Gower Rockhoppers SAC

Last Sunday the 3rd of the Gower Rockhoppers Mini Opens was held on the Mumbles Foreshore. There was an excellent turn out with 43 anglers attending.

Every so often during the mini opens a nice bass or strap conger willbe caught to clinch 1st prize. Last Sunday however something a bitspecial turned up to take 1st.

 Steve Rees from Llanelli of Lecarum SAC landed a 11 lb  11oz bull huss to win 1st place and take £150 prize money.

2nd place and winning £100 was Andi Yates from Bridgend with a 940g Dogfish,

3rd winning £60 Addie Peacock from Cardigan with a 900g Dogfish,

4th winning £50 Dai Allsop from Bridgend with a 840g Dogfish,

The prize for any other fish other than a dogfish was won by Franco Attanasio from Rhoose with a silver eel of 340g, winning £50.

An additional £80 was raised for Morriston Hospital Childrens Ward through the raffle.

Thank you again to the following tackle shops who provided tackle vouchers for the prizes.

Country Stores Gowerton          £25

Basstastic Mumbles                  £10

Mainwarings Sketty                  £10

30 Anglers braved the elements to fish Mumbles foreshore on Sunday and the fishing was excellent with a large number of Dogfish, Whiting and Dabs brought to the scales.

The results were as follows:

1st Stuart Reed / Swansea– 880g Dogfish £100

2nd Paul Morgan/ Llanelli –860g Dogfish £70

3rd Spencer Rees/ Swansea –840g Dogfish £40

4th David Williams/Mountain Ash – 780g Dogfish £30

Best other species was a 2 way tie so the £50 prize money was split

Damian O'mara/ Llanelli – 260g Dab

Jerome Curtis/ Swansea – 260g Whiting

Once again the charity raffle was ahuge success with £58 being added to the pot.

A massive thanks to the three tackleshops who kindly donated tackle vouchers.

Country Stores Gowerton £25

HR Jones Clydach £10

Mainwarings Sketty £10

Last sunday the first of the Gower Rockhoppers mini opens took place at Mumbles.

There was an excellent attendance of 33 anglers, some of which were fishing a competition for the very first time.

Unfortunlately the fishing was quiet, probably due to the calm conditions in the bay.There was however a shoal of mackrel in front of us for most of theincoming tide, pity they didn't count.

4 fish were brought to the scales.

Gareth Lloyd was 1st with a silver eel of 1lb 1, 1/2 ounces which netted him £100 plus and extra £50 for the heaviest fish other than a dogfish prize.

2nd Carl Campion (10oz Gurnard) winning £80

3rd Peter Evans (9, 1/2 oz Gurnard) winning £60

4th Peter Calford (7oz Pouting) winning £40

All anglers who entered the competition were given the chance to enter acharity raffle for an extra £2 with the proceeds being donated to Morriston Hospital Childrens ward at the end of the year. 30 of the 33anglers entered to make a total £60 raised.

A big thank you goes to the 4 tackle shops who provided tackle vouchers for prizes for the raffle.

The raffle winners were as follows:

Mal George              £25 Country Stores Voucher

Peter Calford           £20 Basstastic Mumbles Pier Voucher

Jerome Curtis          £10 H R Jones Voucher

Paul Morgan            £10 Mainwarings voucher

The next Mini Open is on Sunday 1st November. Meet opposite the George Pub at 2:30pm, fishing 3:30 - 7:30pm

The Gower Rockhoppers and Fairwood Sea Angling clubs have arranged tofish against each other at a couple of venues throughout the year. Halfthe entry fees are given to a selected charity. The first of thesechosen by fairwood was at Manobier on Sunday 14th June. 10 Adults and 1junior (Thomas Stephens, Fairwood) fished, numbers down due to the niceweather. Fishing 3 hours either side of top water armed with crab,ragworm and fish baits 29 fish insize were brought to the scales.

24 wrasse

2 Pollack

2 Dogfish

1 Bass

Ist individual angler,  Carl Campion, Fairwood (1 Pollack, 1 Bass and 3 Wrasse)

Heaviest Fish,  Chris Morris, Fairwood ( 4lb 4oz Wrasse )

Overall Winning Team,  Gower Rockhoppers

Poor turn out boys only 2 Rockhoppers.

Thank you to SWWASAC for providing us with a £50 cheque for the selected charity.

£50 was raised from the match. A total of £100 was raised for cancer research.

Just got back from Borth fishing the second leg of the Welsh shore trials.

The fishing was quite poor with the bulk of the catches made up of small flounder and dabs. There was also a couple of greater weaver fish caught the biggest of which was 40cm long. I have never seen them that big before!

Myself and Tony fished the same zone on pegs next to each other, I came 2nd in the zone with 4 flounder in size Tony had 1 flounder undersize.

The venue was split into 2 zones either sides of the beach to hopefully get away from the tourists, surfers etc.  IT DIDN'T WORK!!!

No surprise really due to how nice a day it was.

However there were a few fish caught, Flouders, bass, grey mullet and golden grey mullet. The most productive zone was Worms head side of the beach.

Results

Zone 1

1st  Danian Geldard (Isle of Wight)     3.62m

2nd Tony Oates                                       2.50m

Longest brace  Peter Calford

Zone 2

1st Joe Arch                                             1.54m

2nd Andrew Hutchins                             1.44m

Longest brace  Mark Cowell

Longest Fish    Gerald John   50cm mullet

Its on. We are fishing against fairwood on Sunday June 14th at Manobier.

This is the first of 2 venues fishing agaist them this year. Manobier was their choice we have presented them with our home venue choice. If agreed I will post the details.

Don't forget guys Fishing the bank in Penclawdd on Sunday.

It fished brilliant a couple of years ago lets hope it does again!.

Two of the club members fished.

Myself and Tony Oates.

Fishing conditions were terrible, the weather was good but there was an easterly wind blowing right in our faces and the weed was unfishable.

Dispite this a a good number of dogs came out, also bream and a couple of dabs. A few bull huss made up the bags too.

Tony and I blanked!!!!!!!

Members Fished

Tony Oates, Ror Roggers, Mark Hearn, Chris Isaac, Darren Bennet, Paul Williams, Mike Porter, Jerome Curtis

It was decided that the pool prizes would go to the biggest fish other than a dogfish. Catches for the day included 1 plaice, 2 flounder and a few small turbot.

No fish in-size were brought to the scales therefore no prizes were won.