POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1st July 2012

With weather temperatures still fluctuating and the persistant rain, Tunnel Barn Farm has yet again had pleasure anglers reporting good catches including f1’s, roach and skimmers.

TBF Opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 217lbs.

Top Pool
Pellet to the islands at 6m for f1’s, ide, roach & skimmers.
Meat and corn over hemp down the inner margins at 3m is now starting to produce the better stamp of f1’s.
Maggot and caster shallow and on the deck has been producing large bags of silvers.
Paste down edges over hemp for f1’s, producing match-winning weights.

Bottom Pool
Pellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.
Pleasure anglers have reported large bags of perch up to 2.5lb being caught on chopped worm and caster.
Paste over hemp down the inner margins has reported catches of large mirrors and commons up to 14lb.

House Pool
Method feeder to the island using dead white maggot in a crab & krill ground bait has been tempting large mirrors and commons up to 14lbs.
Pellet at 6m or 8m down on the deck for mixed bags of f1’s, bream, roach and carp.
Meat down the edges over hemp is now producing a larger stamp of f1 carp.
Paste and corn over hemp down the edges, is now starting to produce good bags of fish.
Chopped worm and caster to the island and shallow down the edges has also been producing good bags of fish.
Congratulations to Paul Newell who won Saturdays open with a weight of 217-10 from peg 25 which is the best weight of the house pool for the month of June.
Congratulations also go to Luke Sherriff of Guilford AC who won Sundays match with a weight of 168-12 from peg 29.  He fished caster @ 7m shallow for f1’s mirrors & common carp.

Extension pool
Chopped worm and caster at 14m.   
Pellet at 6m and 8m down the track producing good bags of f1’s, roach and perch. 
4mm cubes of meat through a yellow toffee slop ground bait down the inner margins has been producing good bags of f1’s, roach and skimmers.
Paste over hemp on the top 2 down the edges has been producing large f1’s, mirrors and commons.

New Pool
Chopped worm & caster to the island.
Caster shallow @ 6m has been producing large bags of f1’s roach & skimmers.
Corn, paste & meat over hemp down the edges has seen large bags of f1’s & mirrors being caught by both match and pleasure anglers.

Canal Pool
In general pellet and maggot are the best baits at 6-8m and across to the island.
Mirrors and Commons are feeding and pleasure anglers are reporting f1’s up to 2lb
Good bags of silvers are being caught.
Anglers’ reporting large bags of mirrors and f1’s being caught using paste, meat and corn down the edges.

Club Pool
Corn and meat at 6m and down the edges producing f1’s, mirrors and carp. 
Chopped worm and caster to the island is producing f1’s in excess of 4lbs and mirrors up to 6lbs. 
Pleasure anglers have had good bags fishing pellet and maggot of large bream, roach and f1’s at 6m.
Paste on the top 2 down edges producing has been producing good bags of f1’s, mirrors and commons.

Jenny’s Pool
Pellet or maggot to the island or at 6-8m down the track has been producing good bags of f1’s, silvers and mirrors.
The fish have moved into the inner margins where caster has been working well with good bags of f1’s & stockies being caught.
Corn over micro pellet has been producing large f1’s.
Paste over hemp at 4m and down the edges is now starting to produce good bags of f1’s, mirrors and commons.

Worm and caster can be purchased from the tackle shop.  These baits need to be pre-ordered in the shop by Monday Morning as our deliveries come in on a Thursday.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 1st JULY 2012

Date: Monday 25th June 2012
Pools: Jennys Pool
No F/man: 19

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    D Chapman    Coventry    159 – 15    15
2nd    D Callaghan    Measham Redfins    107 – 6    23
3rd    Jamie Keasey    Tunnel Barn Farm    91 – 10    21
4th    Pete Hancox    Birmingham    90 – 9    11
5th    Tom Neale    Rutlanders    84 – 8    18
6th    Steve Birch    Northfield    81 – 13    6

Date: Tuesday 26th June 2012 TBF over 50’s Club
Pools: House / Extension Pool
No F/Man: 24

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    Kevin Folwell    Drennan Oxford    120 – 1    E 33
2nd    John Merchant    TBF Starlets    113 – 15    H 18
3rd    J Berry    Coventry    98 – 10    E 22
4th    Dave Chapman    Coventry    97 – 0    E 37
5th    Pete Hancox    Birmingham    77 – 11    E 9
6th    J Davenport    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    76 – 11    E 2

Date: Thursday 28th June 2012   TBF Vets Match
Pools: Canal, Jennys & High Pools
No F/Man: 58

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    John Merchant    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    130 – 2    J 18
2nd    R Hughes    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    83 – 4    C 7
3rd    Tony McGuire    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    83 – 1    C 15
4th    C Constable    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    80 – 4    H 28
5th     J Eales    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    71 – 15    J 11
6th    J Stockton    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    67 – 3    H 22

Date: Friday 29th June 2012 The Friday Flyer
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/Man:  17

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    Ron Biggs    OHMS    151 – 13    18
2nd    Tony Sheppard    Banbury Gunsmiths    106 – 9    24
3rd    Tom Neale    Rutlanders    101 – 15    1
4th     Chris Constable    TBF Vets    94 – 12    3
5th    Ian Ross    Tunnel Barn Farm    89 – 12    5
6th    Pete Hancox    Birmingham    89 – 5    12

Date: Saturday 30th June 2012
Pools: Club , House & Top Pool
No F/Man: 42

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    Paul Newell    Kingsmill Redditch    217 – 10    H 25
2nd    Stu Palsar    Middy    184 – 5    T 29
3rd    P Bick    Shakespeare    147 – 13    H 1
4th    Jason Le Bosquet    Garbolino    143 – 11    T 8
5th    Chris Neale    Rutlanders    136 – 9    T 26
6th    Pete Caton    Banbury Gunsmiths    135 – 6    Cl 9
7th     Rob Avery    Kingfisher    126 – 5    H 29
8th    Dan Cooper    Guilford    121 – 0    T 4

Date: Sunday 1st July 2012
Pools: Extension, House & Club Pools           
No F/Man:  60

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    Luke Sherriff    Guilford AC    168 – 12    H 29
2nd    Stu Palsar    Middy    163 – 0    E 21
3rd    N Wright    Finedon AC    154 – 12    Cl 11
4th    Dale Sheppard    Hemsworth Angling Centre    150 – 10                                              Cl 20
5th    Paul Newell    Kingsmill Redditch    123 – 10    E 16
6th    Jason Weir    Guilford AC    113 – 14    H 21
7th     Nick Crookes    Hemsworth AC    111 – 12    H 16
8th    Kevin Armstrong    Hemsworth AC    105 – 10    E 24