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www.snowbee.co.uk BASS MEASURES FAILING TO PROTECT SPAWNING STOCKS IN THE SOUTH AND EAST OF ENGLAND Changes made last year by Fisheries Minister George Eustice to water-down EU proposals to protect threatened stocks of sea bass have come under fire from angling organisations following the publication of upsetting pictures of captured fish. They show bass secreting milt that were landed by fishing boats in the North Thames Estuary - six weeks after the premature end of the (Feb/March) commercial harvesting moratorium. Similar scenes have been witnessed in Dorset leading anglers and conservationists to question why commercial gill netters and hook-and-line vessels were given a four month exemption from the original EU proposal for a full six month no-take ban for the first half of the year, which still applies to recreational fishing. The male fish pictured was landed by an angler on the 8th May 2016 on a mark East of Bradwell. It weighed around 3lb after excreting milt onto the deck. A second fish of the same size was landed within minutes of the first and also excreted milt. Both were immediately and successfully returned alive however evidence from commercial catches shows that many large spawning fish, fat with eggs, are being sold at the present time.

West Country anglers have been enjoying some cracking smoothound action this week. Clem Thomas (top) with a 25lb 4oz hound caught a private boat off Watchet & Shaun Brewer (bottom) with a 22lb 8oz hound caught on a Newquay (Cornwall) based charter boat. Both fish were taken on crab baits.

During April and May, bass found in the Southern North Sea shoal up in large numbers off the Suffolk and Essex coast to spawn and have again been heavily exploited by commercial fishermen this year. Angling Trust Campaigns Chief Martin Salter said: "It is appalling that at a time when bass stocks are at critical levels the derogation negotiated by George Eustice for inshore commercial vessels has allowed the deliberate targeting of spawning aggregations of a threatened species. "This breaks every rule of good fishery management practice and is a conservation outrage. We are calling for a root and branch reform of the rules governing bass fishing not only to make them fairer for anglers but to enable valuable stocks to have a chance to spawn and for the fry to move into our rivers and estuaries to develop and grow." Mick Sharp, a former member of the Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, said: "During my four year term serving on the Kent and Essex IFCA, I was bombarded by recreational sea anglers and charter skippers desperate to get something done about the slaughter of bass spawning aggregations inside the six mile limit off the Essex and Suffolk coasts. "You have only got to look at the landing data to see that the peak in bass landings by commercial netters based in Essex occurs during April and May. Many of these fish are the big spawning females, up to 6kg, that we need to preserve in order to replenish future stocks." Nigel Horsman, from the Bass Anglers' Sportfishing Society (BASS), said: "The politically motivated derogation on landing bass by commercial fishermen in February and March was never about fully protecting Continued on page 2...

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BASS MEASURES FAILING TO PROTECT SPAWNING STOCKS IN THE SOUTH AND EAST OF ENGLAND Continued from page 1... bass whilst they were spawning, but more about appearing to do something by imposing a meaningless moratorium in the two months when commercial fishing for bass is at its lowest.

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"Eye witnesses now confirm that from Dorset to Essex bass are spawning in April and May, as they always have done, exposing the lie behind this derogation. It's high time politicians and fishery managers did the right thing and told the whole truth about their decisions, or better still, took the right decisions in the first place."

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David Curtis, from the campaigning group Save Our Seabass, added: "Had George Eustice and his French counterpart respected the EU Commission’s proposal for a full six month moratorium, these spawning bass, that are so vital to saving the stock, would now be fully protected.

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"Instead we are forced to watch spawning bass being slaughtered in gill nets that we are told are 'sustainable' and 'low impact'. This madness needs to end - if a moratorium is required to rebuild stocks then it should apply to everyone, without exception.” The Bass Anglers' Sportfishing Society (BASS) has written to Defra to alert them to the situation and to press for an overhaul of the bass regulations.

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On Monday 16th May Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held a Shingle Bank League competition in which 14 club members signed on and 11 members caught fish. The weather on the night was dry and warm with a south/west breeze and fish caught included smoothhound, undulate ray, garfish, dogfish and turbot. The best fish on the night was an undulate ray weighing 12lbs 8.4ozs caught by Arron Bridge and another notable fish was a garfish of 0-15.8ozs caught by Gavin Sloper. 1st Arron Bridge 2 fish 13lbs 14ozs. 2nd Chris Ellis 4 fish 9lb 3ozs. 3rd Roland Blomfield 3 fish 5lb 7.4ozs. 4th Terry Kempton 2 fish 3lb 4ozs. 5th Paul Watson 2 fish 1lb 8.2ozs. 6th Danny Panks 1 fish 1lb 6.8ozs. 7th Keith Panks 1 fish 1lb 6.6ozs. 8th Andy Hopkins 1 fish 1lb 5.4ozs. 9th John Sloper 1 fish 1lb 2ozs. 10th Gavin Sloper 1 fish 0.15.8ozs.

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THAMES ESTUARY REPORT by Lee Bollingbroke

Report For the Thames estuary and the ports of Brightlingsea West Mersea and Bradwell Bass fishing has been exceptional this month our boat Sophie Lea had over ten fish up to ten pounds with regular anglers from the Norfolk police Ian Hinchcliff topped the day with a nice double all fish were returned in keeping with the new rulings ,all week with settled conditions we were landing superb bass and one which was lost at the back of our boat was estimated at around fifteen pounds. Chris moles boat Enterprise from West Mersea also landed a superb bass of 16 pounds 6oz in the river black water not far from West Mersea ware Chris keeps his boat and only fishing there because of strong

Phil Chapman had a memorable day out on Sophie Lea with this seven pound bass released as required by the powers that be well done PHIL

winds with sheltered conditions in the river. Terry Batts boat vanishing Point sailing from Bradwell had two very good days on smooth hounds but had to sail along way to get his customers results and was rewarded with some cracking doubles for his efforts, thorn back rays are still plentiful that's if your not sick of landing them if you are let your skipper know as there are always other marks we can go to for other species. We had just such a trip on our boat Sophie Lea with anglers that had had two trips with us in the past catching big hauls of Ray's and wanted something different so we sailed to different grounds catching lots of dabs tubs and bass together with lots of medium hounds so it's worth asking your skipper if you don't ask you won't get.

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RECREATIONAL SEA ANGLERS FROM ESSEX & SUFFOLK TOGETHER WITH ESSEX WILDLIFE TRUST ASSIST SCIENTISTS ON BASS RESEARCH Between March and October, large shoals of Bass visit the inshore waters and estuaries of the Essex & Suffolk Coast. The species have declined markedly in recent years, through a combination of high levels of fishing and consecutive years of poor survival of juvenile fish, thought to be due to low winter water temperatures. As a response, the EU introduced emergency protection measures in 2015, These have been extended into 2016. The measures have been challenged both nationally and regionally by anglers, fishermen and marine conservation groups. Knowledge gaps in the understanding of Bass biology and behaviour - where they migrate to, when they breed and how their behaviours are influenced by the environment - prompted the government to fund a four year research project called C-Bass. This project is helping marine scientists from Cefas (The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science) to gradually close that knowledge gap.

With limited funding for regional tagging work in Cefas, Essex Wildlife Trust stepped in by purchasing eight hundred T-Bar tags and equipment to support the three volunteer angling charter skippers boat and the two private angling boat skippers. The volunteers fish from Suffolk, mid Essex and south Essex giving a good spread of the coast. It is anticipated that this support from the volunteers and the Essex Wildlife Trust members will provide an important boost to our knowledge of Bass movements off East Anglia. Essex Wildlife Trust, in partnership with Essex University and the Institute of Fisheries Management conduct small fish surveys on key habitats like salt marsh, rivers and creeks collecting valuable information on juvenile Bass behaviour. The Trust aims to ensure that these valuable habitats are protected.

Sarah Alison, Living Seas Co-ordinator from Essex Wildlife Trust and Mick Sharp, an independent On the 10th May 2016, Essex Wildlife Trust invited recreational sea angler from Southend on Sea, said: Cefas to present the latest results of their work at “By combining resources with scientists, academics The Naze Centre, their new visitor centre at Walton and practitioners, we can collectively improve the on the Naze, which opens to the public soon. The scientific evidence available for improved fishery results from tagging larger bass with electronic data management decisions. tags (DST›s), which, when returned, can be used to reconstruct the migration patterns of those fish, are already challenging established wisdom. And, by Anglers and wildlife trusts across the UK should not linking local observations with commercial landing be put off from forming partnerships and approaching data and the latest tagging results, we are beginning their respective IFCA’s (Inshore Fisheries to see that the southern North Sea, and its rivers and Conservation Authorities) or the local government estuaries, play an important role in the life cycle of groups responsible for conservation, and bid for a slice of any research budgets that could support Bass, including local spawning and feeding. important work like this. It has an added benefit of engaging the local community in important scientific As well as a presentation and question and experiences. answering session, Cefas also delivered a workshop demonstrating the value of carefully planned mark and recapture experiments in determining the The challenge now is for our trained volunteers to annual movements of Bass. The workshop delivered incorporate T-Bar tagging into their catch and release hands on training package in T-Bar tagging for five angling activities. volunteers and included demonstrating the animal Aside from the practical element, we are also in welfare considerations which are paramount in all fish contact with Essex University to see if any students would like to join in with the research. tagging experiments.

At just a tad under 9lb this is a pretty impressive brill especially as the specimen size for this species, caught in Area S (Channel Islands), is 4lb. The captor, Rodney Fry from Boscombe, Dorset, is on a five day Channel Island trip and, like the rest of the 8 man team, has had to contend with some grim sea conditions this week but this outstanding fish goes some way to making it all worthwhile. Well Done, Rod!! Tackle. Salt MPV 2-4oz Uptide. Reel AVET SX loaded with 15lb Power Pro braid. Bait Sandeel flapper presented on 4/0 Kamasan hook to a running leger rig fished on the drift.

ANGLING TRUST AND FISHINGINFO LAUNCH VIDEO BATTLE TO SHOWCASE JOYS OF ANGLING AND WIN PRIZES! The Angling Trust has launched an exciting new social media competition to encourage anglers to get back on the banks and inspire newcomers to take up the sport. The Angling Trust Video Battle (ATVB) – run in conjunction with Fishinginfo.co.uk – is calling for anglers to get creative by shooting and editing their own short fishing video to compete with other battlers to win fabulous tackle prizes worth hundreds of pounds.

Victoria Bendall from Cefas Explaining how to operate the T Bar tag applicator

All that competitors have to do is shoot a video about anything related to angling. It can be funny, artistic, educational, theatrical, the nature of fishing, a prize catch, a favourite venue, a chat about fishing with a bunch of mates … anything! Videos should be no longer than three minutes long and there will be two categories for entrants – 16 years and under, and 17 years and over. Completed videos must be received no later than Sunday, July 31st. Entries will be showcased on the Fishinginfo YouTube channel from Tuesday, August 16th – and then the battle is on!

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Volunteer angler attaching a T-Bar Tag

Each battler can then share and publicise their video on their own social media accounts and platforms and the four most-viewed videos by Sunday, September 18th will compete in the Video Battle final along

with one lucky wildcard battler chosen by Angling Trust Ambassadors Carl & Alex. The winning videos will be chosen by a judging panel in early October. Commenting on the challenges in encouraging younger participants to angling, fish artist and project manager Adam O Connor (aka Dusto) said: "The power of social media can often be a hindrance in getting kids involved in sports and angling has seen a decline in younger participants in recent years. “With Video Battle we aim to claim back some ground and inspire newcomers to the sport by using what we have in abundance – talented and creative people with a passion for fishing. “These traits are sure to shine through during this exciting competition. With many great prizes up for grabs in the Angling Trust Video Battle who wouldn’t want to have a go!" Throughout the competition, Dusto and fellow host Ant Glascoe Jr will be getting out and about meeting some of the battlers and getting the low-down on their video entries. For more details about Video Battle visit www.anglingtrust.net/videobattle

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PLYMOUTH CLUB SCENE By Scott Smy

If I had to choose just one species of fish to go for from the shore then it would have to be the gilthead bream. There is something magical about fishing a quiet secluded estuary mark only for the peace to be shattered by a gilt taking off and dragging your rod and reel down the beach as it goes! Luckily for me and fellow gilt addicts they are now starting to show in the various estuaries around Plymouth including the Yealm, Tamar and Kingsbridge although so far its’ been a case of feast or famine. Matt Parry of Castaway SAC and South West Sea Baits has certainly set the bar in the 2 month long Gilthead Competition he is running by weighing in a cracking PB of 5-3. Ben Ashley Jones also registered a PB of 3-7. By the time of the July report I fully expect to hear about larger specimens coming from the Cornish tidal creeks including the Fal and Helford. Best baits for these hard-fighting fish are lug and crab. Something I am often asked is what hook pattern and size to use for gilts. This is simple as I believe the best (and only) hook I ever use for gilts are the ESP Raptor Big T’s (Teflon coated) in size 1. Ultra sharp and very strong – forget those weak fine wire hooks!

Malc Jones of Sea Angler 2 has reported that the rough ground reef fishing on the reefs has now picked up with the arrival of the launce, with good numbers of double figure Pollack coming over the rails whilst the wrecks are now starting to produce some large Cod and Ling. A recent inshore boat session with members from Seafarers SAC also resulted in the capture of 8 small eyed rays to 7-8 along with spotted rays to 5lb between the 2 anglers on board. Fishing on his own boat local angler Richard Ing recorded a cracking spotted ray of 7-8 which was returned after weighing. That’s for this month – enjoy the summer weather and happy dipping.

Stewart Gray SE Ray 11lb-2oz

Matt Parry Gilthead of 5lb-3oz

The plaice bonanza along the beaches of Slapton and Beesands continues although numbers have reduced slightly which hasn’t been helped by the annual invasion of spider crabs. I have also heard that those anglers fishing on into darkness have been finding some smoothhounds up to around 7lb on crab baits. Those fishing rock marks continue to find some nice sized huss with Mark Ancill of Rodbenders getting a nice huss of exactly 10lb and whilst fellow member Danny Clegg managed one of 10-1. With a combination of some SW winds and the start of the Plymouth and District Shore League this coming weekend I fully expect to be reporting on the first real heavyweight huss in next month’s report. Castaways SAC member Stewart ‘The Doctor’ Gray made the long trip up to the Bristol Channel shore line and was rewarded with several small eyed ray with the best fish being a cracker of 11-2 which was released after weighing. I did hear that Stewart put his success down to Steve Arnold doing a sterling job in intercepting the doggies before they got to Stewart’s baits – what a nice chap!

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We Had a Pier Comp on Swanage Pier Saturday night 16/04/16. The weather was clear and dry if a little chilly with the wind coming straight into the pier. A good number of members fished around the pier on the different levels. Fishing was a little slow at times but the attention of small wrasse kept it interesting although they were hard to hook. A good number of fish came in on the float and fishing on the bottom productive if the crabs could be avoided. Everyone caught on the night which was good. Paul Driver won on the night with a catch made up of Wrasse, Pollock, Pout and a 3 Bearded Rockling 8.5oz for 154cm. Dave Draper Second with 143cm, with a catch that included an unusual Dragonet and a nice Ballen Wrasse of 2lb 2oz. Third Phil Thomas with 100cm. Nick Clements also had a nice 3 Bearded Rockling 8.5oz. Other species caught on the night included Dogfish and a small Conger. Well done to Sophie Driver who won the Junior section with 110cm beating her brother Curtis Driver into Second place with 19cm. Sophie's catch included a nice Lesser Spotted Dogfish of 60cm and a small Conger Eel. A big thank you to Chris Mackenzie for his efforts in getting the fish and chips as all the chip shops surprisingly shut at 8.30pm on a Saturday night in Swanage at this time of year.

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We had the First Evening Boat Trip of the Year on Monday 18/04/16 with Phil Higgins on Mistress Linda. We fished on the boat with six club Members and two guests. The weather was kind with a slight breeze making it a little choppy. We started out trying for Bream on a rough ground mark which proved productive with 22 coming to the boat and a number of good sized specimens, together with quite a few Pouting, half a dozen Dogfish, a few wrasse and the odd Mackerel. For the last hour we moved to a bank to try for a Ray and Three came to the boat, Dave Hoare had a nice Undulate Ray of 8lb 8oz and Junior Curtis Driver had a slightly larger Undulate Ray of 10lb 2oz, which put up a good fight on light gear. Every one caught and enjoyed the company and hospitality of the Skipper Phil Higgins who kept every one supplied with hot drinks. Good night had by all. Well done to Phil Thomas who won the senior section with 31 fish points and Curtis Driver who won the Junior section with 20 fish points. We had a club away shore comp on Saturday night 23/04/16 at Steamer Point. What promised to be a good venue produced very little. Members fished a good portion of the beach but it only produced a few small whiting and pouting. The cold north wind may have something to do with it but at least it didn't rain. Phil Thomas won on the night with 50cm, Dave Potts Second 42cm and Nigel Back Third with 28cm. Curtis Driver won the Junior Section with 64cm.

4 Club Members 6 Guests and 1 Club Junior on charter Boat Rocket skippered by Andy Adams . The wind was a lot more than forecast and kept the Boat moving around in the Tide. The initial spot proved slow and disappointing when we trying for a few Bream, Only two Bream were caught on the night with a number of pout, Wrasse and Dogfish. We moved to a bank to try for a Ray in the second half of the comp and a couple were caught along with more Dogfish, Pout and a Smoothound. Junior Curtis Driver caught a nice Undulate Ray of 11 lb his second sizeable Ray in as many trips. Curtis Won the Junior section with 13 fish points. Well done to Martyn Whittaker who won the Seniors on the night with 9 fish points. We had a Away Shore Comp on Wednesday night 4/5/16 at Solent Meads. A good number of members spread out and fished along various sections of the beach with mixed fortunes. It was a cold night with a chilly breeze blowing from the South East but at least it wasn't raining. The Easterly wind and the cold could of been the reason for the patchy fishing. Well done to Dave Draper who won on the night with 136cm made up of 3 small plaice a rockling and a Smooth hound. Second was Brian Read with 98cm and Third was Richard Cailes with 90cm. The rest of the nights species caught were Sole, Bass, Whiting, and a Dab. Well done to everyone who turned out on a cold Wednesday night, the fishing could of been better. The number of pleasure anglers fishing along Southborne and Solent Meads was surprising for midweek which suggests the fishing has been good along here, if it wasn't for that Easterly blowing. We had a Evening Boat Comp on Monday Night 9th May 2016 with Andy Adams skipper. We fished with four members two guests and one junior member. The Evening started off with light rain and drizzle, which came and went for the first couple of hours. Venturing out to the Poole patch in very little wind and flat calm conditions. We anchored up on slack water with the boat turning as the tide picked up. The fishing was very slow over slack water and the tide seemed to take an age to pick up. The light started to fade and the bites increased. Paul Driver Won on the night with 20 Fish points made up of lots of pouting a couple of Wrasse and a small Conger around 3 lb. Phil Thomas was second with 16 fish points and Chris Mackenzie Third with 15 fish points. Curtis Driver won the Junior Section with 16 fish points. The target species on the night was Bream and a number of Bream were caught some over two pounds, A few Wrasse, a couple of strap conger, a Mackerel, a Dogfish and a Garfish made up the nights catch along with lots of Pouting as darkness fell.

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EAST SUSSEX DIARY By Kevin Morgan Fish 4 Kidz took place on May 1st this year. After nearly a week of worrying about the weather, it actually turned out nice, maybe a little too nice, the sun was out, it’s just a shame that the fish didn’t want to come out. Again it was a great day with 70+ children out of the 80 booked in turning up on the day. With 25 volunteer stewards helping the children to cast bait up and record catches!! Donated tackle to use from Masterline and rigs from Ian Hopper, as well as bait supplied by local diggers, it was an entirely free to enter competition with everything supplied as needed. Goodie bags were sent by Tronix as well as free drinks and crisps from Bookers cash and carry! And prizes were generously donated by Pure Fishing, Tesco Langley and the local cinema Cineworld! Stephen Lloyd as the patron presented the prizes at the Eastbourne Angling Club. The winners were split into 3 age groups with 5 to 9 age group the largest 1st Scarlett Aghili 2nd Henry Moore 3rd Dave Rautenbach 4th Kian North Age 10 to `12 1st Kate Morgan points 2nd Bethany Holland 3rd Joe Salvag 4th Ollie Franks Age 13 to 16 1st Martin Pay 2nd Jake Brown 3rd Callum Sullivan 4th Callum Jones

age 6, 2 flounders for 42 points age 6, 2 flounders for 36 points age 6, 2 flounders for 32 points age 5, 1 plaice 2 flounders 28 points

age 12, 2 plaice 1 flounder for 32 age 10, 2 flounders for 19 points age 11, 1 flounder for 8 points age 11, 1 flounder for 2 points

age 16, 2 plaice for 80 points age 16, 1 flounde for 21 points age 14, 1 plaice for 8 points age 16, 1 dab for 6 points

The overall winner with 2 plaice for 80 points winning the patrons trophy was Martin Payne. THE RAILWAY TAVERN FISHING CLUB The 7th round was fished on 16th April and was won by Phil Metcalf with 2lb 14 ½ oz, 2nd A.J. Puttick with 2lb 10oz and 3rd Colin Everest with 2lb 9oz. Heaviest flat was a flounder of 12 ½ oz for Gary Windeat and the heaviest round a whiting of 4oz for Peter Fountain. The 8th round was fished on Sunday 24th April with the winner Paul Spiers 2lb 3 ½ oz, second was Michael Adamson with 1lb 13oz and third Ricky Moss with 1lb 7 ¾ oz. The heaveiest flat was a flounder of 10oz for Fred Puttick and the heaviest round a pout of 6 ½ oz for Steve Merner. The 9th round was fished Saturday 7th May with Steve Merner landing 3 dogfish for 3 lb 13oz, 2nd was Kevin Merner with 3lb 1 ½ oz and 3rd A.J. Puttick with 2lb 15 ½ oz. Heaviest round was a dogfish of 14oz for Gary Windeat and the heaviest flat were flounders of 8 oz for Fred Puttick and Mark Underhill. After 9 rounds The leader is Ken Filtness with 171 points, 2nd Jason Anderson with 163 3rd Steven Merner with 160 and 4th A.J.Puttick wih 154. EASTBOURN NOMADS The second Flack cup was fished on Monday 8th April and the winner with 2lb 14 oz was Arran Aghili. 2nd Tony Kirrage with 2lb 12oz 12dr, 3rd Dan Wood 2lb 10oz and fourth Phil Chapman with 2lb 7oz 8dr.

The 3rd Slater cup was fished on Thursday 21st April with Paul Christopher winning with 3lb 5oz 8dr. 2nd Tony Kirrage with 2lb 15oz 4dr. 3rd Colin Essery with 2lb 2oz and 4th Rod Parris with 2lb 1oz. The heaviest round was a dogfish 1lb 10oz 12dr for Paul Christopher and the heaviest flatfish A flounder of 15oz 12dr for Tony Kirrage. ANDERIDA On Thursday 19th May the club held a match in Pevensey Bay with 20 anglers fishing in calm conditions. Some nice fish were caught including dabs, sole flounders and dogfish. The winner was Kevin Morgan with 5lb 7oz, including sole, plaice and pout. Second was Darren Mitchell with 2lb 2 ½ oz, third Dave Piper with 2lb 1oz and fourth Gary Banfield with 2lb 2lb ½ oz. The heaviest round was a dogfish of 1lb 6oz for Paul King and the heaviest flatfish a sole of 1lb 6oz for Kevin Morgan.

Mirek Galant with lovely 3lb 2oz Black Bream

OVER FIFTIES The final over fifties match of the season was fished on Friday 22nd April with 23 anglers fishing. 1st - Trevor Rooney - 2lb 12¼oz - 15 Points 2nd - Ian Smart - 2lb 11oz - 14 Points 3rd - Malcolm Payne - 2lb 9¾oz - 13 Points 4th - Terry Taylor- 2lb 8¾oz - 12 Points Heaviest Round Fish - Ian Smart - 8¾oz pout Heaviest Flat Fish - Fred Wassell - 13½oz plaice GENERAL Mirek Galant fished at Pagham on Saturday 7th May and caught this excellent Black Bream of 3lb 2oz. The first winner of the bass catch and release competition was Phil Taylor with a lovely bass between 4 and 5lb caught during an Anderida beach comp. After photographing the bass next to his entry card and a measure Phil returned the bass as it could not be weighed in to the match under current rules. The SECOND winner of the Anglers Den Bass Catch and Release Competition is Taffy Plastictaff Lewis ,a member of Local Independent Sea Anglers - LISA . Taffy sent us the picture of his winning sizeable (ie. over 42cm) Bass which was estimated to weigh approx 4lb and which was returned alive after being photographed (alongside competition card and fish measure).

Kevin Morgan with 1lb 6oz sole

Taffy Plastictaff Lewis winner of the April catch and release bass competition.

Taffs winning bass

Phil Taylor winner of the March catch and release bass competition.

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POOLE REPORT by Philip Higgins The Black Bream fishing has been very good with many fish being landed and returned, it used to be that anglers only returned the females but it is the male fish that protect the nests once the female has laid her eggs but now the anglers return most of their bream, during this spawning season many rays looking for a snack have been caught on the bream nests giving the anglers unexpected fun a lady angler Ms Vicki Gryba caught 2 Undulate Rays on consecutive drops the best being 14lb. Mackeral / Garfish and Gurnards are being caught and it will not be long before the Tope and other larger predators follow them .The offshore wreck and bank marks have produced good catches of Pollack and Cod one of the best landed to date caught by Conn Bratcher at 20lb 4 ozs on his lucky pink shad, now lost forever on the next drift, I think it is true what anglers say wreck fishing was created by tackle shops to boost turnover. Poole Bream Comp went ahead in ideal conditions with 59 anglers taking part, there were lots of Bream

landed but only those over 2lb 4 ozs were eligible for the prize table. Overall winner was David Lynes with a Bream of 3lb 5ozs fishing on ‘Tommy J’. The top charter boat was Mistress Linda skippered by Philip Higgins who won the Pat Manley Bream Trophy. Brian Moss thought he had a winning fish when his rod bent double only to land a triple shot of Bream weighing in at 2lb 2 ozs , 2lb 1ozs and 1lb 8 ozs and to cap it off landed a lobster. Everyone at the presentation thanked the organiser Mr Andy Robbins of Poole Sea Angling Centre. Looking towards the summer hopefully the weather will be kind and with all the summer species it is a great time to be afloat, if you are an inexperienced boat angler or novice there are many boats offering shorter trips specializing in teaching people to boat fish taking away the worry of could you handle a full day. If you are not sure just talk to your nearest tackle shop and they will point you in the right direction.

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A nice ray for honiton sac member si boeree of exmouth caught on fri from the shore on the isle of Wight. After a quick selfy and it was returned to fight another day. At 15lb 3oz it breaks the honiton clubs record by nearly 2lb!

Paul Munday plaice of 2lb 1oz

Wayne "the weapon" Hand 3.5lb guilthead bream. Gary Mitchell with a nice grey mullet.

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RESULTS

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Veals

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Match Report: 1st round of NWASAC Summer League, Caldy, Wirral, Sat 23.4.16. (38 rods) The picturesque Wirral village of Caldy, overlooking the Dee Estuary and facing the Clwydian Hills was mentioned in the Doomsday book as the fishing settlement of Calders. Its beach, a combination of mud, sand and rocky sea defences, played host to the first match of our 2016 Summer League. There was a good attendance but the venue’s relatively poor form continued with winner Heather Lindfield needing just eight fish to take the verdict over veteran Norman Dorling and fellow England International, Ashley Sampson, returning after a year out. Flounders were thin on the ground with very few hooked at the normally productive period when competitors were out in the mud in the early stages of the flood. With a gentle north west breeze, hardly enough to stir the water, fishing was slow throughout the match. Five plaice were caught and it was Gary Ritson's 42cm specimen that took the fish pool.

Veals Summer League Table 2016 (best 6 from 8) Heaviest Flat 1lb Phytos Heaviest Round 14.5ozs Steve Ace & Dave Blackwell Position Match 1 Points Total

Match Report, 4th Round of NWASAC Personal Members Championship 2016, Sun 15.5.16 Otterspool Promenade, Liverpool (36 rods) .

Results: 1. Heather Lindfield (Greasby), 7 flounders, 1eel, 286cms 2. Norman Dorling (Prestatyn), 7 flounders, 1 plaice 264cms 3. Ashley Sampson (Fleetwood), 7 flounders, 222cms Flatfish Pool: Gary Ritson (Wallasey), plaice, 42 cms.

Heather Lindfield

West Bay SAC 30th April 2016, Saturday Juniors, East Pier West Bay 12:00 - 15:00. Twelve juniors and four guest sign on to fish the match on east pier West Bay, the weather was sunny with a chilly North-westerly 3 wind, the sea was flat calm and quite clear. Twelve of the entrants managed to catch fish, with a couple of the guests catching their first ever fish. Species caught on the day were; flounder, wrasse, shanny & rockling. 1st: Jack Parkman 594 g (332 g Legal weight). 2nd: Kai Kenway 287 g Legal Weight. 3rd: Ewan Chambers 291 g (264 g Legal weight) Heaviest Flatfish: Kai Kenway 287 g flounder. Heaviest Round Fish: jack Parkman 251 g shore rockling. Heaviest Weever: None caught, prize rolls over. Heaviest fish in last half hour: Ewan Chambers 71 g. Heaviest Rockling: Jack Parkman 251 g Best Guest: Fin Davies 150 g. Smallest Fish: James Lawrence 14 g shanny Last Fish: Ewan Chambers 27 g shanny. Wooden Spoon: Eden Lynham.

Phytos Steve Ace Tom Bayford Dave Blackwell Dave Gracie James Madsen Ian Brice LuckyLil Kev D aly Andy Madsen Dave Shore Dave Fortune Rich Simpkins Andy Duncan Morgan Kev Smith Shaun Tromans Pete Evans Nick Snow Keith Warren Brogan Bayford Lee Brimfield Rhys Watts John Lintern Bert Rachael Jarman Scott Barton Buzz Andy Shopland Ian D avis Tony in Irw Francis ones J Tony Taylor Paul ogersR Tonto Colston awkerH Adam rooksB

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1st Summer League Match 1st – Phytos Yianni (Weston-Super-Mare) – 1lb 11oz 2nd – Nick Young (Gloucester) - 1lb 2¼oz 3rd – Dave Blackwell (Bath) – 15 ½oz 43 Anglers Fished.

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On Sunday 15th May Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club held a Shallow Boat competition in which 8 club members signed on. The weather on the day was sunny and dry but sadly the wind blew up and made it a little uncomfortable. Fish caught included smoothhounds, dogfish, black bream, bull huss, skate, small eyed ray, tub gurnard and ballan wrasse. Heaviest fish and best specimen on the day was a black bream weighing 3lb 2ozs {89.28% of specimen weight} caught by Dennis Mapes. 1st Phil Morgan 5 fish 18lbs 9ozs. 2nd Dennis Mapes 6 fish 13lbs 5ozs. 3rd Barry Littlefair 6 fish 12lbs 3.8ozs. 4th Adrian Smith 6 fish 8lb 8.8ozs. 5th Derek Smith 5 fish 8lb 6ozs. 6th Alan Martin 4 fish 6lb 7.4ozs 7th Brian Ansell and Robert Miness 3 fish 4lb 8ozs.

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Dennis Mapes with his heaviest fish and best specimen black bream 3lb 2ozs 89.28%.

As with the Mersey Anglers match on the same venue on the previous day, the fish were slow to feed and hard to locate on many of the pegs on a breezy day on the Mersey Estuary. Flounders, in particular, were in short supply and this seems to be a problem this year in both the Mersey and Dee estuaries. Nigel Conlon, fishing by the pumping station, was heading for a win until Morecambe's Dave Hutchinson located a big thornback ray to black lug at the upriver end of Zone B in the last hour of the match. There was another good result for Pete Corker who won Zone A with a mixed bag of fish. Steve Bonner’s solid performance (8th) increased his series lead by one point over Bill Lindfield as we move to the half way point at Crosby on May 22nd. SLO_Round 5 Joe Arch Results (Scored in continental style from 2 zones):

Shirley SAC 1. David G. Hutchinson (Morecambe), 2 codling, 2 whiting, 1 thornback, 382 pts. (Zone B) 2. Peter Corker (Pentre Halkyn), 5 whiting, 3 codling, 1 flounder, 1 eel, 203. (Zone A) 3. Nigel Conlon (Port Sunlight), 5 codling, 3 eels, 1 whiting, 269. (Zone B) 4. Andy Hopkinson (Eastham), 6 whiting, 3 codling, 2 eels,186. 5. Joe Perry (Litherland), 9 whiting, 1 thornback, 258. 6. Stuart Dewhurst (Preston), 3 whiting, 2 codling, 2 eels,134. Flatfish Pool: Bill Lindfield (Greasby), flounder, 440 gms. Roundfish pool: D.G. Hutchinson, thornback ray, 3050 gms. Series after 4 rounds: 1. Steve Bonner (Wallasey), 94 points. 2. B. Lindfield, 81. 3. John Waugh (Wallasey), 78. 4. J. Perry, 72. 5. Heather Lindfield (Greasby), 70. 6. Ian Griffiths (Eastham), 64.

3 fish 2 fish 1 fish 1 fish 1 fish

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Match Report: Mersey Anglers Open, Otterspool Promenade, Liverpool, Saturday 14.5.16 (46 rods)

SLO R5 The SLO had it's Fifth competition at Hordle on Saturday the 7th of May 2016 from 8pm until 1am. 47 anglers fished in 3 zones with 30 anglers weighing in. The sizeable fish consisted of 1 SE Ray, 9 smoothounds, 5 Garfish, 3 Turbot, 8 Dogfish, 1 pout, 1 rockling and 1 Silver Eel a total of 57 fish were caught. The Winner of the match was Joe Arch from Cardiff with 10lb 1oz 8dr from peg 1 consisting of a 2 hounds a Turbot and 2 topups. Second place was Dave Lane from Weymouth on peg C44 with 10lb consisting of 2 HoundS a Garfish and 2 topups. Third place was Ian Dancey from Waterlooville on peg B30 with 5lb 5oz 8dr. Penn points on weight will be awarded to Joe Arch, Dave Lane and Ian Dancey. Heaviest round was Ian Danceys 5lb 2oz Small Eye Ray and Joe Archess 2lb 1oz Turbot heaviest flat. Zone Winners picked up £100, nominated fish pool winners with Bass Steve Moore with a 34cm Bass. Results Zone A Joe Arch 10-1-8 £80 Ben Bradstock 2-13-8 £70 Jeff Fisk 2-10-0 £50 Mike Taylor 1-11-8 £30 Zone B Ian Dancey 5-5-8 £80 Luke Cooksey 1-10 £60 Brenden Moon 1-10-0 £60 Ben Arnold 1-8-0 £30 Zone B Dave Lane 10-0-0 £80 Russel Preston 3-10-0 £60 Lee Gatrell 2-11-0 £60 Dave Ware 2-7-0 £30 HF Joe Arch Turbot 2lb 1oz 8dr HR Ian Dancey Small Eye Ray 5lb 2oz Bass

SENIORS. 1. Adrian Groves 2. Barry Instrell 3. Bob Patterson 4. Gary Thomas 5. Graham Jackson

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Pairs Championship: 1. Lindfields, 151 points. 2. Carl Edwards (Bootle) & J. Waugh, 112. 3. Steve Trish (Bootle) & Les Trish (Crosby), 91.

Nominated Fish Steve Moore

Here is the result of our latest match which was a Shallow Boats comp on Sun 8th May. 16 members fished with 9 weighing in 12 fish for 7k 965gms. Species were Flounder, Dogfish, Pout,Plaice, Whiting & Thornback Ray with the best fish being a Thornback Ray of 2k 575gms caught by Adrian Groves.

34cm

This usually productive match venue was not at its best with some anglers struggling to find a fish, even though a variety of species were caught, including eels, flounders, dabs, whiting, codling, thornback rays and a solitary sole of 38cm for Stafford’s Dave Shorthouse . The favoured pegs in front of the pumping station producing the top three winning anglers, with Cleethorpes match angler Gary Hutson drawing the end peg and recording a match winning length of 677cms. Runner-up John Waugh, who also helped to organise the event, included the heaviest roundfish, a ray of 69 cms in his catch. 1st Gary Hutson (Cleethorpes), 677cms (Zone D) 2nd John Waugh (Wallasey), 343cms (Zone D) 3rd Steve Crowder (Wallasey), 300cms (Zone D) Zone winners (A) Joe Perry (Bootle), 292cms. (B) Neil Cutler (Gateshead), 285cms. (C) Gary Woods (Holyhead), 225cms. (D) Simon Dawber (Wigan), 269 cms. Flatfish pool: Dave Shorthouse (Stafford), sole 38cms Roundfish pool: John Waugh (Wallasey), thornback ray 69cms

Gary Hutson (left), John Waugh centre

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CMSAC member Kevin Legge with a blonde ray of 10lb 10oz caught from a North Devon rock mark Inset:Spotted ray.

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HUGE PORBEAGLE ON REEL DEAL Dan Hawkins Charter Boat ‘Reel Deal” has moved to Ilfracombe for the summer season and has taken customers in search of porbeagle shark from marks West of Hartland Point. The early season big porbeagle proved challenging with several huge fish hooked but not brought to the side of the boat. Perseverance eventually brought its reward however when a huge porbeagle estimated at 450lb was successfully brought to the boat. The huge shark was carefully unhooked and returned to the sea where it swam strongly away. The fish was attracted to the boat using rubby-dubby supplied by Ammo baits. The shark took over 150yards of 50lb b.s line on its first run and was tamed by two anglers. Alex Steal hooking the fish and playing it until he passed the rod to his mate David Brooks who brought the battle to a successful conclusion. The fish was hooked less than a mile from the rocky shoreline and was tempted used a Pollock hook bait. Anglers fishing on Reel Deal have also enjoyed some fine light tackle sport with Pollock to double figures the best specimen a fine Pollock of 10lb 7oz to the rod of Jon Trevett.. Combe Martin SAC members enjoyed a great trip aboard Steve Webber’s Charter boat Osprey off Minehead where thornback ray dominated catches. Close to twenty ray were boated along with numerous smoothound and the inevitable dogfish. Best specimen of the day was a thornback ray scaling 11lb 13oz to myself. Combe Martin SAC member Stefan Jones visited a local rock mark to land three fine early season smoothound scaling 13lb 7oz, 12lb 2oz and 10lb 1oz.

These hard fighting members of the shark family should provide sport throughout the coming months with catches often peaking with the moulting of the spider crab in shallow waters. Kyle Blackmore took top spot in Bideford Angling Clubs latest rover with a thornback ray scaling 6lb 93/4oz. In second and third was Nathan Clements with wrasse of 3lb 91/4oz and 3lb 53/4oz. Andrew Atkinson secured top spot in Appledore Shipbuilders monthly rover weighing in a rockling of 141/2oz. Thomas Atkinson took first and third place in Appledore Shipbuilders boat competition landing bull huss of 12lb 15oz and 11lb 6oz. In second place was David Atkinson with a bull huss scaling 12b 2oz. Thin-lipped grey mullet have moved into the Taw and Torridge estuary giving great sport on light tackle using baited spinners. LRF enthusiasts have been enjoyed sport on Ilfracombe Pier with numerous species tempted. The pier has also produced a few early season garfish with mackerel undoubtedly being caught by the time this goes to press. Bass can be targeted in the lower estuary using peeler crab or lures. Anglers must remember that all bass must be returned to water until July 1st. After this date anglers can take one bass per day. This legislation has been extremely controversial a fact that was pointed out by several anglers who visited the drop in sessions run by the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. It is essential that anglers take the opportunity to make their voices heard at event such as these ensuring that future decisions do not ignore the recreational angling sector that contribute a huge amount to the local economy.

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ALDERNEY REPORT By Mark Harding The fishing in Alderney is up and down at present. The shore fishing is very slow currently with a lot of blank sessions on marks that have produced the goods so far this year. We would have expected Launce and Mackerel to be showing in good numbers by now, but they just haven’t moved inshore yet, which has probably affected the Pollack and Bass fishing that is usually so productive at this time of year. In contrast, the boat fishing has drastically improved, with the banks starting to fish well for the flatfish, some boats landing in excess of 60 fish in a session up to around 15lb. The wreck fishing has also picked up again, with plenty of Pollack an Cod still being caught by the anglers travelling over to Alderney for their 3-5 day trips. We’ve also had a shore league match this month for which the report can be seen below: Grand Prix Fish Race – 22nd May 2016 Match Results: 1. Darren Braby – 4 species in a time of 6hrs 38m

1st place, so don’t get disheartened! A clever use of Jokers by Mark and Dicky see them both move up the table, with Dicky now level for the 4th spot with James. A credible 3rd and 4th place for Scott Audoire and Fieona Cosheril respectively, see’s both of them also gain vital points in the overall league table, Scott now just 1 point behind Adam Salmon in 2nd place! Well done to James and Kim as well for making the effort to fish despite missing the first 4hrs of the competition, James picking up a credible 6th place finish. Here’s the updated league table: 1. Darren Braby 810 2.

Adam Salmon

391

Scott Audoire

390

James Clarke

350

Dicky Smith

350

Wally Walter

326

Dicky Smith – 2 species in a time of 5hrs 2m

Wayne Cosheril

295

Scott Audoire – 1 species in a time of 50m

Michael Bohan

286

Fieona Cosheril – 1 species in a time of 59m

Fieona Cosheril

248

Mark Harding – 1 species in a time of 3hrs 21m

James Clarke – 1 species in a time of 6hrs (Missed first 4hrs so not so bad!!)

Wayne Cosheril – 1 species in a time of 6hrs 24m

Kim Le Poullain – No fish to weigh in L

The next match is the brand NEW Top 3 Heaviest Fish match!!! Saturday 4th June. Booking in from 13:30 at the shop, fishing from 14.00-22:00. Each competitor will be given a list of species, all of which will have minimum weights allocated. The aim is to catch 3 species over the minimum weights, with bigger fish being better in the long run. The winner will be the individual with the heaviest bag of fish overall, number of species weighed in also being considered. For example, a 3-species bag total of 5lb would beat a 2 species bag total of 20lb! League Table Top 4 fish the end of year Fish Race Final for a trip to the Florida Keys, so a fair bit at stake here. 9 matches down, 11 to go! Plenty of time for anything to happen! A fun match that definitely turned out to be far harder than first thought. The draw is always so important in these matches, with a good start making all the difference. As it turned out, those lucky enough to draw either Ballan or Corkwing first were all back to draw their 2nd fish within the hour. Dicky held the early advantage after returning with a Ballan in 13 minutes, closely followed by Darren, also with a Ballan just 7 minutes later. Next back to HQ were Scott and Fieona with their Corkwing wrasse. Then came the wave of pass cards, with everyone except Fieona playing at least one before the half way point. Wayne was having a nightmare, drawing out Bass, Garfish and then Dogfish in consecutive picks. All of which no other competitor managed to catch over the duration of the match. Darren was also having a bad run, using all his pass cards on Garfish, Dogfish and Mackerel and then drawing out Mullet, which were also proving difficult to find on the day. Over the next few hours, it was only Mark that managed to weigh in a fish, capturing a Pollack before drawing Bass. With just a few hours left, James and Kim joined the comp fresh from services training. Then things livened up a little, Dicky first bringing a Corkwing to the shop to take a good lead again, before Darren managed to winkle out his Mullet and take back the advantage having then drawn Pollack….the man on fire was back again half an hour later with his Pollack to take the lead with just over an hour remaining. James and Wayne managed to break the deadlock before the final whistle, but Darren again had the final say with a Tompot Blenny to take the win by two species. This win extended his lead over the chasing pack, but remember it’s top 4 that fish the final, not just

10. Kim Le Poullain 11. Andy Black

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13. Mark Harding

170

14. Adam Barnes

136

15. Andrew Scott

136

16. Jacob Maurice

17. Jordan Walters

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18. Mick Maurice

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Trophy Contenders Pairs Trophy Top 3 fish a Fish Race final in this one too – the winners will have a long weekend at Dorset’s famed Chesil Beach in the Autumn. Darren and Andrew still way ahead, but still loads of time and plenty of Jokers that can make anything possible. Twists and turns to come yet for sure. 1. Darren B/ Andrew S 946 2.

Fieona C/Adam S

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Scott A/Kim Le P

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Michael B/ Wayne

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Wally W/Norman B

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Mick M/James C

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Gary M/ Adam B

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Mark H/Jacob M

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Heaviest Fish of The Year Adam Salmon – Thick Lipped Mullet – 3-11-0 Best Bass James Clarke - 3-0-0 Best Pollack James Clarke – 3lb 9oz Best Conger None Best Plaice/Sole Norman Butel – Sole – 2-3-0 Most Species of the Year 16 – Darren Braby 14 – Ross Johnson 13 – Adam Salmon/James Clarke/Scott Audoire/ Alistair Walters

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WEST SUSSEX REPORT By Chris Snow

Things are picking up in the area with some good fishing to be had. In the rivers Arun and Adur Eels and Flounders beginning to show to crab baits , best to fish the flood or ebb . From Worthing through to Selsey Rays still keep a coming with good numbers showing and a variety of species , Thornbacks,Undulates,Small eyeds and spotted have all been reported and wont be long and a Stingray will turn up.Marks to try for one of these would be Bognor West Beach,Clymping or Aldwick/Felpham. To think only a couple of years ago if you said you were going out to target a ray people would have

thought you were a dreamer, how things change !. Bream have also started to make an appearance and fish of 2lb plus have already been landed,Selsey and Pagham would be my choice of venues to catch these great sporting fish and they are great fun to catch on lighter gear , use size 6 or 4 hooks and best baits being strips of squid or ragworm. If we see a prolonged spell of settled and warm weather the first of the Golden Grey mullet could make an appearance with Shoreham giving the best chance to maddie baits on size 6 hooks and lighter rigs . So all in all some good fishing to be had

Ben Karboub - 14lb 12oz stinger.

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Just when I thought the weather was improving it all went “Pete Tong” again. The only weekend in the last month with favourable winds coincided with huge tides so no-one ventured out! I did manage a charter trip with my brother Stephen on Wild Frontier from Weymouth on the 14th of May where we managed spurs to 17lb, blondes to 13lb, mackerel, dogs and small turbot though one of the other chaps did catch a fine 16.5lb turbo. Hopefully the weather will improve as we move into summer and we can get in on the hound action as these fish should be in the bay by now.

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One comp in June from Burnham on Sunday 19th and our first “away day “ comp in Weymouth on Sunday 26th so plenty to look forward to. Our next club meeting is on Thursday 16th June at Burnham Motor Boat and Sailing Club on the sea front, pop along if you are interested in joining a friendly club. You can keep up-to date with latest news and catches and all things fishy on our facebook page and website Burnham Boat Owners Sea Angling Association.

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Sea Angling News, June 2016 West Bat SAC 14th May 2016, Saturday Juniors, East Pier West Bay 12:00 - 15:00. Twelve Juniors and five guests turned out to fish the latest match. the weather was once again kind to the competitors with sunshine with occasional clouds, the wind was north-westerly 3 & the sea calm with some may water showing. Nine of the competitors managed to catch fish with once again a nice legal sized flounder coming to the scales. Species caught on the day were: flounder, wrasse, rockling, shanny & blenny.

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5th Ollie Hopkins with 2 fish 43cms. 6th Colin Saunders 1 fish 34cms. 7th Terry Kempton 1 fish 17cms. Longest flat fish pool went to Gavin Sloper with a turbot of 28cms. Longest round fish pool went to Chris Ellis with a smoothhound of 39cms. Shrimp pool went to Terry Kempton with a pout of 17cms.

Angling Trust welcomes two new recruits to Campaigns and Marketing teams The Angling Trust is delighted to welcome two new members of staff to the Marketing and Campaigns teams. James Champkin has joined the Trust as Campaigns Officer while Ed Noyes takes on the role of Marketing & Communications Officer. Both passionate anglers, James’ responsibilities will be helping to bring about positive outcomes on a number of campaign issues including protection of marine fisheries, reversal of decline in salmon stocks and restoration of natural flow on more rivers. The post is part-funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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rehabilitation work (re-meandering and flood plain reconnection) in a small Norfolk chalk stream, and really motivated me to work towards conserving and restoring aquatic habitats in the UK.” Ed’s key responsibility is to assist in promoting the work of the Angling Trust and Fish Legal and encourage more people to get involved and support initiatives by becoming members.

Ed said: “I am excited to have joined the Angling Trust and be part of the fantastic work being done for fishing and fish. From angler participation and access to protecting fish stocks and habitats James said: “I feel exceptionally honored to through campaigns – the Angling Trust and Fish be stepping into the exciting new position of Legal have it covered. Campaigns Officer for the Angling Trust and Fish Legal. “I’ve always fished since a very young age, starting off coarse fishing then moving on to “I’ve been passionate about angling and the fly fishing for anything that has fins! Outside aquatic world since I was a young boy and of work, you’ll catch me fly fishing for trout, first went fishing with my father; leaning grayling, pike and carp, or messing about with precariously over a bridge across the upper River fishing gear and fly casting – I’m a self-confessed Lea, lowering tiny balls of compressed bread tackle nut! wrapped around size 22 hooks to catch minnows from the crystal clear waters below. “I really enjoy introducing new people to fly fishing as a coach in my spare time and like to “From those humble beginnings I progressively be pro-active in making this branch of the sport developed an interest in targeting specimen- accessible to everyone.” sized fish, an interest that quickly matured into obsession, and during the last few years my Ed added: “Through fishing I developed a angling has taken me all across Britain in a search big interest in fisheries and wildlife and I’m for outsized fish of many species, enjoying some passionate about their conservation, something fantastic adventures with good friends and a little that led to me following a career in this area. success along the way. In recent seasons I’ve Prior to joining the Angling Trust, I’ve worked landed bream over 17lbs, crucian carp over 4lbs extensively throughout the UK in freshwater and grayling to 3lbs, among a variety of other ecology, fisheries and wildlife management, also captures, and I look forward to many more.” gaining a diploma in fisheries management and a degree in conservation ecology along the way.” After graduating in 2015 from the University of St Andrews with first-class honors in biology, David Brookes, Head of Marketing & James secured a fully-funded internship with the Communications, said: "I feel really lucky to Fisheries Society of the British Isles. have two talented, enthusiastic and passionate new members of staff, and look forward to He added: “This internship was based around working with them on the many projects and assessing the response of fishes to river campaigns that benefit anglers and angling."

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Noah with a good ling. Inset: Marlin Mick with a thornback ray. Seafire II

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MINEHEAD AND WATCHET REPORT by James Wigglesworth

Well we are bang into smoothound season now. Huge numbers of fish have taken up residence on our inshore marks and are providing some fantastic sport. In recent weeks the main body of fish had been holed up in Porlock bay but the last few days has seen large numbers move up the channel to the marks off Minehead and Watchet. This last weekend saw some cracking specimens as well. The pick of the bunch being a huge 25lb 4oz fish that fell to Minehead angler Clem Thomas fishing on a private boat from Watchet Marina. Lets hope the action continues for a while yet. Another favorite amongst the anglers that are still showing in great numbers is the mighty bullhuss. Fish to 15lb are being caught regularly on squid and fish baits from Minehead right down to Foreland point. The ray fishing is consistent as ever with some cracking blondes showing up to the 20lb mark. As the water temperature has started to rise lately we have seen the first of the summer species.

The black bream have turned up now. John May seemed to have the best fish of the weekend with a lovely plump bream of 2lb while he was fishing aboard Minehead charter boat Osprey in the BCFSA 2 Man Team event. Areas to the west of Porlock will really start to hot up now which is great news for those who take pleasure in catching the pollock, wrasse and various other species that visit our waters at this time of year. A nice 6lb 4oz pollock was boated by Thornbury angler Dave Rugman who was fishing aboard Alykat recently. With a bit of luck we should see a few mackerel in the coming weeks, which should also in turn bring the first of the tope with them. It really is an exciting time to get out on the water as there are so many different species to target. There is something for everyone so give one of our local skippers a call to find out availability. Good luck if you do get out there and most importantly FISH HARD!

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BRISTOL CHANNEL SHORE REPORT By Craig Butler of West Coast Tackle As predicted in last months report. The first of the shore caught smoothounds have been caught from the shore. Albeit mainly just the odd one or two, to anglers fishing the Porlock Bay area. These fish averaging 5-9lb. That will change any day as the numbers moving inshore increase considerably. Shore marks from Porlock Weir to Weston's sandpoint will all be on the radar for anglers looking to get some hot hound action in the coming month. With the Minehead charter fleet recording exceptional numbers of hounds this year ,it could be a bumper year like we experienced A few years ago, ( well here's hoping ) and the potential for some big specimens is on the cards. Without a doubt peeler crab is king of baits if you want to stand the best possible chance of bagging these awesome sporting species. Live or frozen it makes little difference, but personally I feel the frozen fishes better in the murkier water on the reef marks and further up channel because the scent release is quicker and this helps the fish home in easier. But the flip side is the frozen crab does wash out a lot quicker, so the trick is to keep that scent trail going regardless of bites or not. Besides smoothounds there are plenty of other options throughout the channel. Be it, Sole searching in the upper reaches, hunting down a bass or two, or targeting the resident Thornback population on the Somerset reefs and the marks in the Weston area or taking advantage of a calm balmy evening on the small eyed , spotted and blonde Ray's around Minehead , through to general species and mixed bags of fish from a multitude of

marks. There's a whole host on offer in the Bristol Channel this time of year for the local and visiting anglers to enjoy. One important thing to remember this month is. Crabs will be in very high demand and most tackle can sell their supply twice over. So ordering them in advance at your local is a must. And it's a good idea to stash enough in the freezer to help out when you can't get hold of any. Something myself and many others feel strongly about. Is the way smoothounds are handled and weighed. This is not a sales pitch as I work in a tackle shop to go out and by a cheap light weight weighing sling, just a strong thought of the safely and well being of you catch. There's nothing worse than hanging a writhing smoothound hanging from its delicate gills or from its top lip. They may swim off but the damage caused can be fatal. We don't see carp, chub, and other coarse fish weighed like it so why do some think it's ok to do it to sea fish ???. Sorry to go on but it bugs me much the same as anglers leaving litter behind. Anyway changing the subject and back on to catching fishing, the thing we all love. Those who love their light rock fishing ( LRF ) have loads of offer in the Bristol Channel. Whether it's in the marina at Portishead, Watchet or Minehead harbour or down at Illfracombe. The mini species on offer can be eye opening and fantastic fun. Anyway "summers here" so go and make the most of it. Tightlines and happy hunting

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Port Report Hurrah….the bass are here in vast quantities along the Weymouth marks and you Recreational Anglers are able to keep none of them. This is a marvellous step forward in the Conservation of Bass programme and we are very fortunate in being able to watch bass being kept aboard licensed commercial vessels fishing alongside of us. I am enjoying my days off with the cancellations of my bass trips and I see that I, and I am sure many other charter skippers, can look forward to many more days of gardening. In fact I see that the whole of my once full calendar of bass trips in November has now been completely cancelled so I will need advice from those that know… as I haven’t got a clue….what I do in the garden at that time of the year. May has been a good month for inshore fishing out of Weymouth with very good catches of bream, flatfish (but only a very few plaice), rays and spurdog. It’s great to see the spurs are back they used to be a very dependable species many moons ago. The spurdogs are of a very impressive size with many being reported into double figures. These fish are largely released as are the rays, huss and conger these days. Offshore the wrecks have been good for pollock with some excellent specimens being landed. There is the theory that when the cod arrive these big pollack disappear but this has not been the case this month… but that may be because the cod are no-where near as prolific as this time last year. But that may change! The Channel Island trips have been marred by the never ending wind and cold conditions. It is darn chilly at night kipping on the boats in Alderney Harbour. Thank goodness for thermals! When the boats have managed to ease their way to the turbot banks the fishing has been very hard with most of the turbot well under the 45cm size limit that has been ‘agreed’ amongst the RSA sector. Fortunately that have been some outstanding brill to provide a few highlights to what many would describe as extremely hard fishing. But is will soon be June and I see from the ever reliable rubbish posted on the Social Media that we are in for a dramatic heatwave for the whole of that month. Wonderful….I can’t wait. During this predicted period of extended temperature rise we will expect to see more cod on the wrecks which in turn will no doubt lead to more attempts by French trawlers to either ram us or push us off the wrecks. A group on my boat last weekend couldn’t believe what happens at sea and declared that it was like a ‘war zone’ out there. Yes, it is…the French trawler men are dangerous and they know that nothing will be done about their intimidatory tactics. ‘Might is Right’ at sea and our charter boats are small in comparison. Will we be offered any degree of protection against such tactics? I don’t think so! But, on the positive side, anglers will be able to recount tales of Daring Do in the battles at sea with the French fishermen to their wide-eyed grandchildren when sitting by the fire together in November and December during bass trip cancelled days. There should be some mackerel around in June which in turn will allow some wreck anchoring sessions for conger and ling. (The tope fishing in Alderney was at its best in May with the Speedy Rock tope leaving for the Azores on June 7th each year. Now it is impossible

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to get mackerel in May which in turn means that the tope fishing does not feature as it used to). The Channel Island trips will feature a greater variety of species in June with bream, rays, huss and pollack being targeted as well as the flatties….and it won’t be long until July when we can at least go bass fishing and keep a fish each per day. The reefing out of Weymouth in June livens up considerably although it has been pretty good already. Expect bream from a greater variety of marks rather than mainly from the ‘Northern Shore’ to the east of Weymouth. Blonde rays, undulate rays and smalleyes will all feature form different and varied marks and each of these marks will have its own regular species in addition to the rays. The Kidney Bank, for example, can often produce turbot and brill plus a cod or bass on occasions. Don’t be surprised when a porbeagle runs off with your pennel rigged blonde ray rig as happened a number of times last year. The Deep Hole and Seven and the Three Mile Ground (marks to the west of Portland) will become increasingly popular for those who enjoy action with the bigger fish such as tope, spurs, huss and conger although there is always an increasing chance of bream on these grounds.

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The inshore wrecks can be good fun with ‘summer pollack’ and bream. It’s good fun to catch the sandeels yourselves as part of the day using small feathers as opposed to mackerel feathers which, although they catch eels, often damage them too much and thus they are no longer ‘live bait’ when the fishing mark is reached. The hunt for the plaice continues. Reports from shore anglers along Chesil Beach show that this has been a good early season for plaice but not so for boat anglers. The usual Shambles Area marks are not holding many plaice so searches along Cjhesil Beach are occurring. The boats don’t want to get too close in to the shore because there will be the inevitable barrage of 6oz leads being hurled towards boat anglers from their irate shore brethren.

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Chesil Beach Report By Danny Hardwick

The mackerel shoals have finally arrived in good numbers along with first light and last light mixed with high water the best time to target them. There has been some very good early fish in the shoals up to 2lb. Sam Truan had a tidy session on the shingle bagging himself some nice plaice. During his session he decided to put a pop up rig out and managed plenty of mackerel along with some good gar fish. Top fishing by him as always. I was down a flat calm Chesil a couple of weeks ago and witnessed with a friend something very large just under the surface creating havoc in the mackerel shoals at speed about 60yards out but could not make out what it was. A few days later on social media i saw reports of other anglers witnessing similar events but also seeing the suspect in the shape of a thresher shark which are impossible to mistake for any other shark species due to the length of the tail fin. There has also been sightings of basking shark no more than 20yards out feeding on the masses of plankton which is an absolutely awesome sight if your lucky enough to be there at the right time. The general fishing along the beach has been very on and off lately with spider crab being an extreme nuisance at times and now the may bloom has also started which does tend to put the fish down a bit. On the plus side the May bloom doesn't last too long. Give it a couple of weeks and the water clarity will be back to normal. It all depends on weather and sea conditions to how long the bloom will last. The fishing hasn't been all doom and gloom as there has been some fairly good numbers of gurnard caught during day light from Abbotsbury to Portland which means the numbers of black bream will not be to far away. Chesil always produces good numbers of red

and tub gurnard during the summer months with a small piece of mackerel being my favoured bait to target them. This year abbotsbury has produced quite a lot of the rarer of the species with the grey gurnard putting in an appearance which is a great one to have for the anglers on there yearly species hunt. Cogden to Abbotsbury is still producing some cracking plaice. Some anglers at Cogden have also been lucky enough to bag the odd turbot. Mainly small fish but more than welcome. The smoothhound has probably been the best species to target lately with some nice fish up to 10lb showing and an average size of 3-5lb. Not massive but good fun all the same. The main reason why there are good hounds to be had is they love crab and year after year as soon as the spiders start the hounds are never too far behind. Best baits to target the smoothhound is hermit or peeler. They love them! Crab baits also tend to keep the spiders off that little bit longer giving fish a chance to find your bait. As for the ray fishing along Chesil, it has slowed up but again i don't think its because they are not there, its the crabs are on the baits before the ray can get to them. Not long now and the spiders will start moving back out to sea giving the fish a chance to take the bait. June is the start of some of the best fishing along Chesil with the black bream showing in numbers by the end of the month along the eastern stretches of the beach. Ferrybridge being the hot spot. Gurnard will well and trully be in and we should also see the first of the red mullet. The hound and ray fishing will keep improving with more and more bigger fish showing along with the start of the big conger at high water in the dark. June can be an extremely good month so get out there ladies and gents and happy hunting.

Rory Eastlake with a big whiting of 2lb 3oz, wery unusual to have whiting of ths size at this time of year.

Sam Truan with a nice chesil gar.

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LRF & MINI-SPECIES By Charlie Tudball in association with HTO

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A very rare Topknot caught by Tim Poat Long Spined Sea Scorpion. Caught on a HTO rockfish LRF Rod. Let me introduce myself … I am Charie Tudball, a match angler from Minehead. I have been in the England Youth Shore Team at both the World and Home Nations Championships for the last few years. So you may be thinking why am I writing articles about lrf (light rock fishing)? Especially as I am by no means an LRF expert and I live on the coast of the not so lrf friendly Bristol Channel. What I do is spend hours on rocks, piers, beaches and harbours with an lrf rod in my hand. The thing I love about lrf fishing is that it lends itself to being able to get out, catch some of the most beautiful and interesting fish in our seas in the few spare hours a week we get. In this monthly feature I will be reporting the times I manage to get out for a few hours. I won’t be getting too technical or using complicated LRF related lingo but what I do hope to do is to show you how easy it is get out and enjoy a few hours with a rod in your hand. I will start this month with running you through my first and my current setup. My original setup was was the affordable HTO Rockfish UL rod teamed up with a 2500 sized spinning reel loaded with 6Lb HTO Rockfish Light game PE braid. This combo landed me a huge amount of fish from 5g scorpion fish to

near 2lb wrasse. I have now moved onto the HTO Rock Rover. I chose this as with it being 4 peiced it fits perfectly under the passenger seat in my van so it comes with me wherever I go. It also comes with two tips, a tubular and a solid tip. The tubular one is perfect for chucking shore jigs big distances and helps when putting action into hard plastic lures. The solid tip is more reminiscent of the Rockfish UL which allows you to keep in contact with and fish soft plastic and Marakuyu isome very effectively on dropshot, carolina rigs and jigheads. I have teamed the rock rover up with the Rockfish 2000 reel which allows more finnese and smaller ‘twitches’ due to the smaller sizes of the reel. Again it is loaded it 6lb Rockfish light game braid. This braid for under a tenner is the only “affordable” one on the market that I am aware of. It is a simple “no frills” braid but does its job very well and is perfect for all aspects of LRF fishing. Next month ill be showing you a few of the basic rigs that are commonly used in this fun, easy style of fishing. In the meantime don’t forget to check out our monthly competition we have running and keep you eyes on the page for upcoming LRF match dates and results. Until then tight lines!

Sea Angling News LRF & mini-species competition Charlie with a Cling fish

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Each Month we will be running a competition in association with HTO. We will asking you to target a specific mini-species the winner will be the entrant who provides the best quality selfie photo of them and the fish. The fish must be clearly identifiable from the photo and the editors decision will be final... Email your entries to: james@seaanglingnews.com THIS MONTHS TARGET SPECIES IS THE CORKWING WRASSE The winner will receive an HTO goodie bag

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MATCH PLANNER WEYMOUTH ANGLING SOCIETY OPEN COMPETITIONS Saturday 21st Nov - Sunday 29th , Heaviest fish wk, Dorset rover, fish may be weighed in at tackle shops or HQ after 7pm evenings. Book on by 2pm on 21st, last bag 10pm on 29th. Saturday 19th December, Xmas fayre, Chesil centre, 2 - 8pm Sunday 27th December, Bangers & Beans Harbour competition, book on in club from 12.30 ,fishing 2pm 7pm last bag 7.30pm. SAMALITE OPEN COMPETITIONS; August 22nd, Burton , 7pm - midnight September 26th, Abbotsbury, 2 - 7pm October 10th, Chesil Centre, 2 - 7pm December 12th, Chesil centre, 4 - 9pm Contact number for further details on all of above matches, Dave, 07977132951

2016 Samalite Chesil League (open) Date Apr 23rd May 21st Jun 25th Jul 23rd Aug 20th Sept 24th Oct 15th Nov 19th Dec 17th

Venue Abbotsbury Chesil Centre (right) Cogden Chesil Centre (right) Bexington Abbotsbury Chesil Centre Bexington (left) Chesil Centre

Time 6 - 11pm 6 - 11pm 7 - Midnight 7 - Midnight 7 - Midnight 9 am - 2 pm 4 - 9 pm 7 - Midnight 5 - 10 pm

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2016 Bexhill Festival of the Sea For the fifth time we are holding the following sea angling competitions during the 2016 Bexhill Festival of the Sea: Junior Pegged Beach Match 4th September (12pm to 4pm) Beach Specimen Hunt 5th to 9th September (9am 5th to 5pm 9th) Boat Species Hunt 11th September (9am to 5pm) Kayak Species Competition 18th September (10am to 3pm) Bass Species Hunt 25th September (12.30am to 16.30pm) Pegged Open Beach Competition 2nd October (10.30am to 15.30pm) There will also be another Charter Boat Species competition from Eastbourne Marina on a Monday in September on a date to be confirmed. All of these competitions are organised with the assistance and sponsorship of Bexhill Sea Angling Club. We would be extremely grateful if you could include these in your match planner. Further details will be available on the Festival website in early 2016 www.bexhillseafestival.co.uk

Bognor Regis Amateur Angling Society 52nd Open Boat Fishing Bream Festival One Day Sunday 22 May 2016 0730 To 1630 Alternative Date If First Date Is Cancelled Due To Bad Weather Sunday 29 May 2016 0730 To 1400 Booking In On The Day From One Hour Before The Start Time At Braas Boat Pound Admiralty Gardens Felpham PO22 7AD Or At Littlehampton RNLI Station Fishermans Quay River Road BN17 5BL Bring Your Own Boat Visiting Boat Welcome Cost Seniors £10 Juniors £5 Pool £ 1 Drawn Cash Prizes Subject To Entry Tel: Tony Chant 07766 078977 John Small 07799 762377 After 5pm Please Note It Is The Responsibility Of The Boat Skipper And Crew To Ensure That There Is Adequate Safety Equipment On Board.

NWASAC Summer League dates. North West Association of Sea Angling Clubs Summer League 2016 Contact Bill or Heather, 0151 677 0011. All rounds offer Penn Points, two hooks only, measure & release to 18 cms. Book on an hour and a half before match time. 1. Caldy, South Wirral, 23rd April SATURDAY 10:30am- 2:30pm. Book on in car park via Croft Road (CH48 2JW). 2. Blue Bridge, Queensferry, Sunday May 29th 3.30- 7.30pm. Book on in Queensferry Hotel, Welsh Road (CH5 2RA). 3. Rock Channel, New Brighton, Sunday July 3rd 3.15- 7.45pm. Book on near clown sculpture on Kings Parade (CH45 2PB). 4. Otterspool, Liverpool, Sunday Aug 7th 10am - 3 pm. No pendulum casting. Book on in Jericho Lane car park (L17 5AR). 5. Town Hall & Maddock Banks, Wallasey, Sun Oct 23rd 9.45am- 1.45 pm. Book on at bottom of Tobin Street (CH44 8DF).

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Sun July 24th

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Seaton carnival open shore Run by Honiton SAC on Fri Sept 2nd. Venue is Seaton in devon and fishing will be from 7pm till 11pm. Sign on at the spot on cafe from 6pm. £5 plus opt pool of £1. Two rods and 3 hooks weighing in two different species for aggregate percentage. More info from Mike Spiller 01404 43397.

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Luke Kervin and Jason Gunter beached a blonde Ray each weighing in at uncannily 11lb 5oz.

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