Furnace Mill Fishery

This is week number 13  of the Summer League/Accumulator for 2010 and here is the points table. You will see that we have quite a few tied points because this year we are awarding section points, we hope that this will give more people a chance to win the league and also make it more interesting.  Should there be a tie at the end of the league the winner will be the angler with the highest catch weight.

This Sunday the Furnace Mill Open was on Mucky Meadow and Willow Pools with 23 anglers taking part. First place went to Martyn Guest, SBS, who fished pellet to good effect landing 113 lb 14 oz from peg 54 on Mucky. 2nd place went to Andy Newton, Furnace Mill, with 105 lb 10 oz from peg 74 on Willow, also on pellet, and he was closely followed by the in-form Steve Harris, Daiwa Gordon League, with 103 lb 1 oz who fished worm and caster on peg 40.

It has been hot at the Furnace this week with lots of fish being caught on the pellet on all the pools. The most productive way of presenting your bait is to plumb the depth accurately and have your bait just touching the bottom and then feed little and often.  Some people see fish on the top or near the surface but this is only a tiny fraction of the population. If you want to fish up in the water you can adopt a different approach to encourage the fish to compete for the feed shallow, but you must get the feed pattern right, as all the really big bags of fish between 100 lbs and 200 lbs are caught with bait fished at exact depth.
Steve Barnes from Dudley had non-stop action on peg 10 on Furnace landing 80 carp between 3 and 8 lb.