River Isle – Tacklebox/Royal Oak Winter League 8 – 5th February 2012
More awful weather in the week and much of the country had snow so I was pleasantly surprised when I woke up and it was mild and we hadn’t even had a frost. Quite a bit of rain yesterday would hopefully put some colour in the river too. At the draw there were the usual suspects and I was quite surprised to …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision League 6 – 29th January 2012
With another frost and possible snow forecast this match was going to be more like an endurance test with putting something in the net vital to gain valuable section points. Although I had to clear the car of ice it didn’t feel too bad and I’ve certainly been colder. At the pub Rob had once again put us at the bottom end …
River Isle – Tacklebox/Royal Oak Winter League 7 – 22nd January 2012
Strong winds were forecast for this one and probably contributed to only five anglers fishing this week. Rob had put in the bottom end and everyone fancied pegs 120 or 126. My day started nicely when Martin handed over his pound from last week and got even better when I pulled 126 out of the draw bag! My only concern was how …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision League 5 – 15th January 2012
This week it was back to the V.E.S. Precision league and I needed a good result or my league would be over for another year. With two hard frosts on Friday and Saturday, this match was always going to be hard and I was praying I’d get a decent peg. Rob had put in lower Coxes for the first time and I …
Ilminster Canal – Tacklebox/Royal Oak Winter League 6 – 8th January 2012
I got to the pub and had a pleasant surprise when Rob said we’d be fishing the canal today, the weather was certainly mild enough and I expected it to fish quite well. I drew peg 5 which put me near the end where we park the cars. Justin had drawn the end peg (although he was quite a way from the …
Chard Reservoir – 2nd January 2012
STOP PRESS (Again!) Despite me saying I wouldn’t be fishing again until the 8th Jan, Les phoned me about a knock up down the resi and I thought I’d give it a bash. I was up early and the first to arrive in the car park, Bob Hammond soon turned up followed by Janders and then the rest who had been for …
Summerhayes – Open – 28th December 2011
STOP PRESS After last weeks blog, Scotty messaged me to say there was a match at Summerhayes on Sellicks if I fancied it, so I had one more chance to try and break the £1300 mark. My alarm going off at 6:30 was a bit of a shock to the system, as was getting up in the dark! I got to Bridgwater …
River Isle – Tacklebox/Royal Oak Winter League 5 – 18th December 2011
After some freezing weather and plenty of rain in the week, I really thought the river would have plenty of colour for this match and when Rob said he’d pegged the top end, I fancied it could be a good match. After a hairy drive to Ilminster on very icy roads, I was disappointed that there were only five hardy (or should …
River Isle – Xmas Fayre – 11th December 2011
After buggering up most of my rigs over the last few weeks, I actually spent quite a while on Saturday making up rigs, tying hooks and putting new elastic in my pole. This combined with my new waterproofs had me raring to go on Sunday, I just needed a decent draw now. There were twelve of us today including Ned and his …
River Isle – Tacklebox/Royal Oak Winter League 4 – 4th December 2011
As you may have noticed from the title, we have a new co-sponsor for this league in the Tacklebox in Chard and I would like to say a huge thank you to Darren for his support. Also new for this week was my sparkly new Preston waterproofs although with how dry this winter has been so far it doesn’t look like I’ll …