Over 50’s festival 2017 The winner was Andy Dare who had a perfect score just 4 points and a total weight of 510lb 7oz, In 2nd place was Mark Layzelle who had 5 points with 277lb 14oz and in 3rd place was Keith Winn with 7 points and a total weight of 339lb 12oz.
Bideford Coarse Section Monthly Competition
Tarka Swims Results
1st Peter Slade 10lb 10oz
2nd Keith Copland 10lb 3oz
3rd John Lisle 6lb 14oz
4th Chris Lovell 2lb 12oz.
Peter drew peg Q and caught a carp and bream on luncheon meat and bread in the margins. Keith took 2nd with a carp on double red maggot in the margins on the pole.Conditions were blustery and warm. Chris Lovell scooped the silver pool with a bream of 2lb 12oz on a feeder.
North Devon Match Group summer league No2 Oaktree top
NDMG summer league No2 Oaktree top
1st Paul Morris 63lb 2oz
2nd John Lovell 43lb 5oz
3rd Martin Turner 40lb 2oz
4th Christopher Morris 39lb 15oz
6th John Forster 39lb 1oz
Well done to Paul who fished a very tidy match starting on banded pellet fished shallow on the long pole and later switching to maggot in the margins over groundbait, John fished meat and corn on the pole to finish 2nd ,Martin had 7 carp on meat over hemp for 3rd, Paul Elworthy took the silvers pool with 21lb 1oz of skimmers, conditions were warm and wet, this did not stop half the field landing nets of more than 30lb.
Bideford Mid Week Match
Midweek comp at Tarka Swims
1st Kieth Copland peg B 15lb 10oz
2nd Cavan Patterson peg F 15oz
3rd Rhys Eyles peg S 10oz.
The match was very well attended but did not fish well. Several large carp were lost luckily Kieth managed to land 2 on double red maggot fished near the lilly pads, on the pole Cavan fished the pole on peg F for a small carp,tench roach and perch,Rhys Eyles had a nice roach .Pete Slade hooked and landed his fish , unfortunately after the whistle!
North Devon Match Group v Bude
Martin Turner Reports :-
North Devon Match Group hosted the first leg of the annual inter-club competition on Clawford Fisheries using 3 lakes . Paul Ware landed a fine catch of carp on luncheon meat in the margins of peg 12 on JR,s for 98lb 4oz, 2nd also on JRs was Neilsen Jeffery similar tactics for a net of 87lb 2oz , 3rd place was taken on Edwards lake by Christopher Morris using pellets on the long-pole for a weight of 64lb 6oz , Default sections went to Mathew Sampson Kevin Shears and Paul Morris. NDMG take a good lead, of 220 points to 131 points, to the return leg on the canal in September. After a very warm thundery day, John and Wanda laid on a most welcome fine spread. Many thanks to all for making a memorable day.
Stafford Moor Match in glorious weather
Stafford Moors open match on Tanners lake with held in glorious weather. Nick Jones fished peg 35 to put together an impressive haul of 168lb 1oz using waggler tactics.
Bideford Mid Week Coarse Match
North Devon Match Group Championship No 5 Clawford Fisheries





Stafford MoorMay Festival 2017 sponsored by Preston Innovations
Worthy winner of The Stafford Moor May festival 2017 sponsored by Preston Innovations was Jimmy Guise; Timmy who had 6 points with a total winning weight of 463lb 9oz. In second place with 6 points and a total weight of 361lb 13oz was Perry Stone. In third place with 7 points and a winning weight of 437lb 9oz was Lee Werrett (bait tech / Middy) well done to all the guys who fished the May festival 2017 and a big thank you to sponsors Preston Innovations who kindly donated some prizes for the winners which was much appreciated by the team at Stafford Moor.