Tunnel Barn Farm

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 3rd APRIL 2011

Lots of fish feeding up and down in the water, with pleasure and match anglers catching 100lb+ nearly every day. Pellet, red maggot, corn and bread have been the best baits fished at 6-10m.

Top Pool
Corn/Pellet have been the best baits with f1 carp, common carp, bream and roach on all pegs. Dead maggot to the island has also been catching common and mirror carp.

Bottom Pool
Corn in the margins for big common, ghost and mirror carp. Pellet or maggot for all carp and silverfish.

House Pool
Fish at 6m up in the water with pellet or bread for big weights of carp. Maggot for silverfish.

Extension pool
Lots of fish in the margins to pellet, corn and red maggot at 8m up in the water for all carp and silverfish.

New Pool
The roadside pegs and low pegs have been producing 100lb+ weights with pellet or corn being the best baits, fished up/down in the water on 9m line.

Canal Pool
Red maggot at 4-14m for f1 & f2 carp, common carp, bream, golden rudd, rudd, roach and perch. Corn in the margins for barbel.

Club Pool
Pellet and bread have been the best baits, fished at 6m and against the island for all carp and silverfish. Some bream, tench and barbel on corn in the margins.

Jenny’s Pool
The fish have been on the far bank and down the middle with pellet being the best bait for f1 & f2 carp, bream, tench and roach.

Date: Monday 28th March 2011
Pools: Jenny’s Pool
No F/Man: 18

Match Report:
1st: Bread up in the water @ 14m for f1 & f2 carp & bream.
2nd: Maggot & bread @ 10m on the bottom with slop for carp, roach & bream.
3rd: Maggot & bread @ 10m on the bottom with slop for carp, roach & bream.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Aid Mansfield Yorkshire Baits/ tamworth Tackle 65 – 8 – 0 23
2nd Rob Swain White Hart Birmingham 61 – 10 – 0 22
3rd Ron Notley Starlet Vets 49 – 6 – 0 19
4th Dave Chapman White Hart Coventry 49 – 5 – 0 26
5th Wayne price Baileys of warwick 40 – 5 – 0 5
6TH Dave Callaghan Ashby 37 –15 – 0 10

Date: Wednesday 30th March 2011
Pools: House Pool
No F/Man: 16

Match Report:
1st: Pellet @ 16m with slop groundbait for f1 carp, tench, bream & roach.
2nd: Pellet @ 8m with slop groundbait for f1 carp, tench, bream & roach.
3rd: Pellet/bread @ 6m up/down in the water for f1 carp & bream.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Shaun Little MAP 80 – 0 – 0 6
2nd Pete Hancox Birmingham 67 – 7 – 0 21
3rd Aid Mansfield Yorkshire Baits/ tamworth Tackle 61 – 13 – 0 18
4th John Nicholson Tamworth Tackle 58 – 14 – 0 14
5th Ron Biggs HMP 46 – 5 – 0 1
6TH Barry Duggan Warwick Portabello 41 – 0 – 0 4

Date: Saturday 2nd April 2011
Pools: New pools
No F/Man: 33

Match Report:
1st: Pellet @ 10m & down the edges through slop for all f1’s to 2lb.
2nd: Bread & corn all over the pool hard on the bottom but mainly caught at the edges, for f1 carp, bream & roach.
3rd: Bread down the track up/down in the water @ 7m for f1 carp, bream & roach.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Pete Hancox Birmingham 106 – 3 – 0 10
2nd Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 103 – 0 – 0 42
3rd Andy Jackson Mosella 87 – 4 – 0 23
4th Paul Bick Shakespeare 86 – 5 – 0 36
5th Rob Avery Redditch 78 – 9 – 0 38
6TH David James Mosella 74 – 4 – 0 33
7TH Jason Brown Lea Hall Gold 72 – 13 – 0 17
8TH Paul Caswell Shakespeare 68 – 0 – 0 5

Date: Sunday 3rd April 2011
Pools: Top & Extension pools
No F/Man: 35

Match Report:
1st: Bread & corn up in the water for f1 carp, bream & roach.
2nd: Pellet @ 14m for all f1 carp.
3rd: Bread in 3ft water for f1 carp & bream.

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 236 – 11 – 0 T 5
2nd Pete Caton Dynamite Baits/Banbury Gunsmiths 140 – 4 – 0 E 22
3rd Andy Jackson Mosella 121 – 18 – 0 T 12
4th Paul Bick Shakespeare 118 – 3 – 0 T 1
5th Steve Draper Lake View 114 – 2 – 0 E 5
6TH Pete Bennett Yorkshire Baits 104 – 10 – 0 T 10
7TH Kevin Adderley Dams n Lock 95 – 12 – 0 T 3
8TH Stu Palsar Shakespeare 93 – 14 – 0 T 22