Telling's Times

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Alders Farm

Peg 3
186lb 7oz
17 people fished the match.
2nd Overall
Well done to Dell who whopped my ass again off the next peg!

Dell winning another match at Alders Farm

Part of Steve Edwards catch.

Jon Walker catching some munters again.............

Introduction

The biggest issue with Alders farm is the distance from my house to the venue, if it wasn’t 90 miles away I would be there every week! The surroundings of the venue is very scenic and there are three main lakes to choice from, with a couple of pools which are also rammed full of fish. The match lake (the pump house) has 38 pegs and the match weights are huge. Now 300lb plus weights maybe not everybody’s cup of tea, but after a bad week at the office I do find it very appealing, as at the end of the day we go fishing to carp fish and I really do believe that you shouldn’t fail in that department.

The Specimen lake (pine lake) is a little bit special, I haven’t fished any matches on the lake, but have pleasured fished after a couple of matches and there are so BIG carp, Nicky Dean has had them to 28lb on the pole! Me and my good friend Jon Walker have caught some big doubles, well Jon has had two twenties, whereas I have had 19lb, close by no cigar. However this lake has big bream, as team mate Mick Denton has shown in the Angling press. There is also good head of tench, rudd and loads of tiny carp with has been bread in there, shows how healthy the lakes really are.

The top lake (silvers) is again full of carp, maybe not as many as the match lake, but still has impressive weights. This lake as a few islands and a couple of “jungle pegs” so be warned that you need some gear to get these fighting fit creatures out!

If you need any advice then speak to Trevor Price, who is normally on site and is a very good angler and could not fail to help any kind of angler and will hopefully improve your day no end! There is also a small tackle shop there with bait and bits also.

My Match

The most important thing is to get into a rhythm and keep putting fish into the net. A lot of it is about catching short, 5m or even less and down the edge. Pellets, meat, corn, maggots, caster all have their place. As there is a lot of fish present and therefore would fish to your strengths, so it you like fishing paste, then would go down that route, especially in the summer. The stamp of fish are 1lb to 3lb is about the average, down the edge you maybe able to line up 5lbers and this is where a big weight is on the cards. I like to fish casters and corn, as sometimes the fish can feed funny on pellets and therefore could end up missing bites and foul hooking! So casters and corn is a good bet for me, I know so anglers do well on maggots down the edge as well, but concerned about the volume of rudd, and therefore I would sooner fish casters and corn.

Drawing peg 3 is a good area, and therefore was pleased to draw it, but the match didn't go as expected and it was tough by Alders farm standards and have caught well in stages down the edge which was my saving grace, but I thought that I was miles behind Dell, didn't realise it was so close.

Top 6

D. Smith 189lb 5oz GOT Baits
C. Telling 186lb 7oz Colmic
S. Edwards 168lb 4oz GOT Baits
C. Forsdick 150lb 3oz Garbolino Appollo
J. Walker 131lb 3oz Walker Floats
M. Grant 122lb 13oz Tubertini/ Bag up Baits

See link

http://www.colmic.it/

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Rolfs Lake- Open

Peg 2
113lb
3rd Place
I think there was 15 people

Andy beat me again off the next peg and won tonights match with 156lb

Mick Lane on Peg 40

Mick Lane with 7lb mirror carp

My last fish was the biggest 16lb 8oz, which took me while to get it out, not sure what John Bennett feeds his fish but they are fighting fit!

see links

http://rolfslake.com/blog/

http://www.colmic.it/

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Solhampton Fishery

15th July Duck (sunday evening match)

182lb 8oz
1st place
Peg 6

Was very pleased to draw peg 6 as without any question it is a very good peg and does win a lot of matches, so when I drew it I did get some stick over it (understandable). Was going to keep it very simple, pellets, corn and casters. Was going to fish 3.5 meters in front of me, on the slop and to my left hand margin which was two meters away and that was it.

I started a little slow on the top kit and within 15 minutes fish were coming down the edge and therefore after catching two small "stockies" I decided to go down the edge which was a good move but was catching small carp down the edge and was spooking big fish as I hooked these keen hungry 2lbers and therefore got off my box and put a paste pot on and fished a big piece of paste (walnut size) and this increased my stamp of fish and only caught odd small carp.

I had an enjoyable night and caught some nice fish. Looking forward to next Sunday’s evening match.

Karl is the man to beat. He was 4th tonight, which is unlike him as he had won the last three matches!

Keeps it simple. Top kit fishing

There is so "lumps" in Solhampton

Large head of Rudd in valley, 52lb of them.

See Links

http://www.solhampton-fishery.com/#!home/mainPage

http://christelling.wix.com/solhampton#!home/mainPage

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Solhampton - Open

Peg 29
78lb (52lb of rudd)
4th out of ten

Couldn't keep the fish coming

Karl is a very succesful angler at Solhampton.

Just part of his 105lb catch

Simple..... just pellets.

Karl talking through his pellet rig

New Kingfisher Paste

Friday, 6 July 2012

MFS - Alders Farm

Day One

Peg 10 Match Lake
207lb
Section Win
3rd overall

Middle Lake, where the big fish live along with lots of bream and tench.

Match Lake

A video of the lake lake

A little disappointed to draw peg 10, as it is a bit too far down and going into the deeper water. However do have some move to my right and therefore hopefully catch down the edge and catch on the method feeder at 4 meters. My good friend Jon Walker had drawn peg 3 and peg 2 wasn't drawn, so hopefully he will have a great days fishing......

I started at 4 meters on pellet to catch three rudd in as many chucks and 4th cast caught a carp that was smaller than the rudd. So got the method rod out and placed it at 4 meters and it sat there...... After 4 quick casts I finally caught a carp about 8oz. This wasn't looking good and looking around the lake I was getting "wasted" and I do mean "WASTED". Dell next to me was baggin. So I had a few fish down the edge after 30 mins, so decided to go down there and sacked for hour and half. It was hectic fishing and was catching well, but went iffy and I struggled to catch out. But the last hour I got back to catching well again. Was surprised to weigh in 207lb and my mate Jon weighed in 160lb. What a venue, the fish are very fit and fight hard.

Day two

Peg 31
52lb
3rd in section
11 carp

With Gary Thorpe drawing this peg the day before and weighing in only 7lb I was kind of worried that I was going to be in for a very tough day. Gary Thorpe not only a great angler but also fishes the venue a lot as well. However, hopefully the lake will fish better as it's seen so bait and more rain!

Looking at the peg it wasn't and proved to be like the "krypton factor" in fishing, as I fished 16 meters into the jungle

Me and Trevor Price was 3rd overall which was good. Will do a write up......

Fished the middle lake afterwards and caught a couple of munters......

One day i'll catch a 20lber in this country..........

Jon Walker with his 24lb 6oz

SECTION A
1		Mick the Fish		133:04		3
2
3		John Walker		159:10		2
4	Paul Law		198:08		1		4TH
5		Mad		108:03		4
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SECTION B
6	Nick D		174:03		3		5TH
7	Dell		231:07		2		2ND
34		Matt Foxman		147:06		4
36	Colin Spencer		229:00		1		1ST
38		Little Will		99:07		5
:
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SECTION C
27		Colin Merce		167:03		1
28		Colin Tosdike		98:05		3
29		John Beasley		82:05		4
30		Richard Brain		128:00		2
32		Alan Wickers		57:08		5
:
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SECTION D
10	Chris Telling		207:14		1		3RD
12		Dan Twine		84:12		4
16		Ian Pretty		42:13		5
20		Anthony 9856321		97:14		3
23		Martin Greene		154:15		2

1		Steve May		48:06		2
3
4		Mal Talbot		35:13		4
5	Mark M		76:06		1		3rd
6		Trev		45:13		3
:
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SECTION B
31		Gaz Thorpe		7:08		4
15		Clive		72:04		2
16		Sollie		21:08		3
17
18	Carl Williams		94:00		1		2nd
:
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SECTION C
10	Nigel Hargreaves		72:10		1=		4=
12	Happy Dangler		72:10		1=		4=
24		Baz 315		41:05		4
26		Terry Lancaster		43:02		3
28		Carpet Roy		8:10		5
:
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SECTION D
7		Les Alanos		69:04		2
8		P Hickson		34:15		4
19	Andy Gregory		120:08		1		1st
20		Kenfish		23:04		5
21		Steve 50-50		51:08		3

PEG	NAME		WEIGHT		SECTION POSITION		MATCH POSITION
SECTION A
1	Nigel Hargreaves		188:06		1		3rd
2
3		Carpet Roy		147:15		2
4		Sullie		104:14		3
5		Tangled up		100:04		4
:
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SECTION B
6		Alan Oakes		174:00		4
7	Carl Williams		181:14		2		4th
34
36	Mark M		181:10		3		5th
38	Andy Gregory		251:03		1		1st
:
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SECTION C
27		Clive		97:12		4
28		Ken		92:14		5
29		Baz 315		112:11		3
30	Gaz Thorpe		243:15		1		2nd
32		Terry Lancaster		130:08		2
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SECTION D
10		Steve 50-50		76:08		5
12		Mal Talbot		116:15		2
16		Steve May		101:09		4
20		Trev		180:12		1
23		Ricky		105:05		3

SECTION A
1		Nick D		16:05		4
3		Mick The Fish		30:12		3
4		Dan Twine		76:06		1
5
6		Mad		30:13		2
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SECTION B
31		Chris Telling		52:09		3
15	Martin Greene		171:14		1		1
16		Alan Wickers		39:01		5
17	Justin Case		96:05		2		3
18		JWB		41:01		4
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SECTION C
10	Del		104:14		1		2
12	Prit		76:12		3		5
24		Matt Fox		64:03		4
26	Jon Walker		82:09		2		4
28		Richard Brain		45:10		5
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SECTION D
7		Colin Spencer		48:10		3
8		Colin Merce		72:14		1
19		Little Will		33:01		5
20		Anthony 9857		38:09		4
21		Colin Fosdike		52:10		2
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Well done to Jon Walker and Andy Gregory for winning

Thanks to Paul Law for running the match

http://www.matchfishing-scene.co.uk

http://www.colmic.it/

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Rolfs Lake

Peg 8
291 lb
1st place
16 anglers fished

Was very pleased to draw peg 8, however as always the pressure is on as everyone expects you to win off this peg. This is my chance to try and do my 400lb in five hours, but this could be a difficult day as we have had so much rain over the last few days. Also the weather has been unsettled and therefore these big fish can switch off, as any sudden pressure change could switch the carp off. So bearing this in mind I will feed casters, with tiny amount of corn (1 tin limit) and feed pellets in the last hour when they switch on.......... also fed pellets at 6 meters in open water from the start.

Feeding casters will help me catch chub, as peg 8 has a good head of chub infront of it and also will catch some bream. Phil Powell, venue expert, advised me that there are good head of silvers and possible to do 40lb of them off the peg and maybe even more. The big bream shoal tend to be in the big lake at Rolf's lake, so doing a big bag of silvers is unlikely.

I had a great day's fishing caught Carp up to 17lb, Chub up to 4lb and a couple of Bream up to 3lb. I fished long all match, 14.5 meters. I used 0.2 Colmic Carp 1 float straight through to 0.20mm Colmic Stream 16 Drennan Carp Feeder all match to Double 14 solid Vespe Elastic. I looked around the lake and saw most people were stuggling a little and also bringing fish over my 6 meter line without spooking anything I decided to stay long and picked off fish most of the match.