2016 Christmas match

Thirty Eight turned out for the Christmas match this year on Marsh Farm, after some debate we decided to keep everybody on Richardson lake rather than spread out on to Harris. Given the time of year it was always going to be a hard match on the lakes but the general opinion was the facilities and comfortable fishing outweighed the parking issues and long walks on the river and in the end the weights turned out better than the last few river results anyway. The fish were shoaled up in pockets and that was reflected in the results so here is the full result.

1. Henry Golas 18.13.0 p52, 2. Dave Johnson 16.15.0 p4, 3. Charlie Salmon 11.3.0 p51, 4. Brian Ward 9.15.0 p11, 5. Brian Wallace

9.6.0 p38, 6. Andy Rogers 8.9.0 p6, 7. Paul Chudyk 8.7.0 p44, 8. Roger Howe 6.15.0 p5, 9. I Covey 6.6.0 p14, 10. Curtis Salmon

5.15.0 p39, 11. Dave Hoffman 5.10.0 p40, 12 Chris Kampa 5.8.0 p13, 13. Richard McGuinn 4.14.0 p34, 14. Steven Doyle 4.4.0 p50

15. Mike Boxall 4.3.0 p1, 16. Perry Gray 3.12.0 p2, 17. Ray Carter 3.1.0 p46, 18. J Wilkins 2.15.0 p42, 19. Brian Eades 2.3.0 p12,

20. Kieth Jeffries 0.9.0.

We had a nice do with refeshments supplied by Wendy from the garage and Teas etc by Roy fianders wife Sarah. Chris Kampa bought and sorted all the match prizes and raffle prizes. What a star!!!. Dave Woolgar sold all the raffle tickets we had at the start so we had to send out for more which Jim Findlay sold at the end of the match and supplemented the raffle with extra prizes from Apollo. It was nice to see familiar faces at the Christmas match and we wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Inter Club Match v Warlingham

This was the last big inter club match of the season before the clocks go back and winter sets in. The match was fished on a very cold windy day following a cold night and that affected the weights especially on a particularly bleak Harris with the summer growth on the islands cut back hard. The few fish that were caught were in the most sheltered areas. The match was divided into four sections as we were using pegs on both lakes and we paid out to the top three in each. The top weight angler Terry Archer is shown in the picture, Terry had two Tench and one Bream in the last 20 minutes on worm to seal the win. The section results were as follows.

Harris lake pegs 2-16. 1st Andy Rogers  4.10.0 peg 5, 2nd was a tie between John Benjamin peg 3 and Brian Wallis peg 6 with 2.5.0.

Harris Lake pegs 18-34 1st Paul Oliver 9.3.0 peg 21. 2nd Alan Stevens 4.6.0 peg 25 and 3rd Trevor Haskell 2.10.0 peg 28.

Harris lake pegs 35-46  1st Frank Bevan 0.2.0 peg 35, 2nd K Harper 0.1.0 peg 36, 3rd A Tickner 0.0.8 peg 39.

Richardson pegs 38-53 1st Terry Archer 11.6.0 peg 38, 2nd Gary Stevens 9.4.0 and 3rd Eddie Rippen 6.14.0.

Summer league 2016

The summer league has finally finished, running late this year due to teams of four commitments. Thanks to a cock up with the second round only 7 matches counted to the league this time but it was still a very close contest that went right down to the last match. Charlie Salmon came out on top winning by one point from long time leader Colin Underwood thanks to winning the last round on the river at Lower common and firs. The top six were as follows. 1. Charlie Salmon 49pts, 2. Colin Underwood 48pts, 3. Bryce Kearney 43pts, 4. Andy Rogers 38pts, 5. Roy Fiander 37pts, 6. Henry Golas 35pts. For the full final league table see the League tables page.