NEWSLETTER 2011/12 COMING
SOON
Newsletter 2010
First of all thanks to all the volunteers and
parents without whose help it would be impossible to run, also
thanks to The Environment Agency, Viscount Tackle Ipswich,
Bait-Tech, Suffolk Water Park, F.M.S, Gipping Angling Preservation
Society, Nisa Feeders and The Suffolk Foundation for their generous
help.
This year has gone really well with several new members, many of
whom had only tried fishing once or twice before, now most of them
have caught “the bug” , bought a lot of their own tackle and can’t
wait till the next session. As you probably all know both Emma and
Brian passed their level one coaching course, and Emma in
particular has been taking many of our new members for lessons, we
hope to have three more coaches in our ranks next year. We once
again held a charity match in aid of Suffolk Disabled Anglers Forum
Thanks to all who took part, bought raffle tickets and donated the
prizes, apart from the parents who donated prizes we had prizes
from Breakaway Tackle, Birds Tackle, Markham’s, Viscount Tackle,
Tackle Up Felixstowe, Preston Innovations, Suffolk Water Park,
Robinsons Motor Engineers Needham Market We raised over £200 at
this event.
The Viscount Summer League once again proved a tremendous success
with Taylor winning the league for the second year running; can he
make it his hat trick next year? Thanks to Viscount Tackle for
sponsoring the league. Colman’s Cottage Essex, four of our juniors
fished in this junior league, but it was not very well attended
this year, well done to George for catching his first 100lb+ bag of
carp (105lb 5oz) and also for winning fishing tackle.
All England Junior Pole Championship at Dents of Hilgay,
Norfolk, we entered two teams in this event, the team consisting of
Brian, Nathan, Kim and Jack finished in 3rd place. The
other team consisting of Emma, Alex, James C and Jamie finished in
10th place. Thanks to Tim and Brian for their input into
tactics for this venue.
N.J.A.A Under 18’s Final, Langwith Lakes York; Firstly Thanks to
the parents for taking the juniors on this long journey, we took a
team of 8 juniors to fish this match, we knew we were up against it
when all the other teams were virtually locals and travelled no
further than 50 miles to compete and therefore had plenty of
practice, the fishing proved to be very hard as a match was held on
the lakes the day before, what impressed us about our juniors was
the way they stuck to the task and tried different tactics in an
effort to catch more fish. Well done.
Suffolk and Norfolk Summer League; we entered a team of five
in this event (three juniors, two adults) with the idea of giving
some of the older juniors experience of fishing with and against
top local match anglers, Alex, Taylor, George and Brian all gained
valuable experience competing, indeed Brian proved that he had
learned a lot by winning one of the matches on the River Yare with
a catch of roach and skimmer s for a weight of 37lb. Thanks also to
the senior members of the team who imparted valuable advice to the
juniors, with 14 teams taking part we finished in 12th
place, just 5 points off 6th place, bearing in mind we
were the only team fielding juniors and fishing against 70+ adult
anglers we did extremely well and hope to enter again in
2011.
NJAA Challenge South Holland Drain; once again thanks to the
parents for taking the juniors to the venue for the practice and
the match itself. Well done to the under 16 team for finishing
4th overall, once again the northern teams dominating
the results, A big well done to Taylor for winning the individual
crown and getting Nisa Waveney’s name recognised in our
1st year as members of N.J.A.A. The over 16 team didn’t
fare as well, but there’s always next year, we have the makings of
very good teams if we continue to work very hard in practice
learning different methods.
Weybread Pits; Inter club match against Harleston and Wortwell
Juniors, Well done to the team, for the 2nd year running
we beat H&W on their home water, 101lb to 110lb, well done to
Bradley for finishing 2nd , Jamie 3rd, Emma
4th.
Final match Suffolk Water Park M3,Silvers match, won by Kim,
Taylor 2nd, 3rd was our newest member, Sophie fishing
her first ever match, catching a Rudd of over a pound, and winning
the “angler of the day” trophy as well. Overall we are impressed
with the way the juniors are progressing in only our 2nd
year; with some of our juniors now starting to win and frame in
senior open matches at Suffolk Water Park, our aim is to help all
of you develop your skills and enjoy your fishing. We look forward
to continued success in 2011 and beyond. The parents will be
pleased to learn that a couple of nationals are scheduled to be
fairly local next year, one being at Suffolk Water Park and another
near Peterborough, There is possibility of one long trip to
Heronbrook Fishery near Stoke on Trent for the Angling Trust
Cadets, Juniors & Intermediates National
Championship.
2009
As our 2009 diary closes we can now look back and ask how
successful our first year as a club has been and from that decide
where and if we can improve anything we either did or didn’t do
very well. We certainly gave you all plenty of events to choose
from and we also included a mixed variety of venues and fishing,
which is something in which we excelled and something which was
enjoyed by our young match anglers. Another good point was seeing
how well you all worked together both as team members and
individuals.
We started with the blessing of our
parent club the Nisa Waveney Angling Club who paid the entry fees
of both our teams in this years National Junior Championships. We
have also received support and sponsorship from both Nisa Feeders
and Bait-Tech for which we are extremely grateful. Our sincere
thanks also go to both the Environment Agency for their award of
£500 which helped pay some of our start up costs and the Suffolk
Foundation for their award of £3000 which has been used to purchase
equipment and pay our Junior National Championship squad overnight
accommodation fees. So when you look back at all of this we can say
it has been a very successful first year. Success doesn’t just come
you have to work hard to achieve that and our first years success
wouldn’t have been possible without the help and support of the
people that have given so much of their time and energy that few
realise so lets remember them and lets also not forget the parents
and other volunteer helpers who have provided the extra support
needed to make it all work, a big thank you goes out to you
all.
Staying for 2010
Coleman’s Cottage:
Our plans are to carry on and offer the same service to young match
anglers who will once again have the opportunity to compete in both
domestic matches and national team championships. Several
of
you have also enjoyed taking part in the Junior League Matches at
Coleman’s Cottage where you have also done very well winning rods,
reels and many other prizes by either winning your age group or
finishing in the top three in a field of 21 other junior anglers
from Essex County. Congratulations go to our own Brian Cant for
winning the overall individual title at Coleman’s
Cottage
Viscount Tackle Summer
League
Congratulations to Taylor Thorpe for
winning this years Viscount Tackle Summer League.