Saturday 25 May 2019
Landsend foul hooking festival
Back down to Somerset to my favourite fishery and the tital of the blog say`s it all. Ill keep it short. I drew the carpark end of the lake....AGAIN!!!, peg 1. Cant get away from this end. Need somebody to send me a photo of the top end as Ive forgotten what it looks like. Steve Seager was opposite on 24 and Rich Heatley next door on 3. My plan was for a meat line short. Tried it 3 times and hooked and lost a carp first drop in each time then nothing else. A rig for the next pallet. that produced not a single bite. And a rig for against the end bank and the point of the island where the majority of the match was spent. I was firing pellets across and the carp were straight on it every time, but I was plagued by foul hookers and lost nearly everything I hooked, I was up in the mid thirties in lost carp by the end and only landed about a dozen. Torrettes was at an all time high today. got to say I didnt enjoy it much as it was so frustrating. by the end I was glad it was over. The match was won by Stuart holmes who was one of 4 guys that stopped off for the day on their way from Oldham to Viaduct, with 126-3 from peg 17. second was Steve "I`m Struggling to get bites" seager with 105-10 catght from the end bank and a few down to pallet 23. Third was another of the lost northerners, Paddy Curry on peg 15 with 103-2. Rich Heatley was top silvers with 14-4, mainley good skimmers and F1`s taken on meat. I managed to come nowhere with 57-0. Full results below.
Saturday 18 May 2019
landsnd Saturday open
Not done a blog for ages, not been much since Xmas. Had a bad run and I really wasn`t enjoying fishing this winter so had a break for a while only fishing the Landsend winter league, that was a disaster for me. last few weeks I`ve started again and had a couple of decent results, winning last time out at Landsend and second in an evening match at Mathern Mill.
So it was back to landsend today to try and pry a quid out of Russ Pecks hand. The 10 oclock draw is nice as I can still have a lie in up to my normal get up time for work and still be there in plenty of time. Into the draw bucket and i pull out 24, Its a peg I have drawn loads of times and realy struggled to have a decent day, so I was not exactly too happy. Had a good whinge about it. Got to the peg and the breeze was blowing into the end bank so who knows how it would go. For company I had Rich H eatley opposite on peg one, The Bean Machine Dave "Beany" Westcott on 22 and Russ peck on 24, so sarcasm would be at an all time high today. I decided to set up just three rigs. A .3 SS margin to fish to platform 23, that was a total no goer all day. A .15 Shalla Slim to fish at 13m along the end bank on 6mm pellet. and a .5 slim to fish at 14m off the end of the tree straight out on meat. Decided to start on meat today and 5 minutes in the float buried and a 4 pounder was netted. Missed a bite next drop in, then lost a carp next drop. stayed on it for about 40 minutes but only an F1 followed. Rich had a decent start with some F1`s from the island and a couple of carp, but Dave and Russ were struggling. So I decided to try the end bank and thats were I stayed most of the day taking a stead run of smallish carp. I tried the other lines on acasions but they didn`t produce anything else.the lake didn`t fish well today, which was a surprise as the weather looked cock on for a good day, but I did enough to win. My 23 carp went 92-2, like I said they weren`t big fish. second was Russ peck with mainly carp for 67-4. third was Rod Wootton on peg 17 with 61-14. top silver went to dave ings on 3 with 18-8 of mainly skimmers. full results below. Oh yeah, cheers for the quid Russ.
So it was back to landsend today to try and pry a quid out of Russ Pecks hand. The 10 oclock draw is nice as I can still have a lie in up to my normal get up time for work and still be there in plenty of time. Into the draw bucket and i pull out 24, Its a peg I have drawn loads of times and realy struggled to have a decent day, so I was not exactly too happy. Had a good whinge about it. Got to the peg and the breeze was blowing into the end bank so who knows how it would go. For company I had Rich H eatley opposite on peg one, The Bean Machine Dave "Beany" Westcott on 22 and Russ peck on 24, so sarcasm would be at an all time high today. I decided to set up just three rigs. A .3 SS margin to fish to platform 23, that was a total no goer all day. A .15 Shalla Slim to fish at 13m along the end bank on 6mm pellet. and a .5 slim to fish at 14m off the end of the tree straight out on meat. Decided to start on meat today and 5 minutes in the float buried and a 4 pounder was netted. Missed a bite next drop in, then lost a carp next drop. stayed on it for about 40 minutes but only an F1 followed. Rich had a decent start with some F1`s from the island and a couple of carp, but Dave and Russ were struggling. So I decided to try the end bank and thats were I stayed most of the day taking a stead run of smallish carp. I tried the other lines on acasions but they didn`t produce anything else.the lake didn`t fish well today, which was a surprise as the weather looked cock on for a good day, but I did enough to win. My 23 carp went 92-2, like I said they weren`t big fish. second was Russ peck with mainly carp for 67-4. third was Rod Wootton on peg 17 with 61-14. top silver went to dave ings on 3 with 18-8 of mainly skimmers. full results below. Oh yeah, cheers for the quid Russ.
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