Tunnel Barn Farm

POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 30th September 2012

With the temperature dropping in the day and at night now, the fish are still feeding well with pleasure anglers reporting excellent catches including f1’s, common carp, mirrors, barbel, roach and skimmers.

TBF Opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 128lbs.

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 shallow through slop and on the deck has been producing large bags of silvers.
Paste down edges over hemp for f1’s, producing match-winning weights.

Bottom Pool
Pellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.
Paste over hemp down the inner margins has reported catches of large mirrors and commons up to 16lb.

House Pool
Method feeder to the island using dead white maggot in a crab & krill ground bait has been tempting large mirrors and commons up to 10lbs.
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
Pellet at 6m and 8m down the track producing good bags of f1’s, roach and perch.
4mm cubes of meat through a Bagem Super skimmer dark ground bait down the inner margins has been producing good bags of f1’s, roach and skimmers.
Paste over hemp on the top 2 down the edges has been producing large f1’s, mirrors and commons.

New Pool
White maggot @ 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 2.5lb
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.
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 maggot 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.

High Pool
4mm pellet over hard pellet with constant feeding at 4m out on the shelf is producing good bags of stockies from 6oz to 2.5lb.
Pellet and paste down the margins late on has been producing the larger mirrors and commons between 6lb to 14lb.
Maggot at 4-6m has been producing good bags of stockies, f1’s and mirrors and commons.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 30th September 2012

Date: Monday 24th September 2012
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/man: 18

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Chris Harrison Baileys of Warwick 118 – 6 10
2nd Steve Birch Northfield 93 – 1 1
3rd Denis Lutwyche Hawkesbury 90 – 15 3
4th Barry Edwards Youngs TBF 77 – 14 7
5th Jason Shirley Baileys of Warwick 70 – 7 5
6th Graham Young Youngs TBF 70 – 4 24

Date: Tuesday 25th September 2012 TBF Over 50’s Club
Pools: Extension Pool
No F/Man: 26

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Pete Hancox Birmingham 65 – 15 1
2nd Kevin Folwell Drennan Oxford 46 – 9 38
3rd D Holmes Barford 43 – 5 5
4th Chris Constable TBF Vets 40 – 13 21
5th Ron Noley TBF Vets 35 – 10 9
6th P Lewis TBF Vets 35 – 8 30

Date: Wednesday 26th September 2012
Pools: Jennys Pool
No F/Man: 18

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st John Worrall Weoley Castle 71 – 1 20
2nd Roger Horton TBF 61 – 3 15
3rd Ade Niblett Weoley Castle WMC 57 – 6 25
4th Alfie Smith Solhampton 55 – 13 9
5th Ben Donnelly Solhampton 50 – 4 6
6th Steve Hollins TBF 49 – 12 12

Date: Thursday 27th September 2012 TBF Vets Match
Pools: Canal, Club & Jenny’s Pools
No F/Man: 55

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st D Chapman Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 120 – 12 J 7
2nd R Notley Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 104 – 7 Cl 5
3rd Chris Constable Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 99 – 8 J 3
4th Dave Purvis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 93 – 13 J 11
5th Ken Turner Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 84 – 12 Cl 16
6th Roy Winfindale Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 82 – 12 Cl 3

Date: Friday 28th September 2012 The Friday Flyer Club
Pools: House Pool
No F/Man: 19

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Pete Rice Bagem Baits 126 – 5 21
2nd Les Wetton F1 Baits / TBF 113 – 7 6
3rd Pete Hancox Birmingham 96 – 4 16
4th Tom Neale Rutlanders 95 – 5 13
5th Tony Ainsworth Mid City 71 – 12 4
6th Charlie McGurin Fosters 68 – 9 33

Date: Saturday 29th September 2012
Pools: Canal Pool
No F/Man: 16

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Richard Knowles MCM 128 – 14 18
2nd Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 110 – 4 11
3rd Aid Mansfield Maver Gold 108 – 12 21
4th Steve Townsend Banbury Gunsmiths 108 – 9 5
5th Andy Jackson Mosella 99 – 13 8
6th Les Wetton TBF / F1 Baits 89 – 3 23
7th D Shipley TBF 80 – 13 16
8th P Gent TBF 53 – 8 13

Date: Sunday 24th September 2012
Pools: New Pool
No F/Man: 32

Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO
1st Paul Caswell Alcester Sports 105 – 5 10
2nd Dave James Mosella 101 – 4 44
3rd Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths 95 – 0 29
4th Pete Rice Bagem Baits 86 – 15 17
5th Brent Wilkes Mosella Blackcountry 72 – 11 7
6th Mark Williams Mosella 68 – 14 1
7th Stu Palsar Middy / Banbury Gunsmiths 67 – 5 33
8th Kevin Adderley Damson Lock 65 – 5 35