Club waters for a week

[toma]

My club Scunthorpe Pisces Angling Club, Formerly Police Angling Club

Day one Friday. Thornton Abbey.

Les and myself fished the " point pegs " today. We both fished the magot feeder, and i alternated between groundbait feeder.
Rudd and skimmers were the call of the day. All fell to red and white maggot. In all i had about 20 odd fish, average size about ¾lb. The fish are in pristine condition. Thornton Abbey is a new water to our club, and a very welcomed place. Excelent surrounding with easy to reach pegs. We called a halt to procedings early as Les had been up from 3am for airport duties.

Day two, Saturday

Back to Thornton Abbey today, this time we went on the first pegs on the fishery. The water was a bit shallow with a lot of weeds, i moved to a deeper peg, no weed in sight,
Fished the maggot feeder again. Rudd and roach yet again, The weather was very hot, and the fishing slow, but not to worry another good day fith me landing some decent fish

Day three Sunday Mill View Fishery
Mill View Fishery.
An intimate fishery with a good stock of fish, roach, skimmers F1s and the i do kow for a fact ONE CHUB, cos i caught it before, LoL.
Les opted for the floating bread today, i fished the waggler and feeder. As usuak the roach and skimmer abounded. Fish a chuck. Les got the better fish of the day, a fine common of 10pounds in the net. Picture to fallow.


Day three, Monday Trent Haven
Another new fishery for our club, great place with easy access to pegs and pur[pose made wheelchair friendly pegs.
I fished the maggot feeder and wagger. Bob joined us today. The weather was terrible high winds which made the waggler fishing neigh on imposible. It must have been because Bob packed up at around 1PM and thats not him,!
Les and myself struggled on dispite the wind changing direction which seemed like every chuffing minute, one thi g i will say is this, whever said fish wirth the wind in your face is the way, forget it, it does not work. We did get fish, some cracking roach in pristine condition, but the high winds got the better and we called a halt to procedings.

Day four,Tuesday
Trent haven, stayed away from Thornton Abbey due to an IFCF mag piece being done about the place with our club. High winds again today. And at times heavy showers. Another decent day on the maggot feeder, with the roach being the main species landed.
We took time off to do a bit of a work party, we helped clear a tree of over hanging branches from the disabled platform. Stu, our clubs web site man is wheelchair bound and he was there with his carer cutting back the branches, Les and i gave a hand to ease the work for the carer.
Again the waggler was neigh on impossible due to the winds, but not to worry, another day on a cracking venue.

Day five, back to Trent Haven.
Maggot feeder fishing and waggler fishing yet again, The weather was roasting, red hot with temps to 25c,
Brollies were put up to protect us from the sun, we complain when the sun does not show and then complain when it does, LoL. The fishing was slow to desperate today, the fish were topping but they were not feedeing, i fished the waggler up in the water, but only had a few fish, same on the maggot feeder, not a lot of fish, that was after therr days fising the same location on the water, plenty of feed in, maybe to much, who knows, :hand: ,

Last day, back to Mill View Fishery.
Yet another slowish day. I fished the margins on the waggler, fishing red maggot and white maggot. I landed a load of small stuff, roach, skimmers nothing flash, got sick of them so put the feeder out to the island, nothing, not a bite, so i alternated between the feeder and the waggler. Les fished the floating breat tactis for the carp, he did land two today. We packed up at about 3pm.

Another great week on our club waters with some great new venues added for our pleasure. I met some new chums, namely Stu our web site geezer.
Pictures to fallow when i've resized them.
Thanks for reading :fishing2:

Here's some pictures.
roach









Les's carp




Trent Haven



Les at Thornton Abbey


And my peg



Roach from Thornton Abbey




Les at Trent Haven



Some of the wildlife



Stu at Trent Haven






My peg Trent Haven

[toma]

I went back down two weeks later for another weeks fishing.

Day one, fishing

Mill View fishery, Blyton.
A decent day on the bankside. Lots of roach and skimmers. Les and i both fished the waggler, fishing the margins again,very tight to the reeds, perilous if you get a carp, LoL. Les late turned to floating bread tactics on the pole, however this time the carp did not take the bait. I then went onto floating dog biscuits, got one carp of about 3lbs or so. The fishing died off so we decided to pack up. We then went for a carvery at a local pub, NO BEER passed my lips i hasten to ad. Our bellies full we decided to visit another venue. This time we opted for Trent haven. Les got a nice car of about 4lbs, i blanked,LoL. We called it a day at around 6.45pm and headed for Les abode and a nice hot shower. Oh and a couple of beers.

Day Two

Back to Trent Haven, and what a diffrence the weather was. We arrived at 6.45am and set up. The weather looked very come 9,30am or so. We both got a few roach and then the heavens opened up, torrential rain came down, followed by high winds. Our pegs were in a slight dip so the rain cascaded down the bankside. The weather got worse by lunchtime, i think Les and i sent each other a telepathic message, we both jumped up at the same time mumbling, " THATS IT " time to go. We hastily packed the tackle into the car and set of for hme. It was great to get out of the wet clothes and into the red hot shower, Bliss.

Day three

We went to Dunholme today, met up with Bob, our club mate. The weather, well lets just say it was a complete turnaround from the previous day, hot and sunny.We got there before Bob which in itself is unusual, Bob is an early bird,LoL.
Again i fished the feeder, got a goot count of roach and skimmers. All on red maggot.
A little Robin soon realised that there might be a free lunch on the go, and he let me know he/she was hungry.The Robin sat on my landing net handle and started to whistle, how could i refuse such a nice little thing.



Day Four.

Today we went to a commercial !!!! yes a commercial, it came recommended to us. We met up with Bob and Alec. However the days fishing was very poor. I had a few good sized roach and nothing else. The place was a caravan site with a fishing pond, a great set up, hook up facilities with a shwer block just up the way by 2 or 3 minutes walk. A nice bar which serves food. Welton Fishing Centre LINK
I looed around when i heard a very powerful engine approaching, and what a sight, just imagine this as your fishing vehicle, aint it grand.



Me being me i decided to go and have a look, with the owners permission of course, real leather chars for the driver and passenger, they were extremely plush. A full leather suit inside the vehicle, all mod cons and even a satalite TV.

We called it a day at about 3.30pm.

Day five

Thornto Abbey, a cracking venue. We got the " point pegs " because the place was void of any more anglers. Back to work after the bank holiday week end. I fished the groundbait feeder with red and white maggots, My first cast resulted in a cracking roach. More and more came to my bait. In all i must have had the 50 mark, i did count 6 roach in an half hour at one time. The rain started very lightly but turned rather nasty. We got packed up and loaded just in time, yet again the heavens opened up.

Another great week spent fishing with Les on our club waters, and another week making new chums. Thanks again Les for your hospitality.

Picture time

Some of the roach from Thornton Abbey





And this MONSTER



And this great baby Tench for Les from Dunholme,



The rain at Trent Haven


Just starting


The deluge


The tadpoles at Thornton Abbey.


Bob on his peg



Alec on his peg



Les at Mill View, Blyton



My carp




A swimming lesson


And last of all my set up.



Thats all folks, thanks for reading

[blackwater]

wonderful reports there and some wonderful photos aswell!

Justin

[KABBYCHRIS]

Nice report well done would be scared to get that truck dirty but very nice for a week in france?

[toma]

Thanks lads.

The inside of the mobile home was something else, the sides came out on both sides to give it even more room, amazing comfort.

The seat in the doorway, thats the suite, the driver seat and passenger seat are in that class, plush.