Lewy's Lines

Roy's Kitchen window and chickens were in trouble today! Considering we didn’t get to bed late I felt surprisingly good this morning and met Sconey, Big Ron and Dave Swain for breakfast. A late draw certainly helped! Thanks Sconey… All the lads had gathered in the Marquee and today would be the pairs. Sconey and Myself were recreating the epic battle we had with Hathers and Pikey last year. That ended in a halved point, what would be the result this year. My confidence was high. The Draw We drew on Pool 1 again, pegs, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Peg 6 would be my home for the day. It looked like the ideal feeder peg with boards across between two clumps of reeds. The Set-Up The feeder rod was the first to come out of the bag. I also set up the 5 metre and the margin to my left. Bait again, casters, micros, dead reds, worms, corn and hemp. The All-In Straight across on the feeder, but my cast was a little out. The wind was up but I could adjust for that. After 6 casts

Finally, the Northern Munkees vs the Southern Shandies… I had a great 3 days last year with the lads and this has become part of my “must attend” events. The Glebe, a great venue. I arrived just after 8:30am after some rubbish traffic on the M1 and getting stuck behind a tractor on the run into the Glebe. Most of the lads were at the Glebe and the banter started. It’s a great event organised and run by Sconey. The Draw In the section today was, Shogun (Munkee who was fishing for the Shandies), Dum Dum (Adam), Steve 50-50, George T, Iansi, Kenfish and Sconey. Peg 25 on Pool 1 was my home for the day. The Set-Up Remembering the advice from Andy Kindy, which was to set up the lines you think will catch you the most fish I opted for the feeder rod and 5 metre line. I had a good selection of bait, casters, micro’s, sweetcorn, dead reads, hemp and worms for a change of hookbait. The All-In I had a plan and it revolved around the feeder across and the 5 metre line, althou

The final day and the Monkees only need 8 points out of the 20 on offer to secure the bragging rights over the Shandees. Today the match rules allow any method with in the Glebe rules.  We would be fishing one on one and we wouldn't know who until the draw was completed. Phrase of yesterday, "you fringe" was being used to excess mind you! The Draw The Shandee's drew first and put their names down on the boards split across Pools 4, 5, 6 & 7.  Then the Monkees drew.  My draw was Pool 6, peg 88, the exact peg that Sconey was on yesterday, my competition was Rick (Happy Dangler) on Peg 89.  Funnily, Sconey drew my peg from yesterday Peg 86 and he would be fishing against Shogun. The Set-up Based on yesterday experience on Pool 6, I opted for the following: 5 metre line straight ahead Left hand margin at 4 metres Feeder rod set up to exploit the far bank The All-In Learning from yesterday I cupped in two large pots of hemp and corn on the

Day 2 which is a float only day and teams of 2 vs 2.  The weather had turned for the worse.  It was raining and overcast, probably an ideal day for the feeder to be honest! Most were suffering from the previous night at the Longshoot! The monkees were 4-1 up on the shandees and today there would be 10 points available for the winning teams. The Draw Hathers drew the envelope that contained our 4 pegs.  I drew peg 86 on Pool 6, Pike peg 87, Sconey peg 88 and Hathers on peg 89. I had been on peg 86 before back in 2012 for the Connor Whip Charity day .  It is known as the "little girls peg" so of course Pike and Hathers were taking the mickey, just a little... The Set-up I was thinking about setting up a pellet waggler but after a chat with Sconey and Roy Marlow it was clear that the 5 metre line would play a big part in today's match.  So I set up the following: 5 metre line straight ahead at full depth and also a shallow rig 13 metre and 5 metre margin

3 days of fishing at The Glebe ahead with 39 other Match Fishing Scene members, fishing heaven in my mind!  To top it all some of the MFS Jocks would also be there at the same time, bonus! A 3 day event like this especially at a fishery with a reputation for the amount of tins of corn anglers have fed presented a challenge to ensure I had brought the right baits and plenty of it, better have more than not enough...  the bait list was: 12 pints of 6mm pellets 2 pints of 8mm pellets 6 bags of Marukyu EFG 151 8 Bags of frozen sweetcorn 8 pints of hemp 3 pints of casters 2 pints of dead red maggot For the final day I'll tell you what I used and what I came home with... I arrived the night before at the Bosworth Hall Hotel which is only a 15 minute drive to fishery so it was great to be able to have an easy morning, i.e. a sleep in and a relaxing breakfast. It was great to see plenty of familiar faces from up and down the country, it didn't take long for the micke