March 27 -April 3
Chris Reet and Terry
from Lincolnshire.Chris comes to Rushes at least twice every year and usually does a ‘stocktake’ on our
fish. Chris has a photographic memory and remembers all the fish he’s caught
and he has caught a lot of ours. One that he hadn’t caught before was a
beautiful 40lbs 4oz common which appeared on the second night of his visit this
year. He added to this beauty a further 5 upper 30lbs and 3 mid 30s along with
27 over 20lbs between him and Terry. They also managed a couple of catfish to
34lbs. All their fish came to Trigga and maize hookbaits fished over copious
amounts of maize/hemp and maple peas
April 3-10
Next up was Russ Brown,
son Daniel and Russ’s Dad Charlie.A cold wet windy week wasn’t helped by
Charlie being taken ill and Russ having to drive him all the way home to Essex
on Tuesday, returning here on Wednesday afternoon.Using maize and Trigga, Russ
upped his PB to 35lbs 8ozs while Daniel improved his best to 24lbs 12ozs.
Between them they managed a total of 13 carp over 20lbs , which considering the
weather and Russ’s unexpected trip home was a pretty good result
Over the other side of
the lake Richard and Kevin helped themselves to over 40 carp both managing mid
30lbers with all the others over the 20lb mark
April 10-17
Neil and Dale arrived on
Saturday for Neils 2nd visit and Dale’s 4th trip
They soon got set up and
catching although the weather wasn’t helping matters what with warm days but
very cold nights meaning the fish never really settled down to feeding
strongly. However Neil managed to net 14 carp up to 27lbs 4ozs and a new PB
catfish of 49lbs 2ozs while Dale weighed in with 12 carp to 39lbs while
managing to completely avoid the catfish which he hates catching
Over in Goffees and Beatties
Alan and Gordon the chef were steadily catching all week. Alan started off
slowly, then got amongst the 30s
with 5 to 37lbs 4ozs (common) 4 x 20s and 2 x30lbs+ catfish along
with 8 doubles. Gordon had 7 x 20s
and a couple of doubles although he managed once agin to lose a couple of big
fish, one of which was almost certainly a catfish. Oh and he hooked a couple of
trees too !!
April 17-24
Then along came the
Carefoot crew from Manchester and even though they are Man U fans I let them
stay !!! Just as well really as they had a terrific time and ate us out of food
!!! Sean loves his chocolate puds. Nick (another chef, this one with his own
restaurant in Manchester) spent the week rowing out baits for the other lads
and was rewarded for his hard work with 5 x 20s (each one raising his PB) then topping that with a new PB at
30lbs 4ozs common.Not to be outdone Matt had a few rig lessons from angling
coach Ian Gemson who was fishing the other side of the lake and they paid off
with 3 x 30s up to a new PB of 34lbs 2ozs 3 x 20lbs+ and a few doubles. Sean,
when he wasn’t eating Kim’s choccy puds had 4 x 20s, some doubles and 3 x 30s
including a last night PB mirror of 39lbs 5ozs. Matt also achieved an ambition
with a 34lbs PB catfish and Sean caught a pike !!!
Over in Blue Camp we had
a visit from Ian Gemson, a professional angling coach and Paul Worstencroft
from Angling Intelligence. Paul won the week in Geezers charity auction last
season. Soon after they arrived Paul had
a call from home telling him that his mum had had a bad accident and
fallen down the stairs, leaving her in hospital requiring surgery.
Understandably they left on Monday but not before having a couple of fish
including a mid 20 and a 30 (see the fish on specialistangler.co.uk where Paul
will be doing a write up on Rushes). Ian taught Matt and myself a lot about
rigs in the short time he was here (Matt reckons his results were mainly down
to a combi rig Ian had shown him) so thanks for that