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With some leave to use up, I booked Tuesday off and headed up to Acorn for the costcutter along with Parker ‘The Pole’. 28 anglers fishing today which is a great turnout for a midweek match. Eddie announced the draw …
On Sunday we headed to Summerhayes and I was hoping we’d be on Longs but when we arrived, the car park was rammed as there was a club match booked on there which meant we’d be on Sellicks. We’d had …
Back to Todber on Saturday with the ‘Ilminster Massive’ and there was a full house this week including the Somerset Spielberg, our very own YouTube sensation, Bunghole Bob! As most of us enjoyed breakfast in the Lakeside Kitchen, the mind …
I’ve been dying to get back down to Revels but with the bitterly cold weather recently, the silvers fishing has been really tricky with just 2oz winning last Tuesday! The temperature warmed up a bit during the week so I …
I only fish the ‘resi’ a few times a year and looking through my old diaries I couldn’t find an entry where I’d fished it as early in the year as this. On arrival the reservoir was flat calm and it was bright and sunny, not ideal conditions for bream fishing. Still somebody would have a few and I hoped it would …
Another bright and sunny day and I was looking forward to a bit of carp bashing, my only worry was that several frosts might knock sport a bit. My mate Andy was fishing today as a substitute as was Dave Lawrence for Steve Bishop. Draw time soon arrived and the anglers who drew a corner peg last time went first before the …
Sunday morning arrived and the weather was glorious and although not a great lover of carp fishing I was looking forward to the first match of the Spring League. I got to Perry St a little early but already many of the anglers were gathering. Once again this popular league was a sell out with several anglers on the reserves list. I …
Well the final match of the V.E.S. Precision league arrived and although the top two places were pretty much sewn up, my nemesis Janders and I both had an outside change of sneaking into the league frame if we did well. The weather didn’t look too bad although I wasn’t sure what was forecast. As always the fourteen anglers were hoping to …
The weather was once again gorgeous (if anything a little too bright and sunny) and at the draw there was a good turnout of 17 anglers. Everybody wanted to draw one of the hot pegs, which Robin had put in again. 125 or 55 were the pegs most people wanted, Rob had also put some pegs in at Ilford and these were …
It was a glorious day and match organiser Robin Cox had promised he was going to put all the good pegs in. Pegs 55, 66 and 125 were all in and capable of doing 20lb. I stuck my hand in the bucket and pulled out 27, a peg that can do decent bags of small fish but realistically I was looking at …
I was looking forward to this one but it turned out to be a bit of a non starter for me. Things didn’t start well when I woke up with the hangover from hell, I’d been to Hoff’s 50th the night before and we ended up back in Chard at the Phoenix. Well wrecked and not at all match fit! It got …
Due to all the bad weather the Isle match was called off so no report this week. There was a match on the resi but that fished poorly and the last I heard there was only one roach caught. Hopefully we will be on the river next week as it’s the annual ‘Open’, a match I’d love to win, tune in to …
Well I got my wish and we were on the river which looked nice with a tinge of colour, the bad news was that it was freezing cold with a bitter wind. I managed to pull peg 24 out of the bucket although I had the choice of 23 or 24. As I had blanked on 23 the last time I fished …
We met down the river but as it was like a raging torrent we decided to give the canal a go for a change. There were only five of us so we made sure we had plenty of room between pegs and I drew peg 4, which was where I was last time. The level was quite high and most of the …
