Nottingham News

WE start this week with news of a local pairs winter league which is being organised by Gordon Smith of Worksop AA on Sandhills Lake sponsored by Geoff Mawby of Gateford Angling Supplies.
There will be three Sunday matches starting on 10th December followed by 14th January and the final one on 28th January.
Entry fee for this mini series is £10 per pair with individual pools of £12 per person on each match. For further details contact Gordon on 01909 477399. There are no bait bans and blood worm and joker are allowed.

CLUB RESULTS
HATFIELD Arms and the Peg 31 of Dinnington held a winter league match on 29th October in warm and sunny conditions on the Chesterfield canal between Greys Bridge and St Peter’s Lane.
Results: 1st Kev Simpson 5lb 1oz peg 15 roach on pole fished bread punch; 2nd Craig Crosby 3lb 9oz peg 11 roach on pole fished blood worm; 3rd Chris Crosby 3lb 4oz peg four roach on pole fished blood worm.
Twenty-one members of the Worksop Angling Supplies Batchelors Angling Club made the trip to the Candy Corner Fisheries where they tackled the AJs pond on Sunday 29th October.
1st Sean Batty 48lb 12oz peg one pole/pellet for carp; 2nd Kevin Chantry 37lb 0oz peg 10 pole/pellet for carp; 3rd Mick Eshelby 31lb 6oz peg 12 pole/pellet for carp.
Results from the first winter open match on the Kiveton Stretch of the Chesterfield canal last Saturday were: 1st Matthew Godfrey (Worksop Angling Supplies) 8lb 2oz. 2nd Joe Flynn (Kiveton Club) 4lb 4oz; 3rd John Smith (Wales and Kiveton Park Colliery) 3lb 15oz.
The open matches will be weekly from 18th November with the draw in the Station car park at 8am.
Two matches to report on from the lads at the Greyhound AC, both taking place on the Newark Dyke. The first match was at Stainforth on 22nd October.
1st Alan Sargeson 11lb 4oz peg 22 using the stick float and maggot for bream and roach; 2nd Dave Robinson 5lb 14oz peg 30 stick float; 3rd Adam Jackson 4lb 6oz peg 12 using the feeder.
The second match of the league campaign took place last Saturday on the Crow Trees section where the anglers found the dyke running low and clear and the fish present in small pockets.
1st Russ Brown 10lb 12oz peg 13 stick float maggot and caster; 2nd Cliff Brailsford 8lb 10oz peg 15 stick float; 3rd Dave Robinson and Mark O’ Sullivan both with 5lb (Dave Robinson landed a chub of 4lb 12oz).

LAKESIDE ROUND-UP
THE Ranskill venue is still fishing exceptionally well with pole fished maggot or castor being the chosen method for taking mixed bags on Saturday.
On Sunday, Archie Brook won the Mark Homes Winter League off peg six with another mixed net weighing 40lb 3oz this time using bomb fished meat. On the strip lakes, pleasure angler Alex Davies presented a meat ball or sweet corn hook bait to take an 80lb+ net of carp, goldfish, tench and roach.
On the carp lake, Steve Booth landed four fish, the best a common of 20lb 2oz from peg three using boilie hookbait.
On the trout lake, 15 fish graced the net of Steve Jackson the best fish in this catch an impressive rainbow of 9lb using various buzzers and floating line and John Dawson banked 18 rainbows to 4lb casting a yellow diddy on a floating line.

LODGE FARM ROUND-UP
THE latest round of the Gateford Angling Winter League took place at the Scrooby Tops venue last Sunday on the Lily Pond.
1st Richard Hardy 42lb 9oz peg 52 sweetcorn on the waggler; 2nd Steve Laden 17lb 4oz peg 57 pole and maggot; 3rd Mick Simpson 16lb 15oz peg 70 maggot feeder.
The first round of the Lodge Farm Winter League was held on the top pond last Sunday. 1st Adam Wake 18lb 15oz peg 46 skimmers and perch pole and pinkie; 2nd Dave Frost 10lb 3oz peg 45; 3rd Paul Martin 8lb 14oz peg 34.
The Long Island produced a winning net of 45lb 7oz in the Browning Leegems event on Sunday where good weights showed all around the lake and of the field, the best match weight was 51lb 6oz of carp skimmers, chub and barbell taken on pole fished worm from the in-form peg two.

RIVERSIDE ROUND-UP
IN the open match on Tuesday, 1st John Moore 27lb 11oz peg 10 meat; 2nd Jeff Bennett 27lb 5oz peg 33 pole and pellet.
The results of Friday’s open match: 1st Les Richmond 28lb 7oz peg 32 using the worm on the pole; 2nd Reg Turner 27lb 5oz peg 38 using the pole and pellet method.
And in the Saturday open match at the Riverside venue: 1st Keith Riddle 27lb 14oz peg 36 using the pole and pellet method; 2nd Les Richmond 25lb 12oz peg four worm on the pole.

THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
PLEASE note if any of you have entries to the fish of the year competition, we need photos and details by the end of this month please to enable the judging to take place before Christmas.