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Honiton Sea Angling Club June 2008 Newsletter

News

 

 This years Seaton Carnival Angling Competition will be held on 22nd August, fishing 7pm until midnight, sign on from 6am at the spot on café.

 

The August Friday night comp has been moved back from the 29th August to the 22nd August, which if you have been paying attention will be fished at the Seaton Carnival times.

 

The new date for the boat summer fayre is August 31st. Names of competitors as follows’

Neil

Archie

Carol

Chris Mills

Russell

Roy Vidler

Tom

Adam

Jim O

John S

Matt

Rob

Craig

Steve Butler

If the above list is incorrect let Archie know asap.

 

 

The second round of the inter club comp against Exmouth will be held at Ferry bridge. Phone Kim in the event of iffy weather 07974075680

 

The Westward Festival is to be fished on 19th October, with the Beer football club as the HQ and there will be 2 boats out and 6 from each club on the beach. More details to follow.

 

The Torbay Shield inter club competition is to be held on 26 October 2008.

 

There has been a shore comp date change. The October all nighter will now start on Saturday 4th because the old date clashed with the Westward Festival.

 

 

 

There is a hook and cook  hosted by Lyme Regis Angling club at the Lyme Regis power boat club on the 29th June from4pm until midnight,

 

Treasurers Report

Club funds stand at a healthy £407.96

 

Membership

55 Seniors

8 Juniors

 

Social Secretary

 

Colin has raised £321 on his recent draws. The June draw was sponsored by Roy and Colin. Julys draw is being sponsored by Dennis Retter.

 

Fish of the Month

May

 

Senior

 

Ken Sparks

LSD 2lb 2oz

 

Junior

 

Tom Strong

Mackerel 15.25oz

 

Fish Recorders Report

 

5 specimens to date.

 

Notable fish

 

Leon Rice

Mullet 4lb 10oz

 

Casting

 

Dennis will continuing his casting tuition on Wednesdays at 6pm in a field near to Sutton tip. This will continue right through the year.

For more details contact Dennis on 831667

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Please phone every week for this month as venues for the casting are becoming hard to find.

 

Ben Bradstock is down to the last 10 for a place in the England A team. Well done Ben, just reward for all your hard work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Shore

 

 

The next shore comp will be on June 28th at Ferry Bridge. Sign on at the car park and fish 2pm until midnight.

If you leave the competition early please phone Kim on

 07974075685

 

 

Senior Table 2008

 

 1. Ken Sparks 1048.95

 2. Kim Gibbs   951.50

 3. Lee  Fearnley 936.35

 4. Colin Berry     887.07

 

The club shore comp for April was fished at Budleigh, the results are as follows;

  1. Ken Sparks  275.89
  2. Mickey Kane 217.14
  3. Mike Spiller   216.88
  4. Kim Gibbs     211.96

 

The results of the mixed pairs after 3 events are as follows;

 

  1. Barry & Phil  812.19
  2. Jim & Ken         621.31
  3. Mickey & Dave B 582.58
  4. Colin & Neil       561.91
  5. Kim & John         436.33

 

  Junior Shore

 

The July junior shore comp will now be held on 12th at Seaton fishing from 7-10pm.

 

 

 

This years Wyvern Junior shore competition is to be held as usual at Teignmouth on 17 August. Contact Mike Spiller for more details.

 

 

       Boat

 

      Senior Table 2008

 

  1. John Stanford 719
  2. Matt Kerslake 526
  3. Jim Ogbourne 515
  4. Carol Pike429

 

 

      Summer Series

 

1.       Jim Ogbourne 353

2.       Leon Rice 315

3.       John Stanford 284

 

Here are the dates for everyone who fishes in Leons  Boat. Jan13th, Jan 27th, Feb 24th, Mar 23rd, Apr 06th, May 11th, June 8th, July 06th, Aug 03rd, Sep 07th, Sep 28th, Oct 12th, Nov 16th, Dec 07th, Dec 28th.

 


 

Honiton Sea Angling Club

(help for new members/mini newsletter) 

 

A warm welcome to you and thank you for joining the club.  This simple newsletter is to give you some information on the club and explain how we run our various events through the year and what we get up to from time to time.

 

The club was formed in September 1993 and the first meeting was held at the Three Tuns pub in Honiton.  Membership has always been from day one around fifty to sixty, not too big and not too small for a club.  We would like to encourage as many of our members as possible to join the National Federation of Sea Anglers (NFSA)  All sea anglers need to be under one umbrella and lots of problems will be facing us in the coming years, with the Government taking more notice of us now.  If you would like us to enrol you to the NFSA please let us know and we will do all the paper work for you if you wish.

 

So what do you get for your membership from Honiton SAC ?.  First of all £3 of your money gets sent straight to the NFSA, this being in the rules laid down by them and you could call it a levy towards their running costs.  If you do join as a full NFSA member we then do not have to pay that £3 levy for you as this will be paid direct in your NFSA full membership.  Next we take another £3 and put it towards a third party insurance (£5 Million) that we take out for all our club members whilst fishing in any club organised events.  Next we take another £4 and put it towards any inter club events/competitions we are entered into through the year.  At present we take part in around half a dozen of these interclub events and this part of your entry will go towards helping these events take place each year.  That leaves us with around £5 of your subs left to run the club on and we try to send out a newsletter to you all each month, by post or e mail.  We also have to do all the engraving and produce certificates each year for all of you winning awards through the year with the club.  On top of all that, if you are lucky enough to catch any specimen fish we will also purchase your NFSA specimen medals for you too.

 

The monthly meetings are held at the Honiton Motel on the third Thursday each month and these meetings are open to everybody and any new members are welcome to attend.  We do not hold any special meetings, all our meetings are open to you all.  We would normally have around twenty turn up to every meeting, which starts at 8pm.   We have a report from all the officers of the club and then end up with a chat on fishing and then a small raffle.   I would like to point out that many a new angler has learnt a lot at these meetings.

 

We hold all our competitions on specimen fishing only (we do not use any heaviest bag fishing).  Our monthly shore events are fished to aggregate specimen where-by you can weigh-in two fish of each species.  At the end of the year we take your ten best scores and total them up for the winner over the year.  The boat events are booked by members themselves from various ports locally,  here they weigh in single fish as and when they like through the year, then again at the end of the year we total up their best twelve fish for a total.  This again we find works well because once you have weighed in some fish to start with you know what you have to record to better these fish in your total of twelve over the year.  We also have running at present a summer and winter series for the boat events too.

 

We try to encourage as many members as possible to keep fish alive for weighing and then return them to the water.  If you are lucky enough to catch a good fish and have a decent set of scales * and a camera phone why not weigh it and take a picture of it and then let us know.  (* we would need to calibrate you scales if used with our set) and it would always help to have your fishing buddy witness it if possible.

 

We also have an active casting section in the club with two members at present in the England team and one of them is the England Manager.  We would normally have two open competitions through the year and we also have casting teach-ins on Wednesday nights from April till September.  If you want to improve your casting please come along, the casting record for the club now stands at around 290 yards !!!.

 

The junior section has around ten paid up members and they have separate shore competitions through the year.  These events are usually held on local beaches and last around three or four hours.  We run their competitions slightly different from the senior event.  We are currently trying a measure and return system (points per species and points per cm) as this way all fish can be returned to the water.  I think if we can get this system running smoothly and hitch free it could be something to look at in the future for our other events.

 

All fish must go through our fish recorder whose name can be found in your handbook and fish entries must reach him in seven days.  Fish caught in any club competitions will already be recorded at the event weigh-in on the day.  The club is also running a fish of the month competition each month for senior and junior members and all entries again to the fish recorder.  The club has numerous awards for fish that are caught each year and these are normally presented at the club Presentation Night which is held in March / April.

 

Mike Spiller (01404 43397) or check it out on www.honitonsac.co.uk           


 



 




 

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