YOU may remember a couple of weeks ago we reported that Mick Shaw had unfortunately left his rod hold on the banks of the canal and was appealing for its return.
How many of you, like us, thought that would be the last he saw of it?
We are happy to report that there are some honest people about! This includes Karen Roberts, of Rhodesia, who found the gear and has reunited it with Mick.
Mick would like to thank Karen for her honesty and we would also like to offer our gratitude for being such an honest person.

Another piece that has made us proud of our sport is a report we have had from Lakeside for last Tuesday's Worksop Disabled Anglers match.
Keith Walters drew favoured peg 29a and struck in to a good sized skimmer bream, which leaped from the water and tangled itself in the over-hanging tree, snapping off Keith's line. He duly stripped off, waded across and untangled the struggling fish from the branches.
We offer our respect to Keith for this humanitarian act and, following the usual environmental awareness that we associate with our sport, we are also happy to report that he went on to win the match.
A word of warning however: You must never compromise your personal safety.

Last Saturday saw 67 competitors turn out for the Worksop & D AA Annual Senior Citizens match, fished on the moat pool at their Hallcroft fisheries at Retford.
The match took place in sunny but breezy conditions where most of the anglers caught a few fish.
However, it was first timer (just 65) Mick Pogson, president of Worksop & D AA, who came out on top with a fine net of bream and carp to 10½ lb in his 31lb 6oz total from outer peg 72 using pole fished pellet.
Second spot fell to G. Yates with 22lb 12oz on outer peg 87, and filling the frame was last year's winner Ken Stevenson fishing inner peg 42 netting an all bream catch of 21lb on pole fished meat.
Thanks must go to Dereck Brown, of Worksop, for his stirling efforts in yet again organising the event, to Terry and the team at Hallcroft for all their help during the day and to John Moore and Chris Davenport for their help at the draw and throughout the day.

Staying with Hallcroft, Terry has informed us that tackle giants Diawa have really got on board with this year's Inter-Schools match.
They will be sponsoring the event and will be sending down a represenative to award the prizes.

Once again local angler and twice World Junior Champion Matt Godfrey has been selected to fish in the England Under 18 Championship squad.
This is to be fished in Belgium in July and we would like to offer him good luck in the competition.

A reminder that the Bassetlaw Senior Citizens' Festival match will be taking place on Tuesday 15th July on Sandhill Lake. Tickets are £5 with all monies being paid back in prizes. The draw will take place at 9am.
Afterwards Snack Attak, on Gateford Road, will be donating a buffet. Anyone interested contact Mick Pogson on 01909 486893.

Another couple of matches for the juniors. The first is on Friday 11th July for Worksop & D AA Annual Junior fishing match on Sandhill lake.
The draw is at 5pm with fishing at 6pm until 8pm. Tickets are available from Ken Ward's Sports and Gateford Angling Supplies, priced £2.
The second event is the Browning Youth Master on 24th July at the Sherwood Forest Farm Park. Tickets are £12. For more information contact 01623 842617.

CLUB RESULTS
ON Sunday 29th June the members of the Stanley Street Sports and Social Club made the short journey to the Lakeside fishery.
Results were: 1. Steve Royale peg 16 36 05 Pole silver fish meat/caster (peg on railway side ); 2. Geoff Mawby peg 29 36lb 02 short pole all silver fish catch mainly worm/caster; 3. Pete Scott peg 5 32lb 8oz Pole /worm/maggot all siverfish catch; 4. Mick Simpson peg 40 30lb 00 pole/meat/worm 1carp all the rest silver fish.
Next match is on Sunday 13th July at Sherwood Forest Farm's Holmdale Lake.

The Worksop National Squad Open was fished on Sandhill Lake last Sunday, where the weights were on the up and yet again with the top two using the same method of ground bait feeder with chopped worm and caster with a worm hook bait for all Bream and skimmer nets.
Results were: 1. Simon Smith peg 58 40lb 2oz; 2. Steve Lockton peg 57 36lb 14oz.
Section one winner Pete Unwin 30lb 4oz section two winner Garry Davenport peg 53 14lb 10oz.

Worksop Piscatorials visited Aston Park Fisheries on Sunday 22nd June, where they fished the Split Pond pegs.
Results were: 1. Mick Pogson 18lb 09oz Pole/pellet and meat carp up to 3lb; 2. Ron Chamberlain 18lb 8oz Pole /meat carp; 3. Derek Brown 13lb 12oz Feeder/meat carp. Section winners were: J Moore 9lb 13oz, and I Jones 6lb 09oz.

Members of British Gas AC made the trip to Lodge Farm. Results were: 1. Alan Richardson peg 5 44lb 11 carp up to 3lb floating pole pellet; 2. Ronnie Winn peg 14 43 10 mixture of floating pole and on the deck pellet/corn; 3. Mick Pogson peg 3 42 07 Pellet waggler/floating pole/carp pellet/meat. Section Winners were: A Hadfield 35 14, S Pogson 32 12, and M Drage 26 07.

Station Hotel Angling Club, of Shireoaks, visited Messingham Sands, Swan Lake, on Saturday 21st June for the third Summer League match fished on a cold and windy day.
Conditions were not perfect and most anglers struggled to locate any carp, so many decided to opt for the silver fish. Results were: 1. Ian Tomlinson 51lb 05oz pellet feeder carp; 2. Mick Swift 27lb 6oz Pole pellet/carp; 3. Phill Wright 26lb 6oz Waggler pellet/carp.

Results on the Worksop disabled match, held at Lakeside last Tuesday, were: 1. Keith Walters peg 29a 39lb 3oz pole and caster for an all silver net; 2. Pete Scott peg 30 36lb 13oz; 3. Brett Northage peg 14 31lb 10oz.
Also at Lakeside, Bircotes AC fished a four-hour evening event last Sunday. Results were: 1. Mick Shanks peg 29 108lb 7oz carp to 10lb on pole fished meat; 2. Rob Edmunds peg 32 72lb 3oz ; 3. Garry Wye peg 35 69lb.

The members of Carlton AC visited Lodge Farm fishery, at Scrooby, where all the top three employed pole fished pellet. Results were: 1. Neil Moss peg 3 84lb 2oz; 2. Brian Marsh 49lb 15oz; 3. Steve Edwoodsonpeg 6 32lb 6oz.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
LAST Wednesday's Open saw the ton mark broken yet again by John Asquith from peg 8 using pole fished meat to catch carp to 8lb in his total of 104lb 5oz.
Runner-up, with an all silver fish net, was Geoff Bennett from peg 27 with 70lb 11oz.
Saturday saw round four of the venue's Summer League, where Nigel Wheatcroft had a net of silvers which took the scales around to 63lb 5oz. A close second was Les Richmond with 62lb 11oz from peg 12. Filling the frame was D. Tomlinson from peg 5 with 56lb 3oz, with all the main frame employing pole fished meat.
Lynda informs us that pleasure nets to over 150lb are falling from the third peg on the second strip pond. This includes carp to 12lb and also a good mix of silvers thrown in.
Over on the Carp Lake, Tim Davies made the journey from York to tempt 11 fish – the biggest going to 26lb 6oz.
Russell Smith made the journey from Leeds to slip his net under six fish from peg four – the best being a common of 22lb. On the trout lake, Paul Holland had a 13 fish haul – the best being a 9lb rainbow taken on buzzers and floating line.

DIAWA HALL CROFT ROUND-UP
THE best match weight of the week was taken on Bridge pool which fell to Steve Clark who fished meat and pellet down the margins for carp to 10lb and bream to 3lb to finish the match with 79lb 12oz.
Cat meat fished down the margins is also proving to be a good back-up bait on this pool.
On the Moat pool, paste and pellet is coming in to its own, with Lee Coupe using this method to good effect for an all carp net of 76lb. Another method scoring at the moment on this pond is meat or pellet fished on the deck on the long pole.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
THE Likely Lads opted to fish the Field pond, where Ian Temple put pole fished meat to good effect from peg 6 to net a winning weight of 73lb 5oz, with Reg Turner a close second with 69lb 2oz from peg 10 also using pole fished meat.
In Wednesday's evening open, which was also fished on the Field, Worksop's Stuart Gray fished pole and paste for a winning net of 79lb 14oz taken off peg 16, with Andy Fells in second spot with 64lb 9oz from peg 10 using pole and pellet. Les Richmond claimed the third spot with 57lb 14oz fishing meat on the pole from peg 12.
Thursday saw the veterans fish the Long Island, where venue regular Keith Noble took the honours with 71lb from peg 90 using pole fished pellet.
Claiming second spot was Chris Lime using the pellet feeder to net 51lb 7oz from peg 92, with Mick Burrell filling the frame peg 89 using pole fished caster for 46lb 12oz.