Shallow Boat Competitions are organised by Brian Ansell. Contact Brian on 01590-672628.
All Competitions are now fished on Saturday's or Sunday's weather wise.
1st Shallow Boat Competition.
On Saturday 13th December the club held its 1st Shallow Boat competition for the 2026 club year. This was a changed day because the weather forecast for the Sunday was for very windy day so we changed to the Saturday which was a good move because we had light winds and sunshine.
!0 club members signed on and al caught fish consisting of conger eel, dogfish, bull huss, pouting, thornback, small eyed and undulated rays and whiting. All the fish are counted, measured and returned to the sea and points awarded.
Results:
1st Alan Martin 115 pts, 2nd Adrian Moody 107 pts, 3rd Charlie Nash 91 pts, 4th Ady Hulme 78 pts, 5th Denis Mapes 69 pts, 6th Barry Littlefair 62 pts, 7th Paul Watson 56 pts,
8th Alan Mapes 48 pts, 9th Neil Mitchener 35 pts, 10th Ryan Nash 30 pts.
Some good fish were caught on the day which were a bull huss 10 lbs 5 oz by Denis Mapes an undulated ray of 12 lbs 9 oz by Adrian Moody and a small eyed ray of 5 lb 8 oz by Alan Martin.
30th Nov Small Boat Open.
On Sunday the club it's annual Small Boat Open and for once the luck was on our side. The weather was good even though the day before was wet and windy and the following Monday was also very wet and windy. Although there was a swell the day was sunny and dry. On this open the anglers can only bring back their heaviest fish from each of the chosen species which were cod, whiting, pouting and bass. 21 anglers signed on and 13 anglers caught which were whiting, pouting and bass. Sadly no cod were caught.
Results:
Bass. 1st Richard Pope 6lb 4.4oz, 2nd Alan Mapes 4lb 11.8oz, 3rd Jeff Semple 2lb 6oz.
Pouting. 1st Paul Watson 1lb 12.2oz, 2nd Steve Williams 1lb 3.8oz, 5rd Steve Barnes 1lb 0.8oz.
Whiting. 1st Alec Harmer 1lb 8.2oz, 2nd A.M. Morgan 1lb 2.6oz, 3rd Simon Nutland 0lb 15.4oz.