Category: Dillington Pond
Dillington Pond – V.E.S. Precision League 4 – 30th December 2012
This match was a rescheduled V.E.S. winter league fixture from 25th November, that day we fished a knock up out the pond and it had fished rock hard and I won with fourteen roach for a lowly 1lb 5oz. After loads more rain in the week, I was sure we’d be back out the pond today for another grueller. I really fancied a …
Dillington Pond – 25th November 2012
After rain of biblical proportions for most of the week, this weeks match was never going to be on the river, in fact with widespread flooding I wasn’t sure there would be a match at all! On waking up the weather didn’t look too bad outside and the drive to Ilminster was okay although there was a lot of water about. I …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 8 – 19th August 2012
After some fairly rough weather in the week, the forecast was actually pretty good for the weekend. I got to the Royal Oak relatively early for me and the usual bunch were there apart from Richy who was off playing golf. I pulled out peg 6 on the field side and it was a bit of rush to get set up in …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 7 – 5th August 2012
The pond has been fishing well in recent matches with 16-17lb weights needed to win and some quality roach featuring but that has been with plenty of colour in the water but that had dropped out today. I must admit I wasn’t really looking forward to fishing the whip all match so decided to fish a 10 metre pole line as well. …
Dillington Pond – Royal Oak Summer League 3 – 10th June 2012
As there was finally an Ilminster match that didn’t clash with Perry St, I was at Dillington today. The previous two matches had been won on the whip (both by Heardy for a change!) with 8-10lb so I intended to do the same but also fish a chopped worm line for later in the day. I got to the pub and there …
Dillington Pond – Royal Oak Summer League 9 – 4th September 2011
I arrived at the Royal Oak for the draw and it was disappointing to see there would only be five of us fishing today, although on the plus side we would all have plenty of room. Robin also gave us the choice of two pegs each and I pulled out 7 or 8 and although the former won on Wednesday night, I …
Dillington Pond – Evening League 10 – 31st August 2011
The last match finally arrived and it couldn’t be any closer in the league with Alvin winning and me and Moses just 1.5 points behind. Realistically I didn’t think Alvin could be caught because he needed to be last in his section with either me or Moses winning ours. We met a little earlier and decided to fish from 5:30 to 8:30, …
Dillington Pond – Royal Oak Summer League 8 – 21st August 2011
With only a few of us fishing today I was going to put us down the canal for a change, I had a walk down there on Thursday night and although weedy, there were at least 7 or 8 fishable swims. Fieldy messaged me on Saturday night to say he’d been down there and there were loads of fish moving and I …
Dillington Pond – Evening League 9 – 17th August 2011
For the penultimate match we decided to shorten it by 15 mins due to the failing light. There were five of us again but this week Rob couldn’t make it and Justin would do his usual and turn up late. I drew peg 14 and I had Fieldy for company on the next peg along. I set up the usual whip rig …
Dillington Pond – Royal Oak Summer League 7 – 7th August 2011
The day didn’t start too well when I overslept but I phoned Robin and said to draw for me and I’d meet him out the pond. After rushing around I arrived out the pond and paid Rob my pools and he said I had peg 7. The pond’s level was back up to normal and although the forecast for the day was …