Todber Manor – Silvers Open – 1st November 2025
November kicked off with my first visit to Todber for a few weeks, draw time soon arrived and as per usual, Mr Dew and me hung back hoping to avoid 62 and 63. With most of the pegs taken, it …
Mission Impossible Update – 16th August 2012
Badge number three arrived today, for my perch caught at Dillington recently I’m still hopeful I can get tench before the weather turns colder, come to think of it I’ve actually had tench, roach, carp, eels, crucians and rudd in recent matches but just haven’t weighed them or had photos taken! When the river fishing starts, I’ll hopefully be able to add …
Summerhayes – Open – 12th August 2012
I was really looking forward to getting back to Summerhayes and hopefully a nice days skimmer fishing. But with 29 fishing, Pete had decided to use Sellicks and Lily and I was desperate to avoid Lily as a good weight of silvers on there is 10lb and that won’t normally be enough to compete against Sellicks. I’d picked Janders up and when …
Coking Farm – Tackleuk Open – 11th August 2012
I saw Tackleuk were holding an open at Coking Farm and after talking to Scotty about the venue, I booked in. I’d never fished the venue before and Scott said you would need around 25 carp to win and that they average 3-4lb apiece. I was up at 6:30 which is unheard of for me before meeting Scotty in Ilminster and then …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 7 – 5th August 2012
The pond has been fishing well in recent matches with 16-17lb weights needed to win and some quality roach featuring but that has been with plenty of colour in the water but that had dropped out today. I must admit I wasn’t really looking forward to fishing the whip all match so decided to fish a 10 metre pole line as well. …
Summerhayes – Open – 1st August 2012
As I’ve got the week off, I booked into the match on Sellicks today, Brendon was also fishing and had been texting me loads about how he was going to whoop my ass again (I’m starting to get a bit worried about his fixation with my ass!). The forecast wasn’t great today with fairly strong winds and rain on the cards. There …
Summerhayes – Silverfish Festival Day 2 – 29th July 2012
I was up early again and on my way, everybody at the draw was saying they didn’t want to draw Lily lake as it would be won with a low weight and if anybody ties on points it goes to weight. Glyn Wickham and Brendon kept on that I would be on Lily and I was sincerely hoping that wouldn’t be the …
Summerhayes – Silverfish Festival Day 1 – 28th July 2012
I was so looking forward to this mini festival and was actually awake really early, I got to Summerhayes at 10:00 and the draw wasn’t until 11:00! There were already quite a few ‘stars’ there, including the Wickhams, Nigel Garrett and Steve Jackson. Last match I had a crisis of faith and got Pete to order me a kilo of worm and …
Summerhayes – Open – 22nd July 2012
I booked into Summerhayes today as it would be my last chance for a practice before the silvers festival next weekend. It also looked like summer had finally arrived with a weird orange thing in the sky above us. The match was on Sellicks and there was a decent turn out, I drew quite late and pulled out peg 4 which is …
Perry St Pond – Spring League 10 – 15th July 2012
The final match arrived and I must admit I was feeling a little nervous as I really wanted to win the knockout final after losing in the final of the pairs knockout and I was also in contention of a minor league placing. Mark Mockridge was hot favourite to win as he had a corner to come and his joker to play, …
Perry St Pond – Spring League 9 – 8th July 2012
The weather over the last couple of days had been horrendous with a months worth of rain falling in a single day and floods all over the place. Thankfully the forecast was much better for today and there was even an orange thing in the sky later in the day! We were a couple short for this match as the patchy fishing …