Angling Lines: Battle of the big weights

There were some great weights at Railway Club’s match at Mill Dam Fisheries on Sunday, with all anglers catching from the start.

Around the lake there were fish being lost mainly due to the fish winning the battle. These fish really do fight. There were also a few pole breakages, much to the disappointment and frustration of those anglers.

There were some very close weights from the top six and it could’ve been anyone’s match in the end.

It was won by Barry Young, on peg 23, with 205lb 13oz, followed in second by Dean Senkiw on peg 15 with 204-11, and Leanne Knott on peg four with 198-13.

Only one angler was disqualified because his net went over the 60lb rule.

Results, 1 Barry Young, 205-13, peg 23; 2 Dean Senkiw, 204-11, peg 15; 3 Leanne Knott, 198-13, peg four; 4 Neil Campion, 197-5, peg 19; 5 Chris Young, 183-11, peg 16; 6 Martin Pestell, 174-14, peg seven.

Collingham had 22 members turn out for their annual pairs match.

The winners were Nigel Lale and Kenny Clark who were both second on their lakes to win with four points.

The match was won by John Spowage, on peg 30 Centenary, with 106-04, fishing short pole and feeder.

Second place went to Nigel Lale, fishing pellet short for 103-07, on peg 14 Centenary.

Will Sweeney managed third on peg 16 Willow lake with 101-00 caught on feeder and then pole short later in the match.

Fourth went to Kenny Clark with 97-07 from Willow peg eight, fishing short pole with caster and corn.

There wasn’t a bad turn-out for Grove Angling Club with 18 anglers fishing Balderton Lake.

Marcus Colby was first on peg 43 with 28-6 of bream and carp caught on feeder tactics using sweetcorn.

Second place went to Joe Flannagan on peg 15 with 19-01 using the same method on corn with bream, carp and tench.

Third was Antony Revill, who caught bream and carp with a weight of 13-09 using corn and maggot feeder on peg 29, and Dom Roche was fourth on peg nine with 12lb of bream carp and skimmers on corn, maggot, feeder and waggler

Southwell AC fished Lodge Farm Long Island on Sunday.

The winner, John Clarke, fished pellet feeder with dead maggot on the hook from peg 97 to a gap in the island.

He was folllowed by Fred Cooper with 79-15.

Results, 1 John Clarke 97-14; 2 Fred Cooper 79-15; 3 Phil. Hall, 64-13; 4 R. Martin 62-05; 5 G. Thornton, 55-13; 6 Mark Davis, 55-07.

Next match: Springvale on August 14.

There was a slow start to Martin Pestell’s open match at Portlands Fisheries, Canal Lake, on Sunday but the fish came on in the last couple of hours

The match saw 28 turn out to fish and so only two pegs were removed from the draw.

The fish didn’t have much room to hide.

Paul Harsley won from peg 29, which was far from favourite but Paul managed to keep fish feeding all day for the win.

He was closely followed by Dale Whelan from another peg no one fancied — peg 21 — but Dale managed to keep fish feeding.

Results, 1 Paul Harsley, peg 29, 176-04; 2 Dale Wheelen, peg 21, 172-12; 3 Daniel Lacey, peg 23, 102-00; section one Ryan Frost, peg one, 61-06; section two Alan Watts, peg five, 96-09; section three Sam Stewart, peg ten, 98-15; section four Martin Pestell, peg 12, 93-13; section five Rob Taylor, peg 19, 71-15; section six Phill Charlton, peg 26, 93-15.