It is with a heavy heart that I have to report the death of John Taylor, our tenant farmer at Sheinton Farm. John had been suffering from diabetes for many years and was taken into a nursing home about 4 years ago. He came home to the farm to be with his family at Christmas and other special occasions and was comfortable at the home for the rest of the time. Complications set in a couple of weeks ago and he was taken to hospital yesterday where he passed away in A&E.

I'm sure that I speak for all LAS anglers in sending our sincere condolences to the Taylor family.

I will post details of the funeral here when I get to know them.

The wonderful summer weather (not!) continued to spoil the fishing on 15 July 2012 for the third round of the LAS Summer League. Heavy overnight rain had raised the river level by 3.5 metres, which put off quite a few of our regular attendees. This left just 16 to fish this match. The winner, from peg 16 in Cressage Meadow was Mark Carr with 4 barbel for 19 Lbs 2 Ozs. Second from peg 13 was Adam Barsby with 3 barbel (he thought he had 4 but can't count!) for 15 Lbs 2 Ozs and third was Mick Clapperton from peg 103 with 13 Lbs 12 Ozs. Fourth with 3 barbel was Dave Hopwood from peg 78 with 13 Lbs 1 Ozs. 12 of the 16 anglers who fished weighed in. This now means that Mark Carr leads the league with 25 points, followed by Dave Hopwood and Adam Barsby on 24, but Dave is ahead on weight. The picture below is of Dave Hopwood at a very high peg 78 with his 4th place weight of 3 barbel.

For the full result, click on the link below.

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Summer League - 3.pdf (38.76 kb)

Because Dave Upton had to "retire injured" with a bad back during the first match on 17 June 2012, he only got the result of this match from me at the second match on 1 July. Dave has now produced the usual spreadsheet with both match results (see below).

The first match fished poorly, due to there being 6 feet on the river. It was won by Carl Pavey from peg 22 with just 16 Lbs, second was Mark Carr with 12 Lbs 4 Ozs from peg 103 and third Dave Hopwood with 9 Lbs 13 Ozs from peg 29. The second match produced a better result with a 59 Lbs haul of 11 barbel taken from peg 75 by Gary Stinton, second was Dave Hopwood with 35 Lbs 4 Ozs from peg 80 and third was Adam Barsby with 27 Lbs 1 Oz from peg 104. 

A delighted Dave Hopwood said after the match "I don't care about the result really, I have just had one of the best day's fishing I've ever had!" Well, you can care now Dave as you are leading the Summer League with 17 points, 2 clear of Adam Barsby and Mark Carr on 15. But Adam is in second spot with a 12 Lbs weight advantage.

Summer League - 2.pdf (36.01 kb)