1st Karl Altdorfer

Karl kept up his run of good results to win the match and keep the outcome of the series in the balance going into the final match.  A nice net of newly stocked small carp from peg 18 was a clear winner taken on double red maggot on the slider.  George won another section with mainly skimmers on the tip to tie the series with Karl on three section wins each.   Series Details.

1^st Karl Altdorfer 6lb 8oz
2^nd George Glen 4lb 3oz
3^rd Stef Hunter 1lb 3oz

2nd George Glen

Mark Lyons

Overall Final Series Placings 1st Mark Lyons 8pts 5.080kg 2nd Jamie McKay 8 pts 2.390kg 3rd Tony Lamb 7pts 3.500kg

The series ended with a super match on the top pond seeing hundreds of carp caught, mainly the newly stocked commons. Mark Lyons fished another great match for a clear win with an excellent 3.970kg catch of carp on the pole in only three hours. That performance won him the overall series and a superb 13 metre Vertice pole courtesy of DAIWA. 

Tony Lamb was second on the day with 2.380kg. Second overall in the series, and winner of a 13ft rod, was Jamie McKay after his 2.380kg took second place in group 2 and enabled him to pip Tony into 3^rd overall. Thanks to DAIWA and the other sponsors of this very successful series, a sign of great things to come next year.  More pictures to follow soon.

Jamie McKay

1st 
Chris Hughes

A small impromptu sweep allowed Chris Hughes to show off his slider skills in the very deep peg 20. He took lots of the newly stocked small common carp for clear win after a hard overnight frost.

1^st Chris Hughes 6lb 5oz
2^nd Barry Morgan 1lb 11oz
3^rd Gary McKay 1lb 7oz

1st Gordon Woods

Gordon Woods fished a tidy match on the tip for a comfortable win with an excellent mixed bag on the day of 5lb of skimmers, carp and roach from peg 18. George winkled out small skimmers on the pole on 25ft deep peg 21 to win that section and take the lead in the series with 2 matches to go.  Series Details.

1^st Gordon Woods 5lb 0oz
2^nd George Glen 2lb 4oz
3^rd Tony Ball 1lb 11oz

1st Gary McKay

A short 2 and a half hour sprint on the top pond and Gary showed the potential for winter evening matches with a quickfire 5lb 10oz comprising 15 carp.

1^st Gary McKay 5lb 10oz
2^nd George Glen 4lb 4oz
3^rd Derek Brady 1lb 7oz

A disasterous morning and none of the juniors caught any fish at all!  A few fish were agonisingly hooked and lost but apart from that it was very disappointing.  The series tables have not changed then!

1st Dougie Wallace

History was made on the Top Pond and the first ever winner of a Scottish floodlit coarse fishing match is Dougie Wallace.  Paul Vernel had the same number of fish but Dougie's 7 carp were bigger.  Though the night was very cold the atmosphere was warm and all enjoyed the banter not to mention Frieda's cooking before, during and after.  Hot soup at their pegs kept fingers from freezing over!  More pictures

1st Dougie Wallace 3lb 7oz
2nd Paul Vernel 2lb 3oz
3rd Chris Hughes 1lb 14oz

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2nd Paul Vernel

1st George Glen

With a bitter frost certain to affect the fishing, organiser Tony Ball spread the match over all three waters.  The Island pond fished badly but there were some decent catches under the circumstances on the Top Pond and Main Loch.  George won comfortably with a great catch of carp from the top pond on maggot and pinkie.  Karl deserved the 'man of the match' award for a nice catch of skimmers on the slider on the main loch.  With only two matches out of five gone, Karl leads with two section wins. Series Details.

1^st George Glen 9lb 11oz
2^nd Karl Altdorfer 4lb 11 1/2oz
3^rd Bobby Marshall 3lb 2oz

 
2nd Karl Altdorfer

Mark Lyons

Mark Lyons won the 2^nd round overall and Group 1, in a tough match on the top pond. Group 2 winner on the day Jamie McKay takes the overall lead in the series, though with 3 matches to go anyone could still win.

1st 
Bryan Hewitt

The series got off to a patchy start on an out of sorts main loch with fishing a struggle for most.  Bryan Hewitt continued his good form in recent matches.  When he drew peg 3 he knew just what to do and won clearly with a nice net of mainly skimmer bream on the long pole.  Sean McGurgan took the right option and fished the feeder to win the far bank section easily with 4lb 12oz of mainly roach.  With 24 entrants, there is still along way (4 matches) to go, so it's all still to play for - Series Details.

1^st Bryan Hewitt 8lb 12oz
2^nd Sean McGurgan 4lb 12oz
3^rd Willie Scott 3lb 2oz

2nd Sean McGurgan

Report and Pictures

Report and Pictures

1st 
Gus Brindle

Gus Brindle has just moved to Scotland with the Army and enjoyed his first visit to Magiscroft while winning the match with a great catch of mainly F1 Carp.  He took most of the fish on pellet near the island on peg 25.  Darren included a number of good sized Roach/Rudd hybrids in his excellent catch of mainly silver fish for second.  With one match to go Ian Whitson cannot be caught in the points series. 

1^st Gus Brindle 17lb 6oz
2^nd Darren Ferguson 14lb 3oz
3^rd George Glen 13lb 8oz
4^th Colin Hart 8lb 15oz
5^th Dougie Garmory 6lb 14oz

2nd Darren Ferguson

1st 
Gary McKay

A great catch of bream to nearly 3lb on peg 38 gave in-form Gary his second Sunday win in a row.  He fished very positively with groundbait and the fish certainly responded taking mainly maggot on the hook with worm producing later.  Stef fished a good match in the corner on peg 50 to edge out Rab, both had nice catches of mainly small fish. 

1^st Gary McKay 18lb 12oz
2^nd Stef Hunter 10lb 4oz
3^rd Rab Crossan 9lb 2 1/2 oz

2nd 
Stef Hunter

Well done to John Callaghan for setting a new Monday night record with a big net of carp. 

1^st John Callaghan 23lb 0oz
2^nd Ian Whitson 10lb 5oz
3^rd Darren Ferguson 7lb 11oz
4^th Tony Ball 6lb 8oz
5^th Ross Clark 5lb 11oz

Gary McKay had a convincing with in the super match on the Main Loch with the average weight around 10lb.  Gary had lots of small carp as well as some bream for an impressive 19lb whereas Davie Corcoran took mainly skimmers for second place.

1^st Gary McKay 19lb 0oz
2^nd Davie Corcoran 15lb 12oz
3^rd Drew McCluskey 12lb 11oz

Well done to young Mark Lyons for his 3rd win at Magiscroft this year.

1^st Mark Lyons 4lb 8oz
2^nd Tony Lamb 3lb 0oz
First to catch - Steve Mann

Monday Night Open - Monday 14 July - Top Pond  

1^st Darren Ferguson 9lb 15oz
2^nd Tony Ball 8lb 0oz
3^rd Alex Napier 7lb 0oz
4^th Ian Whitson 6lb 14oz
5^th Saverio Petri 4lb 12oz

1st Chris
Paton

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2nd Graham Thompson

1st 
George Glen

A change to the top pond was voted a great success and there were super catches all round.  George targetted carp only and took very few orfe in his winning weight.  He constantly fed micro pellets in a pole cup to attract the carp and took most fish on maggot.  Ian's catch included more fish but more small orfe. The points series is getting closer still but Ian still leads. 

1^st George Glen 13lb 11oz
2^nd Ian Whitson 9lb 7oz
3^rd Paul Joyce 8lb 0oz
4^th Drew McCluskey 5lb 11oz
5^th Gary McKay 5lb 6oz

2nd
Ian Whitson

1st 
Ian Whitson

Ian Whitson took an exceptional catch of carp on a very poor day on the Island pond when everyone else struggled.  Chopped worm was the key, with the fish taking the bait on the drop near the bottom.  

1^st Ian Whitson 5kg 550g
2^nd Willie Jolly 930g

2nd
Willie Jolly

1^st Jamie McKay 3lb 15oz
2^nd Christopher McKay 2b 12oz
1^st to catch - Andrew McLeod

The top pond continues to give lots of bites and fish for the kids in our Junior competitions and any time the kids come to pleasure fish.  Well done Jamie.

1st 
Alex Napier

A change of wind direction to North East affected the fishing at the weekend and also put off the Ide on Monday Night.  Alex has had some success with carp recently so this match was right up his street and the picture shows one of the better carp in his winning catch.  Darren is fishing well at the moment and some late carp boosted him into second place.  The points series is getting closer but Ian Whitson still leads. 

1^st Alex Napier 7lb 4oz
2^nd Darren Ferguson 5lb 4oz
3^rd George Glen 4lb 7oz
4^th Ian Whitson 4lb 3oz
5^th Ross Clarke 1lb 12oz

2nd Darren Ferguson

1st Darren
Ferguson

Darren is in good form at Magiscroft at the moment and he showed a top field the way to catch lots of skimmers with a nice 3.950 kg catch (8lb 11oz).  Brian Lynn is doing well on the main loch too and it was no surprise he took second with a similar catch of mainly skimmers.

1^st Darren Ferguson 3.950 kg
2^nd Brian Lynn 3.200 kg
3^rd George Glen 3.000 kg

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2nd 
Brian Lynn

1st 
Colin Hart

Colin Hart has scored points in the last 6 Monday evening matches and had his second win of the series with an impressive 9lb 9oz of Ide.  Smaller Blue Orfe hug the far bank so Colin came slightly away from there to catch better Ide. Ask what he feeds and Colin will say 'Caster, Caster & Caster !', the most successful bait on the island pond at the moment.  Well done to Ross for his first result since taking the sport up again with a nice 7lb of Ide.  Colin is catching Ian in the points series

1^st Colin Hart 9lb 9oz
2^nd Ross Clarke 7lb 0oz
3^rd Chris Paton 5lb 7oz
4^th George Glen 5lb 1oz
5^th Ian Whitson 4lb 11oz

2nd 
Ross Clark

1st 
Ian Whitson

Ian Whitson continued his good form on the Island Pond with a nice catch of mainly Ide to win the latest Sunday Sweep with 4.530 kg. Frequent feeding with caster and maggot and a light pole float fished close to the far bank is Ian's forte and he's hard to beat at the moment. Alex Napier in contrast fished for carp and nearly did enough with 4.330kg for second place. More carp to over 3lb are starting to show more now so matches should see more mixed catches as the summer progresses and carp could take over as the main target.

2nd
Alex Napier

1^st Mark Lyons 3lb 5oz
2^nd Steve Mann 2b 14oz
1^st to catch - Jordan Cowie

Congratulations to Mark for a good win and especially to 6 year old Jordan picking up the first fish prize in his first match at Magiscroft !

1st 
George Glen

Ide continue to overshadow the carp in matches on the Island pond. With so many big Ide being caught now (see the Sunday match below too) the latest Monday night match turned into a speed fishing contest with Ide hugging the far bank. George made the most of end peg 2 for 13lb 2oz and included generally bigger Ide than Ian who did have couple of carp. Plenty of loose fed caster with maggot or caster on the hook is the winning method at the moment. Ian still has a good lead in the points series but Colin, George and Darren are still working hard to catch up.

1^st George Glen 13lb 3oz
2^nd Ian Whitson 11lb 4oz
3^rd Darren Ferguson 8lb 10oz
4^th Colin Hart 6lb 12oz
5^th Barry Morgan 6lb 9oz

2nd 
Ian Whitson

1st Dave McAuley

Well done to Davie McAuley who equalled the Magiscroft match record with an amazing 25lb 14oz almost entirely made up of Ide on peg 24 in a small sweep this Sunday. Lots of loose feed tight to the far bank and maggot and caster fished shallow was the perfect method and was also used to good effect by Ian Whitson who took second with 16lb.

2nd 
Ian Whitson

1st 
Colin Hart

1^st Colin Hart 7lb 15oz
2^nd George Glen 7lb 13oz
3^rd Bobby Marshall 7lb 11oz
4^th Ian Whitson 6lb 15oz
5^th Darren Ferguson 6lb 13oz

Colin and George were separated by only 2 ounces this time (instead of 6 oz!) with the verdict going to Colin in another exciting photo finish on the island pond. One other fish could have swung it for Bobby or George, but Colin kept up his recent form to win with a nice catch of mainly Ide. Though the carp are still playing hard to get, the Ide are really keeping the matches busy and a number of them are weighing up to 10oz now. Ian is still well clear in the points series after framing again, but Colin and George are catching up slightly after the last two weeks.

2nd 
George Glen