Angling Steve catches some superb fish on trip to Norway
ASHORT fishing holiday in Norway produced recordbreaking fish for Veals sea fishing manager Steve Ace.
He said; After a brief discussion with a boat angler who told us there were some nice cod and coalfish being caught locally ‘from the shore’, we set off to find the place.
“On arrival, we decided to fish with lures for a couple of hours and for the first three hours or more we had great fun catching cod to double figures plus the odd smaller, coalfish.
“It was approximately five minutes after fishing a solid bait that the tip of my rod arched over, and following a good solid scrap a healthy 32-5-0 cod came to my net. I was told later that it was a superb fish for July. We eventually went back to fishing lures and, a few minutes later, I hooked and netted a coalfish which weighed around the 14-0-0 mark, followed by a tremendous arm-aching beast, and our best coalfish of the day, which weighed a good 19lb-plus.”
Anyone thinking of emulating Steve by going to Norway to fish please get first-hand knowledge by visiting Veals where Steve is now back at work.
» THE top six contestants of the Southwest Disabled & over 55s AC Open all hit the maigcal ton-mark while fishing a prolifically-stocked Paddock Match Lake in very hot conditions at Kingston Seymour, where, following a short break from the match-angling scene, committee member Eddie Wynne returned a magnificent 150-14-0 victory.
Wynne fed 4mm pellets on to the far shelf of peg 19, on the long bank, and tempted carp to almost 7lb with a 6mm banded pellet hookbait. He later switched the same hookbait and feed to an inside line and his right-hand margins and finished with a superb catch of mostly carp weighing from 2lb into low double figures.
Runners-up spot was filled by Barrie Counsell, who fished the same tactics and baits at bridge peg 21 and finished with a similar 14314-0.
Geoff Stones finished third from bridge peg 34, where by fishing a 6mm banded pellet and sweetcorn corn into his left-hand margin, he managed to tempt a similar 140-70. Rich Heatley came fourth at peg 31 with 137-8-0.
The top weight of silverfish was taken Mark Walsh, who poled paste into the far and near margins of island peg three for mostly skimmer bream and roach totalling 35-3-0.
Overall: 1, Eddie Wynne 150-14-0, peg 19; 2, Barrie Counsell 143-14-0, peg 21; 3, Geoff Stones 140-7-0, peg 34; 4, Rich Heatley 137-8-0, peg 31; 5, Paul Haines 123-14-0, peg 27; 6, Mark Walsh 104-12-0, peg 3. Silverfish: 1, Mark Walsh 35-3-0, peg 3; 2. Alan Smith 25-4-0, peg 17.
» IVY House’s New Canal gave up a fair result for the 13 members of the Kingswood Disabled AC who contested the midweek match in nearperfect conditions at The Ivy House Fishery, Grittenham.
The consistent Wayne Garland topped the overall scoresheet at peg 45, and it was a paste and later a soft 6mm expander pellet hookbait which he poled at 16 metres to the far bank which gave him a winning 37-12-0 of carp, skimmer bream and roach.
Runner-up for the second match running was international lady angler Bernice Britton, who delivered a Method feeder with a dead maggot hookbait to the far bank at peg 49 to tempt a similar 35lbs 8oz.
In-form Brian Higgs finished in third place at peg 44 with 33lbs 12oz of the same taken with feeder tactics and using hard and soft pellets fished tight to the far bank.
Rod Buss, match secretary and PR man, topped the silverfish category with 22-8-0 of skimmer bream and roach.
Overall: 1, Wayne Garland 37-12-0, peg 45; 2, Bernice Britton 35-8-0, peg 49; 3, Brian Higgs 33-12-0, peg 44.
Silverfish: 1, Rod Buss 22-8-0, peg 38.
» BRISTOL’S Alan Oram ran home an easy winner of the Ivy House midweek open fished on Willow Lake at Grittenham.
The talented and experienced match angler poled a banded 6 or 8mm pellet between his lakeside margins and a long 17 metres off corner peg 28 and netted huge carp, weighing into low double figures, on his way to a 96-8-0 victory.
Glyn Davies used a variety of baits and scaled a winning 16-8-0 of skimmer bream and roach at peg 43 and ran home 1lb better than Bristol’s best silvers angler Mike Nicholls.
Overall: 1, Allan Oram 96-8-0, peg 28; 2, Chris Timms 80-02-0, peg 41; 3, Paul Smith 72-08-0, peg 40;
Silverfish: 1, Glynn Davies 16-8-0, peg 43; 2, Mike Nicholls 15-8-0, peg 29.