Island Lake October 2011

We were on a real high coming off Telliates and went straight to Island lake 15km down the road for our second week of the holiday.

I had heard it was a weedy lake that was a little tricky . After borrowing the van from Jake the bailiff at Telliates to get to the draw for 11am and rushing around the super market for some food for the week I evetually was in swim 13 on Island lake . Steve I put in swim 12 on bailiffs advice . Steve was now on his way back to Dover to pick up his van !!!!
As soon as i looked over the side of the boat in swim 13 i knew this wasn't going to be easy. Crystal clear water and i could see boilies at 12 feet down . The clear areas and recommended spots were huge and i just couldn't see me getting a bite in the day here. I found a spot along a tree line that reminded me of a great spot on the Anson back in the day at Dartford lakes. Tree line clear and it was polished , that will do nicely and it was shaded most of the day . The other two went on very obvious spots , huge clear areas that had been cleaned by carp .
Steve arrived at 2am , after a cuppa and a fag , I got three bleeps on the tree line rod , went down to the rod and it was curved around nicely . It was on and turned out to be another 60 common. Lucky or what .
It turned out to be a hard week with only six fish caught by 7 anglers . We had four of them . 60.4 Common and 55 common to me and a 55 Mirror and 38 mirror to Steve.

Telliates Oct 2011

Just got back from another amazing trip and a near copy of last October for Steve and I . Steve managed to pull the number 1 ball from the hat , I got 8 . Tim Oatley and his crew had been on the previous week with Tim catching the Nogent Mirror at 78 ,again . New Biffos had done a few fish in the last 24 hrs , so as he left on the coach he gave me the , New Biffos , New Biffos message for the draw.
Steve stuck to his guns after seeing a catch graph of the double swim with all the big 6 coming from there this year . Nice one Steve , I had to wait and went for the Shithouse . I could have gone in the Crescent or the Fence but saw the colour of the water in Shithouse and a fish show. Game on.

We set up and I went for a spot at around 85 yds that Steve had done well on last year and a deeper spot to the right. Steve went on the spot I had 2X60 last year and the famous rock spot where Si Haldane has done so well . I put 2kg on one spot and 1 kg on the other and was surprised to get a take at 10.30pm . 43 pounder, another at 3.30 am 44 pounder , and Steve had a 38 a first light. Blimey we never catch first night.
I won't bore you all with the detail but we ended up with 17 fish . 1x77 Common , 2x60 Common , 1 x61 Mirror, 3x55 Plus. All caught on Mainline New Grange . We used around 50kg during the week . Another awesome week on the lake and a memorable year for me with 6x60 including 3x70 plus.

Teillates Sept 2011

Steve and I have just returned from the lake for our Autumn trip . We did pretty well with 16 fish between us from 4 different swims. Steve started in New Biffos and me in The Rock on the field . I quickly moved to crescent , then the Stump , then the Fence . Steve did his last night in Mannies.

The fish were spread out over the lake and nearly everybody caught something . Conditions changeable with some nice westerly cloudy weather and some hot clear days . Her are the stats .

Steve Cowell 2x40 4x30 3x20 Top Rod. Mick Murray . 2x 50 2x40 1x30 2x20.

We caught 5x20 with the rest of the lake not catching a single fish that size!!! Some nice fish caught , Generals Mate at 79.12 , 66 Common , 62 common and 12x 50 including two at 58 .

We are back on 13th October for another adventure , come on the Long Common and Nogent . Here are the photos.

All fish were caught on Mainline Grange at ranges from 30yds to 130yds.

More Action May 2011

The result of my boat trip!!

In the boat to land a 36 Mirror in Weed . A common occurance throughout the week.

Telliates 2011 May

41 Pound Common

The Crescent at dawn.

Generals Mate and a Zoo Creature. Tellaites May 2011

These two monsters were on the bank at the same time! Generals Mate at 80lb Catfish at 88lb . Awesome!

Telliates May 2011

72.8 The unknown common.
49.12 common

Just returned from the great lake. Struggled a bit , but all came good in the end . 5 fish landed 35, 36, 41, 49 , and the unknown Common on the last day in blazing sun 15 mins after moving onto jumping fish . It only takes one bite on that lake to change your week completely. Witnessed the Generals Mate and my good friend Steve Cowell had an 88 pound Zoo creature on the bank at the same time . What a week ! Moved four times and have the bruises from carrying a Nash indulgence to prove it . Here are the photos.