THE annual Grafton AA junior match took place last Friday – and what a result from the youngsters.
Young Chelsey Jeffcoate of Worksop DAA cadets showed how it should be done, with a top weight on the evening of 7.5 kilos of chub and roach, employing worm and caster off peg 121.
This would be a creditable net in any club match, but considering that this was a three hour sprint it was a real achievement.
This was not an isolated catch and there were some impressive back-up weights from both age groups.
This event could not have been such a success without the dedication of the Grafton members who stewarded, particularly Mick Simpson and Thomas Hunt, who worked tirelessly throughout the evening.
Also thanks must go to joint sponsor of the event Ken Ward for his continuing generous support of this competition.
Under 12s: 1st Chelsey Jeffcoate 7.5 kilos peg 121; 2nd Michael Tamborini 3.4 kilos peg 117; 3rd Darcie Lilley 1.8 kilos peg 103; 4th J. Betts 1.59 kilos peg 93; 5th W. Phillips 0.54 kilos peg 100.
Under 16s: 1st L. Ainsworth 2.77 kilos peg 91; 2nd L. Caudwell 2.3 kilos peg 106; 3rd Ben Frost 1.76 kilos peg 120; 4th R. Bolton 1.44 kilos peg 120; 5th Devon Whitworth 1.37 kilos peg 118.

We stay with the junior scene, looking ahead to 11th July when there is the annual Worksop and DAA Friday night juvenile match on Sandhill Lake.
The tickets are available to Worksop junior book holders for £2 and are available from Gateford Angling Supplies and Ken Wards Sports.
The draw will be held at 5pm at the activity centre and the lake and fishing will commence at 6pm until 8pm. Please note that if you do not have a Worksop book these are still available at any of the towns' three tackle dealers priced at a reasonable £5.
There will be the standard age grouping of 10 years to 12 years and under 16s.

Also coming up is the annual inter-schools match to be held again at Hallcroft on 19th July.
All schools competing have now been sent final details of the event, but please note entry is only available through your school.

Finally, we would like to wish former Worksop captain Gordon Smith a happy birthday for last Tuesday, as it says in Ken Ward's window '50 and still dangling'.

CLUB RESULTS
THE members of Manton Inn AC visited Lodge Farm last Saturday where they fished the Signal Pond in wet and windy conditions: 1st Kieth Morris 58lb 15oz peg four carp; 2nd Arthur Bird 36lb 8oz peg eight; 3rd Steve Lockton 35lb 12oz peg 11.

St Joseph's AC made the short journey to Riverside last Sunday and the entire match was fished in pole-snapping winds restricting fishing to either the feeder or short pole on the main lake.
Despite not making the main frame, a special mention must go to Ronnie Finch for taking a 2lb-plus eel despite having to juggle it in due to not having a large enough landing net and also specimen hunter Raymond Ancliffe, who banked an extremely rare perch/carp hybrid.
Results: 1st Chris Davenport 7lb 4oz peg 26 maggot over ground bait; 2nd Steve Fielding 7lb peg 42 pole fished white maggot; 3rd Bonny Betteridge 6lb 6oz peg 40.

The youngsters from Valley School held a fishing match on 18th June at Lakeside, Ranskill: 1st J. Wilde 27lb 11oz; 2nd R. Nicolson 25lb 2oz; 3rd D. Northage 12lb 9oz.
Mr Hammond and all the students who competed would like to thank Lynda and Steve from the complex for their hospitality.

The Grafton AA held their latest club match last Sunday on their own waters on the John Shaw's length of the Chesterfield canal: 1st Pete Prendergast 2.4 kilos peg 118 pole fished caster; 2nd Mick Simpson 1.9 kilos peg 114 pole fished worm; 2nd Roy Houtby 1.9 kilos peg 108 pole fished caster.

The anglers from Dinnington Welfare AC ventured to Hayfield Lakes on 8th June where they elected to fish Danny's Island Lake: 1st Chris Crosby 77lb peg 29 floating pole fished pellet; 2nd Mick Donnoly 46lb peg 19 caster on the floating pole; 3rd Jack Evason 45lb 9oz peg 21 ground bait feeder to the island.

There are two matches to report on from Worksop United AC.
The first was a permit holders match on 21st: 1st S. Moore 14lb 5oz peg 12 skimmers caught on maggot; 2nd M. Allen 7lb 1oz peg 11 carp caught on worm; 3rd M. Rushton 4lb 14oz peg four skimmers and silvers.
The second event was a club match held on their own stretch on the canal on 22nd: 1st M. Drage 7lb peg 19 carp and tench; 2nd S Moore 6lb 7oz peg 11 chub and silvers; 3rd M. Allen 4lb 8oz peg 22 tench and skimmers.
Next club match is on Sunday 29th June on the Weirfield stretch of the Trent, meeting at the gate for 8am.

The members of Anston Working Men's visited Kiveton Hall last Saturday in wet and windy conditions: 1st Daz White 35lb 8oz peg eight on pole using pellet and paste carp and skimmers;
2nd Rob Bth 34lb 8oz peg 41 floating dog biscuit and bread; 3rd Phil Strong 24lb 10oz peg 31 using pole and pellet mixed bag.

Regular contributors to the column Stanley Street Sports and Social Club fished the John Shaw's length of the Chesterfield canal on Sunday 15th June: 1st Stuart Amos 5lb 12oz peg 121 chub maggot; 2nd Simon Bolton 1lb 12oz peg 107 small bream/roach; 2nd Polly Hill 1lb 12oz peg 112 chub; 4th Mick Simpson 7oz peg 111 perch/bream.

Worksop Angling Supplies Batchelors held an evening match at Grange Farm on 15th June: 1st Mick Kemshall 72lb 3oz peg 40 feeder/meat carp; 2nd Sean Batty 63lb 3oz peg 21 pole/meat carp; 3rd Andy Hill 52lb 4oz peg 12 pole/pellet carp.

DAIWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
WITH the Retford venue's carp finishing their spawning cycle, pole fished cat meat and paste has been tempting plenty of lumps on the long pole on all four ponds.
On the moat pool meat fished shallow at 13 metres has been responsible for competition nets of carp and bream to 80lb with pole fished worm and caster on the short pole taking nets of quality silver fish in excess of 40lb.
Roger and his son Robert can personally vouch that the Reed pool is producing quality pleasure nets to short pole fished pellet taking carp and slab bream.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
REGULAR visitors the Likely Lads visted the Scrooby Top venue last Tuesday where they decided to fish the lily pond: 1st Reg Turner 94lb 8oz peg 60 pole fished meat; 2nd Dave Hirst 38lb 4oz peg 54 pole and paste; 3rd Pete Temple 28lb 15oz peg 56 pole fished meat.
Wednesday's three hour evening match was competed on the field pond: 1st Mick Peddle 60lb 5oz peg 14 pole and paste; 2nd Les Richmond 59lb 1oz peg four pole and meat; 3rd Paul Jenkins 55lb 3oz peg 10 pole fished paste.
Bill's top tips for the in-form top pond is for the skimmer bream and small stockies to fish the pellet just on top of the first shelf, also the pond's bigger tench are starting to show themselves primarily in pegs eight to 10, 17 to 19 and 36 and 37 to pole fished corn and prawn in the margins.
On Lily pond the carp and chub are being tempted to pellet and caster fished up in the water with the ponds better mirrors falling to corn presented on the deck

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
THE silver fish on the main lake are still showing themselves in large numbers in competitions held at the Ranskill fishery.
Tuesday's Notts Police match was won off peg 17 with 56lb 10oz of ide and skimmers taken on pole fished caster with pole fished worm responsible for winning Wednesday's open match from peg 29 with a chub, ide and skimmer net of 63lb 7oz.
Saturday's club matches were won with 75lb of silvers off peg 10 employing pole fished worm and a mixed net of carp and skimmers weighing 73lb 13oz off peg 17 using pole and pellet.
On the first strip pond Matt Johnson placed his seat box on peg one to slip his landing net under over 150lb, which consisted of mainly carp up to 14lb 10oz taken on bomb fished sweet corn or luncheon meat.
On the Carp Lake Ian Simpson landed seven lumps, the best a common, which took the scales to 24lb 7oz taken on pineapple flavoured boilies off peg five.
Over on the trout lake Worksop's Mick Harrison cast his blood worm on a floating line to tempt 11 fish to 6lb.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
WE have had a number of reports of a massive 29lb 2oz grass carp being caught at Shireoaks Hall.
A number of you have seen the pictures and reported this to us, but the name and means of capture remains a mystery, so if you know who banked this specimen get in touch with us.
On the coastal front. we are getting reports that the mackerel have arrived and are now being taken off the boats from Bridlington.
When the weather allows. reasonably sized cod are being taken close in to Bempton Cliffs and the beaches are throwing up schoolie bass at the bottom of the boat launch at South Cliff.