22 Jun 2025

Bideford and District Angling Club – News

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Junior Competition No.2
Results :
1st Jenson Kiff 8 kilo 315 grams
2nd Hallie Osborne 4 kg. 615 g
3rd Leo Davies 4. 215
4th George Btten  3.170
5th Bailey Bramley 2735
6th Elis Evans 2 390
7th Amelia Bell 2 210
8th Joe Passmore 2 180
9th William Butler 2 155.
Another fabulous afternoon on George’s lake, Tarka Swims . 18 young members lined the banks on , this , our second 3 hour match in the 5 match summer league
Hot muggy conditions meant a slowish start , but towards the 5 o’clock finish the resident carp decided to have chew .
Jenson took full advantage and landed several decent specimens in the closing stages to secure victory off peg 19 mainly on a feeder to the island.
Hallie has put a lovely mixed catch together on peg 11
for a well deserved 2nd place.
Leo drew peg 4 and managed a very credible 3rd place.
Many thanks again to our helpers, without them these events would not be possible.
Richard Jefferies, Keith Mountjoy, Paul Elworthy
your help was essential.
The prize table was possible with help from Bait Tek.
Midweek evening competition No. 6
Results:
1st Craig Lamey  50lb 8oz
2nd Darren Polden 30lb
3rd Les Polden 28lb 15oz
4th Ian Croxton 21lb 15oz
5th Keith Copland 18lb 15oz
6th Keith Mountjoy 18lb 5oz
19 members fished.
Just pass the half way point in the league, Craigs convincing victory on peg 24 pushes him into 2nd place in the league, father and son ,Les and Darren,
took second and third places Darren on peg 6 and Les on 12.
The conditions were warm with a brisk wind mainly emanating from peg 16, where our new league leader took 4th place.
Meat corn pellet and paste have all featured in the mixed catches.
2 Jun 2025

SEA ANGLING RESULTS

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Bideford Angling Club

Graham Snow secured top spot in Bideford Angling Clubs monthly sea rover with a specimen thick lipped grey mullet of 5lb 1.5oz. Jon Stevens was runner up with a smoothound scaling 9lb 3.5oz and Jazzer John third with a smoothound of 8lb 3oz.

        APPLEDORE SHIPBUILDERS 

   Jake Moule secured victory in Appledore Shipbuilders June Rover with a smoothound of 13lb. Graham Snow was runner up with his thick lipped grey mullet of 5lb 1.5oz and Andrew Atkinson third with a specimen hound of 12lb 6.5oz.

 

1 Jun 2025

Bideford Angling Club – Midweek Competition Result

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Midweek evening competition No.2
Results, :
1st Nathan Underwood   52lb 13oz
2nd Steve Johnson 27lb 12oz
3rd Ian Croxton 23lb 6oz
4th Kevin Shears 22lb 13oz
5th Keith Mountjoy 22lb 1oz
6th Richard Jefferies 21lb 3oz
20 members enjoyed another pleasant evening on George’s lake.
Nathan, last year’s midweek series winner, drew on what’s now becoming the infamous, peg 4.
He has made no mistakes and fished the long pole for a clear victory. Luncheon meat over micros was his choice of tactics. Steve and Kevin have had a next peg battle on 21 and 22 , Steve has added 4 carp to his silvers bag to secure 2nd spot .
Ian has taken 3rd spot on peg 6 using both pole and feeder tactics.
Kevin’s mainly slivers net was taken on the pole on corn for 4th place overall.
4 May 2025

Sea Angling May Rover – Results.

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Andrew Clements won Bideford Angling Clubs May Rover with a fine thick lipped grey mullet of 4lb. Phil Vanstone was runner up with a wrasse of 4lb 2oz and Antony Smith third with a  thornback ray of 7lb 7.5oz.

            Jake Moule won Appledore Shipbuilders monthly rover with a specimen smoothound scaling 11lb. Michael Hammett was runner up with hound of 10lb 2.25oz. Third place was shared by Michael and Jake with hounds weighing 7lb 3oz.

 

20 Apr 2025

Match results: Bideford and District Angling Club Versus Bude Canal Angling Club

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Match results:
Bideford and District Angling Club
Versus Bude Canal Angling Club
Tarka Swims, George’s lake.
Individuals:
1st Adrian Hill        Bude. 44lb 8oz
2nd Richard Jefferies Bideford 40lb 5oz
3rd Craig Lamey          Bideford. 36lb 5oz
4th Simon Allen     Bude 22lb 7oz
5th Keith Mountjoy      Bideford. 22lb 1oz
6th Martin Turner        Bideford 19lb 1oz
Overall team total Bideford 120pts
Bude. 90pts
This Sunday we proudly played host to our friends from Bude on Tarka Swims the weather has been kind and the Pollyfield centre has provided a fantastic breakfast and a superb after match spread.
The fixture is fished as a 10 aside home and away match
The lake has proved tricky although Adrian from Bude on peg 13 has put together a very decent bag of mainly carp on pole fished meat, closely followed by Bidefords assistant match secretary Richard on peg 16, his catch of all carp were taken on the pellet waggler.
Bidefords , Craig fished on peg 14 , and finished 3rd,
Simon from Bude was best of the rest , in 4th on peg.
19.
We have a 30 point lead to take into the return leg on the Cornish canal in October.
15 Apr 2025

Bideford and District Club Coarse Section Monthly competition – April

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Bideford and District Club
Coarse Section Monthly competition
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 48lb 2oz
2nd Keith Mountjoy 46lb 9oz
3rd Colin O’Hagan 36lb 5oz
4th Richard Jefferies 29lb 11oz
5th Darren Polden 28lb 13oz
6th Antony Bentley  26lb 13oz
7th Paul Elworthy   19lb 12oz
23 members fished.
Kevin, our league leader, has further extended his lead to 8 points , with the match win on peg 13 ,he fished the pole with maggot over groundbait.
Second in the league and second on the day was Keith
with another pole caught net on peg 19 , using soft pellets.
Third of off peg 10 was Colin, he has fished the straight lead and hard pellets.
Richard has fished the pellet waggler for the fourth.
spot.
16 Mar 2025

Sea Angling Result

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Richard Jefferies first and second places Bideford Angling Clubs 48 hour rover landing smoothound of 12lb 8oz and 11lb 13oz.

This is a very encouraging indication that Spring is on its way as these members of the shark family normally trat to show in numbers in late April or early May.

10 Mar 2025

Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse section monthly competition

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Coarse section monthly competition
Results:
1st Martin Turner  33 lb 7oz
2nd Warren Thornton 27lb 3oz
3rd Kevin Shears 23lb 2oz
4th Richatrd Jefferies 18lb 10oz
5th Nathan Underwood  17lb 8oz
6th Stephen Sheller  16lb 12oz
7th Les Polden  15lb 14oz
24 members fished.
Almost every peg was taken for this 6 hour event, bright sunshine and a stiff South Easterly breeze has kept the weights modest.
Match organiser Martin has drawn the last peg in the bag ,number 16, a straight lead with pellet or meat , fished out to the cage has accounted for the bulk of his winning catch. , backed up with some good fish on caster on the short pole.
Warren’s second place from peg 9 consisted of larger carp on the pole to maggot over pellets.
Third place was our current league leader Kevin on peg 6 , he’s caught a nice mixed bag on pole fished maggot .
Richard has landed 5 carp for 4th place off of peg 13.
Once again the shallower section has proved tricky, Roger Ackroyd took the honours with 2lb 5oz on peg 2..
27 Jan 2025

Bideford & District A.C Rod and Reel Match results date 26.1.25.

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B.D.A.C.Rod and Reel match results date 26.1.25. Today the weather was terrible very wet and very windy,10 anglers fished the match today and fishing was hard going. Today’s winner was Darren polden on peg 17 fishing to the cage with a nice bag on carp for
24lbs 2nd place was Keith Mountjoy on peg 14 with 19lbs 12oz fishing in the margins on the tip and 3rd place went to Keith Copland on peg 8 with 5lbs 7oz. The next Rod and Reel match will be on the 23.2.25 at Tarka.