Langold best bet in beating Hopley
Last year’s Embassy National Champion, Tony Hopley, has decided to
take some time out from match fishing in an attempt to catch a 10lb bream.
Fishing at Derbyshire County Angling Club’s Willington Coarse Lake
recently, Tony caught two bream over 7lb including a 6lb tench, a 4lb
chub and finally one of 9lb 1oz in just one session.
The late Geoff Riley once caught three bream to 19lb in a match on the
same lake which has also produced some excellent carp and tench.
Tony is continuing his quest and I will keep you informed. If you are
not a member of the DCAA, and fancy the challenge of catching a specimen
bream, then why not make a visit to Langold Lake.
Bream of between 5lb and 8lb are being caught regularly and with a sprinkling
of slightly larger fish it may not be long before a double is caught.
But if anyone has already reached this magical figure send me the details.
Notice Board
Go Baits Open matches
are held at Langold Lake every Sunday up to September. Draw at 9am and
fish 10am-4pm.
They are also holding midweek open matches every Wednesday at the same
venue. The draw is at 5pm and fishing from 6pm tp 9pm, £10 all-in.
Telephone 01909 540105 for details of both events.
Grafton AC are organizing a 40-peg British Waterways Junior Angling Commemorative
Match on the John Shaw’s section of the Chesterfield Canal on Friday
18th June.
This event is open to anglers aged between 10 and 16. The draw will take
place at the Lock Keeper pub at 5pm, and fishing will be between 6pm and
9pm.
To enter, please forward £2 fee including names and details to Ken
Wards Tackle, Carlton Road.
Excellent prizes are on offer and tickets are on a first come, first served
basis. Entrants are requested to have a parent or guardian with them on
the day.
WDAA member book prices are:
Adult remains the same at £16.50 and OAP stays at £8, juniors
are reduced to £5 (ages nine to 17 on 16th June 2004).
The association have also reduced the price for new clubs who wish to
become affiliated to the WDAA. The new registration fee is £25.
The WDAA hold their Annual Veterans Match at Hallcroft Fisheries tomorrow.
Tickets are £5 all-in. Please go through club secretaries. Competitors
must own a current WDAA members’ book.
The Welbeck Lakes Charity match is to be held on Saturday 19th June and
the Annual Permit holders Cup match is set for Saturday 7th August. Contact
Head Keeper P. Betts on 01909 500211.
Round Up
Mark Pressley (pictured
above) was this year’s winner of the Gerald Rollinson Memorial Trophy.
At the WDAA delegates and officials match at Sandhill Lake last Saturday,
Pressley took top spot with 19lb 06oz from peg 51, pushing last year’s
winner Steve Basset into second place.
Pressley spent the first hour-and-a-half on the feeder with only one small
skimmer coming to the net.
But a switch to the pole at about seven metres resulted with bream, roach
and one eel making up his winning catch in front of 38 other anglers.
The results were as follows: first - Mark Pressley 19lb 06oz, second -
Steve Bassett 13lb 02oz, third - Rodger Green 10lb 14oz, fourth - Andrew
Pickersgill 10lb 02oz. Section winners by default were K. Rowley, R. Fisher,
T. Evans and S. Moore.
Angling Supplies Batchelors AC latest results include their Bank End Fishery
event at Finningley on Sunday 30th May.
The day saw mixed catches of carp, skimmers and tench mainly to pole,
pellet, worm or maggot.
First place went to Mick Kemshall with 12lb 10oz using pole and caster
from peg 28 as John Eves (Peg 5) came in second with 11lb 7oz and Andy
Jardine was third with 7lb 13oz (peg 13).
The remaining places went to Mel Morris with 7lb 12oz (peg 25), Neil Richards
6lb 15oz (peg 8) and Paul Clark 6lb 7oz (peg 29).
There is also a rollover for the Golden Peg Draw.
The latest Angling Supplies Batchelors AC match was on Sunday at Southfields
Reservoir, where 25 fished.
Dave Leversidge was first with 8lb 3oz of skimmers using the feeder and
worm from peg 80.
He was followed by Keith Ward with 5lb 6oz of skimmers using the same
tactics from peg 70 and it was pretty close with the remainder of the
weights as Brian Nicholson grabbed third spot with 5lb 5oz from Peg 73.
Gary Morris was fourth with 4lb 3oz (peg 60), fifth was Brian Heighington
4lb 3oz (peg 79) and sixth Lee Smith 3lb 12oz (peg 78).
In the latest Go Baits Open at Langold Lake on Sunday the bream were well
spread and bang on again, with a massive 20-fish haul was winner Ray Marsh.
He took 70lb 13oz to the scales from peg 8 using groundbait feeder and
alternating between maggot, worm, castor and sweetcorn.
Runner up was Lol Lax with 64lb 13oz (peg 41) with 18 bream using same
tactics. Mark Turner was third with 57lb 1oz (peg 36), then Ian Turner,
22lb 12oz (peg 33) and Pete O’ Donovan, 21lb 2oz (peg 17).
If you want to get in contact with Martin to give him any results stories or information, you can e-mail him at Mgintrona@aol.com