Got Baits ISK League Round 2

Due to being on holiday in devon I've missed this round, so for the next 4 rounds it's 100% flat out.

With the next round being at Monk Lakes in Kent and never fished Match Lake 2 before it'll be another hard match but a good learning curve.

I'm currently 18th overall dropping 7 places for not fishing

1 Collin Wood 60-12 Peg 23
2 Nick Allen 59-7 Peg 36
3 Dennis Price 57-14 Peg 22
4 Rusty 57-00 peg 16
5 Russ Evans 53-10 peg 24
6 Squeaky (guest) 51-0 peg 31

League Placing

1 Ian Carley, 5-4, 124-8 9
2 Matt Love, 5-4, 107-1 9
3 Nick Gilbert, 5-3, 133-13 8
4 Collin Wood, 3-5, 110-9 8
5 Dennis Price, 4-4, 105-1 8
6 Nick Allen, 3-5, 103-1 8
7 Jonny Watt, 5-3, 95-5 8
8 Mark Hathway 4-4, 69-15 8
9 Russ Evans, 4-3, 104-3 7
10 Jeff Driscoll, 4-3, 82-14 7
11 Russell Graves, 0-5, 57-0 5
12 Paul Kell, 0-5, 44-4 5
13 Pete Allen 2-2 63-11 4
14 John Haige 2-2 33-1 4
15 Chris Jones 3-1 27-6 4
16 Brian Pink 2-2 19-15 4
17 Trevor Little 2-1 81-6 3
18 Paul Slater 3-0 39-7 3
19 Al Loader 0- 11-10 2


Weight League

1 Nick Gilbert 133-13
2 Ian Carley 124-8
3 Collin Wood 110-9
4 Matt Love 107-1
5 Dennis Price 105-1
6 Russ Evans 104-3
7 Nick Allen 103-1
8 Jonny Watt 95-5
9 Jeff Driscoll 82-14
10 Trevor Little 81-6
11 Mark Hathway 69-15
12 Pete Allen 63-11
13 Russell Graves 57-0
14 Paul Kell 44-4
15 Paul Slater 39-7
16 John Haige 33-1
17 Chris Jones 27-6
18 Brian Pink 19-15
19 Al Loader 11-10

Town Park Lakes Torquay - 23rd April

Were on our yearly trip to Devon, staying over in Brixham this year, as always I manage to get a few days fishing in while were here. I went on monday and had a nice 40lb bag of skimmer bream and roach, with a couple of common carp to 3lb each.

However today was different Sarah the other half had decided to give fishing a go.......shock horror!

We arrived at Town Park Lakes at around 9.00am some 2.5hours since me and the dog was ready to go. Anyway We decided to fish peg 10 which is at the far side of the lake away from anyone as we had the mutt with us. I still had some bait from the other day. I set-up a feeder rod with a pellet feeder rig and a pellet waggler rod for sarah. while I was setting up she went off to get breakfast for us and she soon returned with a bacon butty and a can of pepsi for myself and she had the sausage butty. However I'd had a quick couple of casts and managed to get a nice 3lb common carp and a small skimmer in the net.

On the third cast with the feeder rod the tip whizzed round again and another 3lb common was soon in the net. I continued casting the feeder to the island and over the course of the day I managed another 4 smaller carp and 21 skimmer bream upto 1lb being the largest of them.

I'd set Sarah up the pellet waggler, however due to her first time fishing this was a bit much with the wind being in our faces, I decided to geta top kit out so she could have a go for the roach and rudd in the lake.

After showing her a couple of times she was soon into the roach and rudd with no problem swinging them over for me to unhook and add the maggots back on the hook, this soon changed as I started to make myself busy when she needed somethings doing, which started to to do things for herself this included unhooking the fish first then soon I had her putting magggots on the hook and throwing in a few maggots. Before long she was catching roach or a rudd a cast and starting to enjoy herself (That's a first never thought I see her fish..!)as the dog was starting to get restless and I was running out of spam to throw to her to keep her quite it was time to go I started to pack up only to hear Sarah say do we have to go yet.

At the end of the day the tally was:

Myself:

6 carp to 3lb
21 skimmer Bream

Sarah:

50 plus roach and rudd
Best fish 10-12oz

Tomorrow were going to try the specimun lake which holds large carp and catfish.

Got Baits ISK League Round 1

This is my first year back match fishing after nearly 20 years, things have changed somewhat, well over the past few months I've been on a rapid learning curve.

However the day was here for the first match at Bramley / Peartree Lakes at Hartleylands in Kent. At the draw I picked Peg P20 which was peg 20 on Peartree Lake. I've never fished any of these lakes so it was do my best regardless.

When I walked round to the peg I had an island straight out in front of me and some margins to both sides. The plan of attack was feed 2 margins swims one to the left and the other to the right. A third line would be over to the island with either a pellet feeder or pellet waggler.

Upon opening the rod bag I noticed that I had left my feeder rod at home, a quick phone call and my trusted 10' MAP Parabolix Feeder rod was on it's way by Robbie Express.

I opted for the feeder rod over the pellet waggler as I have more confidence on this method, as I've only ever used the pellet waggler once before.

I mixed up around 3 pints of 2mm pellets for the feeder and had a few pre drilled hard pellets, with my main line of attack being a method feeder to the island a cast of around 25 meters.

The whistle went for all in I cast out to the island within seconds the tip was showing signs of life then it went round and soon the first carp was coming to the net, in the next hour I managed to catch another 15 carp, with the bites not showing any signs of giving up.

In the meantime I continued to feed the margins with the plan in the last hour to fish there. However I was catching small carp every few minutes and was starting to build a decent weight.

I hooked a few bigger fish which I failed in getting to the net, and managed to snag up on the bottom and loose a couple of hook lengths on.

I started on the margin swim with an hour to go, after 15 minutes I'd not even had a take, I decided to use the feeder rig and go back over to the island and was soon rewarded with another carp.

I'm quite pleased with the result and currently finished 11th overall at a water I've never fished before, I know these placing will fall as I'm missing the next round due to going on holiday.

Results:

1 Nick Gilbert 103-13 peg 4 pear tree
2 Matt Love 5 79-9 peg 8 pear tree
3 Ian Carley 5 78-14 peg 9 bramley
4 Jonny Watt 5 73-14 peg 20 bramley
5 Jeff Driscoll 4 63-6 peg 6 pear tree
6 Russ Evans 4 50-9 peg 8 bramley

League Placing

1 Nick Gilbert 5 103-13
2 Matt Love 5 79-9
3 Ian Carley 5 78-14
4 Jonny Watt 5 73-14
5 Jeff Driscoll 4 63-6
6 Russ Evans 4 50-9
7 Dennis Price 4 47-3
8 Mark Hathway 4 44-8
9 Collin Wood 3 49-13
10 Nick Allen 3 43-10
11 Paul Slater 3 39-7
12 Chris Jones 3 16-14
13 Trevor Little 2 48-8
14 Pete Allen 2 23-3
15 John Haige 2 19-5
16 Brian Pink 2 9-11
17 Rusty (on Holiday) 0
18 Alan Loader (forgot about the match!) 0

Hawkhurst Fish Farm Good Friday 09

I'd arranged another match this time at Hawkhurst Fish Farm, near Hawkhurst in Kent. As the fish farm has a half decent cafe on everyone fishing the match had said we were going to have breakfast before the start of the match, which was a full english all round.

I got the draw sorted and Ted the bailiff picked my peg which was peg 13 on a friday.

I walked down to my peg started to setup the pole which was 2 margin rigs and a 5 meter line straight out in front.

The main line I setup two rigs one shallow and one hard on the bottom. After setting up we
went over to the cafe to have full english breckfast before the match, this was follwoed by
the usual banter.

At 10.00 I shouted all in and then for the next 5 hours I didn't move off the peg. I went long
for the first hour feeding a few pellets every 30 seconds, soon I was getting bites on the
bottom, with the first carp soon in the net. I started to catch through out the day rotating
round to the margins and then back out long however my catch rate was no where near what
I needed to do.

At the end of the match I finished a lonely 15th.

 
Position        Peg             Angler                               Weight

1st               Peg 7     Paul(nomorelongwalks)East   125lbs 00ozs
2nd              Peg 15   Keith(Disco)Driscoll              112lbs 00ozs
3rd              Peg 16   Nick(pastie)Allen                   101lbs 00ozs
4th              Peg 4     Graham(franklin)Fanklin          94lbs 12ozs
5th              Peg 3    Jay Lay                                   92lbs 12ozs
6th              Peg 5    Tony(spamwham)Roberts         88lbs 00ozs
7th              Peg 19  Derek(derekl)Lockwood            86lbs 12ozs
8th              Peg 1    Peter(Mugger)Morton               86lbs 08ozs
9th              Peg 8    Clive(Black Hydro)Pritchard      85lbs 04ozs
10th            Peg 18   Pete(btpt)Allen                         83lbs 00ozs
11th=          Peg 9    Greg(splitshot1)Andrews            81lbs 00ozs
11th=          Peg 6    Dave(The Fish)Collier               81lbs 00ozs
13th            Peg 12  Trevor(M.T.Net)Little               70lbs 00ozs
14th            Peg 20   Terry(Wily Coyote)Goff           67lbs 00ozs
15th     Peg 13 paulvis69              40lbs 00ozs
16th            Peg 2    Vince(Vince G)Gould                32lbs 08ozs
17th            Peg 11   Chris(nagap)Pagan                   31lbs 00ozs
18th            Peg 17   Chris Withall                            23lbs 08ozs
19th            Peg 14   Ben Franklin                                DNW  

Lucks Lane Paddock Wood 28th March 09

When I woke up on this cold and wet Saturday morning I just wanted to roll over and go back to sleep, however this wasn't goin to happen as I had organised this match. I dragged my arse out of bed, packed up the car and drove up to Ade's (wingnut) and we set off for the 40 minute drive upto Paddock Wood.

When we arrived we was greeted by a few of the others that had arrived early. I knew that fishing was going to be hard today due to the weather and it didn't look like it was going to get any better. We had the draw and I got Ade to draw my peg, he drew the one right at the end of the lake for me. Great was the thought as I left my trolly at home hoping for a short walk today.

I lumped the gear down to the peg, I've never fished this end before and Gary (Oggie) told me that this end never fishes well. I decided to try the new pellet waggler rod and also setup the pole, for both a margin swim and around 8 meters out.

For bait I had the usual asortment of soft and hard hook pellets, corn and luncheon meat, which I knew worked as Oggie and his son and myself had a practice session the week before and I'd had over 100lb of fish.

I called all in, feeding to margin swims and also 2 large cups of hemp,corn and 4mm pellets was fed at 8 meters. I waited a couple of minutes for the feed to settle then went for the 8 meter pole line the wind was directly in my face and the pole was quite hard to handle, I soon had a small carp in the net around a 1lb mark.

I continued to feed the pole line and the margins, however the fish was slow to respond to this tactic, I change to the pellet waggler and a had a couple of small carp on this method then back to waiting for bites. I swapped back to the pole and then had a steady stream of small carp, the disaster struck the umbrella pole snapped and I spent the next half hour sorting the mess out.

The wind changed again and more rain streamed down, with 45 minutes to go I hooked into a nice carp and shortly after had a carp of around 6lb in the net.

I'd had enough and decided to pack up early, when the weigh-in arrived at my net my last carp weighed an impressive 9lb, which made my second net made it to 32lb in total.

Due to the weather the lake didn't produce the fish it's capable of.

Results

1st 88lb Peter (Mugger)Morton
2nd 83lb Keith (Disco)
3rd 57lb Greg Andrews
4th 47lb Colin H
5th 36lb Ade (Wingnut)
6th 32lb Paul (Paulvis69)
7th 27lb Gary (Oggie)
7th 27lb Nick
9th 25lb Mick the Chippy
10th 18lb Colin
11th 17lb John
12th 6lb 4oz Alex
13th 5lb 4oz DHL Man

Did Not Weigh in (all below)

14th Omega Mike(Bad day at the office)
14th Andy
14th Josh

Woke up and went back to bed( Wise move)

17th PeterMid

House lake - Wylands 14th March 09

Got up there for around 8.00am met up with some of the same old faces and a few more new ones.

At the draw I managed peg 1 (tree section)favoured by some however I'd never fished this peg in any of the practice sessions I'd have prefered to draw the road section, however not to be.

As the lake fishes much the same I opted to fish double red maggot on the hook and feed 10-20 maggots a time, also introducing corn throughout the match.

I setup with itentions at fishing at 4metres, I'd already made up a sellection of pole rigs from 0.3grams to 1.5 grams just in case the wind did get up.

At the all in, I fed a couple of poaches of red maggots and to my right what looked like a good second swim I baited with some sweetcorn.

Within seconds the float went under and I was into my first fish a small skimmer around 4oz everytime I moved the float I fed some more red maggots.

After around 30 minutes I changed to sweetcorn and the bites just stopped , I changed back to red maggots and again more bites. I had a few pints of bronze maggots so I got them on the hook and was still getting fish.

I carried on catching for around 3 three hours, however when the sun came out this jst killed the fishing and the bites became harder and harder to get.

I changed to sweetcorn however still nothing. I tried my second swim and this was also dead.

For the last few hours of the match I struggled to put 2lb in the net.

It was the first Maggot Drowners match that I weighed in at I managed to finish 11th overall with 21lb 6oz. I was disappointed that I didn't draw the roadside as I'm sure I'd have doubled my weight on that section without a doubt.

House lake - Wylands 7th March 09

I arrived at wylands House lake around 9.30am the only other people that was there was a couple kids on the island looked like they where fishing for carp.

Anyway I set up the new Preston Innovations GXR 3000 pole. I opted to fish at 4-5 meters.

I setup with 0.4 gramm float and plumbed the depth which was rund 5 feet on this peg.

As for bait I had 4 pints of red maggots and tin of corn, some 1mm feed pellets and 4 and 6mm soft hook pellets. I started feeding a few red maggots with every putin and this resulted in a few small roach. Within half an hour I'd had around 30 small roach and a couple of small skimmer bream.

I stepped up the feeding and added some sweetcorn to the loose feed, this started to bring the skimmers and some better roach the biggest being around 12oz. All I was using was double red maggot on the hook.

I changed to corn on the hook and the bites seemed to disappear. However after 10 minutes I got my first bite on corn, the was a better stamp of skimmer. I changed back to double red maggot and the bites where straight back the as before I swapped to corn.

I started to feed around 10 maggots with every put in, and the fish responded with positive bites every few seconds.

I decided to pack up around 3.00pm and I'd say I'd had aound 40lb of silvers in that time. Trevor (M.T. Net) spent some time having a chat.