Who said the weather was slowly improving! Since I wrote that we have had a frost every day and some have been wicked! It would be great to have some nice settled weather before the spring festivals get under way. I am having a change this year I am setting off in the morning for a four day silver fish festival at Stafford Moor followed by a week at White Acres in the Bait Tech festival. For the first...
The weather is slowly improving and the fish are finally showing some signs of waking from their winter slumber and spreading around our local waters. But we are still getting the odd hard frost which is spoiling our expectations. Good examples of our hopes being knocked were the two midweek opens I was fortunate enough to fish! I drew peg 38 on the Tuesday open at Gwinear which is the closest I...
It’s a funny old game this fishing lark, I spend hours getting ready for matches turning casters and making rigs and at the moment seem to be continually drawing the wrong end of the section! I for one will be really pleased when this winter is over and the fish start to spread out a bit, hopefully the draw bag will then not play such an important part of the proceedings. Mind you I did get a little...
Sunday couldn’t come quick enough for me as I was really looking forward to the Individual league at White Acres; I seemed to have a van full of gear as all fish were included. I had to carry my full compliment of carp gear as well as tackle for silvers just in case those carp didn’t want to know. However, it was the bait that was giving me the real headache; the weather had been mild for a few...
I’m having one of those runs at the moment when the ‘Bag of Dreams’ is not being very kind to me, it’s definitely the bags fault you understand nothing to do with my fishing ability! Well, we all say that don’t we? Before the ice age I was having a nice little run, drawing well, catching a few and putting the odd brown envelope in the trouser pocket but since the big melt it has all gone...
I actually predicted the peg I drew on Saturday but it’s the last time I’m trying that game, its back to moaning about the peg I draw from now on! It was the teams of three winter league on Saturday and chatting in the car park before the draw Mark Lazell told me that he wanted peg 21 on Jennies, I told him it had my name on it and so it proved when I went to do the team draw. I also pulled out...
It was great to be back on the bank again after the ‘Cornish Ice Age’ and what a difference a week makes! Last week we had 6’of ice everywhere and not a match in the region and this week it was a spring like 9 degrees, unbelievable. The only match this weekend was the individual league at White Acres and following the big melt the place was fishing its socks off. I was champing at the bit to...
I managed to sneak out for the last chance open at Gwinear on New Years Eve and it was an absolute belter to end the decade with. We had enjoyed a mild spell for around a week so I thought we might have a chance of a good days fishing however, it was much better than any of us expected. We were fishing on phase Two and Three with anglers spread around the lakes. I had my dip and pulled out peg 40 on...
There I was thinking that I was well ahead of my self when I knocked a cup of tea over my lap top! Oh man I was not impressed especially as I had just penned a couple of thousand words about my last few matches, I was hoping that it was repairable but have just found out it is terminal, that was an expensive cuppa! Never mind, mustn’t grumble (There were plenty of grumbles I assure you) here is an...
The Mosella Garbolino Winter festival at White Acres is the one that I enjoy the most out of all the festivals that I fish. It is much smaller with around 60 anglers taking part but I find it a friendly and enjoyable competition. It is silver fish only but this year saw the return of F1’s allowed primarily as the WA complex has such a head of them, it was also float only for the first time. Normally...
Saturday was the start of a very busy period on the fishing front for me with the prospect of nine back to back matches to attend! I was looking forward to all of them but I have been praying to the fishing gods for a break in the weather as I am now officially fed up with the wind and the rain, we seem to have had both for an eternity, please Lord Pisces let me have a peg out of the wind! We arrived...
There was no let up in the wind on Tuesday but that didn’t stop a better than normal turnout at Gwinear. As a result phases two and three were chosen for today’s match and that in effect made it two matches as the payout was to be 1st and 2nd on each lake. I had my dip and out came 26 on phase three; I was really pleased with the peg as it is situated at the end of the lake that I frequently seem...
The winter individual league at White Acres is one series that gets most people out on a Sunday down in the SW. This year it is a 16 match series with your best eight results to count. Normally it is an angler with a near perfect score that takes the spoils at the end of the series. The results are based on section results and with small five man sections and some very good anglers taking part those...
With nothing booked for Sunday I was pleased to get a call from Harry suggesting that we went to Stafford Moor. There was a silvers match on Tanners and it would be great to get a feel for the place before the Silver Maniac weekend which is worth a cool two grand to the winner. That match is the following weekend and as I hadn’t been there since the same weekend last year I was really looking forward...
With the opening round of Kernow Match Groups three man winter league about to start I thought I better get myself around to Gwinear for another go at the Tuesday open. Overnight we had torrential rain and it was very windy with more rain forecast until around noon, the pegs were sorted out so that everybody was out of the wind. Pegs were dotted around all over the place and there were several...
The alarm rang at 3.30am but I was already awake with the excitement of going to Ireland to fish in the Irish Ferries sponsored ‘British King of Clubs’ I picked Harry up at 4am and we started the long trek to Holyhead which is over 400 miles from home. The journey went smoothly and at around 1.30pm we were driving onto the mammoth Irish Ferry ‘Ulysses’. I have to say how impressed I was with...
It was good to see 20 plus anglers milling around the car park at Gwinear, it felt like a ‘big match’ for the bank holiday open. I had heard that Gwinear was on fire but what I saw in the car park was not what I was expecting at the fishery. I heard shouts of ‘Roger your car’. At the far end of the car park smoke was billowing from the front of Roger Bakers car, the ageing scribe set of running...
It made a nice change to fish three different venues this week. The first was the Tuesday match at Gwinear again the turnout was on the low side, consequently only one lake was used. I had my dip in the bag of dreams and out came peg 8, even though I have not been there for awhile I knew about the peg and really fancied it! It’s on phase 3 and would be about old peg 11. I wandered up to the peg to...
I was looking forward to last weekend’s fishing as we were to be on the White Acres complex for the Cornish Championship. Saturdays match was on Twin Oaks, Acorn and Canal in the team of eight event the following day and we were moving to Trewater’s for the individual match. I actually woke in the early hours of Saturday morning, I just could not get back to sleep and I found myself in the tackle...
The long awaited weekend finally came and I set off to the midlands to compete in the Angling Times Maver Pairs final at Larford, It really is fantastic to qualify for a major final and I sincerely hope that I can get to some more! I have been fortunate in my angling career to reach a final on a few occasions and it really makes the adrenalin flow. Harry and I qualified for the same final last year...
I actually managed two trips during my enforced sabbatical from fishing over the last three weeks and I have to say they were both red letter days, I am very grateful for friends that looked after my daughter for the day which allowed me to get out. Both outings were at the brilliant Mawgan Porth fishery which is nestled in the rugged but fantastic North Cornish countryside. The first match was the...
I have had a couple of close matches recently and the trend continued with a blinder at Mawgan Porth last Wednesday, the sun was shining and the lake looked terrific, there was not as much fish movement around the lake as last time I was there, the thinking was that it might not be as prolific as we all hoped for. I found myself at the front of the queue and was first to draw. Peg 38 stuck to my hand...
Sometimes I think I have got this fishing bug bad, Wednesday was the perfect example! I left Yorkshire after a great few days of fishing, socialising and he odd bit of business at around 11am and after a couple of stops pulled into the car park of Trewater’s at 4.45pm just in time to start the draw and go fishing! But I am glad I did as it was a perfect night. Again the turnout was on the low...
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