Coarse Comp Results 2025
Bideford And District Club Coarse Section Monthly Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Kevin Shears 48lb 2oz
2nd Keith Mountjoy 46lb 9oz
3rd Colin O'Hagan 36lb 5oz
4th Richard Jefferies 29lb 11oz
5th Stace N Dazza Polden 28lb 13oz
6th Antony Bentley 26lb 13oz
7th Paul Elworthy 19lb 12oz
23 members fished.
Kevin, our league leader, has further extended his lead to 8 points, with the match win on peg 13, he fished the pole with maggot over ground bait.
Second in the league and second on the day was Keith
with another pole caught net on peg 19, using soft pellets.
Third of off peg 10 was Colin, he has fished the straight lead and hard pellets.
Richard has fished the pellet waggler for the fourth.
spot.
Bideford And District Angling Club Coarse Section March Monthly Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Martin Turner 33 lb 7oz
2nd Warren Thornton 27lb 3oz
3rd Kevin Shears 23lb 2oz
4th Richard Jefferies 18lb 10oz
5th Nathan Underwood 17lb 8oz
6th Stephen Paul Sheller 16lb 12oz
7th Les Polden 15lb 14oz
24 members fished.
Almost every peg was taken for this 6 hour event, bright sunshine and a stiff South Easterly breeze has kept the weights modest.
Match organiser Martin has drawn the last peg in the bag ,number 16, a straight lead with pellet or meat, fished out to the cage has accounted for the bulk of his winning catch, backed up with some good fish on caster on the short pole.
Warren's second place from peg 9 consisted of larger carp on the pole to maggot over pellets.
Third place was our current league leader Kevin on peg 6, he's caught a nice mixed bag on pole fished maggot .
Richard has landed 5 carp for 4th place off of peg 13.
Once again the shallower section has proved tricky, Roger Ackroyd took the honours with 2lb 5oz on peg 2..
Bideford And District Angling Club Coarse Section Feb. Monthly Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Stace N Dazza Polden 15lb 3oz
2nd Keith Mountjoy 13lb 10oz
3rd Kevin Shears 11lb 3oz
4th Craig Crash Lamey 8lb 10oz
5th Nathan Underwood 8lb 3oz
6th Chris Parr 4lb 4oz
18 club members fished.
Although conditions for most of the day were favourable, a chilling easterly breeze and high pressure have kept the weights low again.
Darren's 2 pole caught carp from peg 19 both took maggot bait and ensured victory.
His neighbour, Keith, on peg 21 also had a brace of carp on soft pellet and bread for second spot.
Kevin came in third from peg 12.
The shallower section again failed to produce any quality fish and Les Polden took the honours with a mere 1lb 6oz mainly small fish !
Bideford and District Angling Club Coarse Section Jan. Monthly Competition Tarka Swims.
Results:
1st Nathan Underwood 27lb 8oz
2nd Les Polden 19lb 9oz
3rd Kevin Shears 15lb 14oz
4th Antony Bentley 12lb 15oz
5th Keith Mountjoy 11lb 3oz
6th Keith Copland 10lb 4oz
21 members fished the first competition of 2025
Good to see a few new faces
Nathan has drawn peg 12 and made no mistakes fishing punched bread on the pole into the reed beds, to score his first victory of the year.
Les has taken second place on peg 18, bread on the lead his chosen technique.
Kevin has put together a lovely net of silvers and a single carp on peg 9 for third.
The high pressure and cold weather coupled with the very clear water meant that the fishing proved extremely tough for some, the shallower section was won with a mere 4oz !
