Dave Crookes Memorial Match

Good afternoon all hope your all well.
A massive thank you to all of you who turned up to fish the Dave Crookes memorial Match at the weekend. Two matches were run over the weekend, a 6 hour match on Withy Pool and a 24hr match on the main lake. Thank you to all who donated raffle prizes.
Premier angling
Steve Brown(burt baits)
Luke Fothergill(u zit baits)
R.J Floats.
It was very much appreciated. Also a massive thank you to the guys who organised the event and stayed all night to weigh the fish caught on the main lake you all did a fantastic job. The amount raised for the uk lung foundation in memory of Dave Crookes was £608 which B A A will be rounding up to £1000. So once again thank you all for your support and hopefully see you all again next year to do it all again.
Match results.

Withy Pool
1. Kev Fothergill 89-03-0 peg 10

2. John Smith 52-0-0 peg 3

3. Kev Winstone 45-09-0 peg 12 (P51)

4. Leighton Palmer 42-0-0 peg 17 (P42)

5. Luke Fothergill 41-15-0 peg 8

Silvers:

1. Mike Nicholls 14-07-0 peg 6

2. Kev Winstone 11-06-0 peg 12

3. John Smith 11-06-0 peg 3

Main lake

1st M Riddler peg 24
21lb-03oz mirror
21lb-07oz mirror
20lb-09oz mirror
Total 63lb-04oz

2nd S Coster peg 28
18lb-14oz mirror
28lb-12oz mirror
Total 47lb-10oz

3rd T Morrison peg 33
20lb-06oz common
25lb-10oz mirror
Total 46lb-00oz

The biggest fish was caught by K.Watts from peg 6 a 29lb-01oz mirror

Well done to all.

Extra dates for overnight fishing 2022 November 12th-13th December 10th-11th

Extra dates for overnight fishing 2022
November 12th-13th December 10th-11th

All Tickets will go on sale at bailiffs garage at 10:00 3rd September

Main lake closed for these events.
The draw will be at 8:00am on the day of the event.

20 Main lake pegs are £30 each
5 Withy pool pegs are £20 each

Call Steve Pitfield on 07541008385 for details
Fishing from 9:00am Saturday to 21:00pm Sunday

August 6th 7th Overnight Fishing Results at Hunstrete

Peg 20

A.Carter

4 fish caught

22lb mirror at 14.30 sat

18lb mirror at 22.00 sat

23lb mirror at 22.15 sat

14lb mirror at 4.15 sun

Total 77lb

Peg 22

C Simpkins

4 fish caught

16lb 15oz mirror at 16.30 sat

23lb 14oz mirror at 18.45 sat

20lb 1oz mirror at 19.50 sat

14lb 5oz mirror at 21.15 sat

total 75lb 3oz

Peg 35

G.Fisher

3 fish caught

20lb 4oz mirror at 17.20 sat

12lb 2oz common at 1.40 sun

18lb common at 2.00 sun

Total 56lb 6oz

Peg 34

G Handcock

2 fish caught

22lb 30z mirror at 1.30 sun

26lb 5oz mirror at 2.55 sun

Peg 24

B Metcalf

2 fish caught

18lb 12oz mirror at 15.00 sat

18lb 8oz mirror at 22.oo sat

Total 37lb 4oz

Peg 7

A Dudbridge

25lb mirror at 00.45 sun

Peg 5

R Dudbridge

22lb mirror at 9.00 sun

Peg 33

R Click

20lb common at 1.00 sun

Total fish caught 18

Totla weight caught 364lb 9oz

June 25th 26th Overnight Fishing Results at Hunstrete

G. Collings

2 fish caught

Mirror 24lb at 23.30 Sat

Mirror 16lb at 3.00 Sun

Total 40lb

 

J Crane

2 fish caught

Mirror 15lb at 0.00 Sun

Mirror 19lb at 6.30 Sun

Total 34lb

R Dudbridge

1 fish caught

Mirror 22lb at 1.00 Sun

G Higgins

1 fish caught

Common 16lb at 0.30 Sun

A Dudbridge

1 fish caught

Mirror 16lb at 12.30 Sat

M Riddler

1 fish caught

Common 15lb at 23.20 Sat

S Davies

1 fish caught

Mirror 15lb at 4.30 Sun

Des

6 Bream caught and 2 carp lost

Total fish caught 9

Total weight caught 160lb

May 7th and 8th 2022 Overnight Results

Peg 22 R.Dickson

2 fish caught

17lb mirror at 21.30 pm Saturday

21lb mirror at 23.30 pm Saturday

Total 38lb

Peg 24 M.Collins

22lb mirror at 00.00 midnight

Peg 32 D.Palmer

21lb 4oz mirror at 13.30 pm Saturday

Peg 21 C. Pugsley

17lb 8oz mirror at 22.30 pm Saturday

Peg 10 M.Efteme

16lb mirror at 19.30 pm Saturday

Total fish caught 6

Total Weight 114lb 12oz

Fishing Match Results

Bob Warden Memorial Match on K&A Canal

The Bob Warden memorial match was fished on the Kennet and Avon canal at the George and Claverton. It was run in aid of Multiple Sclerosis and raised over £400 for the charity.

20 anglers fished and being a bright warm day, it meant there were lots of boats putting colour into the water and many walkers and cyclists around. Despite this, the canal has fished extremely well with an average weight of over 9 lbs per angler.

Bob’s son Leighton Warden was delighted to add his name to the trophy by winning the match. He was on the end peg at the George by the school.
He fished bread down the middle and caught skimmers and bream up to 3 lbs. He tried other baits but caught nothing on them so kept coming back to the bread to catch more skimmers and bream and finished with a weight of 19 lbs 12 ozs.

2nd was Andy Britt who was on the brambles at the George. In an area not usually known for skimmers, he was surprised to catch skimmers and bream to 3 lbs on the bread at 5 metres along with some roach. Once this line died, he was able to catch more skimmers and bream further across the canal, again on bread. He weighed 19 lbs 8 ozs.

3rd was Bob’s other son, Lee Warden with 16 lbs 2 ozs. He was drawn at Claverton a few pegs down from the bay. He started on bread and caught only 12 roach and then switched to his chop worms lines to catch a roach of 1 lbs 6 ozs, an eel of over 1 lb and a few small skimmers. Feeding squatts on the far side he caught lots of roach and bleak. The last hour he caught bleak on the inside while feeding squatts.

1: Leighton Warden (Crown)- 19 lbs 12 ozs
2: Andy Britt (Mosella Bathampton) - 19 lbs 8 ozs
3: Lee Warden (Mosella Bathampton) - 16 lbs 2 ozs
4: Nick Coles (Mosella Bathampton) - 14 lbs 15 ozs
5: Nick Lewis (Crown) - 12 lbs 6 ozs
6: Kev Boltz (Midland Spinner) - 11 lbs 12 ozs

April 2nd and 3rd 2022 Overnight Results

Peg 32 S.Coster

2 fish caught

27lb mirror at 2.00am Sunday

32lb mirror at 5.15am Sunday

Total 59lb

Peg 27 M.Gilliam

3 fish caught

17lb common at 18.30pm Saturday

12lb mirror at 2.30am Sunday

24lb 8oz mirror at 6.30am Sunday

Total 53lb 8oz

Peg 5 R.Dudbridge

2 fish caught

19lb mirror at 11pm Saturday

28lb 8oz mirror at 12.15am Sunday

Total 47lb 8oz

Peg 10 G.Collings

30lb mirror at 5.45am Sunday

Peg 38 D.Stock

25lb 4oz mirror at 12.15am Sunday

Peg 22 A.Coleman

25lb mirror at 9.30pm Saturday

Peg 24 B.Williams

22lb 11oz mirror 2.00am Sunday

Peg 31 S.Rowe

16lb mirror at 12.15am Sunday

Total fish Caught 12

Total Weight 278lb 15oz

Bathamtpon Club History Dave Crookes Alan Gilbert Terry Fell

Saturday 11/09/2021 – Bathampton AA – Dave Crookes Memorial Charity Match – Bridge Pool

Saturday 11/09/2021 – Bathampton AA – Dave Crookes Memorial Charity Match – Bridge Pool

 

Because Dave Crookes was a long time good friend I have wanted to fish this match for some time but for various reason couldn’t. Dave and I joined the BAA committee at the same time through the affiliated clubs. Dave representing the RAF and me MST. Dave was a natural angler but didn’t regularly fish matches, when he did he often framed. I would love to win this one in his memory.

Because there were two matches today, ours on Bridge Pool and a 24 hours Carp match on the Main Lake I arrived to a packed car park . I had a walk around the Pool with Dave Gillard. Apparently some heavy rain last week had knocked the colour out, so expectation was for it to fish hard.

 

Back to the draw and it was a nice touch by the BAA committee to lay on bacon and sausage rolls and hot drinks – all FOC – well done to them. Cant beat the smell of bacon especially cooked out doors. Pools paid – raffle tickets purchased – no more on this one. The draw put me on peg 19, the peg I had last match here and got frustrated because I couldn’t see the float due to the sun shining on silver flotsam. For company I had matey Kev Winstone on peg 18 who would be difficult to beat especially if he listened to my advice!

Any peg on this Pool with cover hold F1’s. I have noticed that BAA have trimmed some of the islands which is OK but please leave the margins overgrown, otherwise we won’t be able to catch the F1’s in any numbers. Won’t catch these fish on a mud bank. As can be seen from the picture above peg 19 had plenty of margin cover and therefore holds plenty of F1’s – the problem is encouraging them out from the reeds to feed.

 

Two paste rigs – one for out in front and one for both margins just in front the reeds in 31/2 foot of water at top set plus three barrels of margin pole. Also the Ronnie rig in case I couldn’t see the down the margin. Started out in front with the paste over a pot of micro and as expected the same as previous match plenty of nibblers. So quickly abandoned after feeding some DR’s in GB for the Silvers as back up. Went down the RH margin which felt as if it wouldn’t produce. So round to the left with paste over micro and kindered hard 4’s and could just about see the float and had a couple of F1’s before the sun squeezed through the trees and hindered my vision. So thought I would try the Silvers with singe LR over the GB and loose fed LR’s. I fished this for an hour which accounted for 8 lb of Silvers. I felt I had a chance to frame in the Silvers, but wanted to go for the win. So back in the margin but the sun was a pain, so set up the waggler to fish further down to the end bank where visibility was far better. With double LR over loose fed LR’s I had two quick big F1’s before I was pestered by small Perch. Luckily the sun had moved on and I could go back to the margin paste rig. This resulted in spells of catching F1’s catch two and the shoal backed off. Late on I caught two small Carp and two better ones, the largest coming just before the whistle. Kev had caught a very similar amount of fish as me so it was going to be tight. 

 

My silvers weighed 8 lb 2 oz, The four carp 30 lb and the F1’s 24 lb 12 oz for a match winner weight of 62 lb 14 oz beating Kev in to second spot by just 3 lb 2 oz which was the difference between our Silvers weights! 

I usually give my trophies to the junior for recycling, however for sentimental reason I will be keeping this one in the office.

The Silvers was won by Paul Barnfield with a low weight of 14 lb 4 oz from peg 14. Paul Caught at 13 metres using his worm hook bait over chopped worm and copious amounts of micro. Well done matey.

Back to the pub with the usual suspects and a nice end to another memorable day mainly thanks to Arron Britnell, James Buckle and the rest of the BAA committee.

Result:

Weigh Sheet: