lindholme, willows. Jan 12

peg 2
fished really hard. struggled.
had three small barbel, only got a couple of f1 in last hour at sixteen metres.
least I wasn't wearing pink though

lindholme, strip. big bash knock up

a tough day.
Drew peg five. struggled for 14lb 7oz
won by Joe on peg 6 with 42 pound of f1's. good angling.
happy tho, too finish fourth overall and pick up the section, and to ounce chezzy dan

Saturday 26th Feb, third big bash match of year.
Pine Lakes, Thorne

Nice lake, obviously well managed. stuffed with ide, by all accounts.
it had been warm in the few days run up to the match, so i fancied a netfull of ide.

I half fancied the peg, (15) , though the one to my left had an island. the ones to the right in this photo looked better, with a good chuck to teh island for a few pegs.

Anyhow, i still reckoned I'd get ide up in the water, so set up two rigs, one for depth and one for shallow. But i fancied waggler even more, further out in the open water. Plan was to chase em out, staring at about 5m




So the all in came, and so did the wind. strong and across from my left to right, but slighty towards me. Made presentation on pole line difficult, and getting loose feed to the preferred waggler line almost impossible.

One IDE, three tiny ones. 1lb 9oz. What a disaster.

stickymag?? damn.

full results here

Grange Park 28th Jan

Back to Grange Park and the cafe lake.

Its not my favourite, but the breakfast is the best there is. I probably should have had the breakfast and gone home. I Drew peg 12, which is the corner peg and probably should be a really good peg. maybe. when its warmer. and with a better angler.

So, we started 15 minutes before i expected, so totally disorganised again. first hour on maggot on a 22 and 0.09 and a baby carp and a couple of goldfish. Joe, to my left was tanning me already and then Chezzydan right across in the sunshine straight in front of me started catching carp in the sunny margin.

So I watched him for a bit, then chucked a small cage feeder right across the vacant peg13 and plopped it a foot from the reeds.

...and caught a carp. then nothing. two lost feeders later I went down the edge to my right, lost a rig and caught a small carp. then nothing. so i went long right across to the corner and caught another small carp.

and that was about that.

How hard is it fishing long down the right, when you're right handed.? i must work that one out.

I finished with 8lb 4oz, and for the third successive match, sat directly opposite the winner.

Results;

peg 15 chezzydan  36-12

peg 20 Kev Allen    28-8    golden peg

peg 17 Yatesey     17-0

11th..peg 12 Papakev     8-4

all the gory details here on the big bash forum

 photo courtesy of Mark ( Hempmaster)

 and a view from the other side.

Lindholme Laurels 22nd Jan

OK, so this year I'll really try to blog every match of the year. (again)
No peg photo, but I drew Laurels 33 -- also the golden peg, so that was wasted.
This was the first Big Bash club match of the year.
It was cold, and very very windy.
33 is on a point and i had the wind mostly in my back.
I fished pole, 6 sections straight out, also fed maggots sparingly on the margins, hoping for some margin crusing trout.

I had a couple of skimmers on the pole, and bounced off three more (i really need to get sorted), but the bites were just not there.
A switch to straight lead and corn brought a carp straight away, but then nothing.
one more about 30 mins later, then for the last two and a half hours i couldn't buy a bite.
weighed 8lb 9oz and came 10th (out of 25) Not a great start.

22nd June 2009

 I can't even remember where this was (somewhere in ireland), but I had just over 30lb of Roach on the stick float, and loved it

Cudmore

Personal Best Carp.
Caught at Arena Lake Cudmore.

 

Redwood Lakes

had a little five peg knock up on the arc at redwood lakes.

It was hard.
Finished with around 3lb

with hindsight, i should have fished maggot and a 4m whip to hand, i reckon a decent weight of silvers was on the cards.
As was, i alternated between a 6m pole line, and a waggler over the far side, fishing corn.
Carp didn't show, but i had a couple of small chub and a few bits.

four of us in a row struggled, Paul on the far end got into double figures.

Barnburgh

took a battering.
got hammered off the next peg.
totally hacked off about this one.

I really must get me some dumpy pellet wagglers and sort out the technique.

i ended up with two skimmers.

Lindholme Lakes -- our first trip