The Cadets category of the Angling Trust Cadets, Juniors & Intermediates National Championship on Saturday 2nd July 2011 saw four times previous winners, Smartbait Leeds coming back from last year’s second place position to take the Championship title back for 2011 with 13 points (47. 87 kg). Second place was Worksop & District AA with 11 points (49. 13 kg).
SW super league practice match Bristol Avon at Swineford. . . Crane and Jack Whites 17/7/2011 48 Anglers Fished The Anglers were well spaced along the 3 sections today, which meant some long walks.
Results for open contests week ending 3rd July 2011. . . All lakes fishing well with match weights of 150lb being caught and pleasure anglers reaching weights of 120lb+Top PoolChopped worm and caster to the islands and down the edges catching well with f1’s up to 2lb, skimmers roach and perch to 1lb.
The latest match results from Sherwood Forest Fishery. . . Sherwood, Langdale & Holmedale LakesSaturday 16/711Teams of 436 fishedMichael drew peg 14 on the Langdale fishing the pole and caster he landed 70lb of Ide – 1lb and 6 carp – 3lb for a total of 82lb 11oz and breaking that lake match record by 12lb, team mate Danny Jupp had the best weight on the Sherwood lake with a mixed net of skimmers ide and roach at peg 38 on the pole and caster for 67lb 15oz but they could only help there team Tupton A into 2nd place with 7 points, Kimberly came out the top team with the help of Norman and Kristian Powers both winning their sections on the Holmedale lake with 6 points, last years winners Shirebrook were 3rd with 17 points.
Top northern match organiser, Paul Caygill is running three Sunday matches on the ‘Junky’ in readiness for the Division One National on the 6th August. Paul will be running his matches alongside his ‘Happy League’ and he has the full use of the canal so expect some large attendances. The dates for the matches are as follows: • 17th July• 24th July• 31st JulyIf you are interested in any of these matches then contact Paul on 07976779983 for more details. .
The latest results from the Garbolino Linholme Open Match. . . Friday Open 2pm till 7pm 14 fished • 1 Stuart Grey (hayfields) peg 16 beeches caught on meat for 169lb 6oz • 2 Luke Butterworth (barnsley juniors) peg 9 beeches caught on pellet in edge for 161lb 1oz • 3 Ken Wade (lindholme vetreans) peg 12 strip caught on bread for 158lb 3oz Sat Open Beeches and Oasis 22 fished • 1 Richard Wood (lindholme) peg 27 beeches caught into reeds for 99lb 5oz • 2 Oliver Scothorne (halkon hunt) peg 32 beeches caught on meat under tree for 69lb 7oz • 3 Ben Fisk (middy) peg 21 beeches caught on maggot and pellets for 63lb 5oz • 4 Mark Booth (garbolino lindholme) peg 26 beeches caught on meat for 58lb 5oz • 5 Les Marshal (lindholme) peg 25 beeches caught on pellets for 52lb 5oz • 6 Sean Cammeron (garbolino lindholme) peg 60 oasis caught on pellets for 51lb 2oz Sunday Open Willows and Oasis 25 fished • 1 Michael Owen (garbolino lindholme) peg 60 oasis caught on caster for 95lb 13oz • 2 Nick Speed (ultimate barnsley) peg 22 willows caught onmeat for 95lb 12oz • 3 Pete Reilly (garbolino lindholme) peg 5 willows caught on maggot for 91lb 1oz of small carp • 4 John Allerton (tricast) peg 2 willows caught on maggot and pellets for 88lb 3oz • 5 Alan Crouch (garbolino lindholme) peg 52 oasis caught on pellets for 76lb 3oz • 6 Mark Booth (garbolino lindholme) peg 50 oasis caught on caster for 72lb 15oz .
There were some surprises in the results this year for all the teams taking part in the European Coarse Angling Championships in Opole, Poland from 25th – 26th June 2011. Drennan Team England consisted of; Mark Downes and Mark Addy (Joint Managers), Alan Scotthorne, Steve Gardener, Will Raison, Sean Ashby, Darren Cox and Steve Hemmingray. Drennan Team England averaged around 250gm per angler per day on practice with some perch to be caught so the team targeted them and the bleak that averaged around 180 to the kilo. There were tiny fish to be caught around 0.
Dacron connectors are all the rage at present and these versions from Maver look great. They are available in three sizes to suit elastics from a tiny No1 right up to a 20+ Dual Core, so no matter what elastic you prefer there will be a connector here to suit. Supplied with three in a pack. RRP: £2.
When anglers of the calibre of Darren Cox and Steve Cooke work together to design a rod range you can probably expect something pretty good. Dave Harrell takes a look at their work… Match rod actions are something that have interested me for many years and having been involved in rod designs and developments myself in a previous career I like to think I know a bit when it comes to passing judgement on them. This new range of four feeder rods has been developed by Darren Cox and Steve Cooke, two incredibly successful feeder anglers in their own rights with a long list of match wins behind them on various waters around the UK, so as you can probably imagine I was looking forward to having a look at the finished products when they arrived at the Match Fishing office. My first reaction when I took all four rods out of the bags and set them up was one of surprise, as I’d expected to waggle another set of soft, parabolic through-action rods, which seems to be the current trend with virtually every rod producer.
Sensas is making big inroads into the commercial-fishery bait market and its brand-new range of soft pellets caught the eye of Joe Carass at a recent trade show – he just had to take a closer look. A nglers who fish commercial venues are spoilt for choice! Not only have they got hundreds of venues around the country to fish, they also have hundreds of baits with which to target the fish! There are many brands on the bait market these days and it’s often difficult to gain an edge over other competitors. Sensas has looked at this problem, and it would have been very easy for the company to re-badge some bulk-bought pellets and sell them on. It didn’t want to do this, however, and set out to design a range of soft pellets that would appeal to every angler who visits commercial venues… and that’s where the new commercial-fishery range of soft hooker pellets comes in.
