Spring came early for this match, a sunny day, very little wind and an air temperature of 12 degrees or more meant a lot of anglers fished in a tee shirt all day.The previous weekend the CIPS practice match on the saturday was won with 24lb on the pole and the sunday feeder match was won with 32lb so everybody...
Thursday evenings match was moved to a different area of the docks, Welsh Back, this was the first time this area of docks has seen bait for 10 months, so nobody was expecting 'brilliant' results.The same 'hardy' 12 anglers fish every week, even when a couple of weeks ago when we were getting minus silly temperatures, they still went. Im...
Thursdays evening match, was the best for a long time, now that the cold weather appears to be behind us 'fingers crossed'. This match was fished on the Mud Dock and Police Launch reaches.The docks were a nice colour, the air temperature was 'almost' mild and the wind was gentle, and the skimmers fed better than they have done for...
Spring is one of the best times of the year on commercials, there is a real chance of a massive weight, when the conditions are right.Ive caught some of my best ever match weights at this time of the year. The ideal conditions are when we get the first few sunny days of the year and it is combined with...
Before Xmas all the locks in this area of the K&A were chained up due to the lack of rain, the water sources that keep the canal topped up were extremely low, so British Waterways stopped all boats using the locks.My first thoughts when I heard was 'great' a canal with no boats, this stretch has a marina at Great...
There is no bloodworm and joker coming into the country again this week. It is also likely there will be none next week either.Ian Didcote is running a match to CIPS rules this week on the Gloucester Canal with B&J banned and punch allowed on the hook.If there is no B&J next week this is how we propose to run the league...
Sunday, I went to Gold valley and just like the last 2 weeks it was frozen solid, when we arrived in the car park the temperature was minus 3, that was positivelly tropical as a couple of nights earlier the temperature went down to minus 11, now thats COLD.Still, 30 plus keen, or mad, anglers were at the draw, hoping...
Thursday nights match was bitterly cold, the water was gin clear and it snowed quite a bit, but the usual names braved the worst conditions of the year and caught a few fish while most people were tucked up in front the fire watching the telly, real anglers.The match was fished by the mud dock and police launch areas of...
Brhhh, it was bl**dy cold last night, with temperatures down to minus 6 the docks fished surprisingly well. The 14-15ft deep water seems to be less affected by the cold and the skimmers continued to feed.Top rod last night was the legendary Pete Sivell, first win for a long time, with 12lb 3ozs consisting of 8 skimmers caught with liquidised...
Last weekend I fished the Basingstoke canal league at Ash Vale, just down the road from Gold Valley and very close to Willow Park, it was the first time I fished this stretch of canal and it was very good.I drew peg 43 on the day, near the wides in Ash vale, it looked very nice, with plenty of cover...
