Ian Heaps - Holgan Farm - Pembrokeshire - West Wales

Autumn Festival 2011

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A sincere thank you to Alan McGuire for taking the trouble to let us know the results from the Autumn Festival.

Many congratulations to Clive Wright on finally taking the top spot.

Former Fishomania Champ wins Holgan Farm Autumn Festival in Wales

Clive Wright fished an excellent festival winning his lake each day for a maximum total of three points over the three days.

His best catch was on the Match lake on Wednesday where he weighed in 121.1b of carp.

He was in good company with former World champion Ian Heaps and Frenzee ace Steve Barraclough taking part.

Clive has come close winning the Festival on previous occasions coming second twice.

Overall winners:

1) Clive Wright. Mozella, Willis Worms. Total weight 202.1b

2) Chris Barley. Peterborough.

3) Richard Baldwin. Peter's Pies

4) Ian Heaps. Holgan Farm.

5) Dave Cheetham Frenzee.

Spring Festival 2011 - Report

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33 anglers made the annual pilgrimage to Holgan Farm this past week to contest the Spring Festival with the promise of good weather. The first half of the week was a damp, drizzly affair but gave way half way through to a couple of glorious days of sunshine and hot temperatures. The first festival day got underway on Monday with Scott Heaps getting his first win under his belt on the Carp Lake with a bag of 94lb on peg 15 followed by Colin Bates with 66lb off peg 29,3rd on the lake was two time John Smith's winner and Witchhaven winner, Colin Perry from Mansfield on peg 19 with 61-1 The Tench Lake fished well with multiple festival winner Chris Barley weighing in 59lb off peg 16 followed by Ian Heaps on peg 22 with 50-6. In 3rd place was Tim Peters on peg 19 with 48-8. Over on the Match Lake it was Gadgers Champion 2011, Nobby who led the field with a weight of 93-15 off peg 17, while Capt Joe took the runners up spot with 83-5 on peg 29. Graham Block took 3rd place with 82-2 off peg 20.
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Gadgers Match Results 2011

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It was a welcome change to have glorious sunshine on Saturday for the 7^th annual "Gadgers" Match, held on all 3 lakes.

As explained at the draw by Andy Phyllis, the name Gadger is a Yorkshire term for a mate or good friend. Many years ago Andy and his Gadger Graham attended a teach in at Holgan Farm and at the end of each days fishing they held a 2 man match between the pair of them. Graham never uses a pole and was soundly beaten every day by Andy using the pole. Graham then christened poles "cheating sticks" and claimed that he wouldn't be beaten if a match was fished using only rod and reel. Thus the "Gadgers Match" was born and poles are left in the car for the day. Incidentally, Graham is still waiting to win his first "Gadgers Match".

Autumn Festival Results 2010

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Another year gone in the blink of an eye and the autumn festival came round again, 36 took part and this year was the first time where all 6 matches counted with your worst result being dropped. The weather was patchy as was the fishing, with the Tench lake as expected being solid by the end of the week. Also it was clear that the fish were moving round so formulating a plan depending on the draw was near impossible.

There were however some surprise results in particular Graham Block who had a fantastic festival fishing tidy and simple all week and just missing out on 3rd place by 1 point, fishing his first proper festival.

However the crown of the 2010 champion went to Steve Baraclough who fished brilliantly all week, and from some tough draws and finishing on 6 points from a 5 day festival, and well deserved it was to.

Ian Heaps showed good form as expected catching some tidy fish on the waggler on a couple of days and finishing 2nd overall with 9 points.

Day 1 Tench Lake
1st Steve Newman, peg 22, 39.00
2nd R Champion, peg 30, 24.11
3rd J Welch, peg 3, 14.00

Match Lake
1st Mick Miles, peg 22, 91.02
2nd Colin Miles, peg 16, 66.02
3rd Colin Perry, peg 6, 56.04

Carp Lake
1st Clive Wright, peg 3, 66.10
2nd C Thompson, peg 29, 57.15
3rd K Roberts, peg 23, 46.14

Day 2 Tench Lake
1st S Baraclough, peg 11, 16.12
1st K Roberts, peg 30, 16.12
3rd O Hewitt, peg 9, 9.10

Match Lake
1st Baz Mcgee, peg 4, 64.14
2nd S Heaps, peg 22, 63.04
3rd T Schofield, peg 27, 49.04

Carp Lake
1st I Heaps, peg 21, 118.12
2nd G Block, peg 23, 100.04
3rd M Miles, peg 19, 72.02

Day 3 Tench Lake
1st C Perry, peg 7, 27.08
2nd A Bocock, 19.08,
3rd C Barley, 16.08

Match Lake
1st Tim Peters, peg 6, 62lb
2nd S Baraclough, peg 18, 46.04
3rd K Roberts, peg 4, 39,04

Carp Lake
1st A McGuire, peg 21, 84.08
2nd R Baldwin, peg 25, 43.12
3rd S Heaps, peg 19, 43.10

Day 4 Tench Lake
1st G Block, peg 18, 18.12
2nd R Baldwin, peg 3, 16.02
3rd C Wright, peg 5, 12.00

Match Lake
1st I Heaps, peg 20, 47.12
2nd B Stephens, peg 29, 41,08
3rd C Perry, peg 13, 38.10

Day 6 Tench Lake
1st I Heaps, peg 22, 6.12
2nd C Miles, peg 7, 5.09
3rd, K Roberts, peg 13, 3.08

Match Lake
1st S Baraclough, peg 22, 72.04
2nd M Miles, peg 18, 27.04
3rd C Barley, peg 23, 27.04

Carp Lake
1st Keith Moore, peg 21 73.07
2nd G Block, peg 5, 64.04
3rd D Philips, peg 23, 61.00

Overall

1st S Baraclough 6pts
2nd I Heaps 9pts
3rd G Block 10 pts
4th Baz McGee 13pts
5th C Perry 14pts

Heaviest fish
18.15 Craig Thompson
18.08 A McGuire
18.03 Mick Miles

Willis Worms Festival 2010

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This weekend, 12/13 June saw the annual Willis Worms Match held here at Holgan Farm. This annual event usually attracts a field from far and wide due to the £500 added to the prize fund by the sponsor, Denzil Thorpe of Willis Worms.

30 anglers were split between the Carp and Match Lakes and fished both lakes over the 2 days, the only stipulation being caster and worm only allowed.

Results are as follows:

1st Tim Peters (Leeds) 217-6

2nd Paul Williams 195-2

3rd Stu Hipkins 161-6

4th Les Thompson 160-8

5th Roger Summerscales 158-5

6th John Howell 158-2

Heaviest Fish Ritchie Hogan 13-8 (£100 prize)

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