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Summer League R6 2014
Summer League Round 6, Falcon Cup, Sunday 27th July: Long standing Associate Member and visitor to Bude, Jim Escott chose not to fish against the reeds from the Bird Hide section as is the popular tactic. Instead he fished a short pole and amassed over 23lbs of skimmers on the...
Summer League R5 2014
Summer League Round 5, Sunday 12th July: Apologies, no report as I was away fishing in France! Result as Follows: Pos: Angler Lbs ozs Peg No. 1 Simon Allen 20lbs 6oz 33 2 Ian Gray 12lbs 13oz 19 3 Kevin Hill 12lbs 5oz 13 4 Nathan Underwood 10lbs 14oz 20...
Pairs League (Eve) R6
Pairs League Round 6 (Evening) Tuesday 8th July It was the first maximum pointer of the pairs league season with the New Halwill Hustlers handsomely winning both sections (once again from end pegs!). The Bream Master Nathan Underwood finally struck 'slab' and netted 22lbs of the match anglers sluggish fighting...
Free Introductory Fishing Day
2014 – Another year of family fishing fun… The Environment Agency is once again running free introduction to fishing day at Whalesborough Lake. After the resounding success of last years events we are once again running some family introduction to coarse fishing days. During the Summer Holidays we are running...
Summer League R4 2014
Summer League Round 4, Sunday 29th June: The Bird Hide section was the place to be with three of the top four weights coming from this section. However, a 14lb carp and a slab taken by Duncan Edwards pegged in the Lower Basin won the day with close on 20lbs...
Pairs League (Eve) R5
Pairs League Round 5 (Evening) Tuesday 24th June With a Kevin Hill and Ady Larkins both taking second spot in their respective sections it was an easy first win of the season for the Lager Louts from respective end pegs, a feature of this season that appears to have a...
Summer League R3 2014
Summer League Round 3, Sunday 22nd June: Report To Follow Pos: Angler Lbs ozs Peg No. 1 Ian Gray 16lbs 11oz 42 2 Dick Turner 10lbs 7oz 20 3 Nathan Underwood 9lbs 3oz 30 4 Ian Croxton 9lbs 3oz 18 5 Peter Horton 8lbs 9oz 46 6 Simon Allen 7lbs...
Summer League R2 2014
Summer League Round 2, Sunday 15th June: With Nathan Underwood drawing end peg 35 it was not a surprise when he netted the winning catch of close on 28lbs. Nathan used the long pole to land four slabs, a couple of small carp and a succession of silvers throughout the...
Evening Pairs (R4)
Pairs League Round 4 (Evening) The first evening match of the year was fished in dry, if somewhat blustery conditions with the heavy rain from the previous night and into the afternoon putting the fish down. We all know consistency is the name of the game in a pairs match...
Himalayan Balsam Pull
Gareth Cann the Ranger has advised that the Balsam is unfortunately growing just as well as all the other plants (growing fit to bust) and there will be plenty to see and pull on Thursday 26th June. The Team will meet outside the Tourist Information Centre in the Crescent car...
Monica Jones Cup
Summer League Round 1: The opening contest of the season was a mirror image of last year with the Lower Basin failing to produce the expected slabs, the only difference this time was the winning peg (no.33 last year). Dave 'End Peg' Allen was on no.34 and took a succession...
Pairs League R3 2014
With the continued patchy fishing at Whalesborough Lake it was decided to fish Hele Bridge Stock Pond and Middle Pound Sections of the canal. Dave Allen drew fancied peg 9 from the Middle Pound but only just took the top weight in the section by an ounce from Peter Giles...
Pairs League R2 2014
For the second pairs match running it was a struggle in the Whalesborough Lake section with most of the larger weights being attributable to carp. The Middle Pound section improved on the last match with some good bags of silvers being produced. Len Codlin had top weight in the Middle...
Pairs League R1 2014
The first of this years Pairs matches was fished at Whalesborough Lake and the Middle Pound. It was not the outcome expected with anglers struggling to catch on the Lake whilst Middle Pound on the whole produced the expected catches of roach. It was a last minute decision by Simon...
Website Update
Colleagues, Apologies or the protracted delay in getting the website back to a useable state. It is still not fully functioning but I am getting there. However, I am using the self help and diagnostic advice available on the tinterweb so its slow going. Please stay patient and hopefully we...