Catch Reports
Roger Eve fished the South East corner of the lower lake at Moor farm on 24th September. on arrival, it was just light and a beautiful still morning with a mist over the water. He fished two rods with method feeders and hair rigged sweetcorn, casting “well out” and was soon into fish. In a seven hour session he managed to land nineteen common carp and one nice crucian. There was one rapid session when he caught 5 fish while he was trying to eat a Cornish pasty! The latter was eventually finished off by the black swan, that had been sitting nearby, while he was unhooking the last fish.
Martin Sutton fished Moor Farm bottom lake on the 26th September and sends the following report; I set off on Saturday morning to fish the Bottom Lake at Moor Farm. The sky was clear and there was no wind. The overnight dew made the air feel cool but with the promise of sunshine it looked to be the start of a good day. Setting up on peg 1, I fished both rods with feeders, as there seemed to be little if any surface activity. I had a number of ‘line bites’ and a few knocks but nothing to which I could connect to. The morning continued and a number of fellow anglers arrived and set up at various locations on the complex. With still no activity, I decided to set up one rod with a controller float and a trimmed down pop-up boilie, as there were some fish moving on the surface. A gentle north easterly breeze started and I thought that this might start the fish feeding. Soon after changing to fishing on the top I had a strong bite and a 10 minute fight commenced – caused in part to the fact that I was only using 6lb line on the rod. Eventually a lovely yellow colour Mirror carp came to the net and weighed in at 10lbs 10ozs. This had taken some 4 hours to catch but the wait was worthwhile. Nothing was taking on the other rod, still using a Method feeder, and so I changed that over to a controller float and surface bait. Some 45 minutes later a 4lb 8oz Common was in the net. Once again Moor Farm shows its quality even if you do have to wait for the fish!
Martin Sutton fished Moor Farm bottom lake on the 3rd October and sends the following report; The change in the weather at the end of last week certainly had its effect on the fish. Arriving at Moor Farm’s Bottom Lake on Saturday morning I joined several other anglers to set up in very windy conditions. There were fish moving around but they were difficult to spot given the chop on the surface of the water.
I set up both rods with feeders and fished one close in and one about 40 yards out, this being the one that saw action first. In a 3 hour session I landed a total of 9 Common carp with a total weight of 33lbs 12ozs (15.3kgs in new money!) with the best being a Common of exactly 8lbs 0ozs which was caught on the rod fishing close into the bank.
These succumbed to either bacon grill paste pellets or small tutti fruitti boilies. Other anglers were catching well and a good morning was had by all.
Match secretary, Barry Ginnaw fished Canada lake at Goose Green on the 9th October, starting on the top 3 of his pole with maggot, Barry had small fish and a Skimmer for about 2 lb. Later fishing pole at 8 mtrs with paste over 2mm pellet, Barry added 3 Carp to 4lb and 6 Bream to 2lb for a total of 27 lb 12 oz
Match Results
Riddel Cup – 11 October 2009
Fished by 17 anglers at Moor Farm top lake, the result was;
1st Mick Booth, 10.1 kg (22-4-0) tench and crucians to pole and pellet.
2nd Dudley Chandler, 5.45 kg (12-0-0) tench and crucians to pole and maggot/ pinkie.
3rd Robbie Easton, 4.05 kg (8-15-0) tench and crucians to pole and corn/ pellet.
4th Pip Pranskus, 3.22 kg ((7-2-0)tench and crucians to pole and maggot/ pinkie.
3rd Round Military Cup – 27 September 2009
Fished by 15 anglers at Goose Green. The result was;
1st Barry Ginnaw (peg 44) 5.95 kg (13-2-0) 4 lb carp and 4 bream to pole and Swimstim paste plus bits to pole and maggot.
2nd Pip Pranskus (37) 3.88 kg (8-9-0) skimmers and bits to pole and corn/maggot.
3rd Brian Miller (45) 3.5 kg (7-11-0) mainly tench to pole and pellet.
4th Dudley Chandler (64) 3.4 kg (7-8-0) 2 small carp and bream to method and corn.
The final result is
1st Pip Pranskus 17 pts
2nd Barry Ginnaw 9 pts
3rd Dudley Chandler 8 pts
