Van Den Eynde Festival Day FiveWow what an exciting festival it has been and couldn’t have been tighter as we headed into the final day.By now you all know who is our 2007 champion but here is the breakdown of the final day.Unfortunately as everyone’s leaves on a Saturday morning I am unable to get […]

Holmedale Lake Pairs Series Round 2Sunday 1/4/07 28 fished 1st Steve Clark Mansfield peg 32, 60-15-01st Tony Caley Mosborough Tackle peg 41, 47-10-03rd Craig Singleton STAR UPH peg 52, 45-11-04th Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 46, 41-11-05th Craig Brazier Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 24, 40-6-06th Dean Richmond Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 11, 39-15-0Steve did […]

Saturday 31st March 2007  Open Match  Bowes LakeOvercast with sunny spells, ambient temperature of 9 deg with a biting wind of NE15mph (Fish feed least in a East wind) , barometer of 1032.9mb, humidity 66%, moon phase full,  water temperature of 7.8 to 7.6, DO of 10.1 ppm,  PH 7.78 was the setting of today’s […]

24.03.07Daiwa Hallcroft Open (Saturday)Moat  (45 pegs)1 A Cordall, Bryden, 51-13-0; peg island 4 On a day when a cold N/E wind made conditions difficult local angler Andy Cordall on island peg 4 managed a creditable weight of 51-13-0 taking mostly carp to pole and pellet at 12m, a late run of fish ensuring the win. […]

Van Den Eynde FestivalDay ThreeThe anglers had a bit of a shock this morning waking up to a bitterly cold day in comparison to the previous days of sun. A heavy fog covered the park and the lakes and all we could do was hope that the dullness of weather did not affect the anglers […]

Van Den Eynde FestivalDay TwoDay two was another stunning day with clear skies throughout the day and sunshine. Yesterday was a great start to the festival and for those with section wins it was all out to start as they mean to go on and for those that didn’t fair as well it was back […]

White Acres Van Den Eynde Festival 2007 Gosh it hardly seems like 6 days since I stopped writing these reports but it has in fact been 6 months and we are now into our first festival of 2007. The Van Den Eynde festival is always the first on our festival calendar and remains our only […]

Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm, Shrewley, WarksMon, House pool 1: Rob Swain (Birmingham) 97-13-0, carp, roach and bream, pole and bronze maggot, peg 33; Dave Armstrong (Jets Match Group) 57-7-0; Pete Hancox (Birmingham) 52-12-0. Wed, New pool: Rob Swain (Birmingham) 61-9-0, carp, roach and bream, poled bronze maggot, peg 21; Rob Knowles (M.C.M.) 56-1-0; Pete Rice […]

THURSDAY ROVERRESIDENTS MATCH26th OCTOBER 2006 95 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS1st CHARLIE SHAW 173lb 14ozDYNAMITE MAYFAIR Peg 12 TrelawneyShort pole 7 meters & with corn      2nd PETE SIVELL 160lb 14ozDYNAMITE BAITS Peg 55 Pollawyn  Long pole with pellet3rd  JOHN HOLDSWORTH 117lb 07oz Peg 21 Trelawney             4th   JOHN FISHER  98lb 08oz Peg 32 Trelawney          5th   MICK LEES  96lb 06oz        Peg […]

Holmedale Lake Pairs Series Round 1Sunday 25/3/07 28 fished 1st Don Clarke Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 31, 41-7-01st Barry Moat Mosborough Tackle peg 20, 34-7-03rd Tony Caley Mosborough Tackle peg 49, 31-11-04th Bernard o Conner Shireoaks Anglers peg 21, 29-0-05th Ivan Widdows Star UPH peg 11, 25-8-06th Jim Strahan Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 15, 19-15-0Despite […]

Bowes Carp LakeCarp feeding tight to margins both on bankside and of islands margins, up of the bottom and well into full feeding frenzies.Best fish out this week was by Colin Pine on Saturday which was 15lb 1oz common carp in stunning winter colours, Colin hooked into this fish during the Saturday match on feeder. […]

17.03.07Daiwa Hallcroft Open (Saturday)Moat  (34 pegs)1 N Speed, Dynamite Baits, 50-9-0; peg outer 25 Nick Speed drawn on outer 25 fished feeder and hair-rigged meat right across to the island to catch all carp to 5lb for 50-9-0.2 S Robbins, Leegem, 36-0-0;  peg outer 54 Steve Robbins on end peg 54 fished the bomb and […]

Easter festivalMoorlands Farm Fishery has arranged a three-day Easter Festival on April 7th, 8th and 9th which takes the form of three five-hour matches with the best two to count. Entrance fee is £30 for this one. There’s also a teams-of-four summer league planned with a £100 team entry fee. There will be eight rounds […]

Garbolino Tunnel Barn Farm, Shrewley, WarwickshireMon, Top pool: Rob Swain (Birmingham) 80-11-0, carp, poled bronze maggot, peg 33; John Downing (Youngs Tunnel Barn Farm) 79-14-0; Pete Hancox (Birmingham) 63-4-0. Wed, House pool 2: Pete Rice (Garbolino) 170-14-0, carp, pole and corn, peg 10; Paul Newell (VdE Redditch) 94-2-0; Rob Knowles (M.C.M.) 83-6-0. Thurs, House pool […]

Holmedale Lake, Wednesday Fun League open 23 Fished14/3/07   1st Kev Parks Mosborough Tackle peg 49, 86-0-02nd Pete Hodgetts Andy’s Mansfield Angling peg 32, 54-8-03rd Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 24, 43-4-04th Dave Madin Mossella Ultimate Anglers peg 45, 43-0-05th Jason Singlehurst Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 26, 41-15-06th John Darby Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 36, […]