STAFFORD MOOR – MATCH CATCHES

 

The match weights at Stafford Moor are outstanding as can be seen from a summary of results over recent weeks with weights in excess of 150lb needed to win every match in recent weeks. This is surely the South West’s most productve Match fishing venue?

JUNE 30th The winner of the day was Lee Dance who bagged 300lb 1oz from peg 20 on Tanners lake

JULY 4th – The winner of the day was Mark Layzelle who bagged 221lb 9oz from peg 5 on Woodpecker lake

JULY 6th – The winner of the day was Mick Myers who bagged 233lb 7oz from peg 20 on Tanners lake

JULY 7th –  The winner of the day was Paul Golding who bagged 205lb 8oz from peg 10 on Tanners lake

JULY 11th Open match on Woodpecker lake at Stafford Moor.
The winner of the day was Gary Webber who bagged 197lb 12oz from peg 16
JULY 12th Residents match results on Tanners lake here at Stafford Moor.
The winner of the day was Wayne Batkin who bagged 159lb 13oz from peg 14
match results for our open match on Tanners lake here at Stafford Moor.
JULY 14th The winner of the day was Steve Ford who bagged 190lb 4oz from peg 17
JULY 17th open match on Woodpecker lake  at Stafford Moor.
The winner of the day was Joe Duckworth who bagged 161lb 1oz from peg 19
JULY 20th Residents match results on Tanners lake here at Stafford Moor.
The winner of the day was Joe Duckworth who bagged 255lb 3oz from peg 17

 JULY 22nd

Open match results on Tanners & Woodpecker lakes e at Stafford Moor.
The winner of the day was Wayne Grinney who bagged 287lb 2oz from peg 20

Bideford Angling Club – Final Midweek Evening Competition.

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Final Midweek evening competition.
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 40lb 15oz
2nd Rhys Eyles   33lb 11oz
3rd Nathan Underwood   27lb 4oz
4th martin Turner  24lb 4oz
5th Warren Thornton 24lb
6t Craig Lamey 21lb 10oz
19 fished
Our regular Wednesday match fishers were treated to another pleasant evening to round up what has been a cracking series.
Kevin has won his first match of the 10 , with a great net taken on luncheon meat in the margins of peg 14 .
This has moved him up the table into second position
Rhys ,on peg 24 has fished out to the island on the pole for second place.
Nathan’s complete dominance of the evening series was confirmed with his 3rd place off of peg 9, this has earned him the the winners shield with a record score, almost 40 points clear.

Bideford and District Angling Club Junior Competition No. 3

Bideford and District Angling Club
Junior Competition No. 3
Results:
1st. Jenson Kliff. 7 kilo 005 drms
2nd Lewis Hathaway 3:800
3rd Dasha 2:590
4th Billy Butler. 2:010
5th Ethan Broom 1:740
6th Alex Marcolini. 1:510
7th Rudy James. 1:390
8th Albi Clements. 1:325
9th Jackson Dyer 1:055
10th Haakon Wilson 1:005
11th Blake Hosegood :815
12th Willow Davies :575
13th Fletcher Hawkins :410
Considering the inclement weather, our youngsters have done exceptionally well to battle though the three hours of almost constant rain
Our winner on the day, Jenson has weighed a lovely net of carp,tench and skimmer bream , caught on a method feeder on maggot hookbait off peg 26 .
Lewis has finished second using similar tactics on peg 24 , his friend, Dasha , fishing her first competition, has done fantastically well to end in third place using maggot on a whip on peg 23.
Once again, these events would not be possible without lots of help, therefore I must thank those committee members, Steve, Richard, Keith and Chris and also the local businesses who have generously support us with prizes.

Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section competition Results

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Monthly Coarse Section competition
Results:
1st  Roger Ackroyd 50lb 1oz
2nd Craig Lamey 34lb 8oz
3rd  Paul Elworthy 33lb 11oz
4th Ian Croxton 33lb 1oz
5th Kevin Shears 29lb 13oz
6th Warren Thornton 23lb 8oz
16 members fished.
A warm day with a gentle west south westerly breeze provided pleasant conditions for this, the 7th match in our year-long series.
Our winner on the day was Roger on peg 10, he has fished with luncheon meat short on the pole .
His 50lb net was well clear of second placed Craig, whose result , on peg 21 also on meat , puts him into joint first position , in our league.
Paul travelled from Tiverton, and took 3rd place on paste on the pole off peg 14.
Ian’s fourth place was on peg 13.
Bideford and District Angling Club
Midweek No. 9
Results:
1st Warren Thornton 43lb 9oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 35lb
3rd Ian Croxton 30lb 13oz
4th Craig Lamey 28lb 13oz
5th Keith Copland 28lb 9oz
15 fished .
Tarka Swims has produced another terrific contest, 10 out of 15 have weighed in more than 20 lbs ,
Warren has topped the bunch with a cracking 3 hour total net of almost 44lbs , he has fished with luncheon meat on peg 9 for his first ever win.
Nathan has ,again , done his paste on pole trick to conjure up second spot off peg 1.
Ian made the trip up from Kilkhampton worthwhile with another paste net for third on peg 18.

Barnstaple Bait and Tackle Opening Saturday July 13th

Barnstaple Bait and Tackle Opens on Saturday July 13th ensuring that Barnstaple anglers continue to have a well stocked tackle shop to visit for all their needs. I called in to the shop prior to its opening and chatted with Chris who is full of enthusiasm for the new venture. The shop carries on the legacy of Quay Sports where Chris was the manager. A wide range of bait and tackle from well-known brands is stocked. The shop caters for Coarse, Carp, Sea and Fly Fishers. It is essential that anglers use all of our excellent local tackle shops that provide far more than just bait and tackle. Friendly advice, a social meeting hub and convenience add value not found on line.

Chris Connaughton
💥 READY FOR YOU!! 💥
So, after a lot of hard graft from friends and family, we are 99% kitted out, stocked up and ready for your presence at our grand opening on Saturday (13th)!!
You will find us at 6 Queen Street, EX32 8HJ. Currently, the large carpark nearby is closed but you will find a smaller one to the rear of the shop and another, Belle Meadow, just the other side of the bus station.
🪱🦀🪰
We should have a full compliment of baits for sea and freshwater, both frozen and live.
Can’t wait to see you all!!
BBT
Opening Hours – Monday       9:00- 18.00
                            Tuesday.      9:00- 18.00
                            Wednesday  9:00- 18.00
                             Thursday     9:00- 19.00
                             Friday.         9:00- 18.00
                             Saturday      9:00- 17.00
                             Sunday.      10.00 – 14.00

Bideford Angling Club Match Results

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Midweek evening competition No. 7
Results:
1st  Nathan Underwood 43lb 10oz
2nd Warren Thornton 30lb 7oz
3rd Kevin Shears 28lb 11oz
4th Rhys Eyles 22lb 1oz
5th Roger Ackroyd 20lb 8oz
6th Ian Croxton 17lb 11oz
17 members fished.
Nathan Underwood continues his remarkable run of results, with another victory in our summer evening series. He has drawn peg 16 for the second week running! , and made no mistakes using the trusty pole and paste beside the lilly pads.
Second spot went to Warren on peg 13 using corn then meat over micros.
Kevin on peg 1 has caught some decent carp on hard pellets out towards the island for third place., moving him up the league into 4th position.
B.D.A.C.ROD AND REEL MATCH RESULTS DATE 23.6.24 AT TARKA
 The weather was sunny with some light rain at times. 13 anglers fished the match and all caught fish.
1st place today went to Richard jefferies on peg 10 with a nice mixed bag of fish for 35lbs 13oz, 2nd place was Darren Polden on peg 8 with 26lbs 13oz 3rd place went to Warren Thornton on peg 6 with 23lbs 9oz and 4th place was taken by 2 anglers Stephen Paul Sheller and Colin O’Hagan both had 22lbs 6oz next match will be on the 28.7.24 at Tarka.

Old Goat Gropes the Internet – Etiquette, Irony Trolls & Bottom Feeders

Many thanks to Richard Wilson for his wonderful articles filled with humour and comment to make you laugh and cry. Excellent observation of the human condition on this occasion.

Do you know any old goats?

See link below to Richards Fishrise page.


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Even if you’ve never met Old Bodger in the flesh, you’ll know his ilk. In person, he’s socially awkward and his opinions are closely guarded. He’s also no spring chicken. The mullet went south years ago and the replacement comb-over is struggling.

But don’t be fooled: Old Bodger has secret superpowers.

At home, alone with his computer, he morphs into an Internet Warrior and owner of a snarling V8 hotrod (a relic, like Bodger, with far-distant echoes of the Beach Boys). Bathed in the blue light of his screen, he becomes a loud and proud throwback to a time when the world was a better place.

In his shaving mirror, Bodger sees a master of withering irony. A silken-tongued enforcer of online righteousness. This is odd because if there’s one thing Bodger can’t do, it’s the deft and gentle humour of irony. Subtlety is not his friend.

Instead, Bodger has two thrusting attributes: His rage against the modern world and his pride in his car, which is accumulating value at an astonishingly boastful rate. It’s a late ‘50s Barris-built Kandy-Kolored Streamline hotrod.

Of course it’s not all open road and wind in his hair. As we shall see, Bodger’s life is riddled with provocations, and the price of fuel is just first among many. And oh how Bodger rails against the cost of gas. It’s not fair, is it? If there’s one thing that really sets Bodger apart from most of us, it’s that he does outraged grievance with heavy-breathing ecstasy. His neighbours hear him pounding his keyboard late into the night.

There is, of course, a paradox in this. Despite the low-fi worldview, he’s spending a lot of time on the internet. Mostly on the arcane and genteel Vintage Split Cane Fly Rod Forum, where he stamps on heresy.

It is in his warrior DNA to wield his sword of truth and mightily slay imposters lurking on the VSCF-RF. You’d be shocked by what he finds there. Bodger stands proud against hordes of woke wussie, coal-hating, EV-owning, global warming, diet-Coke drinking, vaxing, barbless morons. It’s enough to make a warrior spill his coffee in foot-stamping rage (even his trouser stains are someone else’s fault).

What’s odd about this is that fishing etiquette matters a lot back in the real world. We all care about how we, and others, behave in person. Most of us can manage to listen politely to people we meet along the way while avoiding shit-talking with, or worse, at strangers. We try to be nice to each other, and mostly it works.

Somehow this all goes wrong online. Or, rather, it all goes wrong for Old Bodger and his scathing own-brand irony. Because when he calls someone a fracking nut-job, that’s ironic. Bodger also posts his irony in torrents. Which is OK because it’s all done for laughs: It’s full-frontal irony (I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to deal with that image).

So if we po-faced dullards worry he’s mired in twaddle, he tells us we’re numb-knucks who wouldn’t know irony if it hit us in the po-face with a broken bottle: Lighten up! FFS. This is usually flagged by multiple rictus grin emojis 🤣🤣🤣. So, obvs, it’s all hilariously funny. Geddit 🤣 idiot?

Bodger has a small posse of camp followers, all lost in the same drear-life crisis.

Collectively they muster the charm of 13-year-old schoolboys, clumping on the back seat of a bus and lost in the hilarity of farting noises made with clammy hands wedged in each others’ armpits. Tee-hee. Somehow this humour always fails to impress the other passengers. Which, if you’re 13, is why you do it.

They’re a heavily ironic crowd, with names like Curmudgeon, Farter, Whittler and, inexplicably, Blue VerruKa. You don’t know it, but they own you and you’re dancing to their tune. And just in case you’re wondering, ‘Owning’ people means: ‘I dunno what you’re talking about, but I bet I can really annoy you if I vomit on your carpet’. Ah, the delicious irony of it all.

The posse is so lost in their jokes-on-you irony that we must assume that Bodger has never read The First Rule of Goats. He should. It is succinct, if a little crude.

For readers unfamiliar with the Rule and who don’t like to see the word ‘fuck’ in print, I have substituted ‘grope’.

So, the (sanitised) First Rule of Goats says: If you grope a goat, even if you say you’re doing it ironically, you’re still a goat-groper. You don’t get off scot-free just because you say ‘I was only being ironic’.”

The corollary Rule to this is:

“If your rhetoric is all about goat-groping, even if you’re doing it ironically, you’re liable to attract a following of goat-gropers

And finally: A mint Kandy-Kolored Streamline built by the legendary George Barris is a special beast. An original would, you’d think, make Bodger’s home a magnet for well-heeled ‘50s car collectors. After all, the Barris Batmobile last sold for $4.2m.

Weirdly, nobody calls.

And that is ironic*.

*Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended.

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Post Script: For more on the very real George Barris and the equally real Kandy-Kolored Streamline hot-rods, Tom Wolfe’s essay of almost the same name is a great read. Thanks also to Ken White for the First Rule of Goats.

Old Bodger, Curmudgeon, Farter, Whittler and Blue VerruKa are, of course, fictional characters.

Bideford Evening League Results

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Midweek evening competition No. 6
Results:
1st Roger Ackroyd  43lb 2oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 40lb 4oz
3rd Craig Lamey   39lb 8oz
4th Kevin Shears 22lb 5oz
5th Martin Turners 21lb 11oz
11 fished.
Our members were treated to a beautiful midsummer evening, and the top three had a very close battle , Roger came out on top on peg 19 , he fished with a long pole to the island shallow with pellets.
Nathan has done his thing with paste off peg 16 for second place.
Craig has fished in the corner on peg 13, shallow with pellets for a very close third spot.

Bideford Mid week Competition Result

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Evening competition No 5
Results. :
1st Nathgan Underwood  24lb 8oz
2nd Ian Croxton  24,lb
3rd Craig Lamey  23lb
4th Mike Snudden   17lb 14oz
5th Les Polden 17lb 4oz
16 members fished.
At the midway point of the summer league they were treated to a warmish, less breezy evening.
Nathan  once again performed his paste on the pole trick for yet another victory off of peg 9.
Ian ,on peg 6 , was a close second on 24lb with  Craig, not far behind in third on peg 1 with 23lb .

A new chapter for North Devon’s anglers.

Quay Sports closed on June 14th after trading for close to three years it has been a valuable stop off point for North Devon’s Anglers providing a wide range of tackle for all disciplines. Fortunately the shop manager Chris Connougton is opening a new tackle shop  that will ensure that Barnstaple still has that vital ingredient to enable a social hub and source of those essential items of tackle and bait. It is essential that local anglers support this new venture and all other local tackle shops. We are very fortunate to have a range of tackle shops across North Devon a fact that I will promote in the coming weeks.

Last day of the shop today. Come and grab yourself some last min bargains. We would also like to say a huge thank you to you all for your support over the last 3 years, we have made some great relationships and friends. We wish Chris all the best for the future with Barnstaple Bait & Tackle and sure will see some of you on the bank.
Quay Sports

( Above) Mark Potter and Chris Connaughton on their last day at Quay Sports

🎣CHRIS CONNAUGHTON Comments
“I am proud to announce that I will be opening a fresh new bait and tackle store at 6 Queens House, Barnstaple, EX32 8HJ. I am hoping to be open by the 1st of July but more will follow on this.
There will be all the usual sea and freshwater baits available along with a vast range of tackle from leading brands.
My aim is to create a local social hub where like-minded people of all ages can meet, shop and chat about all things fishing!
It hasn’t been easy so come show some support when open and keep a tackle shop in Barnstaple for many years to come.
Watch this space for further details, a new facebook page, deals and events.
I look forward to welcoming you through the door
Chris
(I would also like to say a massive thank you to Mr Pinn of Pinndart for all his help with the logo etc).”