Colin's Fishing Blog

So it was time for the last match of the   Verulam Angling Club  championship season.  Going into this match I was in second place in the league. There are 15 matches in the season and your best 10 results count. The leader of the league (AllanB) had 840 points and I was on 795, my lowest counting score was 45 so I knew that if I could win...

The second-last club match of the season, usually when the club visits this venue it is very cold and is a hard silverfish match with no carp caught or just the 1 or 2 carp caught on the whole lake, although there are plenty of carp in there.   It was unseasonably mild for the week before so the silvers at least should be feeding ok and perhaps a few carp...

Time for my annual trip to the Stoney and Friends charity event at Yateley.My wife goes to this with me as she likes camping and the countryside, unfortunately not interested in the fishing at all though!I was on South Lake which I have fished a couple of times before.I managed to get us in a swim with a cast to the area at the end of the island and l...

A hot day for this match, not good bream weather!I fished for the large bream anyway as I had drawn a decent area. I fished a groundbait feeder for the whole match, just swapping between hookbaits.Not a great match for me, 2 small roach, 2 perch and 2 skimmers for a total of 4lb 1oz.I did have a violent bite an hour from the end after a long time bite...

Our (VAC) 2012 club match league is under way again, I fished the first match at Riverside Road but not much to report. I had 2 bream for 4lb 1oz and that put me 6th out of 36.I couldn't make the 2nd match as my car was undergoing repairs, so here we are at the 3rd match.Only 15 of us on this one, some are not keen on the challenge (or potential long-...

As predicted in my previous entry, the madness continued on this highly stocked match lake.This one was a straight 5 hours match with a strict 100lb per keepnet limit, if you go over 100lb = disqualified.30 entries for this one.I drew peg 30 which was only 18" deep and fed 2 big pots of pellets and corn at 5m in front of me and the same to my right.I...

Entire Farm (Arrans Lake) is one of the commercial fisheries which has recently thrown up some huge match weights to over 500lbs. CARP SOUP!!I have not fished at such a highly stocked fishery before and it wouldn't be everyones cup of tea but it is part of the club's match schedule so I gave it a go.Our match was split into a 2.5 Hr sessio...

I missed the last two club matches, the first due to being at the Stoney and Friends Charity Fish-in at Yateley blanking on The Pads lake and the second due to being on holiday in Cornwall with my wife. Whilst in Cornwall we did fish from Newlyn harbour wall on a couple of evenings, first evening Wife caught 3 - a Gar, a Mackerel and a small Pollock and f...

Frogmore is another nice club venue and as at Riverside Road it is fairly prolific when pleasure fishing but much tougher in a match. This is not helped at this time of year by the low water levels.8.30 Draw today, fishing 9.30 to 14.30.I drew a peg which has one of the 3 small islands in front of it, one peg from the end of the lake and the island was ea...

The 3rd match of the seaseon was on the Grand Union Canal at Marsworth, a day ticket stretch.21 entries for this match and a late start/finish was being tried out to hopefully have a bit less traffic on and off the water to contend with so the draw was at 2pm and fishing 3 - 8pm.There were a few surprises in this match.This stretch is known for its qualit...