What a week at Hallcroft Fishery. Several inches of snow here and temperatures dropping below minus 10. Even the adjacent River Idle is starting to freeze over.
We managed to get 3 reports….
Amanda

25.11.10
Daiwa Hallcroft Veterans Winter League (Thursday)
Bridge/Croft (21 pegs)
1 D Downes, Killamarsh, 43-14-0; peg Bridge Outer 5
Dave Downes fished the bomb with meat and corn catching carp up to 7lb early on
2 A Payling, Peg One, 37-14-0; peg Bridge Island 26
Arnie Payling alternated pole and pellet with bomb and corn for a net of small carp and bream
3 R Smith, Notts AA, 18-6-0; peg Bridge Outer 24
Roy Smith was third fishing bomb and hair-rigged corn

27.11.10
Daiwa Hallcroft Carp/Silver Match (Saturday)
Moat (18 pegs)
1 A Sellars,, Bankside Tackle, 22-6-0; peg island 2 S Yorks
Plummeting temperatures plus snow on the ground reduced the numbers of anglers today and those who braved it were always going to be in
for a hard match. Andy Sellars made the most of a good winter peg catching small carp on the pole using pellet and corn
2 S Barraclough, Barnsley Bl;acks, 14-10-0; peg island 5
Steve Barraclough caught all silverfish using bloodworm and joker
3 A Oldham, Maver, 11-2-0; peg island 20 S Yorks
Andy Oldham took third spot with carp and a couple of skimmers taken on pole and caster
4 P Bagshaw, Barnsley Blacks, 67-6-0; peg outer 6 Derbys
5 S Clark, Notts
6 L Hewison, S Yorks
7 P McIntyre, S Yorks
8 R Walker, S Yorks
Silvers :
1 P Bagshaw, 10-10-0
2 S Clark, 7-4-0

28.11.10
Daiwa Hallcroft Tournament League (Sunday)
Moat/Bridge/Reed (41 pegs)
1 B Holmes, Fox Trentmen, 9-14-0; peg BI 2 Notts
Despite temperatures in excess of -10 degrees and the lakes freezing over during the day there were still some fish to be caught. Ben Holmes won from Bridge Island 2 with 1 carp and a couple of pounds of silvers using pole and bloodworm
2 A Payling, Peg One, 7-0-0; peg MI 39 Notts
Second was Arnie Payling who was pegged on Moat Island and he had a solitary carp on bomb and maggot
3 G Gibson, Worksop, 6-8-0; peg Reed 11 Notts
Gordon Gibson was third from Reed 11 and he caught all roach to bloodworm over joker at 11m
4 A Oldham, Maver, 6-0-0; S Yorks
5 P McIntyre, S Yorks
6 J Skipper, Lincs
7 S Randall, Notts
8 W Lomas, Derbys