Fishing 4 Fun Blyth Festival

[tom]

Right, I have venues sorted for the first and last days with Ranskill (mixed carp and silver fish) first day, and Oasis Lake at Lindholme on the last day (F1's and carp, snake lake), both these are topclass venues and very fair in the warmer month

The only question is, where we go on the middle day. Wetlands and Bank End are fully booked unfortunately, so we could either have another commercial (Hayfield or Hallcroft) or a different venue altogether, the Chesterfield Canal at Clayworth is very nice, for example, its stuffed with squatt fish and also holds a good head of big bream and chub, this would make every day of the festival totally unique, an added bonus here is that there are no long walks as you can park behind your peg, this is only about ten minutes from Blyth do another possible option.

your thoughts??

[Stewart]

Personally I would prefer three commercials. Easier for me to find out about methods on these rather than a canal, plus I have given away all my canal gear! But I will go with the flow!

[Mark M]

No lets get on a canal. Then it will be a proper festival with a bit of variety and I do get sick of carp/ carp/ carp. Last year I spent weeks on the Kennet and Avon Canal and I loved it.

I am defo no canal angler but variety is the spice of life. By the way Tom whats the local talent like in Blyth LOL. Are they ready for us !!!!!!!

[campo]

Sounds good to me, dish the pegs as soon as you get it squared up. Would love the canal to fish well.

[Gary K]

What's wrong with Lodge Farm, has every one forgot about it or have you not heard of it.

[campo]

Lodge farm is a brilliant set up but with only 3 venues to be used out of all in the region what can the lad do. We are spoilt for choice in this part of the woods thankfully. He picks the venues and we decide if we want to fish em.

[tom]

Confirmed Venues:

Wednesday 17th September- Lakeside Fishery, Ranskill
Thursday 18th September- Chesterfield Canal, Clayworth
Friday 19th September- Lindholme Lakes, Oasis Lake

£120.00 per angler, payment is required in advance to secure your place on the festival. I have tried to run events in the past, and have suffered at the hands of anglers who are up for everything at first, and then drop out a few weeks before, so for this event places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis, in terms of who pays on first.

Payment can be made by sending a cheque to:

Tom Scholey
91 Tadcaster Road
Woodseats
Sheffield
S80RA

or dropping cash off at:

Woodseats Angling Centre
625 Chesterfield Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S80RX

Confirmed Payout (Based on a full 30 anglers fishing)

Daily Payout:

1- £100
2- £80
3- £70

5 X 6 Peg Sections of £50 per section

(Plus Daily Superpool Monies payed out 50% 30% 20% to the top three places)

Overall Payout:

1- £500
2- £400
3- £300
4- £200
5- £100

The Festival Result will be worked out on section points with one point for a section win down to six points for last in section, or seven points if you blank.

In the event of a tie on points, weight will be used to determine the result.

Draw Time: 9:00 at the venue, fish 11:00-4:00, Daily Payout in the Fourways Hotel, Blyth at 6:00 PM, Overall festival payout at Fourways Hotel at 8:30 PM on the friday night.

For anglers wanting to stop over, the Fourways Hotel offers bed, breakfast and evening meal at competitive rates and can be contacted on: 01909591235

[campo]

Is there any permanent pegs at clayworth rkid and if so where have you booked it.

[tom]

There are permanent pegs at Clayworth mucker, we are on pegs 1 -30. for those who have never been, It will make for an interesting days fishing, as its different from your standard canal, you are fishing across to boats on the far side on the vast majority of pegs, and for this reason catapults are banned.

There are loads of big fish to go for as well as plenty of squatt fish, and as a whole its very fair.

[Machin jnr]

No disrespect to canal anglers!!!! but i was up for this tournament until a canal was mentiond it would have been my first ever festival i would have fished in and being close to my area fantastic... if it had been 3 commercials then i would have tried, if they had been room left to book on. but unfortunatly im not interested in fishing rivers or canals like i said no disrepect to these styles and people that fish them but its just not me... thanks though,
Brett