2021-02-01 Sea Angler

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A look back through the archives of Britain’s
biggest and best sea angling magazine…

MARCH

2011 The angler from Sunderland caught it ■ Roy Rogers, of Plymouth’s Kingfishers
on a Pennell rig baited with lugworms. SAC, thought he had broken the British
■ A charter trip out of There was also a 20lb 4oz cod caught boat-caught record for a pollack while
Brighton produced 27 by Jason Burns, of Dover, at the Kent fishing on Trio, skippered by Roger
cod to more than 30lb. town’s breakwater. McDougal. It didn’t quite make the
The roll of honour for weight, but at a shade under 26lb it was
the session on Ray ■ A ban of global industrial enough for Roy to claim the IGFA 10kg
Burn’s Grey Viking trawling was being sought by the line-class record. He caught it on an
included a 30lb 4oz Marine Conservation Society in a artificial eel at the Eddystone.
fish for Warren Slater, 25lb for Dan bid to counteract the growing size of
Dice, 22lb for Clive Marshall and a 19lb commercial nets. The UK-based charity ■ Terry Butler was using his new boat
1oz fish for Gary Tidd. There were also was calling for a number of drastic rod for the first time when he caught a
18-pounders for Dan Batchelor and measures to save the world’s fish. 29lb cod on a squid and lug cocktail. He
Ben Waddington. was fishing on the charter boat Malinda,
■ JohnLaity,fromPorthleven,Cornwall, out of Rye, East Sussex.
■ Kayak angler Jim Masson caught a caught a 42lb 10oz conger eel on a two-hook
26lb 3ozcodwhilefishingonlyamileoff flapper rig baited with strips of mackerel ■ A day’s fishing at Chesil Beach in Dorset
Watchet harbour, Somerset. The engineer, while fishing at his local Loe Bar beach. was rounded off in style by Christopher
who normally fished the Solent area, was Black when he caught a 22lb 2oz cod. The
fishing the mark for the first time. ■ Tackle shop owner Darren Braby angler from Wyke Regis caught it at 60
caught a British shore record black bream yards out on a fresh whiting bait.
■ Devon angler Mark Loewy only had a from Alderney in the Channel Islands.
few hours to spare when he headed his Darren, of D+M Tackle and Sport, caught 1981
small boat just a mile offshore in the hope the 5lb 15oz 11dr fish at a mark on the
of catching some whiting but hooked a island’s south coast. The previous shore ■ One of the tackle
27lb cod instead. When he finally boated record stood at 5lb. The current record of industry’s best known
the fish, he found the size 1/0 hook was 6lb 8oz 6dr was caught at Creux harbour, companies had a
only just holding in the cod’s mouth. Sark, in 2001. new name from 1981.
Garcia Tackle Ltd, of
■ Channel 4’s ‘Fish Fight’ programmes ■ Fishingfromhisownboatwithtwo Southampton, whose
fronted by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, friends, Andy Gunn topped the day by products included
had got the nation up in arms after seeing catching a 35lb cod as they shared a haul of Mitchell reels and Platil
commercially caught fish being dumped 13 cod. The angler from Woolston, Hants, line, would trade as
in the sea. had launched his boat from Southampton Leeda Tackle.
and was fishing off the Isle of Wight.
■ Stocks of Irish Sea whiting and cod ■ Following the formation of the Sea
were at their lowest, while herring had 1991 Anglers Match Federation, a new body
made a recovery and spawning haddock called the North Wales Matchmen’s
were on the increase too. The verdict ■ Dave Farley, of Association was being formed. The
came from the Northern Ireland State of Dawlish, Devon, inaugural meeting was chaired by Keith
the Seas report. showed why the Roberts, of Colwyn Bay.
waters of the River
2001 Exe were highly ■ An angler who had already caught
rated for flounders three cod over 20lb at Balcary Point in
■ Brian Beardmore, of when he caught fish Dumfries & Galloway, landed another of
Stafford’s Lynton Tavern of 4lb 3oz and 3lb about 25lb, and then had a massive battle
SAC, caught pollack of 21lb 15oz while fishing with another. After 20 minutes Mike
2oz and 18lb during a trip of from a small boat. Watson, from Cumbria, got it to the edge
Steve Parker’s Two Rivers, but saw his 50lb leader snap as the fish
out of Dartmouth, Devon. ■ Barry Ford was dived. Mike confirmed the line was not
celebrating after smashing the Scottish damaged and was brand new.
■ Big cod sport on shore-caught record with a 63lb 8oz
Scotland’s famous conger eel. The angler from Sunderland ■ A catch of flatfish earned the fish of the
Balcary Rock lived up landed the big eel while fishing for cod at month award for Edmund Cull, of County
to expectations when Balcary Point, Dumfries & Galloway. The Cork. His session produced plaice of 6lb
Wearsider Richard Carr previous record of 45lb had been caught 4oz and 5lb 15oz, along with four soles
caught a 20lb 8oz fish. at Scrabster pier in 1966. from 2lb 4oz 8dr to 3lb 12oz.

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