Simple Match Fishing Forum

Cheers Joff. Good to see some new names getting in.

matt hall lost a couple of big fish as well and there ain't that many in TBF

Simple or one of the mods can you add the qualifying names to the first post so we can see who has gone through please.
Saves a bit of searching too

Simple or one of the mods can you add the qualifying names to the first post so we can see who has gone through please.
Saves a bit of searching too 

And perhaps you should register before making your crappity smack requests.

Who is it Lee

Done anyway.

And perhaps you should register before making your crappity smacking requests.

probably the chap who won it

Former Daiwa Gordon League grouped matchman, Steve Seaborn of Ross-on-Wye is the second angler to qualify for the Fish ‘O’ Mania XVII Grand Final at Stapeley Cudmore Fisheries, North Staffordshire on Saturday 17th July after his win at Tunnel Barn Farm in Warwickshire at the weekend.

Following a touch of overnight frost the sell-out 130 entry enjoyed the warmest day of the year so far as the sun shone fiercely. After months of donning several layers of winter clothing it was something of a shock for the competitors to fish without their jackets!

The Tunnel Barn complex fished well throughout with an amazing weight of 56lbs 2 oz being the LOWEST weight to win one of the ten peg sections. In a free scoring event the top five again passed the 100 lb mark with the best of them being match winner Steve Seaborn who clocked up 114-7-0 from peg 7 on Extension Pool.

Steve caught an F1 on his first putting in chopped worm and fished just eighteen inches deep right to the island. He carried on catching F1s at will plus one small ghostie but they slowed right down in the second hour before fish from 8 oz to 3 lb came at regular intervals after he went even shallower, just 10 inches deep against the island.

Steve, aged 35, is a building surveyor and married to Teresa with their first child due very soon. He rates this as his best ever win and told Angling Trust, “I have never really got on with Tunnel Barn Farm too well, I have been a little hit or miss there, mainly miss, thankfully, this time it was a hit!” he continued, “having qualified early I might even get some practice in at Stapeley Cudmore before the Final.” Runner-up was professional angling coach Andy May (Ultima) who also caught F1s to 3 lb in his 108-2-0.

Middlewich, Cheshire-based Andy was on House Pool 23 where he caught every one of his fish on maggot fished shallow. Twice Fish’O’ champion Matt Hall (Sensas) went close to qualifying again from Extension 16. Matt also fished maggot but a lost carp, estimated at around the double figure mark really scuppered his chances as he took third place with 106-0-0 again of mainly F1s. The other two ‘tons’ were from Frank Cook with 105-1-0 from another Extension draw and Simon Medd with 101-9-0 from the Top Pool.

Qualifier number three stays in the same county, Warwickshire, this Wednesday when another sellout will line up at Dynamite Baits Makins Fishery at Wolvey. Who will be qualifier number three?

third fish-o-mania at makins has been won by sean huggins LEICESTER 92lb off peg 25 seven
sean left it late he was 33rd on the waiting list and got the last ticket whether its a flyer or not it was the last in the hat
thats fate    
he's very good on big events not so long ago he won the uks champs   well done sean 

third fish-o-mania at makins has been won by stean huggins LEICESTER 92lb off peg 25 seven
sean left it late he was 33rd on the waiting list and got the last ticket whether its a flyer or not it was the last in the hat
thats fate    
he's very good on big events not so long ago he won the uks champs   well done sean 

Is Stean, Seans brother

is that crappity smack better

Cheers Joffy. Another new name

Are any of the big name regulars gonna get a look in

i would think so they have about 8 qualifiers each

Andy North goes through

There were a lot practicing for fisho at Partridge Lakes yesterday (sat)

Have you entered for any Bodge

Bodge ?


I dont do fisho simps ..... i fished the open at partridge lakes yesterday where a lot were practicing for the forthcoming fisho qualifier ....

I reckon they need more practice !

I dont do fisho simps

Just out of interest.. How come ?

I reckon they need more practice !

Fisho is a circus ..... just my opinion

SIX tons in FishO at PI Woodland View yesterday.
Neil McKinnon tops with 131-9-0.