Bailiff Comments

Week Commencing: Sat 17/10/2026

Juan bite is all it takes

 

 

 

Another week on the road lake ahead for only 9 fresh faces as a lake exclusive. Lets have a look how the guy’s got on.

 

 

 

Anglers Name: Tom Atkin

Swim Name:  Tea Party 1 

No Fish:  13

Biggest Fish:  Ruby Murray 51lb 8oz

Spot: 21 wraps to tall trees 

Spot: 16 wraps church spire

Rig of Choice: Multi Combi Rig

Hook Bait:  Match the hatch wafter 18mm

Feed Bait: DNA Boilie and Hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: Fishing out at the 21 spot in the day time and fishing the 16 wrap spot on the night time where the bigger fish came from 

 

 

 

Anglers Name: Alex Clasen

Swim Name:  The Goo

No Fish:  14

Biggest Fish:  King Edward 51lb 12oz

Spot: 18 Wraps straight out

Spot: 22 Wraps Tall tree left hand boundary

Rig of Choice: Multi Combi 

Hook Bait:  18mm Match the hatch wafter

Feed Bait: CCMoore pro stim, Hemp and Corn

Things Worth Mentioning: Resting the swim in the day time, baiting before dinner with all the bites coming through the night.

Anglers Name: Andy Hutchins

Swim Name:  Dunkerque

No Fish: 10

Biggest Fish: The Stalker 51lb 4oz  

Spot: 17.5 Wraps at Tea Party 2

Spot: 12 Wraps to Billys

Spot: 8.5 Wraps to Decoy

Rig of Choice: Spinners with size 4 wide gape with supple D

Hook Bait:  Match the hatch wafters

Feed Bait: Krill Boilie 

Things Worth Mentioning: Resting the swim in the day time when the fish weren’t there, only using the throwing stick with a spread of boilie around a tennis court size out at 17.5 wraps. Pre baiting the 8.5 spot and dropping the rig on there after a bite on the longer spot

 

 

 

Anglers Name:  Jordan Bates

Swim Name:  Tea Party 2 

No Fish:  8

Biggest Fish:  32lb

Spot: 19 Wraps scary tree

Spot: 26 Wraps scary tree

Rig of Choice: Spinners

Hook Bait:  Match the hatch bottom bait

Feed Bait: 12 15 18mm match the hatch, house particle

Things Worth Mentioning: Two early bites in the week through the night on the short spot pushing out to the 26 spot where the fish were showing on the margin 

 

 

 

Anglers Name: Billy Wright

Swim Name:  Shingles

No Fish:  9

Biggest Fish:  Eye-Q 61lb 10oz

Spot: 21 Wraps left of dot island in the U

Rig of Choice: Slip D-rig

Hook Bait:  Krill Wafter

Feed Bait: Match the hatch wafters and hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: A switch up from 18 wrap out to the longer spot changed Billy’s session little but often baiting did the trick landing himself a New PB

 

 

 

Anglers Name: Juan Bentancourt

Swim Name:  Bacheliers

No Fish:  1

Biggest Fish:  Darky 51lb

Spot: 16 Wrap tallest tree towards the far margin

Rig of Choice: Spinner Rig boilie stringer

Hook Bait:  Iso 18mm

Feed Bait: Iso 18mm hemp

Things Worth Mentioning: Starting the session off with probably too much bait with around 14 kg, Juan decided to sit on his hands with minimal baiting. Topping up the spot on Thursday with around 100 baits done the trick and stopped the blank. Well done Juan

 

 

 

Anglers Name:  Rob Hammond

Swim Name:  Billy’s

No Fish:  5

Biggest Fish: Ron’s 65lb 6oz

Spot: 21 left of boat ramp

Spot: 18 at TP2

Rig of Choice: Pva bag rig

Hook Bait:  Iso dumbell wafter

Feed Bait: DNA 15mm 

Things Worth Mentioning: With Rob catching a few smaller fish from the boat ramp area he decided to make a change up to target a larger carp. 18 wraps to Tea party 2 using a solid bag along with the throwing stick baiting from the margin. Managing to bag himself the biggest fish of the week. 

 

 

 

Anglers Name:  Stu Hammond 

Swim Name:  The Beach

No Fish:  1

Biggest Fish:  The Archer 50lb 4oz

Spot: 13 wraps at Decoy

Rig of Choice: Pva bag rig 

Hook Bait:  Iso dumbell wafter

Feed Bait: DNA 15mm

Things Worth Mentioning: A tough week in The beach for the legend ‘Stu’ how ever he sat it out patiently and managed to bag himself a PB. Throwing stick doing the damaged on the road lake once again. Congratulations Sir!

 

 

 

Anglers Name: Kurt Doherty

Swim Name: Turtles Corner

No Fish:  12

Biggest Fish: Missing link 51lb 12oz

Spot: 23 Wraps margin 

Rig of Choice: Spinners

Hook Bait: Fishmeal bottom bait & wafter

Feed Bait: Fishmeal boilie with house particle

Things Worth Mentioning: The Margin spot really kicking off this week in Turtles corner. Kurt Managed to keep them feeding from the margin little and often and resisting the temptation of filling it in with the spoon

 

 

 

Well done all on the road lake this week. A great bunch of lads and some mega fish caught. 73 landed for the week and the carp are starting to come into their prime weights. The boilie spread with match the hatch hook baits is really targeting the larger residents on the pond!