Happy new year to you all, please accept my apologies for this being a little late but 2014 has been a very hectic year!
Anyway, to the fishing. It's been a very good year in terms of catches, we started with a really good run of skate in the spring from the boats, with most competitors landing decent fish.
Especially well done to junior brothers, Lewis and Bradley Perry-French who did exceptionally well with the rays. Notably the boys won the Lawler pairs competition as a result of good thornback catches.
Smoothhound numbers were perhaps a little disappointing this year but some reasonable bass were caught and one of the highlights was Mick Morris landing a gold specimen tub-gurnard at an astonishing 2lbs.
With the usual onslaught of whiting later in the year, it was inevitable Tony Morris would make up for his early lull but it wasn't quite enough to catch his brother, Mick, who narrowly won the title by just two points.
Tony did however take the presidents heron for greatest number of fish in a year with 351 while Mick Morris and Ben Morris in second and third were separated by just 1 fish between them.
Beach fishing started a little slower with most of the better fishing coming later in the year. Nonetheless, G.S.A.C member Simon Stephenson eeked out results early on to gain a good lead in the championship and by the time the fish arrived in numbers he was too far ahead to be caught and won fairly comfortably.
Whiting numbers seemed better than usual from the shore this year with dogfish also an improvement. The most welcome addition to our usual autumn catches however was the encouraging numbers of codling caught. Several anglers landed them in the last few events with Mick Morris bagging 6 in one comp while our president, Kevin Morris, brought 5 to the scales too.
Mick's success over the year as a whole has led him to win yet another club championship with Ben Morris not too far behind in second. A special mention though goes out to relative newcomer Kelvin Wilton who got himself into 4th place overall and to 10yr old Lewis Perry-French who was 5th in the boat championship and 6th overall.
As I did I last year I have listed below fairly comprehensive championship results so you can see who has improved on 2013's standings. We've definitely had more interest in our club and in the angling this last year so long may it continue into 2015!
....and bring on those cod!!!
Tight lines.
Boat Championship;
1st- M. Morris, 90pts
2nd- T. Morris, 88pts
3rd- B. Morris, 87pts
4th- K. Wilton, 68pts
5th- L. Perry-French, 63pts
6th- C. Zacharia, 61pts
7th- G. Mummery, 53pts
8th- P. Gower, 48pts
9th- B. Perry-French, 40pts
10th- K. Morris, 26pts
11th- P. Thornton, 24pts
12th- D. Perry, 22pts
13th- R. Lowe, 16pts
14th- S. Mummery, 15pts
15th- L. Simpson, 8pts
16th- K. Rose, 6pts
17th- D. Johnson, 5pts
18th- K. Grove, 4pts
19th- S. Touati 3pts
20th- P. Gould, 1pt
Beach Championship;
1st- S. Stephenson, 84pts
2nd- M. Morris, 69pts
3rd- B. Morris, 53pts
4th- D. Smith, 43pts
5th- K. Morris, 40pts
6th- P. Thornton, 38pts
7th- T. Morris, 34pts
8th- K. Grove, 29pts
9th- K. Wilton, 23pts
10th- B. Perry-French, 21pts
11th- L. Perry-French, 18pts
12th- G. Mummery, 17pts
12th- P. Gower, 17pts
14th- P. Gould, 13pts
15th- D. Kennedy, 10pts
16th- M. Parker, 7pts
17th- D. Foreman, 6pts
18th- P. Davies, 3pts
19th- A. Louch, 2pts
19th- K. Rose, 2pts
21st- A. Stewart, 1pt
21st- M. Radwan, 1pt
21st- M. Turner, 1pt
Club Championship (top 20)
1st- M. Morris, 159pts
2nd- B. Morris, 140pts
3rd- T. Morris, 122pts
4th- K. Wilton, 91pts
5th- S. Stephenson, 84pts
6th- L. Perry-French, 81pts
7th- G. Mummery, 70pts
8th- K. Morris, 66pts
9th- P. Gower, 65pts
10th- P. Thornton, 62pts
11th- B. Perry-French, 61pts
11th- C. Zacharia, 61pts
13th- D. Smith, 43pts
14th- K. Grove, 33pts
15th- D. Perry, 22pts
16th- R. Lowe, 16pts
17th- S. Mummery, 15pts
18th- P. Gould, 14pts
19th- D. Kennedy, 10pts
20th- L. Simpson, 8pts
Presidents Heron (top 15)
1st- T. Morris, 351 fish
2nd- M. Morris, 272 fish
3rd- B. Morris, 271 fish
4th- G. Mummery, 205 fish
5th- K. Morris, 167 fish
6th- P. Thornton, 137 fish
7th- K. Wilton, 113 fish
8th- S. Stephenson, 109 fish
9th- C. Zacharia, 103 fish
10th- D. Perry, 85 fish
11th- P. Gower, 82 fish
12th- B. Perry-French, 74 fish
13th- D. Smith, 68 fish
14th- L. Perry-French, 66 fish
15th- K. Grove, 30 fish
