Lightowler vs Brown Year 9

Lonsdale 2011
The Lightowler and the Brown families were set to do battle again, for the 9th year running. It was to be the best year to date.
This year saw personal bests for the Lightowlers, especially Mike who cleaned up!
The same as every year we bought the trophies and made the t-shirts ready for the weeks fishing. We set out our bivvys and started to bait up! As ever Steve did what he had to do and slept until 10am most mornings. Like others years this seemed to pay off, as on the second day he caught a 14lb 6oz carp and then following up with a few tench. In the afternoon Steve caught another carp to conclude a great days fishing!
After the biggest fish of the week so far Steve was on a high and felt he had the trophy sown up......this was not the case as Adam brown (only down until the Wednesday) caught a great looking 17lb 7oz carp to take the lead. Steve brown and Bob Lightowler quietly going about their fishing with a few small fish but still nothing challenged Adams fish.......this was to stay like this until the Wednesday night when Steve lightowler stormed into the lead with a huge 19lb 8oz carp and this had surely sown up the trophy?
The week was pressing on and the fishing was great, we had all caught a lot of fish no more so than Mike lightowler who had at least 4 big fish a day ranging from his big chub up to the endless amounts of carp that seemed to be well into his baits!
The week was drawing to a close and the weather was getting warmer, the fish still kept coming and then the last day arrived and none of us wanted to leave. The fishing was good and the weather and company too! We all made a decision to stop fishing at 10:30pm on the Friday and do our final tally up, it was at around 8:55pm that mike had a huge run on his carp rod and after a decent fight and a big grin on his face we weighed in the beast at a very solid 20lb 11oz carp and the biggest fish of the week was stolen from Steve, well what a year!
Bob finished the week on a high. Within the last hour of the week he netted two large carp, 19lb the first and a stunning 14.7lb wild carp, the first one we have ever seen!! There was also a later entry from Steve brown with yet another 19lb fish.
The fishing and company was great the excitement of what might have been was in the camp so we have booked again to make it a nice round 10 years so we will all see you soon enough to do it all again!!

Hi All,

hope all is well and the fish are still biting!

I have attatched (hopefully) a catch report and photos of the fish that we caught whilst with you last week, we had a great week and the fishing as ever was excellent!

we will be watching the blog to see who you make famous!

thanks so much

looking forward to next year already!

Mike lightowler and family

Steve brown and family

Richard Shoesmith, Halifax.

Richard & his family are also enjoying another stay here at Lonsdale. Today Cathy has given us a write up of his first 2 day catches.

7 Fish, 3 common all over 22lb, the biggest being 28lb 7ozs., taken on 14mm boillies.
rod - Chubb 9' stalkers
reel - Shimano Bait Runner
Hooks - Barbless Muggers.!!

Jim Andrew Strikes again!!

Well Jim went home early hours of Saturday & we were told by a new arrical that afternoon thet he had already beeen on the radio chatting to Keith Arthur about his catches & received this email from Jim today. Thanks for sending it over Jim.

hello paul,

i'd like to thank you and
your team for a great time on my last two trips.
the roach fishing was out of this world with 11 roach
over 2lb to a pb of 2lb 9oz plus a pb tench of 6lb 13oz
it doesn't get much better. i lost count of the 1lb+ roach
i caught, some of which were just under the 2lb mark
and in mint condition. having fished for roach at
other fisheries ,( noted for their roach)
the roach at lonsdale knock them both into a cocked hat. needless to say
my future roaching will be done at your beautiful fishery.
look forward to my next trip.
p.s. a special mention for julian and his great breakfasts. thanks mate!!
see you soon,
jim.

On The BANK Holiday

Regular visitor Jamie Spence just enjoyed another visit to Lonsdale this week-end.

Over the past couple of weeks there's been some cracking fish out but for one reason or another no photos!

Well here we have Pics & email of Jamie's week-end!!

hi paul/val, just sending over the pics of the common we got 32lb on the nose
couldnt beleive the weight in this fish when i lifted it out in the net it
was super fat!!!!!!!
landed 7 other carp and lost a few too

a new pb for me,many thanks a great time had again

Campbell's Catch Up!!

Well, once again Jamie Campbell had himself a belting week. He caught a total of 14 carp whilst relaxing on his peg at cottage 6. Here are a selection of photos - thanks for sending them over Jamie & see you in September.

Johnny's Easter Hat Trick!

Johnny Pickard just had another good week at Lonsdale, with 6 good size carp ranging from the smallest at 11lb, up to his largest at 21lb. In the middle were 3 all at 18lb.

Well done, remember to send us the photos!