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<\/p>\n\n\n\nSaturday was my first match of 2026 and back to Tunnel Barn for Round Six of the teams of four. A lovely big Wolf Moon in the sky as I drove up the motorway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>I\u2019ve been on a very nice peg 6 on New Pool. It\u2019s a peg I\u2019ve wanted to draw for ages, although it\u2019s not been so special in recent weeks. We all had to break the ice first thing and I made three nice channels. The glare from the sun\u2019s been a nightmare, yet it\u2019s still not stopped my holes re-icing over all the time!? Despite all that, I\u2019ve had a good day catching F1s on maggots and weighed 42lb for 2nd on the lake. Just needed one more as peg 31 had 43lb, but still a great result for me and the team. We\u2019ve once again had mixed results teamwise and hanging on to 3rd, just nine points off the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Had my friendly grey wagtail for company again (apparently it\u2019s not a yellow wagtail, despite the yellow colour!) and a pied wagtail this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rigs have been the usual 0.2g and 0.3g Matrix F1 Slims, 0.10 to an 18 X2 with 8-10 Slik in a 2m Short Kit. Used my XTR400 pole, too, as I didn\u2019t mind that whacking the ice quite so much as my 700!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Great to kick the year off with a days Eskimo fishing. Day at home today. Think I’ve caught my first cold of the year, sniff! Knew I would after being stuck around so many coughing and sneezing people on a recent family outing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hope you managed to catch a few if you braved the conditions. Saturday was my first match of 2026 and back to Tunnel Barn for Round Six of the teams of four. A lovely big Wolf Moon in the sky as I drove up the motorway....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1s","category-tunnel-barn-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\ud83d\udd76\ufe0f\"](\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t8b\/2\/16\/1f576.png\")
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