Barford Lakes News

In what must have been the coldest, wettest summer evening league series ever finsished last night.

Top weight from last night was a very consistant Carl Watker (Costessey Crown) who had 66lb 1ozs from peg 17.

League result

The best 4 results from the 5 counted and Carl Watker won the league with 3 section wins and a 3rd.  Top 4 listed below.

1st          Carl Watker             6 points      213lb 7ozs
2nd          Terry Bolingbroke  9 points      148lb 1ozs
3rd          Robert Walton        10 points    189lb 7ozs
4th          Marc Murdoch        10 points     152lb 11ozs

Huge thanks to Kevin Nicholson who ran the matches this year.

The Sainsbury’s Norfolk School Games Angling Final was fished last week on all the lakes at Barford.  16 teams of 3 came from all over the 8 School Sports Partnerships in Norfolk.  This is a Level 3 competition that this year was very well supported by tackle manufacturer’s, Drennan International.  Additional prizes were donated from Preston Innovations and Barford Tackle.  Drennan also sent current UK Champ and Drennan consultant Jon Arthur who walked round giving tips to all the anglers and presented the prizes.

Neatherd High school pupil Zac Worby (Spro/Cralusso) from West Norwich and Dereham SSP led the field from peg 27 on the Pleasure Lake.  Zac caught 56lb 11ozs on the pellet waggler and feeder.  Zac received a Red Range reel from Drennan.  A close second was Josh Smith from Norwich East SSP who was on peg 29 on the Pleasure Lake and caught 44lb 15ozs of carp to 15lb, Josh received a Red Range rod from Drennan.  Top weight on the Match Lake and 3^rd overall was Ewan Clark form North Norfolk SSP with 29lb 2 ozs from peg 28 and 3^rd on the Pleasure lake and 4^th Overall was Liam Wagg from West Norfolk SSP who had 24lb 3ozs from peg 18.  Top weight on the Top Lake was from corner peg 15 and Callum Davison (South Norfolk SSP) had 13lb 6ozs.

 Section winners

Each received a Red Range rod from Drennan.  And were as follows:

Pleasure Lake

Laurie Ritchie (North Norfolk SSP)                            16 – 01                  Peg 3
Zak Worby (West Norwich & Dereham SSP)         56 – 11                  Peg 27

Top Lake

Sam Beebee (Breckland SSP)                                      5 – 10                    Peg 6
Callum Davison (South Norfolk SSP)                        13 – 06                  Peg 15

Match Lake

Ewan Clark (North Norfolk SSP)                                 29 – 02                  Peg 28
Will Evans (West Norfolk SSP)                                    13 – 03                  Peg 14

Top 4 Individuals

Zak Worby (West Norwich & Dereham SSP)         56 – 11                  Pleasure Lake Peg 27
Josh Smith (Norwich East SSP)                                   44 - 15                   Pleasure Lake Peg 29
Ewan Clark (North Norfolk SSP)                                 29 – 02                  Match lake Peg 28
Liam Wagg (West Norfolk SSP)                                   24 – 03                  Pleasure Lake Peg 18

Lake Results

Top 3 Teams each received a tackle voucher form Barford Tackle and some Preston feeders and pellet pump.

Top 4 Teams Result

1^st West Norfolk TSC

Allan Barwood                     2 – 02            2 points      Top Lake – peg 1
Liam Wagg                          24 – 03         3 points       Pleasure Lake – peg 18
Will Evans                            13 – 03      1 point          Match Lake – peg 14

Total Points = 6                 Total weight = 39lb 8ozs

2^nd Linear (Aylsham) – North Norfolk SSP

Seb Whiting-Smith          1 – 03       5 points        Top Lake – peg 12
Laurie Ritchie            16 – 01         1 point          Pleasure Lake – peg 3
Ewan Clark                29 – 06          7 points       Match Lake – peg 28

Total points = 7                                 Total weight = 46lb 6ozs

3^rd  Iceni Academy (Breckland SSP Team A)

Sam Beebee                      5 – 10                    1 point
Ben Bailey                           7 – 01                    4 points
Will Bales                             11 – 14                  2 points

Total points = 7                 Total weight = 24lb 9ozs

4^th  Norwich East SSP Team 1

Max Burton                        8 – 03                    3 points
Josh Smith                          44 – 14                  2 points
Josh King                             4 – 03                    3 points

Total points = 8                 Total weight = 58lb 5ozs

Thanks so much to all who helped on the day and also with the qualifying matches – particular thanks to volunteer coaches Kevin Nicholsan and Phil Nichols.  Many thanks to Rodney Finch for donating some maggots again this year.  Great support and huge gratitude to Drennan for their ongoing support and top marks to Jon Arthur who was a great ambassador for the sport.

Young Anglers wishing to do more match fishing are invited to fish the Anglign Trust Junior League which is fished in Spetember.  4 matches spread over the month and there are prizes from Preston Innovations up for grabs.  It's only £1 a match to enter.  For further details please contact the Angling Turst by emailing corina.smith@anglingtrust.net

Further Information

The Norfolk School Games is the largest school sport event to ever be held in Norfolk. During 2014/15 it is estimated that over 20,000 young people took part in the Games in 45 different events. The Games is part of the national Sainsburys School Games initiative which aims to inspire more young people to take part in competitive school sport. The Norfolk School Games is organized by Active Norfolk and the eight School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) in the county and sponsored by the Sportspark.

The Games are made up of four levels of activity: competition in schools, between schools, at county/area level and a national finals event:

Level 1 – sporting competition for all students in school through intra-school competition
Level 2 – individuals and teams are selected to represent their schools against other local schools in School Games qualifying competitions run by the eight School Sport Partnerships (SSPs). The winning individuals and teams are selected to represent their SSP at Level 3.
Level 3 – the Norfolk School Games Finals are two week long multi-sport competitions (Winter and Summer) where the most talented pupils from across the county represent their SSP whilst competing against each other. At the end of the week the most successful SSP is crowned over all champions.
Level 4 – the Sainsbury’s School Games finals: a national multi-sport event where the most talented young people in the UK will be selected to compete in the countries sporting venues.

The 2016 Norfolk School Games will again be split between into a Winter Games and Summer Games programmes. The 45 events will be split across a range of sporting venues including the Sportspark, Whitlingham Country Park, Norfolk Ski Club, Gresham’s School, Easton College Tennis Centre, Norwich Rugby Club plus many more.

Steve and Nathalie Bulllock (Mileham) had an awesome day yesterday on the Pleasure Lake. Nathalie had 94lb 4ozs of carp to 12lb 9ozs on Barford pellet and Steve had a tremendous 268lb of carp to 14lb 8ozs!!

Steve caught on pellet waggler about 4' deep firing in 2 or 3 8mm's every 30 seconds. Steve also caught on a method feeder using 2mm pellet which he soaked for 2 minutes then drained the water off, using a Middy Compacta Method feeder mould and a 4mm banded pellet whilst adding some Goo. Awesome days fishing for both!!

Result from last night's Evening Match on the Match Lake

Next week's match is on Colton Lake - draw at 5.30pm fishing from 6pm - 9pm. 

We're running a league also - the best four out of 5 results will count.  Top 3 anglers currently are:

Carl Watker           7 points (113lb 8ozs)
Rodney Patrick      8 points (143lb 8ozs)
Terry Bolingbroke  8 points (113lb 1ozs)

To book in please call 01603 759624