Acorn evening match 4

Well nearly through a full stressful week at work it was time for an evening doing what I love ❤️.

Weather been scorching been rushing round everywhere job to job blah blah blah 🎻🎻🎻🎻

Rushed home got me gear and rushed to the lovely acorn fishery just on the out skirts of yatton 

Feel I've been getting to grips with the venue getting better results the last few weeks so none of me regular fishing pals were in tonight sam Johnson working and lee Phillips decided to dig hole in his garden and don't think he was aloud out till it was sorted 😂😂😂

So a pound with friend and Irish bagger Ivan currie (Ivan's angle) and I thought I got a spare one so challenged toby Parker top dog at Cadbury angling!!! Mine and Tobes weights been close in recent weeks so could be interesting in to the draw I've pulled out 35 I didn't care where I was as I was confident of catching anywhere as feel I figured it out last week so 95% of my approach was based on this. On arrival at my peg there was an old boy who had been fishing peg 34 all day and catching well down his left on paste so I would start down there where he left off while priming my main attack. I set up a rig for across one at top 5 and one for the right just be for the all in there was a bloke they call lobster in 33 decided to come over to me and start shouting across to venue regular Mike chapman 😡😡😡what u doin lobster ??? .

Any way I could see mike across on 2 shaun kitteridge just past him toby in the distance to the left and mark Walsh to my right. 

 At the all in just about ready cup of gb down the right start spraying bait at top 5 and a cup of pellet across. Then straight in with a big ball of paste down the right 2 twitches and then float buried boom black hydro doing the job nicely after a little scuffle an angry lil 4 pounder was in the net. Straight back down there I was.where there's one there's 2 I hoped float twitching but not burying and I struck and saw a baby carp come flying out literally a few oz oh dear I persisted with this for a few minutes but felt I was plagued with baby carp so try there later.. on to the top 5 couple of roach and Rudd straight away then carp and f1s were coming thick and fast had little spells of 2s and 3s and roach and tiny perch in between but they were all small averaging 2 pound and could see others catching and thought they were getting better fish except mike chapman who looked like he was tiddler bashing!!!! But stuck with it hoping the bigger ones would move in I did foul hook a couple which ruined my peg for a while but I worked through it and got the fish back in to the last hour now and every time I looked right mark Walsh looked to be catching well I just hoped I could get some proper fish. I kept plugging away and finally better stamp of fish arrived putting some nice 5 to 8 pounders in the net. The all in was called and I thought (hoped) I was somewhere near the top as I had a really busy enjoyable 3 hours fishing trashed 3 rigs which cost me a bit of time but that's fishing be prepared. I really didn't know what I had in my nets guessed over 60 but no clicker and can't count past 30 😂 packed away a bit lively and joined the weigh mike chapman peg 2 had put 114 pound well I not got that I thought let's hope for 2nd Shaun then weighed 89. 10 I don't think I've got that either oh well still happy with a nice evening toby then weighed in 55 ish I think 5 pound more than last time well done mate but cheers for the £ 😜. Got round to mr currie and he had a hard evening so another nugget was coming my way cheers iv 😃😃 then mark Walsh missed out on the ton by a few oz. all on the paste. Bromsgrove and lobster had a few also then on to me did I have enough ????? Did I f....k!!!!!! Awesome fishing just needed a few more bigger ones I tipped the scales round to 80lb 9oz for 4th didn't care had a wicked evening with some top lads. Took home 2 shiny pound coins, a big smile and 2 achey arms one from feeding like a machine 💪💪other from hauling !!! Thanks for reading tight lines 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟👊

Acorn evening match 3

Rushed around like usual to get to the fishery in time pre arranged a pound with Ivan currie (Ivan's angle) Sam Johnson was back this week.so in to pay the monies how many fishing Tobes??? 8 maybe 10 he said ok there was no sign of paul Nichols or mark Bartlett tonight. Draw time peg 1 was golden peg I got in the draw 1st and pulled peg 17 meant nothing but mr Nichols won I think from this peg in the 1st match or very close to this peg !!!

On inspection there were fish showing all over the peg so the plan start across gently just cad pot a lil bit in and ping casters at top 5/6 and fish shallow also had a rig for either side edge. 10 to 6 and me and Sam Johnson were ready 

 Here was my peg  so the all in was called at 6 and across I went after 5 mins nothing to show for me efforts across except a couple of liners kept pinging caster at top 5 like a machine 💪💪👊and went down the edges as could see they were there after frustrating few mins of liners and a foul hooker coming off there was activity on the caster line so really needed it to work as I could see elastic being stretched from most pegs.

Slapped the caster in couple of nibbles then float buried I struck and a small Rudd came flying out the water !!!  In again carp this time but I got a bit excited and pulled to hard it came off least they were there I stuck at this line for the next hour putting 7 or 8 carp in the net a skimmer and a roach but then I ran out of caster only taking a pint with me left over from Sunday I'd fed it all and the bites were drying up I started feeding 4mm pellet over it now and down the edges but struggled really from then on in only taking a couple more fish one down the left also. As the weigh in came round 98 pound was winning off peg 1 I didn't have that know where near at the scales my fish went 54. 11 not too bad just enough to take a pound of mr Ivan currie and Sam Johnson tipped back so gotta couple of quid back and came 3rd I felt if I had more caster could of maybe got in the money (top 2 ) never mind a nice evenings fishing with some good lads beats watching emmerdale !!!!!!

 Sunday puts me at summerlane our local park lake this sees me organising my 1st match for the Weston club 🤞everyone has a good day thanks for reading 

Sedges top kit series rnd 1

Well only booked on this one earlier in the week I took the last spot in group a looking around this morning bob guilick the four acre brothers the claps alvin jones Nigel garret Jon fuidge Dominic Sullivan jonny page ziggy Jamie cook 🤔🤔gonna be a tough one to crack oh well hope for a flyer!!!

Jumped in the draw quite early pulled peg 40 a corner that's a start. 

 So got to the peg no wind was all blowing down to 31 with ziggy on. Didn't really bother me still thought I had a chance 😃so as I'm setting up just getting some water for my pellets and caster slipped and dived in head first the whole of my right side was soaked I struggled to get out and just saved my phone nobody really saw me go but when I got out told jon fuidge who had a giggle and so did I I was ready for the all in with plenty of time to spare so jonny page and Dominic turned up bit of a chat they said don't fancy it here as no wind ziggy will do better !!! Undeterred I stuck to my plans bit cold and wet but sun was out .

Right edge was caster and chopped worm with worm on the hook left edge was meat over meat with a bit more meat and infront was pellet over pellet nice and simple at the all in fed my lines and went down the middle on pellet had a skimmer 2nd drop then foul hooked a roach but they all count 😂then a carp then a skimmer then a carp and another carp they just kept coming between 4 to 8 pound bracket lovely so by 11 am I guessed I had 30 pound in the net I could hear Jon fuidge having a grumble (nothing new there)😂

Then it slowed up but I carried on this line plucking the odd fish out slow and steady. At 12 had a drop on the worm and caster line one missed bite then an eel. Tried the meat down the left nothing so kept feeding all the lines went on the pellet just plucking the odd fish out but at no speed. Felt every time I hooked one they would spook and take a while to come back. Then the wind changed banging into my corner felt cold but hoped it would help me I had a nice lil run of 3 on the meat line. Buy this time I guessed I had 60 pound in the net and didn't no what net limit was so legged it to get another net and my estimates are rubbish !!!!came back had two more on the meat and struggled again so back to the pellet switched between these two lines for the rest of the match just taking odd fish lost a couple of foul hookers and one shot off just before the horn was playing it for about 20 mins with arm ache and then the hook pulled 😡😡oh well hope I've done enough. Packed up pretty quick and caught up with the weigh the other side everyone asking what I had I said 70 to 80 but not sure finally got to me last but not least the best weight was 89 pound I really didn't think I had that but my silvers went 4.04 and my carp went 105.13 for total of 110.01 awesome couldn't believe it first ton of the year and a nice start to series 😊😊🐟🐟heres the weigh sheet 

 And here's the results and here's my lil envelope  Dominic Sullivan has got the picture of me and part of my winning bag you can see it on his blog caught short when he does it.

Thanks for reading hope u all had a good weekend 🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟😃😃😃😃

Acorn evening match 2

Needed to try again after getting battered last week!!

So got to the fishery and paul Nichols was being cruel to some maggots so I decided to follow suit with the kettle and half a pint of mixed !!! No sam Johnson this week or lee Phillips so I asked Ivan currie if he wanted a pound. Mark Bartlett didn't fish this week but turned up at the draw I pulled out peg 7 ment nothing to me but spoke to Mark who was quite helpful. Plan was fish across with dead mag or worm over gb. Bottom of far shelf with expander and right and left edge. 

 

There was a match on in the day before ours and the winning weight was 80 pound odd. At the all in didn't do a lot I put 6 expanders in the cad pot one on the hook and went in bottom of far shelf. No bites were fourth coming but while I was waiting fed the edge by hand and were signs of fish there straight away thought I would leave it to try over tight let them gain confidence. After a missed bite then a hook pull I finally had one in the net I picked of two others across but was taking too long Ivan currie was heading off for another net and every time I looked left could see paul Nichols elastic stretching !!! There were fish cruising all over the place they were not shy even coming right up to my keep net so I dropped an expander in front of one and it ripped off. Lovely 😊 then time for the edge  first drop and I'm in played it gently on the white hydro feeding the edge whilst playing the fish had a nice little run of fish from there then they became quite finicky so for the rest of the match mugged a few more had 1 or two from across and down my right edge scraped one out of the left edge also!! It was now getting dark and Toby arrived to do the weighing he was ment to be fishing but child care issues!!! Any way Ivan on the golden peg this week weighed 3 oz under a ton I haven't got that so I'm down a pound 😱again !!!!! I weighed in 53 pound so an improvement from last week but know where near enough as the place has fished crazy with winner had 145 pound ish and the top 4 all over a ton Ivan was 5th with 99 pound  then I was 6th only beating 2 so not great but better than last week getting there hopefully!!!!on Sunday it's the 1st round of sedges top kit series hope for some good draws that I can mess up!!! Or start getting some better results under my belt again 🤔🤔🎣🎣🎣

Thanks for reading

Acorn evening match

Well didn't know I was gonna fish this match till lunch time so scrambled home got my kit and headed to the fishery. I've never fished it before but looked really good.into the draw I've pulled peg 12 didn't mean anything to me but it was a corner and had a nice edge either side and across was about 13.5m . I could see mark Bartlett to my right on 10 and just about see paul Nichols to my left on 17. Everyone else was a bit blurry!!! It all was a big rush from then on I scrambled 2 rigs together plumbed up sorted some bait gb pellets and paste.at the all in pinged a pouch full across and to my far right under the bush and potted in some gb to my left went across and was getting liners so persevered then finally had 1 around 5 pound by this time which took a while mark had 3 and snapped a top 3!!! So I was doing well looking at my left edge I can see paul Nichols elastic out he looked to be having a few !!! My left edge started showing sign of fish but I left it for 5 mins to try the far right float buried and I hoiked a tiny carp out around 5oz oh dear so down the left edge was solid with fish so went in on the paste hooked one got it in about 2 pound still fish there so in again but from then on got plagued with liners foul hookers and this happened on all the lines. The rig wasn't right the way I fed wasn't right and I wasn't right😡😡😡😡mark was emptying the place now and every time I looked left paul was in I was stuck in the middle scratching my head. I've scratched out 2 more fish for a pathetic weight of 10 pound something very embarrassing!!!! My peg was solid I know what to do next time but should of changed things. But being a short match I didn't silly me !!! So was a proper calamity but still met some new faces had a hot dog and a gold very nice and sped home in disappointment no pics this blog as everything was so rushed. Had to give Lee Phillips a nugget I've only fished with him 3 times and he's took 3 quid off me 😫😫😫😫also had to give another to the ginger ninja Sam Johnson who also bashed me up saying he had 25 pound but had 50 odd.so back to the drawing board on that one lol 😂 thanks for reading think I'm gonna take up golf or get a gun!!!  

Shiplate main lake open (mon)

Today I managed to book on the shiplate open which was full with 19 anglers. Venue regulars steve Howell and golly were in attendance as usual and the banter was top notch from the off. The lake fished a little hard the day before so was not expecting great weights a good draw would be needed.

I managed to be first in the bucket and pulled out peg 2  I've never been on this peg but fancied it for a few

 I had lots of reachable island but with the levels down was not enough water there 🙁🙁 for the 1st hour I've gone in gently just cad potting in a lil pellet and corn in spots across but with no bites thought I'd chuck the bomb to the far right of island near the rope. I had Pete sivel on 1 so good company and banter there and he said was time for a brew!!! So I poured one and the tips flown round nice scrappy for pounder. Then nothing. I fed a bit of worm and 4mm at top 6 so thought I would have a look on this 2nd drop and it's buried nice little skimmer 1 pound 2 oz I know this because this was the only fish off this line and my only silver. Pete in peg 1 was catching steady on the tip and I couldn't get a bite anywhere so I phoned titch because he was in the peg the day before and had a few he gave me some info and I did that re plumbed an area and went in on the paste fired some pellet in catty and it buried heading for Pete under the rope but I got it in eventually. Nice carp around 6 pound. But wind picked up a bit and weather went strange so struggled to present the bait over there properly now. Kept trying the edges but got ducked geesed and then the mother of all strange birds started having a bath and splash in my left margin and then proceeded to laugh at me bloody thing !!!!😡😡what am I gonna do bout 45 mins left and I've struggled all day I set up a small online gb feeder put some soaked 4mm and strawberry corn in with s corn on hook and chucked it to the far right again poured a brew and it's ripped round lovely Pete even give me a clap 20 mins left and it's gone again come on finish on high !!! Then I had to wait 5 mins left and re chucked saying pls go round pls go round the all out was called picked up the rod and there was fish on bargain thought it was fouled so played it gently but it was in the mouth lovely.

 Didn't no what else had gone on but thought the whole lake had fished hard as Dominic Sullivan had chipped off early and I could hear some moaning from the left the scales reached me and firstly I asked how lee Phillips had done and steve Howell as we had a pound on it and those to were last seen sprinting to 14b and 15 😂😂 lee had 34 pound and steve had 20 well I've done steve so that's a pound cheers bud I said to carol il be close with lee and I was 32 pound twice he's done me at shiplate well done mate !! Jonny page also tipped back and made a sharp exit and give me a nugget 😂😂 so I've came 5th out of 19 not too bad I feel my peg was worth more probably should of framed needed two more carp as 3rd had 42 pound Pete won the match with 107 pound I think well done to all and I nice day out thanks for reading until next time tight lines 🎣🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟😃😃