POOL REPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING  12th August 2012
With weather brightening up and a bit of intermittent rain, Tunnel Barn Farm has had pleasure anglers reporting excellent catches including f1’s, roach and skimmers.
TBF Opens and matches this week have been won with bags in excess of 193lbs. 
Top PoolPellet 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 and caster shallow and on the deck has been producing large bags of silvers.Paste down edges over hemp for f1’s, producing match-winning weights.
Bottom PoolPellet at 6m to 8m has been producing f1’s and silverfish.Pleasure anglers have reported large bags of perch up to 3lb being caught on chopped worm and caster.Paste over hemp down the inner margins has reported catches of large mirrors and commons up to 16lb.
House PoolMethod feeder to the island using dead red maggot in a green betaine 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.Chopped worm and caster to the island and shallow down the edges has also been producing good bags of fish.
Extension poolChopped worm and caster at 14m.    Pellet at 6m and 8m down the track producing good bags of f1’s, roach and perch.  4mm cubes of meat through a 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 PoolChopped worm & caster to the island.Caster shallow @ 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 PoolIn 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 2.5lbGood bags of silvers are being caught.Chopped worm & caster @ 7m shallow and down the edges has been producing well.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.  Chopped worm and caster to the island is producing f1’s in excess of 4lbs and mirrors up to 6lbs.  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 PoolPellet 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 caster 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.

Worm and caster can be purchased from the tackle shop.  These baits need to be pre-ordered in the shop by Monday Morning as our deliveries come in on a Thursday.

RESULTS FOR OPEN CONTESTS WEEK ENDING 12th AUGUST 2012
Date: Monday 6th August 2012Pools: Top PoolNo F/man: 18
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Tom Neale Rutlanders 122 – 0 152nd D Chapman Coventry 114 – 5 333rd Kevin Folwell Drennan Oxford 110 – 4 134th Alex Harper TBF Juniors 103 – 9 115th Pete Hancox Birmingham 102 –10 56th D Callaghan Measham Redfins 97 – 10 3

Date: Tuesday 7th August 2012 TBF Over 50’s Club Pools: Extension PoolNo F/Man: 28
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st J Berry White Heart Coventry 86 – 5 132nd Rob Swain White Heart Birmingham 66 – 15 283rd Pete Hancox Birmingham 63 – 4 444th Ken Turner Barford aa 59 – 14 175th Dave Chapman White Heart Coventry 57 – 3 196th Kevin Keasey Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 56 – 10 23

Date: Wednesday 8th August 2012Pools: Canal poolNo F/Man: 16
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Pete Rice Bagem Baits 180 – 13 112nd Malcolm Jones Banbury Gunsmiths 96 – 14 13rd Pete Hancox Birmingham 96 – 13 94th Kevin Keasey Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 92 – 7 35th C Horsley Swann Baits 80 – 3 66th Jamie Keasey Tunnel Barn Farm 79 – 9 24
Date: Thursday 10th August 2012   TBF Vets MatchPools: New, Extension & Canal PoolsNo F/Man: 55
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Reg Davis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 114 – 1 E 332nd D Chapman Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 107 – 0 E 153rd Chris Haile Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 98 – 14 E 44th John Merchant Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 95 – 7 N 255th Dave Purvis Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 84 – 6 C 56th J Davenport Tunnel Barn Farm Vets 82 – 12 C 12
Date: Friday 11th August 2012 The Friday FlyerPools: Extension PoolNo F/Man:  21
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 193 – 13 32nd Ronnie Biggs OHMS 193 – 11 193rd Joe Carass Match Fishing Magazine 151 – 1 74th Andy Jackson Mosella 130 – 6 55th Pete Rice Bagem Baits 120 – 1 296th Les Wetton Tunnel Barn Farm 100 – 0 38

Date: Saturday 12th August 2012Pools: Extension Pool No F/Man:  31
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st Ronnie Biggs OHMS 106 – 13 42nd Lee Hodgkinson Matrix Trentman 100 – 4 393rd Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 92 – 5 34th Matt Smith Mosella 91 – 7                   285th Andy Jackson Mosella 87 – 1 376th Pete Rice Bagem Baits 84 – 12 127th Paul Ainsworth Mid City 72 – 0 177th Chris Neale Rutlanders 72 – 0 7

Date: Sunday 13th August 2012Pools: New Pool No F/Man:  30
Pos NAME CLUB WEIGHT PEG NO1st David James Mosella 124 – 9 42nd Gary Cook Mosella 86 -13 443rd Pete Rice Bagem Baits 84 – 2 314th Paul Bick Shakespeare 83 – 6                       135th Noel Wright Finedon AC 77 – 0 106th Pete Caton Banbury Gunsmiths 67 – 12 157th Luke Capewel Tunnel Barn Farm 63 – 11 258th Paul Newell Kingsmill Redditch 62 – 13 37