A new venue for this years final was met with a little uncertainty amongst my Dorking team mates, we didnt know what to expect, the weights looked good in the papers, but with a 3 hour drive to the venue and lots of other commitments our practice time was kept to minimum.I had never seen the venue until the thursday...
Thursday daytime was the best day this summer for sunbathing, and to spend the cool evening fishing at Baltic Wharf was glorious. Conditions were perfect for pole fishing, flat, a slight tow and a tinge of colour, yet the bream refused to come in on the pole line and stayed out on the feeder line, now that more anglers are...
55 of the top anglers in the country lined up at the clubhouse to fish for £1000 prize money. All the pre match talk was that you wanted to draw the far end of the lake as the wind had been blowing that way for days and all the anglers who had practiced had 'emptied it', so when I drew...
This weeks match was back to Baltic Wharfe, most of the boats had left the docks after the harbour festival, and conditions looked good as there was a tinge of colour in the water, it was overcast and raining, ideal conditions for the skimmers to feed. 5 anglers broke double figures and the second to fifth place was very close...
Preston Innovations have just launched a New method feeder flying back lead, it has been designed to reduce line bites when fishing up to islands or shallow margins. When you cast these back leads fly back up the line and pin the line on the bottom, where feeding fish cant touch it.The clever design allows these leads to be removed...
Last nights match was fished at Bathurst Basin again as Baltic Wharf was still full of boats from last weekends harbour festival. As I expected Bathurst fished better than last week, because of the bait going in from last weeks match. The gin clear water and bright sunshine didnt put the fish off the feed, but the best pegs were...
My recent run of luck at the draw bag, ran out at the weekend on a river that looked better than it fished. There was still colour and flow on the river, from last weeks rain, and I was expecting it to fish a lot better than it did.Saturdays match, on the Crane stretch, at Keynsham had a disappointing turn...
With the Harbour Regatta coming up very soon, this weeks match was switched to Bathurst Basin as Baltic Wharf is full of boats. This area of the docks hardly ever gets fished and is out of the main flow of the docks, so the first match for 6 months was never going to be great, as no bait has gone...
Rain, rain and more rain and the bream loved it, thursdays match it rained all night and never stopped until after the weigh in. The flooded Bristol Avon and Frome had coloured up the whole docks system and with a gentle tow and no wind conditions were perfect, and the fish responded.Top weight on the night was Dave Clutterbuck, with...
Look out for the broken pole being towed across the river by an angry carp.Its hard work bank runningOopsAwesome fishingDes looking slimmer, only kiddingA rare picture of the England and Italian teamsWill hard at itLovely venue, awesome fishingThe weigh in leaves a lot to be desired, CIPS can learn a lot from our commercial fisheriesSilver
