On today’s open we fished on Fir Tree Pond, there was a cold easterly wind which made it tricky, the fish were looking for cover out of the wind which limited options on some pegs, here are the results:

1. Chris Bailey Peg 11 29lb 10oz
2. Chris Symons Peg 6 25lb 2oz
3. Tony Jose Peg 2 19lb 2oz

Chris drew peg 11, he fished 6mm hard pellets and fed 4mm pellets at both ends of the island.

Well done Chris, thanks to all who came.

Our next open is Sunday 13th March, hope to see you there. 🙂

There was 6 fishing in the section here at Amalwhidden today on Heron Lake, here are the results:

1. Alex Bradley Peg 9 62lb 11oz
2. Roger Baker Peg 4 20lb 9oz

Alex fed and fished 6mm fishery pellets for a lovely net of carp, which puts him 1 point clear of everyone else in the league. Well done Alex 🙂

Our next match is an open on Sunday 28th February.

Last Sunday we had our first match on Fir Tree Pond since adding new stock and removing the reeds, here are the results:

1. Tony Jose Peg 6 34lb 4oz
2. Jimmy Crossley Peg3 30lb 12oz

Tony fed micro’s and corn on a long pole line and a margin pole line fishing corn on the hook. Well done Tony and thanks to all who came.

Our next open is 28th February.

We had 6 brave the weather (can’t wait for weather to improve!!) in the section here at Amalwhidden, here are the results:

1. Neil Hodder Peg 2 21lb 10oz
2. Paul Glandville Peg 9 18lb 10oz
3. Les Pearce Peg 5 18lb 8oz

I started off on a short pole line with sweetcorn and micros and started well with a few carp, this line quickly went quiet so I switched to the feeder and caught a couple of carp on hair rigged corn. From then on it was a struggle as the weather worsened, the margins didn’t produce a single fish and finished off the last hour catching on the feeder with dead reds.

Our next match is an open on Sunday 14th February, hope to see you there. 🙂

We had 5 brave the weather on today’s open, here are the results:

1. Neil Hodder Peg 9 29lb 2oz
2. Aide Holland Peg 7 20lb 4oz

I started fishing the margin with micro’s and dead reads and picked up a carp and some roach which then went quiet. I struggled for bites for the next 2 hours until I started loose feeding corn on a short line and started catching straight away. I loose feed corn for the rest of the match and picked up a nice mix of carp, skimmers, roach and crucians on various lines.

Thanks to all who came, our next open is 14th February.

There was 5 in the section fishing here at Amalwhidden this Sunday, here are the results:

1. Tony Jose Peg 15 72lb 8oz
2. Roger Baker Peg 19 32lb
3. Aide Holland Peg 10 20lb 12oz

Tony caught on the pole all day in a margin swim to his left. He fished up next to a Pontederia Lilly in about 2 1/2 feet of water, feeding corn and fishing corn on the hook for a great winter haul of carp. Well done Tony 🙂

Our next match is an open on Sunday 31st January. Hope to see you there.

This Sunday saw Chris Symons win his first match on Heron Lake (about time!!), here are the results:

1. Chris Symons Peg 2 40lb
2. Jimmy Crossley Peg 15 20lb 7oz

Chris fished the left hand margin on peg 2 and fed small amounts of micro’s and fished dead reds for a nice net of winter carp. Thanks to all who came. Our next open is 31st January

I Had a phone call this morning from an annoyed Roger Baker at 8.15am whilst sitting in bed having a cup of tea!! White Acres cancelled there winter league match and some of them still wanted to fish and as I hadn’t organised a match today (because the weather forecast was really bad, which was it wasn’t) we had one here, here are the results:

1. Neil Hodder Peg 19 47lb 4oz
2. John Wykes Peg 5 27lb 14oz
3. John Shirley Peg 2 16lb 8oz

I fished dead red maggot over loose fed micro’s and dead reds on pole and feeder for a nice net of winter carp. Thanks Rog for ringing I had a great day fishing! 🙂

We had a mid week match on Heron Lake, here are the results:

1. John Shirley Peg 19 48lb 10oz
2. Roger Baker Peg 2 32lb 4oz
3. Mike Blowman Peg 13 17lb 9oz

John caught mostly carp fishing pellet and sweetcorn on the pole and feeder.

On Sunday 27th December we held our annual Christmas match, we had a good turn out despite the wet and windy weather we have been having lately. As well as the usual pools there was also prizes to be won including a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, a bottle of single malt whiskey, boxes of chocolates and beers. Here are the results:

Fir Tree Pond

1. Jimmy Crossley Peg 12 18lb 15oz
2. Boz Phillips Peg 13 14lb 3oz
3. Tony Jose Peg 1 12lb 7oz

Heron Lake

1. Neil Hodder Peg 7 15lb 14oz
2. Paul Dench Peg 19 15lb 9oz
3. Chris Symons Peg 13 13lb 4oz