Michael Blake won Stafford Moor’s Christmas Match with 91lb 13oz with Nathan Underwood taking the runner up spot with 81lb and Rich Dennis third with 38lb 12oz.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly/Christmas Competition Results @ Tarka Swims.
1st Richard Jefferies 15lb 13oz
2nd Reg Sutton 14lb 12oz
3rd Martin Turner 7lb 10oz
4th Tyler Scott 2lb 15oz
5th Steve Bailey 2lb 1oz ,
This Sunday’s weather was cold,wet and very blustery, not particularly pleasant, 10 brave / stupid ! fishers sat it out on George’s lake in the final match for this season 2019, first and second spots changed throughout the day, Richard Jefferies just took the honours with a pole catch of carp and bream on peg 12. Reg Sutton almost made it 2 wins in a row but settled for 2nd with 4 carp on peg 9 ,Martin Turner on peg 10 had bream and roach on tip and pole for 3rd . Junior member Tyler Scott came in 4th with a net of small roach and perch. The final points table is ,1st Martin Turner 108 2nd Pete Slade 77 3rd Richard Jefferies 74 4th John Lisle 72 .
North Devon Tackle AC -CHRISTMAS MATCH RESULTS
Wooda Lakes – 1/12/19
Good to see a nice turn out on such a cold day.
The match was split between Lake 3 & Lake 4.
Winner on the day (winning lake 3) was Wayne Mitchhell
Wayne fished the pole with maggots / caster and had 40 carp for 103lb 1oz total……. a brilliant weight considering it was a hard day for most.
Second on the day was Stephen Barrell, Stephen fished similar to Wayne, again with maggots, to put 85lb 11oz on the scales, to comfortably win lake 4.
TOP 4 EACH LAKE:
Lake 3
1st Wayne Mitchell – 103lb 1oz
2nd Norman Martin – 45lb 12oz
3rd Andrew Gratton – 33lb 2oz
4th Kev Grant – 16lb 14oz
Lake 4
1st Stephen Barrel 85lb 11oz
2nd Simon Poynter 17lb 1oz
3rd Dave Nichols 14lb 12oz
4th Gord Maeers 12lb 13oz
Thank you to all that attended today, bearing gifts, adorning Xmas hats!!! (even the homemade ones!!)
The match was fished in a great atmosphere & I hope you all enjoyed it.
Thanks to Mark & Michael Seward for coming all the way down from Reading to fish the match.
Well that’s it for another year…….
The last “thank you” and without doubt the biggest, must go to Kevin Wilton for running these matches for us all.
Hope to see you all at the presentation evening on the 24th January.
North Devon Match Group Winter League No.3 @ Stafford Moor results
North Devon Match Group Winter League No.3 @ Stafford Moor results:
1st Tim Brown 54lb 10oz
2nd Stephen Craker 49lb 12oz
3rd Martin Turner 41lb 5oz
4th Kevin Shears 40lb 12oz
5th Nathan Underwood 30lb
6th John Bailey 29lb 14oz
7th Paul Elworthy 29lb 5oz
8th John Lisle 26lb 7oz
20 anglers fished.
Stafford Moor lakes. Oak and Woodpecker were used for today’s competition. The cold snap certainly dampened the appetite of the residents .Oak has provided the top three wieghts , winner on the day was new member Tim Brown he has landed over 50lb on the pole and soft pellets from peg 20 . Second was match regular Stephen Craker with a margin caught net on corn off peg 6 on Oak , Martin Turner has taken 3rd spot on peg 12 also on Oak , bomb and bread and 6mm hard pellets on the pole. Top net on Woodpecker and 4th overall was Kevin Shears on peg 11 Nathan was 5th on the next peg ,12.
North Devon Match Group Championship No. 11 @ Stafford Moor Results:
North Devon Match Group Championship No. 11 @ Stafford Moor Results:
1st Kevin Shears 103lb 8oz
2nd Nielsen Jeffery 81lb
3rd Paul Morris 76lb 10oz
4th Nathan Underwood 74lb 15oz
5th Chris Morris 74lb 1oz
6th Dave Downton 71lb 4oz
7th Ian Croxton 66lb
8th Martin Turner 60lb 9oz
24 anglers fished Oak and Woodpecker lakes at the superb Stafford Moor complex, Kevin Shears drew peg 9 on Oak to win convincingly , he has fished the long pole in open water with sweetcorn , Neilsen Jeffery pegged opposite on peg 12 has also fished the pole for second overall this has secured him this year’s championship, top rod on Woodpecker was Christopher Morris who took a nice mixed catch on maggots on the long pole on permanent peg 4 .
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly competition @ Tarka Swims George’s lake,
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly competition @ Tarka Swims George’s Lake
1st Reg Sutton 34lb 6oz
2nd Martin Turner 18lb 11oz
3rd Thomas Scott 16lb 7oz
4th Bernie Blight 11lb 10oz
5th Richard Jefferies 8lb 5oz
6th John Lisle 5lb 8oz ,
13 fished. Reg Sutton drew the golden peg P and fished with maggot on a groundbait feeder, he has landed 7 good carp, for a convincing victory, well done Reg. Second on the day was Martin Turner on peg M , a last gasp bream of 4lb was just enough to pip Thomas into 3rd. Thomas has fished corn in the margins on peg Z .Bernie has fished on peg Q for 4th place.
North Devon Tackle AC – Result – Slade
SLADE RESERVOIR RESULTS – 3/11/19
With lots of cold water going in the lake of late, predicted target weights were halved!!
Winner on the day was Kevin Wilton. Kev fished a 6mtr whip on the the roadside bank, amassing 75 roach, with the rest made up of skimmers and a couple of big perch, giving him a 16lb 9oz total.
Top 5
1st Kevin Wilton16lb 9oz
2nd Dean Vickery 14lb 9oz
3rd Simon Poynter 14lb
4th Wayne Mitchell 7lb 5oz
5th Norman Martin 7lb
North Devon Match Group – Oaktree Result
North Devon Match Group Winter League No.2 @ Oaktree Fishery
1st Neilsen Jeffery 45lb 2oz
2nd Paul Ware 32lb 7oz
3rd Chris Morris 26lb 5oz
4th Colin Cherrington 23lb 2oz
5th John Lisle 21lb 4oz
6th Nathan Underwood 18lb 4oz
7th Graham Currington 14lb 4oz
8th Ken Cocks 13lb 13oz
18 fished, Neilsen Jeffery convincing victory came to corn fished in the margins on the top lake , Paul Ware second spot came to pole fished pellet also from the top lake, third and fourth places came from the bottom lake Chris Morris fished the waggler for top spot .
North Devon Match Group – Upper Tamar Lake
North Devon Match Group fished at Upper Tamar where it proved very tough going for most! very cold and with the wind forecast to blow hard onto the Cornish bank they decided to fish the early pegs on the Devon bank. Paul Elworthy fished an outstanding match winning by a country mile with 29lb 15oz, skimmers on the tip did the trick with corn on the hook, next to Paul, Graham Colman fished the same and ended up with 16lb 8oz, Neilsen Jeffery finished third with mostly perch on the whip weighing 10lb 9 oz and last in the money was Benjamin Woods who weighed in 7lb 10oz on the tip from the goarse bush peg.
Stafford Moor October Festival 2019
Mark Cullerton won Stafford Moors October Festival that was fished over five days with a total weight of 467lb 7oz. In runner up spot was Pete Upperton with 435lb 9oz and in third Lee Werrett with 422lb.
