POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 10th JUNE 2012

With weather temperatures still fluctuating and the persistent 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 212lbs.

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 chilli hemp for f1’s, producing match-winning weights.
Congratulations go to John Gaylard who won his section on Sunday in the Royal Navy champs.  Included in his bag of fish was a 15lb 10oz common carp.

Bottom Pool
Pellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.
Pleasure anglers have reported large bags of perch up to 3lb being caught on chopped worm and caster.
Paste over hemp down the inner margins has reported catches of large mirrors and commons up to 12lb.

House Pool
Method feeder to the island using dead red maggot in a bloodworm ground bait has been tempting large mirrors and commons up to 16lbs.
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.

Extension pool
Chopped worm and caster at 14m.   
Pellet at 6 and 8m down the track producing good bags of f1’s, roach and perch. 
4mm cubes of meat over ground bait are producing good bags of f1’s, roach and skimmers at 4m down the edges.  Paste over hemp on the top 2 down the edges has been producing large f1’s, mirrors and commons.
A 2lb 4oz barbel was pulled from peg 10 in the Navy Champs on Sunday.
Congratulations to Jon Newton who won the Wednesday open with a bag of 147-7.  His bag consisted of f1’s, roach & skimmers.  He fished maggot shallow @ 7m.

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.
Congratulations go to Jason Neath who set a new lake record in the Sunday open with a winning weight of 212-5.  He fished chopped worm & caster @ 6m shallow and down the edges for a bag of f1’s mirrors & 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 10TH JUNE 2012

Date: Monday 4th June 2012
Pools: House Pool
No F/man: 21

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    D Callaghan    Measham Redfins    118 – 4    12
2nd    R Round    Solihull AC    90 – 0    29
3rd    D Chapman    White Hart Coventry    89 – 0    4
4th    G Young    Tunnel Barn Farm    86 – 4    33
5th    B Edwards    Tunnel Barn Farm    75 – 0    1
6th    S Birch    Nuffield    62 – 4    6
7th    Jamie    Tunnel Barn Farm    86 – 6    31
8th    A Harper    Tunnel Barn Farm    43 – 12    14

Date: Monday 4th June 2012 Open
Pools: Canal, Club and Jenny’s Pools
No F/man: 44

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    P Newell    Kingsmill Redditch    148  – 11    J6
2nd    D James    Mosella    115 – 5    C9
3rd    C Neale    Rutlanders    114 – 13    C5
4th    A Mansfield    Maver    114 – 7    C17
5th    J Newton    Smithys    101 – 1    C13
6th    L Wetton    Tunnel Barn Farm    100 – 1    CL21
7th    P Hancox    Birmingham    95 – 8    C22
8th    P Rice    Bagem Baits    92 – 10    J19

Date: Tuesday 5th June 2012 TBF over 50’s Club
Pools: New Pool
No F/Man: 21   

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    P Lewis    Tunnel Barn Farm    75 – 7    33
2nd    J Lavender    Tunnel Barn Farm    72 – 13    25
3rd    D Chapman    White Hart Coventry    68 – 14    30
4th    R Davis    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    63 – 2    21
5th    D Callaghan    Measham Redfins    56 – 1    27
6th    M Brayson    Tunnel Barn Farm    43 – 2    13

Date: Tuesday 5th June 2012 Open
Pools: Extension Pool
No F/Man: 17   

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    J Newton    Smithys    47 – 7    10
2nd    P Hancox    Birmingham    106 – 14    3
3rd    P Caton    Banbury Gunsmiths    100 – 5    39
4th    D James    Mosella    87 – 12    33
5th    J Cook    W B Clarke    85 – 13    26
6th    D Parish    Guernsey    79 – 3    28

Date: Wednesday 6th June 2012
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/Man: 17       

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    J Warmington    Tunnel Barn Farm    111 – 4    9
2nd    P Hancox    Birmingham    110 – 3    1
3rd    I Ross    MCM    96 – 10    3
4th    M Moseley    MCM    72 – 0    6
5th    S Fidler    Tunnel Barn Farm    66 – 6    11
6th    J Keasey    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    61 – 3    13

Date: Thursday 7th June 2012   TBF Vets Match
Pools: Club, Canal and Jenny’s Pools
No F/Man: 48

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    T McGuire    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    111 – 12    CL17
2nd    J Berry    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    95 – 4    C1
3rd    B Weale    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    92 – 10    C5
4th    J Stockton    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    86 – 1    C18
5th     J Boff    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    71 – 14    J2
6th    S Stokes    Tunnel Barn Farm Vets    70 – 1    J4

Date: Friday 8th June 2012  The Friday Flyer
Pools: Club Pool
No F/Man:  18

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    P Hancox    Birmingham    99 – 7    12
2nd    T Neal    Rutlanders    99 – 6    15
3rd    A Cambden    Wycombe    78 – 8    17
4th     Buba    Rutlanders    62 – 1    9
5th    C Horsley    Tunnel Barn Farm    61 – 7    5
6th    I Parry    Tunnel Barn Farm    58 – 3    2

Date: Saturday 9th June 2012
Pools:  Club and Canal Pools
No F/Man: 38

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    P Newell    Kingsmill    138 – 11    CL7
2nd    R Avery    Kingfisher    120 – 5    CL20
3rd    P Rice    Bagem Baits    119 – 10    C8
4th    J Brown    Maver Mids    108 – 0    CL15
5th    S Little    MAP    99 – 4    CL18
6th    L Hodginson    Tunnel Barn Farm    96 – 9    CL9
7th     A Jackson    Mosella    86 – 12    CL21
8th    J Warmington    Tunnel Barn Farm    85 – 11    CL1

Date: Sunday 10th June 2012
Pools: Canal and Jenny’s Pools           
No F/Man:  40

Pos    NAME    CLUB    WEIGHT    PEG NO
1st    J Neath    Smithys Angling Centre    212 – 5    J21
2nd    P Newell    Kingsmill    168 – 3    C3
3rd    D James    Mosella    136 – 4    J26
4th    P Rice    Bagem Baits    132 – 3    J18
5th    R Avery    Kingfisher    130 – 4    J2
6th    S Palsa    Middy    116 – 5    C8
7th     D White    Tunnel Barn Farm    101 – 1    C24
8th    D Craggs    Maver    98 – 11    J6