MATCH RESULTS |
28th January 2012, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
14 members signed on to fish a calm cold evening most members
choosing to
fish Chesil beach, but Steve Harwood went to Seatown and found a few
dogfish
and pout to give him a winning weight of 3400grms. Other members found
the
fishing very slow with rockling and whiting making up the weights. A
specimen
dogfish of 1320grms was caught at Burton Bradstock by Mark Wickenden
also
a specimen whiting of 680grms by Dave Cornick.
Heaviest bag Steve Harwood 3400grms
Most species Paul House 4
2nd Heaviest bag Tied Dave Cornick & Steve Fowles 2200grms
Best fish Mark Wickenden 1320grms dogfish
26th January 2012, Thursday
Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
11 members fished on a cold January night with a bitterly
cold westerly wind kept catches
very low ,just a few dogfish and a few small whiting were caught.
The next couple of months will be very slow, mackerel proved to be
the best bait, using a single hook at long range.
1st Mark Wickendon 2220grms 3 dogfish
2nd P J Wheeler 2095grms 2 dogfish
3rd Lee Sherry 1650grms 2 dogfish 2 whiting
Heaviest fish pool P J Wheeler dogfish 820grms
Most Species Hugh Rathbone 4
19th January 2012, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 1900 - 2230.
18 members fished A strong cold westerly wind made fishing
vey difficult and with a
falling tide finding fish wasn't easy. Steve Harwood did manage to
find 5 dogfish with Lee Sherry 2nd with 3 dogfish, only a few
whiting were caught with some members failing to catch, which
suggests the next few months will be slow. Hugh Rathbone did
find a plump coddling of 1280grms(2.82lb)
1st Steve Harwood 3800grms 5 dogfish
2nd Lee Sherry 2195grms 3 dogfish 1 whiting
3rd Hugh Rathbone 2080grms 1 cod 1 dogfish 1 whiting
Heaviest fish pool Hugh Rathbone codling 1280grms
Species Pool P J Wheeler 2
12th January 2012, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
20 members fished the first Thursday match of the 2012 season
plenty of dogfish were caught also a smoothound and a sole. Two specimen
whiting were caught by Mark Wickendon and Graham Stevenson. Grahams
tipped the scales at 880grms. High tide was at 9pm mackerel and lugworm
were the best bait on the night.
1st Mark Kershaw 5500grms 6 dogfish 4 Whiting
2nd Steve Harwood 5235grms 6 dogfish 3 whiting
3rd P J Wheeler 4970grms 6 dogfish 4 whiting
Heaviest fish pool Steve Harwood Dogfish 1015grms
Species pool Phil Maggs 4
1st January 2012, Daytime Match
Abbotsbury 1300 - 1800.
12 members and 1 guest fished, The first match of 2012
started with heavy rain which came down for
almost the whole match, however 13 members did fish. The fishing was
very patchy those that fished in front of the carpark caught very
little, but the few that walked towards the cottages found plenty of
dogfish to make up the weights with a few pout and whiting made up the
catches. Ragworm tipped with mackerel proved to be best bait.
1st Hugh Rathbone 4690grms 6 Dogfish 2 Pout
2nd Steven Rathbone 4300grms 6 Dogfish 1 Pout 1 Whiting
3rd Lea Windsor 4260grms 6 Dogfish
Heaviest fish pool Steven Rathbone Dogfish 880grms
Species pool Eddie Painter 3
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2011 Results |
17th December 2011, Jurassic
League East Pier West Bay 1200 - 1500.
Thankfully the weather stayed reasonably fine if a little
breezy for the last match of the year and Jurassic League final of the
West Bay S.A.C. Junior Section. Ten competitors signed on to fish with
most of the juniors showing off their home-made Christmas hats, hoping
to catch the eye of the judge for the best hat competition. All but two
competitors managed to land fish with pout, whiting, flounder,
five-bearded rockling and pollack showing. The match was a neck and neck
affair amongst three of the competitors but Yasmin Harwood’s last fish
of the day, a legal-sized whiting, took her into first place with Connor
Hallett second and James Lawrence third.
After the match there was a buffet and prize-giving back at the
Salthouse where another good selection of prizes were on offer again
this year. The Jurassic League is a separate series of four competitions
fished over the last two months of the year and is based on total
weight. The winner of the trophy this year was Connor Hallett, a great
achievement as he was only able to fish three of the matches; Yasmin
Harwood was a very close runner-up who also fished three out of the four
matches.
The Junior Section would like to thank all of the supporters this past
year who have generously donated prizes and we look forward to the new
season which starts on 14th April 2012. Anyone interested in joining the
juniors can find information on the club's website: www.westbaysac.co.uk
Match Results
1st Yasmin Harwood
2nd Connor Hallett
3rd James Lawrence
Heaviest flatfish: Yasmin Harwood, flounder 72g
Heaviest roundfish: Yasmin Harwood, whiting 120g
Smallest: Bekah Hughes
H/whiting: Yasmin Harwood
First fish: Yasmin Harwood
Last fish: Connor Hallett
Most same species: tie, James Lawrence/Aaron Hughes
Wooden spoon: Charlie Lawson
Sponsors: Hilary Smith, Kay Guppy, Steve Harwood, Mike Hallett, Frank
Daw, Andy Preston, Emma Lawrence, Ian Draper, Fred Bowditch.
Jurassic League Final Results
1st Connor Hallett 1197g
2nd Yasmin Harwood 1018g
3rd Morgan Willmott 400g
4th James Lawrence 379g
5th Aaron Hughes 275g
Best Christmas Hat: tie, Morgan Willmott and Elliot Joy.
Sponsors: Tiny and Frank Daw, Hugh Rathbone, PJ Wheeler, Fred Batten,
Hilary Smith, Punch and Judy Bakery.
11th December 2011, Xmas Fayre Match, West Bay 1300 - 1700.
Over 20 members fished the annual Christmas match,
unfortunately the weather was very
poor with heavy rain and a strong southwest gale, never the less a few
fish were caught
with Dogfish, Rockling and Pout being weighed in.
1st Steve Harwood 830grms 1 Dogfish
2nd Adam Cullingford 685grms 1 Dogfish
3rd Lyn Mudford 230grms 3 Rockling
Heaviest fish pool Steve Harwood
Most species pool Frances Kitchin
Top Junior Kieren Ellison
All members enjoyed a great buffet and prize presentation after the
match in The Salthouse
at West Bay.
5th December 2011,Andy Neal
Rover 1700 - 2300.
12 members fished, most members chose to fish Chesil beach
with the top weight being caught from
West Bexington. Steve Harwood found 2 cod the largest a fine cod of
3475grms,
both were caught on lugworm tipped with fish baits. Plenty of whiting
and dogfish
were caught, 7 species were weighed in this was the last rover of 2011.
Oliver Mears is the overall champion with Connor Hallett winning the
junior
Saturday rovers with Frances Kitchin being top lady with 6320grms.
1st Steve Harwood 10680grms 2 Cod 6 Dogfish 6 Whiting 3 Pout
2nd Lea Windsor 5180grms 6 Dogfish 6Whiting
3rd Paul House 5165grms 6 Dogfish 6 Whiting
Most species pool Hugh Rathbone 3
Top Lady Lyn Mudford 985grms 6 Pout
1st December 2011, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
Plenty of dogfish and whiting were caught again with a few
pout. This match
was the day after a south west gale so hopes were high for cod. The
night started
wet but dried up after an hour, there was a slight swell but all members
enjoyed
a busy nights fishing. Unfortunately no cod were caught. Lugworm tipped
with
mackerel proved to be top bait.
1st Simon Bowditch 5415grms 6 Dogfish 6 Whiting
2nd Adam Cullingford 5185grms 6 Dogfish 6Whiting 1 Pout
3rd Ashley Painter 5090grms 6 Dogfish 6Whiting 1 Pout
Heaviest fish pool Adam Cullingford Dogfish 950grms
Most species pool Lyn Mudford 4
26th November 2011, Andy Neal
Rover 1700 - 2300.
Only 7 members fished due to a south westerly gale. The top 3
all fished at Lyme Regis with pollack and pout
making up the weights. Ragworm proved to be the best bait with most fish
coming from the harbour
entrance. Well done to Lyn Mudford who was just beaten into 2nd.
1st Dave Cornick 2190grms
2nd Lyn Mudford 2100grms
3rd Mark Wickendon 1085grms
Most species Adam Cullingford 4
Heaviest fish Steve Fowles Pout 400grms
24th November 2011, Thursday Night Abbottsbury 1900 - 2230.
10 members fished on a very windy night with a dropping tide,
Lots of Whiting were caught
but very few managed to catch many dogfish. Chris Harwood did find a
Codling of 1240grms
1st P J Wheeler 5320grms Dogfish Whiting Poor cod
2nd Chris Harwood 3760grms Cod Dogfish Whiting Poor cod
3rd Simon Bowditch 3100grms Dogfish Whiting Poor cod
Species pool Hugh Rathbone 3
Heaviest fish pool Chris Harwood Cod 1240grms
17th November 2011, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
16 members fished the evening started calm but got rough with
a large swell making fishing difficult,
plenty of dogfish were caught, lots of whiting were landed but most were
small and
had to be returned. Mark Kershaw caught a specimen Thick lipped Mullet
of 2450grms
which was weighed photographed and returned alive.
1st P J Wheeler 4980grms 6 Dogfish 5 Whiting 1Pout 1 Poor cod
2nd Hugh Rathbone 4705grms 6 Dogfish 3Whiting 1 Pout
3rd Simon Bowditch 4580grms 6 Dogfish 3 Whiting
Most species pool Paul House 3
Heaviest fish Mark Kershaw Thick Lipped Mullet 2450grms
10th November 2011, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
19 members fished, plenty of dogfish and whiting were caught
using a cocktail of mackerel and lugworm. Many members were looking to
catch a cod but none were caught. All members weighed in well done to
Lyn Mudford who caught 4 good pollack.
1st P J Wheeler 55355grms 6Dogfish 6Whiting 2Pout
2nd Adam Cullingford 5035grms 6Dogfish 6Whiting
3rd Paul House 4605grms 5Dogfish 6Whiting 1Dab 2Pout
Heaviest Fish Pool Lee Sherry Dogfish 1010grms
Most Species Pool Steve Fowles 4 Species
6th November 2011, Daytime
Match 1300-1800, Abbottsbury,
13 members fished, this was the last daytime match of 2011. A
few late garfish were caught using floats, plenty of whiting were caught
including 2 specimens. 2 good plaice were also caught. After 10 daytime
matches Paul House lifts the Sunday daytime
trophy. Lugworm proved best bait on the day.
1st Paul House 2830grms 6 Garfish 6 Whiting 2 Pout 2 Poor cod
2nd Steve Harwood 2790grms 1Dogfish 6 Whiting 2Garfish 2 Pout
3rd Adam Cullingford 2755grms 6Whiting 3 Pout 2Garfish
Heaviest Fish Pool Adam Cullingford Whiting 755grms
Most Species Pool Dave Cornick 6 Species
5th November 2011, Junior v Parents
Open (This included the Jurassic League Match) East Pier 1200 - 1500.
This ever popular competition took place on the East Pier at
West Bay and attracted a record turnout of 43 competitors which
consisted of 17 juniors and 26 seniors. The competition is open to all
members, ex-juniors, friends and relatives. Although there was a chilly
north wind blowing, the day remained dry with a calm but coloured sea.
Species caught were predominantly pouting and rockling with pollack,
flounder, wrasse, blennies, whiting, sea scorpion, sand smelt and sprat
also showing. All fish were returned.
The competition was fished from 12.00 – 3.00 p.m. followed by a
delicious buffet and presentation back in the warmth of the Salthouse.
26 managed to weigh in with senior member Hugh Rathbone coming out on
top with 269g legal weight (466g total), junior member Connor Hallett
second, with 204g legal weight (473g total) followed closely by his
father, Mike Hallett with 188g legal weight (266g total) for third
place. The Wooden Spoon Trophy was won by Lynda Craven.
29th October 2011, Andy Neal Rover
1700 - 2300.
9 members fished the latest match on a very blustery and wet
evening with
high tide at 9pm. As there was little point trying to fish out of the
strong sw winds
a few decided to fish Abbotsbury and Cogden where a few fish were
caught.
1st Oliver Mears 3800grms
2nd Lea Windsor 3580grms
3rd Adam Cullingford 3530grms
Most species Paul House 3
Best Fish Mark Wickendon dogfish 905grms
27th October 2011, Thursday Night
Abbotsbury 1900 - 2230.
18 members and 2 guests lots of dogfish and better sized
whiting were caught. All competitors had a
good night fishing a rising tide (9pm) Phil Maggs caught the largest
whiting
of the night with a specimen of 765grms or 112%. Frozen mackerel was
best
bait on the night.
1st Phil Maggs 6580grms 6 dogfish 6 whiting
2nd Hugh Rathbone 6015grns 6 dogfish 6 whiting 2 pout
3rd Oliver Mears 5790grms 6 dogfish 6 whiting 2 pout 1 poor cod
Heaviest fish pool Simon Bowditch dogfish 920grms
Most species pool P J Wheeler 4
23rd October 2011, Daytime Match
West Bexington 1300 - 1800.
10 members fished members fished a strong easterly gale with
a rising tide. Fishing was very
difficult but it did stay dry and sunny. Only Adam found a single
whiting
with 10 minutes to go, a single hook rig with lugworm at distance
1st Adam Cullingford 175grms
20th October 2011, Thursday
Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230
22 members fished everyone enjoyed a calm warm evening with
high tide at midnight,
All members caught plenty of whiting in fact it was difficult to keep
a bait out long enough to catch anything else.
1st Oliver Mears 5215grms 6 dogfish 6 Whiting
2nd Hugh Rathbone 4365grms 4 dogfish 6 Whiting
3rd Paul House 3825grms 3 dogfish 6 Whiting 1 Pout 1Scad
Heaviest fish pool Hugh Rathbone Dogfish 875grms
Species Pool Tony Colls 3
Top Lady Frances Kitchin 1165grms 6 Whiting
13th October 2011, Thursday Night
Abbotsbury 7-10:30
18 members 3 guests lots of dogfish were caught during
the rising tide. A few small whiting were caught and 1 coddling
caught by Hugh Rathbone. Most members tried targeting cod using lugworm
and squid, but due to the
high numbers of dogfish most struggled to catch anything else. Although
8 different species were caught
Everyone enjoyed a warm calm evening with a rising spring tide at 8:30
1st Hugh Rathbone 6450grms 1 cod 6 dogfish 2 pout 1 poor cod
2nd Olly Mears 5550grms 6 dogfish 2 whiting 2 pout
3rd Chris Harwood 5385grms 6 dogfish 2 pout 2 whiting 1 poor cod
Species pool Paul House 5 species
Heaviest fish Hugh Rathbone Cod 1520grms
1st October 2011, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
29th September
Thursday Night West Bexington.
17 members fished The match started sunny and calm but the wind
started to blow hard from the east which created a large swell which
coincided with the biggest tide of the year, still 10 species were caught
plenty of dogfish were caught as well as whiting.
1st Adam Cullingford 5648grms
2nd P J Wheeler 5425grms
3rd Hugh Rathbone 4525grms
Species Pool Steve Harwood 2 Species
Heaviest Fish Pool Adam Cullingford Smoothound 1638grms
22nd September,
Thursday Night Seatown 1900 - 2230.
18 members fished, all members enjoyed a warm evening with a
rising tide ,the east side of Seatown produced plenty of dog fish and small
pout while the western side produced plenty of good sized pout and only the
odd dogfish the rockier areas produced 1 sizeable bullhuss and rockling. Top
bait was ragworm and mackerel.
1st Norman Stokes 5145grms 6 Dogfish 6 Pout 1 Poor cod
2nd Lea Windsor 4480grms 5 Dogfish 6 Pout 2 Poor cod
3rd Steve Harwood 4090grms 4 Dogfish 6Pout 1 Poor cod 1 Dover sole
Heaviest fish Mark Wickendon Dogfish 925grms
Most species Phil Maggs 3 species
17th September,
Lyme Bay Trophy West Bexington 1700 -2300.
This
was the 41st time this match has been fished between 5 local clubs, with
Lyme Regis fishing for the 3rd year. West Bay sac were the host club this
year choosing to fish the match on West Bexington. This year competitors
could only catch 2 of each species with varied points being awarded for
different species.
12 different species were caught which included Cod, Black Bream, Smoothound
a mixture of summer and winter fish. Over 40 anglers took part from the
clubs of Beer Sac, Honiton Sac, Lyme Regis Sac, Axminster Sac also West Bay
Sac.
Overall winners of this yearly event were West Bay Sac with 59 points.
Runner up was last years winners Lyme Regis Sac with 29 points.
Lyme Regis Sac shore sec Steve Fowles presented Simon Bowditch West Bay Sac
shore sec with the Lyme Bay Shield. This was the 17th time West Bay had won
the trophy. Everyone did really well fishing a rough sea with a few heavy
showers.
15th September,
Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
19 members fished, the match was fished on a quiet calm sea with
an hour of daylight this gave the members time to catch a few mackerel,
garfish+ scad using floats or pop up rigs. Once it got dark dogfish arrived
in good numbers and even a few very early whiting. Oliver Mears caught a
very good plaice of 745grms.In total 11 different species were weighed in.
1st Oliver Mears 6205grms 1 plaice 6 dogfish 2 mackerel 2 pout 3
whiting
2nd Hugh Rathbone 5900grms 6 dogfish 3 whiting 2 pout 2 garfish
3rd Adam Cullingford 5500grms 6 dogfish 2 scad 3 whiting 1 mackerel
Heaviest fish pool Craig Horton Dogfish 935grms
Most species pool Paul House 6 species
3rd & 4th
September 2011, Wally Pettet Memorial Trophy 1700 -2200 each day.
This year the competition was fished as Seatown instead of
Charmouth as the committee had decided that the cliffs at Charmouth are now
in a dangerous condition making fishing under them extremely dangerous.
28th August 2011,
Sunday Daytime .1-6pm Chesil Cove.
Members fished a rising spring high tide at 7pm,the rocky area
near Portland produced a few small wrasse but the clear ground fishing was
very poor, usually this area fishes well with a few different species (not
today!) Most members float fished for mackerel and gars. Halfway through the
sea became quite rough which made fishing difficult.
1st Paul House 1640gms 6 Garfish
2nd Dave Cornick 1420gms 6 Wrasse
3rd Simon Bowditch 780gms 1 Mackerel 1 Garfish
Species Pool Gerry Reed
Heaviest fish pool S Bowditch Garfish 385gms
13th August 2011
09:00 to 21st August 2011 18:00, Species & Specimen Shore Festival.
20 members participated (last year 21) Congratulations to P J
Wheeler who caught 19 species during the festival and therefore is the
winner of the John & Frances Hunt Species Trophy, for the most species
caught by an individual in the Festival.
Congratulations to Oliver Mears who caught a Trigger Fish 1635gm 144.17% and
is the winner of the David Cornick Specimen Trophy, for the best specimen
caught in the Festival.
Please note as regards to prizes no member can win more than one prize other
than pools.
Prizes Species
1st P J Wheeler 19 species (This is a record number caught in the Festival)
2nd Paul House 18 species
3rd Craig Horton 17 species (Won on tie-break 50 fish points)
Four other members caught 17 species, and one 15.
Prizes Specimens
1st Oliver Mears Trigger Fish 1635gm 144.17%
2nd David Cornick Trigger Fish 1387gm 122.31%
3rd Phil Maggs Trigger Fish 1000gm 88.18%
Two other specimens where registered a Thick lip Mullet caught by Paul
House, and a Trigger Fish by Craig Horton.
Junior Prize
Jake Preston Most fish points 14
Golden Fish Pool L S Dogfish (longest)
Oliver Mears 67cm
Pairs Pool (fish points)
Oliver Mears & Craig Horton 20 different species between them = 60 fish
points (two other pairs achieved 57 points)
Number of species caught total = 28 as follows (last year 25)
L S Dogfish, Scad, Red Gurnard, Pout, Mackerel, Tub Gurnard, P/Cod, Garfish,
Bull Huss, Pollack, Corkwing, Ballan Wrasse,
Black Bream, Dragonett, Red Mullet, 3 Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Baillons
Wrasse, Shore Rockling, Dab,
Trigger Fish 3 x Specimens, Thick Lip Mullet, Specimen. Plaice, Smooth
Hound, Thin lip Mullet, Sole,
Golden Grey Mullet & Bass
EARLY WARNING, next years FESTIVAL will start Sat 11th and end Sun 19th
August 2012.
20th August 2011,
Saturday Junior Match (stokes Trophy) East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.

30th & 31st July
2011, The Jurassic Open Boat Festival 0900 - 1700 each day.
The competition this year was fished in fine conditions with 47 anglers
signing on over the 2 days. Anglers fished on charter and private boats and
headed off to various marks dotted around Lyme Bay. The fishing was steady on
both days with 18 different species including black bream, Cod, plaice and
Pollack coming to the scales. The winner on day one was Mike Hansell of the
Lyme Regis club with a Corkwing Wrasse of 103%. Most species was taken by
Rod Barr with 7 species.
On Sunday the competitors were blown away by a Red Gurnard of 150% Caught by
W.B.S.A.C President Fred Bowditch which gave him a total of 219%. This
earned him the Sunday prize, the overall prize of £200, the round fish pool
and the golden fish pool. A very good day at the office!
Most species on the day was taken by Steve Fowles with 7 species. Steve also
took the overall most species prize with 9 species.
West Bay SAC would like to thank everyone who took part for their support.
7th August 2011,
Andy Neal Rover 1800 - 2300.
Fifteen members signed on to fish the match from various
venues. the top three all fished at Portland then moved to The stone pier
Weymouth where P J Wheeler caught the smoothound. Other members struggled
with a strong swell and seaweed. Mark Wickendon found the heaviest fish a
good bullhuss of 2345grms from Eype. In total 11 different species were
weighed in.
4th August 2011,
Thursday Night Rover 1900 - 2230.
Thirteen members signed on to fish , unlucky for some but not for
Oliver Mears who won the match, fishing at Portland along with PJ Wheeler.
All members enjoyed a warm evening with a rising tide. Lyn chose to fish
Burton Bradstock. Two bass were weighed in with Paul house catching 3 Dover
sole at Cogden
25th June 2011,
Andy Neal Rover 1800 - 2300.
Twelve members signed on to fish the match from various venues
along the Dorset coast. The winner of the comp Mark chose to fish close to
home and chose the beach at Eype, he fished in the rocky ground which can
claim a lot of end tackle but he did well and landed two bull huss and one
smoothound. Some members travelled to Portland after the big wrasse that
reside there, PJ Wheeler did managed to haul one in weighing 1 kg 215 g. In
all nine different species were caught on the night.
1st Mark Wickenden 2 bull huss & 1 smoothound
2nd Oliver Mears 7 kg 635 g 6 wrasse & 6 dogfish
3rd PJ Wheeler 5 kg 305 g 6 wrasse
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 95 g
Heaviest Fish: Mark Wickenden 2 kg 930 g smoothound
Most Species: Phil Maggs 5 species
25th June,
Saturday Junior Match East Pier West Bay 1200 -1500.
Eleven junior members and two guests signed on to fish the latest
Saturday Junior match; this is the best turn out so far this year. Though it
was a dry day the fish did not seem to be about in great numbers with only
five anglers catching fish. This was Connor Hallett’s last match before he
represents England at the Home Internationals in Ireland, as part of the
junior shore fishing squad next week, we all wish him good luck and hope he
enjoys the experience.
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1st PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 201 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 193 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Yasmin Harwood (L) 92 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Yasmin Harwood 65 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett 133 g corkwing wrasse |
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Best Lady: |
Yasmin Harwood |
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1st Fish: |
Ellis McCullagh |
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Last Fish: |
Yasmin Harwood |
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Most Species: |
Connor Hallett 3 species |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Morgan Wilmot |
WEATHER: Cloudy with south-westerly wind 4. Sea had a heavy swell & coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett, Anon & Tiny.
16th June 2011,
Thursday Night Rover 1900 - 2230.
Fourteen members fished the first Thursday night rover of the
summer months. Many of the competitors chose to fish West Bay, this proved a
good decision as the winner of the match fished East beach and the
competitor with the heaviest fish fished the pier. Almost half the
competitors failed to catch any fish but Mark Kershaw who fished Burton
Bradstock did catch a bass.
1stTony Colls 4 kg 195 g 5 dogfish
2nd PJ Wheeler 4 kg 115 g 5 dogfish & 1 pout
3rd Craig Horton 3 kg 860 g small eyed ray
Heaviest Fish: Craig Horton 3 kg 860 g small eyed ray
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 3 species.
11th June 2011,
Saturday Junior Match, East Pier West Bay 1200 - 1500.
Five juniors signed on to fish the match on East Pier on a
cloudy day with some sunny spells. All the competitors caught fish, species
caught were shanny, mackerel, plaice, sea scorpion, wrasse & flounder, most
of the fish fell to ragworm with the exception of the mackerel which were
caught on mackerel strip.
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1st PLACE: |
Jack Parkman 604 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 175 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 140 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Aaron Hughes 36 g plaice |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Jack Parkman 314 g mackerel |
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1st Fish: |
Connor Hallett |
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Last Fish: |
Jack Parkman |
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Most Species: |
Aaron Hughes 2 species (drawn out of hat as 4 competitors had 2 species) |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Aaron Hughes |
WEATHER: Cloudy with some sunshine and a south-westerly wind 3. Sea was choppy with slight colour.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett & Tiny
29th May 2011,
Sunday Daytime Seatown 1300 - 1800.
Once again being a bank holiday Sunday only eight members turned
out to fish, most had high expectations of catching fish as the sea was
rough and coloured. But alas the fish were scarce with only a few pout being
caught, but at least the competitors enjoyed a warm afternoon.
1st Mark Kershaw 575 g 5 pout
2nd Simon Bowditch 445 g 5 pout
3rd Phil Maggs 350 g 4 pout
Heaviest Fish: Mark Kershaw 135 g pout.
Most Species: Craig Horton
28th May 2011,
Saturday Juniors 1200 - 1500.
Six juniors and one guest turned out to fish the match. Five of the
competitors caught fish, with a nice bass of 632 g being caught by James
Lawrence, Though this help James to have the heaviest weight he was pipped
in to second place by Jake who managed to catch a legal sized rockling
(legal sized fish take precedence). What we mean by legal size is that the
fish measure the minimum retention size as laid down by the Angling Trust
which is the governing body of Sea Angling.
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1st PLACE: |
Jake Preston 134 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
James Lawrence 632 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 177 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Aaron Hughes 38 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
James Lawrence 632 g bass |
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Most Species: |
Connor Hallett 3 species |
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Last Fish: |
James Lawrence |
WEATHER: Cloudy with a south-westerly wind 4. Sea was rough and dirty.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett & Tiny.
26th May 2011,
Thursday Night Burton Bradstock 1900 - 2230.
Ten members braved the poor weather forecast to fish, but as
seems to be the case the forecast was wrong cause as the match started the
wind dropped and the sun shone. All members enjoyed a perfect evening.
During the match seven good sized rays were caught, weighed then released
alive, the rays took either mackerel or sandeel. this is possibly the best
club competition at Burton Bradstock.
1st Simon Bowditch 7 kg 755 g 3 small eyed rays & 2 pout.
2nd Steve Harwood 7 kg 420 g 2 small eyed rays & 3 dogfish.
3rd Lea Windsor 4 kg 200 g 2 small eyed rays.
Heaviest Fish: Simon Bowditch 2 kg 905 g small eyed ray.
Most Species: Craig Horton 3 species.
21st May 2011,
Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Nineteen members turned out for the latest Andy Neal Rover. The
competitors chose to fish various venues, from Eype to Portland. The anglers
who chose to fish over rough ground came up trumps were as the clean beaches
produced little fish on the night. Well done to Oliver Mears who chose
Portland to fish, he managed to catch some great ballan wrasse, the best
weighing in at 2 kg 825 g 124.56% of specimen. Adam Cullingford caught a 4
lb wrasse from Eype.
1st Oliver Mears 7 kg 275 g.
2nd Paul House 2 kg 135 g
3rd PJ Wheeler 1 kg 945 g
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 5 species. ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse,
dogfish, pout and rockling.
Heaviest fish Mark Wickenden 640 g dogfish
19th May 2011,
Thursday Night Charmouth 1900 - 2230.
nineteen members signed on to fish the match over a rising spring
tide, with high tide at 2200. Due to safety concerns raised last year over
the unstable cliffs competitors were not allowed to fish any further east
than the cafe on the beach. competitors expectations were high for the
evening but the fishing turned out poor. normally some good sized wrasse are
caught from this venue but alas they were in short supply. 50% of the
anglers failed to catch weighable fish.
1 Dave Cornick 2 kg 210 g dogfish & wrasse.
2nd Lea Windsor 1 kg 310 g dogfish.
3rd Mark Whittington 1 kg 145 g dogfish.
Heaviest Fish: Lea Windsor 790 g dogfish.
Most Species: Phil Maggs 2 species.
14th May 2011
Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200 - 1500.
Six juniors and one guest signed on to fish the match on East Pier
West Bay. Six of the competitors managed to catch fish, these were mainly
flounder (8) with 2 plaice and 1 bass, all were caught on ragworm.
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1st PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 251 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
James Lawrence 149 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jimi Smith 86 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
James Lawrence 93 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Ellis McCullagh 203 g bass |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Cloudy with sunny spells and a north-westerly wind 4. Sea was slightly choppy with a slight colour.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
5th May Thursday
Night West Bay 1900 - 2230.
Seventeen members signed on to fish the latest Thursday Night
match, this time held at West Bay. the top three chose to fish from the
Jurassic pier. Plenty of mackerel were caught using the pop up rig method
using floating beads. Tony Colls managed to catch a fine plaice of 750 g, in
all six different species were landed.
1st: Craig Horton 4 kg 480 g dogfish, pout and
mackerel.
2nd PJ Wheeler 2 kg 480 g dogfish, rockling, pout and mackerel
3rd Oliver Mears dogfish, pout and mackerel
Heaviest fish: Dave Cornick dogfish 895 g
Most Species: Tony Colls 3 species.
1st May 2011,
Sunday Daytime Seatown 1300 - 1800.
Only seven members turned out to fish the match, as it was a bank
holiday weekend many stayed away fearing the beach would be packed with
grockles (holiday makers), but the beach was very quiet possibly due to a
cold easterly wind which also kept the fish away. only a few rockling and
wrasse were caught over the rocky ground but the sandy ground produced no
fish at all.
1st Simon Bowditch 930 g 2 wrasse.
2nd Dave Cornick 655 g 3 wrasse and 1 rockling.
3rd Phil Maggs 400 g 2 wrasse.
Heaviest Fish: Simon Bowditch ballan wrasse 660 g
Most Species: Paul House 2 species.
30th April 2011,
Saturday Juniors East Pier, West Bay 1200 - 1500.
Six juniors turned out to fish the second junior match of
the year. All the competitors managed to catch fish which were mainly
flounders with a couple of wrasse thrown in. The best bait on the day was
ragworm fished on small hooks (size 4 or 6). If you are under 17years old
and would like to fish the Saturday Junior Matches, you are able to fish two
matches as a guest before you would need to join the club (£8 annual fee)
the match fee is £1 per match with prizes for the top three and heaviest
flat and round fish. Match dates are available from website, Angling Centre
West Bay or contact Tiny 07977365068.
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 178 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 187 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 157 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy flounder 98 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett corkwing wrasse 178 g |
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First Fish: |
Elliot Joy 52 g flounder |
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Last Fish: |
James Lawrence 61 g flounder |
WEATHER: Cloudy with sunny spells and a north-westerly wind 4. Sea was calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Andy Preston, Mike Hallett & Tiny.
28th April 2011,
Thursday Night Seatown 1900 -2230.
Nineteen members signed on to fish the match on a falling tide,
which made the fish scarce, as Seatown is a shallow beach, But two plaice
were caught during the daylight hours. Then after dark a few dogfish and
pout were landed fourteen of the competitors caught weighable fish using
ragworm and small hooks.
1st Simon Bowditch 2 kg 545 g small eyed ray,
dogfish and pout.
2nd Oliver Mears 1 kg 775 g dogfish and pout.
3rd Will Halliday 1 kg 695 g dogfish and rockling.
Heaviest Fish: Simon Bowditch small eyed ray 1 kg 315 g
Most Species: Dave Cornick 3 species.
Top Lady: Lyn Mudford 385 g 5 pout.
21st April 2011,
Thursday Night Cogden 1900 - 2230.
It was decided at the last minute to move the match from West
Bexington to Cogden due to a lot of anglers fishing for mackerel at West
Bexington. Seventeen members fished the venue at Cogden which proved very
successful with nine good sized ray's being caught, these consisted of two
spotted and seven small eyed rays. the largest ray weighed in at 2 kg 505 g
this was caught by Hugh Rathbone. All the ray's were returned alive.
1st Phil Maggs 8 kg 985 g dogfish, mackerel, dab &
small eyed ray
2nd Paul house 4 kg 310 g dogfish & ray.
3rd Mark Kershaw 4 kg 200 g dogfish & ray.
Heaviest Fish: Hugh Rathbone small eyed ray 2 kg 505 g
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 4 species.
16th April 2011,
Saturday Juniors (Fred Tolley Memorial Match) East Pier, West Bay 1200
- 1500.
This was the first junior match of 2011 and the last Jurassic
League match of 2010. Due to the cancellation of the last Jurassic League
match last year it was decided to roll it over and incorporate it in the
first match of 2011. Eleven juniors signed on to fish the match. Eight of
the competitors managed to catch some fish, species caught were: flounder,
sea scorpion & wrasse. The winner of the Jurassic League Trophy was Adam
Chudley who was unable to fish this match but his total weight from last
year was too great to be beaten 2 kg 482 g. Oliver Mears won the Fred Tolley
memorial Trophy.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 174 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aaron Hughes 165 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jake Preston 113 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Aaron Hughes flounder 91 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears corkwing wrasse 174 g |
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First Fish: |
Elliot Joy 41 g flounder |
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Last Fish: |
Oliver Mears 89 g corkwing wrasse |
WEATHER: Cloudy with sunny spells and a
north-westerly wind 1. Sea was calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett &
Tiny.
9th April 2011
Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Seventeen members signed on to fish the rover, most of them chose
to fish Seatown, but the top competitor fished at Church Hope cove on
Portland then came back to fish the pier at West Bay after dark to catch
dogfish which proved very effective. Phil Maggs chose to fish Eype to again
target dogfish.
1st Dan Bristow 6 kg 890 g
2nd Phil Maggs 5 kg 75 g
3rd Mark Kershaw 4 kg 400 g
Heaviest Fish: Lea Windsor dogfish 1 kg 140 g (100.53% of specimen) Species:
Oliver Mears 5 species.
7th April 2011,
Thursday Night Cogden. 1900 - 2230
Twenty two members turned out to fish the latest Thursday night
match. The anglers enjoyed a warm calm evening, they caught plenty of plaice
and a few mackerel caught on spinners. As the darkness set in dogfish put in
an appearance and two good small eyed rays were landed.
1st Oliver Mears 5 kg 400 g ray, dogfish, plaice &
pout.
2ndAdam Cullingford 4 kg 85 g ray, dogfish, pout & plaice.
3rd Hugh Rathbone 3 kg 65 g dogfish, plaice, mackerel & pout.
Heaviest Fish: Oliver Mears small eyed ray 2 kg 875 g.
Most Species: Simon Bowditch 4 species.
24th March 2011,
Thursday Night West Bay 1900-2230
Twenty Two members signed on to fish at West Bay. Many chose to
fish East Beach, which proved the best area, as this produced the top three.
The evening was warm and calm with plenty of dogfish and pout being caught.
John Coombs caught a fine specimen pout of 765 g.
1st Hugh Rathbone 5280 g dogfish, dab, plaice & pout
2Oliver Mears 3680 g dogfish, pollock and pout
3rd Tony Coles 3425 g dogfish and pout
Heaviest Fish: Steve Fowles 865 g dogfish
Most Species: John Coombs 3 species
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1365 g
20th March 2011,
Sunday Daytime Cogden 1300-1800.
Twenty one members fished the match, with high hopes of catching
some plaice as reports had filtered through that plenty had been caught in
the week, but only four small plaice were caught. Though not much fish were
caught the members enjoyed a warm sunny day.
1st Mark Kershaw 290 g flounder
2nd Simon Bowditch 270 g plaice
3rdAdam Cullingford 225 g plaice
Heaviest Fish: Mark Kershaw 290 g flounder
Most Species: Oliver Mears & Louis Smith 1 species each.
10th March 2011,
Thursday Night Lyme Regis 1900-2230.
Sixteen members signed on to fish the match from various venues
within Lyme Regis, the best choice on the night was the cannon wall.
Monmouth beach fished poorly with only a few rockling and pout, Steve Fowles
did manage to catch one good rockling of 310 g, and the only dogfish of the
night was caught by Frances Kitchin, Pete Runcieman did find a couple of
flounders.
1st Frances Kitchin 1 kg 910 g pout, dogfish &
rockling
2nd Craig Horton 1 kg 215 g rockling, pout & Pollack
3rd Pete Runcieman 1 kg 105 g pout, flounder & rockling
Heaviest Fish: Frances Kitchin 930 g dogfish
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 3 species.
24th February
2011, Thursday Night Eype 1900-2230.
Twenty one members fished the match, they all enjoyed a warm calm
evening. The competitors fished a rising tide with high tide at 2300. Most
of the fish that were caught came from the rocky ground, on mackerel or
ragworm bait. The sandy ground in front of the car park only few small pout.
1stCullingford 2 kg 385 g dogfish, pout & rockling
2nd PJ Wheeler 1 kg 920 g dogfish & pout
3rd Paul House 1 kg 720 g dogfish, pout & rockling
Top Lady: Lyn Mudford 170 g Pout
Heaviest Fish: Adam Cullingford 880 g dogfish
Most Species: Phil Maggs 4 species.
19th February
2011, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Sixteen members signed on for the latest Andy Neal Rover on a
calm evening. The competitors fished a rising spring tide, with high tide at
2230. most of the entrants fished Lyme Regis, they mainly caught pout and
rockling, those that chose to fish Chesil beach did find a few dogfish, but
the winner on the night didn't stray too far as he chose to fish the pier at
West Bay. Top bait was ragworm.
1st PJ Wheeler 3 kg 840 g
2nd Paul House 3 kg 520 g
3rd Hugh Rathbone 2 kg 430 g
Most Species: Oliver Mears 4 species ( dogfish, shore rockling, 5 bearded
rockling & pout)
Heaviest Fish: Adam Cullingford dogfish 795 g
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 960 g
10th February
2011, Thursday night Seatown 1900 - 2230.
Nineteen members turned out to fish the match, expectations were
high as the sea had been quite rough for the last week, but once again the
fish were scarce with only thirteen of the competitors catching weighable
fish. Only four different species were caught these were; dogfish, whiting,
rockling & pout.
1st Steve Harwood 865 g dogfish
2nd Dave Cornick 380 g rockling & pout
3rd Adam Cullingford 355 g pout, rockling & whiting
Most Species: Tony Coles 2 species
Heaviest Fish: Steve Harwood dogfish 865 g
27th January,
Thursday Night Burton Bradstock 1900 – 2230.
Nineteen members signed on to fish the match. Many of the competitors chose
to fish in front of the car park and to the right where the rocky ground is,
this proved a wise choice as most of the fish caught came from the rocky
ground while very few fish came from the sandy ground to the left of the car
park. Lyn Mudford managed to catch a nice cod of 1 kg 795 g she used stale
ragworm that was left over from the weekend before.
1st PJ Wheeler 2 kg 775 g dogfish, pout &
whiting.
2nd Lyn Mudford 2 kg 150 g cod & pout.
3rd Will Halliday 1 kg 640 g dogfish.
Heaviest Fish: Lyn Mudford 1 kg 795 g cod.
Most Species: Keith Woods 3 species.
22nd
January 2011, Sunday Daytime Poole 10.00 – 15.00.
Fourteen members took the long trip to Poole to fish this match hoping to
catch some nice flounders. After last years match were no fish were caught
at designated venue, this years would be a rover at Poole. After five hours
fishing only one flounder was caught. In all only one fish all day had been
caught, which meant the captor took a clean sweep of all the prizes.
1st: Hugh Rathbone 560 g flounder (Hugh also won heaviest fish & most species).
20th January
2011, Thursday Night West Bay 1900 - 2230.
Twenty one members turned out for the match on a clear frosty
night. January is normally a very quiet month for the fish, but six species
were caught, with Oliver Mears catching a fine specimen whiting of 770 g
from the pier.
1st Hugh Rathbone 3 kg 490 g dogfish, pout &
whiting
2nd Oliver Mears 2 kg 620 g dogfish, rockling, whiting & pout
3rd Chris Harwood 1 kg 580 g dogfish & rockling
Heaviest Fish: Oliver Mears 905 g dogfish
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 3 species.
8th January
2011, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Ten members who braved the rough cold weather to fish the match,
many of them chose to fish Lyme Regis which afforded them some protection
from the harsh gales blowing, but the overall winner Paul House took the
brave decision to fish at Abbotsbury to start with but later on being forced
to move to West Bay for the remainder of the match.
1st Paul House 1 kg 650 g
2nd Adam Cullingford 430 g
3rd Keith Woods 420 g
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 2 species rockling & flounder
Heaviest Fish: Steve Fowles 130 g pout.
1st January
2011, Daytime Abbotsbury 1300 - 1800.
Twelve members braved the freezing weather to fish the first
match of the new year at Abbotsbury, some of them were probably trying out
new Christmas presents. Well looked like the fish had decided to stay away
as out of the twelve fishing only two caught one fish each and these were no
monsters, both were dabs weighing 190 g and 150 g each.
1st Adam Cullingford 190 g
2nd Hugh Rathbone 150 g
Heaviest Fish: Adam Cullingford 190 g dab
27th November
2010, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Only ten members braved the bitter cold to fish the match. Venue
fished included Eype, West Bay and West Bexington. At Eype Paul House
managed to catch a specimen pout of 755 g while Dave Cornick caught a
specimen whiting of 880 g from West Bexington.
1st Dave chidzoy 7 kg 20 g
2nd
18th November
2010, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 1900 - 2230.
Sixteen members turned out to fish the match on a bright calm
night on a falling tide. once again plenty of whiting & dogfish were caught,
also four cod were landed and weighed in. top bait proved to be mackerel.
1st Dave Chidzoy
2nd Simon Bowditch
3rd Mark Kershaw
Most Species: Paul House 5 species
Heaviest Fish: Mark Kershaw 2 kg 250 g cod
6th November
2010, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
The competitors enjoy a calm chilly nights fishing with plenty of
whiting & dogfish being caught. the best venue on the night proved to be
West Bay especially the Jurassic pier, this was the chosen spot of the
nights winner Dave Chidzoy.
1st Dave Chidzoy 8 kg 820 g
2nd Oliver Mears 7 kg 205 g
3rd Phil Maggs 6 kg 580 g
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 5 species pout, dogfish, whiting, rockling & poor
cod
Heaviest Fish: Dave Cornick 835 g dogfish
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 3 kg 470 g
30th October
2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Seven junior members and one guest fished the last
Saturday Junior Match of 2010. All but one of the competitors managed to
catch some fish, the species caught were; rockling, shanny, pout, bass,
flounder, whiting & pollack. Though it was sunny with some cloud there was a
southwesterly 5 wind blowing and the sea was rough with a big swell.
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1st PLACE: |
Adam Chudley 281 Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 156 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 287 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Connor Hallett 59 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Adam Chudley 165 g rockling |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Ellis McCullagh |
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Most Species: |
Oliver Mears 5 species |
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WEATHER: Sunny with some cloud with a south-westerly 5 wind. Sea was rough and dirty.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Will Halliday, Andy Preston, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
28th October
2010, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 1900 - 2230.
Sixteen members enjoyed a nights fishing, with all the entrants
catching fish even though the fish were patchy. The competitors fished a
rising tide with high tide at 2230. Whiting were the most abundant fish on
the night with the occasional dogfish coming in.
1st Dave Chidzoy 4 kg 675 g dogfish, cod 7 whiting
2nd Phil Maggs 3 kg 705 g dogfish & whiting
3rd Adam Cullingford 3 kg 340 g dogfish & whiting
Most Species: Hugh Rathbone 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Chris harwood 1 kg 165 g cod.
23rd October
2010, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Eighteen competitors signed on to fish the latest Andy Neal Rover
from a variety of venues but ultimately the best venue on the night was
Abbotsbury, which saw nine cod caught, four of these to one competitor, with
his heaviest being 8 lb.
1st Dave Chidzoy 10 kg 190 g
2nd Paul House 5 kg 475 g
3rd Dan Bristow 5 kg 370 g
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 6 species
Heaviest Fish Chris Harwood 1 kg 35 g dogfish.
17th October
2010, Sunday Daytime West Bexington 1300 - 1800.
Thirteen members turned out to fish the match on a mostly falling tide.
The competitors managed to catch 7 different species between them, plenty of
garfish & mackerel were caught as well as a few flatfish but alas no cod.
The gar and mackerel were caught by using either a float or a pop up rig.
1st PJ Wheeler 3 kg 135 g plaice, mackerel,
flounder & garfish
2nd Phil Maggs 2 kg 250 g mackerel and garfish.
3rd Simon Bowditch 2 kg 20 g mackerel and garfish
Most Species: Paul house 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Dave Cornick 640 g dogfish.
16th October
2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Six junior members and two guests fished the penultimate Saturday
Junior Match of 2010. All of the competitors managed to catch some fish,
the species caught were; rockling, shanny, pout, sea scorpion, flounder,
whiting, wrasse, garfish & pollack. The sea was flat calm and clear, this
was why some garfish were caught, especially by Ellis McCullagh who managed
to catch five of them to win the match.
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1st PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 583 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 285 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Adam Chudley 159 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy 27 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Ellis McCullagh 178 g garfish |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Jed Walther |
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Most Fish: |
Jake Preston 18 fish |
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Last fish: |
Shane Parker |
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Heaviest Legal Fish: |
Ellis McCullagh 178 g garfish
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WEATHER: Sunny with some cloud with a northerly 3 wind. Sea was flat calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Mike Hallett, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
14th October 2010, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900 - 2230.
Twenty two members turned out on a calm warm evening to fish the
latest Thursday night match. All the competitors managed to catch weighable
fish, with quite a few dogfish and whiting being caught. Also caught was a
codling and some dover sole.
1st Simon Bowditch 5 kg 280 g dogfish, whiting and pout.
2nd Paul Grinter 4 kg 845 g dogfish and whiting.
3rd Peter Grinter 4 kg 40 g dogfish and whiting.
Most Species: Dan Bristow 4 species.
Heaviest Fish: Steve Fowles 1 kg 50 g dogfish.
7th October
2010, Thursday Night Seatown 1900-2230.
Sixteen competitors signed on to fish the match at Seatown on a
falling tide and coloured water. All the entrants caught weighable fish,
species caught were; dogfish, pout and whiting, with competitor Lea Windsor
catching a sole of 695 g.
1st Chris Harwood 4 kg 950 g dogfish & pout
2nd Oliver Mears 4 kg 790 g dogfish, pout & whiting
3rd Simon Bowditch 4 kg 780 g dogfish & whiting
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Chris Harwood dogfish 980 g
2nd October
2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Six junior members and one guest fished the match at West
Bay on a cloudy day. The water was very coloured due to recent heavy rain,
but this proved an advantage as the dogfish decided to put an appearance in
with seven in total being caught. Also caught for the first time ever in a
Saturday Junior competition was a bull huss which was landed by Connor
Hallett. All the competitors caught fish, species caught were; dogfish, bull
huss, rockling, pout, flounder & whiting.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 2 kg 621 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 1 kg 841 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jake Preston 990 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Oliver Dowding 48 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Jake Preston 871 g dogfish |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
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First Dogfish: |
Connor Hallett |
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Heaviest Dogfish: |
Jake Preston |
WEATHER: Cloudy with some sunny intervals with a southerly 3-4 wind. Sea was very coloured with a moderate swell.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Norman Stokes, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
25th & 26th
September 2010,Wally Pettet Trophy Charmouth 1700-2200.
Fifteen members signed on to fish each day of the two day match.
the weather was very kind to the entrants over the two days, the sea was
clear which help to produce a few wrasse and garfish. Dave Chidzoy took the
lead on day one with a weight of 6 kg 895 g, Paul Grinter was second with 3
kg 730 g. on day two Dave Cornick managed to find a good wrasse of 1 kg 565
g. Some of the competitors managed to catch some dogfish to add to their
weights but this was not enough to dislodge Dave Chidzoy who won the two day
comp with a total of 10 kg 760 g.
1st Dave Chidzoy 10 kg 760 g
2nd Paul Grinter 6 kg 635 g
3rd Dave Cornick 4 kg 265 g
Most Species: Steve Harwood 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Dave Cornick ballan wrasse 1 kg 565 g
11th September
2010, Lyme Bay Trophy Seaton Devon 1700-2300.
This match is fished between five local clubs; Beer & District,
West Bay, Honiton, Axminster & Lyme Regis. The match has been fished for
close on 40 years but Lyme Regis has only been involved in the last two
years. though the big tide was ideal the venue fished very poorly with the
good fish being scarce. Lyme Regis chose to fish the rougher ground to the
left of the river, this proved to be the right decision on the night as they
found two bull huss, a few dogfish & a mullet which all helped them to win
the inter club match. Honiton, Axminster & Beer struggled to catch any fish.
1st Lyme Regis 537%
2nd West Bay 472%
5th September
2010, Sunday Daytime Seatown 1300-1800.
Ten members turned out to fish the match. most chose to fish for
mackerel and garfish using a pop up rig to fish mid water just a short
distance out. This proved a good choice as a lot of mackerel and gar were
caught.
1st Phil Maggs 2 kg 470 g mullet, mackerel &
garfish
2nd Oliver Mears 2 kg 325 g garfish & mackerel
3rd Adam Cullingford 765 g mackerel & garfish
Heaviest Fish: Phil Maggs 715 g Mullet
Most Species: Dave Cornick 4 species
2nd September
2010, Thursday Night Seatown 1900-2230.
Twenty members signed on to fish the latest Thursday night match
at Seatown, on a calm bright evening. though plenty of fish were caught
nothing of notable size was landed. During the daylight some garfish fell to
float tackle and on the rocky ground some small wrasse were caught but it
was not till after dark that some good pout were landed, only one dogfish
came to the scales brought in by Peter Grinter.
1st Craig Horton 3 kg 660 g huss, mackerel, scad,
pout & poor cod
2nd PJ Wheeler 3 kg 500 g scad, mackerel, pout & garfish
3rd Oliver Mears 2 kg 960 g scad, garfish, pout & rockling
Heaviest Fish: Craig Horton Huss 1 kg 160 g
Most Species: Phil Maggs 5 species
22nd August
2010, RNLI Crabbing Competition 1400-1600.
West
Bay Sea Angling Club held its first crabbing competition in aid of the RNLI.
The event took place on the RNLI day at West Bay. 17 people of all ages took
part in the competition, this was not bad considering the rainy weather we
had. there was prizes for the most crabs caught by an under 16 year old, and
over 16 year old and for the competitor catching the heaviest crab. The
competitors started fishing using hand lines only at 2.00pm, they had to
4.00pm to catch the crabs, the competitors then brought their crabs to the
counting area. David from oxford won the senior prize with 18 crabs, with
Megan Hanna from Norfolk winning the under 16 prize with a great catch of
88 crabs (her sister caught 66 as well), the person with the heaviest
crab was 4 year old Yasmin Harwood from Bridport with a beauty of 110 grams.
All the crabs were returned to the harbour alive and well after the
count. West Bay Sea Angling Club would like to thank The Angling
Centre for donating the under 16 prize and Richard "Tiny" Daw for
donating the over 16 and heaviest crab prize, we also thank all those who
took part. The club hopes to make this an annual event, so we hope to see
you all next year.
7th August 2010,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Thirteen members fished, unlucky for some but not for Dave
Chidzoy & Oliver Mears who both took the top spots. Dave & Ollie chose to
fish at Church Hope Cove, Portland. Lea Windsor who claimed the second
heaviest bag fished at Burton Bradstock and managed to catch three
smoothound, the best weighing 3 kg 400 g, all were caught using hermit crab
for bait.
1st: Dave Chidzoy 7 kg 400 g, Most Species: Oliver
Mears 4 species (prizes are of equal value)
2nd: Lea Windsor 6 kg 890 g
3rd: Adam Cullingford 3 kg 645 g
Heaviest Fish: Phil Maggs smoothound 1 kg 2356 g
31st July 2010
RNLI Open Match West Bay 1700-2200.
Thirty one competitors signed on to fish this years open
match in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. The anglers started
fishing at 5.00pm at various spots in West Bay, the boundaries being from
the end of the prom in the west to port Coombe in the east. This year the
weather was kind with cloudy skies with occasional sunshine and a westerly
wind which later on in the evening died off completely. This year
competitors were unable to weigh in silver eels due to a new Environment
Agency byelaw were all silver eels must be released alive. Only ten of the
entrants managed to catch weighable fish, species caught included; scad,
flounder, dogfish, grey mullet & red mullet. Some of the competitors fishing
the Jurassic pier were catching small weevers but none were sizable to weigh
in.
1st; Rob Marshall 940 g
2nd: Nicky Frewin 820 g
3rd: Paul Grinter 700 g
Top Lady: Nicky Frewin 820 g
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 700 g
Heaviest Flatfish: Nicky Frewin 220 g flounder
Heaviest Round Fish: Paul Grinter 700 g dogfish
Super Pool: Rob Marshall (This year the payout was £100)
West Bay Sea Angling Club would like to thank those that donated prizes and also thank the competitors for fishing the event.
24th & 25th July
2010, Jurassic Open Boat Festival 0900-1700 each day.
For full report click
here
Saturday Result: (Any ties would be decided by the best single Specimen %)
1st Steve Harwood 214% Prize donated by Essex Boatyards
2nd Peter Grinter 148% Prize donated by Samways Fish Merchants
3rd Dave Cornick 133% (this was tied between Dave & Cliff Rooney, but Dave won
on tie break) Prize donated by Groves Nurseries & Garden Centre.
Most Species: Peter Grinter 7 species Prize donated by River Cottage.
Top Lady: Lisa Wagstaff 52%
Top Junior: No Junior Fished.
Best Flatfish: M Smith dab 48%
Best Round Fish: Steve Harwood Red Gurnard 108%
Sunday Result: (Any ties would be decided by the best single Specimen %)
1st Dave Morris 190% prize donated by Essex Boatyards
2nd Fred Bowditch 146% Prize donated by Boat Fishing Monthly
3rd Chris Harwood 145% Prize donated by Haddon House Hotel
Most Species: Rod Barr 8 species Prize donated by Longs Fish & Chips
Top Lady: Julie Livesy 84%
Top Junior: No Junior Fished
Best Flatfish: Steve Fowles dab 70%
Best Round Fish: Dave Morris sting ray 117%
OVERALL RESULT:
Overall Winner: Steve Harwood red gurnard 108% pout 106% total 214%
Overall Most Species: Peter Grinter 9 species (conger eel, pout, dogfish, cuckoo
wrasse, poor cod, black bream, pollack, ballan wrasse & smoothound).
Best Bass: Mike Hansell 2 kg 620 g 61%
Best conger: Peter Grinter 16 kg 440 g 91%
Best Bream: Rob Stephenson 1 kg 40 g 65% (black bream)
Best Pollack: Steve Sweet 865 g 12%
Best Ray: Dave Morris 15 kg 910 g 117% (sting ray)
Best Wrasse: Fred Bowditch 515 g 91% (cuckoo wrasse)
Best Cod: None caught.
24th
July 2010,Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Six junior members signed on to fish the match on East Pier West Bay.
Nearly all the competitors managed to catch fish, species caught were;
flounder, wrasse & pout. As it is now the summer holidays if any Child under
17 years of age would like to come and fish the Saturday Junior Matches why
not come along, dates are posted on our website www.westbaysac.co.uk & at
the Angling Centre, you may fish two matches as a guest on payment of the £1
entry fee after this you may decide it is not for you or you could join the
club to continue fishing, if you have no tackle to fish with give Tiny a
ring on 07977365068 and we may be able to arrange some for you to use. If
you do decide to fish arrive on East Pier West Bay by 11.50 am to draw for
your place.
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 342 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 752 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Kieran Ellison 192 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Kieran Ellison 136 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett Ballan wrasse 204 g |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Cloudy with a south-westerly 4 wind. Sea was choppy but clearing.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
3rd July 2010, Andy
Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Sixteen members signed on at the Angling Centre to fish the
latest match in the Andy Neal Rover series. Out of the sixteen only eight
managed to catch weighable fish, Chesil beach once again proved poor with
only a few dogfish in the dark, Lyme Regis produced a few small wrasse over
rough ground. In all only four different species were caught.
1st: Lyam Bull 1500 g
2nd Phil Maggs 1420 g
3rd Adam Cullingford 1090 g
Most Species: Dave Chidzoy 3 species ballan wrasse, shore rockling &
corkwing wrasse
Heaviest Fish: Tony Colls dogfish 810 g
19th June 2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Six juniors signed on to fish on east pier, in sunny warm weather with a
northerly breeze. All six competitors managed to catch fish to weigh in,
species caught included sea scorpion, flounder, wrasse, pout, and shanny.
Best bait once again proved to be ragworm.
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1st PLACE: |
Ollie Mears 422 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 206 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 188 g |
| Heaviest Flat Fish: | Kieran Ellison 65 g plaice |
| Heaviest round Fish: | Ollie Mears 76 g corkwing wrasse |
| Wooden Spoon: | Kieran Ellison |
| Heaviest Fish: | Ollie Mears 76 g corkwing wrasse |
| Most Species: | Ollie Mears 4 species |
| Last Fish: | Ollie Mears |
| Heaviest Fish Above Winners Removed: | William Grant 60 g flounder |
WEATHER: Sunshine with occasional cloud with a northerly 3 wind. Sea was calm and very clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Andy Preston & Tiny.
17th June 2010,
Thursday Night Rover 1900-2230
Eighteen members fished the first of the Thursday night rovers of
the year, competitors chose various venues including Lyme Regis, West Bay
and Chesil beach but once again the top three winners fished St Gabriel's.
Chesil is very quiet for fish at the moment this may be in part due to lots
of sandeel's in the water which the fish are gorging themselves on.
1st PJ Wheeler 6 kg 935 g smoothound, dogfish &
mackerel
2nd Phil Maggs 4 kg 620 g dogfish & mackerel
3rd Adam Cullingford 4 kg 325 g dogfish & mackerel
Most Species Oliver Mears 3 species
Heaviest Fish Steve Harwood smoothound 2 kg 140 g
12th June 2010,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
eighteen members signed on to fish the match, many of the
competitors chose to Chesil beach but this proved poor fishing as the spider
crabs have now arrived in droves. The competitors lost lots of bait and
hooks to the spider crabs. A couple chose to fish the pier at West Bay, and
Lyam Bull caught the heaviest fish of the night from this venue. But the top
two and the most species winners all fished St Gabriel's.
1st Phil Maggs 6 kg 155 g
2nd Craig Horton 4 kg 120 g
3rd Dave Chidzoy 3 kg 720 g
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 3 species won on tie break mackerel, dogfish
and silver eel
Heaviest Fish Lyam Bull dogfish 700 g
6th June 2010,
Sunday Daytime Chesil Cove 1300-1800.
Eleven members signed on to fish the match on a warm sunny day.
once again the fish were scarce mainly due to the water temperature still
being down for the time of year. We se from the result a very rare sight
indeed as Tony Coles has managed to get into the frame.
1st Phil Maggs 1 kg 880 g Mackerel
2nd Dave Cornick 885 g Wrasse
3rd Tony Coles 355 g mackerel
Most Species: Oliver Mears 1 species
Heaviest Fish; Dave Cornick 560 g Wrasse.
5th June 2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Seven juniors fished the match on a warm day with only a sea
breeze to keep them cool. Once again for the second match in a row all the
competitors caught fish, species caught were; flounder, pollock, weever,
shanny, sea scorpion, plaice and wrasse.
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1st PLACE: |
Ollie Mears 178 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Lyam Bull 252 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Ollie Dowding 151 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Kieran Ellison 78 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Ollie Mears 178 g ballan wrasse |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Hay sunshine with a sea breeze, sea calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
27th May
Thursday Night Charmouth 1900-2230.
Twenty members signed on to fish the match at Charmouth. Half of
the competitors managed to catch weighable fish which consisted of dogfish,
wrasse & mackerel. Peter Grinter caught a fine wrasse of 1 kg 461 g from the
car park area, the fish was weighed then released alive.
1st Adam Cullingford 3 kg 665 g 6 mackerel & 3 dogfish
2nd Dave Chidzoy 2 kg 535 g 3 dogfish, 2 wrasse & 1 pout
3rd Oliver Mears 2 kg 500 g 4 dogfish
Most Species: Phil Maggs 3 species
Heaviest Fish: Peter Grinter ballan wrasse 1 kg 461 g
22nd
May 2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Eight members and one guest signed on to fish the match on east
pier West Bay. All the competitors managed to catch fish, which included;
flounder, wrasse, plaice and weever. Once again, the best bait on the day
proved to be ragworm.
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1st PLACE: |
Ollie Dowding (G) 470 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
Ollie Mears 281 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 191 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Ollie Dowding 101 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Lyam Bull 95 g corkwing wrasse |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Sunny and warm with a southerly 2 wind, the sea was calm and clear
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy & Tiny20th May 2010,
Thursday Night West Bay 1900-2230.
Twenty one members fished the match at West Bay, with most of the
competitors choosing to fish east beach where a few mackerel were caught
using spinners. The winner of the match took a gamble and chose to fish the
promenade towards Eype, he managed to catch five dogfish and one mackerel.
1st Peter Grinter 4 kg 705 g 5 dogfish & 1
mackerel
2nd Steven Rathbone 4 kg 585 g 4 dogfish & 4 mackerel
3rd Simon Bowditch 4 kg 330 g 4 dogfish & 5 mackerel
Most Species: Oliver Mears 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Peter Grinter 970 g dogfish.
16th May 2010,
Sunday Daytime (Including Junior Shore Festival) West Bay. 1300-1800.
Nine members fished the match at West Bay, the day started well,
but the sea roughened up and when it rained it got cold. Only two competitors
caught weighable fish.
1st Oliver Mears 310 g (Won the Junior Shore
Festival Cup)
2nd Adam Cullingford 285 g
15th May 2010, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Seventeen members signed on to fish the match. Venues fished
included West Bay, Lyme Regis, West Bexington & Burton Bradstock, lyme Regis
proved to be the top venue as all but one of the winners fished the cobb at
Lyme Regis.
1st Dave Chidzoy 5 kg 890 g
2nd Oliver Mears 3 kg 705 g
3rd Phil Maggs 2 kg 215 g
Most Species: Dan Bristow 3 species
Heaviest Fish: Kim Hyett dogfish 670 g
9th May 2010,
Sunday Boat Match (Boat Festival Cup) 0900-1700.
Nine competitors signed on to fish the match. The competitors
left West Bay on four boats for hopefully a good days fishing afloat. The
weather was not great with a cloudy sky and northerly 4-5 wind blowing which
was very cold for this time of the year. Species caught were: plaice,
dogfish, pout, wrasse, pollock and gurnard., many of the fish were weighed
on board the boats then released back alive. As long as the scales used to
weigh the fish are certified and you have a witness all boat competitors can
now weigh and release their fish.
Heaviest Bag: Graham Stephenson 3 kg 967 g
Most Species: this was tied by three competitors with 3 species, but Steve
Harwood won on the tie break
Best Specimen: James Barr cuckoo wrasse 495 g 87%
8th
May 2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Six junior members and one guest signed on to fish the match from
East pier West Bay. Yet again fish were in short supply with only fifteen
fish being weighed in, species caught were flounder, shanny and wrasse,.
The best bait once again was ragworm on a size 4 or 6 hook. All the fish
were returned alive to the water.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 556 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Dowding (G) 199 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Kieran Ellison 112 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Oliver Dowding flounder 83 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears corkwing wrasse 111 g |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Connor Hallett |
WEATHER: Cloudy with a northerly 3 wind, sea was calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
25th April 2010,
Sunday Daytime Eype 1300-1800.
nine competitors fished the match at Eype beach. The competitors
enjoyed a warm day, but fish were few and far between with only some small
wrasse being weighed in at the end of the match.
1st Phil Maggs 510 g
Oliver Mears 330 g
3rd Craig Horton 290 g
Heaviest Fish Oliver Mears 220 g ballan wrasse
Most Species Dave Cornick 2 species
24th
April 2010, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Seven junior members signed on to fish the match from East pier
West Bay. Once again fish were in short supply with only ten fish being
caught, these were all flounders. The best bait on the day was ragworm on a
size 4 or 6 hook. All the fish were returned alive to the water.
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1st PLACE: |
Jake Preston 249 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Lyam Bull 83 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Ellis McCullagh 72 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Jake Preston flounder 249 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
None Caught |
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First Fish: |
Ellis McCullagh |
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Last Fish: |
Oliver Mears |
WEATHER: Sunny with a south easterly 3 wind, the sea was choppy but clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Frank Daw
18th April 2010,
Boat Match (Prism Press Trophy) 0900-1700.
Fourteen members embarked on five boats from West bay for the
first boat match of the year. They couldn't ask for better weather, Warm
sunshine, a calm sea with a southerly 1-2 breeze. All the competitors
managed to catch some fish, species caught were; pout, pollock, dab, plaice,
wrasse, whiting, conger and dogfish.
Heaviest Weight: David Smith 11 kg 420 g
Most Species: Ralph Probert 6 species
Best Specimen: Chris Harwood dogfish 74%
17th April 2010,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match from a variety of
venues including Chesil beach, Lyme Regis and Seatown. The competitors who
chose the rockier venues managed to catch fish, but those that chose Chesil
Beach really struggled to find the fish. The top two prizes went to Dave
Chidzoy and Kim Hyett who fished the Cobb at Lyme Regis.
1st Heaviest Bag Dave Chidzoy 4 kg 975 g
2nd Heaviest Bag Jake Bagwell 2 kg 910 g
3rd Heaviest Bag Dave Cornick 2 kg 890 g
Most Species Kim Hyett 3 species (Shore rockling, dogfish & corkwing wrasse)
this prize is equal to 1st Heaviest Bag.
Heaviest Fish Oliver Mears 795 g dogfish.
15th April 2010,
Thursday Night Lyme Regis 1900-2230.
Seventeen members signed on to fish the match from various areas
within Lyme Regis. The evening was calm but with a chilly north easterly
wind. Most of the weights were made up with dogfish caught mainly from the
cobb wall or Monmouth beach, but a few good ballan wrasse were also caught
in the daylight. Peter Grinter caught the heaviest one which weighed in at
470 g which was a good fish so early in the year. Also caught were some
large shore rocklings, with the heaviest being caught by Kym Hyett at
425 g (keep an eye on this name as I reckon she will give Frances Kitchin a
run for her money).
1st Dave Chidzoy 4 kg 720 g dogfish, wrasse and
rockling.
2nd Andrew Privett 1 kg 585 g dogfish & rockling.
3rd Chris Harwood 1 kg 550 g dogfish & rockling.
Most Species Oliver Mears 3 species.
Heaviest Fish Dave Chidzoy 875 g
11th April 2010
Saturday Juniors, (Fred Tolley Memorial Match)1200-1500 East Pier West Bay.
Nine juniors signed on to fish the first Saturday Junior
match of the year, hoping to win the Fred Tolley Memorial Trophy. Only four
competitors managed to tempt fish to weigh-in, mainly flounders, but one sea
scorpion and one plaice were also caught. All the fish went back alive after
being weighed. If anybody would like to fish the Saturday Junior matches,
you will need to be under 17yrs on 1st January 2010. You may fish
two matches as a guest upon payment of the entry fee of £1.00, if after this
you wish to fish more matches, you will need to join the club, forms
available from the Angling Centre West Bay or phone the Secretary on 01308
421272 and he will send you a form. Oliver Mears was the winner of the match
and trophy.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 190 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
Ellis McCullough 64 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jake Preston 37 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Oliver Mears flounder 90 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears sea scorpion 39 g |
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First Fish: |
Shaun Taylor flounder 36 g |
WEATHER: Sunny with a light sea breeze, sea was calm becoming choppy.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The old Watchouse Café, Kay Guppy, Kirsty Hallett & Tiny.
8th April 2010,
Thursday Night West Bexington 1900-2230.
Once again a good turnout with twenty four members fishing the
match, on a warm, calm evening. All the competitors enjoyed a good nights
fishing, with all weighing fish in, mainly dogfish which after weighing were
returned back alive. Also two competitors caught small eyed rays, Dave
Chidzoy caught one of 3 kg 310 g but he was well and truly beaten by the ray
junior member Oliver Mears caught which weighed in at 5 kg 715 g which is
157.52% of specimen weight it may also be a Wyvern junior record. The two
rays fell to sandeel while the dogfish were caught with ragworm tipped with
mackerel.
1st Oliver Mears 6 kg 210 g small eyed ray & dogfish
2nd Dave Chidzoy 4 kg 100 g small eyed ray, dogfish & rockling
3rd Peter Grinter 2 kg 770 g dogfish
Most Species Dan Bristow 2 species (those who win any of the top three
prizes are unable to win the species pool).
Heaviest Fish Oliver Mears 5 kg 715 g small eyed ray.
14th March 2010,
Sunday Daytime 1300-1800
Nineteen members signed on to fish the match at West Bexington.
only three competitors managed to catch weighable fish, these were two
plaice and one flounder. Ragworm proved to be the top bait on the day.
1st Dave Chidzoy 995 g plaice
2nd Dave Cornick 465 g Plaice
3rd Steve Harwood 175 g flounder
Heaviest Fish: Dave Chidzoy 995 g plaice.
11th March 2010,
Thursday Night West Bay 1900-2230.
Another good turn out with twenty one members signing on to fish
the match on a calm warm evening at West Bay. Half of the competitors
chose to fish the piers or the promenade, the rest chose the beach but most
of the fish came from the piers and promenade. Species caught were flounder,
pout and rockling, once again using ragworm and small hooks.
1st Oliver Mears 1 kg 145 g rockling & flounder
2nd Craig Horton 705 g rockling
3rd Dave Chidzoy 650 g rockling
Top Lady Frances Kitchin 440 g rockling & pout
Most Species Keith Woods 2 species
Heaviest Fish Lea Windsor 280 g rockling
4th March 2010,
Thursday Night Eype 1900-2230.
Fifteen members turned out to fish the match on a rising tide,
with high tide at 2245. The anglers enjoyed a calm but cold evening, with
many of them choosing to fish the rough ground with small hooks baited with
ragworm. Once again mainly pout & rockling were caught but one lucky angler
managed to tempt a dogfish, this helped him to win the match. Now march is
here Chesil beach should start to pick up with the plaice moving in and
dab's.
1st Dave Cornick 945 g dogfish & rockling
2nd Keith Woods 590 g Rockling & pout
3rd PJ Wheeler 440 g rockling & pout
Most species Chris Harwood 2
species
Heaviest Fish: Dave Cornick 390 g dogfish
28th February
2010, Sunday Daytime Seatown 1300-1800.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match on a bright warm
Sunday afternoon, and a rising tide with high tide at 1845. Most of the
competitors chose to fish the rockier areas in the hope of finding that
elusive good fish that would give them the win but once again the fishing
was poor, with the top weight only managing to tip the scales at 635 g.
1st Dave Chidzoy 635 g pout & rockling
2nd Simon Bowditch 420 g pout & rockling
3rd Chris Harwood 375 g
Top Lady Kim Hyett
Most Species This was split between Oliver Mears & Lewis Bowditch
Heaviest Fish PJ Wheeler 225 g rockling.
24th February
2010, Thursday Night Burton Bradstock 1900 - 2230.
The forecast for the evening was heavy rain, this put a few
members off from fishing the match. But thirteen members who did decide to
fish enjoyed a warm bright evening. Once again the fish were scarce, with
most of the fish being caught from the right hand side of the venue were
there is a reef that runs in close to the beach.
1st Dave Chidzoy 1 kg 820 g dogfish, pout & rockling
2nd PJ Wheeler 810 g 6 rockling
3rd Chris Harwood 675 g rockling & pout
most species Steve Harwood
Heaviest Fish Dave Chidzoy 785 g dogfish
20th February
2010, Andy Neal Rover 1700 - 2300.
Nineteen members signed on to fish the latest Andy Neal Rover.
Due to February being a lean month for good fish, most of the competitors
chose to fish rocky venues such as Eype, Charmouth & Seatown, Pj Wheeler
chose to stay closer to home and fished the pier at West Bay, this proved a
good move as he won the match.
1st PJ Wheeler 900 g
2nd Keith Woods 670 g
3rd Tied between J Bentley & Gareth Edwards 610 g
Most Species Dave Cornick 2 species shore rockling & 5 bearded rockling
Heaviest Fish Steve Harwood 265 g pout
4th February 2010,
Thursday Night Seatown 1900 - 2230.
Fifteen members turned out to fish the match. The match started
off in good weather but during the match the wind picked up to gale force
and the rain poured down. Ragworm on small hooks cast out about 40 yards was
the best tactics.
1st Chris Harwood 505 g pout and 3 rockling
2nd Steve Harwood 370 g pout and 2 rockling
3rd Tony Colls 300 g pout and 2 rockling
Pool Chris Harwood pout 235 g
Most Species Gareth Edwards 3 species.
31st January 2010,
Match at Baiters Park Poole 0900 - 1400.
Nineteen members and 5 guest signed on to fish the match, they
were hoping to catch some flounder but alas none showed up. I think the
competitors would have settled for any fish but they were all disappointed
as no fish came to the scales.
13th December
2009, Christmas Fayre Match 1300-1700.
Thirty five members signed on to fish the annual Christmas Fayre
match at West Bay. The anglers were greeted with bright sunshine, calm sea
but an icy cold north wind. The competitors fished from a variety of
locations in the Bay many fishing the beaches. After the weigh in the
competitors retired to the Salthouse for the presentation and a wonderful
buffet.
1st Simon Bowditch 5 kg 25 g
2nd Phil Maggs 4 kg 850 g
3rd Adam Cullingford £ kg 695 g
Top Junior Craig Horton 1 kg 450 g
Most Species Oliver Mears $ species, dogfish, pout, 5 bearded rockling &
shore rockling.
Heaviest Fish Dave Cornick 1 kg 380 g bass.
10th December
2009, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900-2230.
Fifteen members turned out to fish the first Thursday Night match
since October due to the bad weather. All the competitors enjoyed a calm,
bright evening, with lots of dogfish being caught as well as some pout and a
few small whiting, alas no cod were caught. Best bait on the night Frozen
Mackerel.
1st Phil Maggs 5 kg 10 g dogfish, pout & whiting
2nd Steve Harwood 4 kg 770 g dogfish, pout & whiting
3rd Hugh Rathbone 4 kg 450 g dogfish & pout
Most Species Paul house 3 species
Pool: Chris Harwood dogfish 985 g
5th December 2009,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300,
Only six members turned out to fish the last Andy Neal Rover of
the year, on a wet, windy and cold night. Paul House the winner on the night
decided to fish Weymouth stone pier, he managed to catch 3 dogfish and 2
pout, the also helped him to win the Andy Neal Trophy for the year with a
total weight of 43 kg 385 g just beating Phil Maggs into second place
by couple of hundred grams, a close result after twelve matches. Oliver
Mears managed to retain the Jake Neal Trophy for the winning junior in the
Andy Neal Rover series, with a total weight of 37 kg 670 g, this also placed
him third overall. In total 28 members fished this series over the year.
1st Paul house 2 kg 305 g 3 dogfish and 2 pout,
2nd D Cornick 740 g
3rd Oliver Mears 295 g
Most Species Steve Harwood 3 species dogfish, pout and rockling.
Heaviest Fish Chris Harwood 85 g shore rockling.
24th October2009, Saturday Juniors East
Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Nine members and one guest signed on to fish the match on a very windy
day, with a rough sea. All the competitors managed to catch fish including
the guest Nathan McMaster whose first ever fish caught was a flounder of 23
g which won him the heaviest flatfish prize. Other fish caught on the day
were; pout, rockling, bass & Weever.
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1st PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 243 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 168 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 165 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Nathan McMaster 23 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears & Aiden Dean 119 g pout |
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5th Fish Caught: |
Jake Dear |
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Most Species: |
Elliot Joy 4 species |
|
Wooden Spoon: |
Reece Taylor |
WEATHER: Cloudy with a strong south/southwesterly 5 wind. Sea was very rough and coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Old Watch House Café, Michael & Marie Mears, Tiny & Kay Guppy.
22nd
October 2009, Thursday Night West Bexington, 1900-2230
Eleven members signed on to fish, the numbers were slightly down
due to the bad weather earlier in the day (strong gale), but by the start of
the match the wind had died down and the sea became calm. Plenty of whiting
were caught, with a few good sized pout and a few dogfish. Competitors were
hopeful for a cod or bass but alas none showed, the best bait on the night
was mackerel.
1st Simon Bowditch 3 kg 445 g
dogfish, pout, whiting & pollock
2nd Phil Maggs 3 kg 335 g dogfish, whiting & pout
Steve Harwood 2 kg 615 g dogfish, whiting & pout
Heaviest Fish: Gareth Edwards dogfish 785 g
Most Species: Paul House 4 species.
17th October 2009, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Ten members signed on to fish the match on a calm evening, many
of the competitors chose to fish West Bexington where plenty of garfish were
caught as well as the occasional mackerel. The winner of the match, Oliver
Mears fished the Jurassic pier at West Bay, he managed to weigh in nearly 2
kg 500 g more than the seconded place competitor.
1st Oliver Mears 9 kg 90 g
2nd Paul House 6 kg 430 g
3rd Adam Cullingford 6 kg 305 g
Most Species: Phil Maggs 7 species, dogfish, pout, tub gurnard, garfish,
whiting, scad & sole.
Best Fish: Tony Colls 770 g dogfish.
10th October2009, Saturday Juniors East
Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Twelve junior members signed on to fish the latest Saturday Junior Match,
with now only two more to fish after this one, before we start the Jurassic
series of matches. Eight of the competitors caught fish which included;
flounder, dogfish, pout, whiting & bass. In all four dogfish were caught and
as with all the fish once weighed they were returned alive to the
sea.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 2 kg 26 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 758 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jack Parkman 118 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Aiden Dean 88 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears 770 g dogfish |
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First Fish: |
Jake Preston bass |
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Last Fish: |
Jake Preston flounder |
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Smallest Fish: |
Jimi Smith 19 g flounder |
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Heaviest non-Legal: |
Aiden Dean 88 g flounder |
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Closest to 100 g: |
Aiden Dean 88 g flounder |
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Least fish: |
Split three ways, Connor Hallett, Charlie Parkman & Elliot Joy. |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Sean Taylor. |
WEATHER: Sunny with occasional cloud and a northerly 3 wind. The sea was calm and coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: , The Old Watch House Café, Tiny, Kay Guppy, Kevin Dean, Mike Hallett & Les Peters.
8th
October 2009, Thursday night Seatown 1900-2230.
Nineteen members signed on to fish the match, The fishing was
patchy maybe due to a lot of freshwater coming out of the river. All
competitors weighed in, with those fishing to the east catching the most
fish. Tony Colls did manage to catch a specimen pout of 730 g.
1st Simon Bowditch 4 kg 900 g
dogfish, pout & poor cod
2nd Hugh Rathbone 3 kg 170 g dogfish, pout & poor cod
3rd Oliver Mears 3 kg 145 g dogfish, pout & poor cod
Most Species Gareth Edwards 4 species
Pool Simon Bowditch dogfish 765 g
4th
October 2009, Wyvern Division of the Angling Trust Junior Open at
Teignmouth.
Twelve juniors from West Bay Sea Angling Club travelled to
Teignmouth to attended the match. In all twenty six juniors from the region
took part in the match on a misty and damp day, the water was clear and the
fish scarce with only six fish being weighed in.
26th September 2009, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
fourteen members turned out to fish the rover from various venues
of their choice, eight of the competitors chose to fish Chesil Cove. Hoping
to catch some big wrasse, the conditions were perfect with a clear calm sea
but they struggled to catch with only a few dogfish and scad being caught.
1st Oliver Mears 6 kg 385 g
2nd Phil Maggs 6 kg 290 g
3rd Adam Cullingford 5 kg 410 g
Most Species Dan Bristow 8 species, rockling, corkwing and ballan wrasse,
mackerel, dogfish, silver eel, scad, & pout.
Heaviest Fish Paul House dogfish 705 g.
24th September, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900-2230.
Eighteen members fished the match on a calm evening. in all ten
different species were caught including bream and gurnards which will soon
be leaving our shores as the sea begins to cool down.
1st Hugh Rathbone 4 kg 200 g
smoothound, dogfish, pout & poor cod.
2nd PJ Wheeler 3 kg 50 g dogfish, pout, scad & garfish.
3rd Simon Bowditch 2 kg 900 g dogfish, pout & gurnard.
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 5 species.
Pool: Steven Rathbone dogfish 905 g
12th September 2009, Saturday Juniors East
Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Twelve members and one guest signed on to fish the match which made
thirteen competitors, which is unlucky for some but not for Connor Hallett
who managed to win his second match in a row. The junior secretary was kept
extremely busy as the small whiting showed up and the juniors caught so many
of them, in all 283 fish were caught on the day with all being put back
alive. Most of the fish were whiting but some pollock, flounder, wrasse,
shanny and bass were also caught. Tiny arrived for the last hour; bringing
ice creams for all the juniors and
adults.
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 1 kg 165 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 351 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 160 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy 41 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett ballan wrasse 791 g |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Lyam Bull |
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Most Fish: |
Oliver Mears 71 fish |
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Most Species: |
Oliver Mears 6 species |
WEATHER: Sunny with a north easterly 3 wind and a calm clear sea.
PRIZES DONATED BY: , The Old Watch House Café, Tiny, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett & Les Peters.
5th & 6th
September 2009, Wally Pettet Memorial Trophy Match, Charmouth. 1700-2200
both days.
Fifteen members fished the two day annual match at Charmouth.
Saturday evening was really mild with many competitors fishing in shirt
sleeves, though Charmouth is a great beach to catch rays, only one was
caught but this was too small to weigh in so was returned to the sea. Oliver
mears who fished under the cliffs to the left managed to catch a nice bass
of 2 kg 840 g which along with six pout placed him first on the day. On
Sunday the competitors returned to Charmouth with all to play for. as on
Saturday a bass was caught this time by Cliff Rooney, this one weighed 3 lb.
The fishing on Sunday was not as good as the first day with mainly pout
showing, but Oliver managed to catch six pout which helped him to stay in
the lead and win the Wally Pettet Memorial Trophy.
1st: Oliver Mears 5 kg 205 g
2nd: Simon Bowditch 4 kg 170 g
3rd: Norman Stokes 3 kg 780 g
Most Species: Dave Cornick 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Oliver Mears bass 2 kg 840 g
29th
August
2009, Saturday Junior
Match (Stokes Family Trophy), East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Ten juniors signed on to fish the annual Stokes Family
Trophy match, which is sponsored by the Stokes family. Eight of the juniors
managed to tempt the fish to the scales, with quite a few small bass being
caught as well as the first ever Dover sole caught in a Saturday junior
comp. This year the Stokes Family had also commissioned a nice wooden spoon
trophy which was won by Elliot Joy. Though it was a close comp Connor
Hallett managed to find two good sizable fish to win the trophy.
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 549 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 524 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 417 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Jack Parkman flounder 92 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett ballan wrasse 317 g |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Sunny with occasional cloud and a southwesterly 5 wind. The sea was quite rough and fairly coloured
PRIZES DONATED BY: The Stokes Family, The Old Watch House Café, Tiny, Kay Guppy, Frank Daw & Les Peters.
27th August
2009, Thursday Night Rover 7.00-10.30pm.
Eighteen members turned out to fish the last Thursday night rover
of 2009. The competitors fished from a few different venues but once again
West Bay proved the best choice, as the top two found out.
1st PJ Wheeler 3 kg 585 g ray, dogfish, pout.
2nd Oliver Mears 2 kg 575 g ray, pout & eels.
3rd Peter Grinter 2 kg 80 g dogfish, eels & pout.
Most Species: Hugh Rathbone 3 species.
Pool: PJ Wheeler small eyed ray 2 kg 325 g
23rd July 2009,
Thursday Night Rover 1900-2230.
Eighteen members turned out to fish the match from a variety of
venues including West Bay, West Bexington & Lyme Regis. Many of the open
beaches had a lot of weeding floating in the water which made fishing
difficult, this meant not a great deal of fish were caught with some members
not even weighing in.
1st Steven Rathbone 1 kg 780 g dogfish, bull huss
& pout (fished East Beach West Bay)
2nd Simon Bowditch 1 kg 155 g four Pout & one Dogfish
3rd Steve Harwood 1 kg 60 g six pout
Most Species: Craig Horton 3 species
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 155 g two silver eels
Pool: Dan Bristow 1 kg 40 g dogfish (fished Jurassic Pier)
18th July
2009, Saturday Junior
Match, East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Eight juniors fished the match from east pier West Bay;
this included the two juniors Oliver Mears and Steven Rathbone who had
returned from the Home Internationals with Gold Medals after helping the
England Junior Team to victory. Six of the competitors found the fish to
weigh-in these included; wrasse, flounder, shanny & blennies. After the
fishing Club President Fred Bowditch congratulated Steven & Oliver on their
achievement.
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1st PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 339 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 186 g Legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Jimi Smith 215 g Legal weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy 58 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Steven Rathbone 147 g corkwing wrasse |
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Most Species: |
Steven Rathbone 5 species |
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Most Fish: |
Steven Rathbone 7 fish |
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Smallest Fish: |
Oliver Mears 14 g |
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First Fish: |
Steven Rathbone tompot blenny 54 g |
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Last Fish: |
Steven Rathbone silver eel |
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Heaviest Non-Legal: |
Aiden Dean corkwing wrasse 93 g |
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Wooden Spoon: |
William Grant |
WEATHER: Cloudy with showers and a southwesterly 4 wind. The sea was choppy with slight swell and coloured due to water from the river
PRIZES DONATED BY: Fred Bowditch, Tiny, Mike Hallett, Hugh Rathbone & Les Peters.
25th June 2009,
Thursday Night Rover 1900-2230.
Thirteen members fished which is unlucky for some, but not for
Oliver Mears who won the match, fishing from the pier at West Bay. Other
members chose to fish rockier venues like Seatown & Eype hoping to catch a
big wrasse, unluckily no big wrasse were caught from these venues. June was
a very poor month for fishing from the shore, with even the mackerel being
scarce, lets hope July improves the fishing.
1st Oliver Mears 1 kg 350 g pollack, wrasse, pout
& poor cod.
2nd Simon Bowditch 1 kg 95 g pout & poor cod.
3rd Steven Rathbone 975 g bullhuss & pout.
Most Species: Dave Cornick 3 species.
Pool: Steven Rathbone 875 g bullhuss.
20th June 2009,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Eighteen competitors braved the warm sunny evening to fish the
match from various venues. Phil Maggs chose to fish at St Gabriel's, the
long walk to the beach is often worth it as this venue produces some nice
wrasse, dogfish & bull huss, but he only managed to catch four dogfish but
luckily it was enough to win. Connor Hallett who earlier in the day came
second in the Saturday Junior Comp managed to take third place.
1st: Phil Maggs 2 kg 275 g Dogfish
2nd: Peter Grinter 1 kg 935 g bass & wrasse
3rd: Connor Hallett 1 kg 845 g bull huss & pout
Most Species: Craig Horton 4 species wrasse, dogfish, silver eel & rockling
Best Fish: Lewis Bowditch ballan wrasse 990 g
20th June
2009, Saturday Junior
Match, East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Eight juniors signed on to fish the match from east pier,
six of the competitors managed to tempt some fish to weigh. Species caught
were wrasse, flounder, shanny & rockling, a couple of shoals of mackerel did
show in the harbour but only Elliot Joy managed to hook one which came off
the line before he was able to land it.
All junior matches and weigh and release unless the fish are of the size laid down by our national body the Angling Trust, then they can be kept for eating or bait is so desired.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 682 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 345 g Legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 110 g Legal weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Jimi Smith 64 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Tied between Oliver Mears 234
g rockling and |
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Most Species: |
Oliver Mears 4 species |
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Most Fish: |
Oliver Mears 7 |
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Smallest Fish: |
Oliver Mears 16 g shanny |
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Heaviest Non-Legal Fish: |
Aiden Dean 163 g ballan wrasse |
WEATHER: Warm & sunny with a cooling sea breeze and a north westerly 3 wind. Sea was calm and clear
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, Hugh Rathbone, Tiny & Les Peters.
14th June 2009, Open Boat Festival West Bay
click for full report.
13th
June 2009, Saturday
Junior Match, East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Ten juniors turned out to fish the match from east pier,
six of the competitors managed to tempt some fish to weigh. Species caught
were wrasse, flounder, shanny & blenny.
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 449 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 152 Legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 268 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
William Grant 86 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett 231 g ballan wrasse |
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Most Species: |
Oliver mears 3 species |
WEATHER: Cloudy with sunny spells & a southerly 1 wind. Sea calm and clear.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, PJ Wheeler, Tiny & Les Peters.
7th June
2009,Sunday Daytime Chesil Cove 1300-1800.
Eight members and one guest signed onto fish the match. The venue
is renowned for large wrasse but the good fish eluded all but one competitor
who managed to catch one weighing 1 kg 10 g, this helped him to win the
match and take the pool. Dave Cornick the clubs fish recorder managed to
catch a goldsinny wrasse of 20 g, this set a new club record.
1st: Simon Bowditch 1 kg 465 g 3 wrasse.
2nd: Dave Cornick 1 kg 390 g 3 wrasse and 2 pout.
3rd: Adam Cullingford 1 kg 255 g dogfish, 2 gurnard & mackerel.
Most Species: Paul Grinter 2 species.
Pool: Simon Bowditch 1 kg 10 g wrasse.
30th May 2009,
Saturday Junior Match, East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Seven junior members and one guest signed on to fish the
latest Saturday Junior Match on a sunny day. Six of the competitors managed
to weigh fish in, species included; flounder, shanny, sea scorpion & wrasse
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1st PLACE: |
Craig Horton 54 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 221 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 191 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Jimi Smith 51 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Aiden Dean 102 g corkwing wrasse |
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Wooden Spoon: |
William Grant |
WEATHER: Sunny with easterly 3 wind blowing,
sea slightly choppy and small amount of colour.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, Tiny & Les Peters.
16th May 2009,
Saturday Junior Match, Inner Harbour West Bay 1200-1500.
Seven juniors braved the south westerly 6-7 wind to fish the
match. The decision was taken to fish the inner harbour behind the
harbourmasters office due to the wind and roughness of the sea. Only three
of the competitors managed to catch fish, with each of them catching one a
piece.
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1st PLACE: |
William Grant 41 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 51 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Craig Horton 54 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Craig Horton 54 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Steven Rathbone 51 g shanny |
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Wooden Spoon: |
This had to be drawn out the hat. Winner: Elliot Joy |
WEATHER: Sunny with some cloud and a south westerly 6-7 wind blowing, sea was rough with large waves and coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, Hugh Rathbone, Tiny & Les Peters.
3rd May 2009,
Sunday Boat Match 0900-1500.
Seven members braved the slightly rough conditions to fish the
second match of the year, but the first match to be fished (the first match
was cancelled due to bad weather). Six of the competitors managed to catch
fish, consisting of pout, dogfish, wrasse, pollack & conger to weigh in. All
competitors are restricted to bringing only two of each species to the
scales, this is for conservation reasons, also the conger was weighed on the
boat and released back alive. Any fish not for eating is given away to be
used as pot bait.
2nd May 2009,
Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Eight members fished the match from various
advantage points, two members fished the Pulpit Rock at Portland hoping to
land a big wrasse, the biggest they caught was 895 g. The winner decided to
stay closer to home and fished East Beach West Bay, All of the competitors
caught. weighable fish.
1st Phil Maggs 4 kg 775 g
dogfish & pout
2nd Adam Cullingford & Paul House tied on 2 kg 555 g each
Most Species: Craig Horton four species silver eel, rockling, pout & dogfish
Pool: Oliver Mears dogfish 705 g
2nd May 2009,
Saturday Junior Match, East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Once again ten juniors signed on to fish the match from
the east pier West Bay. Five of the competitors managed to catch some fish
to weigh; species caught were rockling, wrasse & shanny. Hopefully the
fishing will improve as the sea warms up.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 92 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 51 g Legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Craig Horton 46 g Legal weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
None Caught |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett 121 g corkwing wrasse |
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Wooden Spoon: |
This had to be drawn out the hat. Winner: Shaun Taylor |
WEATHER: Hazy sunshine with a south westerly
4-5 wind blowing, sea was slightly choppy and coloured with a temperature of
12ºC.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, Christine Tolley, Tiny & Les Peters.
30th April 2009,
Thursday Night Lyme Regis 1900-2230.
Fifteen members signed on to fish the
latest Thursday night match. The competitors enjoyed a warm sunny evening
with most of them fishing Monmouth beach, this proved the top venue on the
night, with plenty of rockling and some dogfish being the main species
caught. Monmouth beach is a rough ground venue with plenty of rocks and
weed, so it is best to use flat leads. Cannon wall also fished well with
pout, rockling and silver eels being caught in good numbers. Lyme Regis is a
popular venue amongst members as we have members who travel from Chard &
Crewkerne.
1st Dave Cornick 3 kg 375 g
dogfish & rockling
2nd Simon Bowditch 2 kg 990 g dogfish & rockling
3rd Hugh Rathbone 1 kg 935 g dogfish, rockling & wrasse
most Species: Steven Rathbone 4 species.
Pool: Gareth Edwards bull huss 1 kg 5 g
18th
April 2009, Saturday Juniors (Fred Tolley Memorial Trophy).
Ten juniors signed on to fish the first match of the year. This
was also the inaugural match of the Fred
Tolley Memorial Trophy, which will be fished annually in memory of club
member and supporter of the juniors who passed away in 2008. Half of the
competitors managed to catch some fish to weigh in, the species
caught were; shore rockling, shanny, wrasse & flounder. If anybody would
like to fish the Saturday Junior matches you will need to be under 17yrs on
1st January 2009, you may fish two matches as a guest upon
payment of the entry fee of £1.00, if after this you will need to join the
club, forms available from the Angling Centre West bay or phone the
Secretary on 01308421272 and he will send you a form. Craig Horton was the
winner of the match and trophy. The Fred Tolley Memorial Trophy was
presented by Christine Tolley the daughter of the late Fred. Photo left to
right Hoot, Craig and Christine Tolley.
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1st PLACE: |
Craig Horton 554 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 239 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 146 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Richard Barton flounder 86 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Craig Horton ballan wrasse 554 g |
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First Fish: |
Oliver Mears corkwing wrasse 146 g |
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Most Fish: |
Connor Hallett 5 fish |
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Most Species: |
Connor Hallett 3 species |
WEATHER: Overcast with a north easterly 3-4 wind. Sea was calm and clear
PRIZES DONATED BY: Kay Guppy, Hugh Rathbone & Tiny.
DONATION: Gregor Grant
11th
April 2009, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Fifteen competitors signed on to fish the
match from a variety of venues, these included Cogden, Lyme Regis, West Bay,
Weymouth & West Bexington. Paul House who chose to fish Cogden caught a
smoothound of 1 kg 760 g which helped him to tie for first place with Oliver
Mears. Plenty of dogfish were caught and weighed then returned alive, some
god shore rockling were caught at Monmouth beach Lyme Regis.
1st Tied between
Oliver Mears & Paul House 4 kg 435 g each.
3rd PJ Wheeler 3 kg 320 g
Most species: Peter Grinter 3 dogfish, pout & shore rockling.
Best Fish (above four removed): Paul Grinter bull huss 980 g.
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 185 g
9th
April 2009, Thursday Night West Bay 1900-2230.
Eleven members turned out to fish the match at West Bay, many of them
choosing the prom or pier to fish from. The winner PJ Wheeler managed to
catch a specimen dogfish of 1 kg 280 g, also Dave Cornick managed to catch a
specimen dogfish of 1 kg 260 g.
1st PJ
Wheeler 4 kg 460 g dogfish, pout & rockling.
2nd Dave Cornick 2 kg 635 g dogfish, pout & rockling.
3rd Hugh Rathbone 1 kg 250 g pout & rockling
Most Species: Steven Rathbone 3 species
Pool: PJ Wheeler dogfish 1 kg 280 g.
23rd March 2009, Sunday Daytime 1300-1800.
Thirteen members and one guest signed on to fish the match on a
warm sunny day, with a flat calm sea. This promised a good catch of plaice,
but between the fourteen competitors only three plaice, two dogfish and one
flounder were weighed in. Well done to Mike Spurdle who fished as a guest
and came second and took the pool.
1st: Adam Cullingford 1 kg 210 g
plaice & dogfish
2nd: Mike Spurdle 770 g dogfish
3rd: Simon Bowditch 490 g plaice
Pool: Mike Spurdle 770 g dogfish
19th March 2009, Thursday Night West
Bexington, 1900-2230.
Twenty one members turned out to fish on a lovely warm evening,
all the competitors caught weighable fish which mainly consisted of dogfish.
Only a few pout were weighed in, also a couple of whiting were caught which
indicates the water is still cold. best bait proved to be Mackerel, with
ragworm catching the pout.
1st: Hugh Rathbone 4 kg 195 g
dogfish, pout & whiting
2nd: Simon Bowditch 3 kg 765 g dogfish & pout.
3rd: Adam Cullingford 3 kg 515 g dogfish
Most Species: Dave Cornick 2 species
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 3 kg 345 g
Pool: Oliver Mears dogfish 965 g.
8th March 2009, Sunday Daytime Burton
Bradstock 1300-1800.
This match was turned into a rover due to the very rough sea
conditions & strong wind which made Chesil beach unfishable. The top two
chose to fish Monmouth beach in Lyme Regis as this protected them from the
worse of the weather. Some of the competitors chose to fish Weymouth
Stone Pier but this proved unfruitful.
1st: Steve Harwood 775 g rockling
2nd: Chris Harwood 400 g rockling
3rd: Adam Cullingford 335 g pout
Pool: Steve Harwood rockling 295 g
Most Species: Lee Sherry 2 species
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 85 g
5th March 2009, Thursday Night Seatown
1900-2230.
Twelve members and one guest signed on t fish the match at
Seatown. Plenty of pouting were caught but were small in size, some dogfish
were caught by anglers that chose to fish the rockier areas.
1st: Simon Bowditch 3 kg 300 g dogfish, pout & rockling
2nd: PJ Wheeler 2 kg 280 g dogfish, pout & rockling
3rd: Peter Grinter 1 kg 600 g dogfish, pout & rockling
Pool: PJ Wheeler dogfish 970 g
Most Species (above winners removed): Lee Sherry 2 species
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 590 g
28th February 2009, Andy Neal Rover
1700-2300.
Most of the members that signed on to fish the match chose to
fish various venues along Chesil Beach including; West Bay east beach,
Burton Bradstock, West Bexington & Abbotsbury. Oliver Mears who won the
match chose to fish close to home, on East beach, His catch was made up of
six dogfish, two pout and a small eyed ray of 2 kg 660 g. Dan Bristow
managed to catch a five bearded rockling weighing
180 g that equaled the Wyvern record. Best bait on the night proved to be
sandeel.
1st Oliver Mears 6 kg 420 g
dogfish, pout & small eyed ray.
2nd Phil Maggs 4 kg 820 g
3rd Adam Cullingford 4 kg 580 g
Most Species: Dave Cornick 4 species, dogfish, ballan wrasse, shore rockling
& pout.
Best Fish (above 4 winners removed): Peter Grinter 780 g dogfish.
19th February 2009, Thursday Night Burton
Bradstock 1900-2230.
Fifteen members turned out on a perfect
night for fishing with high tide at midnight. Plenty of dogfish and pout
were caught in front of the car park area, but those members that fished
about 30 meters from the car park struggled to find fish. Top bait on the
night was mackerel.
1st: Peter
Grinter 4 kg 820 g dogfish & pout
2nd: Simon Bowditch 4 kg 710 g dogfish & pout
3rd: Paul House 3 kg 905 g dogfish, whiting & pout
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 3 species
Pool: Steve Harwood dogfish 880 g
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 270 g
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 3 kg 580 g
12th February 2009.Thursday Night
West Bay 1900-2230.
Sixteen members and one guest signed on to fish the match with many choosing
to fish the piers. Fishing was once again poor due to a lot of fresh water
coming out of the river Brit into the harbour.
1st PJ Wheeler 1 kg 90
g rockling & dogfish
2nd Keith Woods 565 g rockling ~& pout
3rd Dave Cornick 455 g rockling
Most Species: Graham Stephenson 2 species
Pool: PJ Wheeler dogfish 710 g
8th February 2009, Sunday Daytime
Seatown 1300-1800.
As the ten members signed on to fish
light rain was falling, but as the day progressed the weather became very
windy with heavy rain. The fishing was very poor with most fish being caught
on the eastern side of Seatown amongst the rocks.
1st PJ Wheeler 830 g
rockling & pout
2nd Simon Bowditch 340 g pout
3rd Chris Harwood 225 g pout
Most Species: Dave Cornick 2 species
Pool: Simon Bowditch pout 220 g
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 160 g
31st January 2009, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Twelve members turned out to fish this match which was postponed from the
January 17th. Once signed on the competitors headed out to their chosen
fishing spot, these included Abbotsbury, West Bexington, Burton Bradstock,
West Bay & Lyme Regis. All the competitors struggled to find weigh able fish
due to the strong easterly wind blowing and January is also a poor month for
fishing.
1st: Lee Sherry 3 kg
375 g dogfish & whiting
2nd: PJ Wheeler 1 kg 355 g
3rd: Dave Cornick 1 kg 90 g
Most Species: Pete Runciman 4 species flounder, whiting, pout & rockling
Best Fish: Oliver Mears flounder 600 g
29th January 2009, Thursday Night
Abbotsbury, 1900-2230.
Nine members signed on to fish the match. The
weather forecast was bad, which meant a low turnout but thankfully the wind
stayed in the north giving a nice evening.
1st: Simon Bowditch 4
kg 400 g dogfish & whiting
2nd: Lee Sherry 2 kg 860g dogfish, pout, whiting & poor cod
3rd: Adam Cullingford 2 kg 860 g dogfish, whiting & Pout
Pool: Simon Bowditch dogfish 1 kg
Most Species: Steve Harwood 4 species
14th
December 2008, Xmas Fayre Match West Bay 1300-1700.
Members signed on to fish the club's annual Xmas Fayre Match
which is fished at West Bay. Due to a lot of fresh water coming down the
river into the harbour many members chose to fish the prom or east beach.
The winner of the match started fishing from the prom but decided to move
onto the pier, which proved the ideal choice. After the competition the
competitors and their families retired to the Salthouse for a buffet and
drinks and the prize presentation.
1st: PJ Wheeler 5 kg
75 g
2nd: Peter Grinter 2 kg 745 g
3rd: A Cullingford 2 kg 505 g
Most Species: Oliver Mears 4 species
Top Junior: Steven Rathbone 910 g
Pool: PJ Wheeler 925 g dogfish
6th
November 2008, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 1900-2230.
Twenty two members turned out to fish the match on a warm
still night. some competitors did manage to catch some mackerel in the dark
but overall the fishing was poor mainly due to a neap tide.
1st: Simon Bowditch 3
kg 40 g dogfish, whiting, mackerel, poor cod & pout
2nd: Phil Maggs 2 kg 685 g dogfish, whiting, poor cod & pout
3rd: Adam Cullingford 2 kg 20 g dogfish & pout
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 670 g dogfish
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 475 g mackerel & pout
Pool: Phil Maggs dogfish 755 g
Most Species: Hugh Rathbone 4 species.
16th
October 2008, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 1900-2230.
Twenty one members turned out to fish the match at Abbotsbury.
all those fishing managed to catch a minimum of six whiting, due to a large
shoal being close in to shore. the best bait on the night was mackerel.
1st: PJ Wheeler 4 kg 645 g dogfish, whiting & pout
2nd: Phil Maggs 4 kg 475 g dogfish, whiting & pout
3rd: Simon Bowditch 3 kg 665 g dogfish, whiting, poor cod & pout
Pool: Geoff Ackerman dogfish 965 g
Most Species: Peter
Grinter 4
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 2 kg 825 g
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 815 g
4th
October 2008, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Eleven members signed on to fish the match mainly from well
sheltered venues due to a southwesterly gale blowing. The top venue on the
night was Weymouth Stone Pier, which the top three chose to fish.
1st: PJ Wheeler 2 kg
830 g.
2nd: Pete Runcieman 1 kg 570 g.
3rd:Keith Woods 750 g
Most Species: Paul House 4 species
Heaviest Fish: Paul Grinter pout 230 g
2nd
October 2008, Thursday Night Seatown 1900-2230.
Sixteen members signed on to fish the match on a calm night,
the water was coloured from a few days of bad weather, but the fish didn't
mind as there was plenty of pout and dogfish to be caught. Most of the
anglers managed to catch weighable fish, with the best bait being mackerel
or sandeel.
1st: Graham Stephenson
5 kg 250 g dogfish & pout
2nd: Adam Cullingford 5 kg 20 g dogfish & pout
3rd: Dave Cornick 4 kg 805 g dogfish & pout
Most Species: Oliver Mears 4 species.
Pool: Graham Stephenson dogfish 990 g.
27th September
2008, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Ten members and one guest
fished the match from east pier on a beautifully sunny day with hardly any
wind. Five of the competitors manage to find fish to weigh in, with Oliver
Mears catching the most with eleven fish, which included wrasse, shanny,
pollack & rockling.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 349 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 134 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 227 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Aiden Dean 37 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Oliver Mears 222 g ballan wrasse |
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Smallest Fish: |
Oliver Mears 9 g shanny |
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Last Fish: |
Craig Horton 54 g corkwing wrasse |
WEATHER: Sunny with an easterly 3 wind. Sea was fairly clear with a slight choppiness
PRIZES DONATED BY: Marion Crawford, Les Peters, Hilary, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
20th September
2008, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500.
Fourteen members and two
guests turn out to fish the latest match from east pier. This was a good
turn out due mainly to the sunny weather and hopefully the chance to catch
mackerel and garfish, but in the end only two mackerel and one garfish were
caught. Also caught was flounder, shanny, pollack, blenny &
rockling.
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1st PLACE: |
Elliot Watts 324 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 244 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 288 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Watts 192 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Aiden Dean 224 g garfish |
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Heaviest Non-Mackerel: |
Aiden Dean 224 g garfish |
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Most Fish: |
Steven Rathbone four fish |
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Most Species: |
Reece Taylor & Steven Rathbone three species |
WEATHER: Sunny with an easterly 3 wind. Sea was fairly clear with a slight choppiness
PRIZES DONATED BY: Mike Hallett, Fred Bowditch, Hugh Rathbone, Hilary & Tiny.
18th
September 2008, Thursday Night Burton Bradstock 1900-2230.
Nineteen members turned out to fish the latest Thursday night
match on a bright sunny evening. Lots of garfish and mackerel were caught
using float fishing tackle with a strip of mackerel strip for bait, four
grey mullet were also caught, the competitors could only weigh in six of
each species, any fish not required for bait or eating were released alive.
1st Steve Harwood 4 kg
350 g dogfish, garfish, pout & scad (nice to see Steve back out fishing
again)
2nd PJ Wheeler 3 kg 750 g dogfish, pout, garfish & mackerel
3rd Hugh Rathbone 3 kg 455 g dogfish, pout, garfish & mackerel
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 3 kg 275 g garfish, mackerel, pout & scad
Most Species: Pete Runcieman five species
Pool: Adam Cullingford 765 g dogfish.
13th
& 14th September 2008, Wally Pettet Trophy 1700-2200 each day.
This match is fished over two days at Charmouth, the winner is
the competitor with the heaviest weight over the two days. Seventeen
competitors signed on to fish the match over the two days. Most of the
competitors managed to catch weighable fish. The weather was good for a
change with the evening being very pleasant. After day one Peter Grinter
with a weight of 4 kg 160 g, this included a nice wrasse of 1 kg 205 g. On
day two Cliff Rooney managed to catch a nice bullhuss of 3 kg 875 g (see
photo in photo gallery) which helped him to take overall 1st place and win
the trophy.
1st Cliff Rooney 7 kg
690 g bullhuss, dogfish & pout
2nd Adam Cullingford 7 kg 140 g dogfish, thornback ray & pout
Most Species: Dave Cornick five species.
Pool:
8th
September 2008, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300
Eleven members turned out to fish from various venues
including Lyme Regis, West Bexington, West Bay & Burton Bradstock. a nice
cod of 2 kg 560 g was weighed in by the winner Paul House, some early
whiting were caught but they were very thin.
1st:Paul House 9 kg
675 g
2nd: Oliver Mears 5 kg 570 g
3rd: PJ Wheeler 4 kg 690 g
Most Species: Mike Hallett 4 species dogfish, pout, pollack & shore
rockling.
Best Fish (above winners removed): Phil Maggs dogfish 825 g.
4th
September 2008, Thursday Night West Bexington 1900-2230.
Seventeen members signed on to fish the match, though the sea
was rough at the start it soon calmed down as the wind dropped and the rain
stopped falling. The anglers enjoyed the nights fishing with plenty of fish
being caught, including two codling. Top bait on the night was frozen
mackerel.
1st: PJ Wheeler 4 kg
525 g dogfish & pout
2nd: Phil Maggs 4 kg 5 g dogfish & pout
3rd: Adam Cullingford 3 kg 990 g dogfish, pout & silver eel.
Top Junior: Steven Rathbone 3 kg 250 g
Pool: PJ Wheeler dogfish 1 kg 110 g.
23rd August
2008, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay 1200-1500 (Stokes Family Trophy.
Ten juniors and one guest signed on to fish the annual
Stokes Family Trophy on east pier, which is kindly sponsored by the Stokes
family. The weather was such a contrast to the last match two weeks earlier,
with sunshine with some cloud. Eight of the competitors caught fish, which
included for the first time this year mackerel and garfish along with the
usual catch of flounder and shanny. The guest Jimi Smith caught a twaite
shad but these are not allowed to be weighed in because it is usually hard
to distinguish the twaite from the allis shad which is a protected species.
Elliot joy also managed to catch a nice thick lipped mullet which gave him
third place in the
match.
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1st PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 1 kg 523 g Legal Weight (winner of the Stokes Family Trophy) |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 758 g Legal Weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 742 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Jake Dear 43 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Elliot Joy 742 g Thick lipped mullet |
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Wooden Spoon: |
Freddie Woolner |
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Lightest Mackerel: |
Steven Rathbone 23 g |
WEATHER: Sunny with some cloud and a south-westerly 3 wind, sea was fairly clear with a slight chop.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Stokes Family, Hilary, Kay Guppy & Tiny.
For full report and photo's see junior page
21st August 2008, Thursday Night Rover
1900-2230.
Twenty
members fished the match on a dry calm evening. the competitors chose to
fish from various venue which included West Bay, Burton Bradstock, West
Bexington and Cogden, Cogden proved to be the venue of the evening with the
1st and 2nd placed anglers in the competition choosing to fish there.
1st: Pete Runcieman 5 kg 465 g dogfish & pout.
2nd: PJ Wheeler 5 kg 45 g dogfish & pout.
3rd: Oliver Mears 4 kg 70 g dogfish & pout.
Most Species: Adam Cullingford 4 species
Pool: Pete Runcieman dogfish 1 kg 90 g
31st July 2008 Junior Boat Festival. (for full report click here)
26th & 27th July 2008, Jurassic Open Boat Festival. (for full report click here)
24th July 2008, Thursday Night Rover
1900-2230.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the rover, the competitors
chose a variety of venues to fish, these included Ferrybridge, Charmouth,
Chesil Cove, Burton Bradstock , Seatown & Jurassic Pier West Bay. The
weather for the evening was warm & sunny with a northerly breeze blowing
which kept the sea calm. Between them the competitors caught twelve
different species including red mullet & black bream. the decision to fish
Jurassic Pier once again proved correct as he managed to win the match.
1st Oliver Mears 3 kg
315 g pout, wrasse, silver eel, rockling, poor cod, scad & mackerel
2nd PJ wheeler 2 kg 830 g wrasse & pout
3rd Simon Bowditch 2 kg 430 g wrasse & pout
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 2 kg 190 g pout, pollack & mackerel
Pool: PJ Wheeler wrasse 1 kg 10 g
12th July 2008, Saturday Juniors, East Pier
West Bay 1200 - 1500
Ten juniors turned out to once again
fish the match from east pier. Once again the fish were few and far between,
with only thirteen fish being caught between seven competitors. The fish
caught included flounder, wrasse & blenny.
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1st PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 193 g |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 154 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Reece Taylor 123 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
William Grant flounder 87 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Steven Rathbone corkwing wrasse 115 g |
WEATHER: Sunny with occasional cloud and a north-westerly 3 wind, sea was coloured and choppy.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Hilary, Les Peters, Tiny, Kay Guppy.
28th June 2008, Saturday Juniors, East Pier
West Bay 1200 - 1500
Six juniors and four guests signed
on to fish the match from east pier. The water was slightly coloured with a
temperature of 17ºc. Only four of the competitors managed to catch fish, in
all five different species were caught, flounder, wrasse, blenny, shanny &
sea scorpion, Connor Hallett managed to win with the last fish caught of the
match If any junior would like to fish one of our matches as a guest you are
welcome to fish two matches, so why not come and give it a try, all ages
welcome but under sevens will need to be accompanied by an adult. For a list
of Saturday Junior Matches see the notice board at The Angling Centre West
Bay or visit our website at www.westbaysac.co.uk or contact the secretary on
08453242278 for more information. If you haven’t got a rod no worries as we
can arrange one for you just call the secretary to let him know what date
you will be attending and he will make sure there is one available, all you
need to bring is some bait (ragworm is best unless mackerel are about then
mackerel is the best choice of bait).
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1st PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 301 g legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 81 g legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 84 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy 84 g flounder |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett 301 g ballan wrasse |
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Last Fish: |
Connor Hallet 301 g ballan wrasse |
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Heaviest Non-Legal Fish: |
Connor Hallett 165 g ballan wrasse |
WEATHER: Sunny, with a south westerly sea breeze force 4. Sea was choppy & coloured, temperature 17ºC.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Hilary, Les Peters, Tiny, Kay Guppy, Mike Hallett & Fred Bowditch.
26th June 2008, Thursday Night Rover,
1900-2230.
Thirteen members fished this the first of three Thursday night
rovers. Most of The competitors chose to fish at Seatown as this provided
some shelter from the bad weather, the sea was rough and full of floating
weed, which made the fishing hard going. only six competitors weighed in.
1st A dam Cullingford
3 kg 595 g smoothound, dogfish & pout
2nd Oliver Mears 2kg 10 g Smoothound
3rd Simon Bowditch 1 kg 20 g silver eel & pout
Pool Oliver Mears smoothound 2 kg 10 g
Most Species Dave Cornick 3 species
21st June 2008, Andy Neal Rover, 1700-2300.
Eighteen members turned out to fish the match from various venues
from Lyme Regis to Weymouth Stone Pier. The winner Paul House chose to fish
Charmouth, his catch included two smoothound's the heaviest being 2 kg 60 g,
both were weighed and released alive.
1st Paul House 4 kg
550 g
2nd Peter Grinter 4 kg 300 g
3rd John Bentley 2 kg 550 g
Top Lady Frances Kitchin 870 g
Top Junior Craig Horton 2 kg 20 g
Most Species Peter Runcieman 4 species silver eel, flounder, ballan wrasse &
pout
Heaviest fish (above winners removed) Adam Cullingford 1 kg dogfish
18th May 2008, Sunday Daytime West Bay
1300-1800. (This match also included the Junior Shore Festival).
Fifteen seniors and four juniors fished the match from various
venues at West Bay. Half of the competitors chose to fish the Jurassic pier
with the rest choosing the inner harbour or East beach. The choice of
fishing from the pier turned out to be a good decision as the beach & inner
harbour proved very quiet where the fish were concerned, The second place
angler only joined the club that morning and this was his first competition.
The competitors enjoyed a sunny afternoon which in some little way made up
for the lack of fish.
1st Oliver mears 1 kg
960 g pout, rockling, wrasse & Eel. (Oliver also won the Junior Shore
Festival Cup).
2nd Damien Allinson-Roughton 780 g pout, wrasse & rockling
3rd PJ Wheeler 540 g rockling.
Pool: Oliver Mears wrasse 620 g
Most Species ( with the above removed): Craig Horton 2 Species
10th May 2008, Saturday Juniors, East Pier
West Bay 1200 - 1500
Seven juniors signed on to fish the
latest match on East Pier, in sunshine with occasional cloudy periods. Five
of the seven competitors managed to catch some fish to weigh in, these
included wrasse, blenny, sea scorpion, rockling, weever and flounder.
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1st PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 179 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Aiden Dean 288 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
William Grant 56 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Craig Horton flounder 244 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
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Heaviest non-legal: |
Aiden Dean corkwing wrasse 118 g |
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1st Weighed: |
Aiden Dean tompot blenny 35 g |
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Last Weighed: |
Craig Horton flounder 44 g |
WEATHER: Sunny with cloudy periods & light wind, sea was calm & very clear. coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Hilary, Kevin Dean, Mike Hallett, Tiny & Les Peters.
8th May 2008, Thursday Night Lyme Regis
1900-2230.
Sixteen competitors signed on to fish the match. Many of the
competitors chose to fish rocky marks around Lyme Regis but the top marks on
the night were the Cobb and Monmouth beach. Eight different species of fish
were weighed in, Pete Runcieman managed to catch a specimen sized dover sole
920 g, also a lot of dogfish came to the scales, all were returned alive to
the sea. Top bait proved to be ragworm.
1st Phil Maggs 6 kg
100 g dogfish, pout, bull huss & rockling
2nd Hugh Rathbone 5 kg 520 g dogfish, bull huss, pout & rockling
3rd Simon Bowditch dogfish, pout & rockling
Most Species: Pete Runcieman 5 different species
Pool: Hugh Rathbone bull huss 1 kg 120 g
Top Junior: Steven Rathbone 3 kg 300 g dogfish
27th April 2008. Boat Match, Prism Press Trophy. 0900-1500
26th April 2008, Saturday Juniors West Bay
1200-1500
Ten juniors signed on to fish the match from east pier on a sunny day
with occasional cloud. Seven of the competitors managed to catch some fish,
lesser weever, flounder, rockling, blenny wrasse & shanny. Elliot Joy
managed to catch a legal flounder 215 g in the last five minutes of the
match, this gave him first place overall.
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1st PLACE: |
Elliot Joy 215 g Legal Weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 151 g Legal weight |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 43 g Legal Weight |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Elliot Joy flounder 215 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Steven Rathbone corkwing wrasse 151 g |
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Most Unusual: |
Oliver Mears 5 bearded rockling |
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Most Flat Fish: |
Luke Reeve 2 flounders |
WEATHER: South easterly 4 wind. Sunny with occasional cloud, sea was choppy & slightly coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Hilary, Tom Marley, Tracey Marley, Mike Hallett, Hugh Rathbone & Les Peters.
24th April 2008, Thursday Night West Bay
1900-2230.
Twenty one members signed on to fish at West Bay. the competitors
were fishing a rising tide with high tide at 2120hrs. most of the
competitors fished east beach, but the fish were few and far between the
winner had chosen to fish the Jurassic pier.
1st PJ Wheeler 4 kg 720 g dogfish & rockling
2nd Simon Bowditch 4 kg 320 g dogfish, pout & flounder
3rd Phil Maggs 2 kg 600 g dogfish & rockling
Top Junior Craig Horton 1 kg 880 g dogfish
Most Species Steven Rathbone 3 species
Pool Oliver Mears & PJ Wheeler tied with a dogfish 920 g.
13th April 2008, Sunday Daytime Burton
Bradstock 1300-1800.
Thirteen members turned out to fish the match most of the
competitors chose to fish the clean ground on the left rather than risk
losing tackle on the reef under the cliff to the right. Only half the
competitors managed to catch weighable fish, with best bait being ragworm on
the day.
1st Adam Cullingford 1
kg 260 g dogfish
2nd John Coombs 920 g dogfish & pout
3rd Dan Bristow 860 g dogfish
Pool: Dan Bristow dogfish 860 g
12th April 2008, Andy Neal Rover 1700-2300.
Sixteen competitors signed on to fish the latest match in the
Andy Neal Rovers. Due to a strong southwesterly wind blowing most of the
anglers chose to fish at Lyme Regis, Monmouth beach provided good sport,
Peter Grinter & Dave Cornick who fished the beach caught plenty of dogfish &
rockling.
1st Peter Grinter 4 kg 20 g dogfish & rockling
2nd Dave Cornick 2 kg 780 g dogfish & rockling
3rd Dan Bristow 900 g dogfish
Most Species Adam Cullingford 3 species dogfish, pout & poor cod.
Heaviest fish J Bentley 860 dogfish.
12th April 2008, Saturday Juniors West Bay
1200-1500
Eight junior members and one guest
signed on to fish the first Saturday junior match of 2008. Six of the
competitors managed to catch fish, these included plaice, flounder, pout,
pollack & rockling. Best bait on the day proved to be ragworm. (to clarify
what we mean by legal weight: all fish the children catch are weighed and
those that are not to the N.F.S.A minimum size for keeping are returned
alive, those that do meet the minimum size (legal Weight) take precedence
over all the other fish when working out the winner).
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1st PLACE: |
Steven Rathbone 291 g Legal weight |
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2nd PLACE: |
Connor Hallett 277 g |
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3rd PLACE: |
Oliver Mears 269 g |
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Heaviest Flat Fish: |
Craig Horton flounder 95 g |
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Heaviest round Fish: |
Connor Hallett pout 145 g |
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First Fish: |
Steven Rathbone pout |
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Heaviest non-legal: |
Oliver Mears pollack 112 g |
WEATHER: South-westerly 4-5 cold wind and heavy showers, with some sunny spells. Sea was rough and coloured.
PRIZES DONATED BY: Hilary, Tom Marley, John Coombs, Mike Hallett, James Draper.
10th April 2008, Thursday Night Burton
Bradstock 1900-2230.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match, most of the fish
were caught at long range as Burton beach is a very shallow beach. No
flatfish were caught during the daylight it was mostly dogfish and pout
being caught.
1st Peter Grinter 2 kg
760 g dogfish& pout.
2nd Hugh Rathbone 2 kg 360 g dogfish & pout.
3rd Adam Cullingford 2 kg 80 g dogfish, mackerel & pout.
Most Species: Keith Woods 4 species.
Top Junior: Steven Rathbone 360 g pout
27th March 2008, Thursday Night Seatown
7.00-10.30pm.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match at Seatown, the
weather was calm. Many of the competitors chose to fish to the left hand
side, over the rougher ground this proved wise as on the right hand side
hardly any fish were caught. best bait on the night proved to be ragworm.
1st Dave Cornick 3
kg 60 g dogfish, pout & rockling.
2nd Peter Grinter 2 kg 540 g dogfish, rockling & pout.
3rd John Bentley 2 kg 540 g dogfish & pout.
pool: Adam Cullingford dogfish 1 kg 20 g
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 4 species.
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 620 g pout & rockling.
Top Junior Paul Grinter 1 kg 120 g pout & rockling.
16th March 2008, Sunday Daytime West
Bexington 1.00-6.00pm
Sixteen members signed on to fish the match at West Bexington.
Lots of dogfish were caught, with many members catching their quoter of six
dogfish, the reason for so many dogfish was because of the coloured water
due to a week of storms. Top bait on the day proved to be frozen mackerel.
1st PJ Wheeler 4 kg 440
g Dogfish & Rockling
2nd Simon Bowditch 4 kg 380 g dogfish
3rd Adam Cullingford 4 kg 240 g dogfish
Most Species: Dan Bristow 2 species
Top Junior: Craig Horton 240 g dogfish
Pool: Pete Runcieman dogfish 1020 g.
13th March 2008, Thursday Night Charmouth
7.00-10.30pm.
Eleven members signed on to fish the match,
the number was down due to the forecast of bad weather for the evening, but
once again the forecasters got it wrong as the sea fell flat and the rain
stayed away. Mind you the fish also stayed away, seven competitors failed to
catch any fish. At 8.00pm a visiting angler from Devon came down to fish the
beach and by 8.30pm he had caught a bass of 14 lb 5 oz a fish of a lifetime,
with envious eyes our club members looked on as the fish was weighed on our
club scales. luckily the angler was not fishing the competition as he would
have won it.
1st PJ Wheeler 620 g rockling & pout
2nd Peter Grinter 220 g pout
3rd Simon Bowditch 180 g rockling
Pool: PJ Wheeler rockling 260 g
8th March 2008, Andy Neal Rover.
5.00-11.00pm.
Ten members braved the awful weather, with
heavy rain and an increasing south-westerly gale. Most of the
competitors chose to fish Lyme Regis or Weymouth stone pier as this afforded
them some protection from the wind. Two Competitors braved the wind
and rain to fish on the pier at West Bay, this proved a good choice as they
managed to take the top two places.
1st PJ Wheeler 1700 g
2nd Adam Cullingford 510 g
3rd Peter Grinter 310 g
Most Species: P Runcieman 2 species (this prize is equal to 1st place)
Heaviest Fish: O Mears pout 90 g.
10th February 2008, Sunday Daytime Seatown
1.00-6.00pm
Fourteen members turned out on a warm sunny day to fish the
match. Many of the anglers chose to fish the rock marks which fished well,
even though it was in daylight hours. John Coombs weighed in a good dogfish
of 1 kg 80 g & Paul Daw in only his second match caught a small eyed ray of
3 kg 400 g on squid, which along with a dogfish gave him first place and the
pool.
1st Paul Daw 4 kg 140 g
small eyed ray & dogfish
2nd Dave Cornick 2 kg 220 g bull huss, pout & rockling
3rd Simon Bowditch 1 kg 300 g dogfish & pout
Most Species: Dan Bristow 3 species
Top junior: Oliver Mears 240 g
Pool Paul Daw small eyed ray 3 kg 400 g
7th February 2008, Thursday Night West Bay
7.00-10.30pm.
Nineteen members signed on to the match at West Bay. Most of the
competitors chose to fish the beaches with the top three fishing at Port
Coombe.
1st Steven Rathbone 5 kg
240 g cod, pout & dogfish
2nd Hugh Rathbone 4 kg 280 g dogfish, poor cod & pout.
3rd Simon Bowditch 2 kg 980 g dogfish & pout
Most Species PJ Wheeler 4 species
Pool Steven Rathbone cod 1 kg 960 g.
24th January 2008, Thursday Night Abbotsbury
7.00-10.30pm.
Sixteen members turned out to fish the match at Abbotsbury.
January is normally a quiet month for fish, as they move out to deeper water
to spawn, but the anglers managed to catch a fair number of dogfish &
whiting. Dan Bristow caught a specimen whiting of 740 g on the night.
1st Paul House 5 kg 580
g dogfish & whiting
2nd Adam Cullingford 5 kg 560 g dogfish & whiting
3rd Hugh Rathbone 5 kg dogfish & whiting
Pool: Oliver Mears dogfish 1 kg 60 g
Most Species: Steven Rathbone 4 species
19th January 2008, Andy Neal Rover
5.00-11.00pm.
Eight members signed on to fish the first Andy Neal Rover of
2008. Most of the competitors chose to fish the piers at West Bay or
Weymouth, due to the heavy sea that was running up the beaches. Paul Daw in
his first ever club match chose to fish east beach and managed to catch the
only dogfish of the night, this won him the pool for heaviest fish. Best
bait on the night was mackerel.
1st Peter Grinter 2 kg
300 g
2nd Paul Grinter 2 kg 15 g
3rd Dave Cornick 2 kg
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 3 species
Heaviest Fish: Paul Daw dogfish 665 g
1st January 2008, Daytime Match Abbotsbury
1.00-6.00pm.
Sixteen members turned out to fish the first club match of 2008
at Abbotsbury. All the competitors managed to catch weighable fish, with a
lot of pout & whiting showing up with a smattering of dogfish. The weather
was kind to the competitors with the day not being as cold.
1st Hugh Rathbone 1 kg
960 g dogfish, pout, poor cod & whiting
2nd Adam Cullingford 1 kg 600 g dogfish, whiting, poor cod & pout
3rd Steven Rathbone 1 kg 580 g dogfish, pout & poor cod
Most Species: This was tied by Paul House & Oliver Mears with 3 species each
Pool: Steven Rathbone dogfish 960 g