Dynamite Bait Festival Day Four Day four was another scorcher and saw some top match fishing action. The weather has been kind to us all week (although some might not agree with this being as they are so burnt!) and as the week has gone on we can see that the fish are showing signs of beginning […]

Angel Of the North Fishing Lakes Open and Match Catch Rates to 22nd April 07  Swifts  have started to return to Angel this week very early!, great to see them back and excellent to watch and observe their feeding over the water, good for anglers to observe birds feeding as this also show that fish also […]

Holmedale Lake Pairs Series Round 5Sunday 22/4/07 26 fished 1st Pete Hodgetts Andy’s Mansfield Angling peg 31, 91-12-02nd Kev Baxter Diawa Trentman peg 16, 86-0-03rd Barry Moat Mosborough Tackle peg 22, 81-13-04th Norman Powers Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 33, 70-11-05th Tony Caley Mosborough Tackle peg 35, 69-15-06th Craig Brazier Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 19, 68-15-0Again […]

Wednesday 18.04.07Over 50’s20 fished on Bank & Moors 1st Carl Astbury (SBS) 98.2.0 Peg 23 Bank 2nd Mal Watson (Daiwa Gordon Lge) 67.14.0 Peg 2 Moors 3rd Derek Hopkins (Redditch) 51.12.0 Peg 5 Moors Thursday 19.04.07Cost-Cutter17 fished on Silver 1st Pete Wellington (Mosella) 75.6.0 Peg 10 2nd Andy Newton (Maver Tipton) 62.0.0 Peg 25 3rd Ken Sherriff (Waters […]

14.04.07Daiwa Hallcroft Open (Saturday)Moat  (36 pegs)1 M Williams, Daiwa Hallcroft, 74-10-0; peg outer 24 Martin Williams, outer peg 24, improved on his yesterday’s place by winning today’s Open with 74-10-0 alternating pellet waggler and pole up in the water to take carp to 6lb.2 L Hewison, Leegem, 59-6-0; peg island 29 Second was Lee Hewison […]

Dynamite Bait FestivalDay ThreeDay three was another gloriously sunny day (there were quite a few rosy cheeked anglers in the pub last night and it wasn’t to do with beer), Day three has always been a bit of a make or break point of the festival where those not fairing as well need to up […]

White Acres Dynamite Baits Festival 2007  Welcome to our second major festival of the year the Dynamite Baits Festival. It had been two weeks since the previous festival and now we have another festival sell out with 180 anglers raring to go. The lakes being used for this festival are Pollawyn, Bolingey, Gwinear, Porth and […]

White Acres Preston Innovations/Coca Cola Intermediates Festival 2007 This year saw the introduction of a new festival to the White Acres calendar, as the juniors only go up to 15 there was a gap for the next age group of anglers so we decided to run a festival to cater for 16 – 18 years […]

Tuesday 10.04.07Super Cost-Cutter28 fished on Silver 1st Keith Hall (Charlemont) 72.12.0 Peg 20 2nd Bill Hill (Dudley Bait & Tackle) 68.6.0 Peg 44 3rd Derek Hopkins (Redditch) 57.8.0 Peg 17 Wednesday 11.04.07Over 50’s21 fished on Bank & Moors 1st Keith Scott (Swadlincote) 84.3.0 Peg 10 Bank 2nd Mark Tooze (SBS) 76.9.0 Peg 15 Moors 3rd Pete Wellington (Mosella) […]

Angel of the North Match and Catch report to 15th April 07 Bagging up at Angel as water temperatures increase, all lakes fishing as if it is July,  As water temperatures are rising anglers are needing to change both tactics and hook baits used. ie tactics fishing tight to the margins, water depth 2ft 8 inches […]

Holmedale Lake Pairs Series Round 4Sunday 15/4/07 28 fished 1st Neil Wilkinson Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 31, 120-7-01st Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 46, 80-3-03rd Kev Parks Mosborough Tackle peg 20, 76-15-04th Craig Singleton STAR UPH peg 35, 62-7-05th Kev Baxter Diawa Trentman peg 24, 59-2-06th Dean Richmond Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 29, 57-13-0Neil […]

07.04.07Daiwa Hallcroft Open (Saturday)Moat  (36 pegs)1 E Pickering, Daiwa Dons, 61-8-0; peg outer 11With flat calm conditions the fishing was always going to be hard on this Moatopen. Emma Pickering led the way from peg outer 11fishing pole and pellet upin the water at 13m for 15 carp to 6lb and a winning weight of […]

THURSDAY ROVERRESIDENTS MATCH12th APRIL 2007 135 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS1st MICHAEL OGORMAN 139lb 02ozMIDDLETON ANGLING Peg 21 JennysLong pole fishing pellet shallow      2nd SHAUN STENTON 128lbFISHING REPUBLIC Peg 26 Pollawyn  Waggler & pellet3rd   DANNY GRIFFITHS 120lb NEPTUNE PRODUCTS Peg 36 Twin Oaks          10 Meter pole & corn   4th   MARK STAINSBY 110lb 04ozDICK CLEGG BARNSLEY Peg 27 Pollawyn          Pellet waggler5th   JOHN […]

Tuesday 03.04.07Super Cost-Cutter23 fished on Meadow 1st Pete Wellington (Mosella) 65.2.0 Peg 15 2nd Chris Clemson (R & D) 34.12.0 Peg 59 3rd Howard Kaye (Sensas) 27.12.0 Peg 39 Junior Open12 fished on Bank 1st Luke Foster (Moorlands) 29.6.0 Peg 7 2nd Greg Foster (Moorlands) 25.9.0 Peg 4 3rd Joe East (Kidderminster) 5.4.0 Peg 10 Wednesday 04.04.07Over 50’s20 fished […]

      Holmedale Lake Pairs Series Round 3Sunday 8/4/07 25 fished 1st Neil Wilkinson Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 49, 93-10-01st Rob Ward Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 22, 60-3-03rd Craig Singleton STAR UPH peg 35, 59-8-04th Kristian Powers Peg One Angling Centre peg 20, 56-12-05th Gary Kirby Mosborough Tackle peg 31, 50-15-06th Jim Strachan Sherwood Forest Fishery […]