Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition

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Bideford and District Angling Club

Coarse Section monthly competition

Results :
1st Richard Jefferies  30lb 4oz
2nd Roger Ackroyd  17lb 8oz
3td Craig Crash Lamey 16lb 4oz
4tb Mick Farron 15lb 9oz
5th Steve Ashton  14lb 15oz
6th Les Polden  14lb 8oz
7th Stephen Craker  13lb 13oz
19 Fished.
Club members enjoyed another warm summer day on George’s lake Tarka Swims, with a light westerly breeze.
Richard has taken the honours with a cracking net of carp from peg 15, his catch fell mainly to bread fished on his infamous hit and hold carp tactics also to pole and paste. He scooped the golden peg bonus. Well done Rich.
The next 12 nets were all very close.
Roger came out best of the rest off peg 26 with a nice mixed catch, closely followed by Craig on peg 17 . Fourth place went to Mick Farron .

Bideford and District Angling Club Midweek evening competition No. 5 Results:

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Bideford and District Angling Club Midweek evening competition No. 5
Results:
1st Nathan Underwood  26lb 7oz
2nd Cyril Found  25lb 5oz
3rd Keith Mountjoy  22lb 4oz
4th Craig Crash Lamey  20lb 8oz
5th Martin Turner 20lb 5oz
6th Richard Jefferies 14lb 11oz
15 anglers.
This evening’s competition was fished in a brisk Northwesterly breeze, blowing up towards the shallower end of George’s lake.
Paste fishing has been the most successful method , Nathan’s winning catch came off peg 19 , the next three places have also been on the paste . Cyril’s second spot was taken on peg 15 and included several decent carp..

Sea Angling Results

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Smoothound took the top 3 places in Appledore Shipbuilders Monthly Rover
Andrew Atkinson took the top 2 places with one of 12lb 3 3/4ozs and the next 11lb 9 3/4ozs. 3rd was Michael Hammett with his Smoothound weighing 11lb 4 1/2ozs.

Bideford Angling Club Monthly rover results 11 angler’s fished 

3 fish weighed

1st Antony Smith Smoothhound 10lb 11 1/2oz 107.187%

2nd Andrew Clements Small Eyed Ray 9lb 10oz 106.994%

3rd Jon Stevens Small Eyed Ray 8lb 12 1/2oz  97.569%

Kyle Bishop won Combe Martin Saa Angling Clubs fish of the the season for Spring with a fine bull huss of 13lb 9oz.

David Jenkins was runner up with a gilthead bream of 3lb 9oz.

Bideford and District Angling Club Midweek Evening Competition

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Results:
1st Mike Snudden  22lb
2nd Martin Turner 20lb 3oz
3rd Nathan Underwood 19lb 5oz
4th Kevin Shears 16lb 1oz
5th Craig Crash Lamey  14lb 6oz
6th Keith Mountjoy  13lb 1oz
16 anglers fished.
The earlier rain passed through and the competitors enjoyed a pleasant, but breezy evening. The top 3 positions probably changed several times in this, the third match in the league. Mike’s last gasp decent carp, added to a net of better bream proved to be the winning catch, on peg 19 pole fished worm and maggots.
Martin’s mainly smaller fish net on peg 8 on caster, pushed Nathan’s all paste carp bag into third place.
Martin takes a one point lead in the league at this early stage.

Bideford and District Angling Club – Mid week Evening Match

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Evening competition No, 2 – Results

 1st Keith Copland 19lb 5oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 15lb 4oz
3rd Martin Turner. 11lb 9oz
4th Kevin Shears 10lb 15oz
5th Mike Snudden 10lb 8oz
6th Cyril Found 9lb 13oz
16 anglers fished.
Our 3 hour evening match was well attended despite the wet weather, fortunately it cleared for the wiegh in.
Keith continues his run of good form, landing the winning catch from peg 9, carp on the pole with maggot hook baits. Nathan has fished similar tactics from peg 16 and despite losing several came in second on the night.
Martin’s 3rd placed catch was taken on peg 6 , on a top kit with caster hook bait.
The fishing remains quite tricky, although the silver fish are beginning to show, after spawning.

A brace of carp on the fly rod

A warm breeze with high clouds drifting across the late Spring sky. Bird song filled the air and the countryside has reached that moment in time when everything is lush, fresh and vibrant.
It is always good to escape to the water’s edge and a few hours was all I could manage for this visit to Bideford Angling Clubs carp lake. Karen’s lake opened in June 2019 and has matured into a wonderful lake in the three years that have followed.

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Steve Bailey, Jude Gubb- Bideford Town Council, Paul Carter E.A, Karen Slade, Pete Skinner

Bideford Club Opens – Karens Lake


In fact, looking back at the opening day pictures it was a similar day to that on this recent visit.


I had visited the lake a week previously and caught one carp on the surface and with limited time and warm conditions I hoped that surface tactics would again bring rewards.
I catapulted out a few floaters on arrival and set up two sets of gear. A modern floater set up with an artificial dog biscuit and a 7 weight fly rod, floating line and a deer hair dog biscuit imitation.
I sat back and poured a coffee watching the surface for signs of feeding carp. It wasn’t long before there were a few swirls.
With the fish within range of the fly rod it was this option I chose putting the fly out just past the weed where several carp could be seen slurping down the floating baits.
This was exciting visual fishing as the carp cruised in the clear water clearly visible with the help of a good pair of polaroid’s to reduce the surface glare. A couple of fish moved into the left of my swim and I put the fly in amongst the free offerings. A good sized carp swam slowly towards the baits slurping down several of the free offerings before treating my fly with disdain.
Another carp swam purposefully towards the fly. Its orange lips opened, the fly disappeared and I set the hook! The surface erupted as the carp surged away diving for sanctuary. With large weed beds all around I was determined to keep the fish on as short a line as possible and piled on as much pressure as I dared. The 7-wt rod was straining as the reel spun as I attempted to slow the carps first run. It’s surprising just how much pressure you can apply with a fly rod if you have the confidence.
A few tense minutes followed as the tussle ebbed and flowed. The carps bronzed flanks gleaming in the sunlight as I coaxed it towards the waiting net. I breathed a sigh of relief as the fish came over the net cord. I secured the net and ensured that the unhooking mat was wet along with the weigh sling. The scales recorded a weight of 21lb 6oz my biggest carp on the fly.

21lb 6oz Carp on the fly

I was grateful to see two club members arrive at the entrance gate opposite and called them over to capture an image. It is always good to share the joy of success.


After a short break to savour and reflect upon success I continued to put out free offerings. By now the carp were a little more wary and I missed several chances as the fish managed to eject the fly before I could make contact.
I had a few tries with the floater rod further out but by now the Canada geese had got an appetite for floaters and each time I cast the heavy float headed straight for my set up.


The fly rod could be wielded without attracting the geese and I switched back to these tactics partly because of this and because the fly rod was far more exciting and rewarding.
My time was running out as early afternoon arrived and last cast time was approaching and had in fact gone when a couple of fish appeared slurping down a few floaters to my left.
The fly disappeared; the reel sang its song the rod took on an alarming curve and a few minutes later 12lb of mirror carp lay safely in the net.


A brace of carp on the fly is a great morning’s fishing and a reminder that fly fishing is not just a quirky tactic but on its day a very successful one.

Bideford and District Angling Club Evening competition No.1

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Bideford and District Angling Club
Evening competition No.1
14 fished. Results:
1st Kevin Shears 18lb 1oz
2nd Martin Turner 17lb 2oz
3rd Nathan Underwood  16lb 13oz
4th Graham Currington  11lb 3oz
5th Keith Mountjoy 9lb 2oz
6th Mike Snudden 8lb
The earlier rain eased, a fine evening was enjoyed by the club members who turned up for ,this year’s, first midweek competition.
It was good to see such a close finish, with some great nets of skimmers showing again in our short 3 hour match.
Kevin drew on peg 21 and weighed in a lovely net of mainly small bream, caught on the short pole and maggot. Martin’s second place was taken on paste on peg 26 , Nathan has netted 3rd place off peg 17.

Bideford and District Angling Club monthly competition results :

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Bideford and District Angling Club monthly competition results :
Tarka Swims 20 fished.
1st Nathan Underwood  34lb 3oz
2nd Keith Copland 29lb 9oz
3rd Keith Mountjoy  18lb 14oz
4th Paul Elworthy  16lb 14oz
5th Steve Ashton 15lb15oz
6th Martin Turner 13lb 13oz
Conditions were warm with light southerly breeze.
Carp and tench have dominated this month’s match, top three wieghts have all fallen to strong pole tactics around the Lilly pads, corn meat and maggot hook baits. Nathan’s winning catch was made on peg 13 and Keith’s second place on the shallower peg 26.
This Wednesday see’s the start of our midweek evening series.