Lewy's Lines

Wednesday match at Marsh Farm, the weather was certainly shaping up to be a lovely day so what better than to spend it fishing on Richardson Lake! The usual suspects lines up together with some old familiar faces from my MFS days namely Ian McLaren and Dave Boyd. The Draw Peg 5, right outside of the club house for me today Set-up I decided on a method to target the far bank and the following pole lines: 10 Metres left and right Margins left and right The menu today dead reds, casters, micro pellets, assorted pellets for hookers and F1 sweet groundbait. All-In A single ball of groundbait on the left hand 10 metre line and three balls on the right hand line.  I started on the method with double dead red maggot and groundbait loaded.  Five minute timed cast and pinging three to four 6mm hard pellets over the method line. It was a warm and still day with very little ripple on the water.  The first hour past without a fish on the method so I tried the pole...

Wednesday open at Richardson Lake on the Marsh Farm Complex and an opportunity to have my third fish at this lake after two previous attempts. A comment from one of the guys today will stick in my mind... Richardson Lake fishes differently every single day of the week... never a truer word!  Here is the blog of the day. The Draw 27 fishing today and I managed to get an early dip in the bag.  Peg 44 was home for the day. Fishing was 11:30am until 6pm. Set-up With the wind trucking down the lake a long pole line and waggler option looked out of the window.  It didn't stop me setting them up!  Main lines of attacker as follows: Bomb / Small cage feeder across Top Two + Three section straight ahead Top Two + Three margins left and right Baits mainly natural, maggots, casters, sweetcorn, groundbait and some pellets All-In Starting on the short line, I cupped in a small amount of groundbait with some micro pellets and went straight over the line with...

Sunday match this week I opted to head back to Richardson Lake with Godalming Angling Society (GAS) who were sharing the lake with the Farnham Match Group (FMG). A quick call to the match secretary and I was in.  Turns out that 36 of us would be fishing. The Draw Drawing was split between GAS and FMG and ordered by the time you booked on.  I was second last on our list however Peg 10 came out for me. Not a bad draw and one peg from the area that everyone was fancying! Set-up Waggler and Bomb rod straight out of the bag to target the far bank which is just beyond pole range. Pole Lines were: 14.5 Metres to the left side of the peg Top 2 + 2 margin lines left and right Top 2 + 1 keep net line Bait consisted of maggot, caster, worm, sweetcorn and some expander pellets.  Groundbait was Supercrush Green. All-In The decision from the off was to take the negative approach and with that I potted in two balls of ground bait was a smattering of casters on th...

A chance to fish the Wednesday match with Godalming Angling Society on a new lake to me, Richardson Lake. The weather wasn't looking the best today with rain predicted, little did I know it was going to rain all day long and soak all the gear. The Draw Peg 7, near to the Apollo tackle shop came out of the bag for me. Set-up With the wind blowing down the lake I didn't feel it would be a waggler day however I set-up a waggler and also a bomb to fish the waggler line too. Pole lines were: 13 metres at 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock Top 2 and 3 straight ahead Margin lines left and right Bait was a mix between natural (maggot, caster, worms) and pellets which would be fished on separate lines. All-In Kicking off the swims I put a small ball of sloppy groundbait with casters on the 10 o'clock line and some 4 mm pellets on the other long pole line.  The rain then started. I decided to try the waggler, pinging casters over the top until the wind got so ba...