8 Aug 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club Junior Competition No. 4

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Junior Competition No. 4
Tarka Swims
Results:
1st Brodie Allen 23lb 6oz
2nd Findley Huggins 17lb 10oz
3rd Jenson Kiff 13lb 8oz
4th Imogen Babb 13lb 1oz
5th Ted Blight 11lb 12oz
6th Bailly Brambley 9lb 10oz
7th Maci Brambley 8lb 4oz
8th Willow Davies. 4lb 15oz
9th Billy Butler 4lb 14oz
10th. Leo Davies 3lb 3oz
11th Albi Clements 2lb 9oz
12th Lewis Hathaway 2lb 8oz
13th Brodie Daniel 2lb 4oz
14th Amelia Bell 1lb 10oz
15th Metida Voice 13oz
16th Tash Hawkins 9oz
17th Fletcher Hawkins 8oz
Despite the fierce winds our junior members turned out in force for the penultimate competition of the junior calendar, over half the pegs on George’s lake were used.!
Poles and rods were gripped tightly as storm “Antoni” did it’s best to spoil the day.
Brodie, on peg 15 , put a cracking net of mainly carp on the scales to win the day. Paste on the pole his tactics.
Second spot went to Findley on peg 8 , his chosen tactic to combat the high winds was a method feeder.
Jenson fished similarly on peg 11 for a well earned third spot.
Despite some very challenging conditions the youngsters all managed to weigh in, well done all.
Martin Cox Bait tech for their generosity.
Also our helpers on the day.
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.
League top three are Nathan Underwood on 115
Martin Turner and Richard Jeffries on 105.
oger Ackroy remains in fourth on 85.
9 Jul 2023

Bideford and District Angling Club versus Plymouth and District Coarse Angling Club.

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Milemead Fishery
Individual results:
1st Colin Cherrington 72lb 12oz BDAC
2nd craig Crash Lamey  70lb 13oz BDAC
3rd Richards Jefferies  54lb 11oz BDAC
4th Pat Whyner 51lb 12oz PADCAC
5th Keith Mountjoy 49lb 10oz BDAC
6th Les Polden 47lb 1oz BDAC
7th Bill Crossman 44lb 15oz PADCAC
Team results:
Bideford 462lb 14oz
Plymouth 238lb 8oz
Colin , representing Bideford, led us home to a resounding victory over our friends from Plymouth, with a cracking carp net taken on pole fished 8mm pellets.
Craig finished a close second, with another great net of carp also taken on the pole.
Committee member Richard came in third.
Pat was the highest Plymouth angler with his fourth place.
We look forward to hosting the return leg on Tarka Swims on Saturday 26th August.