Furnace Mill Fishery

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.
Alan Cole from Stourbridge had "the best days fishing in my life on Willow Pool".  He surface fished 11 mm Furnace Mill Floating Pellet and caught 63 carp between 7 lb and 15 lb.
Rob Taylor from Wolverhampton had a fantastic day on Mill Pool catching Crucians and Tench on corn fished over 4 mm Furnace Feed.  He said that he caught fish all day long and had to take his line out of the water just to eat his lunch!
The Sunday open was a little quieter this week than of late but the there was a definite change in the air pressure with it feeling very close and looking like thunder in the morning to a little light rain and strong wind in the afternoon. The evening improved with lots of sunshine and the wind dropped.
There were 21 anglers and they fished Furnace (pegs 1-30) and Mill Pool (pegs 75-94).

	NAME	COUNTY	CLUB	PEG	WEIGHT (LB-OZ)
1st	Kev Johnson	Worcs	Mark’s Tackle	10	64-06
2nd	Duncan Newton	Worcs	Redditch	2	64-05
3rd	Paul Cook	Worcs	Mark’s Tackle	5	63-09
4th	Andy Newton	West Mids	Furnace Mill	94	60-15
5th	Paul Evans	Worcs	Furnace Mill	2	55-14
6th	Dean Sheldon	West Mids	SBS	91	40-06
7th	Dave Williams	West Mids	Halesowen RBL	4	38-04
8th	Chris Newton	Worcs	Redditch	22	36-3

To book in for the Sunday Open please call 01299 266777 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Take a look at the Summer League page to see the updated points table.  We are also holding opens on Saturdays at the moment, draw at 10 am fish 11 am to 4 pm, booking is essential.  Plenty of pegs are available for pleasure anglers as we always keep at least 20 pegs available.