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My Saturday trip to Todber didn’t get off to the best of starts when I woke up at 7:37 and I should have been sat down eating breakfast at 7:30! After rushing around, things didn’t improve when I arrived to …
For my fifth match in as many days and a first trip of the year to Revels, I’d booked a day off work to extend the long weekend. 17 fishing today with Main and Dead Tree lakes being used, I …
Match number four was back at Summerhayes and we were on Sellicks this time, only eight booked in for this one and I was top of the list again. After drawing number 5 for the golden peg, I once again …
After two cracking days catching silvers, I was hoping for more of the same at Summerhayes on Sunday. A great turnout of 24 anglers, I was top of the list this week and drew peg 35 which is a brilliant …
Day two (of five) was back up the M5 to Acorn and if the weather forecast was to be believed we were in for yet another battering by the wind. Fully subscribed with 28 anglers booked in, Foxy announced the draw and as per usual he chose somebody to pull a peg for him and for once they got a very good …
I was contacted recently by a very nice chap called Chris from Gerry’s Fishing (a long-standing tackle shop based in Morecambe) who said he really enjoys the blog (which is always nice to hear) and that they would like to collaborate with me by sending me a piece of kit to review. A few days later a cardboard rod tube arrived (always …
A nice long weekend at Easter always means lots of fishing (and reports to write up which isn’t helping with the backlog!), kicking off five days of matches, it was on Longs for Good Friday. Only 11 of us fishing today including Big Bad Bob who’d somehow cut the end of his nose and couldn’t stop it bleeding, Bill ‘Healing Hands’ Hopping …
Sunday it was back to Summerhayes and when I was called up to draw, I was fairly happy with peg 19 on the bottom bank after doing well on 17 last weekend. Fed the usual short lines, 10 metres and pinged maggots across, it took a little while to get bites and I started catching little skimbobs along with a small tench. …
Todber on Saturday and of course it was stupidly windy again, so fed up with it now and I can’t remember a weekend when I haven’t been virtually blown off the bank! After a fantastic breakfast in the Lakeside Kitchen, it was time for the draw and myself and Mr Dew employed the usual technique of hanging back although it needs recalibrating …
After really struggling on Sellicks I was hoping for better things on Longs today, a good turnout with 19 fishing and when it was my turn to draw I pulled out 17 on the bottom bank. It’s one of the widest pegs on the lake and can be good for silvers although I’d have preferred to have been in the thirties. For …
Given how far behind I am with the blog and the fact I didn’t catch very much, this one won’t take long! It was a silvers only Saturday on Sellicks and there were nine of us fishing today. Pete announced the draw and I really didn’t fancy 2 or 24 (nearest pegs to the car park) and was also hoping to avoid …
There are loads of great silvers matches on the calendar now and a brand new competition for this year is the Ace of Acorn Silvers with qualifying fixtures starting last October. I managed to qualify on my first attempt and I’ve been looking forward to this one. Arriving nice and early, the car park was already filling up with an impressive array …
Only seven of us fishing which meant it would be a rover and as I was top of the list, I had to draw the golden ball which was choice 3 today and then, as so often is the case, I only went and pulled it again! Rob B got first choice and went for 34, Tony H was next and chose …
It was back up to Acorn on Saturday and I was fairly happy when I pulled out 31, a decent area for silvers so hopefully I should have a few bites. Although we’d had a frost it was turning into a gorgeous day and with some ide topping I was really looking forward to this. On the whistle I fed a top …
