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MONSTER TUB GURNARD CAUGHT IN LYME BAY MARINE RESERVE

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WINNER Honiton SAC member hooked this huge gurnard of 7lb 6oz off beer, devon. It was caught in the Lyme bay reserve by Chris Grady who was aboard Cyril Newtons boat blue lady on a 3 hook rig baited with squid.

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REPORT FOR THE PORTS OF BRIGHTLINGSEA BRADWELL AND WEST MERSEA

By Lee Bollingbroke, skipper of Sophie Lea Its been a very good month with very little bad weather to spoil our fishing fun flat calm and sunny just what the doctor ordered, bass fishing has been very good and also plenty of rays a step down on the sizes we were catching with plenty of small to mediums however the bass have been plentiful in the four to five pound marks and always a welcomed catch buy all our anglers.The bass are coming on just about all baits but the anglers coming with us that go the extra mile for there baits i.e. digging some worm or sourcing from angling shops such as Brian Deans tackle and baits and Clacton angling or Colchester bait and tackle to name but a few in our area are getting the best catches Many anglers simply rely on the skipper to source bait for anglers which we are happy to do but it does get difficult for us when we are out on the boat by 7am and not back

until 7pm in the summer months and living some five miles from the nearest tackle/bait shop some times impossible. We always have fresh squid on board but we do find the anglers that do a bit of home work before there trip i.e source a bit of worm and crab have the best days out with us lets face it its not cheap to book a day on a charter boat and I know live baits are expensive but it will help you maximise your day out especially in the thames estuary.

The times I see anglers with a good selection of bait doing well suddenly find they have a friend they didn’t no they had trying to winkle a worm or to from them of a peeler crab so prepare or be prepared to fail is the old saying. The picture below fourth down is Mary Drake and her dad with a bass caught by Mary aged ten of eight pounds well done Mary.

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Back in the early eighties I was taught how to off set hooks and the reasons why it could benefit my fishing, but over the years ive have had mixed opinions over this!!!

Now a days you can buy hooks that are already off set like chinu and octopus style hooks, but Aberdeen and wormer style hooks are normally not off set. There are 2 main reasons I do this with my hooks, and I have found that it makes a massive difference to my hook up rate and durability of my hooks.

1st one is it will show you if the hook is weak, by either snapping when you off set your hook with pliers or show you the hook is too soft by opening up to easy, I would rather it did it now than when I got that pb fish on. The main thing is to do this slowly and not off set the hook too much, you need to see a little bit of day light between the hook point and the shank. Do this by

holding the hook point carefully in you pliers and putting a little pressure on the shank till you have the required effect.

2nd and I think is the biggest bonus by doing the 1st is you will hook more fish an that can only be a plus. If you get a normal hook that’s not been off set and make a mouth shape with your thumb and finger, then close it on the hook you will more times than not pull the hook straight out with out hooking your thumb of finger. If you know try the same with a off set hook you will struggle not to hook yourself. This would be the same effect as if it was a fish picking your hook up. Even with bait son the effect it the same result.

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PLYMOUTH

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By Scott Smy

I’ve got to start this report by mentioning the massive garfish of 2-10 caught by Brixham angler Jason Upham which ended-up being the top specimen in the annual Torbay Festival. We’ve not really seen any large shore-caught gars around the South Devon/Torbay area for a number of years now so this capture was great to see. Well done Jase.

I think the recent spell of warm settled weather had something to do with the garfish showing in numbers as only last week I made the trip up to Cogden to try for sole. Whilst we did get a few plaice and sole when it got dark, the amount of mackerel and garfish driving whitebait up onto the shore line had to be seen to be believed and we could see some large garfish in amongst them. Mark Hayman who was fishing with me chucked out a bubble float and landed a number of gar with the best going 1-10 which was a new PB. I was left ruing the fact I’d left my floats at home!

There still seems to be a few good huss showing from South Devon rock marks as proved by Rob Hobbs of Pot Black SAC who landed a new PB of 14-3 during the

last round of the Plymouth Shore League.

However the top specimen of the match was a cracking gilthead bream of 6-4 caught by Andy Priddle. Top fishing chaps.

There still seems to be plenty of gilthead bream around for those fishing the estuary marks. I had a recent trip up the Kingsbridge Estuary and managed to get 4 bream in a few hours fishing although the average size was pretty small (all around 18 to 1-10) so its’ definitely worth preserving on the bream for a few more weeks before the flounder start to move in.

Sticking with bream but a different variety, a number of Plymouth anglers are making the trip up to Dorset to try for black bream at the far eastern end of Chesil Beach.

Mark Bryce of Rodbenders SAC was one of those and was rewarded with a new PB of exactly 3-0 which was also a new club record.

With the weather now on the change I am hoping that it won’t be long before we start to hear reports of the first flounders moving into the estuaries, with the River Teign always worth an early shout.

That’s it from me this month, happy dipping.

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CHESIL BEACH REPORT

By Gareth Mayers he general fishing along the beach has improved a lot compared to last month.

At the deeper end of chesil there seems to be a good number of trigger fish showing. They are normally caught on small squid or worm baits but be sure to use strong hooks and heavier snoods as they have sharp teeth with some power behind them.

A neighbour of mine Leon, managed to land a lovely sized Trigger a few weeks back. A few other anglers also caught some of these stunning looking fish that show up year after year when the water is around its warmest.

The bream fishing has been fairly steady along the beach but is proving to be hard going trying to find some of the better sized fish. There can be so many smaller bream at times they can become a nuisance for some anglers trying to target other species as well as that specimen bream.

On the shallower grounds there has been a few sole showing but like the bream there seemed to be no bigger fish making an appearance. But recently a few anglers have managed some

Check out this slab of a sole caught by North Devon angler Jon Patten.

lovely specimen sized sole. Andrew Proudfoot and Kyle Blackmore ended with plenty of species during a session including some lovely marked beam and a cracking sole and plaice falling to Andrew himself with the sole weighing 2lb 3oz and plaice weighing 2lb 8oz.

Jon Patten recently went in search for that big sole every flattie fanatic would love to catch.

Jon’s no novice when it comes to targeting sole with some going into the 3lb barrier. He was kept busy with plaice, gurnard and mackerel throughout the session but was finally rewarded with a cracking specimen sole weighing in at 2lb 15oz. Well done mate!

Towards the beginning of the month there seemed to be a steady stream of codling showing along the beach but unfortunately the fish didn’t hang around long.

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EAST SUSSEX DIARY

By Kevin Morgan ANDERIDA OnThursday 29th August 17 anglers fished a club match in Pevensey Bay, the weather was good although fishing was fairly slow.

The winner with a mixed bag of whiting, eels and a sole was Phil Taylor with 2lb 13 ½ oz. 2nd Jim Whippy with a bass of 1lb 8 ½ oz. 3rd Kevin Morgan with whiting for 1lb 8oz. The biggest fish was a bass of 1lb 8 ½ oz for Jim Whippy and the heaviest flat was a nice sole of 1lb 6oz for Les Glazzard.

On Thursday 12th September 13 anglers again fished in Pevensey Bay with the main fish being whiting. The winner was Colin Isaacs with 5lb 7oz. 2nd Steve Merner with 3lb 10 ½ oz and 3rd Jim Whippy with 3lb 2oz. The biggest fish was a whiting of 10 oz caught by Damion Chant and Matt Cox. no flatfish were caught.

SAXONS SEA FISHING CLUB On Saturday 7th September 14 anglers fished a sole only match along Eastbourne Seafront. The winner with 3 sole for 2lb 15oz was Paul Parsons, including a nice sole of 1lb 8oz. Second was Peter Fountain with 4 sole for 2lb 12oz and third Kevin Merner with 1 lovely sole of 2lb. Ken Filtness also caught a sole of 1lb 8oz on the night as well and plenty of other species were caught including smoothound, sizable Thornback, whiting, bass and a codling.

EASTBOURNE NOMADS On Thursday 15th August The Nomads fished the 2nd part of The Morris cup in Eastbourne. The winner with sole, whiting and eels for 3lb 5oz for Dan Wood. 2nd was Tony Kirrage with 3 sole, flounder and a pout for 2lb 7oz and 3rd Rod Parris with 2lb 1oz. The heaviest flat was a sole of 1lb 5oz for Arran Aghili and the heaviest round an eel of 1lb 3oz for Rod Parris.

On Friday 30th August the first round of the Fickling cup was fished with the winner Gerald Sargeant catching sole, plaice, flounder, whiting and eel for 3lb 14oz.

Kevin Merner with his 2lb sole.

Second was Dan Wood with 2lb 10oz and third was Tony Kirrage with 2lb 7oz. Gerald Sargeant won both the heaviest flat and round with a sole of 14oz and an eel of 9oz.

On Monday 9th September the second round of the Fickling cup was fished at Langney Point. The winner was Gary Ogden with 12 whiting and 2 dabs for 4lb 13oz. Second Tony Kirrage with 4lb 6oz and third Colin Essery with 3lb 10oz.

Gerald Sargeant won the heaviest round with a whiting of 8 ½ oz. the heaviest flat was a sole of 6oz for David Elstone.

BEXHILL FESTIVAL OF THE SEA The boat flatfish species hunt was fished on Sunday 8th September, in calm conditions fishing the winner with the best specimen was Gary Ramsey with a 2lb 4 ½ oz plaice. The winner of the most species catagory was Jim Whippy with 2 species, a plaice of 1lb 5 ½ oz and a dab of 4 ¾ oz.

The second best specimen was a plaice of 1lb 15 ¼ oz for Phil Taylor. Third best specimen was a plaice of 1lb 7 ½ oz for Danny Clahane.

GENERAL The thornback Rays are starting to show again from the shore in Eastbourne , and some lovely bass have been caught recently on big mackerel baits and live bait ! Sheldon Pindard caught a lovely bass with his daughter Shancyce recently that weighed around 11lb !! nice fish. Ollie Franks caught a 6lb thornback on sandeel On Sunday 8th September near the Langham Hotel in Eastbourne . Some good dover sole have been caught from Pevensey Bay and Eastbourne with one of 2lb caught in a match by Kevin Merner!!

Luke Ripley caught a nice plaice with his daughter Amy recently at Langney Point.

Luke Turner also caught a nice thornback on ragworm on Friday 13th September!! In the boats some good black bream have been caught as well as some good plaice and rays.

Amy Ripley with a 1lb 12oz plaice.

Luke Turner with a nice thornback.

Ryan Smart with a 45 cm plaice.

Ollie Franks with a nice 6lb thornback

Sheldon Pindard with a lovely bass.

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POOLE REPORT

by Philip Higgins Along the beaches and off the Banks area plenty of Plaice, Bream, Red Mullet have graced the decks of many boats with the bonus Turbot and Brill as well. Closer to the piers anglers are finding small Cod with Lymington angler Malcolm Stote opening our account with a double shot of Cod and a Pout on his 3rd hook and during the same trip fellow club member Robin Lane landed the Lobster of a lifetime weighing in at 7lb 8 ozs. Since opening our Cod account we have now landed 7 which compared to years ago is no great feat but over the last couple of years in which the Cod have not shown we are very pleased and hope this is a good sign for the future. Alan Cook from Barrow had the pleasure of bringing a Thresher Shark to the side of the boat and its estimated weight was between 200 and

250lb, it was agreed not to boat the fish to save any damage to the fish and crew, as we were handling the trace it fortunately freed itself before we had any really good pictures but we did get plenty of thrashing water and its tail really hammered the side of the boat surprising how wet you can get without entering the water. Tom Greasty operating San Gina 11 operating from Swanage has also been having excellent results with Shark catches, perhaps we can look forward to the infamous Blue Fin Tuna gracing our waters as climate change hap‐ pens. Bass fishing remains steady with plenty of small fish around. As the temper‐ ature is starting to drop in the mornings winter is not far away and our tactics will change to target the winter species.

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SILVER SPRAY REPORT

By Sam Cumming

After a brilliant run of weather over the last 4 weeks I’m actually quite glad to have a day off to be writing this and catching up with all the maintenance jobs. As men‐ tioned in the last report we had quite a few shark trips planned for this season. After some success late on in the year last Octo‐ ber I really got the bug for this sort of thing and it spurred me on to invest in some new rods reels and tackle and have more of a go this time around. With a decent bit of weather it’s been possible to have a good look around in some new areas. Thankfully they didn’t take much finding and as I write this we haven’t had a blank trip yet. The porbeagle sharks have been up to 250lb which is 7 feet in length. Once alongside the sharks are brought onboard to be un‐ hooked safely and re-oxygenated using the deck hose ensuring they are in the best condition for a quick release. Our circle hooks always hook the fish just in corner of the mouth which means we never have to cut any of them off and leave the metal be‐ hind in the sharks. The biggest highlight was getting 2 enormous thresher sharks within a week of each other. The first run you get when they take the bait is breath‐ taking followed by some brilliant acrobatics as they jump clear out of the water several times. This really is a big game fish and the adrenaline rush from being hooked up to one of these for a couple of hours is awe‐

Micro porbeagle of about 15lb silver spray II

some. The one we were able to measure was 9 feet long from nose to the fork of the tail, using the size estimate charts this puts it at over 450lb. After catching 3 por‐ beagles in the morning my angler was well and truly shattered by the end of the day.

Only a few individual spaces left for shark fishing this year but 2020 is starting to take shape so get booked up quick. Over the other side of the channel our last two Alder‐ ney trips have gone well despite challen‐ ging weather conditions. Such seems to be our luck this year as we have just cancelled the final one for the end of September. The bream fishing has been great with both black and couches turning up in good size and numbers. On our trip last week we were pleasantly surprised by a nice hit of brill, all between 4 and 7lb 8oz, a bit of a shocker considering how late in the year it is. In August we were going about our business on the turbot banks when we were treated to thousands of tuna breaking the surface and chasing a bait ball around.

An amazing sight which carried on for the entire trip as the massive bluefin tuna kept popping up everywhere we went chasing their prey and crashing around on the sur‐ face. I’ll always have be keeping more of an eye on the horizon from now on when fish‐ ing around the island as you never know.

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NORTH DEVON REPORT

By Wayne Thomas Late summer and early autumn are exciting times for angling in North Devon with a wide variety of species to target. Bass are high most anglers list and several have been landed including several double figure specimens from the surf beaches. Lure anglers have enjoyed some success with Rob Scoines winning Combe Martin SAC’s lure fishing competition sponsored

by High Street Tackle with a fine bass of 8lb 8oz.

Combe Martin SAC’s Annual Fun Fish at Ilfracombe Pier has become a popular event within the Sea Ilfracombe Maritime Festival and this year was no exception with thirty fun fishers taking part.

The fishing proved to be challenging at times with the water coloured due to the low tide and brisk NW wind leading up to the event. Plenty of fish were caught however with a wide variety of species including a few rarities. Young Solly Welch enjoyed an exceptional day with a little help from mum, dad and grandad. Solly landed an incredible eight species including a rare Cornish clingfish, red mullet, dragonet, rock goby, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, smelt and pouting.

The Welch family were way ahead of the field amassing a grand total of 38 points to receive a family visit to the aquarium where they can visit

the clingfish caught by young Solly and donated to the aquarium.

The longest fish was a 43cm garfish tempted by Matt Jeffery and the heaviest a ballan wrasse of 11oz to the rod of Matthew Dawe.

Trigger fish have appeared from their traditional haunts along the North Devon Coast. These distinctive Mediterranean fish are now regular visitors to our shorelines and give a good account testing even sturdy tackle.

Dan Welch shore caught bull huss

Boat anglers have enjoyed sport with tope off Ilfracombe. Bass have provided good sport on reefs and sandbanks. Exceptional numbers of small eyed ray have provided exciting sport with catches of up to 30 fish to individual anglers.

September and October are often the best months of the year to target thick lipped grey mullet with five pound plus specimens likely from both coast and harbour marks.

Flounder fishing enthusiast’s will be gearing up for these obliging flatfish that traditionally run into the local estuaries as autumn unfolds. The best of the fishing is generally after the first frosts and big autumn spate. Large numbers of school bass are also likely to be present though every year big bass give anglers a pleasant surprise as they seize baits intended for the humble flounder.

Jamie Steward with a 7lb 10oz ray caught from a North Devon beach

Dan Welch with a brace of small eyed ray part of a haul of close to thirty caught off Ilfracombe from his own private boat

John shapland with a 4lb 11oz thicjk lipped mullet

John Avery - bass 7lb 12oz

Antony Smith - bass 7lb 3.5oz

Lyn Welch with a wrasse caught during CMSAC's Fun Fishing Eventpeg

Olie Passmore 7lb 8oz bass

Dick Talbot with a 1lb 15.5oz rockling

Olie Passmore Trigerfish 2lb 12oz

Kevin Pike 46lb tope

Kevin Pike 3lb triggerfish

David Atkinson - triggerfish 3lb 8oz

Kody Chugg 2lb 14oz trigger fish36

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THE SAN TEAM DO NORWAY 2019

By James Wigglesworth Back in July the SAN team set off on their annual pilgrimage to the Scandinavian paradise that is Havness Handlested.

Situated 300 miles inside the arctic circle it takes some getting to but after two flights and a 3 hour mini bus ride we eventually arrived. Expectations were high having seen some good, recent catch reports from various fish camps in the area. It didnt take too long for us to get unpacked in the apartment and sort out all the kit. Within a couple of hours we were ready to go having gone through all the formalities with our amazing hostess Hege. Rods were rigged up, the boats were loaded and off we went.

Our party of 8 anglers were split between 3 self drive boats so we all opted to go in different directions in an attempt to locate the shoals of huge cod and coal fish that frequent the fjords at this time of year.

Anybody who regularly visits Norway will know that it’s not as easy as everyone may think and as it turned out this is exactly what we experienced. The first day consisted of finding a few shoals of small cod up to the 10lb mark then we decided to have a few drifts for halibut but we ended up with no reward for our efforts. A quick 15 minute steam up into the main body of the Rotsund Fjord found us drifting under

some stunning cliffs in about 70 meters of water. We opted to use our spinning setup as it’s a great way of targeting single fish and great fun once you hook up. 150g sand eel imitations were dropped to the bottom then worked up through the water column and varying speeds. After a few low double figure cod graced the deck we were thinking about moving again when Kev’s rod just doubled over ... and stayed doubled over. There were a few seconds where the three of us looked at each other in bemusement before his reel started screaming and whatever he had hooked decided to head back to the bottom with Kev just holding on, unable to do anything about it. What ensued was a three and a half hour tug of war which resulted in Kev eventually getting the better of a 94lb 2oz halibut which was expertly landed by our deckhand Gareth! Not bad for your first halibut on your first trip to Norway eh?

The next few days were spent covering a lot of ground trying to locate the bigger shoals of large cod and coalies with very little to show for pur efforts. Jaky and Steve spent much of their time on the halibut grounds and they returned each evening with good numbers of fish and a nice bonus 30lb plus cod caught in

approximately 15ft of water. Craig, Dave and Josh accounted for plenty of species throughout the week with some cracking coalies and cod, a few respectable halibut pushing just over 60lb and the most unusual fish of the week which turned out to be a good sized angler fish. I’ll probably be shot if I don’t also mention Craig’s long rough dab.

With only a few days left we came across some specimen coalfish who seemed all too obliging to engulf our Redgill Vibro shads. I’m not sure what it is about these fish imitations but once we found the fish they just couldn’t resist them. We were fortunate enough to have been provided with a good selection of various lures from Redgill and there wasn’t really one pattern that out fished any other. Shadding is a really exciting way of fishing in the deeper water as you can get away with using a 20/30lb outfit coupled with an anti-tank boom housing an 8 or 10oz lead... a 9ft 30lb sakuma fluro carbon leader with your chosen shad simply tied to the end. You can drop it straight over the side of the boat while on the drift and let it do its magic as you retrieve the lure at various speeds.

Takes can be pretty savage so make sure

your drag is set or you may end up going home a rod and reel light!

As luck would have it on the last two days the huge shoals of bait fish had entered the fjords and we had the best of the weeks fishing within 500 meters of the harbour.

The birds were working hard and the cod even harder from below with pretty much a fish a drop up to the 30lb mark. This continued for a good 4 hours each day and in 24 degree heat which I’m told is a rarity in these parts we were all too glad that it didn’t continue as we basked in the Nordic sunshine.

The highlight of the week for myself was witnessing the huge halibut on the first night but seeing a halibut caught on the surface is also something I will never forget.

As always it was an amazing week with so many laughs, nowhere near as much sleep but enough fish for us all to go home with big smiles on our faces and inevitably wait for our next holiday in the fjords.

Special thanks to Hege who looked after us all week, the boys who made it a trip to remember, Alex at Ricoll leisure for providing us with lots of various lures and line and Mark at Cox & Rawle for the rigs and terminal tackle.

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LANGSTONE HARBOUR AREA BOAT FISHING REPORT

By Neville Merritt, Southsea Marina Angling Club According to the calendar, summer is coming to an end but if you are out fishing you might think it is still in full swing. We have had plenty of gloriously sunny days, and the sea temperatures are at their annual peak, helping to keep the air warm too.

The Eastern Solent is blessed with a great variety of fish species and this is increased by seasonal migrations both north and south. At this time of year we usually see trigger fish and red mullet visiting from the south, and at the same time the first codling arrive from the north. In fact September and October are the months with the widest variety of species because the seasonal visitors overlap whereas in early spring there can be a gap between winter and summer species.

Many clubs run species competitions these days, and the Southsea Marina Angling Club has a hotly contended trophy. Peter Churchill’s recent additions to his list were a red mullet and a new one to me, a striped red mullet. Bill Arnold is chasing the same trophy and he looks pleased with his striped red mullet.

On the subject of species competitions Kelly Rowan is chasing the Ladies Species Cup with a nice blonde ray amongst others.

There was a time when you could have written something like “two lovely blondes” but you can’t risk doing that anymore. Even sea angling goes PC eventually. And continuing the topic of ladies and species, Team Merritt features in this report as well as the by-line for the first time. Aedy Merritt ran up a tally of species in one day that almost equalled the current SMAC standings, inspiring her to enter the competition. Unfortunately on her next (eligible) trip she only managed two species but at least the undulate ray was sizeable.

We were drifting for plaice and only moments after telling Aedy “you only catch plaice on plaice rigs” I hooked a 12lb

thornback ray which gave me the runaround on light plaice tackle!

Plaice are still featuring in catches with the summer/autumn plaice marks producing well. Chris Vanstone, Rog Cummins, Damian Fairchild and Dave Belcher show not only the quality of fish but also the highbling tackle needed. Green and black beads are popular, but not always. If bites are hard to raise, try a switch to orange and black.

There are plenty of bass around, in fact the harbours are teeming with them and school bass can even become nuisance fish inshore! Mark Oldfield of ECA caught his personal best of 10lb 8oz, Arron Shons with an 8lb bass and Martin Morgan with one of 7lb 8oz demonstrate the size and quality of the bass offshore. As a reminder, the bass limit of one fish per day changes to catch and release only after 31st October – which is a regulation enforced by the UK in case you were hoping for another outcome after that significant date!

Squid fishing has become very popular from shore marks but boat marks are just as productive, and produce bigger specimens. There are some resident squid – I have caught them when trawling for sandeels and on mackerel feathers – but the most productive time to fish for them is when they arrive in numbers and are worth targeting. Heber Crawford shows one still alive, the colours are remarkable. Even more remarkable is that the colours are also “live” because the moment the squid dies, the colours switch off like a lightbulb.

You can catch squid with a range of squid jigs from cheap and cheerful to very sophisticated Japanese designs with a price tag that makes you think carefully about actually using it. Best marks are around structure and rocks where they ambush their prey – small fish.

Next month I hope we can report a few early codling!

Aedy Merritt Undulate ray

Chris Vanstone Plaice

Arron Shons Bass 8 lb

Kelly Rowan

Damian Fairchild Plaice

Tim Ward 12.2 Bull Huss

Bill Arnold Red Mullet

Neville Merritt Thornback

Dave Belcher plaice

Mark Oldfield Bass 10.6

Terry Greeves Red Gurnard

Martin Morgan Bass 7.8

Rog Cumins plaice

Heber Crawford Squid

Peter Churchill's Red Mullets

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By Richard Saxby It's not been a bad month really with a fair bit of action for the club although most has been away from Burnham. The hounds were still in the bay but they will start to move off down channel any time now. Dogfish numbers are well down this year but they seem to have been replaced by an explosion in strap conger numbers. Thornbacks are ever present and there are plenty of reports of codling both at the top and bottom ends of the channel so hopefully over the next month we will start to find a few.

On August 24th we held our last junior comp of the year with 3 boats and 6 juniors taking part accompanied by some senior members who were also keen to wet a line. The weather was fantastic but the fishing was a little under par.

The format was a bit different with a mixture of most species and biggest fish. In 1st place with 4 species was Jack Saxby landing thornbacks, conger, dogs and a hound.

Second went to Ava Saxby with a conger of 12lb and joint 3rd were Cohen Devey and Brody McLaughlin with 3 species each.

Brody also had the fish of the day with a bass of 5lb 4oz beating his grandad Martin Quinn who landed one of 4lb 13.

The following day Jamie Locke and wife Anne towed down to West Bay for their first road trip. Again the weather was fantastic and they both caught steadily throughout the day with plenty of dogs, mackerel, bream and gurnard.

On Sunday 8th September the weather held enabling us to have our first club away day of the year. Brixham was the venue 7 boats and 20 anglers made the 2 hour journey down. It coincided with the Torbay angling festival so most entered on the day just in case they were lucky enough to catch that fish of a lifetime. We all spent some time drifting the skerries for plaice which were plentiful and that is where Ian tench caught the fish of the day a superb turbot of 11lb 8oz on his plaice rig. Some boats tried a spell at anchor after huss and rays but the doggies were out if force getting to the baits first before anything else had a chance. It's always nice fishing a

Ian Tench turbot 11-8

Andy Georgiou

Andy Georgiou ballan wrasse

Cohen Devey conger

Aaron Devey hound

Jack Saxby thornie

Lydia Devey thornback

Mike Trott on a trip out of Exmouth aboard Shande 2 in early September had a successful day drifting the skerries catching plenty of plaice with the best going 3lb 8oz.

Nigel Devey and Andy Georgiou towed Ultra White down to Weymouth on the 15th for a days drifting. The plaice were elusive but they did find quite a few turbot, bream, pout, mackerel and a ballan wrasse to Andy. On the same day Fanny Anne was down at West Bay with Jamie and Anne Lock. The weather was great and they enjoyed a nice day catching some nice plaice, lots of pout, garfish and strap conger. Unfortunately their day had a sour end when they lost a wheel bearing on the way home. Thankfully a few club members came to their rescue with a trailer to recover them, it's great when people rally round to get someone out of a sticky situation.

Fish of the month for August sponsored by Thyers Tackle of Highbridge was won by Pete Watson with a bass of 8lb 4oz and 103%.

As I write this report it has been confirmed that Ian Tench's turbot was the best turbot or brill caught during the Torbay festival winning him the Jones Perpetual Trophy, well done Ian. The next club comp is an away day against Brixham Sea Angling Club on the 8th September. The next club meeting is on Thursday 17th October 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.

Ava Saxby thornback

Jamie Lock Bream

Brody McLaughlin bass 5-4

Jack Saxby hound

Nigel Devey Turbot

Mke Trott Plaice

different venue especially clear water where different species can be targeted which we don't catch in our murky home waters.

Mackerel were plentiful for everyone and it was nice to see both tub and grey gurnards, red mullet, pollack and even a pilchard.

Brody McLaughlin bass 5-4

Stephen Saxby hound

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BRISTOL CHANNEL / WATCHET

BRISTOL CHANNEL SHORE REPORT

By Craig Butler It’s been another positive month here in the Bristol Channel with things shaping up nicely for the coming autumn/winter season ahead.

The codling have been making themselves known at a variety of marks. The numbers seem to indicate a half decent amount present in the channel. Sizes have varied between 1lb and 2lb8oz with the odd smaller and bigger amongst them. Also there’s been good reports of double figure cod being caught from the boats so fingers crossed there’s better number this year so we might just get a good chance of a few double figure cod off the beaches in the coming winter.

The excellent bass fishing has also continued. Those targeting them being successful with fish up to 7lb. There’s also lots of school bass to be found on most of the shallow beaches over high water.

If Ray fishing is your thing, then there great options open for them. With the thornbacks happily obliging from Watchet right up to Clevedon. If the small eyed and spotted rays are your chosen species then the low water sandy beaches around Minehead are well worth considering.

The Sole fishing has continued to be steady with them a realistic target species in the upper reaches and also around Minehead.

The month ahead could be worth keep an ear open for the Spurdog. Last October they appeared early and possibly May again so well worth keep an eye open for reports of theses.

Anyway the month ahead should be very good for many species so get and take advantage of what’s out there.

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BRISTOL CHANNEL BOAT REPORT

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By Tom Wright Late summer has heralded our region with not only a much welcomed more settled period of weather with some gloriously still, sunny days at times but also some really good fishing.

Indeed throughout this period with so much on offer it’s sometimes worth reminding yourself that “you can’t do it all in a day”...With rod bending action from the likes of Tope to the, at times, finicky challenge of catching a few Black Bream. There’s plenty of action to be going at, oh...and did someone say Cod???

Around Watchet we’ve seen plenty of rod bending action from a mix of Ray species, Thornbacks being the mainstay but also Blondes, Spotted and some Small Eyed rays making an appearance. There have been numerous Conger Eels making during trips with a few sizeable Eels adding some serious excitement to proceedings. Smoothhounds have continued to be present but in fewer numbers now. And making up the catch reports have been the usual suspects such as Bull Huss and numerous, veracious, small Tope.

For all boats fishing in the Minehead area, the various sandbanks within close proximity have been a big draw. Holding large numbers of Small Eyed ray in particular, a visit to a patch of sand for a couple of hours or more has been almost an essential part of the day with virtually guaranteed sport.

At only a short steam across the channel, the coastline around Aberthaw has been a draw for a few where countless Blonde Rays congregate and have been more than willing to oblige and snaffle up a mix of baits offered up giving consistent action during the day.

Whether the Bass restrictions that have been in place in recent times are responsible for the quality of Bass catches that we’ve seen locally or perhaps it’s just one of those things will be open for much debate. What is clear however is that we have seen a consistency in the opportunity to catch sizeable Bass. Indeed, it appears that a Bass doesn’t have to be part of a coincidental, occasional catch but instead boats who are deciding to deliberate target the Bass at anchor with bait have regularly been rewarded with some quite spectacular specimens at times.

For the species hunter or the angler looking for variety in the day, the last few weeks have given an opportunity to catch a colourful and characterful array of species. Boats heading into the clearer waters around Porlock have at times typified the saying that “in sea fishing you just never know what might come up” from colourful Tub Gurnard with their unmistakable ‘grunt’ to Black Bream displaying gorgeous hues of purples, blues and more and even a Tadpole Fish! (Mitch Johnson landed this very unusual and interesting species whilst fishing aboard Osprey). Saving for last, for what will be for many the most eye catching, is the report that we have experienced our first run of cod into our waters. And (with tongue in cheek) possibly more double figure fish caught already this year compared with last. The Bristol Channel for decades has been famed for its Cod with areas around Watchet and Minehead being very much top of the tree for sizeable Cod over the years. We wait with baited breath, fingers crossed and whatever else you may like, to see if this is the start of what could be an exciting year on the Cod if early reports are anything to go by.

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Still plenty of fish about, with most trips yielding good results.

This month, the main target has been Plaice and Bass, both species being high on the anglers hit list.

Plaice fishing we have been averaging 20 plus fish a day with the odd red letter day thrown in.

They have been pretty mixed sizes with some nice table fish, the smaller ones being returned. Bait ranges from Ragworm, Black Lugworm, Prawn, Razorfish, Squid strips and Mackerel. All of these have

proved successful.

Bass fishing has been top notch, with most anglers achieving their 1 fish limit. Portland rigs, Float fishing ,artificial lures or livebaits, these have produced .some quality fish.

Other fish: There are still quite a few Bream and Mackerel about.

I am now taking bookings for winter trips, the signs are encouraging with several reports of Codling and the odd Cod being caught.

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This has been an action packed period with several major competitions taking place out of Weymouth.

In late August the port hosted its annual Conger Festival which attracted three charter vessels from Hayling Island to join in with the 8 locally based vessels. The organisers were pleased to welcome Glen Cairns on Valkyrie 8, his son Zac on Valkyrie 86 and Kelly’s Hero skippered by Bex Florence. They brought along their own competing customers swelling the entry to 100 anglers.

The event was fished over 3 days with 1,069 conger brought to the nets with all fish released, 536 of them being caught on Day One. The biggest eels were measured under the British Conger Club format which did lead to some discrepancies resolved by the amicability between the two winning anglers on Days 1 and 3 with Ray Barron and Rod Adamson calling it a draw on 90lb as measured not weighed.

There will be some need to refine the measurement system before the 2020 Championships but this was an event with outstanding results with many catches of over released 100 conger per day per. Just imagine the effort from the skippers to deal with this sort of weight when T-barring off eel after angry eel! It’s not an easy job with retired skippers reporting the lasting effect on their wrists from years of such activity.

Some superb conger were landed with the two biggest given as 90lb and the 3rd best at 75lb. The winning eels came from Ryan Casey’s Meercat and Lyle Stantiford’s Supa Nova with the third best eel caught by Richard Wheeler also coming aboard Meercat.

Visiting vessel Valkyrie 8 was amongst the prizes with the Top Lady, who was also the Top Junior, Mary Cairns accumulating an impressive 138 points total.

The Weymouth Angling Society and Borough Council Festivals used to be a marathon affair spread over 4 weekends with a total of 9 days shore and boat fishing. These days the Boat Festival has been cut down to just two days with the local sea angling scene nowhere near as well supported as it used to be despite the sterling efforts of the 119 year of Weymouth Angling Society with its extremely well run and supported Junior Section. In its ‘HeyDay’ there would be a large fleet of in excess of 50 competing boats jostling for position at the seaward side of the Stone Pier. When the starting Klaxon was sounded on each of what was then a five day event, it was quite a work of seamanship to escape the ensuing melee without getting swamped.

This year’s event was, in the opinion of the organisers, well supported with several charter boats competing along with a range of privately owned vessels. Day One, Saturday 7th Sept, was the Weymouth Angling Boat Festival with Day Two the Weymouth and Portland Borough Council Festival; so two separate events.

Conditions were pleasant for both days and a great array of fish were recorded again underlining the variety of species available from the Weymouth and Portland sea area. The vast majority of the fish are returned with points allocated for different species and limits imposed on the numbers of each type of fish caught. The bigger fish are weighed and a very few outstanding specimen fish are returned to the Society scales for weighing.

As ever when reporting results, the stories and effort behind the statistics are not revealed but anglers will all know just how much preparation and skill goes into securing a winning position.

The main results are: Saturday 7th September, Weymouth Angling Society Boat Festival. Most points large boat, Sam Short; Most points small boat ,Steve Goodwin; Best specimen, Paul Gough; Most fish, Ray Goodwin; Most species, Billy Short; Top lady, Kannika Chokchai and Top junior, Jack Reynolds.

Sunday Weymouth and Portland Borough Council Boat Festival results: Points large boat, Kannika Chokchai, 237pts; Points small boat, Ray Goodwin 175; Best Specimen Jamie Hampson Gar 88.43%; Numbers Paul Whittall 32; Most Species Billy Short 8 and Top junior was Archie Gough.

Nice to see a lady angler, Kannika Chokchai, taking the most points in the Large Boat category which is the first time in the Society’s 119 year History that a Lady Anger has achieved this.

This two day event is a very friendly affair with lots of prizes and a very friendly atmosphere. You do not have to be a full time member of the Society in order to participate. Temporary membership is granted for the event which can be entered via the Weymouth Angling Society by contacting the Society Chairman, Mr Billy Short on 07730 813368. Next year’s dates are the 12th and Sun 13th September.

This is a good chance to enter the world of Competition Angling without the intensity experienced in the bigger ‘non Club’ events.

Weymouth Charter Boats can be booked with three (Atlanta, Dave Pitman; Fish-On, Josh Simmonds and Gypsy, Trad Casey) taking part this year.

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The past week of the 9th to 13th September saw 120 competitors from 17 Nations, including a South African Team, come to Weymouth for the prestigious EFSA (European Federation of Sea Anglers) Boat Championships. This event is split into two sections with Days One and Two dedicated to Line Class aiming at ‘Big Fish’ (conger, rays and tope) using the 30lb class braid as provided by the sponsors. The 3rd, 4th and 5th days follow the more usual pattern of fishing for a whole range of species using a wide variety of angling techniques.

Conditions were not pleasant with Monday in particular being grim in nasty seas and strong winds with Wednesday and Thursday only marginally better with Tuesday and Friday’s weather pleasant. It is to the credit of the visiting anglers, many of whom are not in the first flushings of youth, that they kept going and made the best of things….as sea anglers do!

The story of this year’s EFSA belongs to a lady angler, Katharina Schlaiff. Katharina, from Germany, took first place of her boat (there were 12 competing vessels) not once but on FOUR consecutive days putting her firmly in contention for taking the top overall position, which would have been a first in EFSA’s History. It was a case of nerves getting to her as on the fifth and final day, Katharina totalled 67.83% which meant she slipped into third overall place behind the European Champion Martin Hubery (Denmark) and Steve Souter (Scotland). Martin, out of interest, won last year’s Weymouth International Boat Angling Competition.

Katharina was absolutely delighted with her week in Weymouth and sent in her own ‘report’ of events, some of which are included here:

Phil Trifonoff and his 6lb lobster Sally Ann Jo

Alan Bucher and his 3lb 8oz black bream Sally Ann Jo

This year I took part in the European Championship at EFSA’s meeting in Weymouth 2019.

For the light line fish, the first 2 days were carried out with required cord strength and this is where I managed to win my boat both days, as well as Martin Hubert from Denmark.

Due to the higher fish points Martin won the light line class and I became Vice European Champion I became European champion in the Ladies Category.

In The 4-man team I was with Hans-Jürgen Glasses, Marcus Wüest, Charlie Lara and we were able to win the 3rd place.

The following 3 days of competition have been fished freely on all different fish species with a minimum of 20 cm. In this case, it was important to catch at least 5 fish per species, since these were between 2,4 and 6 points each. Also here I was able to win my boat for the first 2 days, and led the only one with a total of 4 boat wins and 400 % maximum score closely followed by Steve Souter and Martin Hubert.

Undulate ray Fish On II

Huss Fish On II

Cuckoo wrasse Fish On II

The pressure on me before the last day was huge and I couldn't withstand it.

I ended up at 67 % and therefore fell behind Martin Hubert and Steve Souter back to the bronze position overall. Congratulations to Martin Hubert taking Gold and and Steve Souter for the Silver place.

If one had told me at the beginning of the week where I would be at the end of the week, I would never have believed it!

Noway’s team of five (Tor Arne Rygg, Eivind Johannessen, Petter Skudal, Lars Hellum and Espen Knarvik took first place in the all-importlant Team Event with Scotland A (Scott Gibson, Mark Robertson, Joe Murphy, Derek Yuille and Steve Souter) second with England ‘B’ (Simon Norman, Tim Ashman, Paul Heart, Karl Deitmer and Cliff Newbolt) taking hird place.

Ballan wrasse Fish On II

Bream wrasse Fish On II

Tope Fish On II

Pollock & bass Fish On II

Next year’s EFSA Boat Championships will take place in Denmark.

So, apart from an extremely busy time with competitions, September will be remembered for its windy conditions, excellent bream fishing, plenty of congers and rays, some very rewarding sharking sessions, the sightings of tuna and some outstanding bass sessions with our commercial bassing lads reporting the best bassing they have seen in 35 years of fishing.

October is upon us. October is, if anything, even better on the inshore fishing that September offering quality bassing, plenty of bream, turbot and brill on the Shambles Bank, good rough ground fishing for conger, rays, gurnard, dogfish and hounds along with garfish, mackerel and wrasse for the light line and small boat enthusiasts.

Wrecking should see the reappearance of pollack and the final Channel Island trips will be aiming at bass, bream and turbot.

The WIBAC (Weymouth International Boat Angling Competition) takes place in the second week of October. There have been so many competitions of late that there may be less competitiors this year and very likely to be some last late places up for grabs….so, if you haven’t fished this wonderful event, this could be your year to try with many of the top anglers away on International Duty. Ring WIBAC organiser Andy Selby at the Weymouth Angling Centre on 1305 777771 to find out if you could enter.

Huss - Atlanta

The dates are October Monday 7th to Friday 11th Thank you to everyone for coming to Weymouth including our European friends. It has been a manic and challenging September with lots more to look forward to in this month of October. Our local charter fleet extend their thanks to you all for your support and it is hoped you will have a productive October 9and rest of the year) fishing out of Weymouth and Portland.

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READERS GALLERY Notable fish caught around the coast

WINNER Mitch Johnson landed this awesome tadpole fish today while fishing aboard Minehead charter boat 'Osprey'. A very unusual but interesting catch.

You dont see too many black bream this big... especially in the Bristol Channel. It was caught aboard Michael Webbers Teddy Boy 2 from Minehead and at 5lb 1oz sets a new boat record. We also understand that it would beat the current Bristol Channel record that stands at 4lb 6oz. After a quick photo the fish was released to fight another day!

Jon Trevett was fishing this year's Weymouth Conger Festival aboard Glen Cairns Valkyrie 8 when, among several eels he boated this new pb Ling of 22lb which smashes his former best of 16lb.The gear it was taken on was a Penn powerstick 50lb + with Shimano Tyrnos 50 loaded with 80lb powerpro, running ledger of 4ft 400lb mono with an 8/0 Sakuma manta hook and mackerel flapper.

Darren Dixon has been having some incredibly good local fishing over the last few days in Portsmouth.

Lots of species including a thornback of 7/8lb and a undulate ray of just over 10lb, but top of the list was this 22.88kg Sting ray. Falling for a mackerel bait at distance from Eastney beach. All fish released.

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BACK TO BASICS / COSTA RICA

BACK TO BASICS

By Martin Wood

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to be warm and dry throughout the season so look at some of the two piece suits that are available two of the best sellers would be Vass and Imax suits.

When choosing footwear if you fish from rock marks or slippy areas please buy quality studs so you keep grip in gnarly conditions on marks like this a simple thing like grip saves your life! (I always keep spare clothing in the car should the worst happen and I take a dunk, this may save your life) 11. Buy a decent headlight. It’s essential to be able to see where you’re going as most of your fishing will be done in the dark.

Headlights today are brilliant with most being Cree type lights and you can get great makes easily in the UK included are Fenix headlights, Led lensors, Petzls etc to name a few (I’m currently using a Fenix HM65R as recommended by someone and I don’t regret buying it is an absolutely banging quality piece of kit, it’s a bit more

money but you get what you pay for! Buy cheap buy twice) Take a spare light just in case the worse should happen.

12. Lots of cod marks are from rocks and platforms into deep water do your homework on the weather and tides stay safe, don’t take unacceptable risks, and take all necessary precautions! People have and will continue to die whilst fishing due to negligence or just not knowing how dangerous the ocean is common sense is not so common!

I carry a mobile phone which is always fully charged and in a watertight plastic bag. If I’m fishing a slightly precarious place I will let someone know and say if I haven’t contacted you by a certain time raise the alarm!

So get out there prep up and gear up to grab some great Cods!

Currently the UK Shore Record for Cod is 44lb 8oz Caught in 1966 by B Jones, Tom’s Point, Barry. Glamorgan.

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Now that autumn has arrived we are getting some nice crisper nights and rougher weather which gets a lot moving and gets a lot of us excited for the coming cod season!

With some good cod already showing in multiple locations I figured I would do a bullet pointing session with a few extras to get things up to speed and get you ready for this coming codding sessions!

1. Always do your homework on your marks, look at them at low tide and take photos or keep a log. Concentrate on just 2-3 marks.

2. Try to think outside of the box! Don’t follow the crowds, break the rules and test your own ideas out, (Last cod season I had a cracking session every time I went and the best bit? I never had to fight for the spot as no one knew about it!)

3. Don’t ever be scared to fish the shallows. Cod will run onto very shallow ground, especially at night time and its getting darker earlier every day!

4. When fishing features or rough grounds, search for the white water, cod love it. If the sea isn’t very rough, search for white water at the edges of gullies or features etc 5. Never be afraid to cast really short, you may just be amazed at how close cod will come to the shore. If fishing with two rods use one at range and one close in a lot of the decent fish I had are all close in!

Some long range rigs would be the pulley rig, pulley dropper, up & over rig, clipped down paternoster. Good close in rigs would be running ledger, Flapper variants, Wessex rigs (I get good results with Wessex and 2 hook flapper for short range and pulley dropper & clipped down paternoster at range) 6. Keep your light off the water and on the

dimmest setting possible. Bright lights can spook fish.

7. A fish is basically looking for food, so look at wind and tidal flow direction look for areas that will trap food and hold food, certain spots will fish better when the wind blows a certain way and the tide runs from a certain direction, because food is pushed into said features and they get trapped by a rising edge or depression that will hold food and in turn hold the feeding fish.

8. As well as keeping notes in your diary about a mark always keep the all information. Even a blank is as useful as a catch in the early days.

If you catch under certain conditions and catch well and it fishes the same again under the same conditions next time you will find it nearly always fishes this way (as my cod mark did, I was catching when others were not) If you get a mark that always produces under the same conditions then your onto a winner. Keep it a secret it’s your hard work got you the fish, don’t exchange that knowledge too freely. Or next time you go there you will be swamped by the masses.

9. Coloured water is best for winter cod fishing and with that you want some lovely large stinking bait out there so the pig of the ocean can home in on it and make your day! Good cod baits are many but some of the favourites depending on location will be Crab, razor fish, mussels, black lug, herring, dirty squid rag worm, cuttlefish.

Many people make cocktails of these baits use a pennelled 6/0 & 5/0 or similar (I personally use Sakuma mantas for the wide gape which leave a good clear hooking point) and get a good sized smelly bait out there they can inhale large baits very easy!

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FLY AND LURE FISHING ON THE JURASSIC COAST

By Alan Brown

Has been one of the most unpredictable times that I can remember with fishing being all over the place with these long settled spells. Ther has been plenty of smaller fish to target with bream, sole, plaice, garfish and the like. Bigger fish have been very thin on the ground, with odd hound undulate and tope. Once this weather turns we should see better returns on the undulate ray when the bigger

By Richard Lyon-Wilson females return inshore along most of the West Sussex coastline with East beach Selsey being top pick. Should also see some better bass and the odd elusive codling from Selsey Bill, Pagham and Shoreham beaches best bet for them. At time of writing reports of some better sole showing on our more sandy beaches. We just need weather to play ball now!

The boys from SAS tackle finding the West Sussex tope again with a fantastic double hook up of 40lb tope

Olie Passmore and Kody Chugg had a nice hit from Selsey on the undulates to 12lb 8ozs

Carl Golding with a 8lb 8oz undulate from Pagham in day light

Matt J Newell with a nice west Sussex undulate

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Been plenty of small black bream along west Sussex upto 1lb mark here is the Golding father and son team with some.

This last month the weather has put a bit of a damper on things, but saying that there have been some nice breaks to be able to get out and get into some great fishing.

The last few times i have been out i have been asked by James Lanfear (Jims Lures) to start testing a few of his hand made Lures.The first i have been using is a walk the dog style lure that casts a fair distance and one you figure out the way to work it is a lot of fun to use and and resulted in a few fish too!

The problem i have had on these testing evenings is the unbelievably high numbers of Garfish chasing bait fish and as soon as your lure hits the surface you get fully swamped by them, this is highly

entertaining on very light tackle or on a fly rod but not so when you are after bass.But if you wait for a while and let the Gars die off things changed and i then got into a few bass which meant mission accomplished on the Lure test.

The fishing from Lyme Regis down to Portland has been very mixed over the last month and a few of my guided trips people were catching a variety of fish from Gars,Mackerel,Bass and some nice Wrasse too.Reports of a lots of school bass being caught everywhere but also some nice sized fish too, and with the bait fish still around everything is looking good for a while longer.

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LRF REPORT

By Richard Salter Late summer and early Autumn is usually a great time for the lure angler and these last few weeks have been no exception.

You get the feeling everything is feeding hard now and tempting fish with an artificial version of whatever they’re feeding on is a fun and rewarding way to catch them and highly effective at this time of year in particular.

I had my first decent Scad session of the year recently, when I joined a couple of friends in Plymouth for a few hours. Although Scad can be picked up during the day at times, the best time to target them is as darkness falls and especially if you can find a spot with some artificial light shining on the water.

The action can be frantic when you do find them and Scad are an excellent fighting fish for their size, perhaps not as powerful as a Mackerel but extremely fast and quite unpredictable in their movements as they attempt to escape. Great fun.

If they are really on the feed, Scad can be tempted with pretty much any suitably sized lure, but they can be fussy at times. A small jigheadmounted worm or shrimp type soft plastic fished slowly through the water column can make the difference when they are in this kind of mood. If you can find a lure that can be “charged" and glow in the dark, even better! I found a glowing Aquawave Ami on a 1.8g jighead to be the perfect combo the other evening, 1.8g was more than enough weight, despite a keen wind blowing across us, the jighead being held up by the wind probably working to my advantage.

The real highlight for me this month was when my fishing buddy Ben and I were invited down to Cornwall by the species hunting jedi that is Will Pender, who had kindly offered to show us a few marks that might help us out in next months CLF species hunt.

We met at 10am on the Saturday and headed for the first mark, a sandy beach which we'd hoped would produce some Turbot. We cast our metal jigs (often tipped with a length of isome) across the shallows and bumped them back along the sand, but this only produced a couple of little prickly customers in the shape of Lesser Weever for the guys.

As the tide ebbed, more of the rocks at the edge of the bay became accessible and we turned our attention to the rockpools. It didnt take too long to track down a few Blennies along with the king of the rockpool, the Giant Goby. I was lucky enough to catch a real brute, a PB giant for me, from a pool that seemed empty initially, I expect he’d just eaten everything else in there in hindsight!

We continued to work our way around the rocks and found a nice deep gulley that produced a couple of Ballan Wrasse and a Corkwing. We eventually worked our way back from where we came and Will managed to catch the very same Giant Goby that I’d had just a short while before, obviously not too bothered by the previous experience!

Making our way across to the other side of the beach produced a Bass for

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Will and a couple more Blennies. This mark was the perfect example of the variety so many Cornish marks offer to the species hunter. 6 species notched up in just a couple of hours.

Next up was a trip to the mighty Mevagissey, which I'd never fished before so was excited to see what it had to offer.

The first target was Dragonet but the water was very murky with quite a bit of swell so we only had small Pollock to show for our early efforts.

A move to the mouth of the harbour was slow at first but we started to find a few fish. I found my luck improved when I changed to a bright orange Gulp Fish Fry. A few Corkwing and Pollock were followed by a Sand Smelt, which was another new species for the trip.

Some of the guys who were float fishing had started to pick up a few Garfish, so Will and Ben targeted them successfully on metals whilst I flicked out an Ecogearaqua Shirasu on a jighead, it only went about 15 yards as I was casting into the wind but I managed to hook and land a Gar first cast, followed by a couple more shortly after. I’ve found the Shirasus to be excellent for Gar, they just keep hitting it until they get hooked usually.

Distance is the only limitation at times with this method but when fishing from harbours into deepish water, it’s not usually a problem. I also picked up my only Mackerel of the trip here too.

Our next target were Bream and Gurnard although we were a little limited for space as the little harbour we'd arrived at was very busy with harbour jumpers taking up most of the available space! We persevered though and Ben and Will both got their Gurnard along with a couple of Mackerel. I was less successful though and had to settle for a steady stream of small Pollock, which would become a theme for me over the weekend! No Bream here either unfortunately.

Next stop was in search of Weever, Flounder or whatever else might be about.

It was slow going here, Ben managed a Flounder from what is now a pretty well known spot whilst I struggled to find anything but Pollock and another Sand Smelt. We called it a day here and agreed to come back in the morning.

Next up was where I had one of my best sessions last year, on the first night of the CLF, fishing in darkness on a calm night under lights catching endless Scad, Mackerel and Bass, so I was hoping for something similar again.

Will bagged a Scad before I was even set up so the signs were good but it didnt really turn out as manic as expected.

There were lots of small Pollock to catch but not much in the way of other predators it seemed. I was pleased to find a couple of small Bass though. It was fun to watch the Pollock scatter as the Bass appeared from below them to investigate my lure. We nabbed a couple of Sand Smelt too before moving on again.

Next we found ourselves at a slipway

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where I observed the guys pick up a few more fish with some pretty impressive sight fishing - my eyes just aren’t up to this sort of fishing!

Will picked out a Long Spined Sea Scorpion and Dragonet before both he and Ben caught a tiny Painted Goby each.

The last spot of the night was a little jetty where again we had the chance of Scorps, Dragonets and other stuff.

We had a couple of nice Long Spined Sea Scorpions here but the highlight was spotting a John Dory cruising about just under the surface, an impressive sight! Now that would’ve been a catch to remember!

I think it was about 3am when we finally gave in for the night. We were up again at 8 though, ready for another day of it!

We went back to one of the harbours we'd fished the day before and picked up a nice mixture of species. I finally got my Weevers after searching round the harbour unsuccessfully for them for an hour or so.

Ben found some Sand Goby as did Will who also nabbed a Flounder. I knew this mark would also be my best chance of a Flounder too so set about working a dropshotted scented worm lure across the harbour and along the walls. First cast was a Pollock, followed by a surprise Whiting, a nice bonus catch. Next cast and I got my Flounder.

Dropshotting something wormy seems to be the way for these guys.

We then headed back to Mevagissey where we could try for Dragonet again along with stuff like Tompot and Goldsinny.

Will got a Ballan quite quickly, followed by a Tompot and a Goldsinny before calling it a day on an impressive 19 species over the 2 days.

We didnt find much else at Meva aside from a couple of Sand Gobies so Ben and I headed back to one of the mark’s we'd fished the day before in the hope of a change of luck.

Ben very quickly spotted a shoal of Sand Smelt just off the slipway by the car park and quickly added one to his species count.

Our final spot was back where were spotted the John Dory the night before.

Ben got his Dragonet fishing tight to the bottom whilst I got a Tompot dropshotting in tight to the wall, as I often do when in search of a Tompot!

This actually put us all square on 15 species each and I was ready to shake hands on that, but Ben had other ideas!

He’d dropped down where I’d just caught my Tompot but managed to pull out a Ringneck Blenny, an extremely rare catch in the UK and not one I’ve heard of being caught from the shore at all. Ben has a knack for pulling out some unusual and rare fish but this was next level. What a way to finish!

We finished up with 21 species between us, which bodes well for next months Cornish Lure Festival species hunt, I’d thoroughly recommend getting involved in this if you enjoy your species hunting and can get down to Cornwall on 18th to 20th October. Tight lines all!

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As the world of LRF and light lure fishing becomes more popular than ever, more and more anglers are looking to increase their species tally. With the release of Hooked on Lure Fishing, author Dominic Garnett looks at five unusual targets to add to your list of lure caught fish. Here are his notes, along with your chance to win a copy of the new book!

What’s the most unlikely species you’ve ever caught on a lure? With the evolution of tackle and tactics, the list of fish that will take an artificial bait has never been longer. Indeed, even a decade ago, who would have thought we would be successfully targeting wrasse, gurnard and even flatfish on lures?

The trick so often with flounder on lures is to find a spot where you can get to them at close range, before presenting a lure across the bottom.

For obvious reasons, you are not going to catch many flatties in midwater. A soft plastic jigged along the bottom in short bursts is an ideal way to start; but drop shot presentations can also be a killer.

Night fishing with a head torch is especially thrilling around a harbour.

They are often quite active into darkness and it’s an enjoyable game just to try and spot them in the first place, before you try to fool them with a worm, crab or fish imitation.

In so many ways, it’s been a healthy development for sea angling. After all, with so many of our larger species still under major commercial pressure, it makes perfect sense to spread our efforts to all fish great and small. From harbour walls to rock pools, it opens up a whole new world of fascination; and even the smaller fish fight well if we scale right down to the very lightest tackle. Some of these critters are harder to get than others, it must be said! Here are five challenging yet catchable fish for the determined angler:

2. Topknot If you thought catching flounders on lures was a bit bonkers, targeting topknot is an even stranger game.

Unlike other flatties, these creatures love walls, posts and rocks rather than sand. In fact, they can often be found well off the bottom, sticking to any available surface where they lie in wait for their victims. This makes drop shot presentations a good shout, as you can adjust the depth you fish a lure in seconds – or you could even try a two hook set up to cover different levels.

Not an easy challenge, these fish can be highly localised, so keep your ears open and your lures tight to cover!

1. Flounder Flatfish on lures, you ask? For those of us raised on using lugworms and leads, it might seem a bit of a stretch.

Then again, using bright beads and even flashing attractor spoons is nothing new, so why not?

3. Black Bream Another species not usually considered as a lure angling target, these attractive fish are nevertheless very aggressive. In tank tests at Fowey Aquarium, we used lures with the hook points removed and the bream really savaged our soft plastics.

You’ll catch smaller samples around many piers and harbours on tiny jigs and drop shot rigs. However, if you enjoy boat fishing you might get the chance for bigger fish and a lovely scrap on light gear. You wouldn’t want to try it in rough conditions or extreme depths, but on the right day a drop shot rig with just an ounce or two of weight and a nice mobile soft plastic worm can produce some rodthumping sport!

4. Fifteen Spined Stickleback For those of us who caught their freshwater cousins as kids, this truly is the king of sticklebacks! Like a cross between a pipefish and a pike in shape, they are fascinating little critters, too. You’ll often find them around floating cover in harbours in the spring- although populations can be quite localised. You’ll need the tiniest of lures, such as a fragment of Isome on a hook as small as a 22.

5. Garfish Is there any other species in British waters that combines such fierce, freakish looks with the raw fighting power of the garfish? Ok, so the species is hardly a rare find, but they are sensational fun on light gear and, with that strange bill, hooking one on a lure is a genuine challenge.

A few solutions exist, however. They love most lures, but smaller metals are good- and if you can feed the fish just a little slack after the initial “hit”, you might just get a hook hold. Failing that, canny anglers use a little trailing “stinger” hook to increase the odds.

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Match Report: 4th round of NWASAC Summer League, Sat 7th September 2019, Blue Bridge, Queensferry (16 rods).

The narrow channel of the Dee estuary on a beautiful evening produced good sized flounders and eels with a couple of bass showing over high water into darkness.

A shortage of crab may have contributed to the low attendance but some anglers caught well on worm baits On-form Steven Bonner recorded twelve fish for 359 cms and another match win; he is the joint leader of the series with one match remaining.

Results: 1. Steve Bonner (Wallasey), 359 cms.

2. Alan Price (Rhyl), 337cms, 11 fish.

3. Paul Bonner (West Kirby), 299cms 10 fish.

Zone A: Bill Lindfield (Greasby), 292cms.

Zone B: Mike Parker (Wallasey), 125cms Zone C: Heather Lindfield (Greasby), 212cms.

Longest Roundfish: Stephen Nicholson (Fylde), 44cms bass.

Championship after 4 rounds: 1. equal, S. Bonner & B. Lindfield, both 55 pts.

3. equal, P. Bonner & H. Lindfield, both 54.

5. equal, Kevin Morgans (Birkenhead) & Dave Hutchinson (Blackpool), both 50.

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Large Boat Competition 8 September.

On Sunday 8th September Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held a Large Boat competition in which nine club members enjoyed the fine early September’s weather aboard Private Venture, skippered by Art Savage. The competition was a game of two halves with the morning spent targeting plaice, which duly obliged with nearly everyone catching a few, together with mackerel and scad and garfish. Also, Ed Taylor had a small turbot while we were drifting for plaice.

With the tide easing, a move was made to a wreck in Freshwater Bay, which produced a flurry of decent-sized pout. A further move to a bank was followed by a final move to another wreck further offshore.

The afternoon’s flooding tide seemed to quieten things down compared to earlier in the day. For once no dogfish were caught on the competition. A small tope was caught by Arran Harmer and a strap conger fell to Nelson Phillips. Perhaps the best fish of the day was a black bream of 2lb 13oz caught by Roland Blomfield on a scad head!

Results: 1st Ed Taylor 120pts 2nd Arran Harmer 116pts 3rd Jane Hopkins 101pts 4th Roland Blomfield 60pts, 5th Ben Daniel 44pts 6th Derek Smith 38pts 7th Alec Harmer 34pts 8th Nelson Phillips 15pts. th

West Bay SAC

Two junior members and three guests fished the annual Stokes Family Trophy on a sunny and very hot day, the wind was south-easterly 2-3 breeze and the sea was clear. Being hot and sunny we expected a lot of mackerel to be caught, but only one competitor managed to catch four small ones. Toby who was a guest was the runaway winner of the match and won the prize money and a voucher, but as club rules state that a guest is unable to win the trophy, the trophy went to the club member in second place Ben Stokes who is three years old, he was overjoyed to win his family’s trophy for the first time.

Species caught on the day were; shanny, pollock, mackerel, tompot blenny, ballan & corkwing wrasse.

The club and junior secretary would like to thank the Stokes Family for supplying the prize vouchers.

1st: Toby Palmer (guest) 607g 2nd: Ben Stokes (member) 440g (pictured left with one of his fish) 3rd: Aaron Chambers (member) 326g Wooden Spoon: Aaron Chambers Sponsors on the day: Stokes Family.

Left to right; Rod Barr Chairman, Michael Stokes, Norman Stokes, Emma Stokes, June Stokes, Dawn Stokes, Doreen Stokes. Front Left to right Tyler, Hector, Arron, Ben & Toby.

species. With a set maximum fishing time both skippers can choose where they fish throughout the day.

Match Results by Boats.

Last Laugh.

Finished the day on 20 species caught with Mike Lelliot catching 13 species and 2 more fish than Ed Taylor to win, followed closely by Malcolm Stote, Richard Day, Chris Ellis, Malcolm Gerrish, Andy Southwick and Vernon Everett.

Voyager. Finished the day on 13 species with Chris Rogers catching 8 species to take the match win followed by Ben Daniel, and Paul Hollyoake, top three divided by only 2 points, followed by Steve Batchelor, John Bellamy, Paul Wilson, Robin Lane and Karl Bates.

Des has confirmed there will be an article in the next edition of Saltwater Boat Angler describing his day out, so be sure to get your copy.

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Boat Match League 24th August.

On Saturday 24th Aug 2019 Lymington and District Sea Fishing Club held their fifth match in a series of six Vernon Everett Boat Match League Competitions which are kindly sponsored by Lonis Angling Centre of New Milton.

Sixteen club members along with Des Wesmore a feature writer for Saltwater Boat Angler, who was interested to see how the competition and day’s fishing went, left Lymington Yacht Haven aboard two charter boats Last Laugh skippered by John Skeggs and Voyager skippered by Kevin Duell. These matches are fished on the basis of number of types of species caught, with varying number of points having been allocated for each species and totals of each species with 10 being the maximum number caught of any one

John Bellamy, Paul Wilson, Robin Lane and Karl Bates.

Des has confirmed there will be an article in the next edition of Saltwater Boat Angler describing his day out, so be sure to get your copy.

Honiton SAC

Honiton SAC ran the Seaton carnival open shore on Friday evening and some nice fish were caught. Conditions were not great but the fish put in an appearance for the 42 entrants.

Winner on the night was Mark Wickendon (AVSAC) with a doggie and wrasse combo for 140%, mark is shown in blue. Other winners on the night were Olivia giles best junior, dan butt runner up (next to Olivia.

Third was James Madson, shown with red top.

Shirley SAC

Here is the result of our latest match which was an extra Shallow Boats comp on Sun 1st September. this replaced the cancelled July match.

15 members went afloat with 8 weighing in 26 fish for 20k 484gms. Species were Flounder, Pout, Dogfish, Eel, Bass, Scad, Sole, Smoothound, Wrasse, Whiting & Thornback Ray with the best fish being a Thornback ray of 4k 309gms caught by Adrian Groves. All the Bass, Smoothound & Ray were measured & returned with the weights coming from the Club's respective length to weight charts.

SENIORS. 1. Adrian Groves 8 fish 9k 232gms 2. David Neil 4 fish 2k 397gms 3. Jim Merritt 2 fish 2k 231gms 4. Paul Bryson 1 fish 1k 644gms 5. Carol Groves 2 fish 1k 320gms JUNIORS 1. Jack Bryson 3 fish 1k 620gms

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Roland Blomfield with a black bream weighing 2lb 13oz

Sea Angling News, October 2019

Boat Match League 24th August.

On Saturday 24th Aug 2019 Lymington and District Sea Fishing Club held their fifth match in a series of six Vernon Everett Boat Match League Competitions which are kindly sponsored by Lonis Angling Centre of New Milton.

Sixteen club members along with Des Wesmore a feature writer for Saltwater Boat Angler, who was interested to see how the competition and day’s fishing went, left Lymington Yacht Haven aboard two charter boats Last Laugh skippered by John Skeggs and Voyager skippered by Kevin Duell. These matches are fished on the basis of number of types of species caught, with varying number of points having been allocated for each species and totals of each species with 10 being the maximum number caught of any one species. With a set maximum fishing time both skippers can choose where they fish throughout the day.

Match Results by Boats.

Last Laugh.

Finished the day on 20 species caught with Mike Lelliot catching 13 species and 2 more fish than Ed Taylor to win, followed closely by Malcolm Stote, Richard Day, Chris Ellis, Malcolm Gerrish, Andy Southwick and Vernon Everett.

Voyager. Finished the day on 13 species with Chris Rogers catching 8 species to take the match win followed by Ben Daniel, and Paul Hollyoake, top three divided by only 2 points, followed by Steve Batchelor,

West Bay SAC

Here is our latest report; the attached photo is Malvin with the Shark taken by Dan Clarke (we do have permission to use) We have a new leader in our fish of the Quarter competition (for the quarter July – end of September).

Malvin Chambers caught a wonderful Porbeagle Shark of 125 kg 409 gms 197.49% of specimen weight whilst fishing on Fins-Up out of Portland, the catch of a lifetime. After measuring the shark was carefully put back alive.

Shirley SAC

Here is the result of our latest match which was a Shore comp held at Ringstead Bay on Sat 14th September.

On a nice day 14 members fished with 13 weighing in 55 fish for 15k 418gms.

Species were Pout, Rockling, Garfish, Gilt Head Bream, Red Mullet, Mackerel & Wrasse with the best fish being a Wrasse of 694gms caught by John Bell while David Beale broke the Gilt Head Bream Record with a fish of 600gms. This was just a month after it was broken at the Hurst Shingle Bank Match. All Wrasse were released at point of capture with the weights coming from the Club's Wrasse

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RESULTS / FIXTURES

Weight to Length Chart.

RESULT. SENIORS 1. Richard Dunham 2. John Bell 3. Pasquale Mucci 4. Bob Patterson 5. David Neil

8 fish 6 fish 5 fish 7 fish 6 fish

JUNIORS. 1. Jessica Dunham 2 fish

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MATCH PLANNER BOGNOR REGIS AMATEUR ANGLING SOCIETY

2k 620gms 2k 104gms 1k 958gms 1k 798gms 1k 685gms

Christmas pagham open beach competition Sunday 15th December 0930 to 1430 catch and release to be fished at pagham beach booking in and draw for pegs from 0830 at pagham yacht club 1 west front road PO21 4SY entry cost £8.00 seniors £4.00 junior pool flat £1.00 round £1.00

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WEST BAY SEA ANGLING CLUBS West Bay SAC

The club's annual Specimen & Species Festival took place from 10th to 18th August. Club members were able to fish anywhere along the English shore line those chose, but many fished within a 25mile radius of West Bay. The first and second day of the competition the weather was terrible and many of the entrants did not fish, but the rest of the week wasn't as bad. golden fish prize; At the start of the competition the steward draws a fish species out of a hat, this is the golden fish, this year it was garfish. We also have a team up for grabs over the week as well as individual prizes.

During the week many good fish were caught, weighed and released alive. Roger Guppy decided that as his team mate Ian Draper had the better specimen then him, on the Saturday he would set out solely to catch a garfish and hopefully win the golden fish prize.

Ian Draper managed to catch four specimen golden grey mullet in all, but as the rules states he was only able to claim one prize in the specimen side of the competition. In all twenty-seven different species were caught over the 8 days.

Results: David Cornick Trophy for the best specimen.

1st: Ian Draper golden grey mullet 141.76% 2nd: Roger Guppy thick lipped mullet 79.71% 3rd: Emma Stokes dogfish 79.37% The John & Frances Hunt Trophy for the most species.

1st: Norman Stokes 18 species 2nd June Stokes 12 species (decided on a tie break) 3rd: Frances Kitchin 12 species Most Fish Points: Norman Stokes 58pts.

Top Junior (fish points): Ben Stokes 15pts.

Team Prize: Frances Kitchin & Adam Cullingford 16 species Golden Fish: Roger Guppy garfish 54cm.

Junior v Parents Match Five junior's and five seniors fished the annual Junior v Parents Open match on a sunny and very hot day, the wind was south-easterly 2-3 breeze and the sea was clear. Being hot and sunny we expected a lot of mackerel to be caught, but only two competitors managed to catch seven small ones between them. Toby who was a guest was the runaway winner of the match and won the prize money and trophy. Last years winner Steve Fowles tried his hardest to catch fish so he could retain the trophy but the fish were not playing, he managed two fish, which left him in last place and the winner of the wooden spoon.

Specimen Species Festival winners Left to Right; Norman Stokes, June Stokes, Ben Stokes, Emma Stokes, Roger Guppy, Ian Draper, Adam Cullingford & Frances Kitchin

A T Wyvern region junior open 1st. Keaton Hore Ballan Wrasse 2lb 5ozs unattached 57.81%.

2nd. Evie Gallagher Ballan Wrasse 2lb 2.25ozs Rodbenders. 53.51% 3rd. Charlie Rawle Grey Mullett. 1lb 3.75ozs unattached 30.86% 4th. Archie Edwards Ballan Wrasse. 0lb.

8.5ozs Pot Black 13.28% Best Specimen under 12. Caitlin Clarke Ballan Wrasse 0lb 6.25ozs Lyme Regis 9.77% Best Team. Team J Keaton Hore & Caian Blackmore. 57.81% 2nd Best Team Team B. Evie Gallagher & Isla Gallagher 53.51%

47th Chesil Championships Sponsored by The Angling Centre West Bay Sunday 29th September 2019 Sign on at Bridport Football club DT6 5LA from 9:00am Fish 11:00am – 5:00pm 1st Prize £250, 2nd £150 3rd £100 Top lady and top junior prize plus 5 more cash prizes Entry Seniors £20 inc pools Juniors (16 & under) £10 inc pools Pools are: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Super pool & heaviest Flat & Round Fish.

More info contact The angling Centre 01308 421800.

Back up date if weather is bad is 27th October 2019.

NWASAC Town Hall – Maddock Bank, Saturday 12.10.19 Fishing 15.30 – 19.30 Book on 13.30 – 14.15 Tobin St Pre Book 07572593272 – 01516770011 JE Williams Memorial Two Day Festival Otterspool 30th Nov & 1st December Sat 09.00 – 14.00 Sun 09.30 – 14.30 Pre Book ESSENTIAL CRAB BAN 07572593272 - 01516770011

BEXHILL FESTIVAL OF THE SEA ANGLING COMPETITION DATES 2019 Boat Competition 8th September 9am to 5pm Junior Pegged Open Beach 29th September 11am to 2pm.

Beach Specimen Hunt 9am 30th September to 5pm 4th October Pegged Open Beach 13th October 9am to 2pm (Penn points match) Bass Specimen Hunt 20th October 11am to 3pm

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Match report: 3rd round of NWASAC Summer League, Sun 18.8.19, Seacombe & Egremont Promenades, Wallasey (25 rods).

This 3rd round benefited from an offshore wind which kept the two promenade venues calm on an otherwise breezy day.

As the tide flooded, good numbers of flounders came on the feed with Bill Lindfield gaining an immediate advantage in the early stages.

Bass appeared amongst the catches but these were eclipsed by Steve Bonner’s 91 cms smoothhound which he landed on a size 4 hook on the ebb tide. A few plaice and dabs were also caught with Steve Trish’s fine 41 cms plaice the best flatfish of the day.

Results: 1. Bill Lindfield Greasby), 330 cms (Town Hall section).

2. Ian Griffiths (Eastham), 310 cms (Maddock Road section) Zone A: Steve Nicholson (Fylde), 148.

Zone B: Phil Simpson (Pensby), 115.

Zone C: Heather Lindfield (Greasby), 283.

Zone D: Paul Bonner (West Kirby), 312.

Flatfish pool: Steve Trish (Bootle), plaice, 41 cms.

Roundfish pool: Steve Bonner (Wallasey), smoothhound, 91 cms.

As in previous years all the competitions are organised by Bexhill Sea Angling Club on behalf of Bexhill Festival of the Sea. For further details please see: www.bexhillseafestival.co.uk

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