No-body could feel more stupid than me

Went for a nice yesterday (27th) rather windy but opted for Orfe peg 36 . It was a good idea virtually a fish a chuck mainly stockies half pound to pound with 5 fish around 2-2.5pounds. About 30 fish in total weighing around 30-35pounds . Then came the good bit im sure you'll laugh as many times as super angler has told me not to leave the top three with the bait in the water. guess who managed to do just that. with the result as i was cupping in, my top three went sailing acroos the lake. this idiot went chasing round orfe lake following his top three sailing merrily around the pool. luckily a fellow fisherman who had been ledgering had managed to hook the line and my top three and even the fish were saved. i don't need you two to tell me and i'm sure some wonderful remarks will be made to me. but no-body could feel more stupid than me at the time.

Panama Canal - Lakeview May 23 2010

29 degrees and hot as hell. Fished from 4pm-8pm with picnic in the middle. Ended with 46lb on the scales using the new net. Fished peg 21 on Canal. There had been a match on it earlier. Fished at a gentle pace, so bloody hot. Caught at a steady speed, but some larger fish came in the margins at about 4 metres fishing on top 5. Corn and strawberry pellet did the damage. Peaceful. Luce in support with photography and weight confirmation.



Catcher in action on Canal - are the summer days here at last?



One comes into the net.



The new weighting in net christened with 46lb of carp and skimmers, plus one small tench. Another solid performance.

The final strawberry

Just a quick report friday evening session 4-8.30.Baking hot Springlea rammed not!!!! only 5 fishing the entire complex Opted for Orfe peg 23 steady fishing with good fish up to 4lb. In moved some zoo creatures 1 took black hydro half way round the pool before dumping off. another did simialr and my hook link broke. and the final straw one took me into the rushes and took my entire rig(could not get him out). anyway ended up with about 20-25 pounds good for one of my shortest sessions.

He's catching up!

Going to fish orfe. Too windy opted for horseshoe. good decision although fishing slow broke pb twice. fishing from 8.30 - 5.20. at 8 meters not alot happening drip feeding maggots witth double red maggot bait. a dozen shimmers 6-8 ounces. all day. moved into the margin at about 9.30. 30 minutes later two pound mirror carp. folow by 7 pound common. couple of hours later a nice 5 and a half pound mirror and at the end of the day an 8.1 pound common. roll on black hydro and mine and derek's secret bait.

Rich no more coaching he's catching bigger fish than us! Total defeat day is looming!

Artic Oasis

Two Amigos reunited on a bright but cold morning for the first time since the Nottm Festival. 4 degrees overnight, although a bright & cloudless morning raised the spirits....texts were exchanged, and both anglers were again reunited with a common goal, a dream, a desire, a fever that only eases but never disappears....

Lakeview meet up at 7.23am & without any of the usual shenanigans around peg selection it was Oasis 12&13....easy....weird...arrive ...pick peg ....fish it....how odd...?? Why cant it always be like this.

" its cold here" - 20 minutes after sitting down & the sun coming out it was apparent that the pegs could have been used as a medievil fridge.



Rigs went out and for Nicholson a bizarre thing happened....the float went under...Lakeview? Bite?.....Elastic streaming from the pole confirming a mad carp had mugged itself...!!!

Nicholls followed suit and for a brief hour....it was like we were Anglers ....feed / bite / fish.....Nicholls then hooked a wheely bin and all was well with the world again....reality

Both anglers alternated between Corn and Pellet....Nicholls mainly pellet....Nicholson mainly Corn....



Nicholls taking bits here and there with the odd carp....nicholsons swimming dying for almost two hours with no fish taken....it was neck and neck...

At the all out it was too close to call....both anglers taking two quick fish in the last 30 minutes...




Nicholls pipped it at 13lb to Nico's 12lb.....

Banter / Weather / Pegs were good....close match....Nicholls hangs on....

Spring Lea Zoo has been restocked

Spring Lea Saturday 2nd May 2010 - Orfe Peg 38


Typical planned session. Cold, damp, slightly windy and threatening rain. Spent all evening with thoughts of Horseshoe, 2 pints of reds and aiming for skimmers. 7am and the sign said closed for match. Pondered. Made coffee and sausage cobs. Pondered. It was damp after a night of seriously heavy rain. It was cold, it was breezy. It was warm last week, it was cold today. It was warm yesterday, it was cold today. Pondering equalled it will be hard. PC arrived 7.40am, twenty minutes early as usual - keen as mustard. I finished my cob and coffee. White van took kit away.

It will be hard today.

Looked at Orfe. Bleak. Cold. No one on it. Hardly anyone on it yesterday. Um!

It will be hard today!

We looked at one side and then the next. We walked from one peg to the next. It didn't look fishy. So we decided to face into the wind, but with the bonus of a grassy bank behind us. A quarter of a way down Orfe.

After much messing around it was after 9am I finally started.

Almost the first put in and PC was into a decent carp. More followed and a bream! It looked like PC's first victory was on the cards, it was serious catch up time. I had about 7lb and PC at least 12lb.

Rig was wrong, tangle after tangle. Bloke opposite catching zoo creatures in the margin on maggot. So what did I do. Barrrrrrrrr sheep. Went in the margin for an hour after catching stockies at 10 metres. Bits, bits and nothing. Back at 10 metres. Stockies, gudgeon and odd better carp.

Bloke opposite had another zoo creature. Barrrrrrrrrrrr sheep into the margins, bits , bits, wasted of time.



10 metres. Stockies. PC snagged a few more carp, better stamp. Tangle - rig making me swear. Couldn't see it and two inches between pole end and float. But on we go.

Then came the mother of all tangles and the rig was RIP. Thank God!

New rig and off we go. Fish a put in on small soft pellets. Stockies, small carp and the odd zoo creature taking me on blue hydro halfway around the lake. On final put in at a 2lb carp. They just kept on coming.

PC thought he was close. Weight in showed PC with a respectable 25lb. However out they came, bottom ring full and a 50lb was weighted in. Could have been more without tangles, patience with zoo creatures and sheep antics. Fished 9am-5pm with breaks and chopping and changing. Roll on the summer!