Astwood Bank Angling Club Forum

This is a post on behalf of Chris Burton , head bailiff , regarding information passed onto him about eastern europeans targeting waters in the area. A member of ABAC who has been fishing a lake elsewhere not far from abbots salford has informed Chris that eastern europeans have layed out fixed line...

looking at the fish i would say it was just age , no marks on it to suggest it was anything else , just one of those things i think!

Lumpy wasn't the prettiest of fish and was a bit camera shy!! The lake has lost a character with lumpy dying!!

Funny you mention it , I have planned to swap over to the 5lb test spod rod , I'm gonna borrow one of Neils battle tank reels and I wondered if I could borrow a couple of packets of those size 2 barbed wide gape hooks I saw you with , they look the bomb mate ,

Sorry mate , I only did it because of requests from your fellow anglers to put a stop to the constant snoring followed by grunting and groaning coming from the bivvy , I will bear it in mind next time , my bad

I'm knackered after sitting up that tree saturday night throwing snow on top of your bivvy , it was well worth it though

Just a quick heads up for the club and all fellow members that at present there is an algae bloom down on the lake , just be sure to take precautions washing hands etc if you come into contact with it , it only appeared last weekend so hopefully it won't stick around too long and the next lot of hea...

Yeahhhhhhhh , show off , you win this time , cant compete with that , i will stick to the pasties in the meantime!!!!

Nice there starting to show. I heard the best person to speak to is Cyprio as hes supposed to be the guy whos best at catching them as he targets these fish. Hes testing a new bait out for Bream and the carp arnt supposed to like it. Hoping to catch up with him to get sum tips. Hi Chris , The bream...

The loose part of the lock is just the armour casing protecting the lock inside it , its just two screws that have fell out the top of it , i know Chris the head bailiff has seen it so no need to worry.

Hmmmmmmm , perhaps the committee should get together and think about having a parking attendant on site , that should do the trick!!!

Well done to the club on securing this new venue , it sounds like it has the promise of being a very popular venue , especially for the members who live in Redditch .

had a good look around at the start nothing at all on the top spodded the island went on a bolt rig nothing at all only weed lol so went to zig rigs but only had a couple of knocks over the day :( oh well not my day Nevermind , you cant expect to crack the place on day one, it does take a lot of ti...

leave the spod rod at home. True , the spod could do more harm than good if you are only out on a short session , but there are times when it can be productive. The thing to do is have a look round when you get there Roy, if you can see fish near the surface or in the edges then the spod is not the...

That's a pretty big difference there for 8 hours! Fishy tales and dodgy scales??!! :lol: Its more than possible for a carp to loose that ammount of weight if it was to spawn heavily, especially when you know that said fish tops out at 28 or 29lb , it only does that sort of weight when full of spawn...