NEWSLETTER
DECEMBER 2004
AGM 2004
This years
meeting was started with a minutes silence for two club members that had sadly
passed away during the last year.
Mabel Perry had been a keen member of the club for
many years and was well known on Crabmill she was a keen participant in the
club matches. There is an excellent article on the club website that gives an
insight into the life of a remarkable lady. Mabel’s family have kindly donated
a trophy to the club that will be fished for each year in the club matches.
Matthew Booth was a regular Carp angler at Brereton.
Mathew's loss at the age of 29 was very tragic and with the wish of his parents
we intend to hold a series of overnight Carp matches on Brereton in his memory
with the proceeds going to the club stocking fund. You will be notified of
further details.
At the meeting
Doug Summers stood down as the
Secretary to follow a new challenge by moving to
Pete Rushton also stood down as the Chairman. Some of
you may know that Pete has suffered serious ill health in the last year and now
needs the time to devote to his well being and to his family. In his duty as
Chairman Pete was always totally committed to the club, he turned out for
meetings and work parties when none of us would have expected. His strength
should be an inspiration to us all. We would like to extend our thanks to Pete
and wish him and his family well for the future.
At the
committees recommendation it was passed that Doug and Pete should be awarded
life membership of the club.
The new committee is as follows
Chairman Dave
Colclough.
Vice chairman Terry
Madeley
General
Secretary Anthony Birchall
Treasurer and
Membership Secretary Peter
Bailey.
Committee Alan
Pritchard
Dave Pritchard
Graham Marsden
Steve Morris
Dave Raine
Two new
committee members
Dave
Harvey
Bob Kettle.
2 new rules were passed
1 No firearms i.e. pistols or rifles of any description are allowed on any of the Society’s waters.
(Unless with committee permission)
Any member caught with any of these on the waters will automatically lose their
membership of the Society.
2 Any member wishing to stand for a
position on the committee must have been a member for a minimum of 5 years;
however the committee of the Society can use its discretion to take a member of
less year’s membership if they consider this to be beneficial to the Society.
New Waters
Again with great
help from Doug the club have obtained two new waters for the 2005 season, these
being Baddiley Mere and
Baddiley Reservoir. These waters are
located between Nantwich and Whitchurch. The mere is a 10 acre lake with a 15
angler limit and the Reservoir is a 5 acre lake with an 8 angler limit.
The Mere is
already a general mixed fishery and is known to contain Pike to over 20lb,
Perch to over 3lb, quality Tench and Bream, indeed it held the Cheshire Bream
record for a short period in the 1970's. We know of a 16lb Common Carp and we
have recently been told of 20lb Carp being caught over 10 years ago.
By the middle of
January we will have introduced over thirty Carp to the low 20lb mark. The
majority of these are the Mark Simmonds Fishers Pond strain.
The reservoir
was last used as Trout only water. There is a stocking of Browns and Rainbows
and very little else. These Trout must not be removed at the owner’s request.
We have now introduced 61 Carp to 23lb 12oz, with several more 20’s and 19lb
fish; again they are mainly the high quality Fishers Pond strain. The intention
is to run the reservoir as Carp only water.
These waters
will be available on the 2005 ticket. As with all new waters the landowner is
very nervous about people on his land and the greatest respect must be shown to
the owners and their lakes.
There will be
specific rules for these waters with your 2005 membership.
Match and work party dates for 2005 have yet to be decided.
Renewal fee for
Adult Senior membership is
£130.00
Ladies and Juvenile membership £10.00
The new contact addresses are
General Enquires Membership
enquiries and
Renewals
Anthony Birchall Peter
Bailey
17 Dunwood Drive 5
Etherow Close
Church
Stoke On
ST7 – 3RE CW11
1EY
Tel. 01270 883269 – Before
Please Note - All membership renewals are STRICTLY by post only,
Although we have
had a setback with Crabmill, our members can expect more quality fishing on
club waters in 2005.
Cotton Moss will be treated for the weed which will
allow more members to take advantage of the excellent Carp fishing, there is a
very good chance the large Common will hit 30lb+
Brereton has also fished very well this year,
producing many 20’s to 26lb this year. Brereton provides excellent all year
round sport. The Pike fishing is also showing a bit of a revival this winter,
with 1 or 2 members catching a few nice bags.
The Plex was as consistent as ever in 2004 for
the Carp with several fish over 20lb. There are also a large number of beautiful
small Carp now that are excellent sport on the float.
The committee would like to wish all members and their families
a very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.