Snitterfield reservoir

  Well summer is nearly upon us and i for one cannot wait for those long , hot sunny days.

We had an early trip to Snitterfield reservoir after stories of good catches for this time of year, as always the weather leading up to the fishing session was perfect, until the day of the trip, heavy rain !.

  The day started badly, with a heavy shower and i and John got soaked, as we did not have our waterproofs on. Also a match was on and we had to fish a different area than i would have liked, but still that's fishing , nothing  ever goes to plan, well not for me lately, I'm beginning to think I'm cursed.

  I started with a nice Roach of a pound, it looked more like a pound and a half. This was followed by a nice hybrid, of about 1.5lb but it was slow as always the heavy rain dampened it a bit. Both Johns were catching well , John Telling on waggler and John dale the pole. Eventually the day came to an end, even thou sport was not hectic i still enjoyed it, i always enjoy the reservoir so was not disappointed

   John Dale weighed 10 lb 4oz and John Telling 9lb 10 oz and me a measly 4lb 12oz

The end at last (pheew)

Horray the winter league is over and i am so happy. Its been a bad one for me and i have not really enjoyed it this year, with today being no exception.

Pulled peg 17 , on that dreaded dam wall. ( Again).

Fished straight lead to start the first 45min, not a touch, tried corn, pellet and maggot but nothing. Came in on the pole line just off the ledge with pellet and corn nothing for an hour, then hooked a lump. It stayed low, bearly moving, then gradually moved to the left , where it snagged me!!!! I was hooked up and had to pull for the break.

Went onto the pellet feeder with a short 3 inch hooklength , and had 2 fish horray.

I weighed 2lb 2oz and was beaten to section win by one ounce.

John dale fished another great match to win and give him the league which he deserved. He fished a great league from start to finish and those blades helped him in the first few matches where we all sat it out for speci,s.

Well done John.

Heres a pic of 14lb of Roach to hemp and tare, on the river avon ,near Stratford 1993.

winter league last but one

Well another catastrophe, picked dam wall yet again, peg 15 i may as well set up residence in this peg , i live on it, at least i had the rigs this time, just a pity the fish didnt know that.

I tried groundbait feeder, method , pole and straight lead, which eventually gave me a solitary carp 12.5oz, oh i did foul hook one on pole and the number 5 stretched to oblivion until the hook pulled.

9lb something won it and my mate John came 3rd with 8lb odd.

So just to cheer myself up , heres another photo from when i could actually catch fish, a 3lb golden orfe.

Oakham Farm

Hooray a bagging session already. I had a day at Oak ham Farm today and fished the oak pool, this is the old pool too the right, next to the converted barn.

I fished the bank in the trees where i had 2 lines set up, one at 5 metres and the other to the island .I started on the 5m line, feeding micros over banded pellet and had the first fish in 5 minutes , after that, i caught on this at a steady pace until i was amassing a nice weight.

I now wanted to give the island line ago , fishing flake over micros in about 1.5 ft of water, but it was difficult because of the sudden gust every now and then , but i had a fish first put in , the biggest of the day at 4lb . The next put in resulted in a big fish taking my 13h elastic round one of the wooden stakes in the lake at 11metres , where it snagged me, thank god for pulla bungs as submersing the tip i was able too safely retrieve my rig, without fear of being spiked by a float disguised as a missile. A few more fish followed but it was too windy so i returned to the 5m line and put a nice run of small Carp and two nice Roach together, the Roach weighing 1.5lb and a pound, lovely fish. I ended a great day with 104lb and it made a nice change to the ounces i have been accumulating lately.





9LB Stillwater Barbel makins in 1998, sorry about the tosh.

winter league

Well another weekend and another winter league match out of the way, thankfully there are only two left, because i am bored of them now. Summer is just around the corner and its bagging time , also time to renew my Leamington licence, in readiness for the reservoir , which excites me more this year than ever before. Any way too the winter league. John deservedly won the match with 9lb something but it was much more than this with all carp weighing 2lb. He had a couple of nice fish around the 6lb mark. Martin (the venue expert ) came 2nd and Keith to my left 3rd, i luckily and to my surprise won the section for the 2nd week running, i weighed 1lb11oz.



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winter league

Well we are half way through the winter league and its not gone well.
To be honest its been a nightmare, with the fishing coming second to worry about work as the crunch takes its toll. Half the work force was slashed last week and some good freinds may never be seen again, it was an upsetting expierience and i do not think that will be the end of it, so understandingly i have my mind on other things and of course being on short time and losing over a third of my wage is also having an impact on my fishing, lets hope that a recovery is just around the corner. Meanwhile heres a great music site link to my early 80s electro , yes i was a breakdancer and loved to go to alldayers at the powerhouse to do my stuff.
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101 Carp and no ice in sight.

Another weekend , another fishing trip, well that's not true, had a day at Alcott farm Thursday , with John Paul and his uncle. We decided to come to Alcott, because john and wayne were fishing the open Saturday, i was not , i was meeting john t at Oakham. The day fishing was not to good and i weighed 6lb , mostly Roach with the odd small carp and john 7lb his uncle estimated 15lb.

Anyway back to yesterday. We arrived at the fishery about 8.00 and set up on the old pool to the right, and settled on the pegs where we broke the ice the first time, thankfully no hard work to be done this week, pheewww. I started on the liquidised bread again , using pinkie on the hook, john the waggler 2 rod lengths using red maggot hook bait. After an hour i had nine small Roach , it was slow , but john was baggin on the wag. I had fed a pellet line at 8 metres and decided on a change of tactic , target the carp, well the weather is starting to get warmer, time for the carp rigs to come out.

First put in on small pellet resulted in an instant bite and a nice 4oz Carp was soon in the net.The action was non stop from then on , john baggin Roach and me small Carp. In the end i made it to 101 Carp but as always, that last fish took ages to catch. John had easily 200 Roach with 2 Tench and a couple of Carp total weight 16lb 10oz , i ended up with 29lb 13oz, so a great day and with the summer slowly approaching, this year we should be into some good sport.

16lb 10 oz mostly Roach 101 small Carp for 29lb 13oz