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Todber Manor – Silvers Open – 3rd May 2025

Another nice long Bank Holiday weekend can only mean one thing, three more matches (and another trio of blogs to write!). Todber was the destination for Saturday and when I exited the car after arriving, despite blue skies, there was still a definite chill in the air and Summer isn’t with us just yet! After a lovely breakfast and getting some bait

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Summerhayes – Open – 27th April 2025

No rest for the wicked as the matches and reports are churned out by the blog factory, please bear with me if they’re slightly shorter and not up to their usual high (cough, cough) quality! It was another Summerhayes Sunday on Longs with 19 fishing this week, I was fairly near the top of the list and pulled out 30 which is

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Todber Manor – Silvers Open – 26th April 2025

After a short week it was soon time to go fishing again and Todber Manor was the destination for Saturday’s match. As always, a cracking breakfast in the Lakeside Kitchen set us up for the day before it was time for the draw. I waited until there were two pegs left in the bucket and the one I selected turned out to

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Revels Fishery – Open – 22nd April 2025

For my fifth match in as many days it was down to Revels for the Tuesday open. I met Parker ‘The Pole’ in Yeovil and bought his breakfast as it was his 70th birthday (he’s had a hard paper round!). He bought donuts for everyone (three trays of them!) which we all enjoyed while waiting for the draw, photo credit – Bob

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Summerhayes – Open – 21st April 2025

Bank Holiday Monday and for part four of my angling pentalogy I was back at Summerhayes for another match on Longs. 22 fishing so a great turn out and when it was my turn to draw I pulled out 38 which I had mixed feelings about. It’s probably the narrowest peg on the lake and has been really good for carp recently.

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Summerhayes – Open – 20th April 2025

Thankfully I managed not to oversleep and was able to enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the bowling club this morning before heading to Summerhayes for my third match in as many days. A decent turnout of 19 anglers for this one and my drawing arm behaved itself putting me on 32, a great silvers peg. I got off to a really good

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Todber Manor – Silvers Open – 19th April 2025

For match number two of my five day fishing marathon it was down to Todber for the silvers open on Ash. I actually overslept and woke up to Nick ringing me at 6:40 when I should have met him ten minutes earlier! After rushing around like the proverbial headless chicken and engaging warp speed, I managed to get there just in time

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Summerhayes – Open – 18th April 2025

With a nice long weekend for Easter, I extended it further by taking the Tuesday as leave and booked into matches every day starting with Summerhayes on Good Friday and finishing at Revels for Parker ‘The Pole’s’ birthday outing. Twelve of us fishing today and judging by the forecast we were in for a moist match, I was slightly apprehensive as the

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Summerhayes – Open – 13th April 2025

After a long day yesterday, I was flagging a bit when the alarm went off this morning but a bowling club breakfast sorted me out and I was raring to go once again! When we got to Bridgwater, the car park was pretty busy with 26 booked in for the match. As we waited for the draw I was saying to somebody

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Stoke AA Presentation Evening – 12th April 2025

It was Stoke AA’s presentation evening at the working man’s club and after a lovely day at Acorn it was all a bit of a rush as it was starting at 8 ‘o’ clock and with the match finishing at five, by the time we’d packed up and weighed in etc, I didn’t get home until 7:30. Headless chicken springs to mind