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Some match results

Afternoon club match at Heron lake on 22nd May was won by Kaz from peg 21 with 16lb 8oz, second on peg 26 Dave Ricks with 10lb and third on peg 22 Neil Gosling with 8lb 10oz.

The Presidents cup on 5th June at Heron lake was won by Kevin Bamford on peg 18 with 28lbs 13oz, second Pete Whale on peg 10 with 27lb 15oz and third Nigal Franks on peg 12 with 14lb 14oz.

The Sir Felix Pole trophy held on July 7th at Heron lake was won by Roger Giles from peg 33 with 24lb 2oz, second on peg 16 Sid Web with 16lb 1oz and third on peg 26 Dave Johnson with 10lb 2oz.

Match weights have been mainly crusians and brown goldfish and some tench with a few bream and skimmers, rudd, roach, gudgeon and perch also being caught. Pellet, paste and maggot being the main baits.

Marlborough & District Angling Association
Main items from AGM minutes 20th October 2009

Chairmans report
From Simon Clarke who thanked the secretary, match secretary, treasurer and the committee for their efforts over the last year including the lake maintenance and the work parties building the fish refuges.
Election of officers
President B Raisey -proposed P Lane second N Franks- carried
Chairman S Clark -proposed C Potter second N Pegrum- carried
Secretary M Ellis –proposed N Pegrum second P Lane- carried
Treasurer B Duckett –proposed T Hawkins second S Clark- carried
Press officer N Pegrum –proposed S Clark second N Franks- carried
Committee- G Mundy, T Hawkins, M Smith, R Price, P Lane, C Potter  plus A Sawyer voted in on block- carried
Proposals Passed
1 Bloodworm to be permitted on the canal only –committee proposal second N Pegrum- carried
2 Club appoints a membership secretary on or before the 2010 AGM, the committee to consist of eight members, proposed N Franks, second R Price- carried
3 (ref rule 4) remove ladies subscription, increase £15 ticket to £20, proposed N Franks second P Lane- carried.
4 (ref rule 8) Remove trout season, only snap tackle with semi- barbless hooks to be used, proposed N Franks second C Potter- carried
5 (ref rule 12) Spouse to be removed, proposed N Franks second T Hawkins
6 (ref rule13)
(a)Day tickets to be available for the canal only from dawn until dusk at £6 per person, proposed N Franks second R Price- carried.
(b)Remove guest tickets, proposed N Franks second S Clarke- carried.
(c) 24 hour ticket available at £15, proposed N Franks second R Price- carried
(d) Day ticket redeemable (£5 max) against a season ticket- proposed N Pegrum second M Smith- carried. This to be printed on day ticket.
 7 (ref rule 23) Remove rule completely, proposed N Franks second C Potter- carried
8 (ref rule 24) Change ACA to Angling Trust, proposed N Franks second P Lane- carried.

 

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On Heron Lake there will be a stocking of roach approx. 10,000 fish up to a pound going in this spring (2010) in mid march from the environment agency to which we own them a big thanks. there are also plans from the club for further stockings now of bream, crusians and F1's, it will be anounced here as soon as more is known, members on watch for cormorants are reporting no sightings at all particularly early mornings which would be their normal arrival time so all is looking good for a good summer on the lake.

After the cormorant problem the lake encountered over the winter of 08/09 the lake is recovering well helped by several cages being built (see photo's) and floating rafts of plants tied over the top so don't fish to close to these fish refuges as the refuge cages are slightly bigger than the floating islands, we now have a lot of small roach and rudd as well as quite a few perch in the 6-8oz range, there are also some larger specimens that survived which spawned early in the year, the tench are showing more as well as well as the crusians and goldfish which all seem to be 1 1/2lb+.

The fish that seemed to have suffered the most appeared to be the bream with only the odd fish reported so if you do manage to catch a few please let me know, in the mean time there are plenty of fish to be caught on most baits ranging form maggot and caster through to pellet, meat and paste, even punched bread is catching.

The canal has been fishing very well at Bedwyn end for roach, perch and skimmers, as the weather is warming the rest of the reaches will get better as the shoals of bream and tench are starting to move, it has been said that the longer day light hours encourages the tench to feed as much as water temperture, the carp fishing in the spring is always worthwhile as some nice doubles are moving on a few reaches like brimslade and beeches to name just two.

Night fishing to be allowed on all canal reaches for an additional charge of £20 per year, if the committee receives complaints of noise or disturbance then the reaches available will be reviewed,

Any body with news or info (including pictures) you would like to share can email me at the address below.