Who said the weather was slowly improving! Since I wrote that we have had a frost every day and some have been wicked! It would be great to have some nice settled weather before the spring festivals get under way. I am having a change this year I am setting off in the morning for a four day silver fish festival at Stafford Moor followed by a week at White Acres in the Bait Tech festival. For the first...
The Tri-Cast Winter League at Cudmore started in December. The Last Cast team for this 6 round series consists of Pete Keenan, Neil Lloyd, Sean Mulheir, Rich Hodgkiss, Steve May and me. Our competitors include Ultima/Daiwa/Garbolino (Andy May, Keiron et al) and Maver Midlands (Gary Skerrit, Andy Moors etc) plus the Ted Carter teams. Round 1 – December 09 My draw put me on Pool 1, Peg 8. Andy...
The weather is slowly improving and the fish are finally showing some signs of waking from their winter slumber and spreading around our local waters. But we are still getting the odd hard frost which is spoiling our expectations. Good examples of our hopes being knocked were the two midweek opens I was fortunate enough to fish! I drew peg 38 on the Tuesday open at Gwinear which is the closest I...
It’s a funny old game this fishing lark, I spend hours getting ready for matches turning casters and making rigs and at the moment seem to be continually drawing the wrong end of the section! I for one will be really pleased when this winter is over and the fish start to spread out a bit, hopefully the draw bag will then not play such an important part of the proceedings. Mind you I did get a little...
Sunday couldn’t come quick enough for me as I was really looking forward to the Individual league at White Acres; I seemed to have a van full of gear as all fish were included. I had to carry my full compliment of carp gear as well as tackle for silvers just in case those carp didn’t want to know. However, it was the bait that was giving me the real headache; the weather had been mild for a few...
I’m having one of those runs at the moment when the ‘Bag of Dreams’ is not being very kind to me, it’s definitely the bags fault you understand nothing to do with my fishing ability! Well, we all say that don’t we? Before the ice age I was having a nice little run, drawing well, catching a few and putting the odd brown envelope in the trouser pocket but since the big melt it has all gone...
I actually predicted the peg I drew on Saturday but it’s the last time I’m trying that game, its back to moaning about the peg I draw from now on! It was the teams of three winter league on Saturday and chatting in the car park before the draw Mark Lazell told me that he wanted peg 21 on Jennies, I told him it had my name on it and so it proved when I went to do the team draw. I also pulled out...
It was great to be back on the bank again after the ‘Cornish Ice Age’ and what a difference a week makes! Last week we had 6’of ice everywhere and not a match in the region and this week it was a spring like 9 degrees, unbelievable. The only match this weekend was the individual league at White Acres and following the big melt the place was fishing its socks off. I was champing at the bit to...
I managed to sneak out for the last chance open at Gwinear on New Years Eve and it was an absolute belter to end the decade with. We had enjoyed a mild spell for around a week so I thought we might have a chance of a good days fishing however, it was much better than any of us expected. We were fishing on phase Two and Three with anglers spread around the lakes. I had my dip and pulled out peg 40 on...
There I was thinking that I was well ahead of my self when I knocked a cup of tea over my lap top! Oh man I was not impressed especially as I had just penned a couple of thousand words about my last few matches, I was hoping that it was repairable but have just found out it is terminal, that was an expensive cuppa! Never mind, mustn’t grumble (There were plenty of grumbles I assure you) here is an...
I made a commitment to myself a few years ago that writing about fishing would never get in the way of actually going fishing. As a consequence my blogs are occasional rather than regular, so apologies for that. This Year 2009 has been a reasonable year for me. On the team front we have had some success. In the Division 1 National my team, Last Cast, finished fourth. This was a great performance, coming...
The Mosella Garbolino Winter festival at White Acres is the one that I enjoy the most out of all the festivals that I fish. It is much smaller with around 60 anglers taking part but I find it a friendly and enjoyable competition. It is silver fish only but this year saw the return of F1’s allowed primarily as the WA complex has such a head of them, it was also float only for the first time. Normally...
Saturday was the start of a very busy period on the fishing front for me with the prospect of nine back to back matches to attend! I was looking forward to all of them but I have been praying to the fishing gods for a break in the weather as I am now officially fed up with the wind and the rain, we seem to have had both for an eternity, please Lord Pisces let me have a peg out of the wind! We arrived...
Raker Lakes. (Horseshoe lake.) Saturday saw myself and 16 other angler tackle the Horseshoe lake at a fishery called Raker lakes nr York. The lake averages around 6ft in the middle and 2ft to the far bank. The lake has a good stock of both carp and silverfish which normally feed rather well at this time of year. My match plan was to fish 13m down the middle with maggot and caster for silverfish and...
There was no let up in the wind on Tuesday but that didn’t stop a better than normal turnout at Gwinear. As a result phases two and three were chosen for today’s match and that in effect made it two matches as the payout was to be 1st and 2nd on each lake. I had my dip and out came 26 on phase three; I was really pleased with the peg as it is situated at the end of the lake that I frequently seem...
The winter individual league at White Acres is one series that gets most people out on a Sunday down in the SW. This year it is a 16 match series with your best eight results to count. Normally it is an angler with a near perfect score that takes the spoils at the end of the series. The results are based on section results and with small five man sections and some very good anglers taking part those...
Stainforth and Keadby Canal. Its been a great 2 weeks in the fishing world for me, not just fishing wise but as an whole. Its started well last Saturday when I fished the third match in the Leeds Juniors winter league which was on the stainy. We tackled pegs 259 to 276 at Dunstons. Before the match everybody was telling me that I needed to draw on pegs 265 to 270 on the flats. I was first to draw and...
With nothing booked for Sunday I was pleased to get a call from Harry suggesting that we went to Stafford Moor. There was a silvers match on Tanners and it would be great to get a feel for the place before the Silver Maniac weekend which is worth a cool two grand to the winner. That match is the following weekend and as I hadn’t been there since the same weekend last year I was really looking forward...
With the opening round of Kernow Match Groups three man winter league about to start I thought I better get myself around to Gwinear for another go at the Tuesday open. Overnight we had torrential rain and it was very windy with more rain forecast until around noon, the pegs were sorted out so that everybody was out of the wind. Pegs were dotted around all over the place and there were several...
Me with my section winning bag.Hi all, sorry for the lack of blogs over the last few months i’ve been extremely busy with things like college and work etc. A quick overview of whats been happening in the last few months is that the Worksop Intermediates came 3rd in NJAA National at Lindholme Lakes in September and only being a few points off winning it. The junior squad have had a few matches...
Its been that time of the year again when we make the trek down to sunny cornwall to fish the preston innovations festival in the hope of making the park dean masters final. This is the pinnacle of match carp fishing in my opinion as every single angler in the festival is more than capable of making the final given the right pegs during the week. Its important be on the ball with methods for this one...
What a year!!!! that’s all I can say about 2009 so far. Ive fished loads of matches this summer and some pretty big ones too, so ill take this opportunity to catch up with everything ive been getting up to in the world of match fishing. This year was my first opportunity to fish on the river nene in the angling times team champs final for my maver Barnsley team, now my only experience of the nene...
As I packed the better half off to work, she thought it would it be best to remind me that the idea I go and fish matches is that I try and win them. Since I returned to fishing about 4 years ago, this has by far been my worst year, I’m not sure what has gone wrong to be honest, I feel I have improved as an angler but one could argue this if you were to look at my results so far this year. With...
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