A different angle
30/09/2021 Leave a comment
Paul wins two in a row, with a 10lb weight advantage over Simon in second and Terry who completed the frame. Jack won the football card for the second week running as well.
We weighed in 624lbs or 283kg.
Read more of this post04/04/2021 Leave a comment
Cloudy start with sunny spells later on with a high temperature of 11C and a low of 8C with a moderate Northerly wind of 9mph
Good bags of carp from around Swallow pool
A great start to the season, with a brilliant attendance for our opening match of the 2021 season at the brilliant Monkhall fishery.
We had a lot of catching up to do as there have been no presentations, and no AGM in 2021. So Trev and Martin did the honours and presented the trophies from the back of his van (Julie is well pleased). Following the presentation we welcomed the new members to the club. A big welcome to Gavin and Allan oh and Jack is back! (just in case nobody noticed). Following the proceedings and taking all the subscriptions, Martin proceeded with the draw, we opted to draw names and then peg numbers from hereon (COVID is still here).
Things got off to a good start for Terry, winning the first football card (PNE), then Martin drew peg 1 for him and he then went on the catch more than a ton and win the match. Not easy when you’re fishing next door to Guy (no pressure eh Tez).
There were plenty of carp and ide being caught, to pole fished short and down the track either on the deck or up in the water. Paul and Gavin we having good fish on the feeder as well.
Don’t forget to consider transportation options for the Annual Outing, I know it’s not until June, but we’ll need time to organise and tentatively make a booking.
Nominations for a new vice chair-person will be accepted via the WhatsApp group or by contacting Trev or Martin directly.
We weighed in 782lbs or 354kg.
Read more of this post08/11/2020 Leave a comment
Report by Trev.
Fishing conditions were atrocious on the day with high winds and rain, the results were a bit of a miss mash. Within the first two hours I think everybody would have packed up and gone home as brollys been blown inside out and sections of poles blown across the paths.
The better results coming from the right-hand side of the pool, with Terry, Martin, Dan and Dave, but I think everyone was relieved when the all-out whistle was blown. Simon Garbett had already packed up and left early. Although we were all having a laugh and joke about the conditions of the day when we finished.
As there will be no presentation night due to the COVID we will have a mini presentation at the AGM in Jan all being well .
So the committee myself, Micky and Martin would like to wish all the members a safe and happy Xmas and New Year, we will be in touch later with a date for the AGM and where it will be held
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Apologises that there is no report, as I was on holiday.
Read more of this post22/07/2019 Leave a comment
Many congratulations to Terry for posting a hat trick of wins. He continued his good form on the Swallow Pool at Monkhall, by putting 104-0 onto the scales from peg 2. Simon Harris took second place with 90-0, narrowly beating Barry who weighed in with 88-0.
Terry’s consecutive wins have catapulted him 😉 up to second place on the leader board behind Guy who remains at the top with consistent match points. We weighed in a total of 801lb at this match.
Read more of this post30/06/2019 Leave a comment
We have decided to change the draw time for the next match at Monkhall fishery. The new draw time is 9:00am and we’ll fish from 10:00am to 3:00pm.
Please inform anyone that you know that is going but doesn’t always read the notifications posted on here.
17/04/2019 Leave a comment
Swallow pool (20 pegs) is home to f1s from 1lb to 7lb. Carp from 6oz to 10lb, chub to 3lb, small tench and crucians, and ide. Shallow fishing and paste are great methods in the summer, while fishing pellets bread and maggots in winter. You can’t help but appreciate this excellent venue, the cleanliness and maintenance that has gone into making this one of the best fisheries around. The pool has a stone path around it, taking you to the generously sized wooden platforms, fishery supplied landing nets and keep nets are stored close to each peg.
Rob McKee continued his impressive form catching f1s from the whistle from the far side of peg 2, due to a cold gusting wind that swim could not be maintained on the pole. So ringing the changes, switched to down the track and later to the margins, with the fish feeding shallow on 4mm expanders even in the cold temperatures. On the wider side of the pool, Martin McHugh was aiming for top spot from peg 11, and looked set for a win – finding carp and f1s on the pellet feeder and 8mm hard pellet. With 2 wins out of 2 matches Rob is the early leader in the points – can anyone catch him?
12/08/2018 Leave a comment
The session got off to a great start, before everyone had set up on their pegs, Brian threw his keep net in forgetting that he needed to keep hold of the open end LOL (he did manage to retrieve it and set up okay after that). Once the whistle went everyone was catching from the start. Some on feeder, others on pole either long or short, so everything looked in favour of big winning weights. Banter around the pool, was that Rob, Dan, Terry, Mickey and Simon were all catching well, it would be down to the stamp of fish they were all catching to determine who would make the frame.
Mickey was fishing feeder to the island, and was hitting the mark every time, impressive casting – which was being rewarded with good fish throughout the match. Rob was plundering carp on the tip of the island on long pole. Terry was catching well on feeder to the island on the opposite side of the pool to Rob. Meanwhile Martin and I were being frustrated by margin carp – tails in the air – sail away bites and nothing on the hook.
We weighed in a total over 773lb. Well done everyone.
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24/08/2017 Leave a comment
Due to unconfirmed problems with the Owl pool, we were kindly re-arranged onto the swallow pool which could accommodate all of us. Allowing the usual open to fish the lark pool. Kev was on his usual peg on this pool, he can’t stop drawing peg 13 on here, a corner peg with the wind blowing in his direction, so he sat fishing with his back to the rest of us. He didn’t stop catching right up to the final whistle and more. Read more of this post
25/05/2017 Leave a comment
18 Fished
Our recent doubles match took place at Monkhall fisheries with 9 anglers fishing each pool. The fishing was good on both pools and the individual results were combined to produce the doubles winners, Guy Jones who won his match on the Owl and Dan Podmore who finished 5th on the Lark.
