Bailiff Comments

Week Commencing: Sat 10/10/2026

Return of the Road lake Catch Report’s

 

 

 

We would just like to apologise with the lack of catch reports that have gone on to the website this year. The truth of it is we’ve been running on a lot less staff this year and we truly haven’t had time to do them each week, but now they are back and back for good. Thank you for your patience.

 

 

Anglers Name:  Jordan Hanlon

Swim Name:  Turtles Corner

No Fish:  18

Biggest Fish:  Samo’s 51lb 12oz

Spot: 21 Wraps to dot island 

Spot : 23 Wraps left Hand margin

Rig of Choice: Spinners size 4 wide gape barbless B hooks

Hook Bait: Manilla dumbbells topped with yellow and pink pop up maize

Feed Bait: 12mm manilla hole and crumb, hemp and corn

Things Worth Mentioning: Majority of the bites came from the dot island with pretty much all the bites in the hours of darkness

 

 

Anglers Name: Toby Knight

Swim Name:  Tea Party 2 

No Fish:  9

Biggest Fish: Broken Tail 47lb 5oz

Spot: Wraps 25, to L/H tall tree

Spot 21 wraps at white log

Rig of Choice: Spinners and multi combi, size 4 kranks.

Hook Bait:  Double fake corn, bottom bait match the hatch topped with corn

Feed Bait: Fish meal boilie with hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: Keeping at it did the trick for Toby when losing a few fish to the boulder. Work rate was key with the back end of the week coming together for him. 

 

 

Anglers Name: Adam Bridgwood

Swim Name:  The Shingles

No Fish:  6

Biggest Fish: God Know's 46lb 8oz

Spot: 21 wraps cut out in the Tree line left of the dot island 

Rig of Choice: Multi Combi

Hook Bait:  Wafter match the hatch with a fleck of yellow and straight match the hatch 

Feed Bait: Fishmeal Boilie and hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: A change up in Spots did it for Adam starting off straight out in front at 18 wraps. He soon took on boards to push hard left at 21 wraps ending up on 6 fish landed

 

 

Anglers Name:  Jamie Sales 

Swim Name:  Tea Party 2

No Fish:  2

Biggest Fish:  Submarine 48lb 

Spot: 21 wraps Dot island 

Rig of Choice: Spinner Rigs

Hook Bait:  Dna secret 7/ dna bottom bait

Feed Bait: Dna 15 and 18mm corn and hemp 

Things Worth Mentioning: A tough week In Tea Party 1 for Jamie, he stuck to his guns out at 21 wraps with a few slight tweaks he managed to go home with a new PB! Well done mate 

 

 

Anglers Name:  Lee Berry

Swim Name:  The Goo

No Fish:  14

Biggest Fish:  32lb

Spot: 16 wraps towards tall lone tree

Spot: 23 wraps to the cove

Rig of Choice: 25lb boom with Spinners with D kickers

Hook Bait: Krill active wafters

Feed Bait: 12 & 15 mm bug & switch with hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: Lee fished 16 wraps for the first couple of days not pressuring the fish in the out of bounds giving them confidence to feed with no line pressure. Then gambled going out long Tuesday closer to the out of bounds at 23 wraps. Landing another 12 fish before they done the off on Thursday. It was like clock work for lee catching them from 3pm up until 6pm. Well done mate unlucky not to get into some chunks.

 

 

Anglers Name:  Steve Cram

Swim Name:  The Poo

No Fish:  1

Biggest Fish:  26lb

Spot: 25 wraps right of Red roof into deeper water

Rig of Choice: Multi Combi

Hook Bait: Fishmeal Bottom bait

Feed Bait: Fishmeal boilie and hemp 

Things Worth Mentioning: A tough week for Steve coming out later in the draw opted to go into The Poo knowing it had not done a bite in this swim for a while. He was determined to break the curse. Stuck it out and did exactly that. Tough week for Steve. Well done on saving the blank 

 

 

Anglers Name:  James Arnall

Swim Name:  The Birches

No Fish:  3

Biggest Fish:  25lb 2oz

Spot: 18 Wraps right of dot island

Rig of Choice: Spinners and Solid Bags

Hook Bait:  Match the hatch boilie tipped with Slow Sinking Maize

Feed Bait: Fishmeal boilie, pellet and hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: A tough week for James, all three bites coming in the hours of darkness once the fish were on the move from Tea Party 2. Well done mate on a tough week at that end of the pond

 

 

Anglers Name:  Jordan Moulding

Swim Name:  Billy’s

No Fish:  2

Biggest Fish:  Stein 39lb

Spot: 21 wraps left of boat ramp

Rig of Choice: Solid Bags - 3.5 inch braided hook link with a size 4 crank 

Hook Bait: Double slow sinking yellow corn

Feed Bait: Fishmeal boilie and house mix

Things Worth Mentioning: Another tough week at this end of the lake but Jordan stuck to his spots and managed a few out. Well done on a tough week where others could have easily blanked 

 

 

Anglers Name:  Wesley Cole

Swim Name:  Dunkerque

No Fish:  2

Biggest Fish:  Maggie 51lb

Spot: 12 wraps at Billy’s

Rig of Choice: Spinner Kurv size 6 

Hook Bait:  Fishmeal boilie

Feed Bait: Fish meal boilie

Things Worth Mentioning: Again this end of the pond was tough with only 7 fish coming out. Water craft was the key for Wes landing a smaller resident on the first night then bagging himself a new PB with Maggie. Well done Wes congratulations on the PB

 

 

 

62 fish landed for the week from around the pond. Will next week go one better? 

 

Tight lines, 

 

Tom 

 

Team Gigantica

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