Why is Salford Park no longer used?

Joff, i told him a month ago how mild it was, and how well its fishing, 2 sections on here would have been brilliant. I have just spoken to Tom Scohley who said he caught just over a kilo over 2 days, Darren Cox said he struggled too.

I have also just had a pint with Steve Ringer who has been here all day, he has just had 41 lb of skimmers and a 20lb carp for a feature!

Admittedly he was on his own, and if its cold its not too good here, but its a shame with it being so mild this year we didnt have the 2 sections he was thinking about a month ago.

joff,we had it on the stainy for a couple of years and if im right mark downes wasn’t happy with it.the following year it was moved.

We will have it anywhere …… we just turn up and qualify !

LOL

Joff the stainy is about 75% better now than it was back then. i love Packington but when you draw on lakes like Willow it kind of makes the whole thing a bit of a non-event in my eyes. how can an international rules event be held on a 12 peg lake????

it needs to be split with Barston really, and i would say that there should be a lot of pegs in at barston and then only use molands and geary’s.

i do think it needs to be in the midlands though so finding any more venues is a bit of a struggle.

ye molands and big geary’s.

Joff willow was shocking on sunday mate… i drew it! i cam fourth in section off one of the narrow pegs and the top three all came in that corner where the reed bed is. crap.

The weather is spot on right now, its a beutifull day, and its fishing well here right now, as you say Joe and Joff, 3 big lakes would work better, Barston, Molands and big Geareys.
If you remember, the only reason it went to Packington, is because it was tight to get it all on here, so we put 2 sections on Packington, it was very good, (33kg won, and 34 KG won here) so it was a perfect split result, couldent have been closer, me and John (gaffer) had a quid on it! lol.
But then the whole match went on packington last year, and again this year, like i said, the year it was split between the 2 venues was the best year weve had.

Yes Joff, 1st race was Sunday, went OK, I need more practice, the cars in bits again, rebuilidig for Kings Lynn the Saturday.~clap

Don’t think you can get a perfect venue, I was next to Joe on Saturday and though we caught some fish we were out of the game with all the f1’s at end of lake but if mark had booked barston and weather went cold then there could of been loads of dries. Weather permitting I think barston, molands and geary’s is spot on, stainy would be superb bu t maybe too far for some to travel . Heard Gloucester mentioned because it fished ok Saturday with quite a few 6 and 7 pounds but would it stand the practicing and 2 days on bounce

I think the Gloucester Canal or the Stainy would be perfect. I don’t mind the fishing being hard as long as it is relatively fair. Packington was unbelievably peggy. When anglers like Darren Cox come last and second to last in there sections over the two days it tells a story.

As for my weekend, it was a combination of lack of experience at that kind of fishing and not so great draws, but to catch under two kilos of fish on a commercial in two matches is bad form- even for me! 😀

Stainy best natural venue in the country , be crazy not to use it plus no vermin F1s ~clap ~clap

i worked it out for the 1st day 14lb was the average and i am guessing it was around the 10 lb mark on the 2nd day.i think that there were only 4 wieghts of less than a kilo for 240 anglers over the 2 days.the fishery took a hammering over 4 days with more practising on the thurs and fri than in previous years.the amount of bait that gets balled in has to be seen to be believed and this does not happen at any other time on the fishery.i know Mark wants to make the event larger next year and it may outgrow packington but i feel we did a decent job hosting it.

i think it needs to be on a more relivant venue to world/european venues that the cips matches r run on. gloucester canal or stainy may be harder than packington/barston etc etc but surely wud be a good test.
fishing shallow for f1’s wud not figure, just like on the continent.

@johnb wrote:

i worked it out for the 1st day 14lb was the average and i am guessing it was around the 10 lb mark on the 2nd day.i think that there were only 4 wieghts of less than a kilo for 240 anglers over the 2 days.the fishery took a hammering over 4 days with more practising on the thurs and fri than in previous years.the amount of bait that gets balled in has to be seen to be believed and this does not happen at any other time on the fishery.i know Mark wants to make the event larger next year and it may outgrow packington but i feel we did a decent job hosting it.

.you,ll get no thanks john.

Well i think that the venue was perfect to host this event. Yes it was hard and got harder but like johnb wrote the place got absolutely hammered, and aren’t we forgetting that fish can get full!! And will back away. And aren’t some people forgetting that even though the place is a coarse fishery,(and a top class one at that), anglers weather it be pleasure anglers or match lads will only target the carp in the warmer months and will not even entertain the silvers to get the weights. And will see the silvers as a nuisance throughout the warm months. (I know that some pegs in summer will throw up weights of skimmers and people will target these to beat the carp weights, especially when the carp are spawning before anyone says). So these silvers can only take so much, no matter how stuffed the place is. If all the carp were took out and replced with silvers then yes it might/would be better for ‘US’ (who only fished the place for two days out of the WHOLE year) but the fishery has to accommadate anglers who want carp, and will keep coming back week after week and isn’t going to specifically stock silvers across the whole site,just for us, and is a business after all. And as for anglers struggling~hand we had never seen the place before and still qualified off some pegs were people turned round and said uh it’s crap there mate. Its about making the most of your’e peg and if you know you can only beat three people then so be it, your’e then hoping your’e team mates come up with the goods to pull you through ie working as a TEAM.
So carry on Packington well done. ~clap ~clap
End of rant

Well said joff ~clap