Expansion to charity event due to support

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

AFTER the success of last year’s fundraiser for the Worksop Guardian charity of the year, Bassetlaw Breast Care, the organisers have decided to expand the event.
Bill Aukley of Lodge Farm Fisheries has donated all 78 pegs on Field and Signal ponds free of charge and Geoff Mawby of Gateford Angling has donated prizes and is running the match from his Gateford Road tackle emporium.
The date is set for Sunday 6th April with an entry fee of £15 of which £10 will be donated to the charity and a separate optional pools run on the day as well as a raffle.
The only way you can enter this competition and support this worthy cause is by purchasing a ticket from Geoff, on a first-come-first-served basis.
A crystal trophy will be presented to the winner in one of angling’s most prestigious events.

CLUB RESULTS
THE Grafton AA held their first permit holders match on Sunday 13th on their own waters on the lock keeper section of the Chesterfield canal: 1st Walt Elgy 3.4 kilo peg 130 mixed net chub and quality roach on waggler fished caster down the track; 2nd Mick Simpson 2.4 kilos peg 140 chub/roach on pole fished caster; 3rd Mick Pickwell 2.150 kilos peg 132 three chub on pole fished caster.
Mick Simpson of Grafton informs us that they will be running permit holders matches on either the John Shaws or Lock Keeper’s stretches of the canal on Sundays 3rd, 10th and 24th February with the draws taking place at 10am with an all-inclusive cost of £5, of which their will be a 100 per cent pay out.
He also tells us that the club’s waters on the canal are fishing exceptionally well especially for quality chub and roach with the occasional bream making an appearance and showing a liking for a caster hook bait, with baliff Walt Elgy and his fishing partner young Thomas Hunt landing 17 plump chub between them as well as plenty of stamp roach last Saturday.

This week’s Worksop United’s permit holders match on their own length of the Chesterfield canal at Bracebridge: 1st P. Brown 7lb1 4oz carp and chub from peg 19 using maggot; 2nd M. Drage 7lb 7oz chub caught on maggot from peg 21; 3rd S. Moore 2lb 13oz chub peg 26.

We would like to apologise to the members of Peg 31/ Hatfield Arms for the delay in printing their last two matches in their canal winter league due to logistical problems with Roger moving house.
All future correspondence to Stuart at 27 Allen Street.

At the penultimate match on the boats at Clayworth on 23rd December when the participants had to break the ice: 1st Jack Evason 4lb 15oz peg 17 blood worm and joker; 2nd Jeff Clarke 4lb 6oz peg 15 bread punch; 3rd Craig Crosby 2lb 9oz peg 12 blood worm and joker.
The following Sunday on the same venue the final round of the tightly-competed series took place in more favourable conditions: 1st Chris Crosby 8lb 10oz peg one mixed bag taken on blood worm and joker including a 3lb 1oz crucian carp; 2nd Richard Turner 4lb 12oz peg two skimmers/roach blood worm and joker; 3rd Jack Evason 3lb 14oz peg three roach on blood worm and joker.
The final standings in a well-run winter league fished on traditional waters with ‘proper’ methods were: 1st Richard Turner 46 points, 2nd Jeff Clarke 45 points, 3rd Chris Crosby/Jack Evason 42 points.

DAIWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
PLEASURE fishing is revolving around the milder weather temperatures.
The warmer days are producing match weights up to 80lbs and these comprise of carp and bream. Feeder fishing has been producing the most consistent results but fish can be caught on the pole when conditions allow.
Moat pool: the best reports are up to 15 carp plus a few bream in a day, with bigger carp to 15lbs showing in areas to bomb and meat or corn tactics.
Croft Pool: the sheltered or reeded areas are still the most consistent with carp to 6lb on pole and pellet or corn at six and 12m, or feeder with maggot to the reeds.
Croft is due to have a stocking of bream in the next few weeks, so we expect these to provide good sport for the pleasure men.
Bridge pool: some nice nets of carp and skimmers are showing in the milder weather conditions, pellet feeder to the middle is as good a tactic as any at the moment.
Also, pellet on the pole is best for the bigger bream, but maggot or caster will get plenty of bites, especially on the island pegs.
Reed pool: bream and other silver fish still coming to pellet or maggot at eight and 11m. Carp showing to legered baits of meat or corn mainly to the middle of the lake.

RIVERSIDE ROUND-UP
WEIGHTS are on the up at the Scrooby complex with the main lake’s ample stocks of silver fish showing themselves to pole fished chopped worm or pellet in excess of 32lb.
The maggot feeder is also scoring with competition nets to 27lb 2oz made up of mainly silver fish with the odd stockie carp.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
TUESDAY saw the ‘Worksop Likely Lads’ tackle the lily pond: 1st Andy Hill 24lb 4oz peg 51 pole fished maggot, 2nd Pete Scott 22lb 14oz peg 72 wag and mag, 3rd Steve Hill 16lb peg 54 wag and mag.
Wednesday saw the in-form Andy Hill make do the double in the Gateford Angling open match fished on Long Island where all the frame scored on mag and wag: 1st Andy Hill 38lb 5oz peg 87, 2nd Keith Walters 32lb 12oz peg 88, 3rd Geoff Mawby 25lb 12oz peg 94.
On Saturday 16th, the lodge farm winter league was fished on the top pond: 1st Nigel Wheatcroft 20lb 7oz peg 42 pole and maggot for skimmers and perch, 2nd Darren Godley 10lb 3oz peg eight, 3rd John Thawley 9lb 7oz peg nine.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
THE big news from the Ranskill venue is that Dave ‘Blue’ Wright has hit the winning trail again with a winning weight of 23lb 14oz in Saturday’s teams of four off peg 31 employing bomb fished maggot.
On the strip ponds, pole fished maggot is the favoured method of the moment with Mick Walker slipping his landing net under a 50lb+ mixed bag of roach, ide skimmers and goldfish off the second strip.
On the trout lake, Mick Harris tempted 13 fish to 9lb 10oz on a cats whisker on an intermediate line with Tim Whitehead casting his white and gold lure to bank 18 fish to 4lb also on intermediate line.

LITTLE JOHN ROUND-UP
THE top match weight to fall at the Ollerton venue was 29lb 5oz off peg 13 on Maid Marion in Saturday’s winter league with the winner Richard Evans employing the ground bait feeder with a maggot hook bait.
The best match weight to come off the robin hood pool was taken by Shane Florence using long pole fished pellet on peg one to amass 23lb 14oz.
Pleasure anglers have been netting over 50lb+ to pole fished pellet or corn and the ground bait feeder on the milder days.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
THERE is a change to the venue for the Worksop and District Angling Associations’ delegates meeting on Thursday. It has moved to Manton Athletic Club on Retford Road, doors opening at 7pm with the meeting commencing at 7.15pm.
There is also a reminder to all club secretaries that subscriptions are now due for payment.