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Sunday 15th  September - Summer League Round 8  (Reg Howard Trophy) The forecast of increasingly worsening weather proved correct with the match ending in torrential rain and gale force winds.  On the day you really needed to be pegged in the Lower Basin to feature…

Pairs League Round 5 The first half of the match was hit by torrential downpours that saw the level of the water rise over an inch in an hour and gave everyone a good soaking!  The Bude Bay Pirates continued thier run of form with two good bags of silvers from Adrian Hill and Peter Giles…

Sunday 1st September - Summer League Round 7 (Bude Autospares Trophy) With an average weight of 10lbs 6ozs and few 'bonus fish', it was a day for the silvers in the annual wag 'n' mag only match.  In the end bonus fish did make the difference with Nathan Underwood tipping the balance with…

Sunday 25th August - Summer League Round 6 (Phyllis Turner Trophy) With the Phyllis Turner Trophy a rudd and roach only contest Adrian Hill put the old school hemp and tares tactics to good use amassing over 9lbs from the Lower Basin, a bag that included a number of quality silver bars. …

The annual charity match raised £164, the Associatioin does not yet have a nominated cause to support this year and the Committee, who will be meeting in early September, would like to hear your suggestions as to what the cause(s) may be.  As for the match itself the big fish failed to…

Sunday 11th August - Summer League Round 5 (Falcon Cup) Even with the hangover from hell Simon Allen managed to make it 3 wins from 5, landing a 10lb carp early doors to secure the Falcon Cup.  Fishing the Bird Hide section Simon picked up a number of other 'bits' to…

Sunday 7th July - Summer League Round 4 (Martin Group Services) Simon Allen                    17lb 5oz  Dave Allen           …

Stu Bell Trophy The Pairs League reached the half way stage on a day you could fry an egg on the towpath and so unsurprisingly the fishing was not as fast and furious as in recent contests.  With two hours to go Paul Braund's carp swim on peg 35 came to life and four carp and a bream later he…

In what were excellent conditions it was the Second Basin that produced the best results with bags of silvers in what was a tight (slabless) encounter on Tuesday evening. Dick Turner had the heaviest bag of the contest, just shy of 7lbs of silvers including a 1lb 9oz perch, but partner Duncan…

 Free introduction to coarse fishing day at Whalesborough Lake Friday 9th August 2013 – The year of family fishing fun… After the resounding success of last year’s events the Environment Agency are once again running some family introduction to coarse fishing days and will be including…

Sunday 23rd June - Summer League Round 3 The match was fished in gale force winds of pole breaking strength (ask Sailor Hill!) and single carp early on was enough to give Duncan Edwards his first ever vistory on the canal from unfancied peg 13.  As the slabs did not show in…

Sunday 16th June - Summer League Round 2 With a forecast of torrential rain from start to finish it was a low turnout for round 2, and unfortunately the weatherman was correct with everyone getting a good soaking!  Simon Allen completed the double with a fine haul of silvers to win…

Team consistency is what it takes to win and fine individual section wins by Duncan Edwards and Ian Gray was not enough to get their respective teams into a top two finish.  Alternating between the tip and the pole Duncan netted a succession of small carp and skimmers from unfancied peg 12 to…

Sunday 9th June - Summer League Round 1 As often happens in the early weeks of the season the bream fail to show in significant numbers during the day and so match weights were low for the oldest trophy competition of the season compared to the recent evening contest.  Fishing peg 33 Simon…

Dates for Himalayan Balsam Pulls There are three Himalayan Balsam working parties over the coming weeks.  These will be on: - Saturday 22nd June (Postponed) - Thursday 11th July  - Saturday 20th July On each date the main meeting point will be at 10am outside the Tourist Information…