Stott victorious
The annual
British Waterways commemorative junior angling competition was held on
the Grafton-controlled John Shaws section of the Chesterfield canal at
Worksop last Friday.
The match started at 6pm, and considering the weather during the day was
pretty inclement with heavy showers, they were greeted with overcast conditions
with the occasional sunny periods.
Fishing in two age groups 10 to 12s and 13 to 16s, they were all fishing
for a fine selection of prizes sponsored by British Waterways and supplied
by Ken Wards.
All the participants caught, with the overall winner, Michael Scott, fishing
in the 13 to 16s group, putting 10.25kg on the scales.
Second in that group was Jason Goulding with 7.550kg and Patrick Goulding
took third with 5.360kg.
The winner of the 10 to 12s section was Danny Harding with 10kg followed
by Thomas Davenport with 3.7kg. Third was Jason Goulding with 7.6kg, edging
his brother Patrick, into fourth place with 5.4kg.
Grafton secretary Mick Simpson thanked sponsors British Waterways, and
all officials who helped out.
Notice Board
Worksop and District
Angling Association Junior Education officer, Gary Butt, is organising
a series of matches for nine to 16-year-olds. The first is to be held
on Friday 16th July at Godfreys Pond. Entry is £1.
Also, a three match Triathlon will begin on Saturday 24th July on the
Chesterfield Canal WDAA water in Retford. The second at Godfrey Pond on
Saturday 21st August, and the third, again on the Canal at Retford on
the 25th August.
Entry for this is £3. Full details and tickets for both events are
available from Ken Wards, Gateford Angling Supplies, and Angling Supplies
Retford Road on a first come basis.
Grafton AC open evening match on Tuesday 29th June, £10 all-in.
Draw at Top End of John Shaws at 5pm. Fish 6-9pm.
Go Baits open matches are held at Langold Lake every Sunday up to September
2004. Draw at 9am and fish 10am-4pm.
Go Baits are also holding midweek open matches every Wednesday at Langold
Lake. Draw 5pm fish 6-9pm, £10 all in. Telephone 01909 540105 for
details of both events.
The next WDAA OAP fixture is the Bassetlaw Festival match due to take
place on Tuesday 13th July at Sandhill Lake Worksop.
For further information or tickets, costing £5 all in, contact Mick
Pogson 01909 486893.
Worksop United will be visiting the River Trent at the Weir Field on Sunday
27th June. Would members kindly phone Malc on 01909 484649 to book their
places.
All the latest news for the North Notts Angling Show, due to be held in October, is at: www.northnottsanglingshow.4t.com
Prospects
WDAA waters on the
Trent update; Holme Marsh: Large catches of barbel and chub with the odd
bream to 6lbs. Hot spots in the 120s and a large shoal of bream reported
in the 30s to 40s.
Ness Farm: Low numbers are reporting large bags of bream and barbel to
either feeder or stick. Chub also making a show.
Normanton (Tidal): Mainly small skimmers and chub on the feeder with the
welcome bonus slab.
Stick float has been excellent for roach. The fishery has recently been
re-pegged and banks have been strimmed.
Lakeside Ranskill: Has been in good form once again after a week of heavy
spawning activity amongst the carp.
Match weights have exceeded 60lbs with carp and silver fish making the
bags with bread flake and chopped worm favourite using pole tactics.
A pleasure catch on first peg second strip pond had 90lb plus of carp
to 12lb 4oz and on the main carp lake, peg three produced five fish to
23lb 10 oz.
And on peg five, Neil Watson of Manchester had six fish, biggest 27lb
10oz.
The Trout lake is also coming up with the goods, Nick Bentley of Goole
had over 27 fish in an evening session on assorted buzzers using a floating
line.
Ken Michaels from Sheffield had 13 fish, the biggest 13lb 6oz using a
similar set-up.
Round-Up
Go Baits Open on Sunday
13th June saw Ady Picton land six bream and a tench in a very close match.
Using groundbait feeder and red maggot from peg 13 he took a deserved
victory.
Second was Dave Cook using similar tactics taking seven bream and a few
skimmers from Peg 39. Third was Ray Marsh (23lbs 11ozs, peg 40), fourth
Stuart Goulding (18lbs 3ozs, peg 9), fifth Mark Woodcock (17lbs 15ozs,
peg 36).
Angling Supplies Batchelors AC members had a full turnout when they competed
for the Sue Moore Memorial Cup on Sunday 20th June, at Hayfield Lakes
(Adams).
In a five hour match fishing they found the carp in a responsive mood
and Gary Morris took the honours with a fine bag using pole and pellet
for 48lb 13oz (peg 33).
Second was Dean Smith (47lb 4oz , peg 8), third Mel Morris (31lb 10oz,
peg 9), fourth, Neil Richards (22lb 0oz, peg 19), fifth Glyn Shemeld (20lb
13oz, peg 12), sixth Andy Jardine (20lb 8oz, peg 21).
The results of round one of the Individual Knock Out competition will
be posted in Angling Supplies of Retford Road. (Golden Peg Draw 21 Rollover).
At the Welbeck Lakes Charity Match on Saturday 19th June - Apart from
fourth place, bream made up the weights as winner G. Lawrence took 65lbs
2ozs to the scales fishing feeder and worm from peg 93 on the middle lake.
The next five places were fortunate to draw pegs on this lake which considerably
out fished the Top Lake. Second was N. Spencer (59lbs 01ozs, peg 111),
third M. Hilton jnr (54lbs 03ozs, peg 
113),
fourth J. Hughes (42lbs 1ozs, peg 104), fifth N. Speed (31lbs 08ozs, peg
118), sixth R. Reah (26lbs 1ozs, peg 97).
British Gas AC on Saturday 19th June at Sandhill Lake saw Simon Foster
win a pretty close affair with 7lbs 12ozs fishing pole and small red worm
catching mainly small fish from Peg 57.
Second Steve Pogson (7lbs 8ozs, peg 70), third Connie Winn (7lbs 4ozs,
peg 66). Bream and tench were elusive and small skerrits made up the weights.
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