Venue : Kelling Sunday 22nd June 10am - 15.00

Annual Summer Open.

  22 anglers braved the strong winds and most struggled to find fish, the wreck end towards Weybourne was very slow with myself only managing two fish during the match, some anglers managed to find the dabs and these seemed to be the mainstay for everyone.The event was sponsored by Hunstanton Tackle, Edac Solutions, Breckland Computers and Ultima Line , thanks goes out to all four companies.

The winning weight and came from the blockhouse end with peg 3 being the hotspot for Kieth Morley who managed 2lb 3 1/3 winning him £80 and an Epson colour printer worth £70 from Edac Solutions, Richard “Golden Bollox” Ives managed 2nd place with 1lb 8 2/3 earning him £60 and lastly 3rd place went to Jock Goudie with 1lb 71/3 earning him £40.

  Prizes were paid out to the top ten anglers and with many of the others winning prizes in the raffle most people went away with something.

Full Results

Holy Island rover 7/6/08

The shore section of Colwyn Bay Victoria sea angling club, held the third leg of their summer league last Saturday.

The match, which was a Holy Island rover, was subject to a bag limit of 3 of each species, to aid conservation.

Norman Dorling carried on his run of good form with a winning bag of 3 wrasse, 3 dogs and a whiting for 4.99 kgs.

Dave Mitchell went mountaineering near South Stack, and found 3 wrasse, 3 pollack, 3 pouting, a dog and a poor cod for 4.72, and 2nd place.

Gary McLeod took 3rd place with 3 dogs and 2 wrasse for 3.75,

and the last of the money went to Adam Davies in 4th with 3 dogs, 3 wrasse, and 3 tompots for 3.72.

Dan Davies and John Major tied for 5th place on 3.25 kgs. John`s bag included 2 spotted rays from “lilypond rock” the best of which took the heaviest fish prize at 3-07-08 lbs.

Janet Dorling won the ladies prize with 2.32 kgs and no juniors fished.

enue : Salthouse Friday 6th June 17.30 - 22.30

Salthouse this week, for a change a Friday evening match, and very welcome change too. Well it was until her at home found out and planned other ideas for what was going to be a lazy Sunday.       

It rained non-stop prior to the match and just as I was leaving the house the sun got out. Well bloody typical I thought to myself. By the time I arrived everyone was on the beach almost setup. Caught up in rush hour traffic and satisfying a hungry belly were my best excuses. By the time I got my rod setup and baited up it was time to start.

Positioned between Ray Ward and Bob Thompson I kept flitting back and fourth to find out what the best tactics for this session. Flounders were the main target as the smooth hounds and bass weren’t showing in such large concentrations. Bob Thompson wandered up the beach with a sizeable flounder in tow. After filling in his card we had a lengthy chat about how criminal car insurance companies are and the excessive costs for new motorist. (it was a hectic match as you can tell). After about 15mins of nattering Bob wandered back to his base camp and returned almost within seconds of leaving. A 38cm bass took a liking to his lug bait and neither of us noticed the bite. We both had a laugh and he said he would keep coming over to chat if it caught him fish like that. I thought why not if it works but that was the last I saw bob till the weigh in.

Many small dab were showing especially late in the evening. The knack was to find the gullies and fish through the small stuff and hope a decent flounder would turn up. Tony Thomas seemed to have this down to a fine art with 5 fish (including a codling)to his name and a winning weight of 3.3 2/3 lb.

The weigh in and results of the match all seemed trivial in the car park, as the up coming match with Sea Angler magazine doing a possible cover of our club was more important.

The results

With a week or so of great fishing on the North Norfolk coast, anticipations were very high among the 10 members who turned out for this match. We were greeted by a flat calm crystal clear sea and humid, damp conditions, possibly perfect conditions for the smooth hound action we all wanted.

The field were spread well apart with several opting for the left, some straight over from car park and the rest optiing for the long hike to the wreck and beyond.
As the match progressed it became sadly apparant that the fish were few and far between with only small Bass and the odd flounder showing up, no smoothhounds today..
After a very quiet 5hrs the winning weight came from Sam Attew with 3 fish for 1.14, closely followed by Dene “Smoooth” Conway also with 3 fish for 1.12 2/3, our junior angler Henry Randall secured third place with 2 fish for 1.6 2/3 and sneaking into 4th was Dennis “whinger” Hunn also with 2 fish for 1.3 1/3. Richard “Golden Bollox” Ives peaked at 5th place with one fish, along with John Neave in 6th. Four angler failed to catch, including our illustrious leader Tony “Genesis” Chidwick, so all in a dissappointing session with the smutts not showing up, lets hope they have’nt left for another year and hopefully they will make a show on Friday for our evening match…..

Match 1
Rhyl Foryd, 27/04/08.

Three juniors fished the first leg of the junior summer league at Rhyl Foryd on Sunday 27th April. Rain earlier in the day, and low lying cloud, may have put a few off.

The match started 3 hours before high water, on a 24.3 ft tide, and as the first casts went in, the estuary was beginning to flood, prime time for the Flounders.

The match finished at 4pm. Tom Jones took the honours and £7.50 1st prize, with 4 Flounders for 141 cms, Elliot Roberts was second with 1 Flounder of 35 cms for £5, and Evan Adams got the third prize of £2.50 for his efforts.

All fish were returned to fight another day.

CBVSAC junior Winter league,
Match 2,
Conwy Morfa, 15/03/2008.

Match 2 of the Junior Winter league, went ahead as planned despite the forecast, with only Tom and Elliot braving the heavy rain, to fish.

We fished at Conwy again, and with fresh crab, hopes of a Flounder or 2 were high.

However, after 3 hours of getting rained on, it was time to pack up, with none of the rods even registering a bite.

The final league placings are;

1. Thomas Jones 20 points 60cms
2. Elliot Roberts 19 points 19 cms.

CBVSAC junior Winter league,
Match 1,
Conwy Morfa, 16/02/2008.

Only 2 juniors braved the biting Easterly breeze to fish the first leg of the Junior Winter league, at Conwy Morfa. With temperatures forecast to fall to minus 6 tonight, it was cold enough, but the wind chill must have taken another 5 degrees off.

It was all quiet, until 18-20, when Elliot had a knock that he missed, but he managed to find a Flounder on his next cast, which measured 19cms.

Tom had retired to the car between casts, due to the falling temperature, but the sight of a couple of fish spurred him on, and upon reeling in, he found a Flounder of 24cms had taken a fancy to his crab bait.

Next cast, with 3 crab halves as bait, then back to the car for 15 minutes. On returning to the rods, Toms was nodding away. We rushed down to the waters edge and Tom reeled in a double header, of a 19cm Flounder, and a 17cm 5 bearded Rockling.

Elliot missed a good bite, then he was unlucky to lose a Flounder at the waters edge.

The end of match couldnt come too soon, and at 8pm, the scores were 60cm to Tom, earning him the £10 first prize. Elliot got the remaining prize of £5, with his 19cms. All fish were returned.

Next stop Maccy Ds with the prize money.