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...
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...
For me the biggest trend in match fishing in recent years has been the evolution of shallow fishing. Both on the rod (in terms of pellet waggler fishing) and the pole this approach has come of age. More specifically, in the last 2 years shallow fishing has evolved into a specialist subject all of its own. My brother and I have got some ideas which we’ve tried to put into practice recently, with varying...
I’ve been all over since my last blog, including the Garbolino Spring Classic Festival at Whiteacres and the Total Fishing 2-dayer at The Glebe Whiteacres – no fish left? Whilst there was a fish kill at Whiteacres last year, rumours of the venue’s demise are unfounded. With winning weights of 150lb and 170lb on the two matches we fished at Twin Oaks this week, in reality it seems in better form...
Since the new year I fished several matches on Cudmore, on Suez and Brewsters lakes. But I have been consistently unable to get on the preferred Suez, constantly drawing Brewsters. A couple of section wins, and a couple of nowheres, without a personal weight above 11lb, had me looking elsewhere, especially when the highly entertaining Scouse mafia moved on to pastures new. The shocking weather hasn’t...
Going into Round 5 of the Winsford Winter League on the River Weaver, our team Last Cast was leading the league by five points, from Hazel Grove. We had stuck to a small fish approach which seemed to be working, but could we make it last? In the individual league I was lying third equal. Preparations for Round 5 were disrupted when Sean Mulheir rang me the Monday before to tell me he had been diagnosed...
The Winsford Winter League takes place on the River Weaver, around the town of Winsford, between September and December each year. Winsford is in Cheshire, equidistant from Manchester, and Liverpool, and 17 miles from Chester. There are six rounds fished on Sundays every fortnight. It is a teams of 5 event, and anglers can be placed. In the same way that owners start to take on the characteristics...
I have fished the White Acres Spring Festivals for a number of years, but this is the first time I have entered an Autumn one. I had booked on, but owing to work commitments I was only 50/50 about whether I could attend right up to the last week. But fortunately I managed to get there. All the talk was of the rumoured fish kill, but I was simply glad to be there, rather than at work. I announced to...
Sedgemoor saw the last pitched battle in England in 1685, when James II saw off the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. It was a bloody affair. Unfortunately for the rebels, they were spotted leaving Bridgwater to take up their attack positions under the cover of darkness. The element of surprise lost, The Pitchfork Rebellion was doomed from that moment. The Somerset Levels then, provides the perfect...
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,...
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