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Match Result – Sunday 7th September 2025
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Match Result: Sunday 7th September 2025 Venue: DSJAC Horseshoe Lake With September being the new peak holiday season, it was decided to use the club’s own Horseshoe Lake rather than book one of the commercials. Nine anglers were available, and the warm southern wind made for a pleasant temperature. Today the anglers would be competing for the Jim Measures Memorial Trophy. Jim Measures was a former club committee member and even Chairman for a time. He was a leading club member in donating and purchasing the shares in the Several Fisheries, which is the River Welland through the Deepings. Also, down to the luck of the post match draw bag, anglers would be entered into the Annual Pairs Cup. Ray Torrington retained his Jim Measures Memorial Trophy crown and also won the Pairs Cup with Neil Speechley. Ray finished with 94lbs 15oz from the same peg he fished and won the last Horseshoe Lake match, peg 16. Changing from his planned and previous approach he found fish on the method feeder to the far bank using micros and wafters. Second place went to Antony Johnson with 68lbs 13oz from peg number 13. Antony chose to heavily feed his far bank marker before placing his hybrid feeder inches from the far bank. Micros and 6 or 10mm wafter were the most productive. Third place went to guest angler Stuart Redman with 44lbs 9oz from peg number 19. Stuart found most of his success with the pellet wagler at distance using 8mm pellets Full Result 1st Ray Torrington 94 lbs 15 oz – Peg No. 16 2nd Antony Johnson 68 lbs 13 oz – Peg No. 13 3rd Stuart Redman 44 lbs 9 oz – Peg No. 19 4th Stuart Baxter 37 lbs 2 oz – Peg No. 37 5th Neil Speechley 27 lbs 10 oz – Peg No. 18 =6th Jason Chatham 21 lbs 1 oz – Peg No. 12 =6th Trevor Walker 21 lbs 1 oz – Peg No. 39 8th Pete Wray 18 lbs 14 oz – Peg No. 34 9th Dylan Baxter DNW – Peg No. 15 Pairs Cup Result 1st Ray Torrington & Neil Speechley – Total Weight 122 lbs 9 oz 2nd Antony Johnson & Stuart Baxter – Total Weight 105 lbs 15 oz 3rd Trevor Walker & Pete Wray – Total Weight 39 lbs 15oz 4th Jason Chatham & Dylan Baxter – Total Weight 21 lbs 1oz
Fenland Cup 2025-26 Fished over 4 rounds (maximum 40 points) at Decoy Lakes and Kingsland. This years Winner is Jason Chatham. Full Result 1st Jason Chatham 32 points =2nd David Marzell 24 points =2nd Pete Wray 24 points 4th Ray Torrington 22 points 5th Phil Price 19 points 6th Andy Wilson 18 points =7th Stuart Baxter 13 points =7th Lee Annis 13 points 9th Paul Sugarman 12 points =10th Neil Footitt 10 points =10th Joe Price 10 points =12th Steve Borrett 9 points =12th Neil Speechley 9 points =14th Ron Needham 5 points =14th Trevor Walker 5 points
Match Result: Sunday 17th August 2025 Venue: Decoy Lake - Lou's Second visit of the 2025-26 season to Decoy Lakes near Whittlesey for this club day event. The last time we fished Lou’s Lake was July 2020 and we were just emerging from the Covid pandemic. Twelve anglers booked in for the tight horseshoe shaped Lake which is always good for the close social atmosphere. It would be the fourth and final round of the Fenland Cup with current holder Pete Wray hoping for a disaster for the 4 anglers above him to retain his title. Current Leader Jason Chatham needed to finish 5th place or higher with many other permutations for the anglers below needed to take the Cup. Today, anglers would also be competing in the Dennis Clarke Cup, which was donated by Nobby Clarke who owned the tackle shop in Deeping St James. The current holder of this cup is Pete Wray. Drawing the “flyer” doesn’t always mean it’s in the bag, but Pete Wray set off quickly in this match from peg number 6. Pete fished a hard 6mm pellet at 13m on the pole over 4mm pellets. Later in the match he switched to closer in on 2+2 and then just top kit on 6mm pellets to finish with 120lbs 13oz to retain his Dennis Clarke Cup title. Second place on the day and Fenland Cup Winner was Jason Chatham. Jason could not get any fish to feed on the deck and switched to 6mm pellets shallow at 13m against the bank on peg number 1. Jason finished with 82lbs 4oz with the majority of the weight coming in the last 2 hours. Third place went to Phil Price with 54lbs 1oz from peg number 10. With the fish not taking up in the water on his pellet waggler, Phil switched to rotating his margins with cat meat to the left and dead reds to the right. Full Result 1st Pete Wray 120 lbs 13 oz – Peg No. 6 2nd Jason Chatham 82 lbs 4 oz – Peg No. 1 3rd Phil Price 54 lbs 1 oz – Peg No. 10 4th Lee Annis 46 lbs 6 oz – Peg No. 12 5th David Marzell 43 lbs 15 oz – Peg No. 13 6th Trevor Walker 39 lbs 6 oz – Peg No. 2 7th Paul Sugarman 36 lbs 13 oz – Peg No. 11 8th Neil Speechley 34 lbs 9 oz – Peg No. 9 9th Andy Wilson (chairman) 29 lbs 6 oz – Peg No. 3 10th Joe Price 29 lbs 2 oz – Peg No. 5 11th Paul Wild 26 lbs 9 oz – Peg No. 7 12th Ray Torrington 22 lbs 7 oz – Peg No. 4
Match Result: Saturday 9th August 2025 Venue: DSJAC Horseshoe Lake Every angler knows that the later on in the day, the more the fish bite, so we run an evening match once a year just to prove the theory. This year we changed from Sunday to Saturday to try and improve the turnout. Fishing from 3pm until 8pm, twelve anglers enjoyed the end of a warm sunny day with light winds on the club’s own Horseshoe Lake. Today was the second round of the Wade Cup as well as the John Slack Memorial Cup. Current Wade cup holder Stuart Baxter would be looking to close the gap on this year's leader Antony Johnson. Phil Price would be looking to retain his John Slack Memorial Cup. First place on the day was Ray Torrington with 136lbs 1oz from peg number 16. Ray fished a floating pellet on the pole, switching to paste in the margins later on. Second place was Jason Chatham with 127lbs 10oz from Peg number 38. Jason fished the pole at 13.5m using 8mm banded pellets shallow. Third place was Phil Price with 61lbs 13oz from peg number 35. Phil fished pellet waggler to start with and switched to floating bread later on. Sections Wins for Joe Price and Alan Thomas. Side notes from the day include – The fist fish being hooked at 1:45pm (Phil Price). One angler allowing a 15lb Carp to leap from his landing net and missing his keep net (David Pike). Another angler making several trips to the far bank to retrieve his pellet waggler (Alan Thomas). Full Result 1st Ray Torrington 136 lbs 1 oz – Peg No. 16 2nd Jason Chatham 127 lbs 10 oz – Peg No. 38 3rd Phil Price 61 lbs 13 oz – Peg No. 35 4th Joe Price 54 lbs 10 oz – Peg No. 19 5th David Pike 54 lbs 2 oz – Peg No. 18 6th Dylan Baxter 45 lbs 8 oz – Peg No. 12 7th Neil Speechley 35 lbs 9 oz – Peg No. 11 8th Alan Thomas 29 lbs 5 oz – Peg No. 39 9th Pete Wray 28 lbs 8 oz – Peg No. 33 10th Alfie Kendall 25 lbs 8 oz – Peg No. 14 11th Stuart Baxter 18 lbs 7 oz – Peg No. 36 12th Lee Annis DNW – Peg No. 31
Eastern Regional Shield - Sunday 14th September 2025 Just ONE MORE ANGLER required to complete the DSJAC team...... Antony Johnson Stuart Redman Ian Benton Des Dalton Jason Chatham Team of Six Anglers fishing 11:00 til 16:00 Holbeach Waters: Leedsgate Bridge Cement Bridge Orchard Formans Sharps Up Sharps Down Can you let me know if you are interested ASAP so I can reserve a space / spaces
Match Result: Sunday 20th July 2025 Venue: Kingsland Small Lake Second visit of this season to Kingsland Lakes and it was the Small Lake for the 8 Anglers who were prepared to risk the weather. Rain was forecast again during the day but at least the temperature had dropped to a more normal level. Lots up for grabs today with this being the third round of the Fenland cup with points at stake. The committee in full attendance would compete for the Committee Cup. Whilst the Newman Cup would be fishable for everyone. Ray Torrington was the man to beat today landing an impressive 218lb 7oz in a 5 net haul. Should have been slightly higher, but a few pounds and ounces over in a couple of nets saw them rounded down. Ray stuck with 6mm hard pellets on the top 2. Second place with a fantastic first match away from our club lake was junior member and work party stalwart Dylan Baxter. Fishing from the start with some “special 11mm oily black pellets”, he was free lining using an 8 foot rod into an area of feeding fish all day. Dylan was consistent with his 5 nets, just a few pounds short in each, but finished with 155lb 7 oz. Dylan was even happy to share his technique and bait with other anglers !! Third place was Dave Marzell with 118lb 14oz. An impressive display of accurate clicking saw Dave just 1oz and 6oz below the 50lb limit in a couple of nets. Dave’s tactics of avoiding the extremely large number of small carp that the lake is infested with, was to fish paste on the top kit. Full Result 1st Ray Torrington 218 lbs 7 oz – Peg No. 2 2nd Dylan Baxter 155 lbs 7 oz – Peg No. 5 3rd David Marzell 118 lbs 14 oz – Peg No. 1 4th Andy Wilson (chairman) 108 lbs 6 oz – Peg No. 6 5th Neil Footitt 98 lbs 11 oz – Peg No. 4 6th Phil Price 96 lbs 9 oz – Peg No. 3 7th Stuart Baxter 73 lbs 13 oz – Peg No. 8 8th Jason Chatham 59 lbs 1 oz – Peg No. 7
