Coarse Comp Results 2024
Bideford and District Angling Club Monthly Competition and Christmas Match Results :
1st Keith Mountjoy 31lb 6oz
2nd Martin Turner 25lb 2oz
3rd Craig Crash Lamey 21lb 13oz
4th Paul Elworthy 18lb 7oz
4th Stace N Dazza Polden 18,lb 7oz
6th Keith Copland 16lb 9oz.
7th Richard Jefferies 13lb 14oz
19 members braved the remnants of storm Darragh.
The strong Northerly winds chilled the competitors, and very few silver fish fed.
The winner on the day was committee member Keith on peg 17, he landed 7 carp on a simple bomb and bread switching to maggot later.
Match organiser, Martin, drew peg 14 and fished with similar tactics for second place, next peg on 13 Mr consistent, Craig, landed 4 carp for third place, his chosen technique was pole towards the reeds
Paul, travelled up from Tiverton, his joint fourth has secured second place in the overall annual league.
Great effort from our youngest competitor Craig on winning the league .
Final League Positions.
Bideford and District Angling Club Monthly Coarse Section Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Craig Crash Lamey 37lb 4oz
2nd Keith Mountjoy 36lb 15oz
3rd Nathan Underwood 24lb 15oz
4th Stace N Dazza Polden 22lb 15oz
5th Steve Johnson 21lb 6oz
20 members fished
Constant high pressure for a few weeks has meant tough conditions for most.
Pegs 9 and 10 produced a close battle for the honours, a mere 5oz, after 5 hours, separated Keith and Craig for the top two spots. Both have caught on pellets on the pole.
Craigs consistency throughout the year-long league now sees him 31 points clear of Nathan with only one competition remaining.
Nathan made a late run on peg 14, using luncheon meat on the short pole, to finish in third spot on the day.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Craig Crash Lamey 63lb 7oz
2nd Paul Elworthy 22lb 12oz
3rd Stephen Paul Sheller 22lb 10oz
4th Dave Wood. 17lb 3oz
5th Keith Copland 16lb 6oz
5th Nathan Underwood 16lb 6oz
22 members fished
High pressure system and a very cold night has curtailed the catches, but league leader, Craig has put together a very impressive net of carp, 40lb clear of second, on peg13, this has extended his lead to 29 points over last year's winner.
Winning tactic was 6mm luncheon meat pole fished in the margins.
Second place has taken Paul into joint second spot in the league on 87 points.
His chosen technique on peg 17 was red maggot over micros and maggots in the deeper water on the pole.
Stephen's third place was off peg 19, method feeder and pole tactics.
Dave was fourth on peg 6.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Tarka Swims
Results:
1st Stace N Dazza Polden 58lb 7oz
2nd Kevin Shears 41lb 8oz
3rd Craig Crash Lamey 34lb 2oz
4th Richard Jefferies 29lb 14oz
5th Keith Copland 29lb 2oz
6th Ian Croxton 27lb 9oz
18 fished.
With 3 matches remaining in our year-long league the table has had a good shake up !
The match was fished in heavy drizzle,
Darren our winner on peg 6 has caught fairly steadily, on meat on the short pole then worm down the edge later.
Kevin on the consistent peg 14, has put together a great net on hard 6mm pellet for second place.
Craig now leads the league by 25 points, his third place on peg 22 was taken on various baits on the long pole.
Richard was fourth on peg 10 fishing with paste on the pole.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Tarka Swims
Results:
1st Roger Ackroyd 51lb 11oz
2nd Craig Crash Lamey 51lb 8oz
3rd Richard Jefferies 48lb 7oz
4th Antony Bentley 41lb 9oz
5th Les Polden 40lb
6th Colin Cherrington 36lb 15oz
19 members fished.
George's lake was the venue for our regular monthly competition, the weather was hot with a blustery southerly wind blowing down into the bottom,dam head.
Roger, our regular scales man, weighed in an impressive mixed net for victory on peg 13.
Corn, and meat pole fished over micros.
Craig, who now leads the points table, finished in second place fishing on peg 18 using similar tactics.
Richard finished a very credible 3rd place fishing paste on peg 9.
Antony took 4th place on peg 6.
After a slow start the lake has fished very well in most areas,
Bideford and District Angling Club Monthly Coarse Competition
Results:
1st Roger Ackroyd 50lb 1oz
2nd Craig Crash Lamey 34lb 8oz
3rd Paul Elworthy 33lb 11oz
4th Ian Croxton 33lb 1oz
5th Kevin Shears 29lb 13oz
6th Warren Thornton 23lb 8oz
16 members fished.
A warm day with a gentle west south westerly breeze provided pleasant conditions for this, the 7th match in our year-long series.
Our winner on the day was Roger on peg 10, he has fished with luncheon meat short on the pole.
His 50lb net was well clear of second placed Craig, whose result, on peg 21 also on meat, puts him into joint first position, in our league.
Paul travelled from Tiverton, and took 3rd place on paste on the pole off peg 14.
Ian's fourth place was on peg 13.
Next week sees our final midweek league event and on Saturday Bideford juniors have their 3rd match.
Bideford and District Angling Club
Monthly competition
Results:
1st John Lisle 45lb 13oz
2nd Craig Crash Lamey 40lb 13oz
3rd Les Polden 39 lb 14oz
4th Steve Johnson 37lb 4oz
5th Stace N Dazza Polden 37lb 4oz
6th Roger Ackroyd 29lb 5oz
16 members fished.
John has drawn peg 16 and fished worm over micros on a long pole for victory in this, the halfway match of our year long league.
Craig, opposite, on peg 12 has fished sweetcorn with a short pole for second place.
Birthday " boy" Les has had a cracking mixed bag also on corn on the pole for third spot.
Steve on peg 6 has finished fourth using hard pellets.
A cold North Westerly took the edge of, an otherwise bright dry day, despite this, almost 450lb of fish were brought to the scales.
Bideford and District Angling Club
Monthly coarse section competition
Results:
1st Nathan Underwood 35lb 9oz
2nd Paul Elworthy 28lb
3rd Craig Crash Lamey 27lb 9oz
4th Richard Jefferies 27lb 6oz
5th Martin Turner 24lb 14oz
6th Colin Carolyn Cherrington 24lb 11oz
The May monthly competition saw 21 of our members attending Georges lake. Conditions were hot with a westerly breeze blowing up towards the shallower pegs.
Our current league leader Nathan has drawn peg 1 and extended his lead with another victory. He has used paste on the pole in the weed bed for a mostly Carp net.
Paul has fished the long pole with double red maggot on peg 16 for a nice net of mainly Skimmer Bream, for second place.
Bailiff Craig has come in third spot from peg 12.
After a late start from the peg he didn't fancy, 20, committee member Richard has fished pellets over to the island for 4th.
Our next match is this Wednesday draw 5 to 5:30pm fish 6,till 9.
Bideford and District Angling Club
Coarse section monthly competition
Results.
1st Keith Copland 59 lb 13oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 32lb 6oz
3rd Stace N Dazza Polden 28lb 15oz
4th Stephen Paul Sheller 27lb 8oz
5th Martin Turner 25lb 2oz
6th Rhys Eyles 24lb 10oz
21 members fished.
George's lake was the venue for our April competition, the sun shone and the birds sang ! Spring has finally sprung after a very wet period.
Committee member, Keith sat on peg 12 and fished the pole with corn over micros and caught a great net of mainly Carp
Second spot went to, league leader, Nathan on peg 9
with another net of Carp, this time on paste on the pole.
Darren moves up to 8th place in the year long league
with his third place mixed net on peg 21.
Stephen boosted his mixed bag, off peg 4, with a good Carp to take fourth place. His catch fell mainly to soft pellets and micros.
Bideford and District Angling Club. Monthly Coarse Section Competition Tarka Swims
Results:
1st Nathan Underwood 58lb 3oz
2nd Craig Crash Lamey 48lb 2oz
3rd Stace N Dazza Polden 42lb 8oz
4th Keith Mountjoy 38lb 14oz
5th Paul Elworthy 32lb 7oz
6th Ian Croxton 31lb 13oz
19 members fished.
Our matchmen enjoy another great match on George's lake, with almost 400lb of fish weighed in, an average of 23lb a man.
The competition was fished in typical early spring conditions, warm start and a short sharp shower later.
Last year's champion Nathan drew peg 14 and employed pellet waggler tactics, out towards the cage for his first win of the new season.
Craig has run him close with a very impressive net of mainly skimmer bream on peg 9 for second overall.
Darren on peg 12 has had a similar, pole caught net for 3rd place.
The current top 3 league positions are Nathan, Kevin, Colin .
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 39lb 2oz
2nd Nathan Underwood 31lb 9oz
3rd John Lisle 22lb 1oz
4th Martin Turner 19lb 14oz
5th Colin Cherrington 17lb 6oz
6th Richard Dennis 12lb 13oz
22 members fished.
A cold north westerly breeze blowing up towards the shallows greeted the competitors for this, the second match of our year-long league.
The old order was restored with the Kevin and Nathan show.!
Kev's drawn peg 15, one of the more sheltered spots, and pole fished maggots and sweetcorn hook baits for a clear victory, Nathan, defending league champion, has fished on peg 9, for second spot.
John, nextdoor on 10 was third.
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition
Results:
1st Stephen Paul Sheller 44lb 11oz
2nd Martin Turner 31lb 10oz
3rd Paul Elworthy 25lb 13oz
4th Craig Crash Lamey 22lb 12oz
5th Keith Mountjoy 21lb 7oz
6th Colin Cherrington 14lb 10oz
Today, we welcomed in the new season with our first competition on George's lake, Tarka Swims.
Typical winter conditions prevailed, cold and sleety showers, greeted the 20 members who booked in and braved the elements.
The winner, Stephen has found some large carp on peg 10 on the pole, pegging back the early lead set by Martin and Keith on the opposite side of the lake.
Martin, on peg 17, settled for the second spot using bomb and bread tactics.
Paul had some larger Carp on peg 18 on the feeder with maggot for 3rd.
The shallower section was won by Warren Thornton
with a fine near double figure carp.
