Simple Match Fishing Forum

loads fishing it sitting in their stripey deckchairs

Sounds like Budgie has been out practising again

GrandMasterFrance rang me last night, wanting to pick up 3 season tickets for the canal off me today

He reports that a guy had a 30+lber out yesterday.......... (think he said 32lb) 

Wasnt you was it OBI   

might just about catch that much in a very very good 12 months

Apparently a couple of guys from the club went down last Sunday = they had the usual skimmers, roach and perch.

But they reported there was an angler down in the boatyard emptying it - tench after tench

Ps OBI - that angler and his wife you spoke to a couple of weeks ago was the same person I refered too........they went down last week - fished the reed bed to the right of the 'main gate' just over the new bridge................and had another decent day with plenty of fish

planned a trip yesterday,but swmbo booked in some builders to give a quote on some work then buggered off to work herself.

damn inconsiderate i reckon,they wanna start next monday but am trying to put em off til tues so that i can go on a trip down the teme  which has been planned for months,but i aint holding my breath  :(

any idea what they were catching on,make sure you cos them there talk angling lady things might be avin a look see ::)

to right OBI cant let them talk "ladies" no the is the way to fish.

PS wot is the way to fish it. am planning a trip over but avent gotta clue where to park or how to get there!!!!

need to av a session ova there to get to grips with the place b4 we beat them ladies.

could some1 pm me with any details pls ::) ::) ::)

Notice of club match

Sat 17th July 2010. Rough Hay AC - 20 pegs

1 or two of them up there 2day avin a gander.

silly fools came and watched me bugger up a cock peg

OBI - this is your captain calling..........



Capture one of these and you've 'done your job' on Saturday







This 31lb 7oz beautifully conditioned, coloured and wonderfully scaled mirror put in an appearance on The Extension the weekend before......










It was caught by local angler Darrell Upton

What makes the capture even more amazing that it was Darrell's first excursion on the canal on his quest for the carp that are known to frequent the water

What a cracking fish.

jeez,,,that bugger would pull me in!!!

remember a match on there sometime last century (mid 90,s) chap on next peg got done at least half dozen times by 1 of those babies,didnt matter where he dropped in it just kept coming back for more ,he just kept losing the by the end of the match he was

few of those winter skimmers will do me

What a stunning fish! You would be hard pushed to find a better looking mirror imo.

Meant to post this earlier

Darrell is certainly on a roll - 3 days after his first venture on the canal when he caught that stunner - he returned and had this leather

Its got a belly like tinky

no its got a belly like fatty kendal and its better luckin

As a few of you will know, Cotti, the Warburton King, tends to be my ears and eyes on our canal sections

Spoke to him on Saturday before our match - our conversation went along the lines of……

‘Been up the cut lately?’

‘Yep, went in the week, it was crap’

‘Crap?’

‘Yep, crap.’

‘Which cut?’

‘The Extension’

‘And it was crap? Daint you catch?’

‘Oh yeh, course I caught, but I only had about 8lb of bits, never had owt decent, nothing bigger than 2oz, all tiddlers’

‘8lb of bits aint bad’

‘It is for me’





Spoke to him again today……….

‘Been up the cut this week?’

‘Yep, yesterday’

‘Which one?’

‘The Extension’

‘Any good or was it ‘crap’ again’

‘Nah, you aint gunna believe it. After last week, it was back to normal - I had at least 30lb, nearly all skimmers. You wanna get down there the weekend, it’s fishing its brains out’

A little bit more of a history lesson.............(half way down)

http://members.multimania.co.uk/brownhi ... scoal.html

Fascinating TK, my boats in one of those pictures.

Notice of club match this weekend

Sunday 17th Oct 2010 - 20 pegs (boatyard) Dana AC

Members are asked to respect the pegging of this bona fide match - there's plenty of remaining canal for pleasure anglers to fish - thanks

A few pictures from this morning...............

Looking south from Pelsall New Road bridge




Same bridge - looking north across the boatyard




Got one one..........that caster worked




Cummon me babbie




Gotcha ya




A nice Sunday morning.........after that first hard frost of the autumn