Summerhayes – Open – 3rd May 2026
Longs at Summerhayes was the destination for day two (of four) and I was hoping for a nice silvers peg but my drawing arm needs some new batteries as it landed me on number 9 (I’m blaming Dan T who …
Tony Curd Interview
My latest interview is with Bait-Tech and MAP star, Tony Curd, and if I do say so myself, it’s a cracker! Against Men and Fish – Hi Tony, thank you so much for agreeing to answer my questions, let’s start with some easy ones, How and at what age did you get into match fishing? Tony Curd – I started fishing literally …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 1 – 2nd October 2016
I was looking forward to getting back on the river but with it being painfully low and clear, a good draw would be essential. Rob and Fieldy had gone down yesterday to do some swim clearing and made sure there were enough pegs for today so a massive thanks for that, it really is appreciated. There was a decent turn out of …
Summerhayes – Open – 25th September 2016
It was back to Summerhayes and Longs this week and I was travelling on my own as Janders was at Perry St today, when I pulled into the car park, thankfully there was no sign of the Tart so hopefully he’s gone into hibernation for the winter (or else he’s run out of pound coins!). After paying my pools and a quick coffee, …
Dillington Pond – Pairs Open – 18th September 2016
After a pretty disastrous Summer League, I didn’t have high hopes for my bad run ending today unless I did something different and with it being a pairs match I felt the best chance of me and Hurf doing well would be just to get our heads down and fish the short pole. I actually made up a couple of rigs yesterday to fish two …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 10 – 11th September 2016
It’s been a great week for the blog as it flew past 400,000 hits but even bigger news is that Against Men and Fish has a new site supporter, regular readers will know I’m a huge fan of Bait-Tech products and I am over the moon to now be associated with them. I look forward to bringing you details of new products, reviews …
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Birthday blogs (Part 2)
As promised here’s Part 2 of my Birthday blogs ‘Hit Parade’ but can it live up to the previous five years? 5 – Midweeker I took the day off work for my birthday and decided to fish a match at Summerhayes http://www.againstmenandfish.com/2012/05/summerhayes-open-9th-may-2012.html/ 4 – Unlucky 13! Round four of the Spring League and I drew peg 13 but would my luck be …
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Birthday blogs (Part 1)
Looking through old posts for my last ‘Hit Parade’ I noticed one of my wins came two days after my birthday and it got me wondering what my results were like on or near my birthday over the years. 10 – Standing in at Sadborow Going back to 2007 and the first ‘Birthday blog’ since starting Against Men and Fish saw me …
Summerhayes – Open – 4th September 2016
Something a little different this week as when I phoned Pete to book in, he said the match would be a rover on all ponds. I picked Janders up and then we met Harry who also wanted to fish today. As we pulled into the car park at the venue there were already a fair few vehicles there and it was nice to see …
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Better Days
I haven’t done a ‘Hit Parade’ for a fair old while (May 2014 to be exact!) and on the back of my last rather downbeat post I had a look back at some match wins out the pond to remind me of times when I could actually catch fish! 5 – A win from peg 24! Regular readers of the blog will …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 9 – 28th August 2016
I got to the pub quite early and it was already really busy, Rob said we had 19 booked in for today which I think is the biggest turnout so far and shows how well the pond is fishing. On the down side, I couldn’t have my usual sausage sandwich as they’d run out of bread! Along with most of the regulars, …