Lewy's Lines

A new venue for me popped up on the Match Fishing Scene website, Boddington Reservoir.  It was a silvers match and I'd heard that there was a big head of roach so I popped my name down.  The weekend weather was shaping up to be quite a scorcher and the temperature was rising as I drove towards Northamptonshire. Shedders saw me on the motorway so we conveyed the rest of the way to the fishery to catch up with Hathers and the rest of the lads.  17 of use were fishing today. The Draw My milk bottle top had the number 43 on it.  We had heard that the pegs you wanted where the higher numbers.  Neighbours for the day, George, Les, Pikey and Shedders. Set-Up The waggler rod was first out of the bag setup with a 4AAA Nick Gilbert waggler.  Pole lines all straight ahead using a sailing buoy as my marker were: 13 metres using a 1gram float on 0.12 main line with a 0.10 bottom to a gamma green 16 7 metres, same depth so same rig Bottom of the stairs, top...

Peg 49 Kevin Bennett (Skimmerman) from Match Fishing Scene has qualified and has been picked to go to Serbia in may 2017 to represent the English national disabled team.  In order to help raise some money for the team who are normally self funded Terry Turnip organised a day at Barston Lakes in Solihull. Barston Lakes is one place I had on the list to visit due to the great skimmer and bream fishing available so I was quick to put my name down. Shedders had kindly offered to drive me to Barston and it was a very early start for the both of us, Dave picking me up from London at 5:45am planning to arrive at the fishery (Golf Course) for our breakfast around 8am. Enroute I mentioned the new rod license much to Dave's horror!  He'd forgotten to get one which was soon sorted on the gov.uk website.  So if you've forgotten to get yours, follow this link:  https://www.gov.uk/fishing-licences/when-you-need-a-licence The Draw Nigel called for the draw which was we...