Barford Lakes Fish-O-Mania

 Top 3 on each Lake

 Section Winners

Match Lake 1- 30 - Keith Gooderham - 36lb 13 - Peg 6

Match Lake 8 - 23 - Graham Greendale - 56lb 14 - Peg 13 

Pleasure Lake 1 -30 - Liam Darler - 64lb 9 - Peg 6

Pleasure Lake - 13 - 28 - Stuart Elmar - 54lb 9 - Peg 27

Top Lake  1 - 15 - Andrew Cranston - 61lb 6 - Peg 15

Rauilway  2 - 20 - Jessica Knights - 44lb 13 - Peg 2

Railway 24 - 40 - Sean Huggins - 31lb 13 - Peg 28

Railway 42 - 62 - Anthony Brooks - 38lb 7 - Peg 42

Willow Lake 1 - 35 - David Chipperfield - 40lb 5 - Peg 27

Willow Lake 9 - 25 - Steve Johnson - 27lb 10 - Peg 23

Colton Lake  21- 40 - Robert Gill - 47lb 6 - Peg 2

Colton Lake  5 - 16 - Sam Collett - 56lb 9oz - Peg 12

Colton Lake 22 - 39 - Warren Martin - 46lb 14oz - Peg 28

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!! 

 Congratulations to Eddie Green on Qualifying for the 2015 Fish O Mania Final, Fished a great match catching down Margins on Worm.

2nd Overall and just short of qualifying local hero Warren Martin just 5lb short of making it his second Fish O Mania final. Caught Shallow on Pole and Margins late on with worm 

 Top 6 on Day

1. Eddie Green- 146lb 3oz Peg 26 (Match Lake)

2. Warren Martin - 141lb 4oz Peg 8 (Match Lake)

3. Wayne Taylor - 117lb - 10oz Peg 30 (Match Lake)

4. Sam Collett - 109lb 5oz Peg 29 (Pleasure Lake)

5. Matthew Marshall - 107lb 7oz Peg 4 (Top Lake)

6. Jason Jones - 104lb 10oz Peg 10 (Match Lake)

We want to avoid dipping everyone's nets.  Keepnets are to be laid out behind your peg as usual and will be checked by the steward.  Once checked they can go in the lake.  Any damp nets will be dipped.

A huge thanks to the majority of anglers who are careful with drying their nets in order not to spread disease/virus/parasites.