| #1  06-16-2009, 06:04 PM | ||||
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| Charity Match at Big Hayes With receiving an invite to fish the “James Farrow Memorial Match” at Big Hayes at Todber Manor for the 12th of July arranged by “The other Forum Fishing Magic”. I was looking forward to the whole event. I meet Claudia at Todber at around 11:30 on the Friday, after purchasing the bait and getting ourselves down to lake, we choose our swims. I fancied the far end bay but a member of the group had taken that, so looking at the next peg up it looked as good. My Peg  Claudia seemed happy to take the next peg up from me. And what was amazing that every one group choose the same bank. With the match not due to start until the Saturday at 10:00pm it was a case just fishing for fun. Claudia was the first one to have a run, however she lost the fish, as the day wore it became obvious that the fishing was going to be hard. As Friday evening fell into night, I had my first run, a nice Common of 9lb  Later that night I had my second fish, which weighed 13lb  At around 3am I had another run but I pulled out of that fish which felt like a good fish. As morning broke at 5pm every one was up and talking about the previous night. Everyone seemed up for it and they were looking forward to the day. However, priorities were more important as people required breakfast.  As the Match started, a few of the Anglers started to catch with 3 people catching Carp all around the 13lb mark. First was Richard Farrow, Then Claudia, then I think it was Peter, Claudia’s friend. Richard Farrow’s Carp:  Claudia’s Carp:  Well as the day moved into night, I was still fishless, but because I caught during the previous night, I was confident that I would catch during the night. Sunset over Big Hayes:  Well as it did become dark, I did have a fish that went 7lb 11ozs, well I was on my way. My next run was at 6:30 in the morning A lovely fish that went 15lb 12ozs  Claudia had also caught during the night only a small carp of 2lb but enough to put her in second place with me in a surprising 1st place. With 30mins to go, I had another run a lovely carp of 9lb to secure 1st place.  As the match finished I was chuffed to bits about winning and chuffed about Claudia coming 2nd. However, the overall winner was the money raised for the Charity.     Overall, I feel very privileged to have fished with these guys, I am looking forward to joining them again next year, It was a fantastic weekend full of fun and laughter. __________________ Born to fish made to work     |
| #2 06-16-2009, 06:22 PM | |||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes it sounds like a cracking days fishing and well done for coming 1st and seccond |
| #3 06-16-2009, 06:22 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes Great stuff guys  __________________ Dan `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ Big or small, look after them all! ¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º> |
| #4 06-16-2009, 06:28 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes very well done steve |
| #5 06-16-2009, 07:09 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes  Great result !!.....well done both __________________ Mike.. Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints, Kill nothing but time Mike`s Fishing Photo Gallery |
| #7 06-16-2009, 07:40 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes Well Done, Lovely fish, BW __________________ Blackwater Tackle Supplies Keep Ulster's Waters Healthy, Practice Catch and Release! |
| #8 06-16-2009, 08:14 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes well done steve and claudia looked a great weekend and fantastic result not only in the match but getting a picture of claudias face not obscured by chav hat and glasses  dave __________________ www.exmouthsaa.co.uk 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day simples You won't know unless you go :D...and if you do go!! please let us know :D as thats how the forum thrives |
| #9 06-16-2009, 09:13 PM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes Congratulations to you both - that showed 'em! Was for an excellent cause as well which is well supported by the "other site". Todber really is a top complex of lakes, the facilities and fishing are superb. I couldn't make this one - "camping" not really my scene! But in the name of the charity I've been auctioned off to "guide" two anglers on a trip to The Royalty (soon hopefully) and then Throop (Autumn/Winter). Two guys have actually paid good money for the rather dubious privilege!  __________________ "I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order" Eric Morcambe |
| #10 06-17-2009, 09:36 AM | ||||
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| Re: Charity Match at Big Hayes Well, not much I can add...a cracking weekend had by all, people made the effort to travel for hours to attend this annual memorial match. So far we have raised £1800 and there is more to come from an online auction they run on the forum. I was very Happy to have won the second prize with with a total weight of 31lb 5oz, nowhere near to Steve's of 50lb 1oz though, well done mate. We couldn't have asked for better weather to relax, maybe not the best fishing weather but hey ho. Clear blue sky on Saturday  Beautiful sunset   A few more pics of the weekend My mate Peter to my right.....the biggest tackle tart   Steve to my left  My fish   Richard Farrow chillaxing in the sun  The Team who travelled from all over the UK  Thanks Richard and Peter for organizing this years event again and Peter for the first class BBQ. Roll on next years match __________________ There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind." - Washington Irving |
