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RARE WHITE BREAM CAUGHT IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS

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WINNER Channel Islands angler Paris Broe-Bougourd caught this rare visitor to UK waters. A white bream weighing in at 2.03.06 lbs caught on rag worm and 1/0 hook.

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NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTH EASTERN, EASTERN AND KENT AND ESSEX INSHORE FISHERIES AND CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES (IFCAS ) Section 155 & 156 Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 Pursuant to the above Act, the above IFCAs intend to apply to the Minister for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the confirmation of the following byelaw within each district: Byelaws Each of the IFCAs intends to introduce a byelaw as follows: Northumberland IFCA: Minimum Sizes Byelaw 2020 North Eastern IFCA: Byelaw XXXII Fish, Mollusc and Crustacea Minimum Size Byelaw 2019 Eastern IFCA: Minimum Sizes Byelaw 2019 Kent and Essex IFCA: Minimum Sizes Byelaw These byelaws are intended to replace the Fish, Mollusc and Crustacea Minimum Size Emergency Byelaws 2019, implemented under s.157 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act. The intended effect of the byelaws is to ensure the continued protective effect of minimum size rules on fish stocks in the context of changes to European legislation, and to

effectively maintain the conditions which existed immediately prior to the changes.

This will be achieved through the prevention of the removal of pre-spawning fish and shellfish from fisheries which are below the minimum size, established within European legislation, in relation to commercial and non-commercial fisheries and to enable the effective enforcement of such.

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The full text of the above byelaws, associated Impact Assessments and further information can be inspected at, or obtained from the following Northumberland IFCA: 8 Ennerdale Rd, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 4RT. Tel:

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REPORT FOR THE PORTS OF BRIGHTLINGSEA BRADWELL AND WEST MERSEA

By Lee Bollingbroke, skipper of Sophie Lea What a month started of like a lamb and finished like a lion and it goes on with floods every wear storm force winds just about every day its got anglers out of the habit of going fishing. Out today for the first time in weeks and the fishing was great with some massive rays well into double figures and to be honest its the only trip done this month and tomorrow we are back to storm force winds again.

Trying to do a report for this month as you can imagine is hard.

The only good thing is we have caught up with our maintenance schedule just a few jobs left to do, so there you have it probably the smallest report I have ever done but check out the photos of the fish caught today on Sophie Lea and lets hope we get some settled weather soon

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Fish Legal solicitor, Geoff Hardy, said:

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water and sewage companies in England and Wales were subject to environmental information regulation.

The decision followed a refusal by E.ON UK Plc to provide information to Fish Legal who were representing a charter boat owner facing exclusion from areas around a windfarm off the Brighton coast.

The Information Commissioner’s Office upheld Fish Legal’s subsequent complaint, a decision that E.ON UK Plc then appealed in the courts unsuccessfully.

The decision extends the scope of information law beyond the 2015 landmark case won by Fish Legal in which the Upper Tribunal ruled that

He added: “The ruling is particularly important when it comes to renewables such as wind farms and hydro-electric schemes. Any negative impacts on the environment of such schemes, which are often brushed-over, cannot now be hidden away.”

Fish Legal Chief Executive, Jamie Cook, said: “I am already aware that half the battle in challenging activities that damage fisheries and the wider environment is access to information.

That is why this decision is so important, not only for anglers but for everyone who has questions about whether these multinational companies are acting in the best interests of the environment or their shareholders."

He added: “It goes to show, once again, that anglers are at the forefront of the fight to shine a light on the impact of big business on the environment and we will continue to act on our members’ behalf to hold them account.”

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David Mitchell, the Angling Trust’s Head of Marine, was in Falmouth last month to hear more about the Thunnus UK tuna tagging from 2019. A large number of anglers, conservationists and charter skippers were present to hear more about the success of the project from the team.

David Righton of Cefas, principal investigator on the project, said: "We really appreciate the interest and feedback we

receive from the audience. It’s very important to us to be able to show the results of the project to people who have helped out. We are looking forward to even more data and information in 2020 from our scientific programme and would encourage all stakeholders to keep in touch with the project though our website, by coming along to future events, or by contributing sightings data."

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year. Commercial & Programmes Director at the MCA Damien Oliver, said: “The Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s new aircraft will enhance HM Coastguard’s existing and future search and rescue capabilities.

Two new state-of-the-art aircraft have taken to the skies, boosting the lifesaving search and rescue missions carried out by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA).

“These Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft are a welcome addition to the MCA’s fleet of helicopters and planes and boast stateof-the-art cameras and sensors that can detect people in the water at considerable distance. The aircraft will also provide further assistance to other public bodies in the work that they do.”

Equipped with multiple state-of-the-art sensors, the planes can spot a person in the water up to 40 miles away and can drop emergency locator beacons, communications and first aid equipment to those in danger.

Specially trained pilots and their crew will be on stand-by to respond to emergency situations around-the-clock - conducting wide-area searches around the UK coastline.

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The new aircraft will join HM Coastguard’s existing helicopter fleet which are stationed at 10 bases around the UK including at Newquay, Caernarfon and Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands. It is envisaged that the aircraft will each complete approximately 1,000 hours of flying every year.

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Operating out of Doncaster-Sheffield Airport, the new aircraft will also support HM Coastguard’s counter pollution activities by scoping out pollution in UK waters.

Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani said: “From pulling fisherman from treacherous waters, to hoisting people to safety from the most remote locations in the country, MCA rescue teams carry out vital lifesaving work every day.

The Beechcraft King Air B200 aircraft are equipped with electro-optical infrared search cameras and the latest multispectral reconnaissance sensors, which are coordinated through an integrated mission control system. Small stores, such as emergency beacons and flares, can also be distributed by the aircraft to survivors of a sinking vessel at sea.

“The ground-breaking new technology aboard these new aircraft will be an invaluable asset in time critical rescue situations, ensuring our rescue teams are better equipped than ever to save lives.”

These new services will deliver highly capable and cost-effective operations to the UK while also enabling other Government Departments to access the contract, instead of undertaking separate contractual arrangements for similar capacities.

On average the current fleet of search and rescue helicopters (SARH) respond to seven taskings a day, with more than 1,600 people rescued around the UK last

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CHESIL BEACH REPORT

By Gareth Mayers Chesil beach has yet again been victim to some severe southwesterly wind and the water clarity has been the same as the Bristol Channel for most of the month.

February most years is certainly not the most productive month but this year when the beach has been fishable towards the beginning of the month it has produced some pretty good sport.

The main reason I think the beach is still producing some good fishing is to do with the sea temperature being well above average for the time of year also the the storms have played a big part creating coloured water and littering the sea bed with natural food.

Some anglers as well as myself managed some bream nothing in numbers but all a respectable size. Proof the sea temperature was still above average at the beginning of the month.

The best of the bunch was a stunning 6LB 12oz Gilthead bream caught by angler Martin Ed‐ wards and a lovely black bream over 3LB falling to Jorge Ferriera.

plaice from these areas. There is only one prob‐ lem with the early plaice and that is they tend to be very skinny fish but can still provide some great sport during the daylight hours.

A lot of anglers tend to target the plaice with multi hook rigs, which is fine when theres a lot around later in the year. At this time of year I find that one generous worm bait on no bigger than a size 2 hook, clipped down and sent to the horizon works a lot better targeting single fish. The extra few yards you can get with a single bait opposed to multiple baits can make all the difference between catching and not catching your target species.

Worm baits is your best bet for the plaice al‐ though I would mix it up a bit using both rag and blow lug as on there day they can both work equally as well.

Until next time, tight lines!

Ferrybridge to Abbotsbury has still been produ‐ cing some nice cod, not in great numbers but they are still about and worth targeting, with blow lug and peeler being the best option of baits for the species at present.

The dog fish and pout are still about in fairly large numbers and can be a nuisance at time, as for the whiting there is a lot about on the western stretches of Chesil to Abbotsbury al‐ though they are mostly smaller fish, the further east towards Portland you go the less likely you will see any. A short lob with a slivers of mack‐ erel on a pop up will give you a very good chance of getting amongst the pollack, there has been alot about lately especially on the deeper marks from Abbotsbury to Port‐ land nothing massive but some nice fish up to 3lb.

As we move into march all the talk is going to be focused on the western stretches of the mighty Chesil. As the beginning of march usually pro‐ duces the first of our best looking flatfish the plaice.

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EAST SUSSEX DIARY

By Kevin Morgan TONYS TACKLE OPEN Tony’s Tackle competition The Big one was held on Sunday 26th January, sponsored by Excalibur Charters. The competition was fished as a catch and release match with whiting at 27cm and all other fish at 18cm. 4 seperate sections of 26 anglers, fished at Pevensey Bay, Whitehorses, Langney Point and Eastbourne. Species caught were whiting, dabs, plaice, dogfish, eels and bass.

The over all winner fishing in D section with 397 pts was Robert Tuck, winning £1000.

A section 1st Dave Rose 166 pts. 2nd Nigel Thorne 155 pts. 3rd Dan Wood 146 pts. 4th Steve Martin 139 pts. B section 1st Jamie Morgan 277 pts. 2nd Stuart Donaldson 240 pts. 3rd Ian Bowell 228 pts. 4th Ashley Painter 221 pts. C section 1st Ian Hopper 300 pts. 2nd Brett Coffer 264 pts. 3rd Craig Buy 212 pts. 4th Chris Kirrage 228 pts. D section 1st Nigel Scott 394 pts. 2nd Luke Mooring 366 pts. 3rd Rex Palmer 333 pts. 4th Paul Parsons 267 pts.

was to replace the one that was blown out on the 13th of January.

The weather was not bad, but not brilliant, a bit windy and quite cold, but fishable.

10 anglers braved the elements so we pegged it from peg 8 at Langney Point.

Someone forgot to notify the fish. Out of 10 anglers, only 1 fish was caught, a 21cm pout, worth 11 points, with an estimated weight of 3oz 11dr, not good when you think that anything over 18cm counted as it was catch & release. congratulations David Elstone on winning the competition and being the only angler to catch a fish.

SAXONS SEA FISHING CLUB The second club match was held on Sunday January 26th in windy condititons with 13 anglers fishing in Pevensey Bay. The winner was Gary Windeatt with 2lb ½ oz. 2nd Steve Merner with 1lb 14oz and 3rd A.J. Puttick with 1lb 11oz. Flounder whiting and ling were caught with plenty of other under size species as well. The 3rd match scheduled for Feb 9th was cancelled as were all other matches that day due to adverse weather conditions.

On Wednesday 11th February the scratchy match in Pevensey Bay was won

by Paul Christopher with a bass of 1lb 5oz.

2nd Trevor Rooney 10oz. Joint 3rd Keith Erridge and Alan Smith with 9oz. Keith with the heaviest flatfish a plaice of 9oz.

ANDERIDA FISHING CLUB The second match of the year was held on Thursday 23rd January with 23 anglers fishing in cold easterly winds. The winner was David Tame with 1lb 4oz including the biggest fish, a whiting of 10oz. 2nd Colin Isaacs with 1l 3 ¾ oz. 3rd Kevin Morgan with 1lb and 4th Glyn Morgan with 10 ½ oz. The heaviest flatfish was a flounder of 8 ¼ oz for Kevin Morgan.

The third match was fished on Monday 10th February with 20 anglers fishing again in difficult easterly winds. 1st was Les Glazzard with 2lb 11 ½ oz. Les also cleaned up with the heaviest round a dogfish of 1lb 10oz and the heaviest flatfish a flounder of 1lb 1 ½ oz. 2nd Colin Isaacs with 2lb 8oz. 3rd Paul King with 1lb 9 ½ oz and 4th Colin Everest with 1lb 4oz.

THE EASTBOURNE NOMADS On the evening of Tuesday 11th February the Eastbourne Nomads fished the 2nd part of the Slater Cup. This competition

Kris Watts with his first thornback ray

OVER FIFTIES On Monday 27th January the second over fifties match was held in Pevensey Bay. Gary Banfield won the match with 4lb 1oz, Gary also had the heaviest round with a dogfish of 1lb 11oz and the heaviest flatfish with a flounder of 10oz. 2nd Paul Christopher with 4lb 1oz. 3rd Trevor Rooney 3lb 3oz and 4th Les Glazzard 3lb 1oz.

GENERAL With the consistant strong winds and heavy rain for much of the last month, the boats have not been able to go to sea. The beach fishing has been good when the conditions allow ! when it does calm down some nice plaice have already been showing, both at Seaford and Eastbourne.

The thornback fishing has also started very well with some nice fish being caught between the rough spells. Paul Sandalls caught 11 plaice at Seaford recently, with the largest at 2lb 4oz. Peter Cornwall has caught plenty of plaice at Langney Point as did Mike Opreshko and Gary Banfield fishing with Les Glazzard managed plenty of Plaice and then stayed on to catch 19 thornback rays between them up to 6lb, all returned alive! James Blackmar caught some nice rays recently and managed 3 sizable bass during the rougher weather.

James Wood caught a nice thornback during the day and Scott Pettitt caught a double figure fish recently on a local mark!

Luke and Tim Ripley caught 8 thornbacks to 8lb 2oz in Eastbourne in early February and Adam Murtagh managed 3 to 8lb again in Eastbourne. Kris Watts caught his first sizable thornback using bluey recently, well done Kris!!

Luke and Tim Ripley with a couple of nice Thornback ray

Kris Watts with his first thornback ray

James Wood with a nice daytime 6lb 6oz Thornback Ray

Adam Murtagh with an 8lb Thornback ray

Paul Sandalls with a nice 2lb 4oz plaice caught at Seaford recently

Robert Tuck winner of Tonys Tackle Open winning £1000 pictured with Tony Mike Opreshko with a nice Kirrage plaice from Eastbourne beach

Scott Pettitt with a lovely 62cm Possibly double figure Thornback Ray caught on local beaches recently

Peter Cornwall with a nice plaice from local beach

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by Philip Higgins The weather has devastated the charter trips in February with Storm Ciara then Storm Dennis, I think these are the worst storms I have ever seen in Poole Harbour the wind gusts caused danger to life specially when walking along the pontoons to check your boat but thanks to the Haven sea wall all the boats were safe and reasonably well protected. Not a great deal of fishing has taken place but on the couple of calm days we had that allowed a few boats to venture offshore the rewards were exceptional with Spurdogs, Tope and Blonde Rays in good numbers and plenty of specimen sized fish in amongst them and to finish off a great day our 1st Porbeagle of the year came visiting the boat to see what all the commotion was about we put out baits but all he did was have a little look and swim on must be a fussy eater. Closer to shore the Swash Channel produced some great Bass fishing with a large shoal being resident there for a few days ranging from 2lb to 9lb. It is early and encouraging to see the 1st of the Black Sea Bream being landed along with odd Mackeral, drifting along the

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SILVER SPRAY REPORT

By Sam Cumming

Although we have only managed a handful of trips over the past 4 weeks the catch rates have been awesome on the days we have managed to venture out. Our last trip inshore in January saw plenty of whiting, congers and some rays come to the net.

By mid-February it starts to tail off however, so we tend to concentrate on wreck and banks fishing until April. The other days have all been spent on the offshore banks enjoying the increasing variety of species that swims around out there at this time of year. I can’t remember a start to a year when we have had such

good quantity of so many different fish. I usually find if there is an abundance of one species then you get a lot less interest from others, but we have enjoyed a good spread so far in 2020. As well as plenty of spur dogs, blonde rays, congers and bull huss we have had some whiting, pollack, smoothounds, tope and even a tub gurnard and a brill. Hopefully this weather will break soon and we can get back out the offshore wrecks. We have spaces on our 13th July Guernsey trip if anyone fancies exploring some new wrecks this summer.

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NORTH DEVON REPORT

By Wayne Thomas It’s been a challenging start to the New Year for North Devon’s Sea Anglers.

During quieter spells boat anglers have enjoyed some hectic sport off Ilfracombe with huge shoals of spurdog on the prowl.

Catches of a hundred or more spurdog are not uncommon with the biggest fish nudging the twenty pound mark. Bull huss and conger have also been present in good numbers. This fishing is expected to continue into the spring providing the weather permits access to the deep water marks in the middle of the channel.

Shore anglers have been targeting the spurdog with limited success. Find a shoal and multiple catches are possible, the problem has been that the shoals have been very localised.

Rock marks have produced good numbers of conger. Sadly, many of these are tackle twisting eels of 2lb to 5lb.

Dogfish are also present in good numbers

along with a few rockling, pollock and whiting.

Clean ground marks have produced quite a few tasty dabs to anglers prepared to scale down and use small hooks and worm baits.

I decided to take a break from the endless rod tip rattling conger and dogfish and target grey mullet. A three hour session brought just the one positive bite that resulted in a pleasing thick lip of 4lb 2oz.

The big storms have undoubtedly impacted upon fishing effort especially for boat anglers. The next month should see a few ray tempted from beaches and clear ground rock marks. Bull huss, conger and rockling should provide sport from rock marks. With higher than average water temperatures grey mullet and bass could well be caught if anglers target these species.

Nick Job with nice North Devon dab

Boat caught spurdog off Ilfracombe for Troy

Double figure bull huss off Ilfracombe on Bluefin

David Jenkins with a shore caught spurdog

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ANGLING TRUST NATIONAL TEAMS AND COMPETITION GROUP ANNOUNCE THE INTERNATIONAL SEA ANGLING TEAMS FOR 2020

Following the England Selection Committee meeting held in Lymington on Saturday 1st February 2020 the Marine National Teams and Competition Group of the Angling Trust are delighted to announce the International teams for 2020.

Some England squads were selected slightly earlier towards the end of last year and already announced. They were the World Pairs Shore Team, World & Home Boat Teams and the World Casting squad.

Youth Shore squad – This full squad of anglers are all selected to fish in various challenge matches that will be arranged this year. They are; Ben Eggleton, Tom Ryder, Owen Strange, Dylan Ballantyne, Daniel Parker, Oliver Hampton-Saint, Adam Malloy, Joe Cook, Dillon Thompson and Rory Eastlake SALC Home International Championship Shore Teams are; SALC Home Men’s Shore Championships in Weymouth from 6th – 10th July as below; Team – Dave Chidzoy, Dave Lane, George Smith, Ian Bowell, Saul Page, Bill Lindfield (reserve & assistant manager) and Ian Golds (manager) SALC Home Youth Shore Championships in Weymouth from 6th – 10th July as below; Team – Rory Eastlake, Tom Ryder, Owen Strange, Daniel Parker, Joe Cook, Dillon Thompson (reserve) and Malcolm Stote (manager) SALC Home Junior Shore Championships in Weymouth from 6th – 10th July as below; Team – James Slater, Riley Price, James Shaul, Samuel James, Deano Ryan, Keane Greenhow (reserve), Kelly Price (assistant manager) and Shane Inman (manager) FIPS-M World Championship teams are; FIPS-M 36th World Men’s Shore Angling Championships to be held in Mimizan, France from 19th – 26th September as below; Team – Saul Page, Richard Yates, Ian Dancey, Toby Oldfield, Henry Randell,

Andrew Dugdale (reserve) and Malcolm Stote (manager) FIPS-M 20th World Youth (U21s) Shore Angling Championships to be held in Arklow, Co Wicklow, Ireland from 10th – 17th October as below; Team – Rory Eastlake, Owen Strange, Daniel Parker, Adam Molloy, Tom Ryder, Oliver Hampton-Saint (reserve) and Malcolm Stote (manager) FIPS-M 29th World Junior (U16s) Shore Angling Championships to be held in Arklow, Co Wicklow, Ireland from 10th – 17th October as below; Team – James Slater, Riley Price, Curtis Driver, Samuel James, Deano Ryan, Chris Clark (assistant manager) and David Graham (manager) FIPS-M 29th World Big Game Angling Championships to be held in Dakar, Senegal from 17th – 24th October as below; Team: Team A – Peter Bailey, Jon Patten, Jack Challis and Andy Atkins (squad member and manager).

Team B – Steven Walder, Paul Smith, Bob McKee and Nik Teal and Ben Carter (reserve) FIPS-M 4th World Masters Shore Angling Championships (over 55’s) to be held in Hammamet, Tunisia from 28th November to 5th December as below; Team – Keith Mills, Kevin Warner, Jurgen Schedler, Dave Andrews, Richard Hipperson (squad member and manager).

The Ladies team/s are to be announced at a later date. If any ladies have not completed and returned their England Application forms and are interested in applying for the Ladies World Championship in France from 19th – 26th September or the SALC Home Ladies Championship in Weymouth from 6th – 10th July then please email; Sandra.johnson@anglingtrust.net for further details.

The Angling Trust would like to wish all the England Teams the very best of luck when competing in the FIPS-M World Championships and SALC Home Internationals this year.

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LANGSTONE HARBOUR AREA BOAT FISHING REPORT

By Neville Merritt, Southsea Marina Angling Club Thanks to Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis putting paid to two weekends since the last report, we have only had half the opportunities to go out. Fewer than that actually, because the weather around the storms hasn’t been great either. I expect the inshore mussel beds will have been rearranged so the plaice marks will have to be re-discovered. On the plus side, if you wanted to stock up on slipper limpet for bait there were plenty strewn all over the shingle beaches.

with the distinctive first and second dorsal spines.

Pride of place in this report is an impressive cod caught by Dean Gibbs from his own boat, fishing in deep water south of the Nab Tower. A squid bait lured this 22lb 10oz fish, big by any standard along this coast and particularly impressive given how few cod of any size have been caught this winter.

February is traditionally a good month for the larger pollack from the mid-channel wrecks, if there is a weather window allowing small boats to reach them safely.

Arron Shons was delighted with his 20lb pollack, and a number of other big doubles on the same trip. Kev Johnson shows another good pollack, caught during much calmer weather before the storms arrived.

We have an active community of young anglers locally and it is great to see their success – even if sometimes they out-fish us. James Smith aged 10 caught this 30lb conger on mackerel and squid by himself, although as you can see he needed help to lift it off the deck because it’s as long as he is.

This month we are between the winter season and the spring run of fish, although smoothhound and garfish associated with summer have confused everybody by turning up in January! Debbie Harvey shows off her smoothhound with the white cliffs of the Isle of Wight in the background, a popular mark throughout the seasons. Ray tend not to be migratory and can be caught at any time. On the same trip Debbie also landed this nice thornback ray. Jason Gillespie was also fishing south of the Nab with squid bait and instead of the hoped-for cod he instead boated this impressive blonde ray of 28lb.

The winter run of spurdog have thinned out now but some are still being caught.

Heber Crawford shows a nice specimen

Our near neighbour the Eastney Cruising Association Fishing Club held their awards night recently. Young Levin Bellinger won the ECA Junior Cup and an Angling Trust medal for his 2lb 14oz bream. Jake Kelly won the Junior Species Cup, the Wrasse Hat and an Angling Trust medal for a small-eyed ray weighing 8lb.

Many of the charter boats take February off for a re-fit before the spring run of fish.

They are mostly back in the water raring to go so if we can find some quieter weather before the next issue of SAN we should be reporting on the first plaice caught. I think many of us are relieved the disappointing cod season is over and we are all looking forward to the arrival of more smoothhound, bream and tope in the next few months.

Dean Gibbs Cod 22lb 10oz

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By Richard Saxby Another very windy month has severely restric‐ ted action from Burnham. As I write this I have just cancelled our second competition of the year which is a real pain as it leaves us playing catch-up to try and get all the trophies fished for. We're all looking forward to the spring now and the arrival of the bass which hopefully will go alongside a nice run of spring codling. The hounds won't be to far behind them and with daylight hours increasing then a few longer dis‐ tance trips down to Porlock will be on the cards.

There is lots to look forward to over the next couple of months if only this bloody wind gives us a break.

January 19th and 3 boats launched for a 6 hour trip over high. It was a great day to be out on a boat with a flat sea and a warming sun beating down. The fish were obliging with a steady stream of thornbacks, eels, whiting and dogs with 2 of the boats finding a couple of cod each, the biggest going 10lb 7oz to Martin Quinn.

Martin also had a spotted ray which we don't see that often in the bay.

The following week Obsession was out again but fishing was a bit slow for Andy Georgiou and Martin Quinn though they did find a few cod with the biggest to Andy of 11lb 2oz.

Fish of the month for January sponsored by Thyers Tackle of Highbridge was won by Andy Georgiou with a cod of 11lb 2oz and 74%.

The next club comp is our Presidents Cup on the 22nd March.

The next club meeting is on Thursday 19th March at Burnham Motor Boat and Sailing Club on the sea front, pop along if you are interested in joining a friendly club.

You can keep up-to date with latest news and catches and all things fishy on our facebook page and website Burnham Boat Owners Sea Angling Association.

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Andy Georgiou cod 11lb 2oz

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BRISTOL CHANNEL SHORE REPORT

By Craig Butler With the past month being dominated by what felt like constant belts of strong winds and heavy rain it’s no wonder rod hours and catches have been minimal.

With local club matches , boat trips and shore guiding sessions all cancelled along with customer foot fall low in tackle shops it’s been a tuff month all round.

On the few windows of opportunity that have occurred between weather fronts, the codling fishing has been very good with some very respectable catches being recorded.

The Severn Estuary marks at Portishead, Clevedon, Weston and Burnham have all been producing plenty of codling.

Further down in the channel the Somerset reefs the codling fishing has been consistent again with positive catches of codling being made. Traditionally this is also when the bigger female thornbacks make an appearance in calmer conditions but frustratingly calm conditions have been a rare thing this past month.

The usual marks between Watchet and Minehead have also been consistent for codling with the Dunster to Minehead golf links beach being the most consistent section in this area.

Porlock bay has plenty of mixed fishing available with Bossington and Porlock weir marks always willing to throw up a mixed bag of fish when conditions are favourable.

The month ahead will hopefully have no repeat of the horrendous weather we experienced in February and normal business will resume.

The excellent codling fishing will continue throughout from the upper reaches on both the welsh and English side down to Minehead and a few places west of Minehead. With the best spring codling fishery we have seen in a good few years you would be mad not to get out and make the most of it especially when we start to get a bit of warm March spring sun to,warm the bones.

Tightlines and happy hunting.

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BRISTOL CHANNEL BOAT REPORT

By Tom Wright largest mix of Rays. Blonde’s, Thornbacks, Spotted’s and Small Eyed’s have all been taken this last month. Into ‘The bay’ (Bossington to Porlock) and it was very evident that the seasons are progressing as the dogfish became prolific at times.

Smoothhounds have begun to make an appearance and an increase in the numbers of Bull Huss has been very evident. ‘The Bay’ will always throw up a mix of species and there’s been a bit of variety with fish such as small Bass, Rockling and even a Haddock.

Haddock are seldom caught in this area of the Bristol Channel and are always greeted with some surprise and excitement as the unexpected capture breaks the surface.

The tail end of this month has very much suffered at the hands of Storms Ciara and Dennis with continued strong winds severely limiting days afloat.

Prior to the storms there was clear evidence of the winter fishing coming to an end as the numbers of both Cod and Whiting significantly decreased and the increase in numbers of fish associated with spring such as Bull Huss, Smoothhounds and Dogfish were seen.

Focusing our eyes towards the areas around Watchet a notable increase in Thornback rays was evident along with Spotted Rays, Conger Eels a few Blonde Rays and some Codling. Blue Anchor, Dunster and ‘The Gables’ continued to produce a mix of rays, some small Conger Eels a few Whiting but is still notable as the area to continue to produce most numbers of Codling.

Minehead through to Selworthy, with its areas of sand threw up a reasonable variety of fish and the

Boats pushing offshore, particularly over some small neap tides, have found the larger specimens. Conger Eels and Bull Huss produced consistent action with numbers of Spurdogs being taken to the very West of our patch.

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Still no let up from the weather, we just have to take the opportunity when a decent weather window arrives.

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Today, 16th of the month (February), is our Sea Angling News Deadline Day when we Port Reporters can procrastinate no further but must sit before our keyboards and try write something which may be of interest and use to anyone kind enough to read it.

We are currently experience Storm Dennis which is the fourth storm of 2020 already with Storms Atiyay, Brendon and Ciara having already battered our fair island’s shores. Storm Dennis, the current offering, is a very impressive storm with The Washing Post describing it as ‘’one of the Atlantic’s most powerful bomb cyclones’’ which is ‘’churning up 100’ waves and slamming into Britain’’. The Post’s imaginative weather journalist describes the power of Storm Dennis such that it is currently ‘’turning a vast swath of sea into a churning-ship sinking cauldron’’.

There may be those amongst who find the hyperbole of the American vision to be somewhat over-exaggerated but I urge those disbelievers to look at the Facebook page of Alderney based Stevie Phe. Stevie is a massively talented photographer whose work concentrates on the dramatic seascapes around his home Island of Alderney that many of you will know from your charter trips there. Stevie’s current photograph of the sea crashing over the Alderney Breakwater on Friday Feb 14th is brilliant. Many of us have sheltered inside Alderney Harbour and watched monstrous waves crashing over the seawall….but those seas are nothing compared to the one created by Storm Dennis and captured by Stevie. Take a look…you WILL be impressed.

Apparently surveys show that naming storms makes people more aware of their threat and makes us more likely to take protective action rather than if the approaching weather is simply described as ‘a storm’. The effect of the Washing Posts description of a Storm Dennis as being spawned from a ‘powerful bomb cyclone’ which in turn creates a ‘churning maelstrom slamming Britain’ devastating and sinking everything currently in the Atlantic and English Channel makes it perfectly understandable why our charter fleets remain firmly tied up.

There were, though, a couple of clm days in this first half of February and results of the fishing out of Weymouth and Portland were very good.

Dave Pitman, skipper of Atlanta, describes his first trip back to sea on February 2nd after his annual holiday, as being ‘’ very nice morning with a nice lot of fish throughout the day’’. The anglers started off by finding with 30 mackerel for fresh bait for the day before anchoring up and enjoying action with whiting and bull huss. Dave reports that these were mainly small fish so he moved to another inshore mark which produced much better fish with big whiting up to 4lb ,along with ray and spurdog up to 20lbs plus lots of ‘small conger’ up 35lbs.

Ryan Casey, skipper of Meercat, had also returned from his fishing holiday in Thailand to benefit from this very temporary lull in the winds. Ryan explains that the fishing was not the easiest at times but in the end a steady run of fish developed throughout most the day and it was great to see all 5 species of rays associated with the Weymouth/Portland

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sea area being get caught in the same day; namely small-eyed, thornback, undulate, blonde and spotted rays with the ‘best’ two fish being a 21lb blonde ray and a 13lb 4oz huss.

Lyle Stantiford took advantage of the conditions to head out to the wrecks for the first trip of 2020 after Supa Nova’s extensive refit which included two brand new engines! the refit. There was a brisk chilly south east breeze but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the troops or the fish with steady pollack fishing all day from start to finish with many fish into double figures. Lyle reports the anglers found it ‘a bit cold filleting on the way home’.

Smoothound - Atlanta

Smoothound - Atlanta

So…what’s on the agenda for March? There may be a sprinkling of whiting still about on the inshore marks with the various rays and conger definitely taking the baits during anchoring sessions.

The Shambles MAY, if conditions calm down enough to allow the bank to settle, see turbot caught. Although most turbot fishing takes place on the drift, anchoring one of the rips can be more productive, particularly if the sea is murky.Anchoring also significantly increases the actual fishing time with no need to continually rest the drifts. The problem, as always, is that many anglers do not like to use heavy weights even though the ever improving braids allow a good deal of tide to be fished with just a pound or so of lead.

I’ve just been reading Russ Housby’s game fishing reports from his current location in the western Pacific. Russ started out as a very highly praised young crewman aboard none other than Roger Bazant’s Lymington based Sundance in the 1990’s and then went on to make a name for himself as a top class game fishing crewman on the International Game circuit. Russ’ Dad was the famous and talented Trevor Housby who brought out a string of superb angling books including my (and Russ’) favourite…Dream Fishing.

Spurdog - Atlanta

Spurdog - Atlanta

One of these works often comes to mind at this time of the year when turbot fishing is discussed as back then in the late 60’s and early 70’s most of the fishing on The Shambles took place at anchor and nothing was thought of using anything up to 25 foot three hook traces presented on 150lb mono and held in place with 6lb of led. Yes…6lb!!

The offshore wreck fishing will be targeting pollack with a vague chance of a lost cod or confused bass taking a lure. Also, the neap tides towards the end of March can often be very productive for ling with anchoring or drifting producing the fish.

March will see the very first Channel Island trips take place with the main intention of reaching the famous Shoal Bank between Alderney and Guernsey aiming for turbot.

This has been another very difficult winter for skippers and anglers alike. As always the skippers wish to express their gratitude towards you, the anglers, for supporting the trips. We always live in hope that the weather will become kinder soon and that the boats can get back out to sea with increasing regularity.

Good Luck to all in March!

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BACK TO BASICS By Martin Wood This month with back to basics as we have featured so much from the shore that I figured I would do this one from a boat angling perspective and tie it in with Roving rods and get a basics down on what would be needed to get going.

So first up let’s take a look at a rig, What rig do we need? There are plenty of rigs you can use and I’m sure with time you may change your mind on some rigs due to the ground you fish over or condition of the sea you’re fishing in but ultimately you want your rig on the sea bed presenting your bait on the bottom and so there is a

reason the running ledger is one of the most commonly used rigs and that’s because it gives a great presentation keeping the bait on the sea bed, you can use one hook or pennel it like I do with two hooks it gives you a better chance of hooking a fish and when using a large bait you can add to the presentation keeping it neater and sitting better within the tidal flow looking more natural.

A standard hook length would be 2- 3ft with size 4/0 – 6/0 hooks, remember to leave a clear hooking point on each hook and good luck!

Recreational fishing will be recognised as a stakeholder for the first time

A new law allowing the UK to manage its own fisheries outside the EU is beginning its passage through the Houses of Parliament.

The Bill, introduced in the House of Lords, will ensure the UK leaves the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy at the end of the transition period in December 2020.

Under the new Bill, recreational fishing will, for the first time, be recognised in law as a direct stakeholder in UK fisheries and will qualify for financial assistance from a funding scheme replacing the EU’s European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF).

The Bill includes powers to give the UK control of our waters, set fishing opportunities and reform the management of fisheries over time. Underpinning the Bill is a commitment to sustainability and it enshrines in law the Government’s

manifesto commitments for sustainable fishing.

David Michell, the Angling Trust’s Head of Marine, said: “For the first time in nearly 40 years, members of the public fishing for recreation and personal consumption of publicly-owned sea fish will be recognised and their views and requirements taken into account in how UK sea fisheries are managed.

"Businesses servicing the sector, which contributes a total economic impact to the UK each year of over £2bn, will now have the ability to influence the development of fishing policy which affects them and their employees, many of whom provide much needed jobs in costal communities throughout the UK.”

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FISHING IN WALES ANGLING TRUST LAUNCHES NEW PROJECT TO OFFICIALLY PROMOTE ANGLING IN WALES The Angling Trust has announced the development of a new project to officially promote angling in Wales. Named ‘Fishing In Wales’, the project is well under way, with an official launch planned for Spring 2020. Visit Wales is the main funding partner, with additional match funding being provided by Natural Resources Wales.

The Angling Trust will be delivering the project, with the aim of building ‘Fishing In Wales’ as a brand that will be an important resource for anglers and for anyone who wants to go fishing for the first time.

The aim is to encourage significantly more angling participation in Wales.

Recreational rod and line fishing is a valuable part of the Welsh rural economy, but it needs to be more widely acknowledged and promoted for it to grow and add further value, and to support rural areas to maximise revenue from tourism.

Our target goals include: •Encouraging existing Welsh anglers to fish more •Inspiring lapsed anglers to pick up a rod again •Attracting newcomers to the sport, particularly through crossover market appeal •Attracting more visiting anglers from England and other areas of the UK •Marketing Wales as an attractive fishing holiday destination, therefore encouraging more visits from the USA, and EU countries such as Benelux, France and Germany To achieve this, the Angling Trust is producing a modern, content-driven website as a solid foundation. Working in collaboration with well-known Welsh anglers and writers, the website will include key information on where, how and when to fish in Wales, covering all angling disciplines.

The website will also include information on where to stay near good fishing locations, where to purchase fishing tackle locally and where to hire a fishing guide or charter boat.

Additionally, the website will focus on quality, image-led ‘blog style’ articles from a wide variety of established and respected Welsh angling writers. These articles will be shared and promoted dynamically, in line with seasonal angling trends. A collective of 17 contributors have already signed up, many of whom

have an established pedigree as experts within the angling world, such as Steffan Jones, George Barron and Dave Lewis to name just a few.

Fishing In Wales content that will promote fishing as a mainstream, outdoors activity, that everyone can enjoy in Wales as part of a wellbeing experience.

Promotional video will play an extremely important role and will showcase the numerous spectacular, world class fishing destinations in Wales. For example, llyn fishing in Snowdonia, river fishing for wild trout and grayling, sea fishing for bass off the rugged Pembrokeshire coast, and coarse fishing for pike and barbel, will all be covered. Fishing In Wales video content will involve high profile Welsh anglers such as Hywel Morgan, and will be produced by Welsh angling filmmaker Rob Hughes, who is widely acknowledged as one of the best angling media producers in the industry.

To help deliver the project Angling Trust has appointed a Welsh angler as the project Marketing Manager.

Social media will play a key role in the marketing campaign and will widely share and promote the website, its written content, images and video. Social media channels will include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Maximum reach to audiences will be facilitated using modern marketing techniques, ensuring that Wales is widely promoted as the premier fishing destination that it deserves to be.

Ultimately, the outcome must be more angling participation in Wales. We will make it easier for people to fish in Wales the Wye and Usk Foundation’s Fishing Passport will receive investment and will be integrated into the site, to allow finding and then booking day ticket fishing, to be as seamless as possible.

Ultimately, this project will raise the profile of Welsh angling, underlining its importance not just to the Welsh rural economy, but as a traditional and cultural asset that is truly priceless.

This has been achieved due to the hard work of stakeholders such as Gwent Angling Society and various other Welsh angling clubs and groups; also, individual Welsh anglers, who together, have tirelessly lobbied for Welsh angling to finally gain the official recognition it deserves.

With 2020 as Visit Wales’s “Year of the Outdoors”, fishing is a natural fit into this themed year - where better to enjoy fishing, an outdoors activity for people of all ages and experience, than in Wales?

As part of the Fishing In Wales project, the Visit Wales website will feature bespoke

Educated in Aberystwyth with a background in Marine and Freshwater biology, Ceri Thomas has over 15 years marketing experience, obtained while working in the Welsh fishing tackle Industry for fly line manufacturer Airflo.

Ceri is also an angling writer, having contributed to many online and printed publications - often with a strong Welsh theme.

Most importantly, Ceri has fished in Wales for over 30 years and has a vast knowledge of all disciplines of Welsh angling, thus allowing him to understand and cater for the needs of anglers within Wales, and also to market Wales as an attractive angling destination for those living elsewhere in the UK and overseas.

Ceri Thomas said: "I’ve always felt that Wales is a truly special place to fish, with angling opportunities that rival many of the best locations in the world. As a Welsh angler, I have always been incredibly passionate about Wales, its beautiful landscape, history and superb wild fishing - I see this role as a fantastic opportunity to express that passion.

"Long neglected, official Welsh angling promotion is vital for the future of our sport. If we encourage anglers from home and abroad to fish in Wales, fishing will deservedly continue to be recognised as a valuable part of our rural tourism economy, thus allowing us to continue to address many of the issues affecting Welsh angling today.

"As well as encouraging more people to fish our wild and wonderful rivers, lakes and seas, I hope this project will serve to unite the Welsh angling community and leave a lasting legacy for the future.

"Croeso i Pysgota yng Nghymru Welcome to Fishing In Wales!"

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Dave Collins, Vice Chairman of Gwent Angling Society said:"We were delighted that Natural Resources Wales and Visit

Wales responded so positively to our paper in 2018. Our document outlined the positive impact of previous promotional campaigns in Wales and the potential for significantly increasing angling participation, and the revenue which it generates, by promoting angling in a more sustainable way in future.

"For generations, ordinary working people in over 120 Welsh angling clubs, have provided access to Welsh rivers and other inland fisheries. This not only benefits those living locally, but also provides the foundation for angling tourism and its wider rewards.

"In Wales, our natural resources are one of our greatest assets. Our fisheries provide biodiversity and tranquility in an increasingly stressful and noisy world, and the social and economic impact of angling in Wales aligns perfectly with success criteria set out in the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2015).

"We and other angling clubs will continue to do all we can to monitor, maintain and preserve fisheries and habitat for future generations, whilst encouraging people to go fishing and helping them to enjoy success. Therefore, we are delighted that the promotional vision which we set out in 2018, supported by Angling Cymru and the Angling Trust, will become reality in 2020.

"Croeso i Pysgota yng Nghymru Welcome to Fishing In Wales!"

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Rob Evans, Specialist Advisor: Freshwater Fisheries Management for Natural Resources Wales said: "NRW is delighted to be involved with the Angling Trust and other partners in this project which will help put Wales on the map as a top quality angling destination.

Wales is blessed with a wealth of angling opportunities many of which can be considered world class, including wild brown trout fishing in our many remote upland lakes and fly fishing for sea trout/sewin on easily accessible river fisheries, many of which offer day tickets for both local and visiting anglers.

"It is also great to see this project being used to promote responsible and sustainable angling such as best practice for Catch & Release as this will help ensure fishing in Wales has a bright future and will be enjoyed by generations to come."

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HOOKED ON LURE FISHING The groundbreaking new hardback from Merlin Unwin Books (RRP ÂŁ24.99)

Packed with brilliant tips and ideas from Dom and saltwater lure fantatic Andy Mytton, this new book reveals a huge range of species to target and exciting tactics to try. Over three years in the making, it also features the amazing underwater photography of BBC Wildlife star Jack Perks. It is available now from various book and tackle shops, or signed from www.dgfishing.co.uk

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LRF REPORT

By Richard Salter It will be of no surprise to you to hear that the LRF opportunities have been somewhat limited over the last few weeks!

Ciara and Dennis combined to rule out any coastal activities for much of February, the conditions really not suited to throwing 2g jigheads around!

We did manage to squeeze in a couple of sessions before the worst of the weather came in though and found a decent mixture of species along the way.

One thing that is fairly reliable during the winter months, is a Torbay mackerel. I tend to find more of them during the Autumn and winter in this area than any other time of year. You just need the conditions to be in your favour.

We were lucky enough to have such conditions at Brixham a few weeks ago, with water clarity better than it had been for some time and even a bit of sunshine!

My fishing buddy Ben found the mackerel almost by accident, whilst dropshotting out on some cleaner ground in search of other species. He caught several just slowly bumping his lure back along the bottom or even just holding it up in the current. It was clear they were feeding low in the water.

I picked up a few mackerel on small metal jigs, again all but one caught just twitching and hopping it along the seabed, the other taking it in the more traditional way, on the drop shortly after the lure hit the water! As always, these mini tuna provided some great winter sport, even if they were on the small side.

When the mackerel switched off, it was time to turn our attentions to the structure closer in to see what other species we could find. Feeding a dropshot rig down through the gaps in the boulders found a few fish, with Goldsinny, Corkwing and Ballan Wrasse caught, along with a couple of Pout. Its always an interesting way to fish, some holes seemingly lifeless whilst others can produce a procession of fish, of all shapes and sizes. Another good tactic is bouncing a jighead (or small weedless flexhead if you’re finding more snags than fish) off the boulders and into the gaps, this can trigger a hit when the dropshot method fails at times.

The fishing at Brixham was good enough that I felt it worthy of another visit the following weekend, this time my Dad came along for his first taste of LRF. It was pretty slow going this time around unfortunately but we did find more Torbay mackerel along with black goby, sand goby and some whiting, including my first on a metal! The other whiting and Gobies were picked up fishing either dropshot or Carolina rigs out on the cleaner ground, Isome and Gulp Sandworm proving their value at digging out a few fish when the going is tough.

I squeezed one more session in before the storms rolled in, joining Ben down in Plymouth for some urban night game. Ben had actually had a very good day down at Mount Batten during the day, picking up a big Ballan along with a nice assortment of other species, again fishing in close in and around the boulders that line the pier. As darkness fell, we caught a few pout on dropshot rigs, we were hoping to find some of the good sized whiting that had

been showing recently but they evaded us this time round.

Our next stop was Sutton harbour where we bumped into another fellow LRFer, Maurice Minchinton, he'd had already caught a few fish including some Mackerel amongst the usual gobies and other bits and pieces. He joined us as we searched for flounder, but although we spotted a couple of nice fish, they weren’t interested in our offerings on this occasion unfortunately. Sutton had again proved frustrating for me although Ben managed to find more gobies and tompots fishing down the walls.

Our final stop was Millbay, where we could see fish topping all over the docks. It was soon clear that these were pilchards as we bumped into an angler steadily filling a bucket with them as he hauled in a few a chuck on feathers! My first cast produced a mackerel, taken on a length of Isome mounted on a 1.4g jighead slowly worked across the mouth of the docks. It was clear that the water was thick with pilchard though as we were getting line bites every cast, but it’s easier said than done getting them to take a lure! I tried all manner of lure and jighead combinations to no avail!

Ben did manage one on a small metal and we picked up a mixture of pout, poor cod and gobies between us when our lures sunk beneath the shoals of pilchards, not a bad way to end a winter evenings fishing. In total, Ben had caught 10 species during his afternoon/evening session, which is an excellent tally for the time of year and goes to show what’s possible if you can get out there!

Pout

Black Goby

Mackerel

Tompot Blenny

Poor Cod

Ballan Wrasse

Goldsinny Wrasse

Tight lines all and let’s hope we get some better weather soon!

Mackerel

Corkwing Wrasse

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ROVING RODS

ROVING RODS - HERITAGE CHARTERS

By Martin Wood

With the shore fishing around the south west being not so fantastic with it being this time of year where it’s hit and miss and with some pretty horrendous and miserable weather I figured I would take the rods onto the sea and see what could be pulled out and what better captain locally than Tom Wright or Tommo locally with the new fantastic boat of his Lorna Doone which is a great black and white beast! With two 300HP power plants driving this large swift cat across the sea with ease which makes travelling to and from marks effortless and a lot quicker as well.

With booking on with Tommo online through his Facebook Heritage charters page all booked on and with the code to the marina it was on.

Darren a friend had also booked on this day so we agreed we would go there together.

To save wasting any time in morning or rushing around, the night before I travelled to Watchet to pick up a pound of live rag from Steve at west coast angling so we had half a pound and some frozen baits each.

At last the day is here and we get to the marina early so we can go down catch up with Tommo and set up for the day.

We get aboard after myself slipping on the pontoon and almost taking a nosedive into the water! We get the gear down and all of a sudden I realise whilst packing the frozen bait I’ve left the live bait on the side, after some swearing under the breath and Darren probably thinking it, we had just enough time to shoot back with a heavy foot and collect the worm.

Finally we get back at the marina with the rag worm and just in time ten minutes until we leave, we make our way down and get aboard and start to rig up.

With the day not going so well for me so far it always happens in threes and so the third happened whilst sat on my box just putting my waterproofs on, Tommo is reversing the swift cat out of the pontoon and all the water that had settled up on top of the roof came off and all over myself. At least it got a few laughs and ok wasn’t very wet and gear on we started to make our way out of the harbour.

The wind was up and the sea was a bit lumpy but that’s all good with me it’s normally good for a fish or two if the movement is good, we were limited to what spots we could choose due to the wind but we anchored up just off the golf links course which has seen a lot of codling running this year a few other boat captains we’re also here in the same area.

Choice of weapons today was the AFAW uptide match pro paired with a fathom 2 15FS and I had my boys Leeda icon rod paired with a Penn Rival multiplier normally would have had the Abu out but that was on loan today to Darren.

With bites thin on the ground I eventually saw some tiny nibbles on the end of the icon with that I lifted into the rod and felt some resistance on the end it was fish on!

Although it was nothing to write home about but none the less first fish of the day!

It eventually came to the surface and it was a small thornback ray ... that’ll be why the bites were small on such a large bait, Tommo was there on hand and unhooked the ray, I didn’t bother photographing the Thornie as I didn’t want to get the macro lens out! And with some luck there should be plenty more coming along in a bit but with that all of a sudden there was nothing going it went blank with no activity, it stayed this way for a while and with Tommo getting on the blower to a few other captains they had similar experiences except they hadn’t even landed any fish.

It stayed quiet and Tommo gave the shout we were all waiting for right on time... “Tea or coffee?”

With a brew in hand we all had a renewed sense of being about ourselves and the chatter was flowing. Then a bit of action at the front of the boat a dog fish ok maybe they will bite result! I was just talking to Tommo about the specs of the boat and the start of up costs and all of a sudden there is a shout from the back only this time from Darren!

He had pulled it in and it was a small codling about a pound and a half and asking me who was the daddy.... challenge on! Put your fish finger away mate!

The next bite was a good while later on, maybe a couple of hours had passed which ended up being a small strap conger, just as Tommo released it by unhooking it over the side of the boat someone was in on the other side of the boat with a nice blonde ray of around 8-9 lb a quick photo by Tommo and the ray was back in the water to disappear into the murky chocolate brown sea.

The next few hours passed without a lot happening and with the wind picking up moving the boat around crossing a few lines in the process, the coffees were coming and the banter and chat was good although not many of us knew each other.

Darkness was approaching and the odd dog, eel and whiting had been caught it was a day of reasonably hard fishing, Tommo decided to move onto Watchet reef system to see if maybe we could change our luck at all, again fishing was flat and not much was taking baits, but sticking to my game I loaded another 5 blacks up the line putting a decent meal out there with some stink and tipped it off with a touch of squid casting it back out and then rebating the other rod with a whole squid and doing the same we’re into the last moments of play now and then the rod goes with a lovely big thump with the tip going over twice jumping to attention i was lifting into the rod like a fat kid on cake and winding in, I feel the tension on the end and a nice bend in the Icons tip feeling some nods and shakes on the end we know straight away it’s a cod, Tommo came over with the landing net and as it gets nearer and scoops it to safety and pulls it onboard, I’m happy to see a half decent fish! I’m even happier it’s a codling and I’m elated that it’s a lot bigger than Darren’s fish finger haha We certainly saved the best till last! We had a

good laugh about it. With the last casts done and time now out it was time to pull the rods in, pack up and clean the boat down and make our way back to Watchet marina.

With the day not being a very productive day as that’s how fishing goes at times I decided I would come out again unfortunately work times were not great and I didn’t get the tides I would choose to fish (i prefer neaps i believe they fish better and hold the fish) and wasn’t the best day again but a lot of congers were pulled up along with a couple of small rays a spotted for myself and a few dogs and an eel it was a slow day until last light where we fished again on Watchet reefs again sticking to my game it was time to fire out the last casts again with worm and squid being the baits of choice the icon started rattling away so lifted into the rod and reeled the fish in when it first breached the water a little way out I thought it was a small codling in the dark until closer I realised it was actually a really good whiting! With it now on board and dispatched humanely and quickly I packed that rod down and cleaned up my gear and started wiping down my station of the boat.

With the last few minutes of the evening

Cod Caught aboard Lorna Doone

starting again it was broken with a nice thump on the AFAW and the line went slack, picking up the rod and winding in the slack I found the tension I was looking for and it was fish on! Even more pleasing was feeling the nods that told me it was cod... at last target acquired!

Running through my mind was I’ve managed to pull it out the bag at the last moment again only this day it was the only cod we would see on the boat but that being said it made for a great end to my day.

It was that time again and we all started packing down and cleaning down.

I managed to get two days that we’re not so great overall but that is fishing if it was always easy it would be called catching but got to take three fish for the table and you can’t beat fresh fish!

Tommo is a great captain with a lovely boat which has plenty of comfort an room and most importantly Tommo knows what he is talking about and will do his absolute best to get you on the fish and catching as you may have seen on Totally Awesome fishing show with Graeme Pullen if you haven’t seen it’s well worth a watch!

Until next month tight lines.

Whiting Caught aboard Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

Cod Caught aboard Lorna Doone

Tommo Lorna Doone

Small ray caught aboard Lorna Doone

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RESULTS

LDSFC

Recreational week-end fishing trip 19th January.

Sunday January 19th six club members of Lymington and District Fishing Club left from Poole Quay aboard charter boat “Mistress Linda” skippered by Phil Hig‐ gins. With the sun just rising and a cold start to the day but with the wind finally dropping we headed for our first stop of the day in search of the elusive cod but more likely whiting and conger. A bank out of the harbour was to be our first stop and the first of the whiting were soon coming aboard followed by conger, pouting and dogfish.

A short move to another bank proved to be worthwhile with a good showing of rays being caught, the best going to Arran Harmer and Chris Ellis who also managed a smooth hound.

Finally, it was decided to try drifting several areas closer in just to see what might be about and this again proved a good move with an early plaice caught by Ben Daniels followed by grey and tub gurnard, and a bonus octopus for Malcolm Gerrish.

Thanks to Phil and his crewman for a good day’s fishing and his usual hospital‐ ity of hot drinks and hotdogs.

Arran Harmer.

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3rd Shore Competition.

On Saturday evening 8th February Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held its 3rd Shore competition at Hythe Marina.

This was a changed venue because of the wind which was very strong and south westerly so we could not fish at Avon Beach.

Ben Daniel

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2nd Shore Competition.

On Saturday 25th January Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held its 2nd shore competition at Sandbanks, Poole Harbour. With a strong south-westerly wind blowing the six club anglers who fished the competition found it a little un‐ comfortable at times.

Ten fish were caught for a total weight of 9lb 15½ozs and consisted of flounders, pouting and whiting. On these competitions only ed‐ ible fish are retained. All others are weighed and released immediately.

The best fish of the evening was a flounder weighing 2lb 3¼ozs which was also the best specimen of the evening and caught by Roland Blomfield.

Results: 1st Roland Blomfield 4 fish 4lb 10¾ozs, 2nd Andy Hopkins 3 fish 3lb 9¼ozs, 3rd Malcolm Stote 2 fish 1lb 0¼ozs, 4th Terry Kempton 1 fish 0lb 11¼ozs.

Roland flounder

West Bay SAC

25th January 2020, Andy Neal Rover 17:00 - 23:00.

Venues chosen to fish for January's Andy Neal Rover were Burton Bradstock, West Bexington and the piers at West Bay, there was a moderate south, south westerly breeze at the start of the match this eased around high tide, Lea Windsor enjoys fishing at West Bexington (the rest of us are trying to see what he steps in on his walk to his favourite mark) along with the usual doggies, he also had two whiting both of which were specimens at 111% & 121%, this has also put him into first and second place at the moment in the club's Fish of the Quarter competition.

Malcolm Gerrish.

Six club members fished catching eleven fish for a total weight of lb 13.8ozs which consisted of flounder, dogfish, pouting and whiting. The best round fish of the evening was a dogfish of 1lb 12.4ozs caught by Roland Blomfield. The best flat fish was a flounder of 7.4ozs caught by Malcolm Stote. No specimen fish was caught so this pool is a rollover till the next competition.

1st most fish points Gerry Read 16pts 2nd best fish Lea Windsor 3rd most species Steve Fowles Species caught in match were, dogfish, whiting and pouting.

Lea Windsor Whiting

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Shingle Bank League Competition.

Steve catches a new club record fish.

On Monday evening 20th January Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held its 2nd Shingle Bank League competition in which twelve club members took part and all twelve weighed in fish. The weather for the evening was a flat calm sea, and a dry, cold frosty night.

Fish caught consisted of pouting, dogfish, spotted and undulate rays, 53 fish in total were weighed for a total weight of 61lbs 8.7ozs.

The best fish of the evening was an undulate ray of 17lbs 6.2ozs which is a new club record caught by Steve Pitman.

Steve also had a spotted ray of 3lb 4.8ozs and Malcolm Stote a spotted ray of 3lb 10ozs.

Results: 1st Steve Pitman 5 fish 23lbs 0.2ozs, 2nd Malcolm Stote 11 fish 14lbs 5ozs, 3rd Andy Hopkins 8 fish 6lb 9.2ozs, 4th Paul Watson 6 fish 4lb 9ozs, 5th Chris Ellis 5 fish 3lb 6.3ozs, 6th Danny Panks 5 fish 3lb 2.6ozs, 7th Keith Panks 3 fish 2lb 8ozs, 8th Luke Woodford 2 fish 1lb 12.6ozs, 9th Ben Daniel 3 fish 1lb 11ozs, 10th ---- ------ 2 fish 1lb 3.8ozs.

Only edible fish are retained. All other fish are gently put back into the sea after measuring.

Shirley SAC

Here is the result of our latest match which was a Shore comp on Sat 8th February that was going to be at Sandbanks, Poole but was switched to Hythe to Ealing Creek at the top of Southampton Water. 20 members fished with 17 weighing in 128 fish for 21k 460gms. Species were Flounder, Pout, Dogfish, Whiting & Conger Eel with the best fish being the Conger Eel of 2k 060gms caught by David Beale.

RESULT. SENIORS. 1. Robert Cooke 19 fish 3k 240gms 2. David Beale 8 fish 2k 840gms 3. Jack Haynes 9 fish 2k 260gms 4. Kai Sutherland 17 fish 2k 040gms 5. Jodie Hale 12 fish 1k 660gms 6. Adrian Groves 7 fish 1k 420gms No Juniors fished.

Only edible fish are retained. All other fish are weighed and released immediately.

Results: 1st Malcolm Stote 5 fish 4lb 14.4ozs, 2nd Roland Blomfield 2 fish 2lb 3.6ozs, 3rd Ben Daniel 2 fish 0lb 6.6ozs, 4th Steve Pitman 2 fish 0lb 5.2ozs, Terry Kempton and Andy Hopkins both blanked.

West Bay SAC

On the 25th January 2020, three club members attended the Wyvern annual presentation night in Exeter to pick up their awards for the fish they caught between October 2018 and September 2019. Our club winners were; Aaron Chambers the junior catch & release boat winner in December 2018 with a Bull Huss of 12lbs 8oz 147.05% of specimen.

In August 2019 Aaron Chambers was the junior boat winner with a Black Bream of 3lbs 2oz 125% of specimen. He also won the catch and release award for a Bull Huss of 10lbs 8oz 123.53% of specimen, as well as the junior runner up position for the best catch and release fish, an Undu‐ late Ray of 11lbs 1 oz 110.63% of speci‐ men.

Malvin Chambers won the best catch and release senior boat caught fish for August 2019 with a Porbeagle Shark of 276lbs 8oz 195% of specimen.

Roger came runner up in the best catch & release in the senior shore caught fish for September 2019 with a Grey Mullet of 4lbs 11ozs 12drms 118.36% of specimen.

Faith Barr won the best catch & release ju‐ nior boat caught fish for September 2019 with an Undulate Ray of 12lbs 9ozs 1drms 125.90% of specimen.

West Bay SAC.left to right: Roger Guppy, Aaron Chambers and Malvin Chambers holding their certificates.

Unfortunately Faith Barr was unable to attend the evening.

The photo is courtesy of Hilary Smith

NEWS / FIXTURES

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PRELIMINARY TRIALS ON POWER-DOLPHIN DRONE LOOK VERY PROMISING Last week saw the SAN team undertake preliminary trials of the Power-Dolphin drone. The initial venue of Ilfracombe Harbour in North Devon proved unsuitable due to the weather conditions and the state of the tide, so we quickly up-sticks and headed for Robbers bridge where we caught some cracking underwater video footage and familiarised ourselves with setting up the controls and syncing the fish finder module. Armed with a more indepth knowledge of the settings and controls we headed for Minehead harbour

The Powerdolphin ROV by Powervision.

to stretch the drones legs. The water clarity in this part of the Bristol Channel is never great so the use of the onboard HD camera was limited but it gave a good demonstration of the fish finder/echo sounder function.

We plan to do more trials as soon as the weather improves so we can test the full capabilities of this great bit of kit, so watch this space.

For more info go to the website: https://www.powervision.me/en/product/ powerdolphin

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HAND WORKING FISHING ACTIVITY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAG LIMITS – HAVE YOUR SAY

D&S IFCA is inviting you to have your say on the development of bag limits (catch restrictions) for recreational fishers. The bag limits will form part of a new Hand Working Permit Byelaw.

D&S IFCA intends to set a series of bag limits for a range of different species and resources taken by recreational fishers conducting hand working fishing methods.

Hand working fishing methods include the use of crab tiles, bait digging and a range of hand gathering fishing methods such as the gathering of cockles, mussels, clams and seaweed.

We are directly contacting everyone on our mailing list and are providing details about the subject matter. All stakeholders can respond even if they don’t conduct the different fishing activities.

•The information gathering exercise ends on Monday 9th March 2020.

Image by Russel Wills c/o geograph.org

The information about the proposed bag limits can read in full here by opening the pdf document.

https://www.devonandsevernifca.gov.uk/L atest-news/Hand-Working-FishingActivity-The-Development-of-Bag-LimitsHave-Your-Say The circulated information includes the proposed levels for the bag limits, the rationale for the setting of the limits and links (if reading in electronic format) to further information.

The information gathering exercise is based around five questions.

SPECIES AND RESOURCE INCLUDED ARE AS FOLLOWS: Brown crab, spider crab, lobster, spiny lobster, scallops, cockles, mussels, winkles, limpets, oysters, razor clams, other clam species, whelk, prawn/shrimp, shore crab, worms and seaweed.

HOW YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SAY We encourage you to read the background information and then choose from the following: Contact us via email – consultation@devonandsevernifca.gov.uk

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TACKLE SHOPS DIRECTORY

TACKLE SHOPS DIRECTORY DEVON SEAVIEW ANGLING 14/15 Faraday hill, Plymouth PL4 0ST. Tel: 01752269698 SEATON ANGLING CENTRE The Harbour, Axmouth, Seaton Devon EX12 4AA Tel: 01297 625511 www.seatonanglingcentre.co.uk HIGH STREET TACKLE, 153 High Street, Ilfracombe, Devon EX34 9EZ info@highstreettackle.co.uk Tel: 07516 730749

DORSET SWANAGE ANGLING CENTRE 6 High St., Swanage BH19 2NT Tel. 01929 424989 email martin@swanageanglingcentre.co.uk The Angling Centre, 10a West Bay, Bridport tel. 01308 421800 www.fishto.net WEYMOUTH ANGLING CENTRE 2-3 St Edmunds Street, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8QU Tel 01305-777771 Email: wac@weymouthangling.com ABBOTSBURY FISHING TACKLE Rodden Row, Abbotsbury Weymouth DT3 4JL Tel 01305 871199. Delivery service to beach available.

JERSEY MORNING WATCH TACKLE St Catherines Breakwater, St Martins Jersey JE3 6DD 01534854359

HAMPSHIRE ALLAN’S MARINE 143 Twyford Ave., Portsmouth Tel 02392 671833 www.allansmarine.co.uk ROVERS FISHING TACKLE 178a West St., Fareham, Hants PO16 0EQ Tel. 01329 220354 Fax 01329 829040 roverstackle@yahoo.co.uk POINGDESTRES Unit 11, Southampton Trade Park, Third Avenue, Southampton, Millbrook SO15 0LE 023 8077 2958 www.poingdestres.co.uk

SOMERSET Veals Fishing Tackle, Brunel Rooms, Unity St. Bristol, BS2 0JP. 01179 260790

Now taking bookings for 2020 in our brand new 10 meter Swift Cat. Whether its fishing, inter island cruising, round the island trip or just visiting the many beautiful bays of Jersey, this boat will get you there Fast, Safe, Dry and in Comfort, including an electric flushing toi‐ let. No back breaking bouncing around and getting wet. Seating for 8 to 10 people

in the purpose built saloon area, as well as extra seating on the deck. This boat is pur‐ pose built and designed for your max‐ imum comfort and safety. Trips include free beverages and fresh water.

Email:- Tony on skipper@fishingjersey‐ .co.uk Or call 07797725301 Or Olly on oheart@live.co.uk Or Tel. 07829766866

THYERS FISHING TACKLE, 1A Church Street, Highbridge 01278 786934 Fax 792397 WEST COAST TACKLE The Quay, Minehead Tel. Craig 01643 705745 WEST COAST ANGLING CENTRE 53 Swain St, Watchet Tel. Steve 01984 634807

SUSSEX THE ANGLERS DEN 6 North Road, Pevensey Bay, East Sussex BN24 6AY Tel: 01323-460441 LAGOON BAIT& TACKLE, 327 Kingsway, BN3 4LD Brighton - 01273 415879 SCOTTIES 25 Southwick Square, Southwick, Brighton BN42 4FP Phone:01273 592903 PRIME ANGLING 26 Marine Parade, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 3PT. Phone:01903 821594 www.primeangling.co.uk/

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WALES TELBOY’S TACKLE Amlwch, Anglesey Tel. 01407 832965 www.telboystackle.co.uk

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