Match Reports 2010

Braintree Sea Angling Club members fished their penultimate match for the year at Orfordness fishing for the Bert Finch Cup. The fishing was relatively easy with a calm sea and offshore wind however the larger fish appeared to have also gone offshore. Catches were made up of pin whiting and small dabs with an occasional larger specimen putting in an appearance. Barrie Senior, fishing his last match for this year, finished as he as had started with a win accumulating 152 points in this catch and return match to take the cup. In joint second place were Robin Joy and Chris Leonard with 116 points apiece. 20 points behind them was Tim Maples on 96 points.

With the summer season over Braintree Sea angling Club members had the winter species whiting on their minds when they travelled to Thorpeness for their latest match. With reports of large whiting being caught of the Suffolk coast earlier in the week expectations were high, however the strong onshore easterly wind and bright sunshine combined to foil their hopes. After a day’s hard fishing it was new man Paul Drake who took first place with a small bass for 28 points. Second spot went to Chris Leonard with a small flounder and two pin whiting for 27 points and in third place with one pin whiting for 5 point was Barrie Senior.

Another Warm Summer evening and fishing the tide up from very early produced few fish to write home about, very slow all evening and heavy crab activity. Tim managed to win the match with 3 Bass and a total of 44 points, Robin second with 2 bass and a Whiting and Andy 3^rd with 1 bass and an eel.

In the latest match of the Braintree Sea Angling Club’s Summer league cup show members fish from Walton-on-the-Naze. On a warm summer evening with a light onshore wind all anglers quickly got into the schoolie Bass. As the darkness a few other species where caught including Eel, Flounder, Sole and Plaice. Kevin Thorpe won the match with a bag of Bass, 2^nd place went to Chris Leonard with Bass and Plaice and 3^rd place was taken by Barry Senior with Bass, Flounder and Eels.

The latest match of the Summer league cup saw the Braintree Sea Angling Club members fish from Frinton on Sea. On a very warm summer evening with a light onshore breeze the fishing started well with all anglers catching Bass and Eels. As the darkness came the fishing slowed and other species put in an appearance inc. whiting, pouting and Sole. Tim Maples won the match with a bag of Bass and Eel, 2^nd Place went to Kevin Thorpe with Bass, Eel, Whiting & a couple of Sole and 3^rd place was a tie between Paul Drake and Andy Gaskin.

In the first match of their Summer league Braintree Sea Angling Club members fished an evening catch and release match at Bradwell. Although overcast and a persistent blustery onshore wind this did not put off the anglers but seemed to have put off the larger fish. The anglers caught a mixed bag of whiting, pouting, codling and Dab with Robin taking 1st place with 63 points, Kevin came 2nd with 55 points and Tim 3rd with 27 points.

New member Paul Drake showed the other anglers in the Club how it should be done on his debut match to take the Alf Reed Cup. The catch and return match at Orfordness was fished in calm, warm conditions with a good number of small fish to keep the anglers busy. Paul amassed 594 points equivalent to 12lb 6oz from is catch of 9 codling , 6 dogfish, 1 pout, 5 whiting and a small smoothhound. Runner up Barrie Senior could only manage 563 points equal to 11lb 11.5oz from his catch of 11 codling, 3 dogfish, 11 whiting and 5 pout. Third spot went to Andy Gasking with 6 codling, 2 dogfish, 13 whiting, 1 smooth hound and a pout for 436 points 9lb 1oz.

Members fished the western end of Aldeburgh beach out towards Thorpeness for the Braintree and Witham Times cup. The sun shone thoughout most of the day although nice for the anglers was not good conditions for fishing as the results confirmed. With a couple of the anglers blanking and only the odd undersize codling and whiting caught it was the appearance of some flounder in the last hour of the match that decided the winner of this catch and return match. In first place to take the trophy was Barrie Senior with a catch of four codling and two flounders for 81 points. Runner up was Andy Gaskin with one bass, one, pout and two codling for 60 points. Tim Maples had three whiting and one codling for 25 points.

Braintree members fished their first match of 2010 at Orfordness. With bright conditions with a cold westerly breeze fishing was slow with few fish caught. Alan Porter managed to win the day with a mixed bag of codling and dab. Colin Cocker came second with an un-seasonable Bass and Chris Leonard third with dab. The next match is on the 31st January please contact Kevin if you wish to fish.

	Braintree Sea Angling Club

03-Jan-2011