Month: December 2025
Summerhayes – Silvers Open – 22nd November 2025
Saturday it was a silvers match on Sellicks which had just received an injection of quality roach and skimmers from Big 8. I was really looking forward to it even though a few had fished it mid-week with just one roach being caught! Only nine of us fishing today and I was hoping to draw on the far side, failing that I’d …
Summerhayes – Open – 16th November 2025
Talking to Russ after yesterdays match he said I’d probably draw 39 today (as it seems to be a recurring theme that I end up on pegs soon after he’s fished them) and I was hoping that wouldn’t be the case as it’s not my favourite swim for silvers. I stopped off at McDonalds in Ilminster for a breakfast wrap and bumped …
Summerhayes – Champion of Champions Silvers Final – 15th November 2025
I say it every year but this is one of my favourite matches that I’d love to win although my record in it is quite frankly, pants! 19 anglers fishing today and when Pete announced the draw, he called up people in the order they’d qualified, I was only fourth on the list but when it was my turn, two of the …