Bideford and District Angling Club Evening Series match No. 7 Tarka Swims George’s lake, results
Bideford and District Angling Club Evening Series match No. 7 Tarka Swims George’s lake, results
1st Richard Jefferies 17lb 9oz
2nd Kevin Shears 15lb 1oz
3rd Stephen Craker 14lb 7oz
Joint 4th Les Polden Martin Turner 13lb 11oz
6th Tyler Scott 12lb 1oz
7th Reg Sutton11lb 8oz ,
18 fished, The penultimate match of the summer series was fished in warm still conditions, another close competition saw Richard at the top of the pile, with a catch of 6 carp on peg 13 , using his favoured strong line tactics with bread flake. Kevin lost a carp on pellet waggler which would have secured a hat trick of consecutive wins , instead he settled for 2nd on peg 18 , Stephen on peg 8 left it late but 2 decent carp in the closing stages made 3rd spot Martin’s joint 4th with Les has put him 7 points clear in the league with one match remaining.
Sea Angling Results
Bideford Angling Club and Appledore Shipbuilders hold their monthly sea rovers on the first Sunday of each month and both clubs allow competitors to fish over a very wide area of the South West including Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. Their results highlight the vast the vast range of species available to anglers in the South West.
Bideford Monthly Rover results
1st – Antony Smith garfish 15 1/2 oz 77.5% (Above)
2nd -Andrew Clements dogfish 1 lb 13 60.416%
Appledore Shipbuilders Monthly Rover Results
1st- Josh Atkinson – black bream 2lb 7.5oz
2nd – Michael Hammett – garfish 1lb 2oz
3rd – James Mayhew – small eyed ray 7lb 1/8oz
Junior section – Jack Pike – ballan wrasse 4lb 3oz
Triple Hook Club – WYCO EWB – Club Flounder
1st – Mark Hancock – flounder 1lb 1/4oz
2nd – Kevin Hancock – flounder 15oz
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Championship No1. Harepie Fishery
Results
1st Craig Crash Lamey 7lb 15oz
2nd Steve Bailey 5lb.
3rd – Joint – David Bailey 3lb 14oz
3rd – Martin Turner 3lb 14oz.
Members enjoyed a rare still and dry winters day, but the chilled waters meant that fish were hard to find , Craig caught 3 small carp plus some nice roach on maggot on the pole, coarse section secretary Steve drew peg 3 and managed 1 small carp and some nice silver fish also on pole fished red maggot for 2nd. David and Martin faced each other across the lake and both weighed in 3lb 14oz of small silver fish for joint third.
Bideford Angling Club AGM – Date
Bideford Angling club are holding their AGM at 20.00 on Friday 19th Jan. 2018 at the Bideford Conservative club. All proposed rule changes or applications for office must be received by 29/12/17 Please Email [email protected] Or PM Pete Skinner on facebook..
Bideford Monthly – Match Result
Many thanks to Martin Turner for his weekly reports.
Final monthly Coarse section competition results Sundays final match was also our Christmas comp, we fished at the club lake ,Tarka swims, .Competitors were met with challenging conditions, and one fish caught in the last minute of the comp proved to be enough to clinch victory, for Martin Turner the mirror carp of 8lb took popped up bread on the straight lead on peg J, this fish didn’t prove to be significant in the overall points table , John Lisle wins the championship with 118pts 2nd Martin Turner 115 3rd Steve Baily on 87 4th Colin Gorman 79 The league has been well supported with 26 competitors over the last 16 months, our league begins again on Jan 8th on Harepie.
Bidefords Monthly Coarse Match
Results
1st Keith Copland 18lb 11oz
2nd Martin Turner 16lb 9oz
3rd Martin Hawker 12lb 6oz
4th John Lisle 10lb 2oz
After a week of indifferent weather , our members were rewarded with a pleasant summers day. Keith took the honours on peg S with 2 large carp and some perch, he also scooped the golden peg for a bonus’ payday’ . Martin Turner took 2 carp and 2 bream on peg P for 2nd , Martin Hawker had 2 carp on the pole in corner peg M. The silvers bag went to John with 2 big bream and some perch.
Bideford Match Result
A beautiful day greeted an almost full house for Bidefords Monthly Coarse Match competition. Craig Lamey landed 4 large carp on banded pellet in the margins on the pole. John took 3 on the pole on peg D , Pete landed the largest on the day with a pole caught specimen on luncheon meat, it went 14lb 14oz off peg I. Several good bream,carp and a nice perch made up the backing weights.
1st Craig Crash Lamey 53lb 12oz
2nd John Lovell 27lb 5oz
3rd Pete Slade 22lb 4oz
Bideford and District Coarse Section Monthly Competition Highampton Lake
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.
Bideford & District Angling Club Coarse Section November Monthly Competition.
Many thanks to Martin Turner for his weekly Match result update
Tarka Swims
Results 1st Craig Crash Lamey 22lb 9oz 2nd Antony Bentley 9lb 13oz 3rd Ian Owen 8lb 11oz 4th John Lisle 2lb 2oz
Lovely weather for mid November; despite this the fishing was hard work. Craig landed 2 carp and 2 big bream on pole fished maggot to secure victory. Tony’s single carp of nearly 10lb narrowly pipped Ian’s 2 fish . The silvers pool was won by John Lisle with a single bream of 2lb 2oz .Next club comp will be the Christmas match at Tarka on Dec 11th.