This month has seen me fish the Sensas Challenge UK final with the Barnsley team at Barston Lakes and Packington Somers fishery in Birmingham. It’s a fantastic two day event fished to full CIPS international rules with 24 teams of 5 competing, and the French international side sends their Sensas Team 28 over to fish as well, it’s a privilege to fish the event! I have fished the international series...
Lindholme has been my regular haunt this winter, trying to get as much practice for the WL semi this month, as well as fishing the individual winter league there. Since last time I wrote I’ve been twice, one of the times was in the middle of that mini ice age we had. I drew a very good peg, 43 on Bonsai, where most of the carp weights had come from. However, things had been really poor and the match...
Sorry for the lack of blogs over Christmas, I’ve had some A-level exams and had to apply to university and been proper busy! I’ve still done plenty of fishing though, and the blogs are back!!! I had a really enjoyable few days over Christmas. Me and Sir Tom went Pike fishing on Christmas Eve, and managed half a dozen between us on the River Till and Foss Dyke. It was a nice change and one of the...
Over the festive period, myself and angling companion, Tom Scholey, had planned something totally different from our usual intense match fishing, in the way of a session pike fishing. It was Christmas Eve, and all the family were getting a bit irate with the pressures of Christmas, so off we went at 6am in the morning, heading for the flan drain lands around Lincolnshire. It’s an area where we both...
I was really pleased to be asked to fish with 4 other of my Barnsley team mates in the International Rules league at Barston Lakes near Birmingham. Its one of my favourite venues and I just wish it was a bit nearer home! The matches are four hours long and fished to full international rules with a 13m pole limit and feeder fishing strictly prohibited!!! Lee Kerry had told us about how the venue was...
This week saw me travel back to Lindholme lakes for the winter league, where the ‘winter’ side of things certainly showed through, it was bloody freezing! On the way there with Sir Tom, we had two phone calls to warn us of the ice on the road down to the fishery, where there was already a car in the ditch! It was absolutely bitter, and we even purchased some hand warmers at the draw! I was also...
The last two weeks have seen me fishing matches at Lindholme lakes. I Joined the Winter League along with Sir Tom that’s run alternate Sundays, and there’s always an open match to fish in between. Last weekend was my first League round, after missing the first two due to other match commitments. Thankfully you can drop 7 out of the 15 matches, its a good job with the way I’m going lately! The...
The last two weekends have seen me fishing the Angling Times Winter League with Maver Barnsley. Round 2 was on the Horbury canal near Wakefield, and round 3 on the Stainforth canal. Horbury This canal is a typical small cut, between 13 and 18m wide, with most sections fair with small fish throughout. I drew the same section I was in last year, so I had an idea of what to do. My peg was 18m wide, with...
Eyup everyone! Sorry for the delay of getting my blogs on lately, I’ve had loads of work to catch up with at school after missing a week for the WhiteAcres Maver festival….but it was well worth it!!! I travelled down there with Sir Tom Scholey, and I still don’t know how we managed to get all the gear in the car! Thankfully, Stewart Lister had been up our way the week before so he’d already...
The first match that I was to fish with the Barnsley Blacks was the NFA Division 1 National, which was held on the River Huntspill, King Sedgemoor and South Drains in Somerset. It’s a fairly big even in team fishing, with 63 teams of 10 competing this year from all over the country. Last weekend was a good opportunity to have a practice. I was lucky enough to travel down with Lee Kerry on the Friday...
This weekend saw me venture back down to Kiveton Waters, where I fished a few matches earlier in the year. The way people were talking, the fishing hadn’t changed much, and small carp were still the target using mainly pellets. Tom had invited Evesham’s Jim Smith (also known as the Pirate Of Penzance) up to fish the match, so we were guaranteed a good laugh even if we didn’t catch much. He gave...
I didn’t fish a match this weekend, although I did go pleasure fishing (supposedly practice for White Acres) on Sunday with Tom and Uncle Nibblet from Woodseats at a place called Thorney, out Lincolnshire way. We had a nice day’s fishing, catching plenty of small carp and some big rudd on the pole with all sorts of baits. Tom used nearly all of mine and Paul’s bait! To be honest, we kept changing...
Since the world champs I haven’t been doing much serious match fishing. I dropped onto one of the Carter Hall evening matched with Tom the other week, and had a lovely evenings fishing for 28lb odd of silvers all on the pole and maggot. Tom did his usual though, and won the match with 30lb, as well as winning the biggest fish prize on the night with a 4lb odd carp! I did manage to come 2nd though,...
Eyup everybody, sorry for the lack of blogs I’ve put on lately, but the last three weeks have been really busy with fishing the Angling Times Winter League Final on the Nene, and then preparations for the World Championships which took place last week in Gent, Belgium. This year was different to usual as it saw all of the team travel over to Belgium by the tunnel. It’s the first time I have ever...
The Drennan Super League was an absolute disaster for the Triana North team and me! I wrote about the practice match last month, where all the team did well, and the following week I finished 5th in my 14 peg section in the NFA regional national on there, with the team finishing 7th out of 14 teams. I think that the bit of luck we had came a weekend too soon, as we finished second to last in the first...
This weekend saw me fishing the NFA regional national which was held on the Stainforth and Keedby canal through Thorne. The event always sees quite a good turn out of quality teams, Barnsley and Osset to name two. This year there were 14 teams of 12 competing. The canal has been very patchy, so I was hoping to draw on a few fish; certain sections have been devoid of them!I drew peg 176 on the Wikewell...
On of the main events on the agenda at this time of the year is always the England Youth Trials. This year, the event took place at Birmingham’s Barston Lakes, a fantastic fishing site which has recently hosted some big events in match fishing. The managers of the England teams, Steve Saunders, Mark Downes and Joe Roberts, had to pick 5 under 18’s and 5 under 21’s out of 20 trialists in each...
Now the summers here (supposedly!) I’ve got some serious team fishing to look forward to with the Triana North Lads, in the way of the Drennan Super League and the Angling Times Winter League final that we qualified for which is on the Nene this month which I’ll be competing to get picked for. The first round of the Drennan is on the Stainforth and Keedby canal at Thorne, as well as the NFA Regional...
This Saturday was the Charity/Memorial match at Riverside fishery for one of the guys in Worksop Angling Supplies, Trevor, who unfortunately passed away earlier this year. He was a top Guy and the sell out off 44 tickets in the first few days of the event opening shows how popular he was. Greg Forrester did a great job of organising the event, the match raised over £800 for Trevor’s’ Wife’s...
Well, a night out with Tom and ‘Big Matt’ left us a bit jagged round the edges at the Wetlands bank holiday Monday Match. An attempt at the breakfast sorted us out a little, and it was off to my peg, which was in a good area according to a few people. The wind was still blowing, but I decided to have a proper go on the pole, fishing worms and casters at 13m. I set up a tip rod with a bomb and...
The Sunday before last saw me fish the local open at Kiveton Waters, and what a windy one it turned out to be. I drew peg 25, which is right into the bottom corner, but the wind was blowing (HOWLING) that way and I thought I might catch a few fish from there. The first thing that came out of the rod bag was my tip rod, as it looked like the pole might be a bit of a no-goer in the wind. However, I had...
Last Sunday saw me down at the local BW Kiveton Waters fishery after a few weeks of good fishing down there. He wind was blowing the same way as usual and the bottom end looked favourable. I drew peg 23, a decent peg, and I fancied it from there. It was the usual tactics, pellets and pellets, and some pellets for the hook. I set up three rigs. My two pellet rigs were 0.3 gram Crallusso Capri floats,...
Tuesday was the first evening match this year at our local BW Kiveton Waters. The draw is at 5:15 we fish 6-9, 3 hours. I drew peg 33, right round the far bank, one peg off an absolute end peg flyer that the spawney (‘I like little boys’) Darren drew. Still, it was an OK draw, and I was hoping for a few fish in the evening. I didn’t have much time to set up, so it was dead simple. My main...
I didn’t know what to expect after all the warm weather, but im not complaining, its reyt nice! On sunday we decided to stop local and visit BW Kiveton Waters. I’m on a mission to get my dad back into it properly, so I swept the dust of his gear, and dragged him down with us. There were 4 of us, me, my dad, Tom and his mate Paul Gorman so we decided on a 4-way-share if we won anything and a...
It was another open match weekend last week, with Balbrough lakes on Saturday, and Lindholme on Sunday. I had only fished Balbrough once before when I was about 8 years old, but it’s a really nice little fishery, and there were loads of fish moving when we arrived. I ended up drawing peg 10, which is in a corner, fishing up to the point of an island at 14.5m. it was a bit tight though, and there...
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