WHAT’S ON & TIDES
Your at-a-glance match events planner = Penn Sea League
Events, matches and tide tables.
Fixtures are listed in case matches are permitted during the time this issue of Sea Angler is on sale. Please note that due to the Covid-19 lockdown many of these events may have been cancelled or postponed.
6: Bispham Angling Sea League rnd 6 of 11 & open, Heysham, 5pm-9.15pm, book on 3.30pm at car park, £20 entry, 15cm minimum size, book only, Dave 07472 249294 or Tony 07702 229015.
6: Tralee Bay SAC open, Barrow, 10am-2pm, Chris O’Sullivan 00353 (0)85 1532770.
6: Lincs open, Shallows, 5pm-9pm, book in from 3pm-4pm, catch and release, £20 entry, booking advisable, Garry 07889 271115 or George 07857 550125.
6-7: Scottish FSA Two-Day open, incorporating Scottish open shore, Riverside Drive, Dundee, pegged & zoned, draw at burger van car park, booking only, Chris 07872 944807, Mike 07933 003985 & Davy 07831 192717.
7: Filey Brigg AS Foords open, heaviest fish, Carl Bithell 01723 514794 or 07706 745345.
7: SAMF Yorkshire Summer League rnd 2 & open, Humberston Creek, 4.45pm8.45pm, 40 pegs, two hooks only, meet 3pm-4.3.45pm, measure, all fish count, eels 30cm under ruler/50cm over, £20 entry, Brett 07843 559265.
13: Leinster Shore Summer/Autumn League open, South Shore SAC, Wicklow area, Leinster League rules, Paul Whelan 00353 (0)851425728.
13: North Kerry SAC open, Cashen Estuary, 9.30am-1.30pm, James Allman 00353 (0)87 776 9456.
13: West Coast Shore League rnd 4 & open, Keel/Doogort, Co Mayo, €25 entry, juniors free, IFSA members only, best five out of six legs, Sean Murray 00353 (0)86 3129787.
13: Veals Summer League rnd 3 & open, Burnham, 5.30pm-9.30pm, draw 4.30pm, pegged, one rod, three hooks, no white rag or maddies, £60 league entry, best eight matches from 10, £15 entry all-in, booking required to fish as opens, Steve 0117 926 0790.
14: Whitby Summer League rnd 3 of 6 & open, Saltburn Pier to Filey Coble Landing, 4pm-8pm, heaviest fish match, weigh in by 8.30pm at Fleece car park, Church St, Whitby, £40 all-in for six matches, James 07773 702111.
19-21: Deal Angling Festival, three days, 4pm-9pm Friday & Sat, 9am-2pm Sunday, book in at Deal 1919 from 9am Friday, four zones of 20, book only, but only after lockdown, Mark Rogers 07770 973062.
20: Southern League rnd 6 of 12 & open, Bournemouth, 4pm-9pm, pegged, measure & return, undersize fish count as 1oz, £15 match entry, £5 pools, £10 pair, team of five free, 2020 League entry £20, booking ends one hour before start, Darren 07919 073 232, Nick 07870 922 216, Mike 07983 579 596, Ian 07736 004 714 or Ant 07775 691 916.
20: Bognor Regis SAA open, West End Beach, Bognor Regis, 8pm-1am, catch & release, draw from 7pm at beach opposite Waverley pub, Marine Drive West, PO21 2QA, John Small 07799 762377 (after 5pm).
21: North West ASAC Personal Members open, Rock Channel, New Brighton, 3.15pm-8.15pm, book on from 1.45am near clown sculpture, CH45 2PB, two-hooks only, weight conversion, 18cm minimum, £10 all-in, Richard Burrow 07763 529509.
l 25-28: Ramsey Angling Festival.
27: Chesil League rnd 4 & open, Chesil Centre, 7pm-midnight, £25 league entry, best eight matches from 10, booking essential, Dave Lane 07977 132951.
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2010
■ A meeting was called for bait diggers active in Suffolk’s Stour and Orwell rivers to agree possible management measures and a code of conduct.
■ Three teams tied for first place in the World Junior Shore Championships in Portugal. Finishing on 13 points each were England, Italy and Spain, but on countback Italy won gold, with England second and Spain third. Steve Rathbone, a former individual gold winner, took silver. Alongside Steve in the England team were Callum Graham, Daniel Stote, Michael Dawkins and David Morris.
■ Ounces separated the top three in the Whitby Spring Festival. With cod and ling scarce, anglers switched to pollack. Winner Paul Darby won £1,000 for catching a 12lb 4oz fish, with Mike Morgan second on 12lb 2oz 8dr and Shane Hall third with 12lb 2oz.
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2000
■ A superb response to the 2000+ UK Shark Tagging Programme meant the organisers ran out of tags and had to order more. The year’s quota of 4,000 tags were issued to 112 participants, including 43 charter boats.
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■ A move to help secure the future of eel populations in rivers throughout England and Wales was announced by the Environment Agency. It had produced a consultation document as a first step in developing a strategy for the management of eels.
■ A new world record for a European bass was accepted by the International Game Fish Association (IGFA). The bass of 20lb 14oz was caught at Cap d’Agde, France, in September 1999 and was accepted as a 30lb (15kg) line-class record.
1990
■ The Government announced that in 34 bass nursery areas, boat fishing would be wholly or partly banned. Pressure from anglers also led to Europe adopting a 36cm limit for bass.
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■ A 6lb gilthead bream was an early treat for Gordon Dilling, of Plymouth, Devon. He caught it on a fresh peeler crab from the Portlemouth area.
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■ Ronald Hyde, who had never caught a bass, boated the biggest of the year so far when he landed a 16lb 12oz fish. The angler, from Romford, Essex, was fishing aboard a small boat out of Leigh, Essex.
1980
■ Fish of the month was one destined to be a new British record. The 4lb 14oz 9dr sole was caught by Peter Smart from the shore on the west coast of Guernsey.
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■ John Holden, sea angling adviser for Bruce and Walker, gave Sea Angler a demonstration of the firm’s Seamatch 130 rod, which represented a breakthrough with carbon in rod design.
■ Torquay tackle dealer
Ted Tuckerman was reporting one of the best springs on record for plaice fishing on the Skerries Bank, off Dartmouth, Devon. The best one-day aggregate was 33 plaice aboard Barry Lingham’s Jennifer Ann. Ted and his pals also caught 22 fish to 5lb 7oz 4dr when filming for Westward TV.