24 Jul 2024

COMBE MARTIN SAC – LURE COMPETITION UPDATE

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Dan Welch skipper of Predator 2 Charters caught this fine 63cm bass on his latest excursion wiyth the lure rod. He is now running in second place in CMSAC’s Lure Fishing League.

Top Three Present positions : –

Ross Stanway 5 bass – 290

Dan Welch 5 bass – 270

Reece Woolgar – 3 bass – 175.5

“A but lumpy out there today so had an office day and then took the lure rod out off the shore, 9 bass to 63cm, can’t complain the new lucky hoody working its magic!”

21 Jul 2024

The Mainline Baits Open Carp Match at Upper Tamar

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 Final Results July Mainline Competition. 
Friday 11am arrived, the draw for the July Mainline Comp was completed, all anglers were transported to their swims. The mood amongst the anglers was upbeat and raring to go.
The horn was sounded at 2pm for the start of the competition, around 15:45 the phone rang, fish been caught peg 12 Dave Bellew with a cracking 22Ib 6oz Mirror, within minutes the phone was ringing again, this time peg 14 Dan Hole & Jack Chillingworth 18Ib 15oz Mirror.
Things went a little quiet until around 19:00 when peg 14 had another fish, followed swiftly with peg 12 recording its second fish.
Former winner Nigel Woods fishing peg 10 recorded his first fish of the day. The Devon bank seemed to be dominating the competition with peg’s 10, 12, & 14 producing the fish. This carried on into the late evening.
Saturday morning arrived with fish being caught on the Cornwall bank, but still pegs 10,12,14 dominating the leader board.
Saturday evening arrived and the leader board was very close with six pegs recording 3 recorded fish. During Saturday late evening 11 fish were recorded and the leader board was still very close.
Aaron & Liam Jones were on 2 fish and not far behind the leaders.
Sunday morning arrived and peg 14 was in the lead with peg 12 second and peg 10 3rd. Nigel Woods peg 10 starting catching and there was 6oz’s between second and third place.
Aaron & Liam Jones peg 27 were unlucky losing 2 fish in the last hour. With 10 minutes to go Nigel Woods, peg 10, landed 23Ib 14oz fish putting himself into second place 15oz’s behind the leader. Top weights were recorded by 8 pegs making it an exciting competition. Out of the 18 pegs drawn only 2 pegs did not record any fish. Over 50 fish were recorded, all in all a very close contest.
The format of the prizes this year were changed, to give anglers more chances to win prizes. First, second, and third prizes remained the same.
A big thank you to all that took part, thank you John Kneebone and Mainline Baits for sponsoring the event.
A massive thank you to our volunteer marshal’s who gave up their time to help run this event. Gary, Laura, Bob, Ken and Mark, you made my running the event easy. ( Mervyn )
Results below:
1st: Dan Hole & Jack Chillingworth peg14 58Ib 1oz.
2nd: Nigel Woods peg10 57Ib 2oz
3rd: Dave Bellew peg12 48Ib 6oz.
Section winners:
Section 1 Richard Voisey. Tim Frost peg 11.
Section 2 Rod Sanders. Corey Mills peg17.
Section 3 Simon Fowler. Stuart Morrish peg 22.
Section 4 Liam Jones. Aaron Jones peg 27.
Biggest Fish: Craig Hunt. George West peg 21 18Ib 15oz.
Smallest Fish: Simon Fowler. Stuart Morrish peg 22 7Ib 13oz.
21 Jul 2024

Bideford Angling Club – Final Midweek Evening Competition.

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Final Midweek evening competition.
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 40lb 15oz
2nd Rhys Eyles   33lb 11oz
3rd Nathan Underwood   27lb 4oz
4th martin Turner  24lb 4oz
5th Warren Thornton 24lb
6t Craig Lamey 21lb 10oz
19 fished
Our regular Wednesday match fishers were treated to another pleasant evening to round up what has been a cracking series.
Kevin has won his first match of the 10 , with a great net taken on luncheon meat in the margins of peg 14 .
This has moved him up the table into second position
Rhys ,on peg 24 has fished out to the island on the pole for second place.
Nathan’s complete dominance of the evening series was confirmed with his 3rd place off of peg 9, this has earned him the the winners shield with a record score, almost 40 points clear.
21 Jul 2024

Bideford and District Angling Club Junior Competition No. 3

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Junior Competition No. 3
Results:
1st. Jenson Kliff. 7 kilo 005 drms
2nd Lewis Hathaway 3:800
3rd Dasha 2:590
4th Billy Butler. 2:010
5th Ethan Broom 1:740
6th Alex Marcolini. 1:510
7th Rudy James. 1:390
8th Albi Clements. 1:325
9th Jackson Dyer 1:055
10th Haakon Wilson 1:005
11th Blake Hosegood :815
12th Willow Davies :575
13th Fletcher Hawkins :410
Considering the inclement weather, our youngsters have done exceptionally well to battle though the three hours of almost constant rain
Our winner on the day, Jenson has weighed a lovely net of carp,tench and skimmer bream , caught on a method feeder on maggot hookbait off peg 26 .
Lewis has finished second using similar tactics on peg 24 , his friend, Dasha , fishing her first competition, has done fantastically well to end in third place using maggot on a whip on peg 23.
Once again, these events would not be possible without lots of help, therefore I must thank those committee members, Steve, Richard, Keith and Chris and also the local businesses who have generously support us with prizes.
18 Jul 2024

REEL TIME – Volume Two – Christopher Yates

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The postman delivered the latest offering from the Little Egret Press a pleasing collection of writings by Christopher Yates. Whilst I have only just started reading Reel Time Volume Two  I have no doubt that it will become one of my favourites as are all of Chris’s books. It is difficult to describe how Chris is able to convey the magic of angling so fluently. His writing is easy to read and has a delightful simplicity that manages to ooze tales from the water’s edge in an evocative flowing style that takes you there.

The book is illustrated with fine artwork by North Devon based David Blackaller and David Cowdry.

I was privileged to interview Chris several years ago for Angling Heritage and it was an enjoyable and enlightening experience that I treasure.

My own book “I Caught A Glimpse”. Was published by the Little Egret Press in 2019.

https://thelittleegretpress.co.uk/product/i-caught-a-glimpse-ltd-edition-hardback/