Bailiff's Diary: w/e 8th April 2011
The weather's getting better all the time now, however the water is still surprisingly cold, as you’ll know if you’ve been in for a dip, to photo a biggie!!!
The week started off slowly, but did pick-up later in the week, with the warmer days, the old Zigs a foot or so below the surface has been catching a few fish.
A lot of the lads on 2 this week, quite a few lads on their 1st trip, put out a fair bit of bait too quickly, obviously they’ve been lead to believe this is the method, not to start with it is’nt!!! Everyone should start little and often, then take it from there, remember it's still only early days, you can get away with it more later in the season!! Not only that, it's bleedin expensive too!!
I’ll start the reports this week on Lake 1 as usual.
Those bleedin fish holed up in the ‘Snags’ again at the start of the week, then they moved out, or lots of them did, then just to make me “look a liar” they moved back down again, then moved back out again towards the end of the week.
James Becker 43.14lb Common DL1 |
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I’m writing this on Fri evening so things could change overnight.
Lake 1
<<< James Becker in the ‘Hornets’ took a total of 9 fish up to 43lbs a Common on the Cell in fact it went 43lb-14ozs. Jimbo used 20kg of Cell during the week. |
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Andy Stewart >>> ‘Cherries’ had an 8 fish haul inc. 2x40lb Mirrors of 44lbs-11ozs and 44lbs, and just for a change thought a nice Common would be nice, then hooked into a 50lb-12oz one!
He also caught another 45lb-2oz Mirror late on Friday night. On a mix of Cell and the New Grange.
Craig Barnbrook >>> in the ‘Sunset’ also had 8 fish out up to 40lbs on 20kg of Cell. |
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Andy Stewart 50.11lb Common DL1 |
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Dave Evans 45.8lb Mirror DL1 |
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Colin Sanders >>> (or is that Colonel) ‘Snags’ took 7 fish inc 2x40’s of 43lb-8ozs Common and a Mirror of 43lbs-4ozs on 10 kg of Cell and Grange.
<<< Dave Evans next door, in the ‘Kingfishers’ also had a coupla biggies, a Common of 43lbs-8ozs and 2x40lb Mirrors of 40lbs-8ozs and a best of 45lbs-8ozs on 7.5kg of Cell and Grange.
Alan Pritchard on the ‘Beach’ had a best of 40lbs too, no weights recorded on report form sadly, but Al did use 20kg of Cell. |
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Bob Sewell >>> ‘Chimneys’ had 8 fish inc. two rather chunky Commons of 48lbs-8ozs and the other went 49lbs-12ozs, on 12kg of Cell and New Grange combo. Bob was full of praise for Matt, and his fishing tips!!!
Pete Rigby ‘Slope’ had a really good time, and also caught 10 fish as well on 20kg of the Cell. |
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Bob 'The Hair' Sewell 49.12lb Common DL1 |
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Mark Estcourt 43.4lb Common DL2 |
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Lake 2
‘Top Rod’ on 2 this week was Chris Wells with 14 fish, (Fri eve) taken from pegs 16 and 12 on the Cell.
Chris Jenner >>> peg 30 had 10 out inc. a best of 51lbs-4ozs Common.
<<< Mark (2) Estcourt (R.S.Turbo) in peg 29 had a brace inc. a 43lbx4oz Common on Pineapple.
Wayne Ridges peg 25 had 9 out on the Mark 1 and Cell. |
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Matt Dunkey >>> peg 27 had a best of 42lbs Common on the Cell.
Neil Winton peg 22 had 13 fish up to 49lbs-5ozs Mirror on the Cell.
Shaun Stone peg 2 took 5 fish, no monsters but was probably 1st in for breakfast as 1-2 are nearest the lodge!!
Carl Hall peg 9 had an even dozen (12), kids don’t know what a dozen is nowadays, “what with the metric system ‘n’ all." |
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Chip Winton 49.8lb Mirror DL2 |
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Kevin Brindley 43.7lb Common DL2 |
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Mick Johnson >>> in 15 had 7 fish up to 40lbs and Lawrence Howells peg 18 had 6 out again on the Cell.
<<< Kevin Brindley peg 10 took 10 inc. a 43lb-7oz Common on the Cell.
Keith Twine peg 5 took 5 inc. 3x30’s on the Cell.
Dad Francis Twine in peg 4 had 3 up to 30lbs again on the Cell. |
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Lakes 3 – 4 – 5
Over on Lake 4 we had the Waters family, ‘Top Rod’ was Tony Waters with a 15 fish catch on a selection of baits, too many to mention m8!!!
Colin Waters had 7 fish on 10kg of Cell up to 45lbs.
Maggie >>> had a 70lb Cat and Ken rounded off the trip with 3 carp on 5kg of the Cell. |
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Maggie & Carl Waters 70lb Cat DL4 |
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Sam Heathers 46.10lb Mirror DL3 |
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Over on Lake 3
Well ladies first hey!
<<< Sam Heathers >>> in peg 9 took an even dozen for the session, Sam also inc. 2x40’s in her catch a Common of 40lbs and a rather nice 46lb-10oz Mirror, on the Cell. |
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Sam’s other half Pat Kiley >>> went one better not only did Pat have 13 fish, he also had a 50lber!! Well in fact a 53lber!! A Common as well as a 42lber. Pat must have nicked all the bait, cos he put in 30kgs of Cell!! From peg 10.
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Pat Kiley 53lb Common DL3 |
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Peter Howells 54.12lb Common DL3 |
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<<< Pete Howells in 14 only had 2 out the 1st a 45lb Common, the 2nd a Common of 54lbs-12ozs on the Cell.
Tony Gleed >>> peg 6 had 6 the best going 45lbs-10ozs on his Scopex and Squid and Nut mix boilies, 15kgs. |
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‘Top Rod’ was Mark Gleed >>> one of the Haul Em bait lads who had enough fish for all of them, in fact it was 18 of them from peg 7 inc. 6x40’s Commons of 42lbs-3ozs and 48lbs-2ozs and Mirrors of 45lb-12ozs – 41lbs-15ozs and 46lbs-11ozs on his Haulem Nutem boilies.
Well done lads, yet again!! |
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Mark Gleed 48.2lb Common DL3 |
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Chris Shaw 70lb Cat DL5 |
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Lake 5
This weeks ‘Top Bombin’ award goes to <<< Chris Shaw >>> with his haul of 25 fish from peg 1 D.L.5 inc. a couple of chunky cats up to 70lbs on the Cell, 7.5kgs.
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Stuart Hymas >>> in peg 5 took 10 fish, carp up to 41lbs-12ozs, and a 53lb-8ozs Mirror, then a Cat of 100lbs
on the Cell.
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Stuart Hymas 53.8lb Mirror DL5 |
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Darren Wycherley 42lb Mirror DL5 |
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Peter Shaw >>> peg 3 had 18 fish up to 40lbs on 7. 5 kg of Cell.
<<< Darren Wycherley peg 7 had 8 out inc. 2x40lb Mirrors of 40lbs and 42lbs on 15kg of Cell. |
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Finally John Cook-Hannah >>> peg 4 had 9 fish up to 42lbs on Tiger Nut boilies, 6kgs.
Till next week then lads. Cheers, Matt. |
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John Cook-Hannah 42lb Mirror DL5 |
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