With the weather being milder than last week, fishing was expected to be better in this match. As it was the spare date for the Christmas Match, weight does not count towards the Match Championship. The Roach built most weights on this one apart from a very welcome 2lb 10oz Chub for Ed Palmer. This weeks winner was Colin Fowler with a lovely bag of Roach for 8lb 8oz. Colin also lost a very good Roach estimated at a good 1lb 8oz. In 2nd place was Tony Crossley with 6lb of Roach and 3rd place went to Ray Allen with 5lb 4oz.

Conditions weren’t ideal for this one but there was a very good turnout. The very cold weather made fishing extremely hard. In 1st place was Ray Allen with 3lb 0oz. Second was Lee Wakeman with 2lb 13oz, 3rd was Bill Wicker with 2lb 7oz and 4th was Ditch Howard with 1lb 8oz. Everyone went home with a prize and a great day was had by all.
 

To all members, if you have a great day’s fishing on one of our waters, please let us know about it and drop us a picture or two as the new site is growing every day and it’s good to let our members see what we can catch in our waters. Any reports/catches will be posted straight away.

This was a bit of a grueller to say the least, with the river rising and colouring up as the day went on. Most anglers caught a few fish but only 4 bothered to weigh in at the end. Match winner was Ditch Howard with 5lb 4oz, 2nd was Mick Smith with 3lb and third was Tony Crossley with 1lb 7oz. Martin Hill was the only other angler to weigh, so he took 4th spot with just 6oz. Fish of the day was Perch but unfortunately, nobody caught one. This is a one off match, so weight is not counted towards the Match Championship.

The Society are pleased to announce that 12 large VS Carp were hand picked, weighed, microchipped, photographed and introduced to Barden Lake on Sunday morning. Although it was a wet and windy start, it was a good turnout from the regular Carp anglers and it was a very well organised operation with the twelve fish totalling 243lb which averages out at a fraction over 20lb. The fish ranged from 18lb – 23lb and there were 9 Mirrors and 3 Commons. We are sure the fish will do well and become our next generation of lumps. Thanks to all that helped with this on Sunday.

New member Andy Bungay, Pike fished Barden Lake for the first time on Thursday and used deadbait tactics to land two nice Pike of 18lb and 12lb. Well done Andy and hope you find one of the big twenties soon,  as we know they are in there.

Club Chairman and boat partner Jason Craven have been enjoying the predator fishing at Weirwood this season with Pike to mid doubles and Perch to 3lb 6oz. Pike have been caught to low twenties so far and Perch to 4lb+. Watch this space for a predator Classic Boat Competition next year.

This was a tough day’s fishing with weights low and no real specimen fish to bump up the weights, although there were a couple of nice Roach caught.
1st Place and ten points went to Dave Lee with 5lb 10oz, 2nd place and 9 points went to Ditch Howard with 5lb and 3rd place and 8 points went to Stuart Cottingham with 4lb 9oz.
Larry Howard won Fish of the day which was a nice Roach of 15oz. Please see running Championship Tables for placings and points which are up to date.

1st Ian Seamer  (2 fish) 14lb 4oz
2nd Austin Battell (2 fish) 4lb 2oz
3rd Larry Howard (1 fish) 2lb 9oz

There was one other fish caught which was unfortunately caught just after the final whistle.
Danny Constable was the captor of a lovely conditioned 20lb 2oz Pike which is a new Pb for him and will be entered for the yearly Specimen Pike Cup.
It was a difficult day for most with low and clear water conditions on Barden which made Lure fishing difficult and tonnes of leaves on the river which also made lure fishing difficult. Ian Seamer opted for deadbait tactics on Barden and had a good early response takeing both his fish in quick succession. Ian also missed one and had a dropped run. Larry Howard managed to catch the only fish from the river on a spoon mid morning whilst I persevered with the lures, eventually finding 2 small Fish in the last half hour on the Ballast Pit. Thanks to all that attended and congratulations to Ian Seamer, this years Champion.