Pool Bridge Farm Opens

[fletch]

Now Chaps, hope the season has been a good one for you all. It’s come to that time of year again when the fair weather fisherman puts their tackle away and takes up shopping with the missus as a hobby…for those of you that would sooner be fishing then read on! ;D

I just though that some of you chaps may be interested in the opens we're running at Pool Bridge and the YF/YMA lads do have a good record on them.......well some do....some of you are rubbish.

Opens at Pool Bridge went well last year, hopefully this year they will be better than ever.

How it will work:

The first Open will be on Sunday the 2nd November and will run every Sunday until some time in March. (Weather, or at least Ice dependant)
The gates will open at 7.30 as usual and the draw is from 8am, the draw will take place in the café, just pick your peg, grab your Breakfast and you have until 10am to sort yourselves out when the match starts. The weigh in will be at 4pm and prizes given out in the café afterwards.

The Match will be 35 pegs on Horseshoe, the cost will be £15.

The rules are pretty simple:
No cat meat
No floating poles (Sorry Monkey )
No Floating Bait
Keepnets will be at your Pegs, do not use your own!
Please put your un-used bait in the bin provided. Do not throw it in.
Double figure fish are to be weighed and released. Scales provided around the Lake.
If you’re getting near to 80lb, get another net. If you weigh in with more than 80lb in your net your weight will not count.
All the other usual rules count

If you want any food brought to your peg at lunchtime, just book it when you pay for your ticket. I’ll pop my Pinny on and bring you nice and hot!

Booking was an issue last year with people booking and not turning up, so this year you can book and pay for the following week if you want to guarantee a place, if not just turn up, first come first served. If it becomes an issue with people not being able to get a peg then we’ll open Normans up as well for the matches.

Hopefully see you soon.

Cheers

Mike

[Deleted]

Oct 23, 2008 13:11:15 GMT fletch said:

No floating poles (Sorry Monkey )


Mike

mike sorry mike if u think that im floating a pole in winter no good in winter mt8y and it'll take me until summer to get it apart
cheers for thinking of me ;D

[fletch]

The fish still think ity's summer!!! they have been catching them on ther top all week. They are un predictable little critters.

[beachball]

Oct 23, 2008 15:21:45 GMT fletch said:

The fish still think ity's summer!!! they have been catching them on ther top all week. They are un predictable little critters.

mmmm i think you'll find the ones taking off the top in this weather are called seagulls Fletch lol .
or did you go ahead and stock them flying fish

[madfishinman]

are these open matches still running?? and if so what are good baits?
thinkin of tryin it out as not really done any real matches

[Deleted]

use caters and maggot over some groundbait preferably swim stim on the pole try close i9n and far out

[Deleted]

i have fished quite a few of these matches and done ok ,carp on bread and meat is scoring well at the mo with chopped worm over micros producing skimmers and bream,roach up in the water on caster.

[Hatman]

We'll have been on the same matches then riddler. I'm the handsome one. Easy to recognise since i carry enough gear for about 10, usually wearing a dark blue Drennan fleece hat. Not there on the 8th, but should be there for the next 2 sundays.

[barney]

HA ALSO LOOKS LIKE steve ringer or is that fishes like him HI CHRIS HA HA ;D

[barney]

when do the opens finish

[Deleted]

i think it is the end of march u will hAVE TO CHECK

[Hatman]

Yes, opens on sundays to the end of March and Mike is planning another 'mystery pairs' match to end the series. If the Golden Peg doesn't pay out before the pairs match then it will be used to give a big boost to the prize payout for the pairs.

I think Mike said the pairs was to be a silvers only match, which should stop some clever dick drawing a hot peg and setting a new winter opens match record that no bag of roach and skimmers can compete with

[barney]

you doing it mate

[Hatman]

Did it, drew 29, a very good peg but couldn't manage a win, a friend walked it from peg 15, he had 25lbs of silvers to my 12-10 for 2nd. No carp or bigger silvers for me at all, which is unusual for the peg. Now wheres that copy of 'Improve Your Coarse Fishing'?

There's a mystery pairs match on the 29th. Good pegs will be matched with average pegs and where you draw will determine who is your partner. Its a silvers match, with commons/mirrors/ghosties counting as 1lb. Theres always a good atmosphere on the PBF matches & this one will mark the end of the Winter Opens season until November.

Ring Mike at PBF if you want to book on.

[Hatman]

On a downhill slope, 3rd this week, but didn't draw a hot peg.

The Pairs match is to be held on the 'Old Lake' also known as the now re-opened Coarse Pond, which is now carpless aside from crucians/brown goldfish.

BUT!!! This match is only open to those who have fished the PBF Winter Opens & its essential to book with Mike, since numbers are limited.