Wirral Borough Angling Club

As we have members and friends who are also members of Wirral Borough A.C., and Ian Simpson has recently created a blog for that club, I have put a direct link to their site for your convenience.
I have also put a link to venues we are fishing this year, which have their own website.

COMMENTS

Thanks for giving your version of the Yewtree match, Norm. If you can give everyone a step-by-step guide to 'adding comments', I'm sure others will follow suit. This is not the gnome's blog, it's for everyone, so please feel free to post comments, ask questions, or just hurl some friendly abuse.
One question for 'the town crier', wind in your kipper? thought carp followed the wind on these fisheries! Finally, well done Pegleg, sacrificing your own match so as not to humiliate a fellow member. You realised that Norman usually gets horse-shoed, and decided to spare his blushes this time.

YEWTREE 21/2/10 ~ Chopper hands out a pasting

A hastily arranged knock-up turned into a full scale match for the 15 lunatics that travelled through blizzard-like conditions, to the Thornton Hough venue. Within minutes of our arrival, the snow stopped, and we fished in spring sunshine for a couple of hours.
Mike Wilde quickly made sure we were all fishing for second when he landed a carp weighing 10lb+ inside the first hour. To prove it wasn't a stroke of luck, he added a second double figure carp, and a handful of quality skimmers, all on paste, to end up a runaway winner with 26lb 8oz. Well done Chopper.
Neil Paterson gave those around him a masterclass in 'tip' fishing, catching consistently on the bomb with maggot to finish 2nd with 6lb 14oz of ide. And he wanted to fish the canal at Market Drayton, doh!
In 3rd place, having caught just one fish, was potential new member Gary Chambers. His one fish was a terrific tench weighing 5lb 4oz., and to ensure his application for membership is accepted, he did 'lose' another equally big tench!
Section winners were Kenny Stuart (now he can hear the 'all-in' he'll fish the full 5 hours) and Ian Hughes.

FISHOMANIA TICKETS

One of our members, John Edwards (SUMO), has managed to secure tickets to 2 fishomania qualifying matches. He will be fishing at Heronbrook and Octoplus Boldings. Please pass on any personal experiences about these venues as John is clueless as to tactics needed on either water! Anyway we wish him the best of luck. John would also like suggestions as to what he could spend the £25k prize on. For what it's worth I think 25,000 matches against Norman Smith would relieve him of most of it - they have a side bet of £1 at each eggy match!

CONWAY 14/2/10 ~ John makes himself at home on Conway

After a SLOW but safe drive to Conway,we were greeted by a lake partially covered in cat ice. With the ice melting in the first hour of the match, the fishing proved slightly more difficult than normal.
However, John 'homester' Heald showed his class, taking 25lb 8oz of skimmers, F1s and small carp on 6mm pellet fished at 13m, all from an average peg! Ian 'yozzer' Hughes finished 2nd with an all roach net weighing 17lb 12oz. fishing maggot at 5m. John Edwards used the 'tea-bag' with pineapple pellets ( DON'T ASK) and snared 4 or 5 carp to take 3rd place with 15lb 4oz. He also added £80 to his take-home pay by winning the bonus peg. Nice One. Section winners were Arthur Roche and Mike 'chopper' Wilde.
 All in all I think everybody had an enjoyable day on a new (to most) venue.
Finally, due to a double booking with his wife, Dave Norman was unable to fish. Despite a gallant solo effort by John Heald, this undoubtedly handed the winter pairs title to Dave Cargill and Ian Hughes. Congratulations, and commiserations,to the winners and losers.
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MORETON BRICKWORKS 7/2/10 ~ Arthur does a ton

13 Brave souls for this one, which turned out to be a toughie. Little in the way of quality, mainly a 'scratch' for a few small roach and perch. However, Ian Hughes managed to fluke a couple of skimmers on the tip with pinkie, ending up with 9lb odd. Ken Stuart found a few better roach to pull the scales beyond 4lb, and Dave Norman stumbled into 3rd with 2lb 8oz of small roach. The big winner though, was Arthur Roche, who had 100lb...... sorry £100, as he won the bonus peg! Well done sir.

welcome to eggy ferry fishing

Hi guys, welcome to the Eggy Ferry fishing blog. I'm hoping to keep you all up to date with the latest info about your favourite fishing club. Not sure how these blogs actually work but i'm hoping to put the fixture list on here, and a small match report after each outing. Feel free to post your own stories, reports or questions on here.