Bailiff Comments

Week Commencing: Sat 02/08/2025

Solid Bags

To start this report lets talk about whats being doing the trick. Solid Bags! A lot of the anglers fishing this week were using solid bags and some that weren’t eventually changed to them and began to catch more carp. This small parcel surprise around your hook bait has recently been proving itself on road lake. Lets carry on to find out what they have been producing.                     

First we have Lewis Bradbrook fishing in The Decoy who managed to land a stunning resident called Two Tone weighing 62lb. Although he had been struggling all week due to the fish not being in the area he still managed to land the biggest fish of the week. Lewis had caught Two Tone on Wednesday night fishing 18 wraps down his right margin. Lewis was fishing with solid bags with a mix of crumb and micro pellets with a braided knotless knot rig in the centre topped off with a single piece of yellow slow sinking maize. He also fished with a cream based boillie spread along his two rods.

Next up we have Phil Brown fishing Tea Party 2. Phil landed a total of 12 fish this week. He started without using solid bags and had caught 2 fish however he clocked on that a lot of fish are coming off of solid bags so he changed his tactics and managed to land 10 more including 2 of Road Lakes monsters. Starting with Cage Fighter weighing 42lb and shortly after TJ weighing 58lb 8oz. Phil was fishing 21-23 wraps to his far margin with all three rods. His spot mix contained maize and ground boillie with his parcel of house bag mix in the middle containing 2 pieces of maize on a hair rig.

In Tea Party 1 we have Adam Cooper who managed two popular 50 pluses. Starting with The Jewel weighing 55lb which had also made an appearance on the 19/07/2025 from The Decoy weighing 50lb 5oz. In Just 2 weeks it has added nearly 5lb ! Adam also managed to land Korda Social Common weighing 51lb. He had also caught some of the smaller residents. All Adams fish came from 21 wraps towards Turtles Corner where he was fishing 2 rods on one spot starting with 15 spombs over the top containing ISO Fish, hemp and maize topped off with Squid smart liquid. Adam was also fishing solid bags with a groundbait based bag mix topped with Korda white squid supreme goo.

Further along we have Jon Mann fishing in The Goo. He managed to land 4 fish with the biggest being Stubby weighing 51lb 2oz. Jon had caught Stubby from 14 wraps to the lone tree on his left fishing with solid bags with a size 4 long shank beaked with 18lb Supernatural and a 3oz flat pear inline lead. His bag contained Cloud 9 and spod/PVA pellet mix covered in orange, pango and pineapple goo’s. Jon was using a fruity squid barrel wafter in pink soaked in squid goo. One of his spod mix’s contained a mix go 15mm and 18mm ISO Fish and Essential Cell boillies. His other spod mix contained hemp, sweetcorn, crushed and whole boillie with hemp oil and Essential Cell Smart Liquid.

Mark Birchmore had a total of 31 fish this week with four 40pluses, five 30pluses and a handful of smaller carp. Marks biggest was a fish called The Model weighing 46lb 4oz followed by Breakfast O’clock weighing 43lb and Swaley’s Mirror weighing 42lb. Mark was happy to fish Turtles Corner as it was a swim he’s always wanted to fish. He had caught 2 of his largest 40’s from 10 wraps towards Tea Party 1 including some of his smaller ones. He also caught his fish at 21 wraps to the island. Mark had baited both spots lightly all week with 5-6 spombs on each area with a mix of hemp, maize and 15mm ISO Fish boillies. After every fish mark had put the same amount he started with back out on his spot. Marks rig contained 25lb coated Dark Matter hook link with a size 4 Wide Gape Slip D Rig topped off with a 15mm ISO Fish hardhooker with a piece of yellow slow sinking maize.

Tight Lines 

Leo