Bag'em Match Baits News

Bag'em's Neil Machin and Andy Moors win the British Pole Pairs Championships

On Sunday 15th August was the Maver British Pole Championships Bag'ems Neil Machin and Andy Moors won it with 2 section wins which equals 2 points.

There were 56 pairs taking part and Neil and Andy were the only pair with 2 section wins. We won £1500 and a Maver 361 pole each worth £2000 a piece plus some cut glass trophy’s.

Neil caught 15 carp on meat fished over Bag'em natural hemp. Plus some skimmers caught on pellet over a mix of Bag'em XP and Machins Method Mix groundbaits.

Bag'ems Lee Thornton and Pete Goodman are 2nd

Bag'ems Lee Thornton and Pete Goodman tied on points with another pair but beat them on overall weight. They were both 2nd in their sections giving them 4pts. They won £900 in cash and a Maver pole each worth £1000 each plus cut glass trophy’s.  

Heronbrook Festival 2010

Bag'ems Jamie Hughes won the Heronbrook festival last week with 6 points, consisting of 1 match win, 1 lake win, 2 section wins and a section 2nd. This won Jamie around £2200 for the week.

 This makes Jamie the first angler to win the festival twice, he first won it in 2007.

 Here's how he did it:

Day 1. I drew peg 19 on Meadow pool and caught 95lb of carp on the pole and method using 2mm coarse pellets and Bag'ems XP groundbait with a 6mm pellet on the hook. This was enough to win my section.

Day 2. I drew peg 39 on the Speci lake, this is a wide peg so I had to fish 19m of pole to reach the far bank. I finished up with 91lb of carp using 4mm pellets and meat. This won my section and also the lake.

Day 3. Peg 52 on Meadow pool was my worst draw of the week. The lake fished hard with only around 20lb in the first 5 hours, fortunately some large carp arrived across in the last hour and I caught around 40lb to finish with 63lb and 2nd in section.

Day 4. Peg 11 on canal was my best draw of the week! Fishing 2mm pellets with a 4mm or 6mm Bag'em Xpanda on the hook resulted in bites all day from small carp and a weight of 106lb was enough to win the section and also the match overall.

Day 5. I drew peg 15 on Bridge pool and was fairly happy, as I needed to finish in the top 5 in section to win the festival, I felt that this peg was capable of doing that.

The pool fished really hard though and with 20 mins remaining I had 24lb and was lying around 7th in section, fortunately luck was on my side as a mirror carp weighing 16lb 4oz was my final fish with 10 mins remaining! This gave me a total weight of 41lb and a section win, which won me the festival by 7 points. 

Bag'ems Nigel Baxter wins the Telford Festival held on the 9th 10th & 11th August.

The results are as followed:-

4points – 1st Nigel Baxter   Bag’em      £570
5points – 2nd 'Winnie'           Fox UDE    £440
7points – 3rd Barry Mason  Ringers      £190  

Top weight of the festival was caught by Nigel Baxter 210lb

D1    Oak     J.Smally    129lb
D1    Cedar  'Winnie'    195lb   Nigel came second with 173lb
D1    Elm     John.p       187lb

D2    Oak     Nigel Baxter      151lb
D2    Cedar  'Winnie'             148lb
D2    Elm     L.klom                 207lb

D3    Oak    Nigel Baxter      201lb
D3    Cedar Barry Mason     126lb 14oz
D3    Elm     Andy Gaurson  164lb 9oz

The week before Nigel broke the Decoy Lakes Festival venue record with 283lb!!

Bag'em has established a reputation for excellent quality as many of their groundbaits have no breadcrumb or bulking agents in them unlike its competitors products.

To find out more go to www.bagem.co.uk .