor Farm Leisure

• Peg 9
• 41b
• 4th overall
• Won section
• 10 fished

Match Results – Thursday 6th November – Boundary Pool

1st STEVE RICH 86-4-0
Cotswold Angling Peg 33
2nd STEVE LISTON 72-0-0
Cotswold Angling peg 19
3rd BARRY DUGGAN 66-12-0
Baileys of Warwick peg 37
4th CHRIS TELLING 41-8-0
Colmic /Airon Peg 9
10 Fished the winner catching on long pole and pellet on the deck catching f1’s

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Oxford Canal - Kidlington

1lb 8oz (about 65 fish)

Peg 31

36 Fished

The Oxford Canal is one off the narrow canals that I fish. Normally the canal will not exceed to 13 meters and n places is only 8 meters wide. Therefore it is important not to have tight pegging and also be. Areful what you feed and when you feed it.

I have fished the Oxford canal for 10 years and more, I haven't fished it exenstly but I have fished it reasonably amount, twice a year.  Fished NFA reginal match (was lucky came second overall thanks to a lucky Chub), but I've never done a decent bag of roach, whereas Kennet and Avon canal is insane around Marlborogh, Hungerford and Kintbury, and I'm sure I missed out a load of stretches, but these are the ones I know and fish.

Oxford Canal isn't fished like it used to be and therefore we were all in the same boat, none of us know....

The normal approach is to start of bread, and hope to catch skimmers on it early or poissibility of roach on a smaller piece of bread. If you catch roach this is a VERY good sigh, as your joker line will be stronger and hopefully you won't be catching "waspie perch" which will run out.

The next bait on the agenda is Lob Worms (no surprises there). If your lucky enough to catch on bread, and then you go onto catch on lob worms, you should be getting section or framing .  Lob worms are a must in my opinion. Also if you haven't caught on bread. Then you need to pray that your catch on lob worms, otherwise you are in trouble!! As it's very unlikely that you can catch enough joker fish to get into the frame or even get a section win, unless immensely tough.

Tackle

Colmic Airon F55 Pole.

Damper Elastics 0.8mm

vespe 2 elastic in shallow water.

Perch Rigs

0.165 to 0.125 Stream. 12 N600 hooks to a Colmic 2.5mm elastic. This may seem heavy, but the fish aren't fished for heavily and therefore won't be so line shy. Next week could be lighter.  The elastic MUST BE SENT SPRINKIE, To set the hook. Perch have very boney mouths and you must sent the hook! Otherwise you run the risk of loosing them. And 1lb perch is mega points on any canal match, especially on the Oxford Canal.. 

I had 30 roach in first hour on bread and the next 30 mintues had 16 perch, Ruffe and odd roach. Then 11.36 match was over!! Boat destroyed mine and next doors peg. Sat there for the next 3.5 hours to catch very little, 5oz.   Lob worms let me down!!!!

Peg 31 1lb 8oz

Peg 32 DNW 

Peg 33 1lb 12oz

Peg 34 2lb

Peg 35 2lb 12oz

Peg 36 4lb 11oz

One thing I noticed about the weights was further you walked, the better it was. With the water been so clear, the fish were walked down on this fishing match!!!

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Colmic 2014

I haven't been to the Colmic factory since 2012, which was when I was first introduced to Colmic.  My boss, Francesco had invited me across, and few of the over lads (Jamie, Brian the snorer Clarke, Shaun and Gus) They arrived on Monday, but because of work, I didn't arrive until evening Tuesday as Gus did.  Tuesday was the fishing day! With was gutting, as they caught some catfish, which is one fish I have never caught!!   The guys picked me up from Incia.

The fishing in Tuscany for a feature. They have been using the T9 Quaser Pole (this pole is a must see, also extensions should be coming in 2015). Jamie had caught carp up to 20lb on this pole for this feature and also had hard fighting catfish.   Brian had been using the new feeder rods.   Tom from Pole Fishing was there filming and the publication will be out in January issue of Pole fishing.

I was excited to see the new products that they had to offer. Especially the new range of feeder rods, luggage and some of new Colmic poles, as they done nothing less than impress me so far.   Please don't be thinking this is a basis opinion, as I wouldn't use anything that isn't up to standard, the people that know me would vouch for that.

The Colmic Karper pole landed a huge Catfish which weighed an immense 132lb!!  As far as we know this is the biggest fish EVER to be landed on a fishing pole. I don't know this for a fact, as the world is a big place! 

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