POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 15th APRIL 2012

With the weather picking up the fishery has fished particularly well over the past week with match weights up to 100lb required to win the opens and pleasure anglers reporting mixed bags up to 75lb of fish. The fish are now coming up in the water with maggot, caster and pellet 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 over hemp 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 paste 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 white maggot in a black octopus 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
Red maggot and caster 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.
Caster now starting to show at 3m and down the edges.
Pleasure anglers have reported mixed bags f1’s and stockies to 70lb on 4mm pellet over micro pellet on the deck.
Congratulations to Ronnie Biggs who narrowly edged Stu Palsar out of 1st place a tight result in the Sunday open fishing 4mm Cubes of cheese over hemp. Stu Palsar fished chopped worm and caster.

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.
Congratulations to Dave James who won the Monday open with 97-5 from peg 3. He fished long to the island with corn over micro pellet and then down the edges @ 4m with corn and 4mm cubes of meat over micro pellet for f1’s commons & mirrors.

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 where caster has been working well with good bags of f1’s & stockies being caught.
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.

Chopped worm and caster can be purchased from the tackle shop. These baits need to be pre-ordered in the shop by Monday Morning as our deliverys come in on a Thursday.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 15th APRIL 2012

Date: Monday 9th April 2012
Pools: Jennys, Canal & Club Pools.
No F/man: 42

1st: Long to the island with corn over micro pellet and then down the edges @ 4m with corn and 4mm cubes of meat over micro pellet for f1’s commons & mirrors.
2nd: Long to the island with corn over micro pellet and then down the edges @ 4m with corn and 4mm cubes of meat over micro pellet for f1’s commons & mirrors.
3rd: Pellet @ 6m & corn down the edges for f1’s, mirrors & stockies.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st David James Mosella 97– 5 Can 3
2nd Alex Everall Pickering 97 – 3 Can 4
3rd Andy Cambden Wickham 84 – 1 Cl 13
4th Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths / dynamite baits 81 – 4 Can 7
5th Ronnie Biggs OHMS 80 – 1 Can 24
6TH Jason LeBosquet Garbolino 73 – 7 J 6

Date: Tuesday 10th April 2012 TBF over 50’s Club
Pools: New & Extension Pools.
No F/Man: 29

Match Report:
1st: Pellet @ 6m & corn down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 6m on the deck & down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Pellet down the track @ 4m for f1’, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Barry Duggan Warwick Portabello 48 – 6 E 15
2nd Dave Callahan Measham Redfins 41 – 12 N 10
3rd John Berry Balsall Common 40 – 8 E 37
4th Pete Hancox Birmingham 37 – 9 E 23
5th Franeck Garbolino 36 – 8 E 27
6TH Dave Chapman TBF Vets 34 – 7 N 41

Date: Wednesday 11th April 2012
Pools: Extension Pool.
No F/Man: 18

Match Report:
1st: Caster @ 3m down the edges for f1’s to 3lb, roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 6m straight out in front and corn down the edges over micro pellet for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Pellet @ 4m straight out in front for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Peter Rice Bagem Baits 100 – 8 25
2nd Tom Neale Rutlanders 59 – 5 38
3rd Steve Parrish Guernsey 58 – 10 5
4th Phil parsons Rutlanders 57 – 10 13
5th Mike Callinswood Guernsey 54 – 3 17
6TH Steve Bentley Loughborough 46 – 12 35

Date: Thursday 12th April 2012 TBF VETS MATCH
Pools: Canal, Jennys & House Pools.
No F/Man: 55

Match Report:
1st: Pellet @ 2m for f1’s roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 6m and down the both edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Pellet @ 9m & down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Kevin Keasey TBF Vets 72 – 2 C 9
2nd Chris Hayle TBF Vets 65 – 4 C 1
3rd Alan Hemming TBF Vets 56 – 3 H 33
4th John Merchant TBF Vets 48 – 13 J 11
5th Ken Turner TBF Vets 48 – 0 C 3
6th William Eade TBF Vets 43 – 10 J 19

Date: Friday 13th April 2012
Pools: Bottom Pool
No F/Man: 18

1st: Pellet @ 10, 12 & 14m for f1’s & mirrors to 3lb.
2nd: Pellet @ 8m to the island for f1’s, roach & skimmers.
3rd: Paste over hemp @ 3m down the edges for mirrors, commons & f1’s to 3lb.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Richard Knowles MCM 71 – 8 21
2nd Pete Hancox Birmingham 61 – 10 14
3rd Les Wetton Tunnel Barn Farm 51 – 6 8
4th Tom Neale Rutlanders 49 – 6 18
5th Densi Lutwyche Hawksbury 47 – 0 15
6TH Malcolm Jones Banbury Gunsmiths 43 –10 12

Date: Saturday 14th April 2012
Pools: Extension pool
No F/Man: 25

1st: Caster @ 3m & down the edges for f1’s to 3lb, roach & skimmers.
2nd: Pellet @ 14m to the island for f1’s, commons & mirrors.
3rd: Pellet @ 14m to the island and down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Pete Rice Bagem Baits 109 – 0 9
2nd Stu Palsar Banbury Gunsmiths / Middy 98 – 7 1
3rd Kurtis Tranter Grant Albuts 78 – 3 25
4th Dean Flatman Tunnel Barn Farm 76 – 5 39
5th Andy Jackson Mosella 70 – 6 22
6th Les Wetton Tunnel Barn farm 69 – 3 34
7th Rob Avery Kingfisher Angling 68 – 3 36
8th Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 67 – 5 24

Date: SUNDAY 15th APRIL 2012
Pools: New Pool
No F/Man: 23

1st: 4mm cubes of cheese over hemp & micro pellet @ 6m and down both edges for f1’s to 3lb, roach & skimmers.
2nd: Chopped worm & caster @ 14m & down the edges for f1’s to 3lb, roach & chub to 2.5lb.
3rd: Caster @ 3m and down the edges for f1’s, roach & skimmers.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Ronnie Biggs OHMS 92 – 2 10
2nd Stu Palsar Banbury Gunsmiths / Middy 90 – 9 26
3rd Pete Rice Bagem Baits 87 – 13 44
4th Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths / Dynamite Baits 85 – 2 7
5th Andy Jackson Mosella 81 – 0 36
6th Pete Hancox Birmingham 67 – 7 1
7th Rob Avery Kingfisher Angling 67 – 2 16
8th M Wilkinson Tunnel Barn Farm 63 – 4 38