I’ve been away with work for the last few weeks so had not been out much. But I’ve managed two opens at Cudmore in the last two weeks and I think I’ve learnt a few things so here goes. In the first match I drew peg 138 on New Pool 5 – an end peg at the wood end. This was the really windy Sunday (I’m sure you remember it) but the wind was mainly off my back enabling me to fish the pole when...
Two years ago I finished 40th (out of 180 anglers) in this Whiteacres festival. Last year I finished 39th. So this year I expected to finish 38th. Unfortunately, the fishing gods made a typo in their plans, and I finished……… 83rd! It was a week of real highs and lows. I got some stuff right, and some stuff wrong, and had the usual mixed fortunes that characterise match-fishing. Monday, Twin...
My match-fishing year is quite structured. December through until Easter we fish the Cudmore Winter League – more of this shortly. After Easter I like to go down to Whiteacres for the Dynamite Baits festival. The summer is looser and the squad tend to do their own thing, other than the build-up to the National where we come together to practice, and for the weekend of the match itself. In September,...