Barford Lakes Fish-O-Mania

Awesome day at Barford for the qualifier today.  Kieron Rich (Daiwa and Angling Coach) won from Match Lake peg 2 with 227lb 1 ozs.  The last hour here at Barford was electric – we really couldn’t call who was going to win – although Kieron did steam the last couple of hours.  Kieron had fish to 12lb, four in the margins but caught most of his fish shallow on meat.  

Chris Vandervliet  (Drennan, Bowlers & Bait-Tech) had big Pleasure Lake lumps from peg 7 and came a respectable 2^nd with 177lb 5ozs.  Chris had fish to 14lb and a Tench and fished down the edge on chopped worm and caster over groundbait. 

Next peg round to Chris on peg 10 was Steve Jackson (Angling Coach, Tackle wholesaler and previous Fish-O winner).  Steve caught down the edge on chopped worm and caster and had fish to 15lb and had 154lb 11ozs and came 5^th overall.

On peg 30 on the Match Lake Gary Miller (Maver Image) was also catching down the margins kindering  worms and caster and had 162lb 4ozs.  He had tench and carp to 7lb. 

Quietly catching down the end on peg 17 on the Match Lake was Ricky Young (Browning Hotrods) and had an awesome 173lb 10ozs for third place overall.  Having carp to 8lb on worm and caster, all fish caught down the edge, but unfortunately had a slow last hour and only four fish.

Top weight on Colton was Richard Bond with 54lb 6ozs on peg 15 and a close second was Trevor Stanley with 51lb 4ozs from peg 21.

End pegs prevailed at Willow Lake.  It was won by Dean Kenworthy, who lost a number of fish at the start, but still piled in 93.15 from peg 17.  2^nd on the lake from peg 1 was 62lb 14 was Matthew Greening.

Railway was won by Paul Christie from peg 28 with 56lb 9ozs and second was Adam Playford from peg 18 with 50lb 5ozs.

Top Lake at Barford was won by Kevin Shellie from peg 10 with 102lb and second was David Harold who was opposite on peg 6 with 85lb 13ozs.

Top day all round – little bit tough on the lakes off site but great action at Barford.  We had 11 weights over a ton!  Great to see everyone and hope you all had a good journey home.  Roooollll on the final!!

It’s that time of year again!  All set for Saturday, lakes are looking tidy and the margins at Colton have been opened up.

Pegs we’re using are pretty much the same as last year  – Match Lake (20 pegs), Pleasure Lake  (20 pegs), Top Lake (10 pegs), Colton (30 pegs), Railway (30 pegs) and Willow (20 pegs).  Deatils on the Lakes can be found by clicking here

Competitors will get a set of Match Rules at the draw – they haven’t changed much from last year but you can find them by clicking here 

The gates will open at 7am and we’ll be serving breakfast in the cafe from then.

We’ve been asked a lot about reserves and spare spaces.  Any spare tickets will be allocated to reserves in order of the list, anyone not on the reserves list will be allocated after, in order of who sees Mick first in the morning!  The draw is at 9am and spare tickets will be allocated at 10am. 

After match food this year are Burgers (with cheese, onion and relish), chips and BBQ Pulled pork with homemade coleslaw.  After match food served from 4pm. 

Spectators are welcome – but there are restrictions where you can watch from so please pop in Barford first, you get a great view of the action from the car park at Barford and the cafe will be open until 12.30pm (longer if there’s people about eating so phone ahead if you need any food after 12.30pm).

We have casters running – but please order to avoid disappointment – same with worm.  Caster are £3.20 and worm £20 a kilo, ½ kg - £11 and match packs are £6.  Will have plenty of maggot and dead red in the freezer.

Looking forward to the weekend, and the weather’s not looking too bad either!

There will be no day tickets Saturday don't forget!