7th Jan 2017 - WL4 Hampton Willow

After a switch from Cheshire Oaks as the venue, frustratingly remains not ready, Hampton helped us out and with the venue being totally frozen on the Thurs and a rapid thaw on Friday the fishing was expected to be hard.....but what do we know, the top three all broke 50lb!

Barry Davis fished a great match off an unfavoured peg backing onto Folly, down from the pipe swim and caught a few early dobbing before coming shorter to c8m catching carp on expander over micros for an easy win with 95.5lb....a cracking winter weight.

Ian Simpson fed nothing for 5 hours and dobbed his way on p23 to 40 small F1's and 20 carp for 59.5lb fishing towards the weed bed feature. Steve Gilmore took third spot with 50.0lb despite losing a number of good fish, presumably foul hooked, Ste fished and fed corn again to the inside weed bed feature on p31 (I think).

Overall a good day with 7 weights qualifying for the 20lb John Heald KO 2017 at the first attempt of the year.

Result

1st - Barry Davis - 95.5lb
2nd - Ian Simpson - 59.5lb
3rd - Steve Gilmore - 50.0lb

30th Dec 2016 - Hampton Willow

Despite a much milder night the lakes remained solid at Hampton and after breaking the ice we managed no blanks although the carp were holed up more so in certain places and Billy Gore took full advantage dobbing most of the day for 16 carp and a few roach to weigh 44lb. Ian Lloyd managed 8 carp and some roach and skimmers for 27.04lb and the final place went to Mike White who stuck to maggot to the edge of the ice for 19.0lb just a few pounds ahead of four others all with 14lb+ weights so given the icy conditions (it was still frozen solid when we left) not too bad a day.

Result

1st - Billy Gore - 44.06lb
2nd - Ian Lloyd - 27.04lb
3rd - Mike White - 19.0lb