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Jul 2012

warford pool.
Hi all fished warford friday from 05 30am till 01.30pm ish. Fish a chuck on worms or maggots all small stuff roach.bream ,perch no chubb showing either on the bottom or up in the water. Alternated between meat and corn on the hook very slow action but eventually some nice fish showed up, had a fin perfect mirror carp 9lb 8oz,2 crucian carp ,one 2lb 2oz one 2lb 9oz and 5 tench about a pound each all little crackers. The action slowed after 9am ish with one last take on corn around 12 oclock from a carp that showed me who was really the boss. Good day all in all thinhk ill be back for more in the near future,see you on the bank,  Tom Armour.

Feb 2013

31 Jan 2013 - I went to the river to fish for the Barbel as there had been a dramatic rise in air temperature for a few days and there had been a mild rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. I thought there would be a good chance that the barbel would feed. I was wrong - The water temperature was 5.8 degrees, so I knew there was not much chance that the Barbel would feed. I tried a bit of roving, with a variety of large, smelly baits, but no signs of any fish. A resounding blank and an early bath.

Friday 1st Feb 2013 - I decided to try the float for the chub. I had had a new 13ft float rod I wanted to try, so I decided that I would simply fish the car park peg, and feed steadily to build the swim up over the session. I found the river was up, even from yesterday, and was about 18 inches up from normal levels, and the water temperature was still only 5.8 degrees.

The car park peg’s main run through was over 7ft deep, and pushing through quite a bit. I fished a 2.5 swan bobber, double bulked, well overshotted and about 18 inces overdepth with a pair of no 8’s on the hooklength. I knew bites would be finicky, so I just wanted to tease the bait through very slowly dragging bottom and get the chub to take the bait.

I arrived at 10am, and spent the first 30 mins just feeding little and often to get the chub interested and settled. At this point, another angler pulled up on the car park, got out, walked straight on to my peg, 15 yards below where I was standing, skylined my peg and cast his shadow on the line I was feeding. Why do some anglers simply not understand that you do not walk up to the edge of the river directly below an angler? (For those that do this, please realise that on a small river like the Dane, you need to keep away from the bank for at least 30 to 40 yards below an angler’s fishing position. Often when long trotting, an angler can be 35 yards above his catching area, and when you consider that an angler can spend a long time feeding his swim and settling fish in to a feeding routine, it is very irritating to have your swim spooked in this way.) When I told the chap I was feeding that line, he replied that he was just looking at the flow! He hadn’t got a clue why I was brassed off with him. - Moan over.

After another 20 mins of steady feeding, I started to fish and had a nice 3lb fish after about 20 mins. By 1pm I’d had 7 chub all around the 2.5 to 3.5 lb mark. Then, the bites dried up as the river was noticably rising. There must have been some rainfall further upstream, as I could see that the main flow was being pushed further to the far bank and it must have come up about 3 or 4 inches in just a few hours. So I rested the swim, but kept the trickle of magotts going in. I then tried again for another half hour, but no more bites. So, on went the lob worms. I up’d the hook size and trotted a full lob worm. I got two more chub, both over 3lb, then called it a day at 3.30pm. End result - 9 chub, biggest touching 4 lb, and most of them around the 3 lb stamp. Good sport on a tough day, especially when you consider that as the day progressed the river was rising. There are better pegs on Cotton, but, getting set up at the top of the straight run allowed for a very comfortable trot all the way through the peg, and a very nice day on the bank.

Jason Davies

Feb 2013

Joined Pete and the lads for the workparty at Moore Pool this morning. They finished off the new path to the water, fixed the gate, filled in a couple of the potholes on the layby and the new sign regarding parking is now in place. We finished up about midday, and the ice in the margins was almost melted. I had the gear in the car with a view to going to Lymm Dam, however whilst on the workparty I noticed a few fish topping so decided i’d stay put.

Went through the gate to the pool and turned left and walked round to the last peg. This meant I had the cool wind in my face, but this was the area I’d seen the fish moving. Set up and fed 2 lines, one down the left margin with chopped worm and caster, the other at 7m or so with a 2 golf ball sized balls of Sensas Magic with about a dozen casters and a few dead pinkies.

Started on the worm line for short while as I expected to maybe get a bite on this line immediately. Not to be, so I went over the groundbait with a disco pinkie and picked up a small roach. Then another and another. A switch to caster saw me pick up a better roach then a skimmer about 10oz. Trickled in some more casters and began to get steady skimmers between 2 - 8oz. Then hit 2 larger skimmers one after the other(almost bream, they were just bronzing up in colour) around the 2.5lb mark each. Bites tailed off so I topped up with another ball. That didn’t work as planned and began to think I’d blown it, but I kept the loosefeed going in and began to hit some quality roach, still on the caster. At around 1pm they were really ‘having it’ and I was feeding a small pouch of casters every put in, and returning every time with roach between 3 - 6oz with the odd one bigger at 8-10oz. Hit something even bigger which lead me a merry dance on 2s elastic, turning out to be a Roach/Bream Hybrid well over a pound. Kept the feed going in, but had to go out an extra section, then another to stay in touch. The roach tailed off and I went back over the margin line with a worm tail and caught….another skimmer! It was hard back on the main line and the bites had got a bit tetchy, but I managed to eek out another 2 decent skimmers and a couple more decent roach before calling it a day. It was all over by 3:30pm (besides the sun was dropping and getting cold) but I estimated a bag of 20-25lb total weight, boosted by the bream and big skimmers but amazing sport given the time of year.

Cheers
Simon O sunny

Managed to pull in a favour or two at work and blagged me a day off. Trev my brother was also off so we decided on a trip down to Border.

I knew it was cold overnight but wasn’t prepared for it to be iced over. Anyway after a catch up with Pete and Stewart in the office, found a few pegs free of ice (more of that later) and started tackling up. I got on Peg 23 and Trev on 24. I opted for pole as I fancied some silver fishing, one rig with a 4x12 ‘on the drop’ rig, another with a 0.4g float with a bulk shotting pattern, a 3rd rig was set-up with stronger line ‘just in case’. Trev went for the tip rods, one with a small method, the other a straight lead. As we tackled up the ice was melting and somehow un-anchored itself from the margins, drifted to the left and wedged in our pegs. Nightmare. It was only very thin and I found I could waggle the pole tip and lower the rig in. Not that it did any good as the ice was still drifting, dragging the rig with it and ruining presentation. Trev was also struggling with the rod. Time to discuss options. Either move, or go and see Carl and wait and see.

We chose the later, which turned out to be a wise as on the return from our feed, the ice had melted somewhat and we could actually get fishing effectively. I kicked off with a few small roach on caster over cupped in loose groundbait. Trev soon hit into a roach/Rudd hybrid on the bomb, followed by a nice big skimmer around the 2.5lb mark. Trev was getting quite a few indications by fishing to the island and it was looking promising. It started to rain and I was struggling getting the fish to feed. Plus not being a fan of pole fishing in the rain, I also got the bomb rod out. I had 2 nice roach and a Mirror carp around 4lb on bread. Meanwhile I kept the casters going in over the pole line for a good hour and a half and left them to settle. Trev winkled out a couple more roach, but couldn’t seem to latch into that bonus fish.

It stopped raining so I’m back on the pole and straight away the 2s elastic is streaming out into a quality caster roach. Bites where delicate at first, but adjusted the rig slightly and soon got my eye in, beginning to return with a good roach every put in. I then hit a small perch, I needn’t of worried as I went on to catch his older brothers and sisters, 4 in total to about a pound apiece, which were great sport on the lightest of gear. They all had casters down their throats, so I knew the loose feed was getting eaten and upped the feed rate. The roach got bigger and in the end Trev packed up, blagged a go on my gear whilst I packed up what wasn’t being used around him. He put a nice bag together, and must have had over 3lb of roach and perch in that last half hour. So smiles all round, a pretty good day out and a conversation about big carp fishing in summer on the way home…..

Cheers
Simon O

May 2013

Hi. Had a great day’s fishing at Stacy’s pool on Monday 20th May 2013.
The day started at 6.30am and I had netted three carp between 7lb and 10lb by 7.15. The day continued in the same way through-out the day,although the bites did slow down but were fairly regular. By the time I packed up at around 16.30 pm I had landed elevan fish
the best being 14lb 4oz (picture attached).

Stacy’s Pool has become my regular haunt for short days, my best fish todate there is 17.2oz .

All the fish I have caught there have been in excellent condition and have put up very good fights, the venue is also in great condition.


all the best

Richie Warwick

Jul 2012

Great report, encouraged me to have a second try this morning (first visit last week just small roach, perch and a couple of skimmers on cage feeder and float shallow close in on the first peg on the right past the narrows). Arrived just after 7:00am today and had the pick of the pegs. Chose the last peg by the bushes on the lefthand side. Set up small method feeder on 9 ft light quiver rod and fished banded 6mm pellet on a hair rig with micro pellets and green swim stim on the feeder. Cast parallel to the bushes about 2 yards out and roughly opposite the island. First cast resulted in a nice little chub about 1lb so continued with same method. Over next 3-4 hours had a mirror carp of 3-4 lb, a crucian of 2-2.5 lb, several F1’s about 3/4lb, a few roach and a bream of 2lb or so. Lost a good chub and another mirror carp at the net and a much bigger fish took me into the bushes within a few seconds of the take. Concluded that I’ll need stronger gear if fishing the peg again so avon quiver rod and 8lb maxima will be going in the holdall for next time! Very enjoyable and definitely the peg to go for if free! The method feeder seemed to promote good positive bites whereas last week’s cage feeder (using corn and banded pellet on the hook, albeit on a different peg) led to lots of finicky tip action but no positive bites - may have been small fish attacking the cage feeder rather than the hook bait?

Jul 2012

Fishing was really slow with the sun shining on the water i felt it was a bit to warm for the fish to be feeding and i was proven correct when about 9pm after the sun had started to go down i had my first twitches and 30 mins later a strong run resulting in a nice common of 10lb 9oz. The fish were were very active around the lake and about an hour later again i had a strong run resulting in a 9lb 3oz torpedo common. Two more fish were banked up until the last at 2am which was the best of the lot, i had put my scales down and in the dark couldn’t find them but i guessed a weight of around 10 to 11lb. I then got my head down with the only thing waking me was the bloody geese lol. Awake at 5:30 i reeled in and recast but to no avail. I fished till about 9am before packing in.

My thoughts on Dovehouse are that it’s a nice small pool but if all pegs taking would be to busy, We could do with trying to make a few of the pegs a bit bigger for Bivvys as night fishing is allowed. As for the fishing evening seams to be the time to fish with the lake coming alive with all fish silvers to bigger carp once the sun had settled.

Tony Lowe

Jul 2012

Been a couple of times this week, last night I fished meat for the first time, normally I fish maggot. Had a load of small tench, a lovely looking crucian and a plump carp on one of my last casts. Had more in a couple of hours last night than in the whole day on monday…

The water is looking really good at the moment, and the water maintenance team deserve a lot of praise for both the new staging that has gone in over the last year or so (given how high the water is at the moment the old stuff would have been under water) and the very new handrails that has made it easier to get down to some of the swims.

Tim Philpotts

Aug 2012

Arrived at 7:00pm on Wednesday evening (15th August 2012) and set up on the West bank just up from the island. Dropped one rod straight out at about 20yrds with a pop up (with a view to avoiding the weed). 2nd rod went up the left margin towards the rushes in the neck end.

Within the hour had a pick-up on the margin rod resulting in a Common of 11lb 10oz. Great start. Overnight was quiet, as was most of Thursday. Had a good look round and decided on a move up towards the neck end as the wind had swung round and I’d spotted a few fish moving. Cleared some weed by ‘leading’ about with a marker lead to clear a nice spot. Moved the kit over at 5pm ish and dropped both rods side by side, bottom baits and slack lines.

That turned out to be a good move and after a stonking battle banked another common, an absolute tank at 15lb 9oz, its mouth was unmarked, so I suspect may have not been caught before. Shared a couple of cans of Pear Cider with Gareth the Farmer and again overnight was quiet - other than the wind, which had really picked up and was blasting into my corner Laughing Had a stuttering take at 06:05am on Friday morning and netted another common, this one at 12lb 8oz. I really thought there could be other fish out there, so dropped in again.

Got the brew on and cooked the bacon butties up. At 08:05am had a rip-snorting take, another decent battle and another Common. The Avons spun round to almost 20, but not quite - 19lb 11oz, and a deep full bodied fish.

Bumped into a couple of lads as I was leaving and they were on with a bit more weed clearance.

Simon O

Aug 2012

Visited today for a four hour session. Not fished it before, not easy to find but worth the effort.
Started fishing at 1pm, feeder with maggot and corn alternative. I got a few knocks and was snapped on one of them. I then changed to float with maggot at about five foot. Fed plenty of pellet and corn and started to get bites after about an hour.
Ended with two nice barbel about one pound each, great fighters. A fin perfect tench at two pounds and five assorted small carp both mirror and f1.
nice afternoon left at five. Will be returning soon.
John Kitchen

Aug 2012

Spent the afternoon at jimmy’s. 1pm until 7pm. Not much doing early on just trying to get past the fry was difficult. I was on one of the pegs at the far end of the pool fishing up to the reeds on maggot at 4foot. Noticed lots of movement starting about 4pm and got into a fight with what turned out to be a very feisty 4lb mirror carp. Moved back to peg 4 from the car park and again with maggot fished up to the lily pads. Again took lots of small fish and had to wait till 6.30pm before I hooked what felt like a monster, it didn’t surface for about five minutes and then continued to fight for a further ten minutes, it turned out to be a 4.5 lb mirror which was in superb condition, broad shoulders and a large tail. Not a mark on it.
Jimmy’s is one of my favourite days out and is a great credit to Pete and his gang on making a very natural looking pool. The fish are always in superb condition and the presence of so many fry at the moment confirms how the fish like it to.
John Kitchen
P.s.
Please don’t go here at all you might start to spoil it for me,

Oct 2012

With the start of the pike season upon us again it was trip up to Longbarn pool for us over the last couple of weekends. The first session on 29/09/12 was a cracking first piking outing. Using the same tactics as we had finished off with at the start of the year. Float ledgered dead bait on fairly light tackle, a 7g float with sprat on a couple of size 12 trebles. Toby and I had a great day we managed to pull out 4 jacks each the biggest only just over 5lb. It was nice to see the place looking really tidy mostly down to our new bailiff Gary Bebbington, who we met on his rounds.
Our second session on 06/10/12 was not quite as prolific as the first each of us catching a couple each. On the whole though it was nice to see one of my favourite winter waters doing so well.

Sep 2012

This event was held on Saturday 15th September 2012 at the River Dee at Holt and is open to each Region of the Environment Agency plus Water Companies from around the UK.

16 Teams of 5 anglers entered. Sections A & B were on the downstream meadow BMAC length, with sections C - D & Reserves on the Dee AC lengths.

The main headlines are that the BMAC length not only provided the top 3 weights of the event, but provided 9 of the top 10 from the whole event. So a big credit to the committee members for acquiring this water earlier this year. A cracking example of a quality natural venue made available to BMAC members.

For info, peg A1 was at the upstream end running downstream to A16 just above the bend. B1 was from here all the way to the last peg on the BMAC length.

Top 3 individuals as follows:

1st - Paul Caygill, EA North East - Peg B10 - 5.590 KG
2nd - Stuart Keable, EA South East - Peg A13 - 4.200 KG
3rd - Alan Grebby, Wessex Water - Peg A10 - 3.950 KG

The Team Championship went to Severn Trent Water ‘Blue Team’ in a close fought contest, they pipped runners-up Severn Trent Water ‘Red Team’ by 8 points. EA South East came in a respectable 3rd Place just 5 points behind.

A full set of match results is available on request, please PM me if you would like them.

All frame weights were Roach bags, taken on maggot/caster/hemp with either Bolo rod or Pole to hand.

The WICAC organising committee extends it gratitude to BMAC for helping to provide a venue for the large event. - Many Thanks.


Cheers

Simon O

Jan 2013

I’d had a quick reccy trip to this water on New Years day when Dave S was fishing, I’d borrowed a rod had a couple of casts and managed a nice chub, so decided I would give it a whirl this weekend.

Fished with Dave S, Old Jack and my stepson Liam (who had never fished before).
Fished with my back to the car park with the little island to my right hand side. Alternated between fishing the tip with straight lead, casting around, hoping for a decent fish, however I think they were tight to the far bank, with other anglers already fishing to those areas, so deciede to concentrate on the pole for most of the afternoon.
Finished pole fishing with 30 quality roach, mostly on red maggot, a couple on caster and decided to put that away and fish the tip again for the last 30mins. Caught another roach Rolling Eyes taking me to 31 roach for the day. Liam also caught well, 9 roach and a perch, he enjoyed it so much, I had packed up, loaded the car, had a brew and a chat with Dave and Liam was still fishing, even though I’d took his chair off him! Looks like he’s hooked, although he did say he’d like to go again when the weather is a bit warmer!

Another angler on the next peg had 2 good chub, Dave had some roach and Jack (fishing the ‘end-peg’ on the farm side) had some roach and a carp about 3lb.

Not a bad day out for January.

Happy New Year everyone.
Simon O

Apr 2013

Spent the afternoon on Robbie’s down at border yesterday, after another mornings blank at Bentley.
Fished worm or corn to cage feeder with pellet. Ended up with a couple of cracking near 1lb roach, a nice bream and 4 little golden carp between 2 - 4 1/2lb.
Not a bad afternoons angling smile

Oct 2013