Coarse Comp Results 2024
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.
Current League Positions.
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.
