Acorn Fishery – Open – 13th April 2024
Saturday we headed to Clevedon for the latest of Chris Fox’s opens, the draw time is now a bit later at 9:45 but I still managed to be running late and messaged Nick to say I’d meet him up there …
Perry St Pond – 10th April 2009
A rather grey, showery day greeted me as I loaded my car with kit ready for the annual Good Friday match at Perry St Pond. There were some faces I hadn’t seen for ages at the draw including Scott and Roger Russell and Alvin Jones, were we to be mugged again? It was time for the draw and once again my drawing …
Perry St Pond – Spring League – 5th April 2009
I woke up and once again it was bright and sunny although we’d had another frost in the night, would this affect the fishing? I got to the draw and sorted out some bait before buying yet more hooks off Chris Haines (that man could sell sand to the Arabs!). After two decent results in the first two matches I was keen …
Chard Reservoir – 29th March 2009
I only fish the ‘resi’ a few times a year and looking through my old diaries I couldn’t find an entry where I’d fished it as early in the year as this. On arrival the reservoir was flat calm and it was bright and sunny, not ideal conditions for bream fishing. Still somebody would have a few and I hoped it would …
Perry St Pond – Spring League – 22nd March 2009
Another bright and sunny day and I was looking forward to a bit of carp bashing, my only worry was that several frosts might knock sport a bit. My mate Andy was fishing today as a substitute as was Dave Lawrence for Steve Bishop. Draw time soon arrived and the anglers who drew a corner peg last time went first before the …
Perry St Pond – Spring League – 15th March 2009
Sunday morning arrived and the weather was glorious and although not a great lover of carp fishing I was looking forward to the first match of the Spring League. I got to Perry St a little early but already many of the anglers were gathering. Once again this popular league was a sell out with several anglers on the reserves list. I …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision Winter League – 8th March 2009
Well the final match of the V.E.S. Precision league arrived and although the top two places were pretty much sewn up, my nemesis Janders and I both had an outside change of sneaking into the league frame if we did well. The weather didn’t look too bad although I wasn’t sure what was forecast. As always the fourteen anglers were hoping to …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision Winter League – 1st March 2009
The weather was once again gorgeous (if anything a little too bright and sunny) and at the draw there was a good turnout of 17 anglers. Everybody wanted to draw one of the hot pegs, which Robin had put in again. 125 or 55 were the pegs most people wanted, Rob had also put some pegs in at Ilford and these were …
River Isle – Crown Winter League – 22nd February 2009
It was a glorious day and match organiser Robin Cox had promised he was going to put all the good pegs in. Pegs 55, 66 and 125 were all in and capable of doing 20lb. I stuck my hand in the bucket and pulled out 27, a peg that can do decent bags of small fish but realistically I was looking at …
River Isle – Open – 15th February 2009
I was looking forward to this one but it turned out to be a bit of a non starter for me. Things didn’t start well when I woke up with the hangover from hell, I’d been to Hoff’s 50th the night before and we ended up back in Chard at the Phoenix. Well wrecked and not at all match fit! It got …
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Sunday 8th February 2009
Due to all the bad weather the Isle match was called off so no report this week. There was a match on the resi but that fished poorly and the last I heard there was only one roach caught. Hopefully we will be on the river next week as it’s the annual ‘Open’, a match I’d love to win, tune in to …