Month: March 2023

05/03/23

Good afternoon all, as you know we held our final match of the season this morning against our good friends from Tring AC. A Craggy hardened match angling bunch who spend a lot of time fishing gin clear canal stretches near Tring at the moment, so it was nice to give 6 of them the opportunity to teach us a lesson on how to eek out a pound more fish than 8 of us much prettier Thame anglers. Tring scored 5lb 11oz and Thame scored 4lb 11oz 12dr. I believe they beat us at Shabbington in December too…. 

                                                                    Note to self, must do better next season! 

   The match itself was won by Sheldan Camden fishing for Thame on peg 54. Shel skillfully ran a single red maggot getting two bites on the stick catching 2 Chub weighing in a very welcome 4lb 1oz. Quality floats to the top eventually.

2nd place sitting in his armchair just next to the platform 47 came Dave Moore. Dave fished a similar method only with worms from his compost heap on the hook, catching 3 Chub and losing as many for 3lb 8oz. Again a fine piece of angling skill from the 83 year old Tring fisherman. Proving that anyone of any age can still woop my arse!!

3rd place on the end peg for today 55 came another annoyingly consistent Tring angler Martin Rodwell. Martin had a Chub and some Gudgeon for his very respectable 2lb 1oz. 

4th position went to Thame man Ian Blyth catching 60 large minnows for 5oz 4dr in peg 42.

5th place consistent Dess Burgess in peg 43, another Thame man today catching 3oz.

6th place Dave lyne peg 41 catching 2oz 8dr of minnows and a bleak.

7th place for Tring and the last to trouble the scalesman in peg 38a came Mr. Hedges who weighed in 2oz.

   So there it is, a low, clear river with high pressure and a North wind blowing was always going to prove hard, but at least half the field caught, and with slightly warmer conditions forecast for next weekend, the last in this season, it may well fish better than today for a mixed bag of fish if you pick the right swim. Whatever you decide to do surely fishing the river on the last week of the season has to beat shopping!!! 

order of service.

      The Clubs AGM is coming up on Thursday April 6th. It will be in the Falcon Pub in Thame (Hook Norton Real Ale Pub) and is open to anyone who would like to attend, member or not. It starts at 7.30pm and if you have any matters you would like to be discussed there, please make sure it is submitted in writing to myself or any other club officer before March 23rd. We set the new seasons Permit price then and soon after the new membership secretary sends the new application forms out to all existing members. The new permit goes to print soon after the AGM so it has the newly elected officers on the front.

Thanks to all those who have attended my matches this season, I don’t remember cancelling a single one. It has been a hard ending to a tricky year with the wettest May, hottest Summer, driest February, all a bit much really. We could do with quite a bit of rain soon or the river will struggle for a decent level come June 16th but what will be will be…. Get out and wet a river line before the end of the season if you can, and if you catch a decent bag or a good individual fish, even a massive Minnow, take a pic and send it to me or Steve. I will be organising a few work parties in the closed season and so if you would like to put your name forward I’ll let you know when they are.

                    See you all at the AGM then Tight Lines Dave.