Congratulations to world champ


We would like to start this week by offering our congratulations to Matt Godfrey on winning the Individual Bassetlaw Junior Sports award.
Last year Matt won the under 16s individual and team World championships and had many successes with Worksop Juniors.
But this award recognises all the efforts put in by a lot of people in supporting junior angling and it is the first time to our knowledge that an angler has won this title.
Now for an opportunity for all budding young pretenders to Matt's crown, in conjunction with Diawa Hallcroft the Guardian is to run an inter-schools match at the Retford venue on Thursday 20th July.
We are inviting applications from any secondary school in the Guardian readership area for teams of eight anglers (team numbers in line with the schools nationals) who wish to compete in this prestigious event.
All pegging fees are covered by Stuart and Roger and thank you to Terry, Luke and Mick of Hallcroft for offering the pegs at a reduced rate as well as putting up £100 of prizes from their sponsors Diawa.
This again shows their commitment to promoting junior angling in the area. All the rules will follow the schools' national format with fisherie rules applying.
There will be a trophy for the winning side and any donations for prizes are gratefully received.
For details or to register contact 01909 480419 and we would urge a quick response as we are limited to a maximum of ten teams, so it will be on a first come first served basis.

CLUB RESULTS
Alex McAuslin of the Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery A.C. are running open matches on their stretch of the Chesterfield Canal every Saturday with impressive silver fish weights showing on a regular basis as their last two results show.
For any information or to register you can call Brian Wilton on 0114 2873157.
Results for Saturday 7th January: 1st Nigel Wood's 26lb12oz -Not attached to a fishing club, 2nd Brian Wilton 5lb10oz of Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery Angling Club, 3rd Graham Eblet 5lb 6oz of Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery Angling Club. Most of the fish caught today were Perch, Roach, and Bream, the baits used were varied maggots, castors, pinkies and chopped worm.
Results for Saturday 14th January: (Peg number, name, weight, position, club) - 30 Graham Ebley, 11lb12oz, 1st Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery; 24, Brian Wilton, 8lb2oz, 2nd Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery; 28, Stan Ebley, 4lb1oz, 3rd, Wales and Kiveton Park Club.

SHERWOOD ROUND UP
Sherwood Lake, Sunday 15th January, 23 fished. 1st Jason Thomas, Peg One, Angling Centre, peg 44, 15-7-0. 2nd Keith Barlow Mansfield Piscatorial AS peg 24, 11-12-0. 3rd Mick Langton, Sherwood Forest Fishery, peg 22, 10-8-0.
Not a high scoring match but all the anglers fishing did catch something.
Out in front Jason Thomas on peg 44 fished pole and caster for roach and skimmers - 8oz loose feeding every put in he had a bite. The only angler to catch carp was 2nd placed Keith Barlow fishing long pole at 14m up to a small weed bed he had 10 small carp - 2lb late in the match on worm and maggot.
Cavendish Lake Open, Tuesday 10th January, 15 fished. 1st Lee Payling, Peg One Angling Centre, peg 8, 11-15-0. 2nd John Mosley, James Maude AC, peg 5, 9-7-0. 3rd, John Tingle, Peg One Angling Centre, peg 7, 7-5-0.
Lee was the only angler into double figures due to the gale-force wind and heavy rain making presentation very difficult.
Lee fished the pole at 9m with caster on the hook. He returned a nice net of roach to the scales but only after John Tingle at the next peg stopped catching.
In 2nd place John Mosley also had a late run of roach - 12oz on pole and caster, edging out John Tingle who was winning for four of the five hours of the match. He had 12 skimmers - 1lb and a few roach on pole and maggot

DIAWA HALLCROFT ROUND UP
Saturday 7th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Winter League, Moat (22 Pegs). 1st P. Bagshaw, Maver Barnsley, 37-11-0, peg 63 island.
This latest round of the winter league produced some reasonable weights of both silvers and carp. Pete Bagshaw topped the field with 37-11-0 of carp from peg 63 on the island. Alternating between maggot and corn Pete took carp to 5lb on the bomb. 2nd Lee Hewison, Hallcroft, 28-14-0; peg 68, island. Lee Hewison had a mixed bag of carp and silvers on pole and bomb with maggot for 28-14-0.
Sunday 8th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Tournament League, Moat (22 Pegs). 1st, S. Robbins, Leegem, 26-14-0, peg 26 outer. Steve Robbins had 8 smallish carp on bomb and corn from peg 26 on the outer tow in the match. 2nd, G. Wilde, Fishing Republic, 15-1-0, peg 8 outer.
Geoff Wilde, fishing from the first peg on the outer, had five carp using similar tactics to Steve for 15-1-0.
Tuesday 10th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Tournament League, Croft (25 pegs).1st, D. Oldham, Hallcroft, 33-10-0; peg 6. A good match with nearly every angler putting 15lb plus on the scales.
1st Daz Oldham, peg 6, weighed 33-10-0 of small carp taken on maggot and feeder. 2nd M. Hazelwood, Vale A.C., 28-4-0, peg 25. Mark Hazelwood had a frantic last hour for 28-4-0, again small carp to 1.5lb on the feeder.
Wednesday 11th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Tournament League, Bridge (22 Pegs). 1st A. Wells, Leegem, 21-4-0; peg 14 outer. Ade Wells fished bomb and corn from peg 14 on the outer to take carp to 4lb for 21-4-0 and the win. 2nd, P. Wright, Leegem, 19-2-0; peg 16 island. Phil Wright fishing from the island was a close second with 19-2-0.
Thursday 12th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Veterans, Bridge (18 Pegs). 1st J. Hobson, Hallcroft, 19-14-0, peg seven, island. Jack Hobson, peg seven on the island, caught eight carp to 3lb on bomb and maggot to win this latest veteran's match. 2nd, M. Cooke, Retford A.C., 15-12-0; peg 52 outer. Mick Cooke also fished the bomb to catch five carp for 15-12-0 and second spot.
Friday 13th January, Daiwa Hallcroft Tournament League, Rover, (24 Pegs). 1st, G. Cornwall, Cornerpin, 26-0-0, peg 22, reed. Geoff Cornwall fished bomb with maggot and corn from peg 22 on reed to catch carp for 26-0-0. 2nd, D. Oldham, Hallcroft, 24-0-0; peg 12 Bridge. Daz Oldham, pegged on Bridge Island 24, fished pole and pellet at 12m to take an all skimmer net for 24-0-0.

LODGE FARM ROUND UP
The Station A.C.of Shireoaks fished Long Island last Saturday where Peter Shaw used the maggot feeder on peg 96 to weigh a winning bag of 16lb.
Peter Norman weighed in 9lb 11oz for second place from peg 99 with Steve Durham weighing 7lb 9oz from peg 93 for third spot.
Venue regulars Hodthorpe W.M.C were on Field pond last Sunday and Richard Hardy ran out the winner employing mag and wag on peg 35 to take a weight of 47lb 12oz.
Roy Butterfield netted 34lb 5oz to claim the runners up position from peg 34 with Alan Wostenholme weighing 11lb 13oz from peg 36 for third.
Bill informs us of two perch exceeding 3lb being caught on the top pond last Sunday to pleasure anglers. The best weighed in at 3lb 8oz and was taken on pole.

LAKESIDE ROUND UP
Saturday saw the fifth round of Linda's Lakeside Winter League where 34 anglers fished in cold and overcast conditions.
Ben Holmes put a winning weight of 18lb 8oz on the scales from peg 37
Danny Buxton used pole fished caster on peg 12 to weigh 15lb 5oz of silverfish to claim second position while Richard Turner, employing pole fished bloodworm and joker on peg 26, claimed third position with 13lb 10oz.
On Sunday it was the turn of the Woodseats Winter League where Steve Holbury pole fished pinkie on peg 14 to take a winning weight of 13lb 5oz. Paul Gorman weighed 11lb 5oz on the next peg 15 to claim second spot.
Also on Sunday the members of the D.J. Angling centre were on the match lake again where A. Barker pole fished pellet to take a winning silver fish weight of 22lb on peg 5 and Dave Larkin secured the runner up position with 15lb from peg 8.
Mark Shaw had a 40lb plus net of roach, skimmers , carp and goldfish during a pleasure session on the second strip using pole fished corn and pellet.
On the carp lake John Thompson managed to land four fish from peg 4 the best an impressive mirror of 21lb 6oz.
On the trout lake Mark Johnson landed fifteen fish the best a rainbow a very respectable 10lb 8oz using cats whisker. Dennis Mace requests us to report that he netted 13 fish to 5lb on "pink egg fly" and sinking line.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
Nick, Luke and Terry at Diawa Hallcroft inform us that there is to be a carp/silver match on Saturday 28th January which includes a £1,000 LINK Peg and £300 Golden Pegs for further details or to book in on 01777 710448.
Worksop and District A.A. inform us that the delegates meeting is to take place at the Innings on Thursday 2nd of February at 7pm. They have also asked us to remind club secretaries that the affiliation fees are to be paid by this date.