Barford Lakes Fish-O-Mania

For a couple days before the Qualifier it had rained non stop and temperature’s dropping down to 0 - 1 degrees at night which was going to make the fishing very hard but didn’t fish too bad considering the weather.

 
Congratulations to Nathan Watson on Qualifying for the Fisho final off fancied peg 13 on Pleasure Lake.

Nathan caught on the Pellet waggler to open water at 3ft - 6ft deep fishing 8mm pellet on hook, lose feeding 8mm. Nathan caught steadily throughout the day with fish up to 13lb for a total of 11 carp for 114lb.  He only set up two pellet waggler rods so had decided his attack and stuck to it.

2nd overall was Sam Collett on Top Lake peg 6 with carp to 10lb weighing a total of 84lb 13oz. Sam caught on Pellet on the deck for first few hours then paste down the margin.

3rd was Perry Stone on Colton Peg 30, Colton fished hard and was a lake people wanted to avoid but Perry made the most of the room he had and weighed in 81lb 15oz with fish up to 10lb Perry caught on meat on the pole up the margin feeding meat and pellet.

Top 6 Anglers

 1st Nathan Watson 114lb 13oz (Pleasure Lake Peg 13)

2nd Sam Collett 84lb 13oz (Top Lake Peg 6)

3rd Perry Stone 81lb 15oz (Colton peg 30)

4th Ben Smith 74lb 6oz (Willow Peg 19)

5th Anthony Parker 69lb 3oz (Willow Peg 35)

6th Dan Hull 68lb 8oz (Willow Peg 16)

Top 3 on Each Lake

The next qualifier is on Saturday 14th May (no day tickets that day) and I believe there may be a few tickets left for sale.  Tickets from the Angling Trust contact Sandra Drew on 0844 7700616. 

Excited for our first FIsh O Mania qualifier this Saturday 16th April.

There's been a couple of rule changes so the rules on the website are currently not so current!  Please click on the link below for the most recent rules.

2016 Match Rules 

DRY NETS PLEASE

Please lay your nets out behind you when you arrive at your peg.  Your nets will be checked and if the are wet you will be asked to dip them.  Please make sure you dip them before the match if you haven't had time to dry them.  Much prefered if you arrive with dry nets - many thanks for this.  All virus, parasites and other nasty things die on dry nets.  

If it's raining there will be an alternative arrangement in place which will be on display on arrival.    

The Cafe 

The cafe will be open from 7.15am and will be open all day.  Full breakfasts and rolls on offer.  There will be after match food of Brurgers, Chips, Sweet potatoe fries and Pulled pork and homemade coleslaw.

Spectators Welcome

You are welcome to come down and watch from the car park of the Match Lake and Pleasure Lake.  We don't allow any walking round unless you're a steward so we'd apprecaite you gave the anglers the respect and room you'd expect yourself.  We had a nice gathering of people in the car park last year though and it was a great atmosphere.

Roll on Saturday!!