Change to original date of Keith Fretwell match

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

THE memorial match to be held in honour of the late angling legend Keith Fretwell has been postponed due to a clash of dates.
Worksop and District Angling Association had originally planned to hold it in conjunction with the Holme Church fundraiser on Saturday 15th September, but it has now been moved back a week to Saturday 22nd September.
The match will be fished on part of the Holme Marsh and Winthorpe stretches of the River Trent with an all-in fee of £13, with Worksop DAA kindly donating the £3 pegging fee to the church fund; a cause which Keith’s widow and son Steve would like all the monies raised to go to.
There will be a one-off trophy donated by the members of the executive committee and the remainder of the entry fee will be paid out in prize money. The draw takes place at the cattle grid car park which is located by turning left at the telephone box in the T-junction in Holme village at 8.30am with the fishing taking place between 10.30am to 3.30pm. To register for the match or for any further details ring 01909 480419 after 5pm.
We would like to offer our commiserations to Gordon Smith and Andrew Lakey who unfortunately failed in their attempt to win the Maver Pairs last week at Maver Larford.

CLUB RESULTS
BRITISH Gas Angling Club have two matches to report on, the first was last Thursday when they visited Kiveton Waters.
They had to contend with strong winds and generally the fishing was very poor with only one carp caught, however both the winner and runner-up lost a few good fish throughout the match. 1st Mick Pogson 10lb 10oz pole; 2nd Alan Hadfield 10lb; 3rd Alan Richardson 5lb 12oz.
The second match saw them visit Bank End where they fished the West End last Saturday; 1st Steve Pogson 101lb 4oz carp to 3lb on floating pole and pellet; 2nd Mick Pogson 43lb 8oz carp to 8lb on pole, pellet and paste; 3rd Mick Simpson 41lb 6oz pole and paste; 4th Pete Brown 38lb 4oz small carp on floating pole.
St Joseph’s Angling Club made the journey to the River Trent last Sunday where they found the Ness Farm stretch in an unforgiving mood with the fishing very patchy at best with prolonged rain throughout the second half of the match: 1st Stuart Lilley 8lb 8oz peg 19 ground bait feeder worm, red maggot or caster hookbait; 2nd Thomas Davenport 3lb 15oz peg three ground bait feeder worm/caster hookbait; 3rd Ronnie Finch 3lb 3oz peg 23 stick float and ground bait feeder.
Stanlet Street Sports and Social Angling Club also visited the Trent last Sunday this time to Fiskerton: 1st James Kirkham 11lb 3oz ground bait feeder; 2nd Steve Hill 6lb 5oz feeder; 3rd I. Joyaston 3lb 10oz feeder. The top junior weight fell to Ryan Bolton with 1lb 12oz.
The Worksop disabled anglers made the short journey to Scrooby where they held their latest Tuesday match on the main lake at Riverside: 1st Pete Scott 54lb 5oz peg five pole fished red maggot stockie carp; 2nd Mel Kirton 37lb 7oz peg four red maggot for mainly stockies; 3rd Mick Drage 27lb 8oz.
Members of the Ryton AC fished the River Derwent on Sunday 12th August where father and son duo Neil and Ashley Nicholson claimed the first two places: 1st Neil Nicholson 5lb 3oz; 2nd Ashley Nicholson 4lb 15.5oz; 3rd Gareth Kirk 4lb 15oz.
Anglers from Dinnington AC fished the lily pond over at Lodge Farm at Scrooby Tops last Saturday where pole fished pellet was the chosen method for the top three: 1st Gordon Simms 62lb 4oz peg 59; 2nd Mick Large 45lb 1oz peg 68; 3rd John Foster 28lb 6oz peg 72.
On Sunday, Maltby Colliery AC held their latest match, also at Lodge Farm, but this time on the top (silver fish) pond where pole fished pellet and maggot accounted for mainly skimmers, perch and tench: 1st Wayne Spencer 18lb 14oz peg 27; 2nd Tom Eyre peg 45 15lb 7oz; 3rd Trevor Haith peg 41 14lb 4oz.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
SATURDAY saw the best match weight of the year fall at the Ranskill venue in the Bramley Social Club ACs club match where venue regular Carl Sweatnam pole fished meat on peg 38 to put a mixed bag together 148lb 4oz.
John Smithson of Worksop enjoyed a midweek pleasure session on the match lake when he sat himself down on peg 29. John pole fished pellet and meat to put together a carp and silver fish net in excess of 150lb, included in this haul was an elastic stretching common of 18lb.
The strip ponds are producing plenty of bites and are an ideal venue for novices, with maggot producing plenty of small silver fish and pellet, meat and corn finding favour with the bigger lumps.
On the carp lake, Rob Cheetham tackled peg five where he slipped his landing net under 10 specimen to 20lb 10oz with John Vardy on peg two netting an eight-fish haul.
Over on the trout lake, Dean Wilson tempted 13 rainbows on various buzzers and a floating line with fellow fly caster Dennis Mates bagging four fish to 8lb on a cats whisker and intermediate line.

RIVERSIDE ROUND-UP
TUESDAY sees the next phase of the restocking policy taking place at the Scrooby venue with 1,000 small carp of around 8oz being introduced to the Sandmartins lake.
Friday’s veterans’ match saw Jeff Bennet pole fish pellet to record a win with 23lb 9oz with Reg Turner claiming the runners-up spot with 19lb 2oz employing the same method as the winner.

DAIWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
SOME superb fishing this week for both the pleasure and match anglers saw Luke Sears weighing a near venue record of 192lb 11oz from outer peg 54 in Friday’s open held on the moat pool.
All over the complex, good weights have been recorded both on bridge and moat pools. Corn is starting to produce big weights of carp especially with fishing to the margins. Pellet is still the best all-round choice particularly for the bigger weights of bream.
There are plenty of smaller fish to be taken on maggot and caster on both croft and reed pools and they continue to fish well.
Croft Pool: Pleasure weights to 60lb on pellet and corn.
Moat Pool: Big weights of carp to 100lb plus on corn, pellet and catmeat. Skimmers and bream to 4lb on meat and pellet.
Bridge Pool: Good mixed weights of bream, silvers and carp to 100lb plus on pellet, corn or meat.
Reed Pool: Plenty of silvers taken on pellet and corn, bigger carp on catmeat and paste.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
WEDNESDAY evening’s open match on field pond saw pole fished meat claiming the top three places: 1st Nick Speed 34lb 3oz peg eight; 2nd Stuart Grey 31lb 4oz peg 12; 3rd Phil Morgan 29lb 6oz peg 33.
Pole fished pellet shallow is Bill’s top tip if you are fishing any of the carp pools this week with signal pond producing match weights of small carp up to 86lb with a little and often feeding pattern on the long pole with varying depth until the fish are located. On the lily pond, the railway bank is the best area for pleasure weights with the margins also worth a look later in the day.

TOFT NEWTON ROUND-UP
EIGHTY-FIVE rods caught 317 fish for a rod average of 3.7 during the week.
After a difficult start to the week, fishing improved dramatically with more unsettled weather returning early in the week. The best bank catch this week fell to John Evans who caught 21 fish mostly on diawl bachs and he also took the best rainbow of the week at 4Ib 4oz.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
A REMINDER to all members of the Worksop Piscatorial Members that the next match is on Sunday 26th August on the Chesterfield Canal.
On the sea fishing front, a group of Dinnington and Langold anglers from T.H.E. Section Bending set sail from Bridlington harbour last Saturday on the Yorkshireman where they fished the rough ground off Bempton Cliffs around Flambrough head.
The fishing proved to be hectic with plenty of codling and mackerel falling to a variety of lures and baits. With neap tides from early next week it will be worth a trip if the weather holds.
The annual Filey Fishing Festival takes place next month from Saturday 1st to Sunday 9th including all disciplines of sea angling with both boat and shore matches culminating in the North of England codling championship with a first prize of £500 up for grabs.
Tickets are available at local tackle shops or for more information log on to the club’s website www.fileybrigganglingsociety.co.uk