"Anglers bid to retain NJAA Knockout title"

8th June 2006

We would like to start by wishing all the lads fishing tomorrow’s NJAA knockout final at the Hampton Springs fisheries in Cheshire the best of luck in defending the title that they won last year.
We can testify after taking the lads out on a practice session on bank holiday Monday that it is a cracking venue, which the youngsters got to grips with almost immediately. Jason Goulding, Josh Wilde and Mark Playforth all landed over 30lb and the rest of the squad were not far behind.
The annual WDAA OAP match took place at the Hallcroft Fisheries, where 70 veteran anglers participated in very warm and sunny conditions and the carp began to spawn.
This did not deter North Anston WMC’S Gordon Holmes from putting a winning net together of 26lb 4oz, edging out fellow club member Arnie Brookes into the runners-up position with a bag of 17lb 2oz and B. Robinson of the Liberal AC into third place weighing 15lb 7oz.
Everyone had a very enjoyable day thanks to the hospitality of Terry and everyone at Hallcroft, Steve and Janet of the Ultimate Café for the fine refreshements and meals provided and the sterling efforts of Derek Brown, Mick Pogson, Terry Evans and James Kirkham.

CLUB RESULTS
St Joseph’s AC fished their first match of the season on the Little John lakes at Ollerton last Saturday in very pleasant conditions.
Chris Crosby topped the field on peg 11 weighing 23lb 15 ½ ozs. New club member Andy Lakey landed 22lb 2oz to claim the runners up position from peg 8 and Ray Ancliff put 18lb 2oz in his net for third off peg 17.
The entire top three pole fished pellet meat and corn netting small carp and the occasional better chub on an enjoyable match on a decent new local fishery, which all the members can recommend.
The Worksop Disabled Anglers visited Lodge Farm last Tuesday where fifteen members fished Signal Pond.
Pete Naylor took the honours with a level 31lb off peg 5 with Mick Drage netting 25lb 14oz for second place from peg 23 and Roy Houtby making up the frame with 18lb 5oz off peg 11.
Members are reminded that the next meeting is on 22nd June.
The latest Worksop United match took place last Sunday at Lakeside Fishery at Ranskill where the in-form Mick Drage put 41lb 5oz on the scales to claim first place using worm on peg 24, edging out T. Keyworth into second place with 35lb 15oz on peg 12 taken on caster and maggot.
Stuart Brumpton was just behind on peg 29 weighing 33lb 10oz in third place. Their club match is to take place on their own waters on the Chesterfield canal at Bracebridge on Sunday 11th June, all names to Rob as soon as possible.
The Worksop Piscatorials opened their account for the year on the High School length of the Chesterfield Canal last Sunday where canal specialist Mark Pressley topped the list with a weight of 15lb 4oz.
Colin Burgess landed 10lb 14oz to claim second and Mick Pogson bagged 7lb 5oz for third. Mainly skimmers and chub were caught on maggot and caster hook baits. Their next match is at the duck pond at North Scarle on 25th June, drawing at 8.30am. Members who wish to participate, register with the secretary as soon as possible.
Angling Supplies Batchelors members made the journey to Stubbs Hall lakes last Sunday, where Mick Kemshall fished the feeder with a meat hook bait to take a winning net of carp and skimmers weighing 34lb 6oz off peg 34.
Andy Jardine pole fished caster on peg 4 landing 15lb 10 ½ oz for second, squeezing out Sean Batty into third with 15lb 10oz off peg 6 employing feeder fished corn.
Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery AC held a club match on their own waters on the Chesterfield Canal on Saturday 4th June when Kev Smith led the way with a fine mixed net of 18lb 1z off peg 30, edging out John Easy into second off next peg 29 with 7lb 10oz.
John Booker was third, weighing 7lb off peg 5. All the framers caught bream, carp, tench and perch on chopped worm and caster.
Members of the North Anston WMC/AC made the short journey to Aston Split Ponds on Saturday 27th May where despite cool overcast conditions, Tarl Bailey put the pole and waggler to good use, netting a winning weight of 31lb 5oz of Carp and Bream from peg 35.
Neil Hall and Robert Booth both alternated pole with the feeder for second and third spot netting 16lb 11oz and 12lb 6oz respectively from pegs 28 and 24.

DIAWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
THE three-day spring festival over the bank holiday saw 60 anglers fishing the Moat pool.
Shallow pole fished meat accounted for winning weights on the Saturday and Sunday matches with 101lb 14oz enough for Rick Hunt in the first match and Lee Hewison netting 149lb 10oz on the Sunday.
Worksop AA’s Gordon Gibson employed hair rigged meat on the bomb to win Monday’s event with 87lb 14oz.
Lee Hewison won the festival with a total of 244lb over the three days with Les Sylvester landing 183lb 10oz for the runners-up position and Gordon Gibson in third with 180lb 4oz.
Gordon Gibson made it a successful week, winning Friday afternoon’s match on Moat Pool’s peg 5 using bomb fished cat meat again and later netting carp to 8lb in the margins to sweetcorn over a bed of pellet weighing 83lb 3oz.

RIVERSIDE ROUND-UP
The big news at Scrooby Tops is that the venue record was obliterated by Jamie Masson, who put a very creditable 135lb 11oz on the scales pole fishing meat shallow on peg 33 in the bank holiday open match on the main lake.
On Tuesday, the open match on Sandmartins was won by Les Richmond with 34lb 3oz off peg 6 using meat and pellet.
On Wednesday, regular visitors the Comrades WMC of Bircotes fished the strip pond, where John Siddons led the way home with 23lb 11oz off peg 2 fishing corn and meat with the pole or the bomb, pushing Les Richmond into second place on peg 4 with 14lb 12oz fishing the pellet.
Thursday evening’s three-hour sprint was a family affair with Paul Goulding just edging out his son Jason with 26lb 14oz off peg 35 to 26lb 5½oz off peg 26 respectively, both fishing meat pellet and corn.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
Gateford Angling Supplies sponsored a three-hour evening match last Thursday on Lily Pond, where Stuart Brumpton took the honours with 52lb 6oz off peg 66 employing pole fished pellet.
Roy Butterfield had to settle for second place with 44lb 12oz off peg 53 with Ian Mellish claiming third with 43lb 10oz off peg 65.
Bill’s general form guide for Field and Signal ponds is that the fish are up in the water and are responding to loose fed pellet, due to warmer weather with the nets mainly consisting of carp where they are spread along all of the lakes.
On the top pond he advises anglers to take chopped worm and caster with them where the tench are showing in the feature pegs and in the margins in the 30s and original wild carp to 6lb have been seen in pegs 24 and 25.

SHERWOOD ROUND-UP
Any one of a number of methods is working on Holmedale Lake at the moment with long pole pellet , surface fished biscuit, ground bait feeder cast to the islands or other features, and pellet and paste are all accounting for good catches of carp.
On Sherwood Lake long pole and pellet are taking good catches of skimmers and roach with the margins producing carp, falling to a sweet corn hook bait.
Thomas Brunt of Worksop DAA junior squad informs us of a cracking day’s sport he had on the Cavendish Lake, using the floating dog biscuit with some lovely carp.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
Best match weight of the week was in Bridon AC of Retford’s Thursday evening match where Steve Fur put 63lb 7oz of silver fish on the scales from peg 12 using pole fished caster.
In a close second was Rick Hunt with 61lb 11oz from peg 4 and filling up the frame from peg 14 was Steve Robbins with 58lb 2oz .
On Saturday the Jug and Glass of Langworth were the visitors where Roy Brown put 36lb 3oz of chub and silvers in the net from peg 10. Claiming the runners-up position was Martin Parsons from peg 13 with 28lb 7oz.
Bomb fished corn and meat is accounting for carp and tench nets over 120lb on both strip lakes, and over on the carp lake Martin Cochane banked five fish – the best a mirror of 23lb 12oz off peg 3 using boilie.
On the trout lake fluff chucker Martin Glover had 13 fish, the best a fine rainbow of 13lb 10oz taken on green fritz and intermediate line. Simon Cooper had 17 fish to 5lb all taken on black buzzers and floating line.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
Alex Roebuck, the balliff on WDAA stretch of the Chesterfield Canal at Retford, informs us that the High School and Asda lengths are fishing well for pleasure anglers with chub, bream and the occasional tench falling to double white maggot .
Over at Woodsetts Quarry pond, the carp are beginning to get ready for spawning but the tench and some large bream are falling to sweet corn or boilie hookbaits.
Two Worksop anglers, Mark Preston, 15 and Nathan Moar, 13 shared seven tench to 8½lb taken on maple sweet corn and a massive 10lb½lb bream on monster crab boilie – well done, lads.
Grafton AA season tickets are now available to pick up from Ken Wards Sports as soon as possible.