2008-2009
2nd August 2008, Junior Open, Sherwood
Water
SDFAPS held their annual Junior Open Fishing
Tournament on the Saturday morning of 2nd August 2008 on
Sherwood Water (Pit 1), Reydon. The turnout was rather
disappointing although the eleven entrants, aged between 9 and 16,
closely supervised by parents and friends, all had a good bag of
fish. Each entrant was presented with a ‘goody bag’ to the value of
approx. £13 containing 1 packet brown crumb (kindly donated by the
Southwold Angling and Pet Food Centre) plus an assortment of
angling equipment. Purdy’s Newsagents kindly donated crisps and
coke.
The prizes were presented by Mr. G.Denny, President of SDFAPS, and
were purchased from the Southwold Angling and Pet Food Centre who
were very generous in heavily discounting their
prices.
Overall winner
Callum
Walchester, aged 16 years, with a weight of
7lb.12½ozs
Individual Age Group
Winners
5 years and under -
no entries
6-9 yrs - Brer Cornish, aged
9 years, with a weight of 1lb.11ozs
10-13 - Keiren Colby, aged 12 years, with a weight
of 4lb. 3½ozs
14-16 - Sam Oxley, aged 15
years, with a weight of 3lb.
12½ozs
Each winner received a fishing
rod.
Thanks are extended to all members
who staged this event.
2007-2008
4th August 2007, Junior Open, Sherwood
Water, 10.45-1.45pm.
Overall winners
1st - Aiden Goldsmith 4lb.4ozs age 11 yrs. Won a Browning
rod and a reel
2nd - Charlie Clark 2lb 6ozs age 6 yrs. Won a John Wilson
Quiver Tip rod and a reel
3rd - Ryan Glazer 2lb 1oz age 12 yrs. Won a John Wilson
Quiver Tip rod
Individual Age Group Winners
5 years and
under - Samuel Wink age 5 yrs. 1lb 15ozs
6-9 yrs Joint winners - Andy Burden and Stephen Clark. Both
1lb 11ozs and age 9 years
10-13 yrs Joe Dowsing 1lb 3 1/2 ozs.
Before starting each child was given a 'goody' bag containing a
float, disgorger, leger weight, packet of hooks, packet of crisps
and a tin of coke. The prizes were purchased from Sam Hooks who
were very generous in discounting their prices and they also
donated a Shakespeare tackle box.
27th July 2007, Summer Series, Kingfisher
Lake 6-9pm.
The penultimate Southwold & District FAPS evening Summer Series
match was fished on the clubs Kingfisher Lake but the expected
quality Tench failed to show leaving Derek Thompson to take the
honours with a winning weight of 5lb 7oz. Steve Hurren and Eric
Peak took second and third places respectively with all three top
bags containing roach, rudd and small tench around the 3 to 4 ounce
mark, another positive sign that the water conditions are
encouraging successful breeding.
21st July 2007, Leiston Youth Club Angling
Section Harold Baskett Match, Sherwood
Water
The above match was
fished by eighteen members and several of the juniors were
accompanied by their parents to assist both the anglers and the
club bailiffs. Though a dry day conditions were hampered by a
fairly strong cross wind but a good day was had by all and we
appreciated the hospitality afforded us by the SDFAPS.
Sherwood Water was a challenge for some of our
younger anglers as they had not fished such deep water before. A
few of the anglers blanked but the top weight was 6lb 2ozs. As a
member of SDFAPS I had noticed myself that my catches had
diminished in the preceding week but hoped the boys and girls would
fair better than they did having indicated to them what an
excellent venue it is. Having said that the general opinion was
that they had a great day and would do it all again. In fact
several of the youngsters have intimated an interest in returning
on day ticket with their parents and also applying for membership
having seen the excellent facilities available at Reydon and the
other club venues.
1st David Buggs 6.2lbs
2nd Harry Harvey 4.25lbs
3rd Sophie Gissing 2.4lbs
Again may I extend our sincere thanks to the
committee of SDFAPS for allowing us the use of Sherwood
Water.
Malcolm C F Briggs – Bailiff LYCAS
13th July 2007, Summer Series, Sherwood
Water 6-9pm.
Southwold & District FAPS member
Derek Thompson thought he had the 3 hour evening match in the bag
with his two Bream of of 5lb 10oz and 5lb 4oz adding to his net of
Roach, Rudd and small Carp to give a weight of 17lb 2oz. That was
until about 5 minutes from the end of the match when Peter Turrell
latched into one of the resident specimens in Sherwood Water.
Angler and tackle were tested to the limit as with seconds to go a
22lb 2oz Mirror took a liking to the pellet offering intended for
Tench. This would have been difficult enough on a waggler rod but
Peter was using a pole with number 14 elastic and a size 13 hook.
The whistle went at 9pm and still Peter hung on. Cries of "stop
posing" and "it's silver fish only" didn't break his concentration
and the fish was landed well within the 10 minutes usually allowed
for landing fish hooked before the final whistle. A relieved but
jubilant Peter confessed, perhaps unsurprisingly, it to be the
largest fish he had ever landed on a pole. Who said Friday 13th was
unlucky? Jamie Hurren continued his high level point scoring with a
nice 15lb bag made up mostly of Tench.
Peter Turrell's match winning carp.
7th July 2007, Committee Cup, Sherwood
Water, 5-8pm.
The Societys committee match produced another cracking Tench from
Sherwood Water to Rodney Goldsmith presenting a lobworm to tempt a
fish of 5lb 12oz. Despite this it was not good enough to beat Barry
Reids 10lb 2oz bag (mainly Roach and Rudd) or Paul Goldsmiths
impressive 17lb 2oz of paste caught Tench in the three hour
match.
Paul Goldsmiths match winning bag of Tench caught on float fished
paste.
Barry Reids 2nd place bag, mainly Roach with the odd
Rudd and small
Tench and a single small home bred Mirror
Carp.
Rodney Goldsmith with his Sherwood Water 5lb 12oz
Tench caught on a hair rigged lobworm.
6th July 2007, Summer Series, Kingfisher
Lake, 6-9pm.
This 3 hour summer series match on
Kingfisher Lake was won by Jamie Hurren with 13lb 8oz of Tench and
small Carp bringing his total tally to two firsts and a third in
the series, clearly the man to beat. Paul Manthorpe again worked
hard for his second place with 9lb 8oz of Roach and Rudd with Derek
Thompson claiming third place with three small tench for 4lb 14oz.
The match caught small Carp and reports of Skimmers coming to
pleasure anglers indicate that the long slog to improve the
conditions and food chain with the water might at last be paying
off. There have been several reports of good quality Tench and Carp
coming from the water since the start of the season.
29 June 2007, Summer Series, Kessingland,
6-9pm.
The second match in the Summer Series was
fished at Kessingland with Barry Reid taking the honours with a
weight of 6lb 5oz. Perhaps unusually, most of his fish came to
Waggler fished maggot with the bulk of the weight being made up of
Ide to just under the pound mark, a sign that they are doing well
in the water. The largest, at 15 1/2oz is probably another Society
record following hard on those produced for Tench and Bream in last
weeks evening match at Reydon. Second and third places both fell to
the pole with Derek Thompson boosting his catch of Rudd with a
quality Perch.
22 June 2007, Summer Series, Sherwood Water,
6-9pm.
The first match on the re-stocked Sherwood Water provided a great
competition with plentiful numbers of fish from a few ounces up to
specimen quality.
Paul Manthorpe worked hard for his 14lb 5oz of Roach and Rudd
whilst Peter Turrells tactic of fishing for Tench gave him 25lb
3oz. These were both seen off by Jamie Hurrens winning bag of 26lb
9oz which included a superb Tench of 5lb 15 1/2 oz beating the
previously water record of 5lb 4oz (also held by Jamie). As if this
wasn't enough his bag also included two quality Bream, one of 5lb
7oz taking the previously unclaimed water record. His winning
margin would have been even higher had he not lost two
Bream.