Holly Farm Fishery

Today I am up at Holly Farm Fishery in Leicestershire for the Maggotdrowners teams of 4 match Being fished on Gil's lake



Not too bad a drive up this morning it only took me 1 hour 30 min's and is a nice easy place to find

Upon arriving I went in for breakfast and met up with Dave,Colin,Simon and Paul and had a spot of breakfast soon the rest of the guys started arriving most I had met before but a few new ones too

Once everyone had arrived and paid pools etc the draw was made team captains had to draw envelopes and allocate pegs inside to rest of team as a team captain I drew an envelope and as the pegs meant nothing to me as I had never fished here before my team just drew a peg each out of the envelope and set off to find it I was left with peg 5 which by all accounts was a short walk or at least thanks to Matt Nutt it was as I was heading off round the wrong way until he put me right



All the pegs look well maintained as is the whole fishery only down side so far is the wind which is howling down the lake from left to right



Most of the pre match talk was about most matches being won fishing tight over to the far bank so I set my pole up and the far bank was 14.5m in peg 5 I put a margin rig on and shipped it over to plumb up but after 3 attempts I gave up as the pole and rig ended up in the reeds each time blown in by the wind



It sure looks nice but I can't fish it in this wind

Plan B was to fish at 11.5m I managed to plumb that swim but I had very little faith that I would be able to fish it in the wind

Plan C involved a 6m line and a nearside margin swim and looked the best prospect


I set up a pellet rig to fish a dead depth and also a paste rig for the 6m line and at 6m I had about 4ft of water


I also set up a margin rig for the margin on my right where I had about 18 inches of water on my top 2
Bait today consists of a selection of GOT 6mm and 11mm soft hookers a tin of corn a packet of GOT tonup paste and a tin of meat cut into 6mm cubes and 2 bags of the fishery 4mm feed pellets
For company on the next peg I had Mark C and next to him Gary Thorpe




And hiding in the trees at the far end i can just make out Simon

11 am arrives and the whistle sounds the all in I managed to ship a pot of pellets out to 11.5m and also a pot out to 6m and a few handfuls of pellets in the margin swim

Then I went out on the 6m line with a lump of paste it was a bit difficult to get any sort of presentation in the gale that was now blowing down the lake but I had a few line bites on paste but nothing I could hit so I gave up and went out on the same line with a 6mm pellet on the hook I had a few missed bites and eventually managed to hit 1 and I soon had a 1lb Carp in the net after the first hour that's all I had 1 Carp

I swapped over to corn on the same 6m line and after about 20 min's I had another 1lb Carp in the net Mark C was fishing cat meat on the same 6m line as me and he had also had a couple of Carp but his looked to be a better size

I tried the margin swim with corn/pellet and meat but couldn't get a bite on any of them so I went back out on the 6m line and this time put a cube of meat on the hook and this resulted in a Carp straight away

Back out with another cube of meat and after a bit of jiggling I had another Carp in the net and that seemed to be the only way I could get a bite was to feed a handful of pellets and jiggle the meat over the top

In the end I had 21 fish mostly Carp but 1 gold fish and a couple of Ghosties I caught them all on the 6m line with the exception of 1 I managed to catch in the margin

At about 3.30 my swim went mad and I was almost in bagging mode getting a fish a chuck for about 15 min's then just a fast it died again and I only caught 1 more before the whistle

Mark C on the next peg had also had a steady days fishing and although he had caught fewer fish than me his were of a better size so it was going to be close between us
When the scales arrived I had 22lb and Mark C had 21lb so I only just beat him and Gary Thorpe put 32lb on the scales
I packed my gear away and headed back off to the cafe for the results and prize giving
Our team only managed to come 5th as Wayne had a gruller and ended up with a DNW but all in all it was a good day and I had a few fish and met up with the guys from Maggotdrowners again only downside was the wind which spoilt what could have been a really good days fishing but theres always next year

Congrats to Matt Nutt who won the match and was also in the winning team





Team Results

1st

COME WEST

Genus9.......53lb 00
M Ribbons...17lb.08
Matt Nutt...60lb.08
R Hearne....00lb.10

Total 131lb.10

2nd

THE BREKKIE BOYZZZ

Steve Oswick...19lb.06
Mark C Adriot...21lb.00
Dave Collier.....08lb.08
Rob Canding....31lb.04

Total 80lb.02

3rd

PANTO’S

Wayne Panting..21lb.12
G Thorpe..........32lb.00
R Dell..............08lb.00
R Embury.........03lb.04

Total 65lb.00

4th

DIRK’S

D Williams...........07lb.08
Nomorelongwalks..03lb.08
Swinbourne..........19lb.12
Simplesimon........30lb.08

Total 60lb.04

5th

CLIVE'S BOYS

Clive Pritchard...22lb.00
Tip Top............16lb.00
Lucky Wayne....00lb.00
Dizzy...............13lb.12

Total 51lb.12

6th

TOM CATS

M Toole.......20lb.08
Bucko..........01lb.08
Spamwham..00lb.00
Fred Milo.....07lb.00

Total 29lb.00


7th

Colin Sharrad

C Sharrad.....06lb.00
R Ravenhill...09lb.04
Tangler........04lb.00
Keith Ashby..06lb.14

Total 26lb.02


8th

ED10

ED10.......07lb.10
Tommy....00lb.09
Jake 1969.13lb.14
Ian Venn..03lb.08

Total 25lb.09



Individual Results


1.Matt Nutt……………………60.08
2.Genus9………………………53.00
3.G Thorpe………………....32.00
4.Rob Canding………………31.04
5.Simplesimon………………30.08
6.Clive Pritchard……………22.00
7.Wayne Panting……………21.12
8.Mark C Adriot……………..21.00
9.M Toole……………………….20.08
10.Swinbourne………………19.12
11.Steve Oswick……………19.06
12.M Ribbons…………………17.08
13.Tip Top………………………16.00
14.Jake 1969………………….13.14
15.Dizzy………………………….13.12
16.R Ravenhill…………………09.04
17.Dave Collier……………….08.08
18.R Dell………………………….08.00
19.ED10……………………………07.10
20.D Williams…………………..07.08
21.Fred Milo……………………..07.00
22.Keith Ashby…………………06.14
23.C Sharrad………………….…06.00
24.Tangler………………………..04.00
25.Ian Venn……………………..03.08
25.Nomorelongwalks……….03.08
26.R Embury…………………….03.04
27.Bucko…………………………..01.08
28.R Hearne………………………00.10
29.Tommy…………………………00.09
DNW
Lucky Wayne
Spamwham

Total………………………………….469.03

Thanks to Bucko for running the match and I'm looking forward to next years match