POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1st APRIL 2012

With the warm weather holding the fishery has fished particularly well over the past week with match weights up to 178lb required to win the opens and pleasure anglers reporting mixed bags up to 100lb of fish. The fish are now coming up in the water with maggot and pellet still being the best baits for pleasure anglers. Pellet and paste through groundbait slop has been working well for the match anglers.

Top Pool
Pellet to the islands or at 6m for f1’s, ide, roach & skimmers.
Paste down the inner margins at 3m is now starting to produce the better stamp of f1’s.
Maggot shallow and on the deck has been producing large bags of silvers.

Bottom Pool
Pellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.
Pleasure anglers have reported large bags of perch up to 2.5lb being caught on chopped worm.
Anglers now trying past down the inner margins have reported catches of mirrors and commons up to 18lb.
Corn and meat over micro pellet down the edges has started to produce mirrors, commons and large f1’s

House Pool
Method feeder to the island using dead red maggot in a yellow toffee groundbait has been tempting large mirrors and commons.
Pellet at 6m or 8m down on the deck for mixed bags of f1’s, bream, roach and carp.
Corn down the edges over micro pellet is now producing a larger stamp of f1 carp.
Meat, paste and corn over micro pellet down the edges, is now starting to produce good bags of fish.

Extension pool
White maggot at 4m to 6m on the deck with constant feeding has been catching large bags of f1 carp, skimmers and roach.
Pellet at 14m on the deck for large f1’s.
Match anglers are now starting to use paste down the edges and bigger f1’s are being caught.

New Pool
Pellet and maggot have been the best baits on this lake long to the island or @ 6m and down the edges. F1’s and plenty of skimmers and roach are being caught.
4mm cubes of meat over micro pellet down the edges for large f1’s, mirrors & commons.
Pleasure anglers have reported mixed bags f1’s and stockies to 100lb on 4mm pellet over micro pellet on the deck.

Canal Pool
In general pellet and maggot are the best baits at 6-8m and across to the island.
Mirrors and Commons are feeding and pleasure anglers are reporting f1’s up to 2lb
Good bags of silvers being caught.
Anglers are reporting large bags of mirrors and f1’s being caught using paste, meat and corn down the edges.

Club Pool
Pellet to the island over micro pellet for f1’s, mirrors, roach & bream.
Stockies and f1’s at 4-10m down the track on pellet.
Pellet or maggot at 6-8m has been working well.
Pleasure anglers have reported that corn or meat down the edges has produced good bags of f1’s stockies & mirrors.

Jenny’s Pool
Pellet or maggot to the island or at 6-8m down the track has been producing good bags of f1’s, silvers and mirrors.
The fish have moved into the inner margins.
Corn over micro pellet has been producing large f1’s.
Paste at 4m and down the edges is now starting to produce good bags of fish.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 1st APRIL 2012

Date: Monday 26th March 2012
Pools: Extension Pool.
No F/man: 19

1st: Pellet @ 6m straight out in front and down the edges for f1’s & stockies.
2nd: Method feeder with yellow toffee groundbait, meat & dead maggots to the island for f1’s, mirrors & commons to 5lb.
3rd: Maggot on the deck @ 7m and later in the session up in the water for f1’s roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Dave Chapman Coventry 114 – 9 36
2nd Dennis Lutwyche Hawksbury 108 – 14 33
3rd Rob Swain White Hart Birmingham 101 – 7 4
4th Roy Winfindale Stirup Cup 96 – 14 29
5th John Lavender Me & Me 83 – 14 23
6TH Peter Hancox Birmingham 80 – 1 27

Date: Tuesday 27th March 2012 TBF over 50’s Club
Pools: Club & Jennys Pools.
No F/Man: 36

Match Report:
1st: Pellet @ 12m to the island & down the edges for f1’s, stockies, roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 4m on the deck & down the edges for f1’s stockies, roach & bream.
3rd: Pellet down the track @ 6m and then close in for f1’s stockies, roach & bream.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Dave Chapman Coventry 62 – 12 J 2
2nd Barry Duggan Warwick Portabello 58 – 10 C 3
3rd Paul Lewis TBF Vets 54 – 10 C 11
4th Pete Hancox Birmingham 50 – 1 C 23
5th John Berry Balsall Common 46 – 12 C 19
6TH Kevin Keasey TBF Vets 42 – 4 C 5

Date: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Pools: New Pool.
No F/Man: 17

Match Report:
1st: Bread @ 9m up in the water for f1’s, stockies & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 4m straight out in front and corn down the left hand edge and pellet down the right hand edge for f1’s 3lb.
3rd: Pellet @ 4m straight out in front & corn 4” over depth late on in the session for f1’s to 4lb.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Paul Newell Kinsgmill Redditch 178 – 11 33
2nd Peter Rice Bagem Baits 134 – 4 25
3rd Peter Hancox Birmingham 106 – 5 1
4th Lee Bowden Tunnel Barn Farm 74 – 8 17
5th Andy walker Hampstead 55 – 9 7
6TH Ian Madden Browning 34 – 15 10

Date: Thursday 29th March 2012 TBF VETS MATCH
Pools: New, Extension & House Pools.
No F/Man: 69

Match Report:
1st: Pellet down the edge @ 9m up to the platform for f1’s to 3lb.
2nd: Pellet @ 4m & 9m to the island and down the right hand edge for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Pellet & maggot @ 6m & down the edges for f1’s, mirrors & commons.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st John Stockton TBF Vets 94 – 2 N 10
2nd George Wirdum TBF Vets 71 – 4 E 19
3rd Alan Robinson TBF Vets 62 – 14 H 21
4th C Hadley TBF Vets 62 – 9 E 19
5th Paul Lewis TBF Vets 61 – 9 E 10
6th Tony Mcguire TBF Vets 55 – 6 N 16

Date: Friday 30th MARCH 2012
Pools: Jennys Pool
No F/Man: 20

1st: Pellet long to the island & the right hand edge @ 7m with meat over damp swimstim for f1’s, mirrors, commons & stockies.
2nd: Paste @ 9m to the island & down the edges for f1’s & mirrors to 4lb.
3rd: Pellet long to the island and down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st David James Mosella 69 – 11 27
2nd Ronnie Biggs OHMS 57 – 9 14
3rd J Harrison Tunnel Barn Farm 55 – 6 18
4th Pete Hancox Birmingham 46 – 14 2
5th Malcolm Jones Banbury Gunsmiths 41 – 4 17
6TH Danny Tresigne Banbury Gunsmiths 39 –12 5

Date: Saturday 30th MARCH 2012
Pools: Top & Club pool
No F/Man: 21

1st: Bread @ 9m & down the edges for f1’s roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 3m & down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Pellet @ 6m down the left hand edge for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 125 – 10 T 31
2nd Pete Rice Bagem Baits 95 – 7 T 21
3rd Paul Bick Shakespeare 80 – 14 T 27
4th Tony Sheppard Banbury Gunsmiths 74 – 1 T 24
5th David James Mosella 70 – 13 T 3
6th Les Wetton Tunnel Barn Farm 69 – 10 T 8
7th Richard Knowles MCM 67 – 14 T 11
8th Pete Hancox Birmingham 62 – 0 T 10

Date: SUNDAY 1st APRIL 2012
Pools: New & Extension Pools
No F/Man: 34

1st: Pellet @ 3m out in front and corn down both edges for f1’s to 3lb.
2nd: Pellet @ 10m to the barrels & down the edges for f1’s to 3lb, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Bread @ 9m and down the edges for f1’s roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Pete Rice Bagem Baits 159 – 5 E 13
2nd Stu Palsar Banbury Gunsmiths / Middy 122 – 12 E 9
3rd Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 107 – 5 E 7
4th David James Mosella 104 – 8 E 38
5th Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths 94 – 12 N 33
6th Gerry Woodcock Gerrys of Nottingham 90 – 15 N 17
7th Gary Cook Mosella 81 – 0 E 33
8th Andy Jackson Mosella 78 – 8 E 27