Ilfracombe match group knock up/practice match resultsRiverton Lakes| Date of match: 01/01/2012Number of anglers: 6 Report: The match was a Practice/ knock up match held at Riverton Lakes, Near Barnstaple. Good mild day, with heavy showers later on. Six anglers took to the back bank of willow lake(match lake) with good heads of skimmers and carp showing willing to feed, great day out for the lads. 1st Peter Slade 35lb 11oz.
I felt a little sorry for Match Fishing editor Alex Bones for the mauling he got in response to his editorial in the January issue of the magazine. If you didn’t read it, he was critical of a number of postings on various forums, which were, not to put to fine a point on it, simply rude, or ill-informed. The Internet is a wonderful vehicle and used properly it is a great source of learning and communicating. We (DHP) were the first angling publisher to launch an active angling forum (www.
Bag'em Matchbaits Silver League for Pairs result from Dog Lane Fishery ROUND 2 Bag'em Matchbaits Silver League for PairsSunday 8th January 201236 PEGS1st Roger Atkins (Dog Lane Fishery) & Clive Griffinl (Dog Lane Fishery) 4pts2nd Gil Corns (Daventry AC) & Car Hulley (Daventry AC) 9pts3rd Graham Brownlie (Coventry) & Dave Pritchard (Coventry) 11ptsSectionsA1 Roger Atkins Peg 15 4lb 5¾oz RoachA2 Rob Cash Peg 7 4lb 2oz PerchB1 Gil Corns Peg 34 9lb 8oz Orfe & RoachB2 Dave Pritchard Peg 33 4lb 1½oz Orfe &RoachThe high pressures and low temperatures this week put the fish at Dog Lane into a fickle mood and it made blankers of some of the 36 anglers fishing round two of the Bag'em Matchbaits Silver League for pairs at Dog Lane Fishery this week. The winning pair this week were Roger Atkins peg15 4lb 5¾oz (1 point) and Clive Griffin peg28 3lb 2½oz (3 points). Roger's bag consisted of roach and so did Clive's. The pair that took second place were Gil Corns peg 34 9lb 8oz (1 point) and Carl Hulley peg4 1lb 1¼oz (8 points).
The EDAA Lakeview Open result from Lakeview Fishery, Devon. . . Lakeview Fishery, Morchard Road Village, Devon | Date of match: 08/01/2012Number of anglers: 14 Exeter members fished an open match at Lakeview Fishery in Morchard Road Village on Sunday 8th January.
What a week it has been for features! The cold weather is truly making its mark with Sheffield and other areas in receipt of snow. Typically this is always a tough time for angling as the 'change' is upon the country. However, once things have stabilised and the fish have become accustomed to the cold the fishing should pick up again. The features have been tough and in a very short space of time the weather really has turned against us.
The Commercial House seasonal competition fished on the Kennet and Avon canal. The first really hard frost greeted the anglers who turned out for this Christmas match. Conditions were bright and clear making some areas fish very hard. It was a tight match with only four and a half ounces separating the top three anglers.
The week's open match results from Lincolnshire's Westwood Lakes. All matches this week were switched to the more sheltered Kestrel Lake and anglers found it difficult to present anything. Tuesdays open was won by the in form Ron Roberts using a flavoured small inline method with double dead red maggot with Marukyu 130 ground bait from peg 21. Second place Paul Quinton used similar tactics to the winner but late switch to a maggot feeder saw him have a good last hour.
MAP is offering a whole new way to organise and store your pole’s top kits. Alex Bones took an instant liking to the new system – here’s why. I love a gadget, fishing-related or otherwise, so when Mike Robinson, the man in charge of developing this new product for MAP, showed it to me I was an instant fan. It’s simple – a hard ABS case roughly five feet in length with a zip holding the two halves together and an EVA liner designed specifically to keep up to eight pole top kits in place for transport and storage.
With hundreds of new products on display at the T&G Show, it was going to take a special one to really impress Joe Carass. . . and this is it!It was really difficult to pick out a star product this year, as there were simply so many excellent products on show.
