This year's B.B.Q. was once again well attended with between 50 and 60 members and family and friends enjoying a very nice afternoon with free food and half price drinks in the happy hour. The food was cooked to perfection by Bruce and Barry Samber and with two glamorous waitresses serving the food what could be better?
Maggie Harmer produced very nice deserts. Adrian and Alan organised the tombola. Thank you to Robin for a very good draw and Alison doing the tickets. A big thank to you all for making it a very enjoyable afternoon. Also the bar staff were excellent as usual and hard working. A very good afternoon.
Christchurch Angling Centre is owned by Tom Bagnall who sponsors some of the boat and shore competitions. Tom participates in many club activities, is also a very good angler and on some occasions makes a very good cup of tea. www.christchurchanglingcentre.co.uk
Angling Trust is where you can get the latest news on all aspects of angling and the latest news about covid-19 regarding angling. www.anglingtrust.net
Lymington Harbour Commissioners a good site for local tides and weather reports. www.lymingtonharbour.co.uk
Loni's a good friendly shop and Garry is very helpful. www.lonis.co.uk
Paul Watson and Alan Mapes were out fishing at Sowley when Paul using a 50 gram spinning rod bream gear with size 1 varvias super match hooks and using rag worm baits caught this 52 lbs 13 oz sting ray which beats the 1938 club record by 5oz. Which has been held for 87 years. WELL DONE PAUL.
These are species-based boat competitions with no size limits Please contact Robin Lane on 07876 471901.
5th Vernon Everitt Match Boats Competition. Boat placings sent in by Alison Day.
On Saturday 9th August the club fished its 5th Vernon Everitt Match Boat Competition which was fished out from Lymington and Poole Ports.
Boat Placings.
"Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones and out from Poole. 1st Steve Batchelor 360 pts, 2nd Ed Taylor 272 pts, 3rd Mike Fox 243 pts, 4th Chris Rogers 238 pts, 5th Russ Latimer 210 pts, 6th Andy Southwick 191 pts, 7th Marc Duncan 136 pts. "Blue Strike" out from Lymington. 1st Chris Ellis 329 pts, 2nd George Fox 290 pts, 3rd Martin Bobbett 272 pts, 4th Paul Hollyoake 259 pts, 5th Richard Day 249 pts, 6th Paul Wilson 163 pts, 7th Garreth Smith 161 pts. "Double Six" skippered by Ben Wood out from Lymington. 1st Robin Lane 293 pts, 2nd Garry Young 282 pts, 3rd Mark Boldick (33 fish) 235 pts, 4th John Bellamy (30 fish) 235 pts, 5th Glynn Barker 176 pts, 6th Karl Bates 163 pts.
4th Vernon Everitt Match Boats 19th July results sent in by Mrs Alison Day.
"Piscary". 1st Paul Hollyoake 403pts, 2nd Ed Taylor 385pts, 3rd Richard Day 330pts, 4th George Fox 328pts, 5th Mark Boldick 314pts, 6th Karl Bates 175pts. "Silver Spray". 1st John Bellamy 327pts, 2nd Martin Bobbett 305pts, 3rd Garry Young 285pts, 4th Cliff Newbold 273pts, 5th Steve Batchelor 246pts, 6th Andy Southwick 245pts, 7th Andy Richmond 225pts. "Ocean Runner". 1st Chris Rogers 406pts, 2nd Chris Ellis 302pts, 3rd Mike Fox 282 pts (192 fish) 4th Russ Latimer 282pts (182 fish) 5th Robin Lane 236pts, 6th Glynn Barker 215pts, 7th Gareth Smith 175pts.
4th competition report sent in Ed Taylor.
Twenty anglers fished from Poole on the 4th match a board "Piscary" "Ocean Runner" and "Silver Spray 2". With a flat calm start the skippers instinctively had different plans with them all travelling in different directions searching for as many species as they could A total of twenty five species were caught over the three boats, including some nice gurnard, tope, bass, congers, smoothhound, rays and even the welcome come back of red bream.
A huge thank you to all the skippers competing amongst themselves on the day with the following boat scores:
1st Piscary 1,935 2nd Ocean Runner 1,741 3rd Silver Spray 2 1,681. A fantastic day at sea, with great company, lots of laughs and even more fish. If you are interested in taking part next year, please do not hesitate to get in touch as we are booking boats now for next year. Please contact Robin Lane 07876 471901 or Ed Tayylor 07711 378984
The Phoenix that rose from the ashes.