BRASENOSE ONE

James Gesner had a couple of fish up to 24lb 04oz.

Dave Pritchard had a 29lb mirror from B-1 along with a 17lb ghostie from B-2.

Chris Simpson from Leeds had a new PB 24lb mirror using Mainline cell boilies.

Mark Ayliffe had a number of fish up to 28lb.

Local angler, Benedict Fowler had a pretty 8lb mirror on a day session.

Fishing together Carl and Darryl Ashwin from Amersham had 12 fish, with Carl landing the biggest two weighing 24lb 14oz and 23lb 05oz.

Neil Cooper had a 28lb 08oz mirror fishing single fusion boilies over spodded pellets.

Ian Bushell fished Linear for the first time and was rewarded with four fish, his catch included mirrors weighing 25lb and 31lb.

Dale Ford from Wrexham had mirrors weighing 14lb and 21lb.

Mark Williams from North Wales had seven fish up to 16lb 14oz.

Mike Power from Chester had three mirrors up to 21lb.

BRASENOSE TWO

Matty Vaughan from Bicester had nine fish up to 20lb 02oz whilst fishing with his brother, Darren who landed four fish up to 19lb.

GAUNTS LAKE

Marc Jordon landed the lakes biggest common weighing in at exactly 40lb.

Jamie Westwood had a 24lb common along with mirrors weighing 24lb and 28lb 14oz.

Scott Norton had a 30lb 06oz common along with mirrors weighing 26lb 04oz and 37lb 02oz.

Aaron Hall from Bridgnorth had mirrors weighing 22lb 06oz and 31lb 02oz.

GENERAL

From Mon 15th To Wed 17th Aug, Linear will be hosting a "Fish with the Stars" charity event for the MNDA (Motor Neurone Disease Association) to be held on both the Brasenose Lakes. We already have promises from over thirty of the top carp angling names in the country to take part in this August event. Just some of the names already booked in are Lee Jackson, Bryan Jarrett, The O’Connors, The Don, Tim Paisley, Iain Macmillan, Chilly, Ian Russell, Nigel Sharpe and Jerry Hammond.

As a guideline we will be happy with a £300 donation to fish the event but will be prepared to consider sums lower than this. The donation will need to be paid in advance and bookings will be taken on a first come first served basis. In addition to taking part in the event anyone paying the guideline price of £300 will receive a 48 hour voucher, worth up to £52 to fish Linear's day ticket waters at any time in the next year. The donation will include fishing with a well known angler for the event, food each day in the way of a BBQ/Hog Roast on the Monday and Tuesday evening and a BBQ breakfast on the Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. This is not a competition but more a social event and anglers taking part can negotiate moving around with different stars over the three days – with excellent chances of learning carp fishing techniques from the experts. All proceeds will be going to two branches of the MNDA and to raise even more money for this worthy charity we also plan to have an auction and sell raffle tickets.

Alvin Roy and his Jazz Band will be giving their time to play for us on the Tuesday evening and a selected number of guests will be invited along for this performance. We also plan have a few other well known faces, like John Wilson and Martin Bowler, just wandering round giving their advice during the event.

MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE
Some of you maybe unaware of this dreadful disease that kills at least five people a day in this country and for which, at present, there is no cure. If you wish to learn more about MND, information can be found on the MND Association website.

Anybody interested in taking part and helping raise money for this excellent cause should email Fishery Officer Chris Blunt at chris.blunt2005@btconnect.com

**Major Tree Work**

From 8am Tuesday 10th May there will be some quite substantial tree work being carried out down the shallow end of St. Johns Pool. This work will take approximately one week to complete and during this time swims 21-25 will be closed.

Can we please ask anyone fishing down St. Johns during this period to take extra care when approaching this area, the forestry chaps undertaking this work will have full authority in this area and once work has started you must listen to any instructions they give.

Thanks for reading this and sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Chris Blunt
Fishery Officer.

**Credit/Debit Cards**

You can pay by credit/debit card, on the bank-side at Linear. Bailiffs carry a mobile card machine which will accept most major cards. This is Linear's preferred method of payment, we still obviously accept cash but no longer accept cheques as a method of payment.

**MNDA Raffle Tickets**

WE have on offer raffle tickets in aid of the MNDA, these are available from all Linear bailiffs at £1 each. There are some great prizes on offer, including the top prize, a free years fishing, for one, on any Linear day ticket water (except Hunts).

**Catch Reports**

The following news is made up from catch reports sent to us over the last week to ten days.

HARDWICK LAKE

Tom Mcgowan had a 30lb 09oz mirror off the top.

Mark Dale aka "Buddy Holly" had four fish including mirrors weighing 21lb 08oz and 24lb 10oz.

James Powell from Hereford had a 23lb 08oz common using a 10mm hi-viz pop-up.

Mark Betteridge from Acorn Angling had a 21lb 08oz common along with a 12lb 02oz PB bream.

Whilst fishing with her boyfriend Andy, Katie Moody had a new PB 20lb 04oz mirror.

Ross Brown from Oxford had five fish including mirrors weighing 21lb 12oz and 27lb.

MANOR FARM LAKE

Ricky Podmore had Kempy's Linear at a spawned out weight of 37lb 03oz using Nash scopex boilies.

OXLEASE LAKE

Ashley Cerrone from Bromsgrove had a new PB 30lb 14oz mirror.

Simon Lowndes had a 27lb mirror.

Tommy Peck Swadlincote beat his PB four times when he landed six fish, his catch included mirrors 21lb 09oz, 24lb 07oz, 24lb 11oz and 32lb 08oz.

Paul Browne from Southampton had a new PB 32lb 10oz mirror using Mainline active-8 maple boilies tipped with plastic corn.

Lee Cowley from Chesterfield had a new PB 24lb 08oz mirror on only his second visit to the water.

Lyndsy Fisher from Birmingham had mirrors weighing 20lb, 22lb 02oz, 23lb,
25lb 04oz, 27lb 06oz, 29lb 07oz, 30lb 01oz and 31lb 09oz.

ST JOHNS POOL

**Major Tree Work**

From 8am Tuesday 10th May there will be some quite substantial tree work being carried out down the shallow end of St. Johns Pool. This work will take approximately one week to complete and during this time swims 21-25 will be closed.

Can we please ask anyone fishing down St. Johns during this period to take extra care when approaching this area, the forestry chaps undertaking this work will have full authority in this area and once work has started you must listen to any instructions they give.

Thanks for reading this and sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Chris Blunt
Fishery Officer.

**Swims Closed**

For 9am Tues May 24th until 8pm Thurs May 26th swims 38 and 39 on St. Johns will be closed for filming.

Fishing Linear for the first time was Peter West from Lancashire who landed a 24lb catfish.

Nick Johnson from Staffordshire landed "The Big Common" weighing 41lb.

Jamie Bacon from Bristol landed five mid-doubles, eight twenties up to 29lb 12oz and a 30lb 10oz mirror.

Matt Wildey from Harefield landed five twenties up to a common of 27lb.

**Swims Closed**

For 9am Tues May 24th until 8pm Thurs May 26th swims 38 and 39 on St. Johns will be closed for filming.

UNITY LAKE

Over on Unity Lake Matthew O'Connell had a number of fish including a 38lb ghostie.

John Ostrouchow had a 36lb 10oz ghostie known as "Orange Spot".

Steve Palmer had four fish including "Blackspot", the fourth time he's landed this big mirror this time weighing 32lb 12oz.

Lee Dowding was at it again, this time landing nine fish which included a 28lb 12oz mirror and the "Scar Common" at 32lb 14oz.

Paul Allen from Kidlington fished a week long session, landing ten fish. His catch included a 27lb common and mirrors weighing 23lb, 24lb and "Cut Tail" at 30lb 15oz.

YEOMANS LAKE

Carl Daly had a small mirror along with a stunning 27lb linear mirror.

Mark Willis from Birmingham had three mid-doubles along with other mirrors weighing 25lb 05oz and 29lb 02oz.