Alan Scotthorne Bloodworm Joker Fishing

I generally just as I could with maggots, to take off any dead or dying bait and store them individually in buckets of water, explains Alan. I simply place a maggot riddle over a tray of water and tip the baits on top. Soon all the active worms wriggle through to the bottom tray to leave dead bait and debris on the riddle. That’s discarded and the live baits tipped into the can. As I may have to keep my bloodworm and joker for some time I also pump air into the water using an common aquarium pump and change the water once a week. (gofishing.co.uk)

On Saturday I went on the Aire and Calder to fish a match on the river but unfortunately the river was flooded and it was cancelled and moved onto the Canal at Altofts near Wakefield. Now I know that we only had bait for the river, i. E. Maggots and caster, however I was guaranteed that the canal is hard and we could catch a pile in spite of a hard frost. To cut a long story short, I sat there for four hours for 6 fish but felt I was looking at a lot of fish that just weren t interested in the bait I had to offer. (drennantackle.com)

Peg 15 best end of the lake but unfortunately I was on the windy side so my peg was totally hard with blocks of ice. There was no point in trying to scoop it out as I was to get attacked with drifting ice from both ends of the island. On this specific peg it’s possible to reach the island with 15m of pole, so I quickly came up with the idea to wedge my spare pole on the water from one bank to another to create a boom to hold the ice back, this worked perfectly as I had now produced a free area to fish up to the bordering island. (dynamitebaits.com)

With the rain relentless, muddy water now began running into the pond, firstly into skimbobs peg. Around the same time skimbob gets his 1st fish on chop worm, his 1 fish about equals my now 10 small roach. It continued like this for rest of the match, i’d catch 10 sardines he’d catch a big kipper. The coloured water had reached me now and was on its way to ‘Trapper John’s peg 21, funnily enough he now started to catch. Got my head down and was now to get a bite inside seconds of the float settling, bulk moved back down and 2 tell rear shots over the 4″ hook length. When fishing like this, its all about speed and smoothness. (slipperyfishsite.com)

Last in the money was another final Barnsley Blacks angler, Matt Godfrey, taking 19-0-0 of big roach with the odd skimmer from Big Adams Peg 54. Double figure weights of quality roach were caught around the complex. Bailiff, Dave Taylor, told us The silverfish in this venue are left untouched for most of the year, as match anglers target carp with big baits. Come the winter, they re raring to feed, and as it gets colder the roach sport looks to get better and better! . (blog.tacklefanatics.co.uk)

On hard days, the key to catching a run of fish can on occasion be about finding a trigger which will get the fish feeding. Fish frequently react to competition for feed and if you re able to get fish competing for feed then you re onto a winner. One of the best ways to create competition is to not introduce too much feed. I ve experienced days when it s best to not introduce any feed at all except the groundbait. Groundbait attracts fish to your feeder so once you begin to get indications that there are one or two fish around the feeder, start introducing one or two maggots or casters. This will give the fish a taster of what you have on the hook. (Find more info)

Without any doubt Alan Scotthorne is the most successfull match-angler on our planet. He’s won an amazing amount of competitions and these wins came by using really any modern fishing technique possible. Simply distinctive! He also managed to win, and this in only a short time-period, 5 !! individual World Championships and in 2010 he said an individual European Championship win also. Since many years Alan was a true Van den Eynde-man . We used his unmatched knowledge and ideas when developing a new groundbait that carries his name. The result is G5. G5 is an all-round groundbait that may be used on a great range of waters when aiming at species like roach, bream, tench, carassio and carp. (ralf-toepper-angelshop.de)

This was mixed quite sticky, then I riddled a couple of handfulls of a leam and soil mix into it. My longest line was to be fed with some raw joker. At the all in I fed 4 balls of leam with 75ml of joker in at 6m, 3 balls of soil with 100ml in at 11m, 6 balls of ground bait with 250ml of joker in at 14m and 2 balls of raw at 16. 5m. I kicked of short and caught some perch and amazingly some roach, now given the fact there was ice on the canal I didn t expect to catch any roach so early, so was already wishing id been a more positive on my shorter lines. I have decided to put a couple of balls in at 6m to attempt and keep the roach there. (fishing4fun.co.uk)

River Bure, St. Benets Abbey, Norfolk. Sun, 30. Tony Gibbons Norwich DAA 20-3-0, roach to 10 oz and some small skimmers, maggot over groundbait, caster & pot, 13m, peg 3 in front of abbey; David Gooch Norwich & District 18-4-0; Chris Kemp fishing Direct Suffolk 17-5-0; Glen Hubbard Daiwa fishing Direct 16-2-0; Mike Brown Wymondham 16-0-0; Mick Hanks fishing Direct Suffolk 14-10-0. (Find out more)

The event was organised and run by Pole Fishing s Tom Scholey, Matt Godfrey and Lee Kerry. Tom was really happy with how the qualifiers and last went, commenting: As generally, the fishing on the Stainy at Thorne was amazing. In fact, the last was the hardest the canal has fished during the event. In qualifying rounds, there have been many 20lb-plus weights, with roach weights to 23lb, and skimmer bags over 30lb. (Find more info)