Many thanks to Martin Turner’s weekly updates on North Devon Match Group and Bideford Angling Club Matches
1st Paul Elworthy 19lb 10oz
2nd Neilsen Jeffery 16lb 11oz
3rd Martin Turner 15lb 1oz
4th Andy Gray 13lb 6oz
5th John Lacey 13lb 1oz .
Paul drew a peg on the far bank and made the most of the deeper water with pole and corn for a winning bag of skimmers, Neilsen drew the end peg and fished worms on a small feeder for 2nd, Martins net was made up of roach and rudd.
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There have been some stunning weights at Stafford Moor Recently with the cooler changeable weather encouraging the fish to feed hard.
The top six weights in Stafford Moors latest Mid week open all topped the ton with the top weight doubling this at 206lb 11oz.
1st DEREK BRADSHAW Peg 6 Tanners: 206lbs 11oz
2nd KEV OSBOURNE Peg 9 Woodpecker: 174lbs 9oz
3rd ADAM PALMER Peg 20 Woodpecker: 139lbs 9oz
4th ROB COOMBES Peg 20 Tanners: 122lbs 13oz
5th MARTIN HEARD Peg 7 Woodpecker: 118lbs 5oz
6th GEOFF WOODS Peg 18 Woodpecker: 103lbs 10oz
Sunday Open Match August 13th
1st ROB COOMBES Peg 10 Woodpecker: 114lbs 8oz
2nd SAM POWELL Peg 15 Tanners: 113lbs 12oz
3rd DAVE STOCKTON Peg 12 Woodpecker: 100lbs 11oz
Results
1st Keith Copland 18lb 11oz
2nd Martin Turner 16lb 9oz
3rd Martin Hawker 12lb 6oz
4th John Lisle 10lb 2oz
After a week of indifferent weather , our members were rewarded with a pleasant summers day. Keith took the honours on peg S with 2 large carp and some perch, he also scooped the golden peg for a bonus’ payday’ . Martin Turner took 2 carp and 2 bream on peg P for 2nd , Martin Hawker had 2 carp on the pole in corner peg M. The silvers bag went to John with 2 big bream and some perch.
North Devon Match Group Summer League Horwood Fishery
Result 1st Paul Elworthy 54lb 10oz
2nd James Grogan 36lb 1oz
3rd John Lacey 27lb 12oz
4th Neilsen Jeffery 26lb 11oz .
Paul fished on peg 2 with double red maggot on the pole, James came second on the next peg using pole and tip. John took 3rd spot from the end peg on the top lake using paste on the tip.
The final midweek evening comp at Tarka Swims.
1st Craig Crash Lamey 15lb 9oz
2nd Martin Turner 10lb 1oz
3rd Cavan Patterson 6lb 13oz
4th June Hawker 4lb 4oz
A dozen hardy souls braved a wet night at Tarka for the last of Bideford Angling Clubs10 match series, Craig took the honours with 2 carp tench and roach from the un-fancied peg G , Craig caught on cheese on the lead, Martin was second on peg G with a good bream and a late carp on 8mm pellet. Cavan had a nice carp on the next peg for third.
In the final points tally Keith Copland was unable to defend his lead and Martins 11 points gave him final victory with 66 Keith 64 Cavan 60 Colin Gorman 58 Peter Slade 56. Craig 55
Many Match anglers would be delighted to top 100lb; Steve Shaw fished a match at the Prolific Stafford Moor to double this weight!
Winner of Stafford Moors Fisho Festival 2017 was Steve Shaw (MOSELLA) who won from peg 1 on Tanners lake with 203lb 8oz!
Twenty anglers contested the competition on Tanners Lake.
Steve won £1000 and the four section winners won £295 each with second in section winners received £140 each.
1st Martin Turner 10lb 8oz
2nd David Bailey 7lb 9oz
3rd Craig Crash Lamey 6lb 1oz
Martin caught a large carp on luncheon meat on the pole plus a pound of small fish on peg B ,this result moves him in to 2nd place in the league with one match remaining, David took his mirror carp on a bunch of red maggots on peg S , Craig came third with a late fully scaled mirror carp on the tip on pellet. Keith Copland still leads the league with 60 points ,next weeks comp is the final one in the evening league.
Sunday’s Open Match on July 23rd match at Stafford Moor attracted 34 entrants.
The winner of the day was Rob Coombes fishing peg 1 on Tanners lake with 186lb 6oz fishing 8mm pellet on
the waggler.
Bidefords Evening comp on Tarka Swims was won by Colin Gorman on peg E with a weight of 10lb 9oz, one good bream and a carp on prawn, fished on a method feeder, 2nd place went to Craig Crash Lamey on peg X with 9lb 3oz, Craig unfortunately landed a large carp after time which would have been enough for victory. 3rd place went to Pete Slade on peg A.
12 people enjoyed another warm evening and our league leader is Keith Copland on 50 closely followed by Peter and Colin both on 46
Keith Copeland won Bideford’s Monthly Coarse Match at Tarka Swims with 14lb 14oz a bag that contained two good-sized carp. Martin Turner was runner up with three carp for a total of 12lb and John Lisle third with 4lb 11oz.
Keith fished with double maggot on peg M using a pole in the margins he landed 2 good carp to register his 1st victory.
Martin Turner caught 3 carp on running line tactics using banded pellets for 2nd.
John Lisle landed one carp on corn for 3rd , Matt Cross had a fine perch of 2lb 3oz along with roach to take the silvers bag.
Current points John Lisle 98 Martin Turner 81 Steve Bailey 65
