With the lake frozen over again and the weather forcast predicting -2 degrees and snow John, Paul and myself must of been totally crazy to attempt fishing in such difficult conditions.

John had got the areators running so there were two areas of open water and we decided to fish pegpegs 31, 30 , and 28 not too far from the tea earn.

The story of our 4 hours fishing was John was in to a good stamp of roach straight away fishing single and double maggots fished over groundbait at both 4 and 10 metres and even managed to catch a 4lb bream and lost a couple as well. John weight was 11-12 which apart fron the bream was all roach and it made up for his DNW last Sunday during the pairs match ( well done John ).

 

As for me I fished the majority of the day fishing long on the deck using 2 and 3 maggots again getting plenty of bites but as I was using the wrong elastic I bumped far too many roach and even bumped two carp for good measure and in the end weighed 4-12. Fishing in Pauls swim was much slower but he still managed to catch roach and perch and he tipped back an estimated 3-08.

It was an enjoyable few hours down the lake but really cold and we agreed if we had got some fresh live red maggots we would of caught a lot more as the maggots today were frozen and motionless.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.

 

 

Today there were no takers for the open  as the lake water was not only high it was also iced over in places. John had done a great job keeping an area ice free in the middle of the lake by using the areators to disperse water onto the ice to melt it and it worked a treat allowing John, Paul and myself a chance to have a silvers match only fishing pole and a maximum 6 metres which to John meant 12 metres ,Paul 8 metres and me 6 metres { so much for rules }.

The little match was to last 4 hours as it was -6 degrees on accu weather but there were bites to be had fishing maggots on the deck with all of us catching roach { John caught one at about 1-08 } and some nice big perch and towards the end John was catching down the edge. I was so cold i had to stop fishing as my feet were frozen from having my boots in the water but returned to catch a few more roach and gudgeon.

At the weigh-in John ended up the victor with 12-10, Paul had 6-02 and i had 5-03 what was an enjoyable day if not very cold thank god the tea earn was in good use today { thanks John }.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie

 

 

A very cold day down the lake.

Today there were 6 anglers fishing the match and 4 pleasure anglers in the small lake so at least everyone had a little space, but for the three luck anglers on the car park bank { Pete, John and me } it was very cold.

The match started off very slow with the odd few silvers coming out and with Pete on peg 24 foulhooking a carp in the tail and losing it there was not much going on in the first hour. It was at this point that Pete decided to start catching silvers and was catching roach every put in but this changed when I on peg 22 caught a carp fishing 12 metres fishing corn hook bait and this put me in front. After that all of the 6 anglers went long and were rewarded with carp even though it was not frantic by any stretch even with the carp cruising on the surface playing hard to catch.

Todays winner was Pete Archer on peg 24 who started on the tip with no success apart from a lost carp, but after that caught a mixed bag of 10lb of silvers caught in about an hour and 5 carp . Pete fished long about 14 metres into the middle of the lake and was feeding 2mm pellet and the odd grain of corn fishing on the deck to catch his carp and after a patient 5 hours was rewarded with his weight of 56-14 for another win { well done Pete }.

Results

6 fished

Place	Angler	Peg	Weight
1st	Pete Archer	24	56-14	Vespe
2nd	John Bennett	26	35-12	Rolfslake Cartel
3rd	Neil Hutchins	16	31-08	Rolfslake
4th	Eddie Taylor-Green	22	22-14	Rolfslake Cartel
5th	Butch	18	9-00	Rolfslake
6th	Paul Jay	14	DNW Tipped back 30lb	Rolfslake

Old man Bennett rises off his sick bed to claim victory over the Pirate.

 

The score now stands at.

John 1

Eddie 1

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John.