Craig Edmunds has won Stafford Moors Fisho Festival 2018 with an impressive weight of 193lb 9oz. He used straight lead tactics and short range pole.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Result
Tarka Swims
1st Martin Turner 43lb 2oz
2nd John Lisle 13lb 8oz
3rd Steve Bailey 11lb 8oz
4th Ian Sedgewick 10lb 15oz
4th Keith Copland 8lb 1oz
5th Ian Owen 6lb 11oz
12 fished . Another weekend of scorching temperatures saw some good sport , Martin Turner landed 17lb of bream and 4 carp for a winning total on favoured peg I , he caught on pellet waggler and long pole shallow with maggot. John had a good bream and a carp on peg Q for second , club secretary Steve landed a nice net of small bream and one carp off peg S for third , fourth spot was filled by Ian who lost several carp but landed 2 on bread from peg X. Keith’s all bream net won the silvers pot.The halftime icecreams from Reg Sutton 
were most welcome ! Due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’ the evening match on Wednesday will be postponed and re fished on the evening of the 1st August.
NORTH DEVON TACKLE CLUB – AWAY WEEKEND
BAKE TWO DAYER 2018
Looks like North Devon Tackle Club and a great weekend at Bake Lakes. Many thanks to Barry Lee for sending this excellent summary. The images are great and give a good idea of what a fun weekend it was!
What a great weekend, maybe not so much on the fishing front, but the company, banter & beer made up for that!!!
It was good to see some of the anglers that normally struggle to catch a few, Mick Seward weighing in 70lb+ over the two days and in particular Terry Ramsden who went on to win his 2nd ever fishing match yesterday with 77-14…. well done chaps!
A big “thank you” to Andy Seery for supplying us all with prizes…. in fact this years top 2 were using So Simple pellets & groundbait.
If you ever want any So Simple products, take a look at Andy’s facebook page or send him a message.
So Simple Bait Company “Home of the Gonut”
Team results:
1st – 28 points
Kevin Wilton
Baz ‘no longer the 4th’ Barry Lee
Mick Seward
2nd – 45 points
Norman Martin
Terry Ramsdan
Mark Seward
3rd – 54 points
Simon Poynter
Andrew Haynes
Peter Seward
4th – 56 points Dean Vickery
Andy Grattan
Kev Grant
5th & wooden spoon – 57 points
Gord Maeers
Jim
Dion Martin
Individual Overall
1st Barry Lee 144-1
2nd Gord Maeers 135-2
3rd Norman Martin 101-10
4th Terry Ramsden 85-6
5th Simon Poynter 81-2
6th Mick Seward 70-15
7th Kev Grant 64-6
8th Kevin Wilton 61-1
9th Dean Vickery 45-15
10th Andrew Haynes 40-8
11th Mark Seward 33-8
12th Dion Martin 29-0
13th Andy Gratton 26-1
14th Peter Seward 22-10
15th & Boobie Prize Jim 16-2
Best Match Weight
Gord Maeers 81-8
Biggest Fish
Kevin Wilton 12-15 (Ghost Carp)
Best Silvers Weight
Simon Poynter 10-5 of lovingly caught pairs of eye’s, only to be beaten by Peter Seward with 10-6 of mistakenly caught skimmers!!!! (i’m not bitter!!!!!)
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Biggest Hangover
Dion Martin
Best Battle Scar
Peter Seward
Best Joe Pasquale Impersonator
Also winning Best Belly Slide, Most Drunk, Most Helium Consumed, Best Elvis, Most Shots Purchased….. and many more!!! 
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Norman Martin
Bideford Host Junior Fishing Event
Bideford Angling Club hosted the first of three Junior Events at their Tarka Swims Lake. many Thanks to Martin Turner for his report below and for his efforts in introducing a future generation to angling. Further events take place on July 21st and August 4th.
This afternoons junior event took place at Tarka Swims in hot conditions. Rory took the honours with 2lb 14oz of roach and perch on peg D,joint second Tyler and his French exchange student Martin both on 2lb, joint fourth went to Brooke and Thomas, on 1lb 14oz ,nets in this 3 hour event were mainly made up with roach perch and rudd .Thank you to Summerlands Tackle for providing the prizes and bait.
Bideford – Midweek Series No.8 Tarka Swims results
Midweek Series No.8 Tarka Swims results
1st Keith Copland 20lb 5oz
2nd Stephen Craker 13lb 7oz
3rd Pete Slade 11lb 7oz
4th Rob Rhoads 6lb 15oz
5th Martin Turner 6lb 8oz .
12 anglers fished this match, conditions were a little cooler than of late and the carp were a bit more obliging , for some ! Keith drew the corner peg L and lost the first tussle with the beasts in the weed , but managed to extract the next two for just short of 20lbs ,both took maggots fished on the pole. Stephen had the early lead with a good carp from peg U plus some tench and skimmers ,but came in second . Pete drew on peg I and found a late carp on luncheon meat plus some skimmers for third . Ron also fished with meat on peg M for 4th spot.
Big Bags from Stafford Moor
There have been some stunning nets of fish in recent matches at Stafford Moor despite the hot sunny conditions that can put fish off the feed.
Paul Casson bagged himself an incredible 347lb 6oz from Stafford Moor’s Woodpecker Lake to secure top spot in the fisherys latest Open Match. In second place was Dodgy Who bagged himself 151lb 15oz from peg 20 on Tanners lake fishing paste shallow well done Dodge ! In 3rd place was Stuart Kennedy who bagged 308lb 5oz from peg 13.
North Devon Tackle Club – Result Melbury
Melbury Reservoir results – 24/06/18
Winner on the day was Normam “paul” Martin who caught skimmers (mainly) and roach on the tip, placing 29lb 2oz on the scales.
2nd was Kevin Wilton who had 17lb 12oz on the pole.
3rd overall was Dean Vickery with 16lb 9oz on the pole.
North Devon Match Group Summer League No 4 Results
1st Neilsen Jeffery 43lb
2nd John Bailey 41lb 4oz
3rd Paul Elworthy 40lb 4oz
4th Martin Turner 29lb 4oz
5th Paul Ware26lb 8oz.
Jennetts Resevoir was the venue for our 4th summer league event. Neilsen amassed a superb net of red fins on the whip on caster at half depth from peg 1 to win , at the other end of the venue ,in the shallow pegs John landed a 10lb carp on the pole after an hour then added another 30lbs of silvers to take second, , Paul chose to fish the waggler with corn over groundbait and also had a fantastic 40lb net ,this time of bream for 3rd spot. The forecast, much needed rain fell for most of the day but cleared for our weigh in .
Stafford Open Match Latest
Open match on Tanners and Woodpecker lakes with a continental payout. winner on the day Zac Newton who bagged himself an impressive 344lb 1oz from peg 16 on Tanners lake fishing shallow on the pole 8mm pellets . In second place was Paul Morris who had 269lb 15oz from peg 18 on Woodpecker lake fishing down the edge /deck on the pole. In third place was Dave Stockton who had 227lb 13oz from peg 5 on Tanners lake fishing the waggler.
North Devon Match Group Championship No.6 Upper Tamar Lake
1st Paul Elworthy 40lb 4oz
2nd Christopher Morris 36lb 8oz
3rd Neilsen Jeffery 36lb 0oz
4th Nathan Underwood 26lb 10oz
5th Pete Slade 21lb 0oz .
The predicted 80% chance of rain proved to be correct and the 13 competitors in round 6 of the NDMG Championship got a good soaking! Paul stuck to his favoured tactic of groundbait feeder with sweetcorn, pegged on the pink buoy,for the winning net of bream and skimmers, Christopher used similar tactics,with maggot, from the peg on the gorse bush . Neilsen pushed close with his pole fished net of roach from the Devon arm .Nathan won the next peg battle with team mate Pete , they finished 5th and 6th with nets of skimmers caught on the pole .
