Issue 180  MAY 2010

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YOUNG LIONS TAKE WORLD SHORE SILVER

England’s Silver medal winning team: from left to right: Chris Clark, Daniel Stote, David Morris, Steven Rathbone, Michael Dawkins, Callum Graham and Andrew Dawkins.

The World Junior Shore Angling Championships held in the Grandola region of Portugal produced an exceptionally tight finish, after the four matches three teams were tying in 1st position with 13 points only for the young England Lions to lose out on countback, they had to settle for the silver medal behind Italy while Spain came in third. There was again another tie on 14 points with France getting the nod over Portugal, yes just one point separated the top five teams followed by Croatia.

There was more good news in the individual classification with Steven Rathbone, who collected a gold medal in Spain two years ago getting on the rostrum once again to collect the individual silver medal, he caught 72 fish in the four matches which mainly comprised of bream and golden grey mullet. Steven was using a Fox Multi Tip Conqueror rod throughout.

The England Team comprised of: Steven Rathbone (West Bay), Callum Graham (Bournemouth), Daniel Stote (Lymington). Michael Dawkins (Lymington) and David Morris (Deal). The manager was Chris Clark from Sway who was assisted by Andrew Dawkins from Lymington.

The team would like to thanks Tronixpro for financial assistance, Fox International for multi tip rods, Ian Houlton of Moonfleet Angling supplies for Tubertini fluorocarbon hook line and Kamasan for B541 fine wire spade end size 8 & 10 hooks which gave them the cutting edge.

Chris Clark

Fourteen-year-old Joe Chamberlain who is a member of the Lymington Club stole the show when the Angling Trust, Wessex Region Marine Group staged their AGM at Ringwood where the youngster did the double, collecting the junior of the year award and also the junior fish of the year trophy during a packed meeting.

The youngster who attends Priestlands School collected the trophy for the junior deemed to have landed the best fish during the past twelve months, a 5lb thick lipped mullet caught while float fishing in the Lymington Estuary. The junior of the year award is presented to the youngster who has obtained the most points in the region's junior fish of the month contest during the past twelve months which is supported by Hansfords of Fareham. The Secretary gave the meeting an update on the controversial Article 47/55 which would if it had not been challenged caused many problems for the Recreational Sea Angler, the article has now been watered down but still needs monitoring. It was also announced that the Wessex Champion of Champions boat competition will be fished out from Weymouth on Sept 18 in conjunction with the Angling Trust Individual Members Open, full details shortly. The officers and committee for the Wessex region were elected for the coming year, the principal positions are as follows. Geoff Knight from Blandford will be President, Chris Holloway from Poole the Chairman while Eric Gerrey from Southampton is the Vice-Chairman. Richard Prosser from Andover remains as Secretary while Kim Bowden from Portsmouth will be the Treasurer and Mike Judge from Southampton will be the Junior Representative. The Conservation Officer who plays one of the most important roles in the region will be Eamon Riordan from Ringwood.

Alex McDonald who works for the Exeter based wholesale distributor to the Trade of "Sakuma" hooks, amongst many other useful tackle items caught this fine Thornback Ray 11 lbs 2 ozs from the North Somerset shore on Squid bait fished on "Sakuma" hooks - Friday 9th April 2010 - Photo courtesy of Alex McDonald. Congratulations, Alex, our Shakespeare shore prize winner this month.

Sea Angler II has had Pollack up to 19 b, Ling up to 20lb and a very nice Haddock of 9lb (pictured above) caught by Adrian Piotrowski being the first out of Plymouth for many years. Adrian is the winner of our Shakespeare Boat prize this month.

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Dates Venue Times HW T

15th May Abbotsbury 5pm - 10pm 20.44 2.1, 12th June Ferrybridge 6.30pm - 11.30pm 19.45 2.1, 17th July Cogden 7pm - 12pm 23.50 1.9, 14th Aug Ferrybridge 7pm - 12pm 22.51 2.2, 4th Sept Cogden 6pm - 11pm 15.14 1.5, 30th Oct Masonic 7pm - 12pm 00.22 1.6, 27th Nov Abbotsbury 6pm - 11pm 22.22 1.6, 11th Dec West Bexington 5pm - 10pm 21.53 1.5

No matches will be cancelled, back up venue to be Preston Beach. Angling Trust rules apply. Payment: 1st, 2nd, 3rd in each zone / 1st 2nd 3rd overall. League membership will be limited to 100. Membership to league no later than 20th February 2010. £20.00 to join the league will go to end of season payout along with sponsorship prizes. 100 percent payout. Non league members will not be eligible for the end of year prize table. Match fees £10.00 entry plus £1.00 heaviest fish. Last entry on the night will be 1 hour before the match starts. Pre-book only. Any other information please ring Denning Tackle 01305 783145.

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