11 Sep 2023

BIdeford Angling Club – SEPTEMBER COARSE MATCH

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September monthly competition

Tarka Swims

1st Martin Turner 27lb 8oz

2nd Les Polden 23lb 13oz

3rd Keith Mountjoy 23lb 7oz

4th Darren Polden 20lb 10oz

5th Roger Ackroyd 19lb 10oz

6th Nathan Underwood 18lb 10oz

7th Paul Elworthy 17lb 4oz

8th Mike Snudden 17lb 1oz

20 club members fished

The September competition traditionally produces some big catches , but the torrential rain and accompanying thunderstorm, for the first couple of hours seemed to have dampened their appetites..

Match organiser Martin had a very slow start on “golden peg” 6 , but eventually did just enough to scoop victory, with mainly carp in the margins and various baits over hemp and micro pellets.

Les on peg 8 fished similarly for the second spot.

Keith had some late bonus carp on peg 21 to take third spot.

A close match , with a couple of good fish for any of the top ten making a big difference.

29 Aug 2023

HORWOOD LAKES – Report

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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.

8 Aug 2023

HORWOOD MATCH LATEST

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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

16 fished

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

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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.

20 Jul 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Midweek evening competition No 10

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Midweek evening competition No 10

Results:

1st Keith Copland 40lb 4oz

2nd Dazza Polden 33lb 15oz

3rd Craig Lamey 30lb 13oz

4th Nathan Underwood 29lb 5oz

5th Roger Ackroyd 25lb 3oz

15 fished

All too soon our summer series has come to an end.

Tonight’s final match has again produced some great nets, perfect conditions ,warm with a light westerly breeze.

Keith has fished peg 24 ,with corn hookbaits, for a terrific 40lb net of large carp for victory.

Second spot went to Darren, who’s drawn the same peg 10 on consecutive weeks , another fine net of carp also on corn and paste.

Third place goes to Craig with a great net of almost all skimmer bream on soft pellet.

Nathan’s fourth spot ensures that his consistency has retained the midweek Championship

.119 points Well done sir.

Richard Jefferies second on 107

16 Jul 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Junior event No. 3

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Junior event No. 3

Results:

1st Brodie Allen 14lb 8oz

2nd Lewis Hathaway 9lb 4oz

3rd Leo Davies 7lb 14oz

4th Eric Snudden 3lb 9oz

4th Hector Snudden 3lb 9oz

6th Willow Davies 2lb 10oz

7th Imogen Babb 1lb 14oz

8th Albi Clements 15oz

The forecast for wind and heavy rain kept some of our regular youngsters away for this,the third event of the summer series ; however the weather wasn’t as bad as predicted and pegs 7 to 14 offered a degree of shelter.

Some nice catches were made with Brodie’s net of pole caught carp top wieght on the day,

Second place went to Lewis on peg 7, sweetcorn on the pole tactics.

Leo fished pellets on a method feeder for third.

Our next event is on Saturday August 5th.

15 Jul 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Evening competition No 9

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Evening competition No 9

Results:

1st Keith Mountjoy 30lb 5oz

2nd Richard Jeffries 29lb 6oz

3rd Warren Thornton 28lb 12oz

4th Craig Crash Lamey 22lb 4oz

5th Kevin Shears 18lb 8oz

14 fished

Our members enjoyed another very close match, this evening. It was the penultimate competition in the 10 match series, Keith has come out on top , from peg 18, fishing the pole to the edge of the lilly pads, fed heavily with dampened micro pellets and using a small soft pellet on the hook.

Richard has moved into joint second,in the league , paste on the pole in the weedbed on peg 15 secured second in the match.