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4th and Last Mini Open Results 2009

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:12:00 -0500

Last Sunday was the fourth and last Gower Rockhoppers Mini Open of the year at Mumbles Foreshore.

Yet again it was another well attended match producing 40 anglers, some of which new faces.

Catches were made up of Dogfish, Whiting, Small Codling, Rockling and Flounder.

Results as follows:

1st Rhys Lewis, Maesteg, 920g Dogfish winning £150

2nd John Priest, Barry, 900g Dogfish winning £100

3rd & 4th Tied / Gareth Lloyd, Swansea and Spencer Rees, Swansea both 740g Dogfish each winning £50

The Longest fish other than a dogfish prize was won by Sally Owen with a flouder of 580g winning £50

TheGower Rockhoppers will be running competitions in the new year datesyet to be decided, please see www.gowerrockhoppers.webs.com throughout 2010 for details.

Cheers

Chris

Llanelli Open 29th December 2009

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:41:00 -0500

Good result for 2 of our members on Sunday at the Llanelli Open at Bury Port.

Chris Isaac came 2nd with a flounder of 1lb 11 1/8th oz

Martin Richards 4th with a flounder of 1lb 10oz

All flounders making up the prize list. The point only produced small codling and whiting. Flounders came from the beach.

3rd Mini open 15th November

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:54:00 -0500

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

Second Mini Open Results 1st November 2009

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:55:00 -0500

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

The First Mini Open

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:54:00 -0400

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

Us against Fairwood Manobier June 14th

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:09:00 -0400

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.

Rnd 2 Welsh Trials - Borth

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:34:00 -0400

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.

SWWASAC Rnd 2 Llangennith

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:36:00 -0400

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

Fishing against Fairwood

Fri, 22 May 2009 09:41:00 -0400

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.

Sunday Penclawdd

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:31:00 -0400

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

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