Acorn Fishery – Open – 16th August 2025
With Foxy away for this one, the reins were handed to his glamourous assistants, Paul and Glenn, who did an admirable job in his absence. The draw was announced and I pulled out 19 on the far side, an area …
Summerhayes – Open – 12th April 2015
It was back to Summerhayes today for match number five in eight days, the scores on the doors so far weren’t too bad, Ray and me won the two day silvers pairs festival, I missed out on a silvers pick up by 2oz on the Wednesday and then I was second in the silvers yesterday, so what would today bring? Depending on …
Summerhayes – Gary Bull/England Disabled Team Fundraiser – 11th April 2015
Mark Cox arranged this match to raise funds for the England disabled and ladies teams and worked really hard to publicise the event and getting loads of firms on board who gave generously for the raffle. There was a real buzz around the match as more and more people put their names down for this very worthy cause including a certain Mr …
Milestone
250,000 hits, yes you read that right, quarter of a million (if only I had a £1 for each page view!), a figure that I could only dream about when I started blogging way back in 2006 (where did those nine years go?). As I’ve said before I didn’t start with any grand master plan in mind, I just loved fishing and really …
Summerhayes – Open – 8th April 2015
After a very enjoyable two days fishing over the Bank Holiday weekend, it was back to Summerhayes today for match number three in four days. I was a bit late picking Janders up but we got there in good time, only to be met by the worst news possible that Clive Cunningham had suffered a heart attack at the fishery the previous …
Summerhayes – Pairs Festival Day Two – 6th April 2015
It was another glorious, sunny day as I made my way to Bridgwater for day two, as I arrived most people were already there and all the silvers anglers were hoping to avoid the carp pegs today and vice versa. Pete announced the draw and the anglers who had been in the high numbers yesterday were in the low numbers todays so Ray …
Summerhayes – Pairs Festival Day One – 5th April 2015
As per usual Pete runs a two day mini festival over the Bank Holiday weekend and my partner was Ray Wickham once again, in the last one we both did well on the first day but blew out on day two when we drew good carp pegs! Also the texting from the Torquay Tart started last week as he advised me to get …
Summerhayes – Open – 29th March 2015
Last week Pete said todays match would be on Longs unless there were more than twenty fishing, in which case we would be split over Longs and Sellicks with separate pay outs for both. We got there in good time and with twenty four anglers fishing there would be twelve on each lake. I didn’t mind which lake I drew but a …
Summerhayes – Open – 22nd March 2015
The match was due to be on Sellicks today but as always it depends on numbers and if there are more than sixteen anglers, Pete puts in several pegs on Lily. As me and Janders pulled into the car park, it was rammed! We soon found out that there were 31 anglers booked in for today which meant nearly all the pegs …
The Big One – 21st March 2015
I really look forward to my annual trip to Farnborough, it’s a chance to see some of the new gear the big firms have got coming out, there are bargains to be had and you can get up close and personal with some of the biggest stars in angling. This year Steve Hurford came along to keep me company and it was his first …
Summerhayes – Open – 15th March 2015
I was looking forward to fishing my first match of the year on Longs, especially as there’s been a recent influx of good sized bream. These new fish have been feeding well and anglers have been catching bags to 50lb meaning people can target silvers and have a realistic chance of winning the match. Janders was keeping me company today and on arriving, …