North Devon Match Group April 16th Championship No4 Melbury Reservoir
1st Paul Elworthy 32lb 15oz
2nd John Lisle 11lb
3rd Nathan Underwood 4lb 8oz
4th Martin Turner 3lb 9oz.
Paul fished a small groundbait feeder from a peg on the road side, his excellent catch consisted of skimmers and rudd. John had a similar bag from the next peg, The rest of the field struggled for odd bites in a cold westerly wind.
Stafford Moors Open match on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes, had a continental pay out . The day commenced with glorious sunshine and then bitter cold and cloudy in the afternoon Despite this lakes fished well especially Woodpecker !!!! A big well done to Phil Hardwick who bagged a fabulous weight of 255lb 6oz from peg 17 on Woodpecker fishing 8mm pellet fishing the Pole up the edge.
2nd place was: Martin Heard (Mosella) peg 11 Tanners with 124lb 4oz
3rd place was : Mark Layzelle peg 11 on Woodpecker with 190lb 4oz
4th place was : Tim Hagg peg 20 on Tanner with 91lb
5th place was :Paul Morris peg 1 on Woodpecker with 139lb
6th place was: Boz Phillips peg 25 on Tanner with 86lb 14oz
Our silvers winner of the day was Peter Randall with 31lb 8oz from peg 34 on Tanners
Bideford And District Angling Clubs monthly competition saw 14 anglers compete at Tarka Swims, where they were reminded that we are still in early spring by the cool breeze, despite this some large fish were prepared to feed. Pete Slade landed a common carp of nearly 15lb, after an arm aching battle of well over an hour ,this secured victory. Most fish fell to pole fished maggot. John Lisle still leads the league with 70 points Steve Bailey 2nd on 58 April monthly comp
Tarka Swims
1st Pete Slade 14lb 13oz
2nd Steve Bailey 12lb 6oz
3rd John Lovell 12lb 3oz
4th Stuart Bailey 11lb 15oz
Final Winter League NDMG Morchard Road
1st Paul Ware 79lb 2oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 29lb 14oz
3rd Kevin Shears 28lb 8oz
4th Paul Elworthy 22lb 4oz
5th Andy Gray 21lb 5oz .
Many Thanks to Martin Turner for the report on this eventful match!
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Winner of winter league Kevin Shears145 points 2nd Nathan Underwood140 points 3rd Martin Turner 135 points The match was held in beautiful spring weather, although half the field really struggled , even the small rudd did not seem to feed. Nathan , and Paul Elworthy got off to great starts on paste on the pole ,as their swims dried up , Paul Ware began to catch in the neck of the Narrow section and continued till the end. As you can see the match was not without incident , Ben Hathaway’s peg was invaded by a boy racer in a red Ford !! Breaking his pole in the process!
Stafford Moors open match on Sunday 2nd April saw a field of twenty eight fishing on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes. The event had a continental payout.
Here at the results:
1st was Mark Cullerton with 217lb 5oz from peg 11 on Woodpecker 6mm pellet down the edge
2nd Freddie Roberts with 150lb 5oz from peg 18 on Tanners feeding 6mm pellet down the edge
3rd Steve Ford 150lb 6oz from peg 16 on Woodpecker
Results
1st Paul Elworthy 36lb 2oz
2nd Paul Morris 33lb 14oz
3rd Antony Bentley 27lb 5oz
4th Christopher Morris 27lb 4oz
5th Martin Turner 25lb 6oz
Tough conditions yesterday for the North Devon Match Group who fished both Fletchers and Edwards lakes to make some great catches despite wind and rain.
The winner of the Silvers festival at Stafford Moor was Des Shipp (PRESTON INNOVATIONS) who had only 5 points ! In second place was Adam Lee with 8 points and In third Richard James with 9 points. Some amazing silver fish nets weights during the five day festival a total of 3360lb which is an average of 23lb per angler per day.
Day 1
1st DES SHIP Peg 11 Pines: 54lbs 8oz
2nd PAUL BURCKETT Peg 9 Pines: 50lbs 0oz
3rd GARY SMITH Peg 10 Pines: 43lbs 1
Day 2
1st ZAC NEWTON Peg 10 Pines: 40lbs 14oz
2nd MARK TAYLOR Peg 8 Pines: 39lbs 3oz
3rd ADAM LEE Peg 12 Pines: 38lbs 6oz
Day 3
1st PETE BENNETT Peg 14 Pines: 43lbs 3oz
2nd RICHARD JAMES Peg 11 Pines: 38lbs 14oz
3rd DES SHIP Peg 13 Tanners: 38lbs 10oz
Day 4
1st BRUCE HUNT Peg 9 Pines: 61lbs 12oz
2nd KEITH NEEDHAM Peg 10 Pines: 52lbs 3oz
3rd ADAM LEE Peg 12 Pines: 50lbs 13oz
Bideford and District Coarse Section Monthly Competition Highampton Lake
Results
1st John Lovell 53lb 12oz
2nd Colin Gorman 21lb 3oz
3rd Martin Turner 18lb 4oz
4th John Lisle 16lb 2oz
Blustery conditions proved tricky John found some large carp willing to feed in the margins on double corn, Colin fished with prawn bait on a feeder.
Results from today’s match at Wooda lakes (lake 4). Well done to Kevin Wilston who won with 33lb 2oz. 2nd was Norman Martin with 27lb 12oz and for his first match with the club finishing 3rd was Andrew Haynes with 22lb 3oz well done lads especially in today’s tough conditions.
Weather conditions were much improved for the Final of Stafford Moors MFS Silver Festival but a bitter cold wind still lingered. The weights on the final day were excellent. ,Tanners fished well with Pines fishing even better! The top weight was 31lb 9oz from Colin Mercer who fished peg 12 on Pines fishing maggot over worm. The Winner of the MFS Silvers Festival 2017 is Colin Mercer who had only 6 points! well done Colin.
Fishery owner Joanne Combes “What a fantastic week Paul and i have had with you all so much fun and laughter and fantastic weights,see you all next year!”
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