Barford Lakes News

Mark Shubrook fished the Top Lake using the method that the recent Fish-O-Mania winner used.  He fished shallow all day and had fish non-stop!!   Mark was fishing the pole 12 metres out using a banded 6mm Barford loose pellet.  Regularly feeding 4 mm Pellets and using the catapult to attract the fish into the swim, Mark caught 10 Carp to 7lb and numerous Chub, Roach, Rudd and one Perch , all in four hours!!  Mark is pictured below with a carp from a session last year.

John Thorneycroft sent this photo in from his successful session on peg 9 of the Top Lake.  He caught this 7lb 2oz Tench fishing strawberry luncheon and feeding Barford pellet at approx 3 rod lengths out (laying on bottom)
 
He sends his thanks to the guy who took the photo with his camera.
 
John also had 9 carp ranging between 4-8lb and 4 more tench 2lb-4lb.  He also had a few lost fish so not a bad day in a 9 hour session!

Robert Northman sent these photos in from a recent trip that he and his Grandfather had here on the Top Lake.  Our bailiff John had an interesting chat with his Grandfather, Bill, about his collection of old rods.  Indeed, with some helpful hints from John, Bill caught his personal best of 5lbs on his 50 year old cane rod!  Robert also banked a personal best of 14lb 6 oz - the same carp he's caught 3 times in the last four years - each time being his PB!

These fish were caught on the Pleasure Lake showing we have a variety of fish!!  The carp was caught by Ray Smart and was 16lb - the Perch I'm afraid didn't move the scales!!

The event was blessed with good weather and a full 130 anglers competed.  Due to no-shows 10 reserves also had the bonus of fishing.  One of those reserves was our very own Daniel Brydon who drew on Colton peg 16 - he wasn’t disappointed with his draw but unfortunately a day out at Hayfield was not meant to be!   Even after loose feeding his top kit!  Fishing up in the water it is important to keep feeding your swim whilst playing the fish.  Some top anglers do this by holding the top kit inbetween their knees and firing out bait.  This is all well and good as long as you keep a grip!  Seeing Daniel's top kit swim past caused much amusement for everyone - it was later caught by peg 30 - who weighed the fish in!!! 

Chris Knights (Harleston AC) had 3 chub and carp which were caught on banded 6mm pellet up in the water on a pole and waggler - he managed a sneaky 15lb carp with 5 minutes left.

2nd place was Shane Trower (Corby) who had 132lb of Pleasure Lake carp to 12lb.  He also fished mid water on a pole and waggler with pellet and corn.

Third placed Rotheram based angler Rob Austin (Halkon Hunt AC) was opposite Shane on the point (peg 31).  Rob caught carp to 14lb on the pellet wag.

Local angler Paul Ashford (Jewsons AC) came fourth overall on Colton lkae and caught shallow feeding caster with maggot hookbait and had carp to 12lb.  And finally our own Daniel Brydon took 5th overall with 113lb of fish to 10lb caught on the same method as Paul.

All lakes (except Abbey Waters) were used and the top three results from each lake can be seen on the Match Results page.  The lakes fished well.  The full run down is below – photos follow:

1 Top 4           Christopher Knights 136.10
2 Pleasure 4     Shane Trower 132.04
3 Pleasure 31   Robert Austin 131.01
4 Colton 14     Paul Ashford 121.12
5 Colton 16     Daniel Brydon 113.14
6 Pleasure 7    Nigel Harrhy 113.11
7 Railway 36   Dave Reeve 99.09
8 Railway 62   Stephen Rothery 96.01
9 Top 12         Jon Arthur 95.04
10 Railway 12   Howard Kaye 93.15
11 Colton 17   Mark Froggatt 92.04
12 Railway 1   Darren Clarke 89.13
13 Colton 30    Steven Porter 86.02
14 Railway 8    Mark Pollard 85.14
15 Match 1      Ian Dixon 85.12
16 Match 30    Steve Jackson 85.12
17 Railway 46   Lee Thornton 80.00
18 Railway 38   Karl Chaplin 74.14
19 Colton 2       Dale Stones 74.00
20 Willow 4      Brian Castlo 73.03
21 Railway 10   Chris Sykes 73.01
22 Willow 11     Paul Hills 68.01
23 Match 14      David Chipperfield 67.12
24 Pleasure 15   Mick Scanlan 64.10
25 Colton 19     Andrew Quarmby 63.13
26 Match 24     Marc Jones 61.10
27 Willow 24    Robert Ramsbottom 61.09
28 Match 22     Luke Sears 60.02
29 Willow 7      Robert Tilbury 59.00
30 Pleasure 19   Jeff Rogers 58.06
31 Pleasure 6     Vince Cross 58.00
32 Top 14         Kevin Shellie 56.02
33 Pleasure 20   Matthew Hall 55.03
34 Top 13         Nigel Shipp 54.05
35 Colton 35     Thomas Conlan 53.02
36 Willow 21     Andrew Neal 51.08
37 Pleasure 12    Darren Cox 50.08
38 Match 25      Ian Chestney 50.02
39 Match 17     Roger Young 49.04
40 Pleasure 11  William Hardy 49.03
41 Pleasure 24   Gary Kirkby 47.05
42 Railway 42     Ian Dunlop 45.09
43 Willow 30      Jim Randell 45.04
44 Railway 34     Stuart Cox 44.14
45 Willow 5        Gary Manoli 44.06
46 Match 5         Ricky Young 44.04
47 Colton 24       Nathan Watson 43.02
48 Match 7         Steve Clark 43.02
49 Willow 31      Andy Walker 42.12
50 Pleasure 25    Warren Martin 41.05
51 Railway 14     Anthony Pearson 39.06
52 Willow 28      Chris Kitchin 39.06
53 Match 13       Karen Brooks 39.00
54 Colton 10       Daniel Clarke 38.06
55 Railway 52     Terry Edwards 37.12
56 Colton 7         Richard Howson 37.10
57 Colton 11       Steven Davies 37.10
58 Willow 8         Richard Count 37.02
59 Top 10           Gary Kiddell 35.08
60 Willow 19       Neil Adcock 35.01
61 Match 18        Alan Simmons 35.00
62 Railway 60      Kevin Ford 34.12
63 Match 23        Ashley Prestidge 34.08
64 Pleasure 14     Stephen Potter 32.06
65 Railway 40      Billy Lowe 32.01
66 Match 8          Tim Bates 32.00
67 Colton 32        Peter Mattingley 31.12
68 Willow 27       Jack Lucas 31.12
69 Colton 39       Adrian Stacey 31.04
70 Colton 22      Wayne Smith 30.12
71 Railway 48     Adam Playford 28.08
72 Colton 18      Jonathan Taylor 27.04
73 Colton 12      Hilton Kemp 25.08
74 Colton 4        Ian Darler 24.10
75 Colton 5       David Boulter 23.02
76 Pleasure 8    Matther Mattingley 21.06
77 Pleasure 29   John Metcalfe 15.04
78 Willow 18     David Ostler 15.03
79 Match 9        Paul Jackson 12.04
80 Pleasure 30    Alan Ashby 1.12

Local angler Byron Mann came down for a session on the pleasure lake. On a nice day the fish in the pleasure lake didnt seem to want to play ball and a late switch to the top lake proved worthwhile with an immaculate 11lb 8oz mirror carp;

Fishing a waggler rig in the margins with a size 12 hook baited with sweetcorn Byron fed Barford pellets and this was one of many 'late' carp that came out on the day.