NEWS

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Why is it that everytime they go fishing it rains?

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Updated by Sven and Yacob!

MARCH 2010

Spring isn't far off guys and gals, and we are certainly looking forward to the warmer weather, hopefully making the fishing a little less chilly.

Got some new venues in the plans for this year, as you would expect, as well as fishing and updating a few of the ones we have already visited.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new venues and what we REALLY think about the fishing at them!

Also, I hope you all enjoy the Fox International fishing video I created below. I know for a fact that Ian Welch has seen it, but I have had no response back, which can only be a good thing! I made it a long time ago but it still has me in tears of laughter.

Sven

FEB 2010

So it was Yacob's turn to make an appearance in Carfty Carper magazine this month, winning a whole load of boiles, same as I did. One things for sure, we wont need to buy ANY boilies this year!

Weve slowed down with our fishing somewhat this month, sorry guys, but were saving our pennies for the highlight of the angling year (for us) The Big One fishing show.

We go there every year and we will probably be wearing our shirts so say Hi if you do.

• 20/2/10 Just come back fron The Big One fishing experience! And what an experience it always is! So much fishing stuff that it is almost impossible to catch a glimpse of the whole lot before anglers have snapped up the bargains.

It was nice to bump into some old friends, Ian Welch and Bob James on the Fox stall for a good catch up, and Gareth Purnell on the Online fishing stand. And make some new friends too. Yacob, having the most money, snapped up deals left right and centre where as I just added to my David Miller picture collection.

In our opinion, The Big One gets bigger and better every year and we will be back again next year for sure.  Except next time Im going to try and sneak in on Ian Russell's VIP tickets with food vouchers!

JAN 2010

Happy New Year to all you anglers and followers of Sven and Yacob's Fishing!

For all you new visitors out there, we are Steve (Sven) and Aaron (Yacob) and welcome to out fishery site. We keep the site up to date and promise that every fishery we have written about, we have actually fished!

Cant find the fishery you were after? Let us know so we can go and fish it and do a write up about it!

Got any updates or news? Tell us about it!

For instance, did you know that Ashmoor lakes in Old Basing near Basingstoke has put their day ticket price from £6 up to £7 a day? Best to know before you get there isnt it!

And did you know that the weed in the Blackwater river at Shepherds Meadow near Yateley is starting to go die off now leaving the place very fishable and providing exellent Chub and Roach sport by stalking up and down the river banks? No? Well go get your rod and reel and warm clothing and get on it!

With the hard snows lots of lakes a frozen up, but did you know that one of the places that isnt qiute is Broadlands Lake near Romsey?

Got any questions? Send them to us and Yacob will be straight on the case. Hes mad for the emails he is.

And hey, check me out in angling magazine again! Crafty Carper! Good way to start 2010.

Hope you all have a good fishing 2010! Best fishes to you all!

• 19/01/10

New to Sven and Yacob's fishing, our questions page 'Questions to Sven and Yacob'. Please feel free to email us any questions you have and we will be more than happy to answer them. To email us your questions please contact us through the 'Contact us' page.

DECEMBER 09

Hi to all, at long last the weather is starting to fit the style of fishing we are adapting for this month. Myself (Yacob) and Richard Pilchard popped to the Basingstoke canal for a bit of Piking, The pilchard scoring well with 3 Pike to over 8LB, I fared not so well with only 1 3lb pike but it was my first lure caught Pike so I was over the moon. With the cold weather well and truly here me and Sven wanted to fish a new venue and one we could catch some Roach and Perch from, we decided on Frobury Farm as its also known for some big Perch. We didnt do so well so we ended up at Court Farm near Aldermaston. Now in the past we have both said that this place is well over priced, over fished, with the fish that are there in terrible condition, but for the first time we decided to fish lake 2, and wow, what a surprise, it fished brilliant, Sven ended up with a big haul of Perch and some decent Roach, I didnt do so well (because as usual I was trying to catch Carp) but when I got my act together and went for the correct species I caught a few really nice Roach biggest being just under 1lb. It just goes to show you should always give a venue another chance, as neither thought it would be quite that good. We also plan for one more fish (wife permitting) before Christmas. Merry Christmas to all.

• Yeah, Merry Christmas fellow anglers, from Sven too.
• Oh, and check me out in December's Improve Your Coarse Fishing. Told you it was about time I got myself into another mag. Haha! 

NOVEMBER 09

Hello fellow anglers! Being short of money, and time, Me and Yacob havent really been up to much in the way of fishing. Locating venues that are fishing well can prove difficult as the year gets colder and colder, and as Im sure you all know, catch quantities will go down with the dropping temperature.

However, this doesnt mean to say we have been sitting on our arses doing nothing! We have located many more fishing venues to tackle in the future, been compiling statistics on what venues anglers are searching for, answering emails from anglers whating to know that little bit more and looking into adding a question/answer page onto our site.

We are far from expert anglers, but we read any angling literature we can get our grubby mits on, and are continuously absorbing fishing information. Be it about venues, the sport, or the fish. So we might just be able to help you with any problems you are having.

Well done to Yacob for winning a competition in Crafty Carper magazine (see November issue). A 5kg bucket of Cotswold Baits boilies will sure come in handy!

I havent appeared in a fishing magazine since June, perhaps I had better sort that out and catch a big fish to send to one? Like its that easy! Hahaha!

OCTOBER 09

I know what you are all thinking! Pike season has started! Woo Hoo! Im not sure if its cold enough really for the winter piking to get really going so me and Yacob are intending to keep our ears to the ground and see if we can find out when the snappers start coming out in droves.

We have always seen the colder months as a time for Pike, Perch, Roach and chub really and so we shall soon start hunting down venues where these fish are known to reside. I love the Carp fishing, but as a mixed angler, it can get a bit, dare I say it, boring just continuously going to Carp venues all summer. In fact, there arent many fisheries about with no Carp in are there?

Anyway, whats been going on with us? Not much really! We have added a few new venues to the site, all fished by us before publishing, as our site promises. I dont think many other site do that do they?

We are getting in maybe a last Carp-centric session at bowsaw and Billhook lakes in Odiham soon, and we are starting to look forward to the colder sessions to come, where Im personally hoping for some river fishing!

Check the new 'Your Photos' page. Please feel free to send us some photos of your catches, or anything else. Check out our ' Sven and Yacobs Photos' page for inspiration. We enjoy the comedy here at Sven and Yacobs Fishing, so some silly pictures will go down just as well.

• 3rd of October we all went to Bowsaw Lake near Odiham. It was a very windy day, which made fishing difficult. Yacob caught many a Carp and Goldfish, as did I, Martinoff procticed his tenacity, Richard Pilchard did some poaching with a whip, and I practiced the art of filming with a camera in one had, and fishing with the other. Sketchy stuff. (Check out the video links below to view my attempts)

• Ashmoor Lakes was the venues of choice on the 6th for a few hours in the rain. We thought we were mad, but we caught well. Yacob caught lots of Carp amongst the lilys on dog biscuits. I fared slightly less well with the Carp, though I snaffled a few, but I did manage to winkle out a couple of Barbel with pellets.

• 11th Saw us back down Ashmoor Lakes again. It really is nice being able to fish here for free as much as we like. Our target this time was the Bream.

Which should have been too hard for this particular venue. With inside knowledge of a good bream swim, Yacob was soon into the skimmers on Lake 1. I however, on Lake 2 by some lilys, found my Bream swim full of Perch. And the more I caught, the bigger they kept getting! Ordinarily. I would have stayed there to see how much bigger the Perch would get, but I changed swims to a good one on Lake 1 and instantly started catching Carp. And more Carp. I literally couldnt catcha bream through them!

So I gave in, moved into Yacobs swim and poached some of the Bream from there.

Its always been full of Bream this particular swim, and I guess it just goes to show, go with what you know!

• The top 5 most frequently searched fisheries on our site for October were:

1. Aldermaston Mill, Berkshire
2. Linear Fisheries, Oxfordshire
3. Ashmoor Lakes, Hampshire
4. Basingstoke Canal, Hampshire
5. Furze Farm, Surrey 
   

SEPTEMBER 09

The beginning of September has certainly been the time to start breaking out the winter fishing clothing. I personally cant wait to start wearing my TFG second skins and looking a lot like Daffyyd off of Little Britain. They are very skin tight. (in fact, it may even be worth a photo of me in them to illustrate).

This month Im going to pull my finger out and try and get Broadlands Fishery nr Romsey on here, I had been meaning to do it last month, but Ive been just so damn lazy. Not a great excuse, but Im sticking to it.

Yacob is hoping to write up a bit about Frobury Farm nr Kingsclere and also, when we fish it later on this month, Church Farm (thanks to Fleet Tackle for a lot of our info on that!).

We are also in debate about doing a questions page on here, as we are getting a lot of questions from anglers visiting our site. We are by no means experts (just a quick glance will show you that much) but we are quite knowledgeable in a few things.

(Oh, and just for the record, lets get one thing sorted, question wise, we are so very NOT foreigners! Sven and Yacob our our 'fishing names'. Think 'Chilly' Chillcott. Basingstoke born and bred we are!)

Hope you enjoy the coming angling month, please feel free to contact us with catch reports, fishery information, photos from the fisheries we have done etc etc.

• The top 3 most frequently searched fisheries on our website for September were:

1. Aldermaston Mill, Berkshire
2. Ashmoor Lakes, Hampshire
3. Linear Fisheries, Oxfordshire

AUGUST 09

Welcome to August fellow anglers! It wont be long now before the leaves start to fall and the rivers will clog with them making the long trotting and legering all the more difficult! Haha! But we still love it dont we!

After long discussions we have finally defined an area where svenandyacobsfishing.com can call home, so we can finally know for sure which fisheries are in our area, or not. We are trying to organise a map so that you can know roughly where it is. Sadly, the River Frome at Wareham now falls outside of this area, but for now, we are keeping it on our site.

• Me and Yacob started off August with a bang, and on the 1st we attended the Fox Fishing Experience show at Willow Park Fishery in Ash Vale.

We made the most of the damp weather and absolutely loved the show. We both enjoyed very long one to one talks with angling experts, Mick Brown, Mark Barrett, Bob James, Ian Welch, Bob Nudd, Ian 'Chilly' Chillcott, and many more! We discussed lure fishing with Mick Brown, Barbel techniques with Ian Welch and river Roach fishing with Bob James. Mark Barrett gave us some awesome advice for Zander fishing, Pike fishing, and Catfish fishing on the surface, as well as some very memorable snaps! Hes quite mad! 

We also discussed new and improved bait and tackle techniques with Fox Tackle and Mainline Baits.

We both spent a, much treasured, long, personal time next to Angling Legend Bob James catching Tench and Carp on mini K-G-1 boiles on a large groundbait feeder, and Crucians and Bream float fishing with soft source pellets. Abosorbing as much wisdom as we could! Yacob even had the unique experience of fishing with Bob James himself, landing a plum Tench on his very rod!

It really was an amasing day and we cetainly got up close and personal with lots of fishing celebs (some more than others, eh Mr Barrett!?). And naturally, we were wearing our Sven and Yacob shirts too! [check out some of our photos on the photo page - Sven]

• 2nd Aug saw Yacob and me travelling down to Basingstoke Canal in Odiham for a very quick fish.

Both donning a rod each, we prowled down the tow path to North Warnborough and back, finding the shoals of Roach and targeting them directly. It was a little slow going, not just for us, but for all the anglers we chatted to on the bank, but we both managed a few Perch and some lovely Roach. And it was good to see our good friend, Basingstoke Canal's Odiham bailiff! He really is a nutter!

It seemed as though a lot of anglers on this stretch had had some luck targeting Tench and Carp here by moving about regularly, not just staying in one spot. Sweetcorn also appears to be the bait of choice for the Tench anglers.

• Aug 5th: Royal Berkshire Fishery, Winkfield, Windsor, Berkshire. Added to the site.

• So, 22nd and 23rd saw Me, Yacob, Martinoff and Richard Pilchard (and yes, it is going to be Richard Pilchard, Rich!) enjoying 24 hour fish at Broadlands Lake near Romsey.

Naturally, we didnt catch much. What were you expecting? I managed a 10lb 1oz Mirror in the middle of the night taken on a source boilie, along with bream from the main lake too, caught on a K-G-1 boilie.

On the 23rd I headed to the river and caught many Chub, Roach, Perch and Minnows and also my first Grayling, who had a scuffle with a very large Pike on the way in.

Fishing was hard (pictures now on Sven and Yacob's Photos section) and not many anglers were catching. All except for the 2 anglers next to us, who were hauling them out all weekend!

Their secret?? A bait boat, shipping their huge quantities of pellet and boiles and rig out to the island, right on top of the fishes noses! The cheats!  

• On the 30th Yacob and I went down after the clay shoot to Ashmoor Lakes. It was a chilly day and for some reason we had decided to do some surface fishing.

Tricky stuff on a cold day, but luckily, this is Ashmoor Lakes, and bringing the fish to the surface isnt too much of a problem. We both managed many Carp, going up to nearly 6lb using bread and dog biscuits. Yacob had also brought some soft hooker pellets and we also enjoyed catching several Barbel on them.

I have to also report that we made probably the biggest rookie error of them all.  Guess I'd better come clean and tell you.

Whilst stalking about the lakes we noticed the shape of a fish deep in the water that had big rubbery lips and no scales at all. And we instantly recognised it as a Tench. No problems. So anyway, chance allowed that I should be the one that hooked it, and excitement prevailed as it was a fair sized one at that, as it slipped into the net. Well, lets just say that the Leather Carp was in very good condition. :P.

Well, in our defence it certainly looked like a Tench in the water.

• The top 3 most frequently searched fisheries on our site for August were:

1. Basingstoke Canal at Odiham, Hampshire
2. Aldermaston Mill, Berkshire
3. Rotherwick Lakes, Hampshire

JULY 09

Hello everyone! And what a start to July! Tell you one thing, if it stays this hot we are all going to start pulling out boiled fish! Use those umbrellas fellow anglers, whack on that sun block and drink loads!

We would like to congratulate angling legend John Wilson on his MBE. John Wilson MBE it now is, and about time too!

Thanks to all the people who have visited us and supported us on the beginning of our new site. A few top name anglers have given us some very positive feedback, big thanks to them.

We got some new promo shirts made up, so now you can spot us a mile off on the bank!

So, we didnt go to Marsh Farm in June in the end. Organisation and money issues. need we say more? But Yacob and Sven did manage a few smaller individual trips, mostly to Ashmoor Lakes, which, naturally, is still fishing well.

I guess this month we gotta get our feet moving to a bank side and get in some serious fishing. Im still all in favour of re organising our Marsh Farm trip. But we will be seriously considering a few new fisheries that have been brought to our attention too.

Dont forget, even if you are just browsing, if you have any new venues for us to check out, or even just some news on the existing ones, let us know by emailing us through the contact us page.

11th July saw Sven, Yacob and occasional fishing chums Richard Pilchard and Martinoff heading to fish a new venue, Royal Berkshire Fisheries in Berkshire. We caught fish all day long, all managing to catch fish from Roach, Bream, Perch, Gudgeon and Carp. Venue details are being organised as I type!

On 18th July we visited Shepherds Meadow near Camberley. The river, as is usual at this time of the year, is packed with weed making it hard to fish, but on the up side, it appears that the weed is pushing the fish into shoals where there are gaps in it. By the main foot bridge a large shoal of fish were to be seen and local knowledge indicated that even a 10lb Carp had been caught recently amongst the Roach, Chub and occasional Pike. Down at the far end of the section at the end of beat 3, we saw many nice Roach, clearly upto and over 1lb.

Broadlands lake was the destination for a quick look on 26th, in advance for a planned night fish in August. Sven is in the process of gathering results of which swims are the most popular, and he spent most of the trip, map of lakes in hand, writing down swim locations and taking photos. In the river blackwater there were many Chub we estimated went up to 4lb easily. Maybe worth a try if the lake is fishing a little slow?

Quick note: Yacob and me have appeared again in tcf and Iycf magazines! I wonder how long it will take before they give us our own column to write! Hahahaha!

• The most popular fishing venue searched on our website for July was Aldermaston Mill in Berkshire. The second was Linear Fisheries in Oxfordshire. The third was Rotherwick Lakes in Hampshire.

JUNE 09

You have no idea how pleased we both are to have found a new home for Sven and Yacob's Fishing! We have been searching for months to find a new site that would cater more for our needs.

Just click on an area, and look at the fisheries we have visited!

It really couldnt be easier!

May saw Sven appearing in Improve Your Coarse Fishing Magazine, winning a mission badge for a specimen Barbel, and also appearing in the very next issue winning another badge for Barbel fishing.

We went fishing a couple of times, targeting Carp from local venues before the main breeding sessions started.

This month sees Yacob appearing in Anglers Mail magazine with one of the fruits of the Carp fishing sessions, a 13lb 8oz Common Carp from Bishops Green. We were all pleased to see that he had 'snaffled' the 'lump'.

Sven fared even better by winning tcf magazines 'Angler of the Month' competition with a specimen Barbel he caught from Aldermaston Mill. Winning him not only a badge and a cap, but also £300 of korum luggage and a special ticket to a 'fish-in' with some of tcf magazines angling stars!

We are transfering all our information from the old site to this one, updating as we go, and are currently working on adding new venues such as Furze Farm in Surrey, River Thames at Hampton Court, Linear Fisheries in Oxfordshire and Broadlands near Southampton.

At the end of the month we are planning a long awaited return trip to Marsh Farm, not specifically for the venues specimen Crucian Carp (although we wont be sad if we catch them anyway), but for Marsh Farm's massive Tench.

Maybe we will see you there?!

• The most popular fishing venue searched on our site for June was Rotherwick Lakes in Hampshire. The second was Aldermaston mill in Berkshire. The third was Basingstoke Canal in Odiham, Hampshire.