Eliminator preparations

by angling correspondents Roger Stocks and Stuart Lilley
Roger Stocks: 07733 092237 – Stuart Lilley 07811 923599 – email: roachpole10@aol.com

WE were fortunate enough to witness some excellent fishing on a lake only a few miles from Worksop where we saw significant catches of double figure carp, golden orfe and decent skimmers.
The downside is that it was at Center Parcs and you have to be staying there to be able to purchase a day ticket, but if you are lucky enough to be visiting it is well worth packing some of your tackle and having a go. You will not be disappointed.
The Worksop juniors made the long trip to Langwith Lakes in York for a practice session for their upcoming NJAA Knockout Cup eliminator which takes place on 12th May against Wakefield, Barnsley and Leeds.
Six anglers represent each team with the top two going through to the final which takes place at Maver Larford Fisheries on 2nd June.
This gives Worksop a bit of an edge if they qualify for the final as they have previously won this event on this venue in 2005.
On the day at Langwith, the youngsters found the going hard with bites few and far between but this did not deter them and they gamely stuck to the task steadily putting the odd fish in to the net.
Top rod on the day was new signing Liam Clark (28lb) with young Tommy Moore claiming the runners-up position with 25lb 14oz and Josh Wilde with 24lb 13oz taking third.

CLUB RESULTS
GREYHOUND AC fished last weekend over at Royston: 1st Mick Burrows 34lb 8oz peg seven corn and pellet shallow; 2nd Russ Brown 33lb 8oz peg 12 maggot and pellet; 3rd Dave Robinson 26lb 4oz peg nine maggot and pellet.
The latest round of the Langold Lake open matches took place on 29th April: 1st Ian Turner 22lb 13oz peg 13 chopped worm and caster, sweetcorn and red maggot; 2nd Lol Lax 20lb 1oz peg 95 groundbait feeder; 3rd Mark Turner 18lb 15oz peg one.

Thirteen anglers from Worksop Angling Supplies Batchelors AC made the journey to Scrooby Top on Saturday to fish the signal pond at Lodge Farm: 1st Adam Wake 37lb 9oz peg three pole/pellet; 2nd Alan Quick 21lb 8oz peg eight pole/pellet; 3rd Mick Kemshall peg 14 17lb 2oz pole/pellet carp.

Members of Dinnington Welfare AC made the short journey to the Staight Mile fishery near Brampton on Sunday in cool, windy overcast conditions, where everyone caught but on the whole the fishing was very patchy. 1st Craig Crosby 31lb 3oz peg 74 long pole fished worm; 2nd Tony Britton 24lb 14oz peg 85 short pole fished worm and caster; 3rd Roy Waring 20lb 1oz peg 66 feeder.
The Comrades AC of Bircotes fished the main lake at the Riverside fishery at Scrooby: 1st Les Richmond 37lb 10oz peg 14 pole and pellet; 2nd Paul Brazier 28lb 12oz peg 13 pole fished pellet and meat; 3rd S. Riley 18lb 10oz peg 15 pole and pellet.
Hodthorpe WMC visited Lodge Farm on Sunday to tackle the signal pond where 2oz separated the top three anglers with the top two sharing first place: 1st Mick Burrel 25lb 4oz peg 12 pole fished pellet; 1st Neil Hall 25lb 4oz peg 18 pole fished pellet and corn; 3rd Roy Butterfield 25lb 2oz peg 14 pole fished pellet and corn.

On Sunday the Grafton AA fished the Long Island where youngster Thomas Hunt is making a name for himself: 1st Thomas Hunt 40lb 1oz peg 99 pole and pellet; 2nd Mick Simpson 23lb 12oz peg 91 feeder fished pellet and corn; 3rd Brian Poole 23lb 4oz peg 100 wag and mag.
On Saturday, anglers from the Station Hotel at Shireoaks fished the field pond: 1st Martin Spencer 37lb 6oz peg 32 pole and pellet; 2nd Paul Mosgrove 19lb 12oz peg 34 pole and pellet; 3rd Graham Bridger 13lb 5oz peg five pole pellet and corn.
Kirkstead Kingfishers of Mablethorpe made the long journey to fish the High School length of the Chesterfield Canal on Saturday: 1st Steve Shepherd 32lb 4oz peg nine pole fished caster for chub; 2nd Brian Goodrich 15lb peg eight pole fished caster for chub and bream; 3rd Phil Martin 5lb 14oz peg 11 pole fished worm.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
POLE fished luncheon meat is the top method in the matches at the moment accounting for John Forster’s winning net in Wickersley Angling’s open match last Saturday.
John netted a mixed bag of 64lb 4oz from peg three with Terry Winter using the same method in Sunday’s RR Open with the winning mixed bag coming off peg 10 at 73lb 2oz.
On the strip lake pleasure anglers are making the most of the warm spring climate with Alan Parker landing over 150lb of carp, tench, goldfish and roach from peg four on the second strip.
Alan tempted seven double fissure carp to 17lb 4oz on bomb fished sweetcorn or luncheon meat.
The carp lake is also beginning to respond with John Vardy landing nine fish where John broke his personal best twice with a common of 24lb 2oz which was then bettered by a ghostie of 25lb 8oz off peg one using a boilie hookbait.
A fellow specimen hunter banked seven fish to 23lb 10oz off peg four also using hair rigged boilie.
Over on the trout lake, fluff chucker Nigel Johnson slipped his landing net under 14 fish the best going to a very respectable 9lb 6oz taken on various buzzers and floating line. John Hall cast his purple fritz on a floating line for 18 fish (4lb).

RIVERSIDE ROUND-UP
VENUE expert Les Richmond is using his favourite method of pole and pellet on the main lake and Sandmartins, taking a winning net of 54lb 8oz in Tuesday’s open match on peg eight on the main lake and 45lb 8oz on peg 10 on the Sandmartins in Monday’s open.
Bomb fished meat is also producing good back up weights over 50lb and pole fished pellet and paste is also making an impact now the fish are showing in the margins.
The silver fish are also making an appearance with Norman Footit landing the best ever all silver fish match weight of 49lb 9oz off peg 30 taken on caster fished on the short pole.
There will be a bank holiday match on Monday with the draw taking place at 9.30am with fishing taking place from 10.30am-4.30pm with the cost £12 including a golden peg.
The over 50s veterans matches are to start again with the first one taking place on Friday 11th May again with a 9.30am draw and £12 all in. Fishing from 10.30am-4.30pm if you wish to register or for more information contact John on 01302 711889.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
THE big news from the Scrooby Top venue is that the match record has been broken on the Top Pond (silver fish) in Denaby and Cadeby AC’s match last weekend where Mitch Mitchell put an impressive winning net together of 68lb 5oz which consisted of 74 skimmers and one small tench off peg 45 using pellet fished on the deck with 10 metres of pole.
The best match weight to fall on lily pond was in a Rotherham freeliner event where 87lb was needed to top the field using wag and pellet but floating pole and pellet is also worth a look on the carp ponds, as is wag and mag.
Roy Butterfield of Hodthorpe WMC will be running Wednesday evening matches from 16th May with the draw taking place at 4.45pm and fishing commencing from 5.30pm until dusk, priced £11 all in. For details contact the fishery on 07815 030694.

DAIWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
MATCH weights have been going to 110lb at the Retford venue with Keith Stacey fishing meat shallow at 13 metres on Island peg four in the Leegem Series match last Sunday on the moat pool.
Also on Sunday, Worksop DAA’s Gordon Gibson also managed a win, this time in the open match. Gordon elected to fish down the edge with cat meat to put a winning net of carp to 8lb together weighing 80lb 13oz taken from peg 93 on the moat outer.
On the pleasure scene, increasing temperatures and settled weather has seen the fishery getting back to top form with all species feeding well.
Bridge Pool has seen the top weight this week from a club match which was over 120lbs of carp and bream. Moat and bridge pools are continuing to produce good sport for both pleasure and match anglers with good nets of carp and skimmers on pole with pellet or meat. Several bags of 70lb plus have been recorded.
Match weights are topping the ton on a variety of methods from shallow fishing to feeder or bomb.
Reed pool continues to fish well for the bigger carp, bream and the odd chub and tench on corn and cubed meat. Croft is providing good sport with smaller carp (5lb) on pole and pellet at full depth.
Top tip for is now the water temperature is increasing so try paste or catmeat at 6m.

SHERWOOD FOREST FARM PARK
HOLMEDALE Lake, Wednesday Fun League open, 24 fished: 1st Pete Hodgetts, Mansfield Angling, 140lb 8oz peg 31; 2nd Mick Langton, Sherwood Forest Fishery, 109lb 3oz peg 19.
The top two anglers renewed their membership into this year’s ton-up club, Pete coming out top from in-form peg 31, but the wind made it hard for him to fish the pole at the usual distance. He started fishing the pole at 11m with corn on the hook and had 15 carp (3lb) and when the wind eased he fished on top of the submerged building and started catching carp (8lb) ending the match with 140lb 8oz.
Second-placed fishery owner Mick alternated the pole and pellet and the method feeder with corn cast to the island. He was into carp from the off and ended with two nets full of carp (7lb) and a total of 109lb 3oz.
Sherwood Lake, Tuesday, 20 fished: 1st John Holmes, Dynamite Mayfair, 52lb 4oz peg 59; 2nd Kev Jones, Leegem Chesterfield, 39lb 11oz peg 61.
John Holmes finally made it to the top after having numerous second-place finishes over the last few weeks. He fished pole and pellet on two lines over a bed of pellets to weigh in at 52lb 4oz of bream and carp to 3lb.
Kev had little to offer the scales man but with an hour to go he had six carp (7lb) on pole and corn from his margin swim, third place went to Steve Richards fishing pole and maggot up to the island for a mixed net of chub roach and skimmers, the next three places couldn’t be separated.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
FATHER and son Paul and Darren Johnson of Worksop report that the fishing lake at Bondhay Golf Club is fishing extremely well at the moment.
Paul took a decent silver fish net of mainly roach on waggler fished maggot and young Darren took a mixed net which included a carp of 15lb on floating marshmallow.