Sunday 31st July seen a large number of anglers grace the track side of the river Barrow in Carlow town for the annual Waterways Ireland King of the Barrow coarse angling festival. The Carlow Coarse Angling Club host the event every year and the popularity of the festival and indeed the coarse angling in general in and around Carlow seems to be growing along with the club. Visiting anglers travelled from England, Belfast, Cavan, Dublin, and several other counties throughout the country to enjoy the craic that has been associated with the Carlow cac since it was re-formed several years ago. The club are now in a position to offer workshops on coarse angling and will continue to do so throughout the winter months with the aid of the Angling Council of Ireland trained coaches.
There were some surprises in the results this year for all the teams taking part in the European Coarse Angling Championships in Opole, Poland from 25th – 26th June 2011. Drennan Team England consisted of; Mark Downes and Mark Addy (Joint Managers), Alan Scotthorne, Steve Gardener, Will Raison, Sean Ashby, Darren Cox and Steve Hemmingray. Drennan Team England averaged around 250gm per angler per day on practice with some perch to be caught so the team targeted them and the bleak that averaged around 180 to the kilo. There were tiny fish to be caught around 0.
The Cadets category of the Angling Trust Cadets, Juniors & Intermediates National Championship on Saturday 2nd July 2011 saw four times previous winners, Smartbait Leeds coming back from last year’s second place position to take the Championship title back for 2011 with 13 points (47. 87 kg). Second place was Worksop & District AA with 11 points (49. 13 kg).
Results for open contests week ending 3rd July 2011. . . All lakes are fishing well with lots of 100lb weights being caught by match and pleasure anglers.
The latest results from the Garbolino Linholme Open Match. . . Friday Open 2pm till 7pm 14 fished • 1 Stuart Grey (hayfields) peg 16 beeches caught on meat for 169lb 6oz • 2 Luke Butterworth (barnsley juniors) peg 9 beeches caught on pellet in edge for 161lb 1oz • 3 Ken Wade (lindholme vetreans) peg 12 strip caught on bread for 158lb 3oz Sat Open Beeches and Oasis 22 fished • 1 Richard Wood (lindholme) peg 27 beeches caught into reeds for 99lb 5oz • 2 Oliver Scothorne (halkon hunt) peg 32 beeches caught on meat under tree for 69lb 7oz • 3 Ben Fisk (middy) peg 21 beeches caught on maggot and pellets for 63lb 5oz • 4 Mark Booth (garbolino lindholme) peg 26 beeches caught on meat for 58lb 5oz • 5 Les Marshal (lindholme) peg 25 beeches caught on pellets for 52lb 5oz • 6 Sean Cammeron (garbolino lindholme) peg 60 oasis caught on pellets for 51lb 2oz Sunday Open Willows and Oasis 25 fished • 1 Michael Owen (garbolino lindholme) peg 60 oasis caught on caster for 95lb 13oz • 2 Nick Speed (ultimate barnsley) peg 22 willows caught onmeat for 95lb 12oz • 3 Pete Reilly (garbolino lindholme) peg 5 willows caught on maggot for 91lb 1oz of small carp • 4 John Allerton (tricast) peg 2 willows caught on maggot and pellets for 88lb 3oz • 5 Alan Crouch (garbolino lindholme) peg 52 oasis caught on pellets for 76lb 3oz • 6 Mark Booth (garbolino lindholme) peg 50 oasis caught on caster for 72lb 15oz .
In the latest £1000 qualifier sub fishe’s Dan Watson took the honours with a fine bag of stocky carp from peg 22 on Kestrel Lake, Dan fished pellet at 13m in the open water to catch steadily all day. Sunday £1000 Qualifier Match Kestrel Lake • 1st Dan Watson, Sub Fish, 98lb 08oz • 2nd Dan Semper, Anglers Corner, 73lb 08oz • 3rd Pete Andrews, Westwood Lakes 71lb 02oz Tuesdays £1000 qualifier was won by Dynamite and Middy backed Tony Evans. Tony Evans drew peg 8 and fished soft 4mm pellet over 2mm micro pellets to record 74lb 08oz of small carp barble ide Skimmers and Tench. Tuesday’s £1000 Qualifier Match Skylark Lake • 1st Tony Evans, Middy/Dynamite Baits • 2nd Steve Lane, Castle A/C, 70lb 08oz • 3rd Toby Pepper, Hunstanton Tackle, 64lb 14oz Thursday’s Over 50’s Skylark Lake 22 pegs • 1st Gus Jarret, Anglers Corner, 61lb 08oz • 2nd John Gooden, 66lb 08oz • 3rd Ken Clark, Westwood Lakes, 58lb 12oz • 4th Smudge Smith, Bag em, 57lb 10oz Friday’s Open Evening Kestrel Lake 13 pegs • 1st Luke Morley, Miracle Baits, 86lb 08oz • 2nd Steve Lane, Castle A/C 60lb 06oz • 3rd Ron Roberts, Westwood Lakes, 30lb 14oz.
Ilminster AA members fished round six of the evening league at Dillington on Wednesday in very weight and windy conditions. Dillington Pond, Somerset. 06/07/11, 5 fished. Despite the conditions weights were very good for the three hour fixture.
7 teams of eight lined up to fish the second round of the Superleague on the Huntspill between Gold Corner and past the Clapper and the venue fished quite consistently with plenty of Bream, skimmers, eels and Roach to be caught. River Huntspill – Gold Corner to the Clapper (56 pegs). Winner on the day was Kev Perry (Sensas Thyers) who was pegged below Woolavington bridge and caught tight across on the feeder on maggots and worms to take Bream to 4lb and weigh in 49-12. Second was Dave Micklewright (Maver Bathampton) who caught Bream to 3lb on the feeder from peg 60 above Woolavington.
Results for open contests week ending 3rd July 2011. . . All lakes fishing well with match weights of 150lb being caught and pleasure anglers reaching weights of 120lb+Top PoolChopped worm and caster to the islands and down the edges catching well with f1’s up to 2lb, skimmers roach and perch to 1lb.
A round up of what's been happening at Celtic Lakes. . . Club LakeNot been at its best this week but still bags of Bream and Tench to 40lb caught by pleasure anglers.
Bolies Reign Supreme as Garbolino Dominate BarstonRound 2 of the Preston Innovations backed UK Angling Championships saw a last minute change of venue from Colemans Cottage to the coliseum of competition angling, Bartson Lakes. Host venue of the British Carp Angling Championships the weekend before the UKLAC, Barston saw large quantities of boilies fed in the water and the carp loved it. A tactical team discussion from Darren Cox saw a number of the Garbolino boys hit the lake on the feeder with bright boilies on the hook, loose feeding boilies over the top individually and continually through the match. It paid off and as the scores were checked the Garbolino anglers recorded 4 section wins, with Simon Fry taking overall honours for the whole match with 99lbs 4oz and Harry Billing third overall with 91.
SW super league practice match Bristol Avon at Swineford. . . Crane and Jack Whites 17/7/2011 48 Anglers Fished The Anglers were well spaced along the 3 sections today, which meant some long walks.
See who is through to the Evesham Festival in the latest round of qualifiers. . . Shakespeare Qualifier Sunday July 10th69 fishedWith fishing times being pushed back to accommodate the Evesham River Festival, anglers were optimistic that the later finish would lead to increased catches.
