Good Luck!

WE would like to wish the Worksop Senior squad good luck in tomorrow’s Division Two NFA National Championships on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire.
The two team captains Gordon Smith and Mark Pressley together with the rest of the 10-man squad Richard Turner, Phil Turner, Garry Doddworth, Brian Gibson, Adrian Higginbottom, Steve Bircumshaw, Dave Hooper and Steve Sheppard, have been travelling down on a regular basis for the last few weeks to fish practice sessions and open matches, but have been finding the fishing hard in some sections.
Gordon Smith said: “All the squad members have put in lots of hard work over the last month and with a favourable draw and a little bit of luck, we can hopefully win promotion back to Division One, where we belong.”
The Worksop and District AA is running the traditional Holme Church charity match at Holme Marsh on the association’s waters on the River Trent on 16th September. The draw is to take place at 8.30am at the cattle grid with a £13 entry fee. For further details or to register you can call Gordon on 01909 477399.
Gordon added that the marsh is fishing well to traditional float tactics, the stickfloat in any pegs with a reasonable flow and the waggler in the steadier swims.
We are still looking for your enteries for the fish of the year competition from the Worksop AA waters, so keep your entries coming in for your chance to win the £100 first prize of tackle vouchers.

CLUB RESULTS
TWO matches to report from members of the Greyhound AC, the first taking place at the Delves at Thorne on the 16th of July. 1st Cliff Brailsford 28lb 4oz peg 28 mixed bag taken on the feeder with corn hookbait; 2nd Arthur Bird 26lb 4oz peg 15 pole fished corn; 3rd Charlie O’Sullivan 16lb 6oz peg 25 mixed bag on the waggler.
The second match took place last Sunday on the Bridge pool at Hallcroft in bright and breezy conditions with the odd shower. 1st Brett Northage 23lb peg 32 pole fished paste; 2nd Kieth Morris 21lb 8oz peg 52 pole fished pellet; 3rd Mick Burrows 20lb 8oz peg 45; 4th Tommy Davey 20lb peg seven.
Apologies to British Gas AC for not including their match weights from Kiveton waters in last week’s column. They were: 1st Bob Stott 15lb 06; 2nd Mick Simpson 14lb 12; 3rd Mick Pogson 14lb 04; 4th Ronnie Winn 13lb 12.
Also, two other matches to report on from the anglers from British Gas the first was at Bank End Fisheries on Thursday 24th August on the West Lake. 1st Nigel Barrett 72lb 14oz peg eight; 2nd Steve Pogson 68lb 04oz peg five; 3rd Pete Brown 68lb peg 15; 4th Jack Woodhead 64lb peg 10. All weights took on floating pole with pellet, meat as bait.
The second match was on Saturday at Kiveton Farm Fisheries on the bottom lake. 1st Mick Drage 110lb 10oz peg 69; 2nd Ron Winn 49lb peg 63; 3rd Tony Payne 29lb 02oz peg 57. The winner surfaced fished biscuit, meat and paste to take carp up to 12lb while the runner-up used floating pole, pellet, and paste as bait, carp up to 10lb.
Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery AC held two events, the first was an open match to be fished on 25th August – the second a Dad and Lad, Mother and Daughter, Granddad and Grandson or any combination fished on 26th August.
Both matches were fished on the Chesterfield canal at Kiveton Park. We had 10 people for the first match seven adults and three lads. Alex McAuslin did the paperwork associated with parental consent. Result of the Saturday match: 1st John Easy 3lb 2oz; 2nd Tom Barlow 2lb 2oz; 3rd Harold Edge 2lb 1oz. They also ran a match for the three kids: 1st Carl Burns 1lb 1oz; 2nd Joe Dilks 4.5oz; 3rd Corrie Fuller 3oz.
The second match on the Saturday was a pairs match of any combination, featuring four pairs of granddad and grandson – Alex McAuslin and Luke Smith, Keith Ward and Callum Ward, Graham Eblett and Kieran Cranswick, Jack Osborne and David Booth.
They also had two father and son combinations with one dropping out. James Oliver (aged 93) and John Oliver (67) did not fish as one was ill. Keith and Danny Buxton, Graham and Conall Doughty competed. There was two husband and wife combinations, the Easys, and the Gingells.
The final two entrants were Corrie and Scott Fuller, Carl Byrne and James Saxby.
Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery AC have bought a shield to fish for every year during National Fishing. 1st Mr and Mrs Easy 7lb 10oz; 2nd Alex McAuslin and Luke Smith 3lb 15oz; 3rd Graham Eblett and Kieran Cranswick 1lb 15oz.
Members of Worksop Piscatorials held their latest match on Sandhill Lake on Sunday, 1st was Terry Evans 8lb 1oz peg 61 roach and skimmer caught on the pole using worm; 2nd John Haywood 4lb 15oz peg 56 roach and skimmer, caught on the pole using maggot; 3rd Tony Payne 4lb 10oz peg 60 roach and skimmer, using maggot & pole. Section winners were Mick Pogson 2lb 13oz and Jack Woodhead 2lb 11oz.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
THE popular Scrooby venue hosted a lot of club matches recently. Members of the Greyhound AC who fished Field Pond on Monday 21st August. 1st Arthur Bird 51lb 6oz peg 12 pole fished luncheon meat mixed net; 2nd Malc Rushton 46lb 6oz peg 14; 3rd Kieth Morris 44lb 6oz peg six.
Members of the Hodthorpe WMC held their usual Wedneday evening three-hour match on Field Pond. 1st Ian Mellish 44lb 5oz peg eight pole fished paste; 2nd Roy Butterfield 40lb 5oz peg 36; 3rd Lee Godley 38lb 2oz peg 30.
On Sunday, members of the New Middle club AC held their latest match on the popular field pond. 1st Brian Law 28lb 7oz peg 32 pole fished pellet and corn; 2nd Dave Smith 23lb 3oz peg 30; 3rd Roy Davis 18lb 11oz peg 38.
Members of Flamingo AC held their match on the top pond. 1st T. Morris 32lb 6oz peg 12 pellet and paste for a skimmer net; 2nd Kevin Wood 17lb 9oz peg six; 3rd Steve Hill 9lb 8oz peg 10.
Bill informs us that pleasure anglers on Long Island are using pole fished paste in the margins to great effect with fish landed to 12lb plus, but on Lily Pond the fish are still responding to shallow fished pellet or caster on the long pole.

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
ON Saturday at the Ranskill venue were the Jays AC of Langold. 1st Brian Garsden 41lb 6oz peg 16 pole and pellet for mixed net; 2nd Neil Broadbent 39lb 13oz peg 17; 3rd S. Trough 38lb 7oz peg nine.
Pleasure angler Mick Jackson had 37 carp in a 200lb plus net from peg five on the second strip using bomb fished sweetcorn or luncheon meat. On the carp lake, J. Thompson had nine fish, the best to 24lb 2oz, Mick Taylor landing three 20s in a six-fish catch the best a 24lb mirror.
Over on the trout lake Brian Smith of Worksop had an impressive 9lb 7oz rainbow in his 13-fish bag using black buzzer and floating line.
Garry Shipley employed various damsels and floating line to net 14 fish to 5lb.

DAIWA HALLCROFT ROUND-UP
THE popular Junior Summer Series is nearing its conclusion. We would like to congratulate the team on a well organised league.
Tuesday. Bridge Over 14s (33 pegs): 1st Sam Mumby, Retford, 50lb 12oz peg island four fishing pellet and corn at 6m for carp and skimmers to continue his winning streak. 2nd Gavin Leversidge, Worksop; 40lb 10oz peg island 12 fishing paste and pellet at 10m for carp and skimmers; 3rd R. Drage, Retford, 40lb 8oz; 4th O. Holden, Hallcroft, 27lb 14oz.
Under 14s: 1st James List, Retford, 24lb 6oz peg outer 48 fishing pole with pellet and corn; 2nd Jake Turner, Retford, 22lb 14oz peg outer 51 fishing meat and corn at 6m and in the margins for carp; 3 Joe Hamshaw, Goldthorpe, 15lb 14oz peg outer 20 fishing pellet at 8m for mainly skimmers; 4th L. Baldwin, Hallcroft, 12lb 12oz peg outer 33.

Sherwood Forest Farm Park
HOLMDALE Lake, Wednesday, Fun League open, 26 fished: 1st Neil Wilkinson, Sherwood Forest Fishery, 101lb 3oz peg 24; 2nd Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery, 91lb 8oz peg 32; 3rd Jim Strachan, Sherwood Forest Fishery, 87lb 12oz peg four.
Wilkinson fished pole and paste out at 8m feeding two small balls of groundbait at the start he had carp move onto it straight away. He had four fish in the first half hour, the had 25 more (7lb) steady through the match ending with another ton up weight of 101lb 3oz.
It could have been different if runner-up Pete Ellis had got all the fish out that he hooked, fishing pole and corn down the margin he had 20 carp (9lb/10lb) short of the winner with 91lb 8oz.
Sherwood Lake, Tuesday, 21 fished: 1st John Holmes, Dynamite Mayfair, 45lb 3oz peg 55; 2nd Shaun Lamber,t Peg One Angling Centre Pinxton, 43lb 11oz peg 40; 3rd Ian Boyd, Rivendell AC, 39lb 11oz peg 63.
A very close match, Holmes won his first open match at this venue fishing pole and pellet and caster with a mixed net of skimmers and carp (2lb) plus chub roach and tench fishing two lines. He kept the fish interested by only catching two fish on each line then resting it. Lambert fished pole and pellet at 8m, ending with 43lb 11oz of carp and skimmers.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
DEREK Sibbering over at Harlesthorpe Dam at Clowne says the small pond is responding to pole fished pellet which are accounting for mixed nets of bream, carp, roach and tench up to 50lb.
Pleasure anglers around the boathouse on the large lake are landing carp to 14lb and bream to 6lb using the same approach and sweetcorn and match weights are being topped with 28lb plus.