FIRST OPEN MATCH WIN

Local angler James Taylor won the Bishops Bowl Lakes open match for the first time on Sunday, with 22lb 14oz of roach and small carp on Walworth Lake. 

James said, "I only decided to enter at the last minute, so it was a bit of a surprise, and to think I've now got a place in the March final, I am really pleased.

Shaun, the fishery owner explained, 'we are holding a 'roll up' contest, where entrants to all open matches between now and March all stand a chance of winning a substantial amount of money. It has the makings of an exciting March competition.

Second on Sunday was Rob Bassett with 22lb 8oz, third, Ron Allum 19lb 8oz. 

Open Matches continue at the fishery every Saturday and Sunday.

OH WOW!

Hatton angler, Ivor Eborall just couldn't believe his catch, when in 48 hours he banked 13 carp, all over 17lb, including 8 over 20lbs, the largest being 27lb 8oz, five bream, 3 over 11lbs, and several tench the best weighing 7lb 11oz.

Ivor said 'I only came for 24 hours, but it just got better and better, so I had to stay. This is the best result I have ever had'

Ivor was fishing one of the new pegs at the far end of Greenhill Lake at Bishops Bowl Fishery.

The Thursday's pensioners match was won by Bert Eyles, with 77lb 10oz of small carp. second was Howard West with 42lb 8oz, and third Dave Smith with 42lb 1oz, fourth Dave Walker with 39lb 12oz. Anyone over 60 is welcome to fish these matches every Thursday, draw 9am.

Ivor's Bagging up on Greenhill

Amazing 48 hour session on greenhills 

13 carp 8 of them 20+ best 27.02 the rest 16 to 19.14 

5 Bream three of them doubles best 11.04 and 2 tench 7.2 and 7.11

Here are a few of them for you to try and catch.

Results from sundays open match

Sunday's open was fished on White Bishops with 10 anglers fishing.

1st    Keith Winn        41lb 13oz

2nd   Steve Hatt         41lb 4oz

3rd    Rob Adams       36lb 2oz

4th    Derrick Cullip    35lb 2oz

Food delivered to your pegs

Don't forget that we deliver food to your peg.

Breakfast

Bacon/Sausage/Egg Rolls

Single item Roll           £2.50
Extra items                   50p each
Full English                 £5.50

Evening Meals

Pie/Chips/beans           £6
Pizza/Chips                 £6
Chilli/Chips                 £6

Wednesday open match

We are holding 3 hr open matches every wednesday evening.

Draw at 17:15

Fish 18:00 - 21:00

£15 entry

7 Year old Reece

 7 year old Reece Avern caught this tench from marshes

27lb 12oz

Caught from the house island on green hill.

Bishops Summer League

Saturday 15th June

1st Keiron Thorne - 36lb 10oz 

2nd James Taylor - 16lb 8oz

3rd Ernie Smith - 13lb 8oz

4th Greg Satchell - 13lb 6oz

5th Rob Rose - 11lb 8oz

13 anglers fished

27lb 8oz

                     

Bishops Carp Match

28th - 30th June

If you are interested can you please contact us, places are running out.

We need your deposits soon please.

Payouts based on 15 pairs.

Carp from the mitre

27lb 8oz caught last weekend

Pike from the winter

Bishops Bowl Summer League 4th May

A great start to the Bishops Bowl summer league with 13 anglers starting us off nicely.

It was fished on Marshes 1 and 2 and the top 6 were:-

1st James Taylor         29lb 14oz

2nd John King             27lb 1oz

3rd Rob Adams           23lb 3oz

4th Alan Fern             19lb 14oz

5th Greg Satchel         18lb 4oz

6th Ian Macdonald      18lb 1oz

CARP ON THE FEED AT BISHOPS BOWL LAKES

A number of matches over the weekend produced larger than average sized carp on Bishops Bowl match lakes, with Sunday's open match fishing particularly well.

20 anglers fished, the leader of the pack being:-

Richard Kinnersley of FInedon, with 70lb 7oz, which comprised 12 carp. 

Second was Jimmy Boyle, with 64lb 12oz, bream and carp in equal measures. 

Third was Derek Cullip, Banbury Gunsmiths, 59lb 11oz, 4th, 

Phil Hull of Lanes, 48lb 1oz. 

The average weight was in excess of 30lb of mixed species.

BCAC Qualifier

Here are the results from the BCAC on Greenhill at the weekend.

Place.	Pairs	Team	Weight	No. Fish
1 .	Nathan Crowder / Lee Bruce		125 lb 15 oz	7
2 .	Callum Tripod Gutteridgee / Karl Palmer	DNA Baits	62 lb 0 oz	5
3 .	Dean Cuthbert / Onyx Lamiin		37 lb 15 oz	2
4 .	Ashley Taylor / Rob Julyan	Carp-Talk	26 lb 14 oz	2
5 .	ROB DRAKE / Mark Hilton		19 lb 6 oz	1
6 .	Carl Rimmer / Jamie Pearson		13 lb 2 oz	1
12 .	Craig Gorrill / Simon Tansley		0 lb 0 oz	0
12 .	Miranda Brown / Dwayne Chin		0 lb 0 oz	0
12 .	Richard Higham / Tom Fellows		0 lb 0 oz	0
12 .	Rick Hurst / Lee Postlewhite	Vortex Baits	0 lb 0 oz	0
12 .	Scott Fry / Andy Chappell		0 lb 0 oz	0
12 .	Simon Wheeler / Mark Sawyer		0 lb 0 oz	0

Bishops Carp Match 28th - 30th June

If you fancy fishing the bishops carp match on the 28th-30th june come and pay your deposit of £100, 

It's starting to fill up.

A few pictures of some carp from mitre

Matt Smith caught these fish on peg 15 on the mitre.

Caught on Bishops Bowl Tiger nut Boilies.

20lb

24lb

Food delivery

Don't forget that we deliver food to your peg.

Breakfast

Bacon/Sausage/Egg Rolls

Single item Roll           £2.50
Extra items                   50p each
Full English                 £5.50

Evening Meals

Pie/Chips/beans           £6
Pizza/Chips                 £6
Chilli/Chips                 £6

22lb 1oz Mirror

 Dan Barnett

 22lb 1oz mirror

 Caught on home made pink pop up

SUMMER LEAGUE STARTS AT BISHOPS BOWL

An air of class reigned at Bishops Bowl Fishery this weekend, with Diawa Guru backed Andy Pell leading the way ahead of 20 other anglers, with 43lb 5oz of tench and small carp from Marshes 1 using caster and pellet over ground bait in the margins.

Second was Jake King, Miracle Baits with 36lb 8oz caught on the long pole and pellet. Mick Wheeler, Chiltern Baits 34lb was third, and Simon Cordingley, Maver MK fourth with 24lb 12oz.

36hr Carp Compertition

We are holding a 36hr carp match on Greenhill lake on the 28th - 30th June 2013.

It will be a pairs match with 15 pegs available on first come basis.

The cost will be £170 a pair with free breakfast and the payouts will be as following based on 15 pair fishing.

1st £450

2nd £350

3rd £250

Plus 3 section payouts of £100

To book a place call 01926 612379

KING OF THE MARSHES AT BISHOPS BOWL

Jake King won the weekly Sunday open match on Marshes 1 and Walworth lakes with 46lb 6oz of small carp on the pellet. 

Second was Dick Ashby with 32lb 12oz with a mixed bag of carp, bream, tench and roach. 

Third Chris Campling with 27lb 2oz of bream and skimmers. 

Ron Savage was forth with 25lb 6oz and Kev Green with 25lb 4oz was 5th.

Greenhill Lake has finally started to produce large carp after the long winter, with three fish over 20lb out on Saturday night, with the best falling to Leamington's Nigel Ali, a 25lb 8oz mirror.

TOP CATCHES DESPITE ICE AT BISHOPS BOWL

With over-night temperatures dropping to minus 7, anglers braved the weather to be rewarded with a superb match. 

Leading the way was Guru's Andy Pell with 61lb 6oz of small carp caught on the long pole and pellet from Walworth lake. 

2nd was Mike Wheeler, on Marshes 1 with 36lb of carp, barbel and tench caught on the pole and worm. 

3rd was Joe Roberts with 34lb 10oz of skimmer bream. 

4th was Andy Poole with 32lb 10oz of skimmer bream.

The top 10 weights were all in excess of 14lbs despite breaking the ice before the start.

The Mitre Pool, now back to a fishable level has produced no fewer than 22 runs, with 18 fish banked, all in double figures, for the specimen hunters overnight.

Diawa Guru backed Mark Griffiths recently banked this 40lb match winning catch in arctic conditions from Walworth lake, feeding frugally with micro pellets and 4mm expanders, showing outstanding class on the most difficult of days.

The bag consisted of skimmer bream from 4oz to 4lb, with the odd small stocky carp.

Pensioners Match 28th March

Todays match was fished on White Bishop with 10 anglers

1st Mick 12lb 12oz

2nd Roger 12lb 8oz

3rd Bert 11lb 10oz

Pensioners Match 21st March

Todays match was fished on marshes 1 and 2 with 10 anglers

1st Dave Smart 14lb 2oz

2nd Bert Illes 11lb 14oz

3rd John King 10lb 12oz

Open Match 17th March

This weeks open match was on walworth pool with 10 anglers

1st Andy Poole Royal Mail 33lb 8oz

2nd Mark Moody Browning 21lb 3oz

3rd Rob Bassett Gunsmiths 13lb 4oz

4th Dereck Cullip Gunsmiths 11lb 0oz

Pensioners Match

After a night of -5 the lakes were froze over, so White Bishops was the best to fish.

Pegs 9 to 17 were fished and all 8 anglers caught.

The top 2 weights were:-

1st Derek Cullip 16lb 8oz caught at 7m

2nd John King 9lb 2oz

Results of final winter league pairs match.

Extensive stocking at the lakes over the last 2 weeks, has improved the fishing, with the pairs league final round producing 10 double figure weights of mainly silver fish on a bitterly cold day with snow falling.

Individual: 

1st Dave Smart 39lb 14oz of skimmer bream, tench and carp caught with maggots over a large bed of groundbait on the pole

2nd Roy Murfitt 23lb 2oz of skimmer bream roach and carp

3rd Steve Hatt 19lb 12oz of skimmers and carp

4th Steve Allison 17lb 11oz roach, tench and skimmers

Overall: 

1st pair Kevin Green and Rob Bassett on 67 points

2nd Dave Smart and Jake King on 71 points

Dragging the car out of Mitre

Dragging the car out of Mitre ready for netting

Mitre 24th Feb 2013

Here are some pictures of Mitre Drained down ready to be netted. Lets see how big those carp are.