Barford Lakes News

Take a Friend Fishing for Free with Free Coaching

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 16th July 2014 13:17PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 16th July 2014 13:19PM)

Take a Friend fishing 

We're offering anglers participating in the Take a Friend Fishing scheme an hour’s free training to get them started.  Sessions must be booked in.  The fishery is offering 2 for one fishing with any validated rod licence voucher

Taking someone fishing for the first time can be extremely rewarding, sharing their first experience of the sport.  We aim to help with the technical bits by teaching them the basics before they join you on your peg for a day's fishing.  We hope that you will be letting your friend borrow your fishing tackle.  We have limited tackle that can be provided but this must be booked.

There are vouchers in the angling press or you can print one from their site http://www.takeafriendfishing.co.uk/   and we have copies in the shop so can validate them on site.

You will need to validate the voucher on their website, bring into the tackle shop and you pay for the day ticket and your friend can fish for free on your peg and receive an hour's worth of free coaching.  

Contact Sarah on 01603 759624 to book coaching from Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 27th July. 

 

Final Evening Match Result and Final League Standings

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 12th July 2014 15:34PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 12th July 2014 15:34PM)

Below is the final result from the evening match series we ran this summer.  There were a total of 6 Wednesday evening matches and the last one was Wednesday 9th July.  5 anglers entered a league which counted the best 5 out of the 6 results.  Going into the final evening accumulative weights were very close between Marc Bradford and Robert Walton had 2lb between them.  Kevin Ford though crept in and had 116lb on the last match and went to win the league!

We ran these matches in conjunction with the Angling Trust’s Lets Fish programme designed to get people fishing more.  We had two pools structure - £5 and £1 which enabled anglers who don’t normally match fish to join in.

 League Result

1st) Kevin ford 280lb 15oz

2nd) Robert Walton 259lb 11oz

3rd) Marc Bradford 259lb 2oz

4th) Andy Turner 121lb 10z 

5th) Rodney Patrick 91lb 14oz

 

Match Results

Week 7

Barford Match Lake   -   Evening Match
1 Kevin Ford
(Barfordtackle.com)
116 lbs 7 ozs Peg: 5  
2 Aaron Humphrey 79 lbs 7 ozs Peg: 7  
3 Nigel Smith 51 lbs 0 ozs Peg: 8  

 

Week 6

Colton Lake   -   Let's Fish Evening Costcutter
1 Mark Bradford
(Browning Pownalls)
64 lbs 2 ozs Peg: 3  
2 Robert Walton 61 lbs 4 ozs Peg: 10  
3 Rodney Patrick
(Barfordtackle.com)
49 lbs 5 ozs Peg: 35  

 

 Week 5

Colton Lake   -   Let's Fish Evening Costcutter
1 Mark Bradford
(Browning Pownalls)
64 lbs 2 ozs Peg: 3  
2 Robert Walton 61 lbs 4 ozs Peg: 10  
3 Rodney Patrick
(Barfordtackle.com)
49 lbs 5 ozs Peg: 35  

 

Week 4


Colton Lake   -   Let's Fish Evening Costcutter
1 Matt Wiles 99 lbs 14 ozs Peg: 1  
2 Carl Watker 56 lbs 11 ozs Peg: 31  
3 Mark Bradford
(Browning Pownalls)
42 lbs 15 ozs Peg: 4  

 

Week 3

Barford Match Lake   -   Let's Fish Evening Costcutter
1 Carl Watker 78 lbs 12 ozs Peg: 8  
2 Kevin Ford
(Barfordtackle.com)
73 lbs 4 ozs Peg: 5  
3 Robert Walton 72 lbs 15 ozs Peg: 26  
4 Paul Gardiner
(Barfordtackle.com)
71 lbs 10 ozs Peg: 1  
5 Owen Bollingbrooke 61 lbs 14 ozs Peg: 21  

 

Week 2

Barford Match Lake   -   Let's Fish Evening Costcutter
1 Nigel Smith 55 lbs 4 ozs Peg: 26  
2 Andy Turner
(Team Barford, Army Vespe)
38 lbs 15 ozs Peg: 8  
3 Robert Walton 38 lbs 12 ozs Peg: 23  

 

 Week 1

Barford Match Lake   -   Evening Match
1 Mark Bradford
(Browning Pownalls)
71 lbs 15 ozs Peg: 17  
2 Matt Wiles 56 lbs 8 ozs Peg: 30  
3 Aaron Humphrey 54 lbs 2 ozs Peg: 19  
4 Carl Watker 49 lbs 14 ozs Peg: 25  
5 Andy Turner
(Team Barford, Army Vespe)
49 lbs 3 ozs Peg: 5  

 

No Open Saturday 12th July

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 10th July 2014 14:18PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 10th July 2014 14:18PM)

Many of us are going to Cudmore to support Norfolk angler's Daniel Brydon and Ray King and Suffolk angler Gary Bull in one of angling's greatest matches - Fish-O-Mania.  

We are cancelling the open match this Saturday 12th April - the fishery is open for day tickets as normal - so is the cafe.  

Good luck guys - Eastern Counties assault!!!! 

Evening Match 9th July

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 9th July 2014 08:07AM

The evening match this evening will be on the Match Lake.  Draw at 5.30pm and the cafe is open at 4.30pm.

 

 

Sainsbury's Norfolk School Games Angling Final 2014

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 4th July 2014 14:22PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 4th July 2014 14:40PM)

2014 school games group shot  2014 school games medalsBarford Lakes proudly hosted the Angling finals for the Sainsbury’s Norfolk School Games.  All 8 of Norfolk’s School Sports Partnerships entered 2 teams of 3 so 48 young anglers competed in this Level 3 competition.  The Summer School Games has seen around 2500 young people compete in various sports over this week.  Angling successfully entered into the games through the work of the County Angling Action group organised by the Angling Trust (angling’s governing body)

Norfolk’s one of the few School Games to have angling within the school games structure giving young anglers an opportunity to compete at county level, some had never represented their School Sports Partnership in sport.

 

Sarah Thomson (Barford’s Level II angling coach and tackle shop manager) “It’s been great that these young anglers has had their sport more mainstreamed by having it in the School Games structure and very positive for angling be involved”

2014 school games 2 2014 school games 1 

Individual Lake Results

Barford Top Lake   -   Norfolk School Games

1

Owen Lacey

22 lbs 5 ozs

Peg: 6

Top Lake

2

Ben Atkins

20 lbs 6 ozs

Peg: 2

 

3

Ben Bailey

6 lbs 9 ozs

Peg: 5

Starter Lake

4

Josh Stone

4 lbs 11 ozs

Peg: 12

 

5

Liam Piper

4 lbs 0 ozs

Peg: 15

 

6

Jack Clements

3 lbs 13 ozs

Peg: 14

 

Tuesday, 1 July, 2014 

Barford Match Lake   -   Norfolk School Games

1

Morgan Russell

44 lbs 9 ozs

Peg: 5

 

2

Jake Harvey

22 lbs 12 ozs

Peg: 28

 

3

Harry Hipkin

18 lbs 10 ozs

Peg: 3

 

4

Michael Timms

14 lbs 10 ozs

Peg: 26

 

5

Daniel Thomas
(Cliff Park Ormiston Academy)

13 lbs 10 ozs

Peg: 22

 

6

Liam Aspin

12 lbs 8 ozs

Peg: 24

 

Tuesday, 1 July, 2014 

Barford Pleasure Lake   -   Norfolk School Games

1

Ashley Holdsworth

24 lbs 9 ozs

Peg: 29

 

2

Jake Simpson
(Cliff Park Ormiston Academy)

9 lbs 3 ozs

Peg: 10

 

3

Ryan Kingsley

8 lbs 10 ozs

Peg: 28

 

4

Lewis Woodrow
(Archbishop Sancroft 3)

7 lbs 2 ozs

Peg: 2

 

5

Kyle Ledger

6 lbs 8 ozs

Peg: 18

 

6

Harry Denny
(Hethersett Academy )

3 lbs 1 ozs

Peg: 6

 

  2014 school games 3  2014 school games 4

Top Individual Angler

Morgan Russell

Pleasure Lake Section Winners

Jake Simpson & Ashley Holdsworth

Match Lake Section winners

Morgan Russell & Daniel Thomas

Top and Starter Lake Section Winners

Owen Lacey & Ben Bailey

2014 school games winning team  2014 school games 2nd team 

Top 6 Teams

 

1st

West Norwich & Dereham (Reepham)

 

Ben Atkins                          20 – 06  2 points
Kyle Ledger                        6 – 08    3 points
Morgan Russell                 44 – 09 1 point

Total Points – 6  
Total weight – 71 – 07

2nd

West Norwich & Dereham A

Owen Lacey                       22 – 05  1 point
Lewis Grummit                 5 – 03    3 points
Jack Fairhead                     3 – 12    4 points

Total points – 8
Total Weight – 31 – 04

 

3rd

Breckland SSP Team 1

 

Liam Piper                           4 – 0       2 points
Richard Orford                  1 – 13    5 points
Jake Harvey                        22 – 12 2 points

Total points – 9
Total weight – 28 – 09

 

4th

Breckland SSP Team 2

 

Ben Bailey                           6 – 09    1 point
Aaaron Cartwright           4 – 00    4 points
Liam Aspin                          12 – 08  5 points

Total points – 10
Total weight – 23 – 01

 

5th

East Norfolk SSP A team

 

Jake Simpson                     9 – 03    1 point
Daniel Thomas                  13 – 10  1 point
Blank peg                            0 – 00    8 points

Total points – 10
Total weight – 22 – 13

 

6th 

Norwich SSP A Team

 

Tom Herbet                        3 – 07    4 points
Harry Denny                       3 – 01    5 points
Joseph Sparks                   10 – 10  2 points

Total points – 11
Total weight – 17 – 02

Barford Lakes is a fishery 7 miles west of Norwich in Norfolk. – 01603 759624

The Angling Trust is angling’s governing body

The Norfolk School Games is the largest school sport event to ever be held in Norfolk.   The Games are part of the national Sainsbury’s 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.

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Hotel to Stay in Wymondham

Posted by: Sarah Thomson, 3rd July 2014 15:37PM
(Edited by: Sarah Thomson, 4th July 2014 12:42PM)

Great hotel to stay in Wymondham - they have 12 rooms and if you quote Barford Lakes the room rate is £55. Wymondham is only 10 mins from Barford and a great town to poodle about in!

It was formally the Consort Hotel and they have been re-doing all the rooms.  Breakfast is not included - £5.50 for a continental or order a full english from our lakeside cafe for £5.50.

It's the Town House Hotel in Wymondham