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Manor Farm Leisure 15-01-11

• Due to the popularity of the 4mm worm flavoured soft hook pellets we will be introducing new sizes of 6mm and 10mm. Hopefully to be on sale 11th of April 2011.
  
  
  
• We have had frequent requests for new 'fishy flavours' of soft hook pellets. We are pleased to be offering new 'Beastie Crab' and 'Green Squid' flavours in 4mm, 6mm and 10mm. Due to be on sale 11th April 2011.
  
  
  
• As our worm match paste has had such a good response we will also be selling a pre-mixed paste in easy to use tubs. Due to be on sale 11th April 2011.
  
  
  
• New flavoured corn, booster baits and dips also arriving shortly.

Scott Poynton

32 Years Old

Lives in Worcester

Occupation – HOS Site Leader

Married to Rebecca – No Children (Yet)

 




I started fishing with my grandad at around 8-9 years old and got hooked immediately catching the resident shoals at my local Arrowvalley lake – it was there a number of years later that I got involved  with the Redditch Kingfishers, a local match group with junior, intermediate and senior sections. I enjoyed a good number of years fishing within the ranks at all levels and competing in nationals, winter and summer leagues with some excellent success. During this time I learnt a full range of skills fishing canals and rivers then the emerging commercial fishery scene – the primary focus was around rod and line skills with stick and waggler fishing being by far my favorite – fishing the waggler for roach and skimmers still holds a special place in my heart and I still spend plenty of time to this day at Arrowvalley catching these beautiful fish.

As I got older the pole came into play more and more, certainly on the canals and still waters. Inevitably numbers dwindled within the Kingfishers and off the back of that a number of members formed Broadacres match group. This is where my match fishing career really took off and we had a great campaign in the West Midlands Drennan league, moving from division 2 to the super league over a number of seasons. We spent time in the company of some of the greatest match fisherman in the area and was a massive learning curve – we also did very well fishing the smaller local leagues. One of my greatest personal victories came fishing a bloodworm and joker league match at Woodlands view, where I managed to take the scalp of a number of the current (at the time) and future Drennan England team.

Most recently I became a member of Maver Solihull Angling, where I competed in their own summer league, which moves around some of the best midlands commercial venues – I’ve been lucky enough to win the league individually twice and came 3rd in the 3 seasons in which I’ve competed in the league. My team came second on every occasion, which is a great consistent performance, and I’ve taken some of my biggest weights on these matches topped by a 196lb weight taken from the match pool at Maver Larford.

Most of my fishing now-a-days is on an individual basis and I’ve qualified for the maver classic finals at Larford with an individual win with 159lb on the first qualifier I fished, I’ve had some great runs of form at Cob House fisheries in Worcester, highlighted with my personal best (and for a short time the fishery best) match weight of 207lb – with no fish over 2lb taken in that weight. I also visit Manor Farm Leisure, Hillview, and Sion Farm (an excellent silvers fishery).

Living in Worcester I am very lucky to be surrounded by nearly every form of fishery available including a pool less than 100 yards from my home!