Month: June 2016

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Summerhayes – Open – 26th June 2016

A shorter than usual blog this week (hooray I hear you say) as I’m off to Thailand for three weeks tomorrow and I still have packing to do! I also thought I’d try out a slightly new format for the match report, let me know what you think. The draw On arriving, Glynn Wickham said the match had been switched from Sellicks

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Dillington Pond – Summer League 4 – 19th June 2016

I actually managed to get to the pub early for a change and it was great to see another good turnout of fifteen anglers at the draw. Steve P had a rather fetching new hat on and we think he was going for the Bob Nudd look but somebody said he was more like ‘Nob Budd!’, see what you think? Steve (or

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Summerhayes – Open – 12th June 2016

No Janders this week as he’s on his holidays down in Cornwall, I pulled into the fishery car park and judging by the number of vehicles I knew we wouldn’t just be on Sellicks today. One of the first people I bumped into was Glynn Wickham who said instead of Lily, the overflow would be on Willow today and everybody was expecting the

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Drennan Series 7 BR 9-30 Carp Method Review

Anybody that knows me will know I like entering the odd competition or four and I’m sure people get fed up of all the ‘Liking’ and ‘Sharing’ I do on Facebook! I’m also a member of several angling forums and the excellent Match Fishing Scene which besides being a great discussion forum and invaluable source of info, also holds regular monthly competitions. It costs a

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Dillington Pond – Summer League 3 – 5th June 2016

I arrived at the pub for round three and there were some more new faces fishing today in the shape of Adie Bishop and Rich S who I normally see at Summerhayes. Rob was back from his holidays and Bob, Nick, Jess and John Dursley were all fishing after missing the last match although a few regulars were missing which meant we

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Ringers Spring Loaded Bait Punch Review

When I was at The Big One back in March, I picked up a pack of the new Ringers Spring Loaded Bait Punches and I’ve only just got round to being able to review them! I’ve previously reviewed two Ringers products, the Pellet Pump way back in April 2013, which if you haven’t seen it yet, can be found here – Pellet Pump