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...
With the shortage of decent matches in our area, and the fact that I’ve had a couple of quiet months work wise, I decided to fish a couple of club matches with my local club South Reading as generally they are cheaper matches to fish First up was a match on New Barlows, this is part of a complex of lakes, owned by Stacey’s group near Tadley which is probably about 10 miles from Reading....
It was Wednesday again and it was my chance again to see if I and the other 14 anglers booked in to see if we could break the monopoly Steve Liston and Jon Tilley have on Theale Pits, yes this venue is dominated by these 2 as they are generally in the first 2 in each match. There was only one peg I wanted today, and that was peg 60, as I was holding the bag with the balls in, it was decided that Mick...
Today been Wednesday meant it was my weekly jaunt to Theale Pits. Suprisingly there were only 10 of us booked in as most people were away on there summer holidays, so fingers crossed I would draw a decent number so I could get a decent peg as all matches at Theale are walk offs. I didn’t dissappoint, I drew last, not quite what I wanted. Venue expert and drawbag drew second away, and plumped...
Well I’ve misssed a few matches since I last updated my blog but rather than try to remember all the detail from them ,I thought I would do a more detailed blog on my latest match at Greenridge Farm. Greenridge Farm is about an hour from me, it’s a series of 4 canal lakes which are all about 100 metres long, and between 14-16 metres wide. I have twice fished the place before, both of which...
Well you could say my last few weeks fishing have been somewhat of a roller coaster, infact somewhat of an expensive ride Theale Pits Today was my weekly Wednesday jaunt to Theale Pits, the Sunday prior to this we had a knock up here and even though it had fished hard, I won the knock up with 78lb, all caught shallow on peg 12 fishing pellet up in the water. Come the draw, I drew 10th away in the rover,...
Having fished one of the spring festivals back in March at Whiteacres, I was keen to get back down there to learn and find out a bit more about the place so when the opportunity rose to book a friends van at a very reasonable rate, I jumped at the chance to go back down there. The Saturday prior to leaving I had an important date at Rolfs, having seen the weights from the previous matches, I was quielty...
Apologies to everyone for my delay in updating my blog but the matches have come thick and fast lately, much to my better halfs disgust plus I have also been really busy with work. Round 3 Cheriton Farm This was the 3rd round of our summer series and I badly needed a win to stand any chance of winning the series and hope that Andy who was already on 2 victories suffers a blow out. My hopes of this...
It had been over 5 months since I last fished Theale Pits, this was our christmas match which ended in a blank for myself, plus quite a few others may I add, but now the warm weather had arrived, I hoped the carp had woken up from there winter slumbers, infact this was the first Wednesday match since the one I mentioned because for some reason the fish completely shut up shop during winter. Theale...
No prizes where I was heading to today, there was only one place I was going and that was Rolfs. I’m not sure what it is about this place that stands out from the rest but I can’t get enough of it. Today I was fishing a match organised by Match Fishing Scene and it was well attended with all 24 places being taken. Prior to this there had some big weights caught including one in excess...
Well today I was off to Rolfs yet again to fish the Good Friday pole only open. It is premarily a practice match for the anglers fishing the festival there over the weekend and despite dropping several suttle hints I didn’t get my leave pass stamped to have yet another near week fishing again, so I had to make do with just the one days fishing here. The fish seam to be moving around alot here...
Today was the last match in the teams of 3 at Rolfs and I was in A section which on paper is probably the worst section on paper, and was not really the tonic I needed after Whiteacres. I desperately wanted to avoid Pegs 38 and 40 in this section as I would consider these the worst pegs. Fingers and legs crossed I managed to avoid them, quite unlike me as normally draw the pegs I want to avoid....
Well this was to be my first ever fishing festival and my first ever visit to Whiteacres. I arrived down there on Sunday afternoon, a day later than everyone else so it wasn’t the best preparation I could of had to start the festival as ideally I would of liked to have had a couple of days practice, but it wasn’t to be. Therefore my knowledge was based on what I could find in reading various...
With what has seamed the longest winter in memory and the fishing being the poorest I can remember, things were on the up as thankfully spring seamed to be on its way and most of the venues I fish, the fish were waking up from there winter slumbers. Today was the 4th leg of the Teams of 3 at Rolfs lake near Oxfordshire, and I must admit I couldn’t wait to fish as I had only managed to get out...
Following on from my Supercup match 2 weeks ago, which was tough to say the least I was back on team duty today fishing for a team called Tilley’s lot,.It is a team of 3 league and all the matches are held on Rolf’s fishery in Oxfordshire. It is only a forty minute drive for me, but suprisingly a venue I have only fished 3 times before. The lake will hold 40 pegs, though you wouldn’t...
Today was our Supercup match and for the first time since I joined South Reading,we had been drawn at home to fish a side from the army. I had been looking forward to this match since the draw was made as to be quite honest I don’t do a lot of team fishing and it was something different for a change. As we were the home side, it was our choice of venue, and our captain had chosen Cheriton Farm...
Today we were off to Bowsaw and Billhook, it is a pair of man made lakes about a 1/2 hour drive south of Reading. I have only fished the venue twice before winning once and in the last match I was there, I was third but I discovered something I thought I would put good use to in this match I was about to fish, well that’s what I thought !!!! All the best laid plans etc. We arrived at the venue...
Well it was nearly five weeks since I had managed to get out and do a bit of fishing and have to admit I was reallly chomping at the bit to get out and hopefully catch some fish so I booked myself and my mate into the open at Oakfield Fishery near Bicester. Saturday arrived and after collecting my mate from Reading we were on our way and arrived at the fishery at about 8.15am. We both had a walk...
Normally the first Saturday of the month means I will book myself into my local match on Theale Pits but due to the cold weather we experienced in October with all the snow and heavy rain we had, meant it had more or less knocked the fishing on the head as the fish seemed to have gone to ground, resulting in me looking for some alternative matches in the surrounding area. The closest I could find was...
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