Colver Lake Sweepstake 18/4/11

With the official Match program now completed fifteen members organised a sweepstake match on Colver Lake last Sunday. After carefully pegging around the four or five pleasure anglers already fishing, it was all set for a prompt start at 9.30. The signs were promising as some of the pleasure anglers were catching quite well.

The fish have spread out over Colver but the first four southern end pegs are still the place to draw...The top four weights in the competition all came from these pegs.

Given a half decent draw Jason Farmery is always going to be asking all the questions, especially on Colver. So when he pulled out peg 16 he was always going to be in the running. It was quite a slow start for Jason, but as so often happens he timed his run immaculately and was catching some good sized Carp at a fairly regular pace toward the end. His 64lb 4oz was well in front by the "all out"

Phil Dayman is fast earning the nickname "End peg Dayman" , as he seems to have developed the knack of regularly pulling out end pegs!! On Broome waters, not a bad knack to have! Phil spent the first half of his match netting fish out of peg 21!! His catch rate seemed to slow towards the end though, and this probably allowed Jason to overtake him for top honours....54lb 12oz still represents a good days fishing and second place overall plus first in the super pool ain't a bad reward .

Simon Pepper drew the regular money winning peg 18, and he and Phil were going fish for fish for the majority of the day. At the weigh-in, though, Simon was just a couple of fish short and had to settle for third spot with a level 50lb.

Section winners on the day were, Mark Aikins, who took Section 1 from peg 2 with 46lb 1oz. Section 2 went to yours truly with 42lb 10oz from peg 12, and Phil Sansby took Section 3 with 48lb 1oz from peg 23.

Good day at Hill farm 17/4/11

Steve Halford decided to try his luck at Hill Farm last weekend, and things turned out pretty well for him. Read Steve's account below...

I went up to Hill Farm last Sunday (11/4/11)

After a Biteless two hours on the "method Feeder" trying to tempt the Carp I decided to change tactics, and have a try for some smaller stuff....I ended up catching this good net of nice Roach on sweetcorn, using the waggler.

All of a sudden this fine Carp of around 5lb took the corn. I'm sure I would have caught a lot more fish if I'd have had castors or maggots with me...

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