Today was the start of our winter league. After a visit from storm Brian yesterday, sadly there isn’t a great deal to report except it was hard and Fir Tree out fished Heron lake which was a surprise! Here are the results:

Fir Tree Section

1st Alex Bradley peg 12 40lb 11oz
2nd Tony Jose peg 2 28lb 14oz

Today’s open on Heron lake was full, which pushed the golden peg pot fund to £47. Peg 3 was drawn and no prizes for guessing who drew it!! Chris Golden Peg Symons, sadly the fish didn’t want to be on peg 3 today!!! Fishing was patchy in the southerly wind and the pegs I expected to produce didn’t. We had 11 fishing and paid top 4 overall. Adrian Holland got back to winning ways in what was a fairly close match, here are the results:

1st Adrian Holland peg 15 47lb 14oz
2nd Tony Jose peg 9 44lb 1oz 
3rd Alex Bradley peg 7 39lb 
4th Paul Glanville peg 19 35lb 6oz

Today’s match was fished on heron lake and with 7 fishing this put the golden peg pot to £36. 15 came out of the bag as the golden peg where Christopher Symons ended up for the day, but to everyone’s surprise the fish weren’t there. Paul Glanville was quick of the mark, putting a number of decent stamp fish in the net early doors, but Tony Jose started to catch him towards the end and only 2lb separated them after the 6 hours, here are the results:

1st Tony Jose peg 13 68lb 3oz
2nd Paul New Pole Glanville peg 5 66lb 3oz 
3rd Neil Hodder peg 9 53lb 11oz

We had a mid week open today on Heron lake. We had 5 fishing and I was happy with drawing peg 15 until I got there and saw the breeze running through it, I wasn’t expecting to catch much! As it turns out I had fish at 5 metres nearly all day and didn’t really need to look anywhere else. I was sat opposite Roger Baker who was on peg 5 and could see he was catching and some were a better stamp. We had a good close match until the end. Here are the results:

1st Neil Hodder peg 15 85lb 6oz 
2nd Roger Baker peg 5 66lb 12oz

Found this brolly in heron lake this morning. I know who it belongs to, so if see this post please come and claim it.

This weekend was our 2 day festival and I think the weather had a big part to play. Saturday was very windy making presentation difficult for most, whilst Sunday was still, warm and sunny which definitely helped. Some decent weights were had both days, but the result of the weekend had to be Alex Bradley’s new lake record on Fir Tree of 79lb 2oz, who also fished a faultless 2 days. Here are the results:

Saturday

Fir Tree
1st Christopher Symons peg 7 31lb 9oz
2nd Neil Hodder peg 10 21lb 12oz 
Heron lake 
1st Alex Bradley peg 2 74lb 1oz
2nd Adrian Holland peg 19 55lb 3oz

We had 10 fishing the open today on heron lake so we paid top 2 overall and 2 section winners. Anglers were well spread and so were the weights. The Golden peg was reset so there was £10 in the pot and peg 1 was drawn, Adrian Holland drew it and fancied it, but when he got there and saw the wind blowing out of it I think he knew it wouldn’t produce today. Chris Symons is continuing to draw well by pulling inform peg 5 from the bag and he fished it well for another win, here are the results:

Great little match today. Numbers were down due to the weather so the decision was made to have a rover, pairs match, winning pair takes all. The pairs were blind from the draw. 1 and 3 together which was Ricky Dennis on peg 3 and Tony Jose on 17 and 2 and 4 together which was Roger Baker on peg 1 and Neil Hodder on peg 5. It was a close match and everyone had good weights:

1st Neil Hodder peg 5 115lb 2oz
2nd Ricky Dennis peg 3 99lb 8oz 
3rd Tony Jose peg 17 68lb 7oz
4th Roger Baker peg 1 66lb 1oz

The giant Gunnera leaves have started going over into the water so the island has had a good tidy up, making casting to the shallow shelf easier.