Frankly great turnout for memorial match
WHAT a finish there was in the Frank Oldham memorial match, with good bags well into double figures coming in all the time it would take an exceptional bag to win.
Many thought Jade Nicholson of Newbiggin had done it with his bag of seven cod for 20lb 10oz taken at Hauxley.
Then rumours came in that Geoff King had a big bag fishing at Cambois.
King, after getting someone to help carry his bag as he was recovering from knee surgery, eventually arrived at the weigh-in, plonked his fish on the scales and all eyes where on the dial. It settled down at 20lb 13oz, snatching the title from Nicholson, who had the consolation of landing the heaviest fish, a cod of 4lb 12oz.
Steve Harper was third with seven cod for 14lb 2oz, taken from West Bay. Matty Robson, fishing Blyth pier, took the junior title with two whiting and a coalfish for 2lb 1oz, his biggest whiting also taking the specimen award.
The organisers were delighted with the turnout with quite a few anglers, who had given up fishing, turning out to pay their respects to Frank. There were bigger fish taken on the day by anglers not in the competition; Billy Steel fishing at Lynemouth took one of 7lb 14oz.
There have been plenty of fish all down the coast with 20lb bags reported from Amble to Whitby. Bags of up to a dozen fish were taken from rock marks, piers and beaches, with fish to 5lb from Whitley Beach, Blyth Beach and pier, Newbiggin Bay, Ryhope, Marsden and Whitburn.
The Tyne has also started to produce fish to 3lb from the up river marks. The Wear had given reasonable catches of flounder with codling and whiting showing after dark. Most anglers have been staying local with the fishing so good, however Brain Scott, while over on a short break at his caravan with the family, had a dabble off a sheltered rock mark at Kircudbright and landed a personal best conger of 12lb 10oz.
A few have also tried Balcary w i t h o n l y a few whit- ing, dogfish and pollock for their efforts. Codling have started to show from Cumbrian marks along with dab, flounder and the odd bass. The rays seem to have d i s a p p e a r e d . Unfortunately, this could be b e c a u s e the 1st Ethan Marshall 9cod 22-7-4 (Amble area) 2nd Ian Harrogate 3cod 12-0-4 3rd L Bell 4 cod 12lb 4th J Lee 4cod 8-15-0 5th P Harrison 4cod 8-6-0
1st Simon Bowes 6cod 18lb 2oz 2nd Dennis Thompson 4cod 12lb 14oz 3rd Dave Turnbull 4cod 12lb 8oz 4th Rob Allison 7cod 12lb 6oz 5th Matty Lamb 5cod 11lb 12oz h/f Nick Lee McCourt 5lb 4oz 1st Mick Davis h/f cod 4-10-12 (Sharpness) 2nd Glen conditions have made many marks unfishable.
EVENTS
Nov 10-11: Tyne two-day open pegged (Penn points) Sat 10am-2pm; Sun 10:30am -2:30pm; Reg & draw Sat 8-8:45am at the cycle hub Byker NE6 1BU. Entry £30. 100% payout. Book and pre-pay only. Contact Neil on 0781 640 1879 or Gareth on 0751 750 9400
Nov 10: Karl Mclauchlan Memorial Top club five-man team. Entry £25 per team, fish 9am-1pm W.I. HQ Sth beach club 1.30pm to 2.15pm; Blyth top three clubs receive trophies and cash, 100% pay out. h/f 1st, 2nd, 3rd, trophies and cash, plus winner gets the SCA cup to hold for one year. Free buffet, raffle for Karl’s charity RNLI Tynemouth. Donations of prizes greatly appreciated. Details from Steve Sherman on 0795 181 2624.
Nov 11: Sunderland Shore Angling H/F Festival 1-5pm. Entry £12 (juniors free with a paying adult) £2. 1st 2nd 3rd h/f, t fish. 1st £500 prize table worth more than £2,000. Details from Andy Rutherford on 0191 565 4183.
Campbell 4cod 4-2-0 3rd Alan Wood 1cod 1-10-10 4th Steve Harper 1cod 1coal 1-10-6 5th Tony Anderson 1cod. 1-9-10
Cleadon SAC 9w.i.: 1st
Ritchy Carr (2) 1556g (3lb 4oz) (Marsden Bay) 2nd Alan Brigham h/f 1436g (3lb 1oz) 3rd Billy Lee (1)880g 4th Darren Browne (1)868g 5th Leejay Bryant (1) 708g.
St Mary’s 14f 8w.i.
1st P Smith 4 cod 11lb 9oz h/f 3lb 15.5oz 2nd R Miller 7 cod 10lb 1.5oz 3rd J Smith 14 Whiting 7lb 13.5oz