POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 20TH 2012

With weather temperatures fluctuating, Tunnel Barn Farm has yet again had pleasure anglers reporting good catches including f1’s, roach and skimmers.

TBF Opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 110lb.

Top Pool
Pellet to the islands at 6m for f1’s, ide, roach & skimmers.
Meat and corn over hemp 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.
Paste down edges over chilli hemp for f1’s, producing match-winning weights.

Bottom Pool
Pellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.
Pleasure anglers have reported large bags of perch up to 3lb being caught on chopped worm and caster.
Paste over hemp down the inner margins have reported catches of large mirrors and commons up to 14lb.

House Pool
Method feeder to the island using dead bronze maggot in a bloodworm 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.
Meat down the edges over micro pellet is now producing a larger stamp of f1 carp.
Paste and corn over hemp down the edges, is now starting to produce good bags of fish.

Extension pool
Chopped worm and caster at 14m.
Pellet at 6 and 8m down the track producing good bags of f1’s, roach and perch.
4mm cubes of meat over groundbait are producing good bags of f1’s, roach and skimmers at 4m down the edges.

New Pool
Other baits working well are pellet, caster and meat down the edges.
Chopped worm and caster down the edge and long, producing match-winning weights.
Congratulations to Stu Palsa, who won, fishing this method, on Saturday from Peg 23.

Canal Pools
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 are being caught.
Anglers reporting large bags of mirrors and f1’s being caught using paste, meat and corn down the edges.

Club Pool
Corn and meat at 6m and down the edges producing f1’s, mirrors and carp. Chopped worm and caster to the island is producing f1’s in excess of 4lbs and mirrors up to 6lbs. Pleasure anglers have had good bags fishing pellet and maggot of large bream, roach and f1’s at 6m.

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 deliveries come in on a Thursday.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 20TH MAY 2012

Date: Monday 14th May 2012
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/man: 17

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st C Constable Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 99 – 5 13
2nd D Chapman White Hart Coventry 95 – 12 1
3rd C Chamberlain Tunnel Barn Farm 86 – 7 7
4th P Hancox Birmingham 74 – 11 12
5th G Smith Tunnel Barn Farm 55 – 5 4
6th D Callahan Measham Redfins 42 – 4 18
7th T Neal Rutlanders 37 – 15 24
8th D Lutwyche Hawkesbury 37 – 2 9

Date: Tuesday 15th May 2012 TBF over 50’s Club
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/Man: 19

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st P Hancox Birmingham 76 – 1 11
2nd J Berry White Hart Coventry 70 – 15 5
3rd J Eales Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 55 – 12 19
4th R Davis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 55 – 4 7
5th J Hill Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 53 – 9 22
6th R Notley Tunnel Barn Farm Starlets 48 – 8 13
7th D Pope Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 41 – 8 15
8th J Davenport Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 40 – 11 9

Date: Wednesday 16th May 2012
Pools: Extension Pool
No F/Man: 18

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st T Ainsworth Mid City 130 – 2 4
2nd J Keasey Tunnel Barn Farm 67 – 14 10
3rd P Hancox Birmingham 67 – 10 36
4th B Witteridge Argos 66 – 12 7
5th K Keasey Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 65 – 4 39
6th R Davis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 65 – 3 13

Date: Thursday 17th May 2012 TBF Vets Match
Pools: New and Extension Pools
No F/Man: 63

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st C Constable Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 89 – 15 E28
2nd C Haile Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 73 – 9 N27
3rd R Davis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 71 – 6 N31
4th G Wirdum Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 67 – 14 E19
5th J Stockton Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 66 – 13 N38
6th D Waldron Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 64 – 2 E25

Date: Friday 18th May 2012 The Friday Flyer
Pools: Top Pool
No F/Man: 19

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st P Hancox Birmingham 80 – 12 1
2nd R Kite Marston Green Tavern 74 – 4 26
3rd D James Mosella 70 – 4 5
4th C Constable Tunnel Barn Farm 66 – 10 31
5th D Shipley Tunnel Barn Farm 66 – 5 3
6th T Neal Rutlanders 57 – 11 29s

Date: Saturday 19th May 2012
Pools: New and Extension Pools
No F/Man: 31

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st S Palsa Middy 93 – 2 N23
2nd P Rice Bagem Baits 83 – 5 N17
3rd D James Mosella 77 – 5 N10
4th L Wetton Tunnel Barn Farm 73 – 3 N13
5th P Bick Shakespeare 72 – 14 N31
6th P Caton Banbury Gunsmiths 65 – 1 E37
7th S Bentley Lake View 63 – 6 E7
8th J Larass Match Fish 63 – 2 E21

Date: Sunday 20th May 2012
Pools: Extension Pool
No F/Man: 24

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st S Palsa Middy 96 – 4 13
2nd J Cork Alvechurch Fishery 84 – 9 5
3rd D James Mosella 78 – 7 24
4th P Bick Shakespeare 70 – 2 38
5th R Kite Marston Green Tavern 67 – 7 9
6th P Rice Bagem Baits 65 – 0 28
7th G Cook Mosella 61 – 9 25
8th J Turner Tunnel Barn Farm 61 – 0 37