New swim maps for Bellwood, Collins and Knotts

Thanks to Head Bailiff, Rob Allen, for creating swim maps for these three lakes.

These have been devised to assist members with identifying swim boundary limits, no fishing zones, out of bounds areas, location of disabled pegs etc, defining the swims to increase anglers understanding of where they may fish and where they may not, from any given swim. 

They will also assist bailiffs with peg numbers when checking permits, .

Full-size PSF versions of each map are available in the Fisheries section of this website and will soon be put up in new noticeboards in the Bellwood and Knotts car parks.

All members are expected to follow the guidance within them.

 

Willows - Winter Fishing

Following last year's experiment, members with two-rod (Specimen) permits may fish two rods at Willows between 1st November 2022 and 28th February 2023. This is to encourage more anglers in winter months where their presence may help keep cormorant activity down on this shallow lake. Note: this rule may be withdrawn at short notice during periods of flooding on other lakes which may concentrate activity at Willows. Please check permissions on the website/Facebook/noticeboard at these times before setting up a second rod.
 
- A reminder that no pre-baiting is allowed on any water between November and March inclusively.

ANNUAL CHARITY MATCH - Enborne - 2nd October 2022

 

On a very wet Sunday morning, brave souls 31 fished the match at the K&A canal at Enborne. While the rain cleared, the fish weren't really in the mood, with the winning weight of 8lb coming from NAA member Richard Faithfull who caught mainly perch from the newly installed platforms on the stretch below Guyers Lock.  Second from the same stretch was Peter Morgan from Shipston Angling Association (who sent down 9 anglers, plus £100 for H4H and a raffle prize) and 3rd, also from Shipston, was Stuart Fleming who caught 6-9-0 from peg 10.   Section winners were Dave Clarke with 2-9-0 from peg 7, Stuart Fleming, John Cox with 5-1-0 from peg 14, Steve Thame with 1-6-8 from peg 22, Henry Sadler with 5-8-0 from peg 28 and Peter Morgan and Richard Faithfull. A big thankyou to Ann in the Lamb Pub for Breakfast and a good spread after the match. 

Thank you also to all who entered and supported the raffle, either by donating prizes, buying tickets or both. A healthy amount was collected on behalf of Help for Heroes, the final figure will be added to this article upon calculation.

Membership secretary, Dave Smith, is to be congratulated once again on a superbly organised match.

Autumn 2022 Newsletter

The latest issue has now been published. You can find it on the Quarterly Newsletter tab on this site.

This issue includes

- details of recent catches
- techniques for fishing our waters
- celebrity contributions
- and much, much more

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