Charity Match Sunday 9th April 2006 With glorious sunshine to start the morning around 30 anglers joined in the charity event at Springwood. FisherMen, women and children endured the battle of all weathers rain , hail, sleet even snow making it difficult conditions for the match. The results are listed below: 1ST-Thomas Parkin-Derby Juniors won with 17.00lb, fished […]

Dynamite Baits Festival, Day Three. It was a frosty cold start to the day but the sun shone through and the fishing went on. After yesterdays match the results were so close it could go anyway, has today’s action changed the leader board. Read on. A SECTION GWINEAR Another tough day on the lake, we were unable to obtain any […]

Starting on Wednesday May 24th and running for 11 consecutive Wednesdays Sherwood Forest Fishery Summer Afternoon Open Series Holmedale LakeEntry £20 and £12 pools per match Draw at 1pm at the cabin fish 2 – 8pm Open matches are run every bank holiday Monday on the Holmedale LakeDraw at 9am at the cabin fish 10-4pm £12 […]

Here are the results from today’s Golden Rod open held on Willow Lake15 fished1stDennis Holliday    Peg    25Weight    12lb 14ozBait    caster & lobwormsFished    pole over groundbaitCaught    orfe, chub & skimmersDennis comes from Biggleswade 2ndJohn Pratt    Peg    26Weight    10lb 10ozBait    squatt & pinkieFished    polecaught    tench, skimmers & perchJohn comes from Great Paxton 3rdTony Green    Peg    22Weight    7lb 10ozBait    casterFished    […]

Wednesday 29.03.06 – Open15 fished on Meadow & Island 1st Pete Wellington (Moorlands) 59.1.0 Peg 14 Meadow2nd Dave Highfield (Moorlands) 42.2.0 Peg 13 Island3rd Alan James (Moorlands) 41.0.0 Peg 53 Meadow Thursday 30.03.06 – Cost-Cutter22 fished on Bank & Middle 1st Andy Newton (Shimano Tipton) 44.0.0 Peg 1 Middle2nd Pete Wellington (Moorlands) 43.4.0 Peg 9 Middle3rd Alan Bartlam […]

Van den Eynde Festival final top ten 1st Gary Hamilton                       44 points          396lb 6oz2nd Harry Billing              44 points          229lb 13oz3rd Geoff Ringer                        44 points          228lb 12oz4th Grant Albutt              44 points          226lb 12oz5th Steve Ringer             44 points          194lb 11oz6th Des Shipp                43 points          298lb 7oz7th Stuart Mcguinness    40 points          270lb 11oz8th Ian Manning              38 points          199lb 4oz9th […]

Pairs series Round 2Holmedale Lake Sunday 2/4/06 30 fished 1st Barry Walters Stapleford Angling peg 22, 76-11-0 2nd Steve Clark Mansfield peg 51, 65-2-0 3rd Steve Keyworth Diawa Trentmen peg 26, 55-8-0 4th Carl Brown CB Home Improvements peg 21, 51-7-0 5th Neil Wilkinson Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 48, 50-2-0 6th Dave Dare Mansfield Angling peg 37, 45-11-0    Presentation was made very […]

 Holmedale Lake, Wednesday Fun league open 29/3/06  22 fished  1st Rob Ward Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 26, 82-0-0 2nd Jason Singlehurst Peg one Angling Centre 21 81-3-0 3rd Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 35, 52-7-0 4th Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 51, 44-4-0 5th John Darby Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 39, 44-3-0 6th Jason Thomas Peg One Angling […]

Pairs series Round 1Holmedale Lake Sunday 26/3/06 32 fished 1st Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 51, 104-4-0 2nd Jim Strachan Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 19, 59-3-0 3rd Steve Keyworth Diawa Trentmen peg 22, 40-4-0 4th Steve Clark Mansfield peg 41, 35-11-0 5th Jock Allison Kiveton Hall Fishery peg 32, 34-15-0 6th Don Clark Merlin Baits peg 35, 31-14-0    A nice spring […]

Fishery manager and top, top match ace, Mal Watson (tel: 07966 890086), is absolutely certain that the ‘worm will turn’ and fish will come sucking up as we move into April. Just a handful of neat worm, washed off, is all that is needed for a session, along with some casters and a pint of […]

Graham and match ace Pete Rice (so he tells me!) run the on-site tackle shop (tel: 01926 842188) and take all the match bookings. Graham gives Midland Angler readers the low-down this month and predicts some excellent fishing during the next few weeks. House 2 Pool (39 pegs), known as the ‘Extension’, will be maggot […]

Holmedale Lake, Wednesday Fun league open 22/3/06  20 fished  1st Craig Brazier Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 45, 43-5-0 2nd Rob Ward Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 5, 41-10-0 3rd Neil Wilkinson Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 26, 36-8-0 4th Pete Ellis Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 13, 33-3-0 5th Mick Langton Sherwood Forest Fishery peg 33, 26-3-0 6th Jason Thomas Peg One Angling […]

THURSDAY ROVER RESIDENTS MATCH23rd MARCH 2006 41 ANGLERS FISHED ALL WATERS 1st    MARK SPACY                                           98lb 02oz  BOATMANS REST Peg 19 Pollawyn  Bomb & meat to the island        2nd   NIGEL HURST                                            85lb 08ozHOYLEING Peg 25 PollawynBomb & meat to the islandFREE HOLIDAY/ PRESTON FESTIVAL/ TANKARD 3rd    MIKE BURNSTEEN                        79lb 14oz  MAP CHALLIS TACKLE SENSAS BVMG Peg 22 Pollawyn            Pole […]

The results for today’s Golden Rod open held on Willow Lake13 fished1stTerry Kelly    Peg    15Weight    10lb 5ozBait    red maggotFished    BombCaught    CarpTerry comes from Sawtry 2ndDennis Holliday    Peg    26Weight    9lb 6ozBait    Pinkie & red maggotFished    PoleCaught    Carp, roach & chubDennis comes from Biggleswade 3rdJohn Pratt    Peg    27Weight    8lbBait    PinkieFished    PoleCaught    Roach & chubJohn comes from Great Paxton Next weeks […]

Sherwood Lake Sunday 19/3/06 23 fished 1st Lee Payling Peg One Angling Centre peg 36, 10-11-0 2nd Mat Sanderson Peg One Angling Centre peg 51, 9-5-0 3rd Mick Clifton Peg One Angling Centre peg 41, 8-10-0 4th Simon Langton Peg One Angling Centre peg 18, 8-2-0 5th Bob Rimmington One Angling Centre peg 42, 8-1-0 6th Ralph Marshall Sherwood Forest Fishery peg […]