24 Jun 2023

A LOVELY DAYS FISHING AT HORWOOD

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Neilsen Jeffery nurtures the tranquil Horwood Lakes where he hold regular matches. The latest report from Neilsen below:-

Another lovely Friday at HORWOOD today with some great nets brought to the scales, a big well done to Stephen Craker who won from peg 3 with 147lb 11oz plus picking up a golden peg, Steve caught close on paste and his weight included a stunning mirror of 19lb.

Second on that lake was Paul Whitehead who managed 126lb 12oz, other good weights were Christopher Jeffs with 100lb 11oz and Graham Curnow with 94lb 3oz.

The top lake also produced a nice weight for Stephen Barrell with 64lb 8oz his weight included 30lb of smaller carp and tench so nice to see these starting to show.

Second on the top lake was Keith Copland with 31lb 5oz.

HORWOOD lakes have really matured in the last couple of years and many thanks to those who help me keep on top of it.

23 Jun 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Evening competition No 6

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Evening competition No 6
Results:
1st Richard Jefferies  41lb 4oz
2nd Kevin Shears  27lb 8oz
3rd Martin Turner   27lb 2oz
4th Warren Thorton  20lb 0oz
5th Stace Polden  19 lb 10oz
6th Nathan Underwood  18lb 3oz
16 members fished.
After a day of thunderstorms and heavy rain, the evening proved to be dry and slightly cooler.
Committee member, Richard, after a slow start, soon got into his stride with a number of decent carp on paste and bread in the margins of peg 15, for another convincing victory.
Kevin, on his return from holiday, drew fancied peg 25, fished his favoured paste and pole method for second spot, just pipping Martin on peg 8.
19 Jun 2023

COMBE MARTIN SAC – LURE FISHING LEAGUE UPDATE

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Combe Martin SAC – Mebers Lure Fishing Competition.

Shaun Quartly has registered three bass measuring 72cm, 60.5cm and 56cm for a three fish total of 188.5cm.

This puts him into second place behind Mark Jones who has three for 193cm.

Mark Jones.  3 bass  193.5

Shaun Quartly 3 bass  188.5

Reece Woolgar 2 bass 116

Mark Tossel 1 bass 69

 

A reminder that the Open Lure competition hosted with CMSAC and High Street Tackle commences on Thursda, June 29th at 00:00am.

 

 

18 Jun 2023

BOAT SPORT OFF ILFRACOMBE

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Daniel Welch has been some superb boat sport off Ilfracombe ctaching some stunning wrasse using lure fishing tactics. Dans best wrasse a stunning ballan of 5lb. The sport was shared with his good friend Ross Stanway and son Solly Welch.

“Another fantastic day out on the boat, with perfect weather. The plan for the day was lure fishing with light spinning setups the main target a big ballen and a cuckoo wrasse. The day didn’t disappoint we caught good numbers of decent sized hard fighting pollack on the wrecks on the way down, once at the island we had great sport on the wrasse all catching good sized fish the biggest a boat and lure pb for me of exactly 5lb I also managed my main target and another first for me, catching not one but two cuckoo wrasse on a lure in quick succession. We thought we would pick up some fresh bait to drift for the tope on the way back and found good numbers of large launce and some mackerel. Prime fresh bait but an hour drift only produced one tope we fished some small baits at the same time and picked up weavers, a few gurnard and lots of little whiting. We finished the day off with some more wreck pollack on the way home. Lures used were a mix of slow jigs with single
hooks, creature soft plastics, savagegear Sandeels and black minnow.”