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Where the heck is fishing going. The ultimate fishery is not a fish a cast. It is not a 'perfect' fishery. What that is, is a BORING FISHERY. At some point, just maybe, we will return to fisheries that pay more attention to being a good mixed fishery and not an overstocked carp-centric one, that so many venues have become. What makes fishing great is the challenge, not an instant gratification.
An amazing fishery!!! Back there on Saturday. Out of interest and a genuine question, why is it good for ‘club’ anglers? Is it because it’s so rammed? 👌🏻
Incredible fishery, a credit to Sue, and one that you can have a fantastic day on from loads of different methods & species. My favourite memory of Newcastle is rocking up on a bitter & icy April morning and winning our club match with 173lb 14oz of nothing but Ide & Chub shallow. Not a single carp in sight.
Looks absolutely amazing. As i run a club of 16 Anglers it would be a fantastic place to visit for our annual 6 match festival. My only regret is that they havent got on site Accommodation, although I presume that there is local places to stay. Great Video from Rob and Lee. Cheers
I have fished that complex since it was first stocked. It is and has been the best venue in the region ever since it opened. It truly is the ultimate fishery. Sue has done an absolutely fantastic job of steadily growing the fishery. Glad you guys have finally given it a visit.
I arrived at a good venue very early was catching a few Bream until a group of so called matchmen arrived told me to f**k off stating they were having a knock up. No signs up or anything. They started to fling my gear on the road and gave me a good black eye for good measure not to mention 2 broken rods & 1 reel , bait tossed into the peg…Nice😢 Who needs the knife wielding munchers. Welcome to Ireland
Match this is a great event. Hayfield makes for a great final venue for multiple methods and tactics but i noticed watching the live weigh in. only 800 people watching. Outside sponsorship would laugh at those numbers and angling will never attract them till it moves with the times. Angling is propped up by anglers especially these big payout pinnacle events where a high percentage of the payout comes from the anglers themselves in qualifiers. It saddens me that angling is treading water at best compared to other sports. Anyway great content as ever chaps
an absolue outstanding day from start to finish a log day however i was dissapointed that you couldn't get all around to see all guys in the match. also there should have been a big map of the lakes showing everyone where they was fishing, seen you go onto the feeder or bomb rob you had some great fish , the guy to your right he lost a lot at the net.. my biggest regret was talking to that dynamite stand the older gentleman was an absolute ***** in my opinion when i asked about an old bait they used to make his reply was more or less go away , and then replied go online and find it, sorry but an absolute ***** if your never giving customers the time to at least acknowlege them or even a yes no problem he is the site you can go on you will find it there, or even say look why not try this or this as a replacement,sorry but i have only ever used there bait but as of saturday not a chance i will be getting anymore from them. but after all that me and my mate who come every year enjoyed the day... get more stands for next year
Been going out to Ireland over the last 50 years, I'm 72 now. Peg 9 gets fished week in week out and always produces. To catch fish in most of Ireland North and South you need to FEED, FEED and FEED again. Even then you can come away with very little. But work at it and you can catch 100's of pounds.
You didn't really touch properly on where the money comes from. There is a big difference between sharing out pooled monies as prizes and incentives and sponsors putting up prize money. Entry fee and prize money as a ratio also matters.Optional superpools used to be thing in the past where entry fees could be kept modest and encourage larger fields with an option to pay into the seperate superpool for those who were inclined to.
Where do you start with this one 🤦🏻♂️ I’ve still not heard what the grounds were for the re weigh? I don’t mean everyone’s opinion of what led to it, I mean who actually asked for it and on what grounds? Surely the angler asking for it has to have a solid ‘official’ reason for asking, which the organisers either agree with and consent to, or disagree with and don’t. Did each anglers helper understand their role on the day? The angler can’t watch the scales in this format, they’re fishing, so the helper (Gary Rodgers in this instance) represents Kieran and approves each weigh in, no ifs, no buts, just as though he was having his own fish weighed, he calls it at the time. In this instance, I’m afraid it looked a bit like sour grapes asking for a re weigh at the end and let’s be honest, anyone who knows angling, knows a re weigh will result in a different weight, because you’re dealing with living things that hold different amounts of moisture, waste and slime and nets that hold different amounts of said slime, waste and moisture. A re weigh will give you different weights, it’s as simple as that and nobody should be surprised about this. If Gary (and Kieran) had a genuine problem with one of their weighs, they should have called it earlier than the end of the match (perhaps they did?) because re weighing all of the fish is a bit of a lottery and as Lee said, I think we’re all thankful that the result turned out how it did. As for weighing, you’ve got a lot of people commenting on here and social media who’ve never weighed big bags of fish and never used the various types of scales. I agree with Lee and Rob that a standard weighing procedure should always be used across the board, it removes margins for error and complaints. On the whole and based on my match fishing experience, the weighing I saw seemed OK. I say ‘seemed’, because you never get a standard view from the camera, so like the lads said, if the camera focussed in as scales were bouncing/settling, viewers saw some readings which were higher than the final weight and also you couldn’t see what the scalesman’s hands were doing or if anything was touching the net. Only the anglers helper on each weigh in can tell you how good each weigh was. I will say however, just like Lee said, the scalesman’s hands should be totally clear of the scales when they zero. I’ve seen it with club scales, where pressure put on the body of the scale, or the scalesman holding them at an angle to read the display, will result in an incorrect weight, so this is where the standard procedure should come in. I’m afraid on the day, I came away with a negative attitude of Gary and to some extent Kieran, because whatever their beef was, it should have been called at that particular weigh in, not at the end once they realised the aggregate weight was close. That debacle did a lot of harm to fishing to a large televised audience and I hope very much that measures are put in place to ensure it never, ever happens again. I would add to the standard procedure that the filming is done the same each time, from a fixed point, with a wide angle and only zooming in on the display once they have held at the final weight. They should then pan to the anglers helpers to see their verbal agreement with that weight. That way, there’s no need for a reweigh, if there’s a complaint, the officials just rewatch that weigh in to ensure procedure was followed. This also stops the armchair scalesmen and conspiracy theories on social media. Thanks for covering this Lee and Rob, I think it needs proper, sensible debate 🎣👍🏻
A couple of months ago, I stayed in a lodge at Woodlands fishery in North Yorkshire. The accommodation was of a similar quality to Docklow and I highly recommend it.
Thanks guy's for the Video. Great bit of have a go fishing, (well done Rob beating Lee by 6-5).Well done Lee for that great Carp at the end. Also thanks for a great Intro to Docklow Pools. Its going to be on my Radar for a Club festival at some stage. Very much enjoyed it. Cheers
