Froze and blanked on the R Colne at Uxbridge.
Only 8 people caught, mainly odd chub- three for 12-15 won it.
As far as I know, have no match at any of usual haunts next weekend, and not much intention of trying to find one !

Broke the ice on Hardys in Knutsford and came third with 1 lb 5 oz….only 3 lb won. Think i’ll give winter fishing a miss this year ha.

3 lb 10z at lake john, colin bartlett won the “trousers” ( ron Burrows) memorial match with 12lb +, lots of ice in the margins and a bit of ice breaking went on thankfully my swim was fairly clear of ice howevert colin said it’s the only one on the lake he dreads drawing as it’s not great, he was proved right, although I beat both the anglers either side so there was some satisfaction on drawing a rough peg, other lads faired even worse with the odd blank but generally a great match run for charity.

20 of us turned out for ashford angling society christmas match.Came 2nd with 3and three quarter oz(11 gudgeon,1perch)beaten by a specimen hunter who had 4roach and a gudgeon for 4and a quarter oz.Dont know what i will be doing next week but it wont be fishing!

Had an open on Todber manor we all broke the ice and I won it with 28lb small carp,tench skimmers,roach and a couple of F1’s 3 other weights of double figure roach catches. but not a bad day after all.

Fished Spey at Partridge in a teams of 4 today. Caught 5 F1s for 4lb 7oz and 3rd in the match. 9lb won with 4lb 8oz 2nd. Gutted to be beat in to 2nd by 1oz. Ouch! Only once before in over 30 years of match fishing have i seen a lake freeze over during the day. Had to clear my peg every 30 minutes of new ice to continue fishing. It was a bit cold!

had a whole 16lb at pans hill Feel like i bagged up lol

only 3lb was 2nd, 2lb was 3rd, then noone else had a fish

I had to break the ice about 10 times.

It was so cold my maggots froze! holy shit thats cold.

didnt get above -5 all day.

As the above comment, ive never known a lake freeze up so much during a match, they had the aerator on over night till 8am, soon as they switched it off you could visibly see the ice crystals beginning to form on the surface and within 15 minutes i couldn’t fish (not that i can anyway :))

Fished Bonsai at Lindholme yesterday, my mate was up from down south and there was no way we werent fishing.

Caught a barbel early on a small method, then got loads of knocks and nudges for an hour but no proper bites, then nothing all afternoon.

There was a match on Oasis and i didnt see anyone catch at all from where i was, a few were just walking around, and when it started to snow they just packed up.

If i could have weighed the duck i caught mid flight i might have got more weight than the match lads LOL. Casted out the method and a duck flew just beneath it as it started to descend, the feeder wrapped round its leg.

My mate saw it but i was watching for splash down, but and all i saw was my pellets land in the water, and then the tip flying round. I thought it was a bit quick for a bite, and i only realised when the line started to head for the sky. Thankfully the duck freed itself on the ice as i started to work my way round the lake to free it, and was injury free.

Also, when we arrived yesterday it was -10, Bev said it have even reached -14. Luckily we were near the airator so the end of the lake we were on was pretty clear but as you reeled in there were icicles on the line and i was constantly having to clear the rod rings of ice, which was a nightmare, got into loads of tangles.

Our winter league was cancelled so 11 of us waited back and had a knockup on some pegs we thought would be ok to fish we just pushed ice around all afternoon with out cupping kits it was a waste of time really out of a four hour match i probably fished for 1 hour wish id gone home like the others

Was going to Kippax Park complex nr Leeds but called off so went for couple of hours on Aire & Calder canal, chiselled hole in ice at 9-10m & got 1 8oz Chub, a micro Perch & missed a bite, well chuffed~clap ~clap

Fished the open at Greenridge Farm on Saturday.

Very cold and very hard. Managed to win with 12 carp for 47lb 8oz. All caught from the same spot on the far-bank, didn’t feed a thing all day. Proper winter fishing!

@welshmagic wrote:

Fished the open at Greenridge Farm on Saturday.

Very cold and very hard. Managed to win with 12 carp for 47lb 8oz. All caught from the same spot on the far-bank, didn’t feed a thing all day. Proper winter fishing!

How much is the golden peg now mate

£500 mate- Wish I’d been on it on Saturday ~sick

@JonniTimms wrote:

Fished Bonsai at Lindholme yesterday, my mate was up from down south and there was no way we werent fishing.

Caught a barbel early on a small method, then got loads of knocks and nudges for an hour but no proper bites, then nothing all afternoon.

There was a match on Oasis and i didnt see anyone catch at all from where i was, a few were just walking around, and when it started to snow they just packed up.

If i could have weighed the duck i caught mid flight i might have got more weight than the match lads LOL. Casted out the method and a duck flew just beneath it as it started to descend, the feeder wrapped round its leg.

My mate saw it but i was watching for splash down, but and all i saw was my pellets land in the water, and then the tip flying round. I thought it was a bit quick for a bite, and i only realised when the line started to head for the sky. Thankfully the duck freed itself on the ice as i started to work my way round the lake to free it, and was injury free.

Also, when we arrived yesterday it was -10, Bev said it have even reached -14. Luckily we were near the airator so the end of the lake we were on was pretty clear but as you reeled in there were icicles on the line and i was constantly having to clear the rod rings of ice, which was a nightmare, got into loads of tangles.

The Winter league was called off so 15 of us smashed our way into Oasis. Could have been much worse, 4 chub and 2 carp for 11lb won it (one of the chub being 4lb), 10lb was 2nd consisting of 3 F1s and a chub and 8lb third. I had 5 F1s and about 20 odd bits for 7lb. Packed up 30 minutes early when a blizzard got up into my face, you couldnt pay me to sit in that!

Fished both days and broke ice yesterday but didn’t have to today on another lake on the same complex, Suffolk Water Park. Only 2/3rds of it was frozen. Yesterday I was 4th with 7lb 12oz of caster roach, today I had a level 2lb and managed 2nd =.

I am glad that I got out as if the forecasters of doom are correct it may be a few weeks until I get out again.