Barford Lakes News

52 anglers fished Choppy’s memorial match on Saturday 22^nd October all the lakes at Barford and Colton Lakes. All the peg fees were donated into a fund for a defibrillator to be kept at the lakes at Barford. 

We took special care to ensure we bought the right one and after advice bought a fully automatic machine for use on both children and adults.

Thank you all again for contributing to this great cause ……

The Defibrillator is now located in the shop and up and running.

Here is a photo of Tracey proudly showing Kevin’s Legacy 

Thanks so much to Kevin’s partner for 8 years, Tracey Davis.  It was a hard day for all involved, especially Tracey, but between her, her Mum and her friend, Stella there was a great spread for the anglers at the end with sausage rolls, sandwiches and homemade cakes.  The café gave everyone a free bacon/sausage bap and teas in the morning and their food at the end was welcomed by all who fished.  Big thanks also to Ian Ingram who trained us up to use this equipment in January this year and has offered to provide further training for the defib free of charge – top work – thank you Ian.

 from all at Barford Lakes  

Congratulations to Andy Adams from Oakham who qualified today form Top Lake peg 5 with 104lb 11ozs.  Andy caught carp to 11lb fishing pellet shallow.    Andy fished a B911 size 18 on a 0.14 mainline with 0.12 hooklength.  

2nd place was Stewart Bracey from Bury St Edmunds who caught 98lb 9ozs from peg 23 on Willow Lake.  Stewart fished worm and caster and had carp to 10lb.  

3rd place was Adam Southgate from Bishops Stortford who caught 92lb 1ozs from peg 2 on Railway Lake.  Adam caught on worm over groundbait and had fish to 13lb.

4th overall was Matthew Arnold with 91lb 6ozs from peg 2 on the Top Lake and 5th places was Keith 'Della' Pearson who had 87lb 14oz from peg 29 on the Pleasure Lake

Section winners were - Colin Begbie, Perry Stone, Richard Beeston, Matthew Crowe, Lee Carver, Andrew Dearing, Simon Colclough and Martin Homes.

Big thanks to the scalesmen today, Kevin Nicholsan, Barry Harmer, Dave Jarvis, Paul Gardiner and Zak Worby.   And many thanks to Terry Lear and HArry for the car parking this morning.

Lake Results

Day Tickets Good Friday 

The Pleasure Lake and Top Lake are open this Good Friday from 8am.  We are not opening on Sunday or Monday though, apologies.

Fish-O-Mania 

This Saturday 15th April is Fish-O-Mania - we are using all the lakes so I'm afraid we are not able to offer any day tickets this Saturday.

Spectators are welcome on site at Barford but please no walking around the lakes - you can see a lot from the car-parks though and the cafe will be open during the day as will the tackle shop.

The draw is at 9am with fishing from 11am - 4pm. 

The Cafe 

The cafe re-opens this Saturday and breakfast will be available from 7.30am.  The cafe will open on Saturdays only this year unles we have bookings on Sundays.  This Sunday 16th April the cafe will open from 8am. We'll pop a list up on other Sunday's we're open shortly.  Thank you to all who have supported the cafe last year and we look forward to seeing you in there soon.

It's been a busy week!  We were promoting free angling coaching at the Spring Fling at the Norfolk Showground on Tuesday.  We met some great people and had lots opf interest for the coaching.  Big thanks to Steve and Nathalie who helped on the stand all day and Nathalie who came up with the guess the bait challenge.  Special thanks to to Kevin Nicholsan who done a chapion job with the indoor casting game, which proved popular again this year.  Will post some picture tomorrow as I'm off site today finishing work onthe Syndicate Lake.

Yesterday was the first day of the free Family fish days.  We had 30 people attend in the mornign and afternoon and again met some great characters.  More update later!