I had a load of casters left over from the Milo festival and was keen not to waste them. I drove to Gwinear on Sunday morning hoping for an open water peg where I could fish up in the water for carp. It was a reasonable turn out, when the draw started I ended up near to the back of the queue. I had a perfect view of all the flyers coming out! Clint drew first for Andy Dare as he was helping organise...
I was chatting in the draw queue and completely forgot about the positive mental attitude bit, I put my hand in the bag and pulled out 45! I don’t believe it, and promptly turned into Victor Meldrew. As I was walking out of the club I bumped into Gwinear venue expert Andy Dare. He asked me what I had drawn, I told him 45 and looked at him as he did a goldfish impression. The mouth was moving but...
29th April 1978 is the day I married the long suffering Vivien! 30 years of married life quite an achievement, I have a great wife and four smashing kids. I cannot believe where time goes. I am on the receiving end of a bit of ear bashing though! Quite right as well, I should have taken her on holiday, I will have to get my thinking cap on to make up for fishing this week! Enough of that sentimentality,...
With still everything to fish for everyone is still buzzing at the draw. At 9.15 the entrance to the clubhouse is packed out with anglers looking at yesterday’s results and reliving how they did it or how not to do it in some circumstances. The doors open and were off! I manage to get to the middle of the queue and thoughts are again of a peg around 20. My turn, I pull out a peg to someone saying...
It was easy to spot the anglers who were at White Acres for their second week at the draw queue. They were the ones that looked dog tired as they had just finished a week of intense fishing and drinking! Handshakes all round to mates from all around the country, most had not been seen for 12 months or so, a bit of banter and then the doors opened and we were into the clubhouse for the draw. Twiterpated!...
Day three - Gwinear. Well, I went to bed Tuesday dreaming of peg 31 at Gwinear as I really fancied the peg. Would you believe it, I actually drew peg 31! There was one big problem, Harry Billing was staying at home and had something to do Wednesday morning so he asked me if I could draw for him and you guessed it, I drew Harry the peg! I had drawn previously for myself and plucked 17 out of the bag....
Day One – A section, Match Lake. If I had the perfect start on the Van Den Eydne with a section win, the start on this festival was an unmitigated disaster! I drew peg 31 just off the high bank, and was not unhappy with the draw. I was not in the fancied high bank section but close enough to catch any strays. I know that the peg in the past has thrown up some good weights and that I would need carp...
Peg 36Welcome to Stewart and Harry’s magical mystery tours! And for this week’s adventure we are attempting to find Stafford Moor fishery in Devon. I don’t know why, but for some strange reason we can never find our way to this fantastic fishery. We have been on four occasions now and gone four different routes, what’s more we have come home four different ways! Hopefully we have now impregnated...
I hadn’t been fishing for a whole seven days and I was really desperate to get back on the bank. I woke early Sunday morning in anticipation, trouble was the draw was not until 10am and looking at the clock told me there was still six and a half hours to go! I just could not sleep I got up and messed around until it was time to go by then I had been up for a day and was dog tired! I have been match...
I cannot not hazard a guess as to how many festivals I have fished over the years at White Acres, I still enjoy them just as much as the very first one that I fished way back in the early nineties , The only problem is as I get older they come round faster and faster! It doesn’t seem two minutes since we were all assembling for the draw in March 2007 and here we are again. This is about my festival,...
Well, I don’t really know where to start this one as this is a match that I do not want to reminisce on. I really hadn’t intended fishing on Sunday but the weather was so poor the family didn’t want to go out as planned. So, I took the opportunity to go to Gwinear as there are only a couple of matches before the first festival. Sometimes things are just not meant to be and perhaps I should have...
I didn’t plan on fishing Tuesday but my neighbour volunteered to pick the little one up from school and look after her until I got home. So I was off to get my fix, I was really suffering ‘Cold Turkey’ after having an early bath on Sunday and was keen as mustard. Jack had returned and we had some more crispy grass. This is getting to sound like a druggie’s tale, back to the fishing! White Acres...
I have had a word at the local surgery and booked the eight anglers myself included into the next group therapy session that they are holding, we all must be mad. We are in the middle of the worst storm in years in Cornwall and we go fishing! Good job not that many turned up as the wind machine was working overtime. Pegs were chosen that gave us some protection from the wind and hopefully would provide...
The phone rang on Wednesday and it was the second person that day asking ‘what was on Saturday?’ There was nothing on that I knew about so a quick call to Charlie and a Sweep was arranged at Gwinear. I sent a few texts and was pleased with the response as twenty booked on. In the end 17 anglers turned up to fish. We spread the pegs around the lake to give everyone a bit of room, it would also give...
Just when we thought spring was here someone in Welsh Wales left the back door open! and it was a freezing cold North wind that greeted us at Gwinear in the latest Tuesday open. The pegging was arranged so that as far as possible most anglers were out of the biting wind. I drew peg 10 and was a bit surprised as I didn’t realise it had been put in! Talking to Andy Dare after the draw he reckoned it...
The Tuesday open at Gwinear was a windy affair for some of us, I drew peg 20 along the back straight, a peg that Mark Lazell has drawn twice and framed from in the last couple of weeks. And I knew that he had caught big carp in the last hour close to the near bank. I went to the peg quite confident. The only difference this day was that flyer pegs 28 and 36 on the island had been put in this week for...
I have got the fishing bug bad at the moment and the only cure is to keep going! I had the opportunity to get out on Wednesday. The only match that I could find was at Gunnabarn, in Summercourt a new venue to me and one that has had a recent stocking of small carp. The venue is set in beautiful Cornish valley. The lake only has 16 pegs, shame it’s not a bit bigger, but it was a pleasure to go. I...
Travelling the short distance to Gwinear for the Tuesday open I was not sure what to expect. We had had three frosts in three days it was bound to put the fish off. I drew peg 52 on the banjo and a peg with some great potential. A good pole peg and with a chance to get the waggler out as the point of the island is about 25 meters in front of you. The wind was perfect slightly over the right shoulder...
What a week that was! It started on Saturday with the draw for round 13 of the White Acres Individual Winter League. This is a 17 match series that covers the whole winter season. Ten matches count and with the quality of the field you need to score well as no doubt someone will achieve a perfect ten, or if not get very close. This round had three sections on Twin Oaks, one on Nelsons and the remainder...
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