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.                                                           

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.

 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).    

 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.            

 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.

 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).      

 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

22nd December 2007. Jurassic League Final match. 12.00-3.00pm West Bay.
Ten juniors turned up the fish the final match of the Jurassic League & also the last junior match of 2007. Six of the competitors managed to catch some fish, with six legal sized fish coming to the scales. Also in conjunction with the match a prize was put up for the junior wearing the best Christmas hat, the prize was donated by Tiny who himself was dressed up as Father Christmas.

Results for the day

1st Steven Rathbone 763 g Legal Weight dogfish
2nd Connor Hallett 435 g Legal Weight 2 rockling
3rd Oliver Mears 204 g Legal Weight shore rockling.
Heaviest Flat Fish: Oliver Mears flounder 38 g
Heaviest Round Fish: Steven Rathbone dogfish 763 g
1st Fish: Oliver Mears
Last Fish: Craig Horton
1st pollack: Reece Taylor

Prizes Donated By: Mike Hallett, Blakesleys Kiosk, Frank Daw, Hugh Rathbone, Kay Guppy, Fred Bowditch, Tiny & Les Peters.

Jurassic League Result.

1st Oliver Mears 2 kg 354 g
2nd Steven Rathbone 1 kg 388 g
3rd Connor Hallett 1 kg 376 g
4th Dan Bristow 1 kg 16 g
5th Eliot Joy 947 g

We would like to thank Ian Draper for being the main sponsor of the Jurassic League, also Martin Jones, Tom Marley, Fred Tolley, Kay Guppy & Hilary Smith
 

1st December 2007 Andy Neal Rover, 5.00-11.00pm.
Ten members signed on to fish this the last Andy Neal Rover of 2007 in atrocious weather, which consisted of heavy rain and strong south-westerly wind. All the competitors chose to fish venues that protected them from the wind.

1st Peter Grinter 5 kg 235 g (11 lb 8 oz 11 dram)
2nd Adam Cullingford 4 kg 945 g (10 lb 14 oz 6 dram)
3rd Paul Grinter 4 kg 400 g (9 lb 11 oz 3 dram)
Most Species: Dave Cornick 3 species
Best Fish: PJ Wheeler dogfish 760 g (1 lb 10 oz 12 dram)

1^st December 2007. (3^rd Match of the Jurassic League)
                                                Eight juniors braved the appalling weather to fish the match, which had to be fished in the harbour behind the harbourmasters office; this was to give some cover from the very strong wind. Only two of the competitors managed to catch fish, this was mainly due to the amount of fresh water that the river was spilling into the harbour. 

 WEATHER: Sunny with heavy rain later on with a south-westerly 6 wind. Water was dirty.

 PRIZES DONATED BY: Blakesleys Kiosk, JB’s Kiosk, Hilary Smith, Les Peters,Tom Marley, Mike Hallett, Ian Draper & Tiny,.

29th November 2007, Thursday night Abbotsbury, 7.00-10.30pm.
Twenty-one members signed onto fish the match on a neap tide. Most of the competitors managed to catch weighable fish, though no cod were caught this time. Once again Paul Grinter taught his dad peter how to fish. Steve Harwood caught a specimen Whiting of 760 g.

1st Steve Harwood 6 kg 500 g (14 lb 5 oz 4 dram) whiting, pout, dogfish,& poor cod.
2nd Adam Cullingford 5 kg 140 g (11 lb 5 oz 4 dram) dogfish, whiting & pout.
3rd Rick Barker 3 kg 580 g (7 lb 14 oz 4 dram) dogfish, whiting & pout.
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 2 kg 640 g (5 lb 13 oz 1 dram) dogfish &whiting
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 180 g (6 oz 4 dram) poor cod.
Pool: Steve Harwood dogfish 880 g (1 lb 15 oz)

25th November 2007,  Sunday Daytime Abbotsbury 1.00-6.00pm
Nineteen members signed on to fish the penultimate Sunday Daytime match of the year. The weather for the time of year was brilliant with sunshine, the sea was flat calm. Lots of garfish were caught by the competitors using float fishing tackle. Frances Kitchin managed to catch a new club record golden grey mullet.

1st Rod Barr 4 kg 820 g (10 lb 10 oz) dogfish, whiting, pout & dragonet.
2nd Simon Bowditch 3 kg 980 g (8 lb 12 oz 6 dram) cod, whiting, dogfish, garfish & mackerel.
3rd Dave Chidzoy 3 kg 840 g (8 lb 7 oz 8 dram) dogfish, whiting, pout & garfish
pool: The pool was shared by three competitors who all had fish of 900 g (1 lb 15 oz 11 dram) Simon Bowditch cod, Frances Kitchin golden grey mullet & Ian Draper dogfish.
Top Junior: Dan Bristow 3 kg 140 g (6 lb 14 oz12 dram) garfish, dogfish & whiting
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 60 g (2 lb 5 oz 6 dram) golden grey mullet & garfish.

17 November 2007, Andy Neal Rover 5.00-11.00pm
Eleven members braved the south westerly gale and rain to fish the match from a variety of venues, these included West Bay & Burton Bradstock, Burton Bradstock turned out to be the best choice.

1st Dave Cornick 5 kg 105 g (11 lb 4 oz 1 dram)
2nd P Grinter 4 kg 970 g (10 lb 15 oz 4 dram)
3rd Nick Baker 4 kg 220 g (9 lb 4 oz 15 dram)
Most Species Oliver Mears 6 species
Heaviest Fish PJ Wheeler dogfish 895 g (1 lb 15 oz 9 dram)

3rd November 2007, Andy Neal Rover 5.00-11.00pm.
Fourteen Members and one guest turned out to fish the match from a variety of venues, these included; Abbotsbury, Burton Bradstock, Ferrybridge & Lyme Regis. Abbotsbury & Burton proved the best choice on the night.

1st Nick Baker 6 kg 220 g (13 lb 11 oz 6 dram)
2nd Steve Harwood 5 kg 455 g (12 lb 6 dram)
3rd Dan Bristow 4 kg 925 g (10 lb 13 oz 11 dram)
Most Species: PJ Wheeler 5 species.
Heaviest Fish: Craig Horton dogfish 1 kg 5 g (2 lb 3 oz 6 dram)

1st November 2007, Thursday Night Abbotsbury 7.00-10.30pm.
This match should have been held at West Bexington, but had to be moved due to the car park being closed for major repair. Nineteen members & one guest fished the match on a warm and calm night. a lot of whiting were being caught all the way along the beach but none were over 1 lb in weight, top bait was mackerel.

1st Simon Bowditch 5 kg 240 g (11 lb 8 oz 12 dram) dogfish, whiting, pout & poor cod.
2nd Adam Cullingford 4 kg 340 g (9 lb 9 oz 1 dram) dogfish, whiting, pout & poor cod.
3rd Tom Marley 4 kg 320 g (9 lb 8 oz 6 dram) dogfish, whiting, pout & poor cod.
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 460 g (3 lb 3 oz 8 dram) whiting, pout & poor cod.
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 2 kg 560 g (5 lb 10 oz 4 dram) dogfish, whiting & pout.
Pool: Paul House dogfish 900 g (1 lb 15 oz 11 dram)

14th October 2007, Sunday Boat Match (Senator Shield) 10.00am-4.00pm.
Ten members set sail from West Bay to fish the Last boat match of the season. They set out on a calm sea with a light easterly breeze blowing. All the competitors caught fish, in all fourteen different species of fish were caught, corkwing wrasse, tub gurnard, red mullet, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, red gurnard, smoothound, conger, pout, plaice, mackerel & black bream.

Heaviest Weight Peter Grinter 13 kg 180 g (29 lb 15 dram)
Most Species Paul Grinter 6 species
Best Specimen Simon Wilkins corkwing wrasse 200 g (7 oz 1 dram)

11th October 2007, Thursday Night West Bexington 7.00-10.30.
Once again eighteen members signed on to fish the match. most of the competitors weighed fish in with once again pout & dogfish the predominate species, in all nine different species were caught.

1st Adam Cullingford 5 kg 340 g (11 lb 12 oz 6 dram) dogfish, pout, sole & poor cod.
2nd PJ Wheeler 5 kg 200 g (11 lb 7 oz 6 dram) dogfish, pout, smoothound & poor cod.
3rd Simon Bowditch 4 kg 840 g (10 lb 10 oz 11 dram) dogfish, pout & whiting.
Top Lady Frances Kitchin 420 g (14 oz 12 dram) pout & silver eel.
Top Junior Steven Rathbone 2 kg 820 g (6 lb 3 oz 8 dram) dogfish, pout & garfish.
Pool Graham Stephenson cod 1 kg 40 g (2 lb 4 oz 11 dram)

7th October 2007, Lyme Bay Trophy (Boat) West Bay 8.30am-4.30pm.
The Lyme Bay Trophy (Boat) is fished between five clubs; West Bay SAC, Lyme Regis SAC, Honiton SAC, Beer SAC & Axminster SAC, though Axminster were unable to fish the match. The anglers set sail from West Bay on Dawn Mist. Though the weather was good the sea was slightly lumpy to start but soon calmed down and the sun came out.

1st Honiton SAC 263.45%
2nd Beer SAC 233.85%
3rd West Bay 231.3%
4th Lyme Regis 219%

6th October 2007 Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
Nine juniors and two guests fished the match from East pier. Ten of the competitors managed to catch fish, once again there were lots of small whiting coming in to the scales, as with all the fish the juniors catch that is not required for food are put back alive. The first ever fish that Luke Reeve one of the guests on the day was a small school bass, in all five school bass were caught on the day. 

WEATHER: Sunny with a northerly 1-2 wind. Sea slightly choppy and clearing.

PRIZES DONATED BY: Blakesleys Kiosk, Les Peters, Tiny, Mike Hallett, Hugh Rathbone.

4th October 2007, Thursday Night Seatown 7.00-10.30pm
Eighteen members fished the match, the weather was warm and the sea was flat calm. Eight different species were caught, including a lot of pout. Those that fished the rougher ground picked up most of the dogfish.

1st Peter Grinter 4 kg 420 g (9 lb 11 oz 15 dram) dogfish, pout & rockling
2nd Tom Marley 4 kg (8 lb 13 oz 1 dram) dogfish & pout
3rd Dave "the rage" Chidzoy 3 kg 500 g (7 lb 11 oz 8 dram) dogfish, pout, eel & mackerel
Top Junior Dan Bristow 2 kg 160 g (4 lb 12 oz 3 dram)
Pool Steven Rathbone pout 960 g (2 lb 1 oz 15 dram)

29th September 2007, Lyme Bay Trophy (Shore), Seaton 5.00-11.00pm.
West Bay SAC were the hosts for this years Lyme Bay Trophy, which is fished between West Bay SAC, Lyme Regis SAC, Honiton SAC, Beer SAC & Axminster SAC, though Lyme Regis were unable to fish the match. West Bay chose to fish the match at Seaton beach Devon. The fishing proved poor on the night with the anglers mainly catching a few dogfish, pout & garfish, the best fishing proved to be the rough area near the harbour. Whilst fishing the match West Bay also incorporated a club within it.

LYME BAY TROPHY MATCH RESULT:
1st Honiton SAC 634%
2nd West Bay SAC 595%
3rd Axminster SAC 404%
4th Beer SAC 336%

West Bay Match Result:
1st Peter Grinter 6 kg 320 g (13 lb 14 oz 14 dram) dogfish, wrasse, garfish & silver eel.
2nd Rod Barr 3 kg 440 g (7 lb 9 oz 4 dram) dogfish & garfish.
3rd Dave Cornick 1 kg 760 g (3 lb 14 oz 1 dram) dogfish & garfish
Top Junior: Paul Grinter 460 g (1 lb 3 dram) garfish
Pool: Rod Barr dogfish 920 g (2 lb 8 dram)

27th September 2007, Thursday Night Burton Bradstock 7.00-10.30pm.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match at Burton Bradstock. The members enjoyed a brilliant nights fishing with most catching fish which include a cod & lots of dogfish, also a nice whiting of 440 g was weighed in, the first to be caught this season.

1st PJ Wheeler 6 kg 410 g (14 lb 2 oz 1 dram) dogfish, pout & poor cod.
2nd Dave Chidzoy 6 kg 320 g (13 lb 14 oz 14 dram) dogfish, pout, mackerel, garfish & poor cod.
3rd Adam Cullingford 6 kg 310 g (13 lb 14 oz 9 dram) dogfish, pout, whiting, garfish & mackerel.
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 5 kg 800 g (12 lb 12 oz 8 dram) dogfish, pout & poor cod.
Pool: PJ Wheeler dogfish 1 kg 10 g (2 lb 3 oz 8 dram)

22nd September 2007 Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
Fourteen juniors and one guest signed on to fish the match on a sunny day, the sea was slowly clearing so once again it was hoped the mackerel would show, but once again the juniors were to be disappointed by their absence. All the competitors caught fish with most catches being made up of small whiting that have now moved into shore, two of the competitors caught mullet and one caught a bass to add to the tally of species, in total nine different species were caught.

WEATHER: Sunny with a south-westerly 3 wind. Sea slightly choppy and clearing.

PRIZES DONATED BY: Blakesleys Kiosk, Les Peters, Tiny.

20th September 2007, Thursday Night West Bay 7.00-10.30pm.
Sixteen members braved the strong south westerly wind that was blowing, making fishing on the beaches difficult. The top three in the competition did decide to brave the wind and fish east beach, which obviously was the right choice for them. The competitors who fished the harbour did manage to catch plenty of eels but all proved rather small.

1st Adam Cullingford 2 kg 840 g (6 lb 4 oz 3 dram) dogfish & pout.
2nd Steven Rathbone 2 kg 520 g (5 lb 8 oz 14 dram) dogfish & pout.
3rd PJ Wheeler 1 kg 780 g (3 lb 14 oz 12 dram) dogfish & rockling
Pool: Steven Rathbone dogfish 940 g (2 lb 1 oz 3 dram).

16th September 2007 Sunday Boat Match. Three Horseshoes Trophy. 11.00am-5.00pm
Six members embarked from West Bay to fish the match on a choppy sea and a 5-6 Southerly wind blowing, the conditions worsened later on during the day so the boats decided to come back early for safety reasons.

1st Ralph Probert 2 kg 720 g (5 lb 15 oz 15 dram) black bream, dogfish & poor cod.
Most Species: Cliff Rooney 3 species
Best Specimen: PJ Wheeler cuckoo wrasse 74.07%

8th & 9th September 2007. Wally Pettet two day competition, Charmouth.
Sixteen members signed on to fish the annual two day Wally Pettet competition at Charmouth, the match had to be brought forward by a week, so as not to clash with Lyme Regis's open match. The only problem with moving the match was that the competitors were fishing a falling tide but this did not seem to affect the fishing. Most of the catches were made up of pout, mackerel, garfish, scad & a few wrasse, dogfish proved very scarce. The first day was very close with Ben Assirati leading with 4 kg 360 g, this included a bass of 2 kg 260 g, also Fred Bowditch caught a good wrasse of 1 kg 840 g.
    Day two was even tighter but Ben managed to hold onto a slender lead to win the Wally Pettet Memorial Trophy. This years match was one of the closest for many a year.

1st Ben Assirati 8 kg 140 g (17 lb 15 oz 1 dram)
2nd Dave Chidzoy 6 kg 620 g (14 lb 9 oz 8 dram)
3rd Simon Bowditch 5 kg 660 g (12 lb 7 oz 9 dram)
Top Junior: Oliver Mears 5 kg 580 g (12 lb 4 oz 12 dram)
Pool: Ben Assirati bass 2 kg 260 g (4 lb 15 oz 11 dram)

8^th September 2007 Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
                                    Eight juniors and two guests arrived on east pier West Bay to fish the latest match, on a sunny day. Once again most were hoping for the mackerel to show in numbers, but not one was caught on the day. There was some excitement later on in the match as a Dolphin followed a boat into the harbour and despite all efforts to entice him back to the open sea he stayed for quite a few hours. It was nice to see one of natures amazing creatures in the sea and not behind glass at an aquarium. Oliver Mears managed to catch 29 fish but was pipped into second place by Steven’s legal ballan wrasse. 

 WEATHER: Sunny & Warm with a North-westerly 3 wind. Sea calm and crystal clear.

 PRIZES DONATED BY:  Blakesleys Kiosk, Chris Lamble, Les Peters & Tiny

30th August 2007, Thursday Night Rover 7.00-10.30pm.
Eighteen members signed on to fish the match from a variety of venues from Lyme Regis to Abbotsbury. The top three on the night chose to fish the piers at West Bay once again the piers out fished all the other venues. In all ten different species were weighed in on the night, now we are entering September the fishing will improve.

1st Dave Chidzoy 6 kg 520 g (14 lb 6 oz) mackerel, pout, scad & pollack.
2nd PJ Wheeler 4 kg 560 g (10 lb 12 dram) mackerel, poor cod, scad & pollack.
3rd Dan Bristow 4 kg 480 g (9 lb 14 oz) mackerel, poor cod, scad & pollack.
Top Lady: Frances Kitchin 1 kg 920 g (4 lb 3 oz 11 dram) mackerel, pollack, scad & pout.
Pool: Adam Cullingford bullhuss 840 g (1 lb 13 oz 9 dram)

25th August 2007, Andy Neal Rover 5.00-10.30pm
Nine members signed on to fish the match from a variety of venues. the top two chose to fish Chesil Cove to start and latter returned to West bay to float fish on the pier, this proved successful for them.

Heaviest Weight: PJ Wheeler 8 kg 50 g (17 lb 12 oz)
Most Species: Dan Bristow with 5 (triggerfish, scad, pollack, pout & mackerel)
2nd Heaviest Weight: Adam Cullingford 4 kg 675 g (10 lb 4 oz 14 dram)
3rd Heaviest Weight: Simon Bowditch 3 kg 900 g (8 lb 9 oz 9 dram)
Best Fish: Dave Cornick ballan wrasse 1 kg 450 g (3 lb 3 oz 1 dram)

25th August 2007, Stokes Family Trophy Result Click Here

24th August 2007 Junior Boat Match Result Click Here

11th august 2007 Andy Neal Rover 5.00-11.00pm.
Sixteen members signed on to fish the match, many of them choosing to fish Weymouth end of Chesil Beach. Most of the competitors caught fish with thirteen different species being caught, with the top three catching a few trigger fish, lady member June Stokes had never caught a trigger fish, but on one cast she caught two of them.

1st Norman Stokes 3 kg 935 g () trigger fish, wrasse, pollack & mackerel.
2nd Simon Bowditch 3 kg 50 g () trigger fish & pout.
3rd Fred Bowditch 2 kg 850 g () trigger fish & wrasse.
Most Species: PJ Wheeler with 7.
Best Fish: Dave Cornick smoothound 1 kg 400 g ()
Top Lady: June Stokes 1 kg 650 g () trigger fish & pout
Top Junior: Dan Bristow 1 kg 930 g () wrasse, pout, pollack & scad

11^th August 2007 Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
Thirteen juniors and turned out to fish on east pier in warm sunny conditions. Thankfully the fished liked the sunny weather and turned up in droves in all one hundred and thirteen fish were caught which mainly consisted of whiting, and all were released alive and well.

4th-12th August 2007 Week Long Specimen Hunt.
Twelve competitors signed on to fish the annual week long specimen hunt. The competitors were able to fish anywhere on the English mainland, most chose to stick close to home with three of the top three catching their fish at Weymouth, The competitor in second place caught their fish at West Bay.

1st Dave Chidzoy rigger fish 107% specimen
2nd Oliver Mears (Junior Member) corkwing wrasse 99% specimen
3rd Simon Bowditch trigger fish 91% specimen
4th Dave Cornick red gurnard 90.5% specimen.

8th July 2007, Sunday Boat Match 9.00am-3.00pm
At last a Sunday with some good weather, the boat match could go ahead. Fourteen members on four boats set sail from West Bay to fish the match for the Kenway Cup. All the competitors caught fish, which consisted of wrasse, pout, poor cod, plaice, dogfish, black bream, conger eel, bass & smoothound. None of the fish were wasted as those not taken for eating or released alive were given to the fisherman in the bay for bait for their pots.

Heaviest Bag: G Stephenson 6 kg 70 g (13 lb 6 oz 1 dram)
Most Species: Lisa Wagstaff 2 kg 900 g (6 lb 6 oz 4 dram)
Best Specimen: Rod Barr Pout 940 g (2 lb 1 oz 3 dram) 69.11%

7th July 2007, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
Nine juniors & two guests signed on to fish the match on east pier, on a cloudy day, though the sun did pop its head out now and then.  Seven of the competitors managed to catch some fish, these included wrasse, sea scorpion, rockling, flounder, shanny & blenny. Thanks to the kindness of two traffic wardens we were able to offer a prize for the most fish caught.

WEATHER: Overcast with some sunshine and a westerly 3 wind.

PRIZES DONATED BY:  Mungo’s Kiosk, Les Peters, Ron Stokes, Tiny, Shaun Hallett, Tim Fisher.

5th July 2007, Thursday Night Rover 7-10.30pm
Eleven members braved a south-westerly gale to fish the match, most of the competitors chose sheltered locations like Lyme Regis or Weymouth Harbour. Only six of the competitors managed to catch weighable fish, which mainly consisted of dogfish.

1st Dave Chidzoy 4 kg 700 g (10 lb 5 oz 12 dram) dogfish & pout
2nd Steve Harwood 3 kg 80 g (6 lb 12 oz 9 dram) dogfish
3rd Keith woods 1 kg 180 g (2 lb 9 oz 9 dram) sole, eel & rockling
Top junior: Craig Horton 140 g (4 oz 15 dram)
Pool: Dave Chidzoy dogfish 860 g (1 lb 14 oz 4 dram)

23^rd June 2007, Saturday Juniors East Pier West Bay, 12.00-3.00pm
Seven juniors braved the showery weather to fish the match on east pier. All seven competitors managed to catch fish with two competitors finding legal sized fish (legal sized fish are fish that meet the minimum legal size, fish that meet this can be kept to eat or for bait, all fish below this size must be returned alive to the sea). Most of the fish caught were wrasse & flounder.