Shallow Boat Competitions are organised by Brian Ansell. Contact Brian on 01590-672628.
All Competitions fished on Sundays. Dates for 2025.
8th Dec, 19th Jan, 16th Feb, 23rd Mar, 6th Apr, 18th May, 1st Jun, 13th Jul, 17th Aug,
14th Sept, 12th Oct, 9th Nov Small Boat Open, 30th Nov , 14th Dec 2026.
11th Shallow Boat Competition.
On Sunday 13th October the club held its 11th Shallow Boat competition in which 12 club members took part. It was cold and alittle rough to start, but for once the weather forcast was right. The sea calmed down making it a pleasent but cold day although we all said the fish were hard to find. On our competitions the fish are measured and weighed and released stright back into the sea and points awarded for each fish. Fish caught consisted of black bream, conger eel, dogfish. bass, bull huss, tub gurnard, pouting, whiting, thornback. small eyed, blonde and spotted rays. We did have 2 specimen fish caught a bull-huss weighing 12lbs 14oz and a tub gurnard of 3lb 8oz both caught by Alan Mapes.
Results:
1st Alan Mapes 134pts, 2nd Ian Rogers 93pts, 3rd Paul Dibden 83pts, 4th Derek Smith 72pts, 5th Colin Wright 71pts, 6th Chris Hardy 70pts,
7th Adrian Moody 67pts, 8th Barry Littlefair 64pts, 9th Paul Watson 45pts, 10th Brian Ansell and Alan Martin both 35pts and 12th Denis Mapes 20pts.
10th Shallow Boat Competition.
On Sunday 8th September the club held its 10th Shallow Boats competition and 12 club members fished the competition. The weather flung assorts at us. It was nice to start with just cloudy. Later in the morning then rain started and we had a steady downpour for a couple of hours, but the best part was we had very light winds.
Fish caught on these competitions are measured and points awarded then put straight back into the sea. Fish caught consisted of black bream, bull huss, conger eel, dogfish, gurnard, plaice, spotted and thornback rays, scad and smooth-hounds.
Results:
1st Paul Watson and Paul Dibden both with 88 pts, 3rd Dan White 83 pts, 4th Denis Mapes 77 pts, 5th Derek Smith 65 pts, 6th Alan Mapes 60 pts,
7th Barry Littlefair 48 pts, 8th Adrian Moody and Chris Hardy both with 45 pts, 10th Brian Ansell, Alan Martin and Colin Wright all with 40 pts.
9th Shallow Boat Competition.
On Sunday 11th August, a very hot and sunny day with a moderate breeze blowing from the east which unfortunately made it rather uncomfortable with wind against tide the club held its 9th Shallow Boat competition. 12 club members signed on and all caught fish consisting of black bream, conger eel, plaice, rays, shad, bass, pouting and wrasse. On these competitions all the fish are returned to the sea and points awarded for each fish and different species.
Results:
1st Alan Martin 74 pts, 2nd Denis Mapes 71 pts, 3rd Barry Littlefair 69 pts, 4th Adrian Moody 59 pts, 5th Alan Mapes 48 pts,
6th Adrian Hulme 48 pts, 7th Derek Smith and Paul Watson both 42 pts, 9th Brian Ansell 41 pts, 10th Colin Wright 40 pts,
11th Chris Hardy 30 pts, 12th Neil Mitchener 25 pts.