Hi Folks, me and Stav had decided to fish the open at Manor Farm this week due to no club matches on and our normal escape Tunnel Barn was limited to 20 pegs on the new pool he had dug out this year because 5 of the main pools were booked for the V.D.E Supercup final. A quick look on the internet at Manor's web site reveled that this weeks open was on Island pool? Stav & Barry were down there the day before fishing a match on Windmill pool, at around 8.30am while i was at work Stav rung me to say they might move the open to Boundary pool. When they came back from Manor at around 5.30pm Stav confirmed that the Open had been moved on to Boundary pool due to the lack of oxygen in Island pool, now i have heard a few bad about things about Boundray pool people saying that it is the worst pool on there and the weights are crap. I thought we might has well give it a go or i could end up shopping with her in doors?, i thought that i will reserve judgement on the pool until i have fished it myself and not rely other people's thoughts. The next morning 29 of us turned up for the match i drew peg 12 which meant nothing to me and Stav drew peg 30, apparently pegs 32-38 are good pegs on the point and the pegs opposite 7-10 ish are good draws with peg 7 winning the last 2 matches on there. I was not to despondent as Stav and Jim who fish a lot down there a lot said it was not a bad area and i should catch a few fish. I set up a pellet wagg, method feeder and 2 pole rigs one for pellet & one for paste, i will not bore you with the details of the set up. For bait all i took was pellets in every size from micro to 8mm, some g/bait, paste and 1/4 pint of dead reds for the hook, i have fished Manor a few times before on the other pools and always caught well on pellet so that's all i took. On the whistle i fed two 5m lines at 10 & 2 o'clock one with paste with micros the other with 4mm pellets while i started on the pellet wagg with 8mm pellets, after around 45mins and no fish the guy to my right was biteless so was the next 2 anglers to my left on pegs 16 & 17 it looked like being a long day? A change to the method was called for with green swimstim g/bait and double dead reds on the hook i threw the method out and sat back awaiting my first pull? Wait was an understatement i had my first fish a 8oz skimmer after around 2hrs and the guys around me weren't catching either.
To cut a very long story short try as i may the fish just weren't in our area, pole, method & wagg all failed to produce, the guy to my right and Jim to my left packed in with around an hour left to go. After 5 hrs of fishing all i had to show for my efforts was 3 f1's, 1 small carp and a few skimmers losing the best fish a carp of around 4lb at the net, i thought around 10-12lb was all i had but was still going to weight because they were paying top 2 and 5 sections every 5-6 pegs. I could only really see the guy to my right due to a bush in-between us so what the rest on my bank had got i couldn't see but i could see 5 pegs around me and thought i had got more than those. When i met the scales at peg 8 he put 35lb on the scales, next peg 9 35lb odd, before peg 10 weighed in i had a look at the board to see where my section started and it reveled that this was my section and Jim being the first peg in the next section. Great all the pegs opposite the point were in my section so i had sat there all day catching very little clutching to the only chance of coin a section win, no chance so i tipped my fish back without weighing a little pissed off at this point. The guy on peg 10 looked to have 20-30lb but at this point i had lost all interest and just carried on packing my stuff away, Stav came around saying he had 19lb on worm & caster but 30lb odd had won his section too. 51lb won off peg 36, 2nd on peg 23 with 43lb and 3rd on peg 32 with 38lb all the guys on my bank that had caught 8,9 & 10 opposite the point all caught and 2 of the top 3 were all on the fancied pegs so i suppose the result went true to form so to speak.
Not that i am one to slag fishery off but i think that some constructive criticism must be said. For me i had heard some horror stories about this pool before hand and i think that now after fishing it myself that some of them are not just bad anglers who cannot catch moaning about the place but i truly believe that the pool needs a lot of fish putting in. Well we heard that Boundary pool was the best pool on the complex a few years ago before the big floods when all the pools became one big lake and after the floods receded all the fish just ended up where they ended up. Well surely after this amount of time you can tell by the results ( don't take my word for it have a look on the Manor farm results page and tell me if Boundary fishes as well as the other pools?) is it so much hard work to put the fish back if you don't want to re-stock or cannot afford to? At £7 a peg i think that this pool is way overpriced for what you expect from a top rated commercial fishery. The day before the match on Windmill pool that Stav & Bash fished there were 3 weights over a ton and lots of good backing weights Bash had 84lb for nothing and Stav messed it right up but still had 40lb+, so what happened 24hrs later in the same weather conditions? I can tell you what there is not the same amount of fish in the pool! I feel this is a shame because i like the fishery as you can drive to your peg, use your own pellets and normally catch a few fish?
As they old saying goes "first imprisons last" if that is true it will be a long time before i think about fishing this pool again.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment