29 Aug 2023

HORWOOD LAKES – Report

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Coarse Fishing, Match Fishing, Sidebar | 0

HORWOOD lakes are continuing to fish well and the anglers are reaping the rewards for all the hard work that has gone into managing the lakes.

Fridays match produced a record catch for Stephen Barrell who smashed the previous weight with 252lb, Steve caught on the short pole on 8mm pellets on the bottom shelf on peg 3, pleased to say he used 5 nets to retain the fish before the weigh in, very good weights from every one and Graham Curnow was 2nd on lake with 111.14lb from peg 5

Top lake

Gary Sullivan was 1st with 68.12lb from peg 10

Graham Currington was 2nd with 46.10lb from peg 13

Quick shout out to Kevin Deck with 92.4lb from peg 8 which is his personal best.

27 Aug 2023

Interclub event: Bideford and District Angling Club Versus Plymouth and District Coarse Angling Club

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Interclub event:

Bideford and District Angling Club

Versus

Plymouth and District Coarse Angling Club

Return leg

George’s lake Tarka Swims.

Results:

BDAC. 160lbs 5oz

PADCAC. 91lbs 1oz

Overall

BDAC 569lb 3oz. PADCAC 329lb 9oz

Individuals

1st Mike Snudden 40lb 4oz

2nd Craig Crash Lamey 33lb 8oz

3rd Richard Jefferies 29lb 5oz

4th Bill Crossman 27 lb 9oz

5th Darren Polden 24lb 14oz

A breezy, mild day with the odd light shower resulted a good match against our friends from Plymouth,

Carp made up the main frame, with Mike’s catch on peg 6 leading the Bideford team home to an emphatic home victory.

Craig has guested for Plymouth and helped their team effort, with his second placed spot off peg 16.

Committee member Richard has come third overall on peg 17.

Let’s hope we can continue with these sorts of events into the future.

20 Aug 2023

North Devon Match Group – Oaktree

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North Devon Match Group held their latest Match at Oaktree fishery using the top and bottom lakes to split the anglers

The weather held out for most of the day with the odd shower but it was still warm

The worthy winner on the day was Kevin Shears with a great weight of 120lb from the top lake

Top lake

1st kevin Shears 120lb 5oz

2nd Dave Doidge 78lb 13oz

3rd Dodgy Hooks 65lb 9oz

Bottom lake

1st Nathan Underwood 71lb 15oz

2nd Garry Thornton 45lb 14oz

3rd Christopher Morris 38lb 12oz

14 Aug 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse section monthly competition Results:

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Coarse section monthly competition

Results:

1st Craig Lamey 59lb 9oz

2nd Les Polden 39lb 2oz

3rd John Lisle 37lb 4oz

4th Nathan Underwood 33lb 4oz

5th Colin Cherrington. 30lb 1oz

6th Paul Elworthy 30lb

7th Kevin Shears 26lb 5oz

8th Roger Ackroyd 24lb 9oz

17 fished

This month’s competition was held on George’s lake,

which once again produced a good close finish.

Good conditions prevailed and our youngest competitor , Craig made no mistake on peg 6, his victory was over 20lb clear of veteran , Les on peg 10.

Craig has fished pole and paste plus the method feeder.

Les has had some late carp on worm over hemp. John on peg 21 finished 3rd also using worm hookbaits over groundbait.

8 Aug 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Junior Competition No. 4

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Junior Competition No. 4

Tarka Swims

Results:

1st Brodie Allen 23lb 6oz

2nd Findley Huggins 17lb 10oz

3rd Jenson Kiff 13lb 8oz

4th Imogen Babb 13lb 1oz

5th Ted Blight 11lb 12oz

6th Bailly Brambley 9lb 10oz

7th Maci Brambley 8lb 4oz

8th Willow Davies. 4lb 15oz

9th Billy Butler 4lb 14oz

10th. Leo Davies 3lb 3oz

11th Albi Clements 2lb 9oz

12th Lewis Hathaway 2lb 8oz

13th Brodie Daniel 2lb 4oz

14th Amelia Bell 1lb 10oz

15th Metida Voice 13oz

16th Tash Hawkins 9oz

17th Fletcher Hawkins 8oz

Despite the fierce winds our junior members turned out in force for the penultimate competition of the junior calendar, over half the pegs on George’s lake were used.!

Poles and rods were gripped tightly as storm “Antoni” did it’s best to spoil the day.

Brodie, on peg 15 , put a cracking net of mainly carp on the scales to win the day. Paste on the pole his tactics.

Second spot went to Findley on peg 8 , his chosen tactic to combat the high winds was a method feeder.

Jenson fished similarly on peg 11 for a well earned third spot.

Despite some very challenging conditions the youngsters all managed to weigh in, well done all.

Big thanks to Summerlands Tackle , Quay Sports

Martin Cox Bait tech for their generosity.

Also our helpers on the day.

8 Aug 2023

HORWOOD MATCH LATEST

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Match Fishing, Sidebar | 0

A red letter day with the match record going to Colin Cherrington with a great weight of 192lb 10oz, Colin fished peg 4 and caught steady all day on the short pole and pellets, Colin’s weight included some stunning fish topped with one of 17lb 8oz.

Second on that lake was Stephen Barrell with another impressive weight of 97lb 1oz, Steve fished peg 8 and had most of his fish on the waggler.

Top lake golden peg went to Graham Curnow with a weight of 36lb 4oz beating Stephen Craker into second on that lake with 26lb 6oz.

30 Jul 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Evening Pairs Competition

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Evening Pairs Competition

Results:

1st Craig Crash Lamey /Roger Ackroy 44lb 7oz

2nd DarrenPolden /Mike Snudden 41lb 8oz

3rd Keith Mountjoy/Antony Bentley 36lb 14oz

4th Martin Turner / David Bailey 34lb 8oz

5th Reg Sutton/Kevin Shears 33lb 11oz

6th Les Polden/ Keith Copland. 33b 10oz

7th Warren Thornton /Nathan Underwood 28lb 5oz

8th Steve Ashton /Richard Jeffries. 27lb 9oz

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Our run of great weather came to an abrupt end on this the final evening competition of the year, the rain pessisted throughout the whole event, however some great nets were brought to the scales, Craig and Roger’s combined total caught on pegs 1and 15 respectively, was enough to scoop the honours.

Top weight on the night went to Kevin on peg 19 , his 33lb fell to paste on the pole in the lillypads.

27 Jul 2023

B.D.A.C. 4TH ROD AND REEL MATCH RESULTS SUMMER LEAGUE DATE 23.7.23

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B.D.A.C. 4TH ROD AND REEL MATCH RESULTS SUMMER LEAGUE DATE 23.7.23

10 Anglers fished the match today and the weather turned out to be quite a nice. All anglers caught fish with the fishing being slow at times for some, first place today when to Darren Polden with a magnificent bag of mixed fish for a weight of 71lbs 11oz on peg 6 fishing the feeder to the island, second place went to Richard jefferies on peg 15 with 29lbs 6oz fishing a pellet waggler and 8mm pellet 3rd place was Anthony Bentley on peg 14 with 28lbs 3oz and 4th place went to Stephen Paul Sheller with 28lbs 1oz next Rod and Reel match is at Tarka on the 27.8.23. Well done Darren polden on your catch.

22 Jul 2023

HORWOOD MATCH REPORT

by Wayne Thomas | posted in: Match Fishing, Sidebar | 0

Match report.

Another lovely Friday match at HORWOOD this week, main lake is fishing very well with most methods catching, very close at the top between Stephen Craker and Graham Currington with Steve weighing in another impressive weight of 92lb pipping Graham who had 90lb 12oz, top lake was harder with a few fish deciding to feed late in the match and ever present Stephen Barrell managed the best weight of 38lb 19oz mainly small carp, Steve pushed Colin Cherrington into second on 29lb 15oz.

Third on each lake and just in the money was Gary Sullivan with 61lb and Paul Whitehead 22lb 3oz.