Simple Match Fishing Forum

With the amount of fish in there,they're probably still weighing in 

Me,i spent my Sunday stuck in a traffic jam on the M2 

Lets just say that TK will probably faint when he sees the result.

With the hot weather Pete i bet it fished its Rocks Socks off

WARNING TO ALL CASHMORES MEMBERS especially TK


Reading this thread could seriously damage your sanity.

Im absoultely knackered so just the quick results tonight and some comments tomorrow.

Looks like a bizzy day Top 4 all beating your club record as well (if i'm right)


Very close at the top and see Clives draw arm is still broke.

Well done all.

I am knackered and have just updated my blog for the reasons.

Well done all, great results.
Was it fish 3 hours and weigh in and then fish another 3 hours ?

Just about to read the blogs

Well that was the original plan Simple,as its one of the 3 fishery rules. But I was expecting the first weigh in to take around 40 minutes so those doing it could have a little rest and something to eat or sort rigs. It took us almost the full hour to do it ( Well it was over half a ton of fish ) so I delayed the start of the afternoon session by 15 minutes.

Well done on all the PB's, certainly fished very very well 

Nice write up on the blog Keith

Martin Hucker, Keith Ashby, Peter Morton, Dave Collier, Colin Sharrard, Graham Manning, Bob Hucker and Judy Hermite all broke their 3 and 6 hour personall bests. Im not sure about Vic but he may have done so as well.

It was also a new club total weight record beating last years Rockells match by 920lb. The top 4 also beat Peters individual club record of 293lb from last year. All I have to do now is do my best to get a booking for next year but as they only have a match every other Sunday thats not easy.

Im hoping that Peters blog will have a photo of the lake when we got there as it looked glorious.

Sorry Si but not a lot of pictures  But you were probably expecting that from looking at the results. 



Todays venue for the Marsh AC club match is Rockells Farm. It's the venue where I set a new club match record last year of 293½lbs and the club recorded their all time best aggregate weight of 1991lbs weighed in between 18 anglers  .
As usual I got round to Dave's at 6·45am to follow him and Colin down to the venue, It's not the easiest of venues to find without a Sat Nav, being somewhat off the beaten track, but we made good time despite quite a bit of fog on the trip up and pulled into the car park just after 8am  .
There were 19 booked in for todays match, 15 club members and 4 guests, Clive and Al who are in danger of becoming permanent fixtures  and Keith Ashby and Vic Nugent (both GOT Baits sponsored anglers) who enjoy the occasional trip out with the club due to the relaxed atmosphere and the banter and laughs that are had during the day  .

With no permanent numbers allocated to the pegs at Rockells, Keith and I set off into the lifting fog to peg out while Dave sorted the monies out. Every peg appeared to have fish moving in front of it and in the margins promising a good days sport ahead. Pegs 1-3 went into the very end, and could all be regarded as flyers, while pegs 4-11 went in down the right hand side and 12-19 up the left (The high numbers being where you wanted to be  ). With draw time approaching, 3 members hadn't arrived  (Martin, Zack & Graham) but the draw went ahead anyway.

Keith & Vic drew pegs 1 & 2, and with them both being very positive anglers would take all the stopping on those pegs . My home for the day would be peg 17  , with Al for company on peg 18. At the end of the draw there were 3 pegs left which I drew for the missing anglers peg 3 for Martin and peg 19 for Graham (Both flyers  ) and peg 14 for Zack.

Settling into peg 17 I have to say that I was happy with my draw  . I'm pretty single minded in how I approach Rockells, always fishing paste as close in as I can and peg 17 looked tailor made for it, with nettles and reeds overhanging the left hand margin and boards in the right hand margin .........



The rigs were simplicity itself, 3 top 2's holding rigs that were made up of 4X12 Middy Paste Floats that are a really strong line through design made up on ·20 Ultima Power Match finished off with a Drennan size 12 Carp Method hook to fish paste in both margins where I had around 2 feet of water on both sides. I had 6 pints of it made up, which was GOT Baits Atomic with some GOT Baits Pineapple Atomic Cloud added. Feed would be a mix of soaked 4 and 6 mm pellet. I had 2 extra sections of pole set up, but hopefully wouldn't be using them unless I hooked a real beast as I really wanted to be able to fish just the top 2's for speed and comfort.

Just along on peg 18 Al's swim looked well capable of pushing me all the way, especially as Al has been putting some good results together recently  ...............



Martin, Zack and Graham had arrived meanwhile, and I fancied that Martin might be in with a chance on peg 3, as although he would only class himself as a pleasure angler, he'd had a good result here last year weighing in a total of 232¾lbs, so the venue obviously suits his approach  .
Looking across I could see Keith, apparently lost in his thoughts, sitting on his flyer, so no pressure there then  ..........



The fog had burnt off by now, but there was still a fair bit of cloud, so although it was warming up hopefully it wouldn't turn into the total scorcher that had been predicted  . With the venues potential to produce big weights todays match was being split into two 3 hour sessions with a 1 hour break mid way through for a mid-match weigh-in taken at the fishery owners insistence, so with everyone set the All-In was called at 10am for the morning session  .

A handfull of pellet into both margins, and with fish already showing on my left side that's where the 1st bit of paste was lowered into. A couple of knocks and the float slid away and the first Carp of the day, a small Mirror of around 12ozs was soon safely in the net, number 1 on the clicker  . To be honest it was pretty much steady away for me from then on. Al however seemed to be having a few problems  , it looked as if he was fishing pellet that was being intercepted by Roach and the smaller Carp, on top of which he seemed to be bumping a few better fish. I was getting a few to many small Carp for my liking, but I found last year that you just had to wade through them and keep the bait going in to draw the better fish, and I started to put a few better 2-3lb fish together  . They were all coming from the left hand margin though as every time I looked down the right I was waiting to long for a bite before landing yet another 8oz Carp.

2 hours in with 44 fish on the clicker another look down the right hand margin resulted in an instant bite and a much better fish powered off and after an anxious couple of minutes a nice Leather Carp of around 12lbs was safe in the net  . With a few tail patterns now showing by the boards I concentrated on that line for the last hour. With 5 minutes to go I fed 4 pints of pellet into the right hand margin and another couple down the left in an attempt to hold the fish during the hours break for the weigh-in, while a final put in produced a 5lb Common Carp as the All-Out was called at 1pm.

The weigh-in started from my side and my weight of 120lbs made up of 62 fish was comfortably leading till it came to the 1st 3 pegs. Keith on peg 1 put 148lbs on the scales (and he reckoned he was getting roached out, lying ******  ) while Vic on peg 2 ran him close with 133¼lbs, however it was Martin who put us all in our place when he put a staggering 180¾lbs on the scales for the half way lead  . So with over 1100lbs of fish weighed it looked like all the club records set last year would be going, as it normally fishes better in the afternoon. In fact it had taken the whole hour to weigh-in meant that we delayed the start of the afternoon session to allow everyone to get back to their pegs.
As I strolled back I noticed that Clive was looking a bit numb as he'd struggled on peg 10 for a mere 22lbs and already needed snookers  .............



............. it looks like his drawing hand has decided to get its own back on him big time, for all the punishment he's given it for mis-behaving recently  .

Returning to my peg I could see that despite the disturbance of the weigh-in the fish had settled on the pellets by the boards as evidenced by the tail patterns I could see  . So 2·15pm and the All-In was called for the afternoon session. 1st put in and away goes the float attached to a 3lb Common and that's the way it continued  . Al seeing how successful paste had been for me gave it a go, and while it was an improvement he was having yet another nightmare as he suffered from hook pulls and foul hookers  .

Elsewhere round the lake sport wasn't quite so fast and furious I'm afraid, in fact rumour had it that Clive had put a pair of ear plugs in, so that he didn't have to keep hearing the splashing of fish coming to others nets ........



I suffered with a few foul hookers as well during the afternoon session, despite cutting down on the feed, there were just so many fish down by the boards, even hooked fish charging through them didn't spook them. I basically fished the right hand margin for the whole 3 hours as the bites kept coming and they were from a better stamp of fish than those from the left hand margin.



In fact, by the time the All-Out was called at 5·15pm I was quite relieved as my right shoulder was starting to ache, and a quick glance showed me that I had another 61 fish on the clicker  .

I was soon packed away and dropped my kit back to the car, before making my way round to the weigh-in which was starting with Keith as the scales had been left there at the end of the morning session.



Well, What can I say  , Keith put an amazing 234lbs on the scales for a total of 382lbs  , Vic added 173¼lbs for a combined weight of 306½lbs  , while Martin weighed 202½lbs to edge out Keith by 1¼lbs with a total weight of 383¼lbs  . So that was over 1000lbs of fish weighed in from the first 3 pegs  !!!
Dave had had a decent afternoon on peg 6 putting 167½lbs on the scales for a total of 254¼lbs  . Tony on peg 8 recorded a total of 142½lbs and most had improved on their morning totals by the time we got round to Colin on peg 15 who added a net of 127½lbs for a total of 211lbs  while Terry on peg 16 recorded a total of 140¾lbs  .
When it came to my peg the scales recorded a weight of 210lbs giving me a total of 330lbs and 3rd place on the day  . Alan put a hard earned 101½lbs on the scales for a total of 171¾lbs while Graham rounded off things with a total weight of 114lbs for the 2 sessions  .

So there you have it, Martin is now the proud holder of the club match record at 383lbs 4ozs  . The top 10 anglers recorded 4 'Triple Tons', 2 'Double Tons' and 4 'Tons' between them  . A club record total of 2911lbs 14ozs was weighed in between 19 anglers, an average of over 153lbs per angler  . I broke my 3 hour PB match weight as well as my PB overall match weight as did quite a few others. Hopefully we'll get a chance to try and better that next year, or is that being greedy? 

You can find my Blog report HERE 

Peter. You appear to be failing in your duties as official club photographer. I suggest that next year you spend 30 minutes walking round during the match taking pictures to record the events for posterity.

I have just noticed a couple of mistakes on the weigh sheets

Colins final weight should be 211lb and the total overall should be 2911 lb 14 oz

I think you'll find that your average is wrong as well Dave.
Should be 153lbs 2ozs. 
You may have been an accountant, but it's a good job you retired.

Regarding the photos, I thought Clive would have done it, as he seemed to have plenty of time on his hands.

Actually its 153lb 4oz

Clive may well have done Peter but he is taking so long writing up his blog lately that we may have to wait til next week to find out.

Great reading again Mugger


Where the crappity smack is Saffron crappity smacking Walden

Not far from Stansted Airport close to the M11 Dodge. The lake isactually at Duddenhoe End a tiny village in the middle of nowhere.

You wouldnt like it at Rockells. There are no ide in the lake.

Where the crappity smack is Saffron crappity smacking Walden                

Just east of Crocus crappity smack Wobblebottom.

You wouldnt like it at Rockells. There are no ide in the lake.

Evidently there are some Roach, not that I saw any.