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Section Organiser, Terry Jones.TEJJONES@aol.com
Winter Shore League 2012
Match 3 - Club waters rover - 28/1/12
25 members fished a very cold evening in this club waters rover, with about a dozen taking the long walk to Talacre and 5 of the top 6 bags coming from there.
Andy Lee came out on top with 11 dabs and 3 whiting for 2.59 kgs.
2nd was Paul Jones with an identical
bag of 11 and 3 for 2.50, John Jones took 3rd with a bag of 7 whiting and 4
dabs from Llandulas for 2.22, and the last of the cash went to Gary Bates with
5 whiting and 6 dabs for 2.14, from Talacre. Andy Wallis was 5th also with 2.14
, but one less fish, including the heaviest fish, a Talacre whiting just over a
pound at 0.46, 6th was Bill McLintock with 2.11
Tom Jones took the junior prize with 2 flounders and 2 dabs for 1.18 kgs. from
Splash Point, and top team were Andy Lee and Andy Wallis with 71 points.
23 members fished the
Top bag on the day went to Jordan Roberts, with 9 dabs and 9 whiting for a
weight of 3.97 kgs., that`s a second and a win in his first 2 club matches!
Wayne McGilloway took 2nd place with 11
dabs and 4 whiting for 2.93, John Jones 3rd with 12 dabs and one whiting for
2.81, and the last of the cash went to Alan Jones with 9 dabs and 3 whiting for
2.64. Terry Jones was next with 2.36, and Bill McLintock 6th with 2.09.
Adam Davies took the heaviest fish prize with a whiting of 0.39 kgs, and Jack
Peters won the junior prize with 0.65, this included a specimen 5 bearded
rockling of 0-07-08 lbs, top team were Jordan and Dave Roberts with 66 points.
2012s first match at North Shore saw a cracking turn out of 27 anglers fishing, despite a few of the regulars missing this one, this was more than made up for by an influx of new and returning members, welcome to all of you!
As for the fishing, it couldn`t have been more different than the corresponding
fixture last year when just a few rockling were weighed in. This time it was
double and treble headers of whiting all night long, however fish of 27cms were
hard to come by but frustratingly there were loads of 25`s and 26`s.
The last hour produced a few more in-size fish, and by the end, 26 of us had
fish to weigh in.
Second was new member Jordan Roberts with 10 whiting for 2.00, Pete Price 3rd with 9 for 1.99, and John Jones 4th with 9 for 1.82. Barry Haigh took 5th with 7 whiting and a dab for 1.62, and Gareth Flynn 6th with 5 whiting and a dog for 1.59, his dog taking the heaviest fish prize at 0.73kgs.
Top team were Bill McLintock and Barry Haigh with 70 points, and the junior prize went to Jack Peters with 2 whiting for 0.33kgs.
Summer Shore League 2011
Club Fur and Feather - Tan Lan - 10/12/11
18 members, including 3 juniors took part in this match.
The weather
turned in our favour after the gales and rain of the few days before, it was
quite a calm but chilly evening. The fishing was pretty hectic, with whiting on
every cast, although 25 to 26 cms seemed to be the standard size of most of
them!
Bill McLintock
found the best bag of the bigger ones, 17 and a dab, for 3.80 kgs., to take the
£50 top prize, plus a tenner for the flatfish pool as his was the only dab
weighed in.
Barry Haigh took 2nd place with 14 whiting for 2.77 kgs, one of which, at 0.42
kgs took the roundfish pool. 3rd was Mike Peters with 11 for 2.07, Dave Elmer
4th with 9 for 1.78, John Jones 5th with 9 for 1.68, and John Davies 6th with 7
for 1.39.
All 18 weighed in, with Hannah Elmer, in 8th place, taking the junior prize
with 4 good whiting for 0.96 kgs.
As there were over 40 prizes we had a very good raffle after the prize-giving,
and a very welcome few bowls each of Steve`s hot-pot to follow!
The last match of this year`s league took place at Tan Lan, with 17 members and one guest taking part, including two juniors.
Dogfish and whiting were there, as expected, but unlike this match last year no codling showed up, however everyone weighed in.
Barry Haigh was the only one to fish the far end by the`hump`, and came back with 13 dogs and a whiting, to win by a large margin with a weight of 12.09 kgs.
Dave Mitchell took 2nd place with 7 dogs and 6 whiting for 8.56, John Jones, 3rd with 6 dogs and 2 whiting for 6.16, and the last cash prize for 4th place went to Terry Jones, with 5 dogs and 3 whiting for 5.11. Bill McLintock was 5th with 4 dogs and 6 whiting for 4.84 and Dave Lunt 6th with 4 dogs and 2 whiting for 4.38.
The junior prize went to Jordan Davies with 2 dogs, 5 whiting and a sea scorpion for 2.77 kgs, the heaviest fish was a dog of 1.31 kgs ( 2-14-04 lbs ) caught by Dave Jones, and top team were Mitch and Gary with 64 points.
This result, with Mitch beating J.J. by one point resulted in a tie for the champions position with the best 9 results from 12 to count. For the second consecutive year Mitch won the league on the countback of heaviest bag, by the slender margin of 75.03 kgs to 72.25 kgs.
Well done Mitch, a superb run of 3 wins and a second in the last 4 matches.
Low water on a big tide, and flat calm conditions made it hard work for all 21 members who fished this match.
11 managed to find at least 1 fish in size, but Mitch ran away with it again
after winning at Tan-Lan and Penmaenmawr, this one made it a hatrick. The
results were,
1st Dave Mitchell, with 3 dogs, a whiting and a dab for 3.21 kgs.
2nd Paul Jones, with one dog of 0.84,
3rd Barry Haigh, with a codling of 0.61, 4th Dave Jones with a dog of 0.57, 5th
Gary Bates with 2 whiting and a pouting for 0.53, and 6th Terry Jones with 2
whiting for 0.33.
Jordan Davies took the junior prize with what must have been the smallest fish
I`ve weighed this year, a weever of 0.01, and top team were Mitch and Gary with
71 points. The heaviest fish was one of Mitch`s dogs at 0.88 kgs.
16 members fished on Saturday evening, with everyone weighing in bags of Dogfish and a solitary Flounder in the flat calm conditions and on a big tide.
Mitch drew the golden card, with £218 in the kitty, on the venue where he`s won
2 of the last 3 matches, this one made it 3 out of 4!
The results were 1st Dave Mitchell with 18 dogs for 18.03 kgs. 2nd John Jones
with 11 dogs for 11.03, 3rd Arwel Davies with 11 for 11.01, 4th Mike Peters
with 11 for 10.74, 5th Mark Patterson with 9 for 8.90, and 6th Dave Jones with
8 for 7.96.
The heaviest fish was one of J.J.`s dogs at 1.17 kgs and the top team were
Mitch and Gary with 65 points.
Congratulations to Mitch, with the 1st prize and golden card he went home with
a shade over £240, we start again with a new kitty at the next match.
16 turned up for the dogfest at the arches over low, including two new members, welcome James and Peri, and everyone weighed in.
The weather turned in our favour, with the wind dropping and the clouds
clearing to leave quite a pleasant evening with a bit of movement to the water.
Things went as expected, with nothing much happening until dusk, then the dogs
came out to play!
The final tally by the end of a couple of frantic hours was, 1st Dave Mitchell
with 24 dogs and a silver eel for a credited weight of 24.46 kgs. Only 2 of
each anglers dogs being weighed, with the rest returned and counted as a kilo
each.
Close behind were the usual doggy specialists, John Jones in 2nd with 22 for
21.77, and Bill McLintock 3rd with 20 for 20.20.
Mark Patterson came back from a few months off to take the last of the prizes
in 4th place with 18 for 17.98 , just edging out Gary Bates on 18 for 17.91 in
5th. Terry Jones managed 15 for 15.34 in 6th.
14 members attended this match in the rough ground tackle graveyard that is
With the usual dogfish rule in force each angler weighed in his best 2 dogs,
with the rest returned and counted as 1 kilo.
John Jones finished with 18 for a weight of 18.24 kgs. Dave Elmer had 14 for
13.73 in 2nd,
Dave Lunt included the heaviest fish of
the match at 1.26 kgs ( 2-12-08 lbs )
in his bag of 13 for 13.32 in 3rd place, and the last of the prize money went
to Mike Peters in 4th place with 9 dogs and a small huss for 9.91.
Colin Elmer had 10 for 9.80 in 5th, and Dave Mitchell 10 for 9.77 in 6th.
Top team on the night were Dave Lunt and Mike Peters with 68 points, and the
`golden card` was not won, rolling over to £188.
17 members made the long distance trip down the Lleyn for this one, there were plenty of fish caught, but some fared a lot worse than others, with undersize wrasse seeming to find the baits as soon as they hit the bottom.
Dave Mitchell took the honours with a 6.80 kgs bag of 5 species, which included
a specimen huss of 2.90 ( 6lbs 6ozs )
Mike Peters took 3rd place with 5 species for 4.12 kgs and retains the top spot
in the league. Norman Dorling was 4th with 2.72, Paul Jones 5th with 2.36, and
Colin Elmer 6th with 2.22,
Jordan Davies took the junior prize with 1.91kgs in 7th place, including a
specimen wrasse of 1.11 kgs ( 2-07-04 lbs.)
15 made the trip to the top end of the island, travelling through a deluge of biblical proportions it was looking grim to say the least.
However, good old
The majority stayed on the breakwater,
but a few ventured into Trearddur bay, including Terry and Norman, and they
finished first and second.
With a 3 of each species bag limit Terry came out on top with 6 species,
including ballan, corkwing and cuckoo wrasse, pollack, dogs, and a tompot
totalling 4.69 kgs.
Norman took 2nd place with ballans, corkwings, and shannies for 3.80, his best
wrasse of 1.44 kgs ( 3-02-08 ) was beaten for the heaviest fish prize by Chris
Jackson`s conger of 2.14 ( 4-11-08 ) This helped Chris to 3rd place, with 3.04.
John Jones was 4th with 2.56, Colin
Dunn 5th with 2.10, and 6th was a tie between Mike Peters and Paul Jones, both
with 0.90.
Top team were Terry and Norman with 78 points and Jordan Davies took the junior
prize.
20 members fished this one, on the hottest day of the summer so far.
All 20 weighed in, with a bag limit of 3 of each species it was the bigger wrasse
and the bonus codling that sorted out the winners.
John Majors caught the best codling of 2-15-04 which was accompanied by 3
wrasse and 3 dogs in his winning bag of 4.88 kgs
John Jones had 3 dogs, 2 ballans, 2 codling and a corkwing for 4.83 in 2nd, (
less than 2 ounces behind !)
Mike
Peters was 3rd with 3 wrasse and 3 dogs for 4.31 kgs. Colin Elmer took 4th
place with 3 dogs, 2 ballans, and 2 corkwing, plus the heaviest fish prize for
this specimen of 1.70 kgs. ( 3-12-04
Top
team were Norman and Terry with 62 points and Stephen Higginson was top junior
with 3 dogs for 1.89.
16
signed in for this one, with 11 weighing in. The fishing was a bit of a
struggle, with most of us moving and six ending up at Deganwy.
Dave Elmer fished his usual spot on the Great Orme, and came back with 14 dogs,
2 dabs and a sea scorpion for a winning bag of 13.89 kgs.
The
The third match saw 17 members taking part, with 14 weighing in, we expected a lot of little eels and not many flounders, but it didn`t quite go that way.
Chris Jackson took first place with 7 flounders for 2.55 kgs. Mike Peters was 2nd with 5 flounders for 2.15 kgs and Paul Jones took his third consecutive third place (there`s consistent ) with 3 flounders and 2 eels for 2.11 which retains his position on top of the league.
4th was Dave Lunt with 4 flounders and 3 eels for 1.61, and joint 5th were Mitch and myself, both on 1.19.
The heaviest fish prize was shared by Paul and Mitch with twin flounders of 0.70.
Mike Peters and Dave Lunt were top team with 69 points, and Jordan Davies took the junior prize.
Match 2 - Dee Estuary Rover - 14/5/11
The second match of the summer saw 22 members dressed for November weather instead of May, with heavy showers and a brisk wind making things a bit uncomfortable.
The fishing was grim, with a lot of rain water and floating weed making for hard work all round.
By the time we got back to weigh in , 19 of us had found at least one fish, with the top bag only 4 flounders and 3 eels, it was a big disappointment after the same match last year saw some big bags weighed in.
Top on the night was Gary Bates, with 4 flounders and 3 eels for 2.40 kgs.
Mike Peters was second with 2 flounders, a plaice and an eel for 1.59, 3rd Paul Jones with 2 eels and a plaice for 1.52 to take the lead in the league, and the last of the prize money went to Dave Mitchell, 4th with 8 eels and a flounder for 1.30.
Adam Davies was 5th with a plaice of 1.20 ( 2-10-04 lbs) to take the heaviest fish prize, and Colin Elmer took 6th place with 2 eels, a flounder, and a dab for 1.16.
Jordan Davies took the junior prize with a flounder and an eel for 0.67, and top team were Gary and Mitch with 71 points.
Match 1 - Conwy Estuary Rover - 9/4/11
17 signed in for the first match, a Conwy estuary rover, with peeler crab a must have and flounders the only viable targets.
We spread out to various likely spots, and reports of fish on the first couple of casts made good news after the dire last couple of matches in the winter.
After the first couple of hours there were 3 or 4 with 4 fish each but as the fish moved downstream they started to come on near the lagoon at Deganwy, and with a last hour bonanza of 7 fish in four casts, Winter league champion Terry Jones ended up in 1st place with 11 flounders for 3.55 kgs. Flounders were the only species weighed in, with 14 anglers taking fish to the scales.
John Jones took 2nd place with 6 fish for 2.77. his best one, a specimen of 0.96 ( 2-01-12 lbs), took the heaviest fish prize.
Paul Jones was 3rd with 5 for 1.99, 2 of these were specimen size at 0.68 and 0.69 kgs. Keeping up with the Joneses was Colin Elmer in 4th with 5 for 1.90 ( welcome back Colin ). Chris Jackson was 5th with 3 for 1.20, including this specimen of 0.80 ( 1-12-00 )
Winter Shore League 2011
Match 6 - Club Waters Rover - 19/3/11
The club waters rover was as grim as any of the preceding winter league matches this year, with 18 members fishing, but only 9 weighing in.
8 stayed at Tan lan, with just a few rockling and sea scorpions being caught, along with loads of pin whiting ( you could have got 3 in a treble twenty if the noses had been sharper!)
4 went to
Dave Elmer braved the climb down the Orme, and came back the winner with 2 dogs, 2 rockling and a sea scorpion for 1.45 kgs.
Bob Roberts took 2nd and the heaviest fish with a dog from
3rd was Gary Jones with 4 rockling for 0.31 kgs. also from
Paul Jones was 4th with 2 rockling and 2 sea scorpions from Tan-lan, Barry
Haigh 5th with an eel from
Top team were Gary and Bob with 69 points, and despite both blanking, Norman and
Terry took the team prize and Terry stayed top to win the league, with Dave
Elmer just 5 points behind, and Gary Jones 3 behind him in 3rd.
16 members gave it a go, fishing down the ebb in the dark was a new experience for us here, and one we won`t be trying again! The crabs were stripping the baits in no time and when they didn`t the undersize codling were taking their turn.
By the end of the four hours 10 of us had at least something to weigh in. Wayne McGilloway`s flounder of 0.41kgs. coming out on top, taking first prize and the heaviest fish prize.
Clubman Challenge Match - Flint Cob - 20/2/11
10 members fished on Sunday, with only 4 weighing in. J.J. spent the previous evening digging white rag, and it proved to be the bait of the day, he won with 4 flounders for 1.35 kgs. the best of these was the heaviest fish at 0.41.
3 others managed to find an in-size flounder, with Terrys the largest at 0.20, Norman`s was 0.19 and Thomas Davies was 4th with one of 0.18.
Match 4 - Dee estuary rover - 5/2/11
20 anglers for this one in wet and windy conditions.
Two teams scored 63 points, Bill McLintock and Dave Elmer, and Mike Peters and
Dave Lunt. Stephen Higginson took the junior prize, and once again no ladies
took part.
At last, another species apart from rockling. Gary Jones found a flounder of 1lb. 7oz. with a couple of rockling to win last night`s match.
16 anglers fished, with 10 weighing in. Mike Peters also found a dab, but rockling were all that anyone else could manage.
Results were, 1st Gary Jones 1.02 kgs. 2nd Barry Haigh 0.29, 3rd Norman Dorling 0.27. Joint 4th, Chris jackson and Bob Roberts on 0.23, and 6th Mike Peters 0.21.
Gary`s flounder of 0.66 won the heaviest fish prize, and Gary and Bob
were top team with 70 points.
Last night`s match turned into another
rockling hunt, with no other species weighed in.
15 members and a guest braved the wind
and rain, with only 6 weighing in again.
Once again Terry Jones came out on top with 7 rockling for 0.66 kgs, Norman Dorling
was close on his heels again with 4 for 0.37.
Dan Davies took 3rd with 3 for 0.25,
and the last of the cash went to Arwel Davies with one of 0.10. The other two
weighers were, Dave Elmer with 0.09, and Chris Jackson with 0.05.
The heaviest fish prize was shared
between Terry and Norman with a fish of 0.14 each. The top team was a carbon
copy of last week with Terry and Norman on 71 points.
The fishing was too bad to be called poor, it was abysmal! Only 6 of the 19 weighed in, the top two had two rockling each and the other four had 1 each.
Terry Jones managed to find two for 0.17 kgs. to win the match, and his name came out in the golden card, so he went home with £133. That makes rockling worth about as much as gold.
2nd place went to Norman Dorling with two for 0.13 , that made Him and Terry the only team with 2 weighers and 71 points to start the year.
3rd and 4th places were shared by the joint heaviest fish, both 0.12, for Dave Elmer and Barry Haigh. 5th was Dan Davies with one of 0.11, and 6th Gary Jones with one of 0.10.
No ladies or juniors took part, and everyone went home with a prize from the cancelled fur and feather match, plus the rest of the prizes were raffled off, making for a productive evening for some.
Summer Shore League 2010
Clubman Challenge Match - Tan Lan - 11/12/10
10 members fished last night, with 8 weighing in.
The fishing was a lot harder than the previous match there a fortnight ago, with a lot less of the usual undersize whiting around, and very few of the insize ones either.
Arwel Davies took first place with a codling and 4 whiting for 2.07 kgs. Terry Jones had a codling and 2 whiting for 1.73 in 2nd, Paul Jones was 3rd with 2 whiting and a dab for 0.87, Mike Peters 4th with 3 whiting and a dab for 0.86, and Dave Jones took the last of the points in 5th with 3 whiting for 0.79.
The heaviest fish was Terrys codling at 1.10 kgs. ( 2-06-08 lbs.)
14 anglers fished in bitterly cold weather for the last shore league match on Saturday night, with 6 of them in with a chance of winning the league.
The fishing turned out to be pretty hectic, with double and treble headers of whiting, some undersize, but some decent ones amongst them, a few dabs and rockling, and half a dozen decent codling.
Mitch took the top spot with 12 whiting, a dab and a last cast 3 pound codling
for a weight of 4.36 kgs.
After several recounts at the weigh in, it emerged that only 2 points separated
the top 4 in the league. Dave Mitchell and Norman Dorling tied on 241, with
Mitch winning on total weight, and Gary Bates and Terry Jones tied for 3rd,
just 2 points behind, with Gary winning on weight, the same situation applied
to the teams as well, with Mitch and Gary taking the title on weight after a
tie with Norman and Terry.
Check out the diary tab for the 6 dates for the Winter league
which start at Tan Lan on 8th January.
Another wet night for this one, we can`t seem to avoid the weather sometimes, it didn`t stop all night!
17 members came to get wet, 15 managed to find something to weigh in, but it
was hard work, with undersize whiting throwing themselves at every bait
presented.
Dave Jones managed to find 5 in size whiting and a dog for a weight of 1.55
kgs, and first place.
Stephen Higginson took the junior prize with 0.28, and top team were Gary and
Mitch with 62 points.
10 team members fished last night up and over high water at Penmaenmawr.
The usual dogs were there, but not in as many numbers as at low water.
15 anglers fished match 7 at Penmaenmawr in uncomfortable conditions.
Bill McLintock came back from his summer`s coarse fishing and kicked us all
into touch with 15 dogs, a five pound bass and a flounder for 17.90 kgs.
Gary Bates took 2nd with 14 dogs and 2 flounders for 14.83, Mike Peters 3rd with 14 dogs for 14.02, and Mitch 4th with 12 for 11.86.
Stephen Higginson took the junior prize with 3 dogs for 2.68 and top team were Gary and Mitch with 69 points.
Bill`s bass was heaviest fish at 2.42 ( 5-05-00lbs.) The best of about a dozen flounders was Paul Jones`s specimen of 0.98 (2-02-08) and no-one had an in-size whiting.
This match also saw the final of the K.O. cup, Gary Bates v Terry Jones.
The shore section held the sixth match of their summer shore league at Holyhead Breakwater where 16 anglers fished and 15 weighed in, in the wet and windy conditions.
The match was fished with a bag limit of 3 of each species, although 2 rods
could be used with no more than 3 hooks between them.
John Jones was top on the day with 4.87Kgs made up of 3 Ballans, 3 Whiting, 1
Dog, 1 Cuckoo Wrasse, 1 Tub Gurnard , 1 Pollack, and a Dab.
Second
place went to Mike Peters with 3 Dogs, 3 Poor Cod, 1 Ballan and 1 Corkwing for 2.27Kgs.
Third was Dave Elmers 3 Corkwing, 3 Poor Cod, 1 Dog, 1 Ballan and 1 Shanny weighing
1.87Kgs and Terry Jones was fourth with 3 Corkwing, 2 Shore Rockling, 1 Ballan,
1 Dog, 1 Tompot and 1 Poor Cod for 1.78Kgs.
Top team were Terry and Norman with 78 points. Stephen Higginson was top junior
and 8th overall with 1.15Kgs and Janet Dorling was top lady with
0.02 ( 1 Rock Goby)
Only 12 members for this one, with reports of bass being caught from Prestatyn over the few evenings preceding the match it was no surprise that we all headed that way!
Mitch showed us how it should be done, with a wade out to the far bank and a cast to somewhere near the Wirral, he found an undersize bass and a dab straight away. Norman meanwhile had a specimen flounder first cast, so expectations were running high.
As it turned out, this was a` false dawn`, only Mitch carried on catching, with the rest of us scratching out a few flatties and weevers plus the odd schooly.
By weigh in time Dave Mitchell (Mitch) had caught 9 bass on fresh crab presented at long range, with 7 of them under our 45 cm. limit, but the 2 in-size fish, plus a dab were more than enough to win, with a weight of 2.96 kgs. the best of the bass took the heaviest fish prize at 1.56 kgs ( 3-06-08 lbs)
Norman Dorling took 2nd with a flounder, a dab and a weever for 1.10 kgs. 3rd was Terry Jones with 2 dabs and 2 weevers for 0.47, Stephen Higginson took 4th, and the junior prize with a flounder and 2 weevers for 0.34, Gary Bates 5th with 4 weevers and a dab, Barry Haigh 6th with a plaice and a weever for 0.29.
Top team were Norman and Terry with 72 points.
Trevor Davies Cup - HHBW Species Hunt - 18/7/10
13 of us fished a species hunt for the Trevor Davies cup on Holyhead Breakwater in wet and windy conditions.
The match was fished on a measure and release format, with each different species scoring 100 points plus their length in centimetres.
The winner of the cup was John Jones with 10 species and 1223 points.
Second was Norman Dorling with 7 species and 851 points and Kev Jones took third with 6 species and 711 points.
Janet Dorling won the ladies Prize and Jack Peters was top junior on the day.
13 fished and 11 submitted their cards with 14 different species recorded. There were no dead fish at the weigh in and apart from the weather, it was a very enjoyable day.
Match 4 - Club water rover - 10/7/10
15 members including 2 juniors took part in this match, with 2 hours of the ebb and 2 of the flood it was a bit of a gamble where to try, we all had our own ideas and a few coins were tossed.
Dave Elmer followed the mountain goats down the Great Orme and came back with 21 dogs, a wrasse and a dab, to thoroughly kick all our ##rses. With the dogfish rule in force the 2 heaviest dogs were weighed in and the rest counted as 1kg., this gave him a winning weight of 21.66 kgs.
Mike Peters deserved better than 2nd with a smoothound and a bass from Llandulas, for 4.77 kgs.
Dave Mitchell took 3rd with a bag of 15 dabs and 4 weevers from Talacre for 2.47, 4th place went to Terry Jones with 20 little eels and a flounder from Benarth for 2.07, Gary Bates was 5th with 1.49 from Talacre, and Barry Haigh 6th with 1.14 also from Talacre.
Stephen Higginson took the junior prize with 0.71, and top team were Mitch and Gary with 68 points.
Match 3 - Llam Carw - 12/6/10
The first away match clashed with England`s first match in the World Cup, but 13 of us made the effort anyway. The weather was pretty good, with a bit of a breeze and quite a swell splashing up the ledges as the tide turned.
It`s strange how this venue varies, with one ledge producing dog after dog and the next one a few yards away showing wrasse but no dogs, I`d love to see an underwater view of the whole area. As we have a 3 of each species rule for these matches you need to find a mark where both dogs and wrasse can be found plus anything else that`s around. Only one angler found 3 of each, so the size of the wrasse made a big difference at the weigh in.
Arwel Davies took top spot with 3 good wrasse and a dog for a weight of 3.96 kgs, his best fish of 1.71 ( 3-12-08 lbs ) taking the heaviest fish prize as well!
Mike Peters took 2nd place with 3 dogs and 2 wrasse for 3.75, with Gary Bates 3rd on 3.67 from 2 dogs and 3 wrasse. Norman Dorling was 4th with 3.18, Dave Jones 5th with 2.99, and Dave Elmer 6th with 2.69.
Top team with 66 points were Gary Bates and Dave Mitchell, and Stephen Higginson took the junior prize.
Match 2 - Dee Estuary Rover - 22/5/1017 members fished on a beautiful sunny afternoon, the algae bloom was in the river in some quantity, but didn`t seem to affect the fishing, with 16 anglers weighing in.
The
winning bag came from
The
heaviest fish prize went to Chris Jackson with a plaice of 0.99 kgs ( 2-03-00
lbs ) from
The junior prize to Stephen Higginson with 1.25 kgs, and no ladies fished
Two
teams tied on 71 points, Terry and
A shortage of peeler crabs meant a poor turnout was pretty well inevitable for this one, however 15 of us made it, and 10 weighed in.
Flounders were the only species weighed in, but there were a few codling caught as well, just not big enough unfortunately.
Norman Dorling carried on from his winter league win with first place in this match, 5 flounders for 1.99 kgs.
John Jones took 2nd with 3 for 1.85, his best fish took the heaviest fish prize, a cracking specimen of 1.17 kgs. ( 2-09-04 lbs. )
3rd place went to Mark Hill with 3 for 1.50, 4th was Gary Bates with 3 for 1.33, 5th Paul Jones with 4 for 1.05, and 6th, and ladies` prize winner, Janet Dorling with 2 for 1.03.
Top team were Norman and Terry with 64 points and no juniors fished.
Winter Shore League 2010
Match 5. Club Waters Rover. 20/3/10
17 members signed in for the last match of the winter league, with 10 of us choosing to fish at Talacre, despite the bad reports from the open match there last weekend
it turned out to be the right move, although the fishing was unbelievably poor at least most of us weighed something in.
The top 5 weights came from there, with Gary Bates taking first place, 2 dabs, a whiting, and a flounder were enough to win with a weight of 0.68kgs. Dave Jones took 2nd with 3 dabs and a rockling for 0.56, Mike Peters 3rd with a flounder and a whiting for 0.41, and Terry Jones 4th with 2 dabs for 0.35. Allan Illman was 5th with a whiting and a dab for 0.31, and the only weigher from anywhere other than Talacre was Norman Dorling with a flounder of 0.30 from Deganwy, this was enough to reclaim the title of Winter league champion that he`d lent to Kev for a year.
Top team on the night were Mike Peters and Dave Lunt with 40 points, but not enough to stop Norman and Billy from taking the team prize with a total of 244 points from the 5 matches.
Stephen Higginson took the junior prize with 2 rockling for 0.09, and finished as top junior again.
Match 4. Colwyn Prom. 27/2/10
Another good turnout considering the conditions, a cold North Easterly and the chance of rain and sleet according to the forecast!
18 of us started the match at various points along the prom, but it soon became clear that rockling were the only fish around, so the ones with a rock groyne or a patch of rough ground nearby had the advantage.
After 4 hours only 7 had fish to weigh, with Dave Elmer and Norman Dorling tying for first place on 0.36 kgs., Dave with 6 and Norman with 4 rockling, Mark Patterson took 3rd place with 5 rockling and a sea scorpion ( the only fish other than rockling to be weighed in ) for a weight of 0.32. 4th was John Jones with 0.28, and 5th Mark Hill with 0.24, Bill McLintock and Allan Illman were the other 2 weighers with a rockling each, and the heaviest one of the night earned a tenner for Mark Hill, a specimen of 0.17, or 0-05-12 in old money.
No ladies or juniors took part, and top team were Dave and Mark with 71 points.
Match 3. Flint Cob. 21/2/10.
Norman Dorling found 2 for 1.13 kgs,. and first place, with his best fish of 0.65 kgs. ( 1-06-08 lbs. ) taking the heaviest fish prize. Mike Peters was 2nd with 2 for 0.83, and Bill McLintock 3rd with 1 for 0.39. Glyn Williamson took 4th place and the last of the cash with 0.35, and the other 3 weighers were John Jones with 0.33, Mike Jones with 0.31, and Dave Lunt with 0.20.
This takes Dave Lunt clear at the top of the league, as the only one to have weighed in at all 3 matches so far.
Top team on the day were Norman and Bill, with Sue Price taking the ladies` prize, and Stephen Higginson the juniors.
Everyone had a few fish, whiting and codling mostly, but with very few in-size, there was even a little bass caught by Mike Peters, not many of those around in January!
At the weigh-in only six people had fish in size, with Allan Illman taking first place with a bag of 3 dabs and a whiting for 0.84 kgs. One of his dabs also took the heaviest fish prize at 0.30 kgs. ( 0-10-08 lbs.)
2nd was Mark Patterson with a whiting and a dab for 0.43, and 3rd, his team mate Dave Elmer with 3 rockling for 0.25, the last of the cash went to Dave Lunt in 4th with a whiting of 0.18.
The other two weighers were Peter Price with a specimen rockling of 0.16, and new member Dave Jones, on his debut match, with a rockling of 0.09.
17 members, old and new, turned up for the first match of the new year. For once the weather was kind to us, after the last couple of weeks of snow and ice it was almost tropical, with no wind and a nice calm sea.
We started a couple of hours before low water, fishing 2 down and 2 up. Those who opted for casting out for whiting found it hard going, with in-size fish few and far between, while the ones fishing at close range near the stone groynes were finding rockling from the start.
Fifteen weighed in eventually, with last year`s winter league winner Kev Jones weighing 18 rockling and a sea scorpion for 1.62 kgs and 1st place.
2nd was his dad Terry Jones, with 12 rockling and a whiting for 1.14. Bill Mclintock took 3rd with 6 rockling and 3 whiting for 1.09, and 4th prize went to Gary Bates with 9 rockling for 0.90. Paul Jones was 5th with 0.84, and Mike Peters 6th with 0.80.
The junior prize went to 9 year old Thomas Davies, fishing his first match, he caught a flounder and a dab for 0.39 kgs., the flounder also taking the heaviest fish prize at 0.26 kgs.
No ladies took part, and top team were Kev and Terry with 73 points.
Summer Shore League 2009
Closed Fur and Feather 2009
A poor weather forecast may have been one of the reasons for the worst turnout in the history of this fixture, with just 14 members making the effort. This meant that the raffle had over 30 prizes in it, and some did very well out of it.
As for the fishing, well, the weather started bad and got worse, there was floating weed in the surf, festooning the lines, and the in-size whiting were very hard to find amongst the little ones.
Club champion John Jones took the top prize with 4 whiting and a rockling for 0.92 kgs, just pipping Bill McLintock by 20 grammes, Bill`s 3 whiting and a dab weighing in at 0.90. 3rd was Mike Jones with 4 whiting for 0.86, and 4th Dave Lunt with 3 whiting and a dab for 0.84.
The pools went to Bill Mclintock with a whiting of 0.33 and Dave Lunt with a dab of 0.18. 12 weighed in, but there was a prize for everyone as usual.
Match 11 - Penmaenmawr - 21st November 2009
11 members turned out for the last match of this summer`s fixtures.
The heavy rain gave way to a clear period for the start of the match, but the wind soon got up with some strong gusts sending rods and buckets in several different directions!
The fishing was as expected, with dogfish and whiting making up all the bags, only Norman found any other species, a bass and a flounder to add to his bag.
After about 3 hours the thunderstorm that had been brewing over Anglesey hit us with a vengeance, a squall took us off our feet with horizontal hailstones and rain making it virtually unfishable. A few of us packed in and took shelter, but the diehards who stuck it out for the last hour had a few extra fish to show for it.
Mike Jones took the honours with a bag of 11 dogfish and 2 whiting for 11.34 kgs.
Norman Dorling`s bag of 8 dogs, 5 whiting, a bass and a flounder took 2nd spot with 10.89 kgs. the bass of 1.27 kgs also taking the heaviest fish prize.
3rd place went to John Jones with 10 dogs and 3 whiting for 10.54, this gave him enough points to win the league by 4 points. Gary Bates was 4th with 10 dogs and 4 whiting for 10.33, and Dave Mitchell 5th with 9.32, 6th place went to Bill McLintock with 8.32.
Top team were Dave Mitchell and Gary Bates with 67 points,making them team champions this year. No ladies or juniors fished.
Match 10 - Prestatyn - 7th November 2009
Just 12 of us for this one, on a wet and breezy night with the wind offshore at the start, and a bonfire and firework display behind us at the sailing club. Things started slowly on the last of the ebb, but as the tide turned the bites picked up and all 12 weighed in at the end.
Whiting, dabs, flounders, and rockling were the species caught, and with Mitch missing this one John Jones took over the top spot in the league with a convincing victory, 12 whiting and 2 dabs for 2.91 kgs, to win by almost a kilo.
Kev Jones was 2nd with 7 whiting and 2 dabs for 1.97, and Mike Peters 3rd with 7 whiting, a dab, and a flounder for 1.89.The last of the cash went to Mike Jones, in 4th place with 5 whiting and a flounder for 1.44, Bill McLintock was close behind with 1.42, and Gary Bates 6th with 1.33, which included the heaviest fish, a flounder of 0.61 kgs.
Stephen Higginson took the junior prize with 4 whiting for 0.67, and top team were Mike Peters and Dave Lunt with 66 points.
18
members and 2 guests fished this low water match, with perfect doggie
conditions expectations were pretty high. We were fishing our dogfish rule,
which means keeping your best 2 fish to weigh in, and releasing the rest to
count as one kilo each, it turned out to be a good idea because the fish count
from the 19 who weighed in was 246 dogs, 74 whiting and a pout!
Eleven of us made the trip to Holyhead Breakwater for the Trevor Davies Cup match, with the prize going to the heaviest single fish. Obviously not a popular format for our matches!
Half of the competitors stopped at various points along the length of the breakwater while the rest went straight to the end.
Fishing was poor all the way along the structure, with plenty of small fish but nothing worth weighing.
At the weigh in, only four of the anglers had brought fish to be weighed.
Terry Jones won the Cup with his Pollack of 0.83kgs.
Dave Lunt was second with a Ballan Wrasse of 0.53kgs, Norman Dorling took third spot with a Corkwing Wrasse, and Janet was last of the weighers, also with a Corkwing.
Reports were disappointing from the pleasure anglers fishing too.
Match 8 - Pwllheli - 8th August 2009
13 members for this one with a decent bit of weather for once. A slight onshore breeze, and sunshine. Recent reports said there were plenty of black bream around, but they were not coming out to play today.
Only 5 managed to find in-size fish to weigh in, with John Jones taking the lion`s share, 2 dogs, a bream and a flounder for 1.51 kgs. Dave Mitchell was 2nd with a dog and a bream for 0.85, Gary McLeod 3rd with 2 bream and a weever for 0.81, Norman Dorling 4th with a flounder of 0.21, and Mike Jones 5th with a corkwing of 0.12. Top team were Gary and Mike with 67 points.
Match 7 - Porth Iago - 11th July 2009
Just 10 made the journey down the Lleyn for this one, with the forecast for heavy and continuous rain it wasn`t a prospect to relish. It turned out to be worse than expected, if anything, with rain varying from heavy to torrential for the duration of the match!!
7 of us managed to bring fish to the scales, with a bag limit of 3 of each species.
John
Jones took the top place by a wide margin, with 3 wrasse, 3 dogs, and a pouting
for 5.00 kgs. This included a ballan wrasse of 1.34 kgs (2-15-04 lbs) for the
heaviest fish prize. Dave Mitchell was 2nd with 3 dogs, a Pollack
and a rockling for 2.88, just ahead of Norman Dorling on 2.82 with 3 dogs, 3
corkwings, a ballan, and a tub gurnard. Terry Jones took 4th with
2.20, Gary Mcleod 5th with 2.12,
Mitch and Gary were the only team with both members fishing, and won with 70 points.
Match 6 - Bromborough - 28th June 2009Once again a match on the
Dave
Mitchell found the top bag, at range from the left hand end of the venue, 3
flounders, 2 eels, and a whiting for 1.62 kgs. John Jones went to the right and
found 3 flounders, an eel and a whiting for 1.19, Nigel Conlon took 3rd
place with 2 eels for 0.93, including the heaviest fish of the match an eel of
0.60, (
Mike Peters was 4th with 4 smaller eels for 0.77, Sue Price 5th, and top lady with an eel of 0.47, Kev Jones took 6th with 0.31, and Thomas Jones took the junior prize. Top team with 64 points were Mitch and Gary.
Match 5 - Holy Island Rover - 14th June 2009A good turnout for an away match, with 17 members making the trip. Some stayed on the breakwater, with varying degrees of success, you need to know where and when to move around on there to find the different species.
Others went off to their own choice of rock marks, some of which could do with a sherpa guide. By the end of the evening it turned out that 16 brought fish to the scales,
John Jones
had the lion`s share, staying on the breakwater and finding his 3 fish limit of
ballan wrasse and dogs, plus a pollack and a poor cod for a weight of 5.45 kgs. One of his wrasse took the heaviest
fish prize, at 1.54 kgs (
2nd place went to Alun Blythin, fishing at Rhoscolyn, with 3 wrasse, 2 dogs and 2 pollack for 5.06 , 3rd was John Smith with 3 wrasse, 3 dogs and a Pollack for 4.76,
4th went to Dave Mitchell with 4.44, 5th Terry Jones with 3.95, and 6th Kev Jones with 3.72. Janet Dorling took the ladies prize, and top team were Terry and Kev with 69 points, those extra mini species can make a difference!
Match 4 - Dee Estuary Rover - 23rd May 2009
Just 14 of us this time , we never take into account that bank holiday weekends can be an awkward time for a match for some. However the weather took a turn for the better this time, although it got a bit cool and windy towards the end.
10 of us chose Talacre, with 4 going to Mostyn. 11 weighed in, in all, with varying degrees of success.
The top weights all came from Talacre, it`s worth noticing that the top four bags went to the 4 anglers fishing furthest to the right, upstream of the green buoy.
Top bag on the day, with 25 dabs and a flounder for 4.49 kgs, went to Terry Jones, fishing on his 60th birthday, just because you`re old doesn`t mean you can`t be lucky!
League leader Dave Mitchell took 2nd with 25 dabs and 5 whiting for 4.04, his dabs must have been a bit smaller, 3rd was John Jones with 18 dabs and 1 whiting for 3.24, and 4th prize went to Gary Bates with 15 dabs and 2 flounders for 3.11. Mike Jones was 5th with 2.87 and Gary McLeod 6th with 1.96.
Mike`s bag included a flounder of 0.79 ( 1-11-12 lbs) a rare fish for Talacre, but not big enough for the heaviest fish prize, which went to Mark Hill with a very nice plaice of 0.87 ( 1-15-00 lbs) Mark had the only 2 plaice weighed in, caught at Mostyn, there was also a dogfish caught there by Mal Edwards, not the sort of fish you expect there!
Match 3 - North Shore - 9th May 200917 members turned out for this one, after a wet and windy afternoon the weather turned in our favour, dry and calm with a nice sunset, it almost felt like summer, just not warm enough.
There were plenty of whiting around, but most were undersize, with a few dogfish showing up later as it got dark.
Gary McLeod found 8 dogs and 3 whiting from in front of the paddling pool, to walk away with 1st place with a weight of 7.31 kgs. John Jones took 2nd with 6 dogs and a rockling for 4.25 kgs from behind the houses. 3rd went to Chris Jackson with 5 dogs and 4 whiting for 3.48, and 4th to Steve Parry with 4 dogs and 2 whiting for 3.42. Mike Peters was 5th with 2.80, including the heaviest fish of the match, a dog of 1.11 kgs, and 6th place was taken by Dave Mitchell with 2.60.
Stephen Higginson won the junior prize with 1.02 kgs and Sue Price the ladies prize.
Top team were Gary McLeod and Mike Jones with 68 points.
Match 2 - Flint Cob - 3rd May 2009
Only 16 of us this time, a bank holiday weekend and a lack of peeler crab for some meant giving it a miss. Norman missed his first match in living memory, owing to recovering at home after an operation on Tuesday, best wishes for a speedy return to the beach from us all Norm!
As it happened the eels were there in force, with immediate bites on the first cast for most of us, and everyone weighed in.
Mike Jones took the honours with 17 eels and a flounder for 5.34 kgs. His flounder also took the heaviest fish prize, at 0.60 kgs. 2nd was Dave Mitchell with 24 smaller eels and a flounder for 4.96. 3rd Gary McLeod with12 eels and 4 flounders for 3.97, 4th was Mark Hill with 13 eels and 2 flounders for 3.62, 5th Alun Blythin with 14 eels for 3.25, and 6th Terry Jones with 12 eels and a flounder for 2.83.
Sue Price took the ladies prize with 0.59, and Thomas Jones the junior prize with 0.39. Top team were Mike and Gary with 72 points for 1st and 3rd places.
Match 1 - Conwy Estuary Rover - 25th April 2009A disappointing turnout of 21 club members fished the first leg of our summer league in the Conwy estuary earlier today.
The match was fished 3 down and 1 up, so the majority of people headed for the lagoon to target the Flounders. However those of us who have previously fished there with the juniors headed to Benarth, in the hope the Eels had arrived there.
A bag of 4 Flounders, including a fine fish over 2lb took top spot for Dave Mitchell.
Chris Jackson was second with 5 Flounders and 7 Eels, Kev Jones was third with a Flounder and 6 Eels.
Terry Jones took fourth with 2 Flounder and 3 Eels, and Thomas Jones showed its not just the juniors he can beat, by finishing fifth overall, and top junior on the day with a Flounder and 3 Eels.
With 2 junior matches scheduled at Benarth in the next few months, i cant wait to get back and get into those snotties again.
Winter Shore League 2009
Match 5 - Conwy Morfa - 3rd March 2009
This was always going to be a hard match, too early for flounders, and fishing in the daylight, so rockling would have to be the target again.
17 members turned out on a cold windy day with a chance of wintry showers, and it was pretty grim with no signs of a fish in the first hour or so. Things improved slightly after low water, with a few rockling coming in here and there, and by the end of the four hours 12 anglers had fish to weigh in.
Top bag, and the ladies prize, went to Sue Price with 5 rockling for 0.54 kgs. 2nd was Terry Jones with 3 for 0.32, including the heaviest fish a specimen of 0.21. 3rd place and the league championship went to Kev Jones with 0.29 kgs., and 4th to John Jones with 0.25. Dave Lunt was 5th with 0.24, and Alan Illman 6th with 0.22.
Top team on the day were Kev and Terry with 69 points, and with Gary Bates having to miss this match this was enough to take top place in the team competition.
The junior prize went to Stephen Higginson.
Lets hope the summer league matches don`t have to rely on the rockling to save the blanks!
Match 4 - Colwyn Bay - 28th February 200921 members this time on quite a pleasant evening, we weren`t sure what to expect as no-one seems to have been doing very well anywhere lately.
The match started quietly, with a couple of hours of the ebb left, the only fish around seemed to be the odd rockling. Kev was the one who started fishing alongside the rock groyne with small hooks, and it didn`t take long to realise that was the way to go!
By the end of the 4 hours the scores were Mitch 21 rockling, Kev 19, and Terry 17. These were the only species anybody had seen until the last cast was reeled in and John Jones, who had failed to join the rockling hunt, but stuck it out fishing at range was rewarded with the hardest earned dogfish on record!
Results were, 1st Dave Mitchell 1.82 kgs. 2nd Terry Jones 1.75. 3rd Kev Jones 1.53. 4th John Jones 1.03. 5th Chris Jackson 0.73. 6th Gary Bates 0.62.
The junior prize went to Stephen Higginson, in 8th place with 0.59, and the ladies prize to Sue Price with 0.07. Top team were Terry and Kev with 69 points, and the heaviest fish was John`s doggie of 0.73 kgs.
This leaves the top of the league very tight with one match left, it`s a case of having to weigh in at a very hard match to have a chance of taking the title.
Match 3 - Dee estuary rover - Sunday 8th February 2009The weather had a detrimental effect on catches, with a lot of cold fresh water coming down the river bringing weed and all sorts of rubbish with it! We had a nasty snow shower to contend with in the first hour, but the wind was not too bad, coming from the right, so not affecting us to a great extent.
Top bag on the Day went to Kev Jones with 11 dabs and a whiting in size for a weight of 2.18 kgs. 2nd was Steve Parry 8 dabs and a whiting for 1.70, 3rd Terry Jones 9 dabs and a whiting for 1.62, and 4th prize was split between Gary Bates and Shaun Rodenhurst, both with 1.46, Nigel Ford took 6th with 1.20, Top junior was Stephen Higginson with 0.87, Top lady was Sue Price with 0.20, and top team were Kev and Terry with 72 points. The heaviest fish prize went to Dave Mitchell with a whiting of 0.34 kgs.
Match 2 - Prestatyn - Sunday 25th January 2009
21 members arrived to fish this one, with a light offshore breeze and some warm sunshine, it was almost like Spring, however as soon as it went dark the wind found it`s teeth and reminded us how cold it can get!
Dabs and Rockling started to appear on the first few casts, but as the tide dropped so did the catch rate. The only other species caught were a couple of flounders and 1 codling.
Match winner was Terry Jones with a codling of 1.79 kgs. ( 3-15-00 lbs ) plus a dab and a rockling for 1.99 kgs. 2nd was Dave Mitchell with 7 dabs for 1.29, joint 3rd Gwyn Andrews with 4 dabs and a rockling, and Steve Parry with 5 dabs for 0.99 each. Shaun Rodenhurst took 5th with 4 dabs and 3 rockling for 0.98 and Dave Lunt 6th with a flounder and a dab for 0.76.
Sue Price took the ladies prize with 2 rockling for 0.17, and Stephen Higginson the junior prize with one for 0.07. Top team were Terry and Kev with 66 points and that codling was obviously the heaviest fish.
Match 1 - Pensarn - Saturday 10th January 2009
We had
a good turnout of 30 anglers for the first match of 2009, including a lady and
a junior.
The weather has been calm and frosty for 3 weeks now, but as soon as we get our
rods out there are 30 - 40 mph Westerlies, which made things pretty
uncomfortable!
We fished from 19-00 until 23-00, with high water at around 22-30, so hopes of
Whiting and Dabs were high.
As the match progressed, the phone calls along the match length became more frequent
with reports of some small Dabs and Rockling for a select few, but not a single
Whiting was reported by anyone, even under size!
Several anglers gave up before the end, and many more couldn’t bear to attend
the weigh in to see how badly they had done!
The match was won by Shaun Rodenhurst with a Dab of .33kgs. Gwinny Andrews took
second with a Dab and a Rockling for .22kgs.
Sue Price was third and top lady with her 2 Rockling weighing .17kgs.
Sues husband Pete was in joint fourth place with a Rockling weighing .14kgs,
which was the same weigh as Kev Joneses Dab, which only just made the 23 cm
size limit!
Dave Mitchell was fifth with 2 slugs for .13kgs.Gary Bates 6th with one slug
weighing .10kgs, and Alan Illman was 7th with a little one of .06kgs.
The rest blanked, only 8 of the 30 anglers managed to catch fish big enough to
bring to the scales!
Sue and Pete Price were top team with their third and fourth places.
Our next match is at Prestatyn on Sunday 25th January. Fishing from 15-00 until
19-00 and booking in at the sailing club carpark before 14-30. You will need to
bring extra money for the carparks, as the pay and display machines are in
operation all year round! You have been warned!
Summer Shore League 2008
Closed Fur and Feather - Colwyn Bay - Saturday 13th December 2008
25 members fished, with a light offshore breeze and a calm sea to wade into, it wasn`t too unpleasant at all ! The usual suspects were there in force, 26 cm. whiting in twos and threes, I`m sure if we raised the limit to 30 we`d catch them at 29 all night! Anyway all 25 weighed in, with the better bags coming from the Tan-lan headland area.
Dan Davies won with a bag of 20 Whiting for 4.75 Kgs. Gwinny Andrews came second with 13 Whiting and 2 Dabs for 3.10 Kgs and Dave Mitchell was third with 17 Whiting for 3.07 Kgs.
Heaviest round fish was a Whiting weighing 0.42kgs, caught by Adam Davies.
Heaviest flat fish was shared between Chris Gibbons and John Jones, who both had dabs of 0.34 kgs.
Thanks to everyone who supported the match and raffle.
Match 10 - Pensarn - Sunday 23rd November 2008
A dozen bravehearts turned up at Pensarn to fish in atrocious conditions, but the weather was so bad it proved impossible to hold the match.
After a discussion about alternative venues, we decided that in these weather conditions it would be more or less the same anywhere else, and we decided to cancel the match and count the best results from 8 of the 9 matches already held to decide the league championship.
Janet Dorling took the ladies` championship, and Thomas Jones, as the only junior to have fished a match, won the junior title.
The team champions were Norman Dorling and Gary McLeod, with
Match 9 - Llandudno North Shore - Saturday 1st November 2008
A good turnout of 18 for this one, on a bitterly cold night with an onshore wind and a couple of hundred yards of white surf to cast into, it looked grim to say the least!
The first couple of hours were hard work with just the odd fish showing, but the whiting came on as the water got deeper, although they were mostly undersize, or only just in.
Billy McLintock gave us a masterclass, with a bag of 15 whiting, 2 dogs and a dab for 4.45 kgs. Terry Jones managed to find a decent codling and 9 whiting for 2.70 in 2nd and Gary McLeod had 12 whiting for 2.09 in 3rd. Norman Dorling took 4th with 7 whiting and a flounder for 1.56, to hold on to his lead in the league, with one match left. Fifth place went to Dave Mitchell with 4 whiting, a dog and a rockling for 1.50, and 6th was Mike Peters with10 whiting for 1.48.
Sue Price took the ladies prize with 2 rockling for 0.22 and top team were Norman Dorling and Gary McLeod with 68 points. The heaviest fish was Terrys codling of 1.45 ( 3-03-08 lbs.)
Match 8 - Penmaenmawr -
Saturday 19th October 2008
15 members this time, including a few new faces, welcome all of you, I was otherwise engaged for this one, so Norman stepped in and got lumbered with the biggest weigh-in of the year so far!
All 15 weighed in, with Dave Mitchell taking the lion`s share, 19 Dogs, a Thornback and a Whiting for 21.91 kgs. Bill McLintock made his first appearance of this league to take 2nd with 14 Dogs and a Whiting for 14.53 kgs., and Gary Bates took 3rd with 14 Dogs for 11.79. 4th place was shared by Barry Haigh, with 8 Dogs and 2 Flounders for 9.52, and Gary McLeod with 9 Dogs and a Whiting for the same weight.
League leader Norman Dorling held on to top spot with his 6th place bag of 9 Dogs and a Whiting for 9.10. Sue Price took the ladies prize with a Dog of 0.92, and was unlucky with a 44 cm Bass, just 1 cm undersize!
Top team were Mitch and Gary with 72 points, and the heaviest fish was Mitch`s Thornback of 3.05 kgs.
Match 7 - Pwllheli - Saturday 20th September 2008
Just ten of us made the journey down the Lleyn for this one, but at least the weather was on our side, a flat calm sea as warm as an indoor swimming pool and a lovely sunset as we started to fish.
It started slowly for most of us apart from Sam , who found a dog first cast, and Kev who got a couple of dragonets amongst the undersized dabs. The dogs came on later, but the bites were a bit shy, with a lot not finding the hooks.
Gary McLeod ( Sam) took the match with 7 dogs for 3.51 kgs., Mike Peters was 2nd with 4 dogs for 2.60, Kev 3rd with 4 dogs and 2 dragonets for 2.20, and Terry Jones 4th with 4 dogs for 2.15. John Jones had 3 for 1.59 in 5th and Dave Lunt 2 for 1.16 in 6th.
Gary Bates took the heaviest fish prize with a dog of 0.79 kgs., and Janet Dorling the ladies prize, top team were Kev and Terry with 68 points.
Match 6 - Club waters rover - Saturday 16th August 2008
Just 13 of us this time, with a forecast of prolonged periods of heavy rain, I`m not surprised some felt the call of the armchair and Match Of The Day!
We all had different ideas about where to fish, some choosing to target eels and flounders in the Conwy, while some opted for the rough ground areas for dogfish.
At the end it turned out that the doggies came on in the last hour and a half, and the top 4 bags went to them.
Top weight
was Terry Jones with 7 dogs and a whiting from
Norman
Dorling took 5th place with 11 eels and a rockling from the Conwy
estuary for 1.64, and 6th was John Jones with 2 dogs and a whiting
from
Janet took the ladies prize with 4 eels for 0.52, and top team were John Smith and Mark Hill with 68 points.
Match 5 - Porth Iago - Sunday 13th July 2008
Everyone weighed in, but some struggled to find their dogs and wrasse so that made it quite interesting when weigh in time arrived.
Mike Jones found a good spot, with his 3 fish bag limit on 4 species - ballans, dogs, pollack, and corkwings, giving him a runaway winning bag of 6.09 kgs. Nearest to him, but well behind was Terry Jones, with 3 ballans, a dog, and a small conger for 3.55 kgs.
Norman Dorling took 3rd with 3.39 to stay top of the league and also winning the final of the K.O. cup. 4th place went to Dave Mitchell with 2.90, 5th was Mike Peters with 2.66, and 6th Gary McLeod with 2.53. This was just sufficient to win him the Trevor Davies cup with 71 points to Norman`s 70 over the last 2 matches.
The heaviest fish prize went to Mike Jones with a ballan wrasse of 1.24 kgs (
Match 4 - Llam Carw, Amlwch - Sunday 29th June 2008
A very poor turnout this time, with just 9 of us making the trip. The weather started with showers, but the wind was behind us, and after the fist hour or so it turned into a pretty decent afternoon.
The dogfish were easy enough to find, with most of us getting our limit of three quite quickly, it was the other species that some were struggling to find.
Gary McLeod found his 3 wrasse after a move, and with 3 dogs and a Pollack he won with 5.04 kgs. Gary Bates had 3 dogs and 3 wrasse for 4.69 in 2nd place, and Kev Jones took 3rd with 3 dogs and 2 wrasse for 3.43. Norman Dorling was 4th with 2 wrasse and a dog for 2.42, Mitch 5th with 2.14, and Adam Davies 6th with 1.95.
Top team
were Gary McLeod and Norman with 72 points and Dave Lunt had the heaviest fish,
a wrasse of 1.32 kgs. (
Match 3 - Holy Island rover - Saturday 7th June 2008
A splendid turnout for the first away match saw 18 members turn up on a glorious sunny day, but our plans for signing on at the car park may need a rethink next time, as it was full and we all ended up double parking by the slipway and getting moved on by the police, oops!
We all had our ideas where to fish, but as usual some went badly wrong in the weather conditions, it was just too nice a day, and a limit of 3 of each species meant the wrasse were going to make a big difference for those who found them.
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., after a move to the breakwater for the dogs. 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. just two and a half ounces short of the club record!
Janet Dorling won the ladies prize with 2.32 kgs.Top team were Norman and Sam again with 73 points, and no juniors fished.
Match 2 - Greenfield - Sunday 11th May 2008
Just 18 members turned up this time, in blistering sunshine and light winds it really felt like summer at last. It wasn`t to last though, we had a thunderstorm and rain for the last half hour of the match, catching a few people out who weren`t dressed for it!
The fishing wasn`t up to expectations, with just a few managing to find more than one fish. Eels and flounders mostly with just the odd plaice, and half a dozen whiting.
Norman Dorling took the honours with a 4 species bag from the ship end of the venue, 2 flounders, 2 eels, a rockling, and the only 6 in-size whiting of the match, for a winning bag of 2.64 kgs. Chris Gibbons fished the dock end for his 6 eels and 2 flounders for 2.58 kgs. Mike Jones had a plaice and a couple of eels for 1.16 in 3rd, his plaice taking the heaviest fish prize at 0.82 kgs. (
Top team were Norman and Sam with 72 points, and Janet took the ladies prize. No juniors fished.
Match 1 - Deganwy - Saturday 12th April
2008
24 members turned up for the opening match
of the league, the calendar said summertime had started, our match diary said
it was summer, but the weather obviously hadn`t been told! A cold wind coming
across the estuary brought a procession of heavy showers straight in our faces
to make for a very uncomfortable four hours.
The usual bags of flounders were the target,
but some of us were less successful than in previous years, with 3 of the top 6
from last year`s match here blanking this time. Norman and Janet Dorling opted
for the signal box area, and came back with a dozen between them, while the
rest of us spread out around the downstream end of the narrows and beyond.
Janet had the top bag of 7 flounders for
2.45 kgs., with Mike Jones in 2nd place with 5 for 2.19 kgs.
Two teams tied on 64 points, Mark Hill and
John Smith were one, and Norman Dorling and Gary McLeod the other. Janet took
the ladies prize, and Thomas Jones the juniors. The heaviest fish was one of
Mike Jones`s flounders at 0.58 kgs.
Winter Shore League 2008
Match 5 - Club Waters Rover - 22nd March
A spell of horrendous Easter weather reduced
the turnout to just 11 anglers for this one, with 2 of the pre-booked members
deciding not to bother. 10 of us opted to face the strong North-westerly at
Talacre, where we were pretty sure to catch something at least, this worked with
everyone weighing in. The only one with another plan was Norman Dorling, who
chose Deganwy, this paid off handsomely, with his bag of 15 flounders for 6.91
kgs., more than treble the weight of the next best effort. His best flounder of
0.69 ( 1-08-04 lbs.) also taking the heaviest fish prize.
Bill McLintock took 2nd with 13
dabs for 2.06, and I managed 3rd with 10 dabs and a whiting for
1.74., 4th place went to Gary Bates with 8 dabs and a whiting for
1.64. Chris Gibbons was 5th with 1.08, and Dave Mitchell 6th
with 0.93. Two teams scored 65 points, Dave Mitchell and Gary Bates, and Kev
and myself.
The league title went to Norman Dorling, his
masterstroke today taking him level on points with Dan but winning on total
weight by a wide margin, Kev took 3rd place just 3 points behind.
The team title went to Dan Davies and Chris Gibbons, 11 points clear of Kev and
Terry.
Thanks to everyone who turned up to the 5
matches, and I hope we can keep up the support for the forthcoming summer
league.
Match 4 - Perch Rock - New
Another attempt at a match in the
The match started very slowly, with rumours
of the odd fish or two, but few and far between, a few dabs and rockling on the
ebb with the occasional under size whiting. As the tide turned there were a few
more fish about, but still very disappointing , I for one was glad to see nine
o`clock come to put an end to it, and I don`t think I was alone!
Chris Gibbons took the honours with 3 dabs,
a whiting and a rockling for 0.73 kgs. Norman Dorling was 2nd
with 3 dabs and a rockling for 0.68, Gary Bates 3rd with 3 dabs and
2 rockling for 0.65 , and Dan Davies 4th with 3 dabs for 0.57. This
was enough to give Dan the lead in the league going into the last match.
Bill McLintock took 5th with
0.54, and Wayne McGilloway 6th with 0.36, 16 anglers weighed in, in
all. The heaviest fish was one of Norman`s dabs at 0.25 kgs and top team
were Chris and Dan with 71 points from 1st and 4th places.
Match 3 – Penmaenmawr - Saturday
9th February 2008
This time we got the weather right, with a
spring-like day turning into a cold calm evening with a bit of frost, 26 turned
up to give it a go. However the fishing let us down badly, with a flooding tide
pushing us back up the beach at a gallop, there were people with 250 yards of
line out and no sign of a bite.
A few whiting came on before the end of the
match, but the in-size ones were very few and far between. Three anglers found
a dog each, taking the fist 3 places as follows. 1st John Jones with
one of 0.83 kgs also taking the heaviest fish prize. 2nd was Karl
Rowan with one of 0.81, and 3rd Mark Hill 0.79. Dave Lunt took 4th
with a flounder of 0.61, Wayne McGilloway 5th with 0.41 ( the only
one to find 2 in-size whiting ) and Kev Jones 6th with 3 rockling
for 0.38.
Top team were Karl Rowan and Bill Mclintock
with 64 points.
Match 2 -
23 anglers for this one, after some grotty
weather for a couple of weeks we were fortunate to find a day with some
sunshine and hardly any wind.
The fishing was a bit patchy for the first couple of hours with just a flounder
or two coming in all along the match length. This soon changed as the tide got
half way in, it was like turning a switch on, the whiting started all the way along.
Some were undersize, but there were some around 35-38 cms as well, better fish
than we`ve been getting off the open beaches this year.
Norman Dorling came out on top with 11
whiting and 2 flounders for 2.88 kgs. Gary Jones was 2nd with 5
whiting and 2 flounders for 2.27, Glyn Williamson 3rd with 10
whiting and a flounder for 2.17, and John Jones 4th with 7 whiting
and a flounder for 1.97.
Just missing out on the money were Dan
Davies in 5th with 1.93, and Kev Jones, 6th with 1.74.
John Davies took the heaviest fish prize with a specimen flounder of 0.85
(1-13-12 lbs. ) and top team were Norman and John with 71 points from 1st
and 4th places.