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.
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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.
20 Jan 2025

SEA ANGLING RESULTS

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Fishing has been hard going on the Open Coast for sea anglers as the latest results from Bideford & Appledore reflect. With stormy conditions forecast I expect a flurry of action through Late January and early February with Bull Huss, spurdog and conger likely.
Bidefords Angling Club  48-hour results
1st Paul Ackland – Rockling 1lb 3 79.167%
Appledore Shipbuilders
Claudio Pinto managed a sizeable small eyed at 4lb 15ozs to secure the win in Appledore Shipbuilders Winter League Match.
 FLOUNDER COMP UPDATE   Sunday January 26th 
Still plenty of flounders about, as proved by Ted and his dad this week! (Backgrounds obscured for obvious reasons, after all there is a comp coming up😉). Well done guys!
Anyway, on to the comp.
FISHING BOUNDARIES:
We have decided to widen next Sunday’s flounder comp to anywhere on the Taw, as long as you are at the Ebberley Arms for the weigh in from 3.30 – 4.30…..comp starts at 10am
WEIGH IN LIMIT:
We are only accepting 1 fish per angler for the weigh in. A good idea is to keep your fish alive in a bucket of water so that it can be released safely if you then catch a bigger one.
ENTRY:
The entry form is on our counter. £5 for adults and £3 for children
We are building up a good head of participants and a great selection of prizes so look forward to seeing you all on the day to raise as much as possible for a great cause!!
BBT
31 Dec 2024

BIDEFORD  CHRISTMAS COMPETITION RESULTS  2024

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BIDEFORD  CHRISTMAS COMPETITION RESULTS  

56 Fishing 20 fish caught 

1st S.Taylor 1lb 13 1/4oz

2nd Tom Downing 1lb 6 1/2oz

(Above) Tom Downing with his runner up flounder

3rd Craig Crash Lamey  1lb 5 3/4oz

4th A. Masters 1lb 3oz

5th S. Taylor 1lb 2 1/2oz

6th M. Sheldrake 1lb 2 1/2oz

7th G. Hooper 1lb 1 3/4oz

8th J. Dixon 1lb 0 1/4oz

9th C. Lamey 1lb 0 1/4oz

10th J. Dixon 1lb 0 1/4

11th R. Walker 14 1/2 oz

12th Mathew Druce 14 1/4 oz

13th Jazzer 14 oz

14th Ian Hooper 14 oz

15th D. Bowden 13 3/4 oz

16th S. Bowden 13 3/4 oz

17th M. Druce 13 1/2 oz

18th Jazzer 12 1/2 oz

19th J. Dixon 12 oz

20th S. Bowden 10 1/2 oz

Thank to the pollyfield and the Reds for letting us use their facilities for the sign in and the weigh-in.

Thanks to pollyfield for providing burgers at the weighing I think they went down very well.

Thank you ever so much to all are sponsors we couldn’t do it without you.

D S Electrical, Clawford Lakes Resort and Spa, Devon Baits, Tom Wade Anglers Heaven, Barnstaple Bait and Tackle, Gaby Fish Pillows, James Grigg, Honeys of Parkham, The Bell Inn Parkham, Parkham Cheese and Crusher. 

Final amount given to Pollyfield for the play park was £289

All the best tight lines and see you next year 🎣

Nathan Clements

30 Dec 2024

Bideford Angling Club Rod N Reel Match Result

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Report from Bideford Clubs Richard Jefferies

B.D.A.C Rod and Reel match results date 29.12.24 at Tarka. Today was the final Rod and Reel match of the year,12 anglers fished and the weather was calm with some misty rain at time. Fishing today was hard with the fish not wanting to feed much but all anglers caught fish.1st place today went to Keith Mountjoy on peg 17 with a nice net of carp for 23lbs 7oz 2nd place went to Darren polden on peg 10 with a mixed bag of 19lbs 6oz 3rd place went to Keith Copland on peg 18 with 19lbs 3oz and 4th place was Martin Turner on peg 19 with 11lbs 2oz. The overall winner of the Rod and Reel matches for 2024 went to Richard Jefferies with 128 points and 2nd place went to Darren polden with 112 points and 3rd place was Stephen Paul Sheller on 107.
Well done today Keith Mountjoy on your win and well done to Richard Jefferies on winner the league, I would like to thank everyone who as taken part in this year’s Rod and Reel league and I wish you all a Happy New Year.
Bideford Club Member ship renewals are now due via club mate . See club website – https://www.bidefordanddistrictanglingclub.com