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MEMBERS NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2012

Dear Member,

Welcome to the January newsletter. I hope you all had a good xmas and new year.

Firstly I would like to tell you all that John Amery has now stood down as chairman, this is obviously a sad moment but I am pleased to say that he accepted my proposal for him to become President of the Federation. We made a presentation to him after the meeting in recognition and gratitude for everything he has done for SAMF. Darren Phillips was voted in as the new Chairman.

There is a lot of information contained in this newsletter but the most important bit is that it is subs renewal time again. For those members whose membership runs through from last year i.e. new members who joined late in the year to fish the Masters, and Life members, I will have enclosed a 2012 membership card. Please note this means brand new members and not those who lapsed their membership for one year or more. The rest of members will need to send me a cheque for £20 made payable to SAMF and fill in the reply slip at the end of this newsletter. Those of you on line can also join via the website using paypal. Please don’t forget to do this because it costs time and money to send out reminders. I also need to know if you are a member of the Angling Trust which will reduce our insurance costs.

It is vitally important that members continue to support us, without this support SAMF cannot operate.

MASTERS 2011 – ORFORD

The following is the press release from the Masters 2011 at Orford. Full results can be found on the website:

Grimsby angler George Smith won the 2011 SAMF UK MASTERS on the beaches of Orford Ness in Suffolk on the 11^th and 12^th November.

64 anglers fromEnglandandWalescompeted for the title and even though there was a strong onshore wind on Friday, calming down for Saturday, conditions were good for both matches. The anglers had to leave and return at staggered times to cross to the island by boat, this operation ran smoothly using two boats, the normal one and one supplied by the Natural trust.

Orford Ness is a 10 mile long shingle spit between the River Alde and the North Sea, located just South of Aldeburgh. Orford ‘Island’ is famous for its deep-water fishing. Orford Ness is a SSSI and is a very important nature reserve for rare species of plants and strict rules have been requested by the National Trust who have agreed to our access to this fantastic venue. We are grateful to Natural England who granted us permission to use this venue.

The venue did not fish as well as it can do and some of the areas were very snaggy with competitors loosing several sets of gear. Also disappointing was that none of the large fish that this venue is famous for put in an appearance. However there were enough fish on both days for competitors to target. The species caught were mainly codling, whiting, dabs & dogfish. On the first day competitors needed between 11 and 23 fish to come in the top two in their sections. Local angler David Cook from Leiston had the best overall catch with 23 fish for 10lb 2oz. There were two heaviest fish caught on day one, of equal weight, codling of 2lb 8oz caught by Tony Thomas from Sheringham and Alan Doy from Beccles.

Day 1 zone positions

A zone 1st Colin Carey 9lb 10oz.

A zone 2^nd Nick Haward 5lb 1oz.

B zone 1^st Tony Thomas 7lb 6oz.

B zone 2^nd George Smith 7lb 4oz

C Zone 1^st David Cook 10lb 2oz

C Zone 2^nd Michael Emery 8lb 1oz

D Zone 1^st Saul Page 8lb 12oz

D Zone 2^ndIan Reynolds 6lb 12oz

ALL SAMF MATCHES ARE FISHED ON A CATCH AND RETURN FORMULA, THE FISH ARE MEASURED AND THEN IMMEDIATELY RETURNED. A CONVERSION CHART THEN CONVERTS THE LENGTH TO WEIGHT. THREE YEARS AGO SAMF INTRODUCED SIZE LIMITS IN THEIR MAJOR COMPETITIONS ON COD, WHITING AND BASS TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE MORE ANGLERS TO FISH MATCHES. AS A RESULT THIS REDUCED THE ACTUAL NUMBERS OF FISH COUNTING TO AN ANGLERS SCORE BUT GAVE EVERY ANGLER THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING WELL EVEN ON THE LAST CAST BY CATCHING A LARGE FISH.

Day 2 again saw good conditions and anglers needed 10 and 20 fish to score well. Top catch was made by Richard Yates from Dover with 14 fish for 8lb 9oz. Once again the biggest fish was a tie – two bass of 2lb 9oz caught by Glyn Savin of Lymington and Christopher Spall.

Day 2 zone positions:-

A zone 1st Richard Yates 8lb 9oz

A zone 2nd Christopher Spall 7lb 5oz

B zone 1^st Keith Morley 7lb 10oz

B zone 2^nd Martin Waters 5lb 0oz

C Zone 1^stMatt White 7lb 4oz

C Zone 2^nd Paul Stevens 6lb 14oz

D Zone 1^st George Smith 8lb 2oz

D Zone 2^nd Neville Charlesworth 7lb 12oz

FINAL POSITIONS

1 George Smith 3 pts

2 Richard Yates 4 pts (748 fish pts)

3 Keith Morley 4 pts (674 fish pts)

4 Paul Stevens 5 pts

5 Colin Carey 6 pts (760 fish pts)

6 Matt White 6 pts (540 fish pts)

7 David Cook 8 pts (646fish pts)

8 Tony Thomas 8 pts (590 fish pts)

Unfortunately there were no Ladies or juniors fishing this year.

A pairs competition was run within the match and winners were:-

1 Colin Carey & Paul Stevens both from Worthing

2 Gary Hutson (Cleethorpes) & George Smith (Grimsby)

3 Nick Haward (Blythburgh) & Mark Sharman (Lowestoft)

George was overall champion with a 1st place and a 2^nd place in his zone giving him 3 points. George is a successful match angler who has represented England on numerous occasions. He has fished the masters for as long as I can remember and he is a popular winner having been beaton into 2^nd place twice in recent years by a countback on fish points.

Richard Yates from St. Margarets near Dover ran him close also with a zone 3rd and a 1^st giving him 4 points.

Cash prizes down to 8^th position overall and section pools for 1^st and 2^nd places giving a total cash prize fund in excess of £4400, plus tackle prizes and trophies. SAMF is grateful in particular to our member Julian Shambrook of ANYFISH ANYWHERE who donated many of the zone, and individual prizes including a top of the range rod for the winner. We are also grateful to ULTIMA and SEA ANGLER MAGAZINE for donating items for the prize table

Everyone who attended agreed that once again the event had been successful, and this venue will be used again for major events.

Next years final is scheduled to be fished at Otterspool in the Mersey estuary in October/November. Qualifying matches are already being run around the country. Contact Andy Steele, 01772 611597, for details of local events and how to organise qualifiers.

AGM 2011

As usual the AGM took place during the weekend of the Masters and the full minutes can be viewed on the website, the following are the bullet points from the meeting:

We had 179 members in 2011- down by 25. 60 fished the Masters.

MASTERS 2012 – Due to go to the North West and we accepted a proposal by Richard Burrows that the North West Association of Sea Anglers run the competition at Otterspool on the Mersey. The proposal was for it to be held in November but some members prefered to have it earlier. Richard said they would look into this, which they have and the decision is still to hold it in November with on the weekend of the 3^rd & 4th Further details to follow and will be posted on the website ASAP.
There was a strong feeling at the AGM that we should consider holding a Masters on the Isle of Man. There is a strong contingent of members from there that have supported us for many years and they would be delighted to run the competition for us. I know a lot of mainland anglers would find the travel costs prohibitive but we would pick up quite a few new members from the island. The area rep has said that on average the ferry prices for a car with 2 passengers is approx. £185 and a car with 3 passengers is £230. This is based on travelling Thurs returning Sunday. If there were enough of us travelling we could get a discount on these prices. The competition would be held in November probably in 2013. I promised that I would canvass our members in this newsletter to see how many members would be prepared to travel to the Isle of Man, So please let me know either using the membership form at the end or send me an e-mail if you would be prepared to go to the Isle of Man to fish a Masters.

The following people were elected

Chairman – Darren Phillips

Vice Chairman – Eddie Painter

Secretary – Andy Steele

Treasurer – Mary Steele

AREA REPRESENTATIVES

South West Scotland – None

North West – Bill Lindfield

North Wales – Shane Russell

North East – Bob Gascoigne

Anglia – Mark Sharman

Sussex – Paul Stevens

Hants & Challenge Match organiser – Darren Phillips

Kent – Saul Page & Richard Yates

Essex – Ian Reynolds

South West – Hugh Rathbone

South Wales – Joe Arch

Humberside – Rob Neale

TREASURERS REPORT :–

The figures show that SAMFs worth is £6442.75 which is a small increase of £67.18 from 2010. Although making this small profit is good we need to understand what is happening – basically we are suffering from a lack of membership and entry to the masters as a result of the financial climate. There is not a lot we can do about this apart from manage the accounts as best we can. This year we were down £900 in membership fees so we had to look at where to reduce costs. We only sponsored the World club team this year. I only sent one newsletter in January to 500+ people to try and encourage them to rejoin and also 400+ letters to try and get people to enter the Masters. These were the only letters sent, which helped reduce the amount spent on printing and stationary with the telephone and broadband costs also reducing.

We are still in a relatively strong position as, long as we keep membership numbers stable, and just need to continue being careful with expenditure. For this reason I propose that SAMF subscriptions remain at £20 for 2012.

BELGIUM & HOLLAND CHALLENGE MATCH 2011

This year the annual International challenge between the UK Sea Anglers Match Federation (SAMF), Vlaamse Federatie Kusthengelverenigingen (VFK/Belgium) and Sprtvisserij Nederalnd (Holland) for the Alan Gilbert Memorial Trophy was hosted by the Belgians at Knokke Heist and Wenduine on 14-16 Oct. The event competed by 15 man teams comprised of 2 x 4 hour matches.

Day 1 saw the teams fishing at Knokke Heist. Colour in the water from previous blustery weather was clearing fast and did not bode well. However, this match included 3 hours of darkness and hopes were still high. Species caught included Bass, Cod, Dab and Flounder. After the first hour reports of fish were rare but as darkness settled in things improved. Catches were not great and unfortunately there were a few blanks. The Dutch emerged as overall winners of the first match with 289 points, SAMF followed closely with 316 and Belgium 3^rd with 427. Top angler on the night was Saul Page fromKent representing SAMF with 7 fish from A zone for 3.077Kg.

Day 2 saw the teams competing at Wenduine in glorious sunshine. Despite the weather anglers soon started landing fish including Dab, Flounder, Bass, Rockling and a surprise Eel. Once again top rod on the day was Saul Page from SAMF with 12 fish for 2.326Kg. Once again the competition was tight with SAMF winning the day on 298 points and Holland 2^nd with 345. Belgium again finished 3^rdwith 392.

The overall winners of the challenge and retainers of the trophy were SAMF on 614 points. Runners up were Holland on 634 with Belgium
3^rd on 819. Top individual was Saul Page with an outstanding performance winning both days and finishing on 2 points. Runner up was Benjamin Vlietinck of VFK with 7 points and 3^rdwas Martyn Reid of SAMF on 10 points. Top Dutch angler was Peter Mesie on 19 points.

SAMF thank their Belgian hosts for yet another superbly organised event and great hospitality. The 2013 Challenge will be held in Holland on the beaches of Zeeland. If you would like to be considered for this event please contact either Darren Phillips or myself.

DAIWA PAIRS

Once again the SAMF 2011 Daiwa Irish Pairs had continued to be a solid event well supported. And if anyone wants any information about the pairs then a full report and result listings can be downloaded from www.irishpairs.co.uk

SAMF/CAF/FIRE/POLICE CHALLENGE

The 2011 Challenge will be held 27th and 28th January 2012. This event has been moved from the original November date. On day 1 we will fish Deneholm beach Horden Co Durham 16.00– 20.00. Day 2 will be at South Beach at Blyth Northumberland from 10.30- 14.30. The accommodation has been arranged at the Best Western Hotel in South Shields. As always in these events bait will be supplied. Costs for team members are expected to be about £200 if staying at the hotel. Anyone wishing to be considered for the team should contact Darren Phillips or Andy Steele

WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

We are pleased to say that the SAMF team of Malcolm Stote, Stephen Durrant, Mark Pinder, Andy Gallagher, Bill Lindfield and Alan Lewis won the gold medal at the World Shore Angling Championships for Clubs with a very impressive 15 points over the four day event. The event was held from 1st – 6th May 2011 on the Belgian beaches of Knokke Heist and Wenduine and was attended by over 20 teams boasting many World class anglers amongst their ranks. The World Shore Angling Championships for Clubs is a highly regarded World event, second to the World Championships itself. The 2012 event will be held in the south west of France on 21^st May with SAMF gaining automatic qualification. If anyone would like to be considered for the team please contact Darren Phillips or myself. We are also looking for someone to go as manager if anyone fancies doing that.

ANGLING TRUST

We have had several discussions in the past, especially at the AGM’s about a possible integration with the Angling Trust and the majority of members still want SAMF to keep its own identity and keep independent of the Trust. However members should be aware of the good work and representation that they make on behalf of recreational sea anglers.

Just recently they produced a document called Briefing for the Fisheries Debate in the House of Commons Tuesday November 15th 2011. This document, which is well worth a read, shows that with AT we have at last got a strong voice to represent our interests. We have never had an organisation which has been able to initiate such a debate on behalf of sea anglers.

They are not looking for active support as they have personnel, lawyers etc in place, but they need support in the form of membership and we should at least be encouraging people to take membership up. All the information can be found on their website. www.anglingtrust.net

NATIONAL SEA LEAGUE

Tony Thomas has been elected as the new league secretary taking over from John Amery. The 2012 Final will be held in North Norfolk as in 2010 on the weekend of 1^st/2^nd December 2012. All teams in every league will now qualify for the final providing the league has a minimum of 4 teams and that the qualifying team has fished in at least 4 matches in that league. Size limits for a Final will be determined by the League Secretary and Local Organiser. The results of the recent final can be found on the SAMF website.

Regards

Andy Steele

SAMF Secretary

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MEMBERS NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2011

Dear member,

Welcome to the January newsletter. I hope you all had a good Xmas and the SAMF committee wish you all a prosperous New Year.

Unfortunately I have to start with the very sad news of the death of one of our long serving members, Les Wilson. Les had been suffering ill health for a number of years but prior to this he was a committee member, but was more notably as the organiser of the National Sea League. His efforts in running the Sea League was instrumental in it becoming the successful competition it now is. He was a very popular person, especially in the North West where he was a very active competition angler. The number of people who attended his funeral bears testament to this. He will be sorely missed and SAMF offers its condolences to his wife, Marion, family and friends.

There is a lot of information contained in this newsletter but the most important bit is that it is subs renewal time again. For those members whose membership runs through from last year i.e. new members who joined late in the year to fish the Masters, and Life members, I will have enclosed a 2011 membership card. Please note this means brand new members and not those who lapsed their membership for one year or more. The rest of members will need to send me a cheque for £20 made payable to SAMF and fill in the reply slip at the end of this newsletter. Those of you on line can also join via the website using paypal. Please don’t forget to do this because it costs time and money to send out reminders. I also need to know if you are a member of the Angling Trust which will reduce our insurance costs.

MASTERS 2010 – CHESIL

The following is the press release from the Masters 2010 at Chesil. Full results can be found on the website:

Welsh angler Joe Arch won the 2010 SAMF UK MASTERS on the beaches of Chesil in Dorset on the 23^rd and 24^th October.

94 anglers from England and Wales competed for the title and even though the weather conditions were variable i.e. strong onshore winds on Saturday and offshore winds on Sunday, conditions were good for both matches. As you would expect on Chesil there was a variety of species caught including 2 red mullet of 1lb 14oz and 1lb 8oz.

The venue did not fish as well as it can do but there were enough fish on both days for competitors to target. There were 14 different species caught, the main ones being dogfish, codling, whiting, pouting & pollock. On the first day competitors needed between 7 and 10 fish to come in the top four in their sections. Colin Carey from Worthing had the best overall catch with 7 fish for 10lb 3oz. mainly whiting and flatfish. The heaviest fish was a tremendous whiting of 3lb 2oz caught by Gary Strange from Clacton on Sea. Second heaviest fish was a Bass of 2lb 9oz caught by Mike Groves from Kingston Upon Thames

Day one zone positions:

A zone 1st Darren Newland 3lb 12oz.

A zone 2^nd Joe Arch 3lb 10oz.

A zone 3rd Hugh Rathbone 3lb 5oz

A zone 4th Mark Allanson 3lb 2oz

B zone 1^st Nick Haward 3lb 13oz.

B zone 2^nd Orry Turner 3lb 1oz

B zone 3d Chris Snow 2lb 8oz

B zone 4^th Richard Burt 2lb 7oz

C Zone 1^st Stuart Littlewood 5lb 9oz

C Zone 2^ndSteve Martin 2lb 13oz

C Zone 3^rdPeter Corker 2lb 11oz

C Zone 4^th Eddie Painter 2lb 11oz

D Zone 1^st Colin Carey 10lb 3oz

D Zone 2^nd Dave Lane 7lb 14oz

D Zone 3^rd Robert Tuck 6lb 0oz

D Zone 4^th Tony Thomas 5lb 8oz

ALL SAMF MATCHES ARE FISHED ON A CATCH AND RETURN FORMULA, THE FISH ARE MEASURED AND THEN IMMEDIATELY RETURNED. A CONVERSION CHART THEN CONVERTS THE LENGTH TO WEIGHT. TWO YEARS AGO SAMF INTRODUCED SIZE LIMITS IN THEIR MAJOR COMPETITIONS ON COD, WHITING AND BASS TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE MORE ANGLERS TO FISH MATCHES. AS A RESULT THIS REDUCED THE ACTUAL NUMBERS OF FISH COUNTING TO AN ANGLERS SCORE BUT GAVE EVERY ANGLER THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING WELL EVEN ON THE LAST CAST BY CATCHING A LARGE FISH.

Day 2 again saw good conditions and anglers needed 5 to 11 fish to score well. Top catch was made by Michael Groves from Kingston upon Thames with 7 fish for 5lb 9oz. The biggest fish was a codling of 2lb 5oz caught by Darren Phillips of Lee On Solent, 2^nd heaviest fish was a mullet of 2lb 1oz caught by Stuart Dewhurst from Preston

Day 2 zone positions

A zone 1st Steve Martin 4lb 15oz

A zone 2nd Stuart Dewhurst 4lb 8oz

A zone 3rd Robert Tuck 3lb 7oz

A zone 4th Steve Durrant 3lb 5oz

B zone 1^st Michael Groves 5lb 9oz

B zone 2^nd Keith Morley 5lb 3oz

B zone 3^rd Paul Stevens 3lb 9oz

B zone 4^th Les Trish 3lb 8oz

C Zone 1^st Richard Cleal 3lb 13oz

C Zone 2^nd Orry Turner 3lb 5oz

C Zone 3^rd Paul Tovell 3lb 3oz

C Zone 4^th Richard Burt 3lb 1oz

D Zone 1^st Joe Arch 4lb 4oz

D Zone 2^nd Darren Newland 4lb 1oz

D Zone 3^rd Matt Brook 3lb 3oz

D Zone 4^th Bill Lindfield 3lb 2oz

FINAL POSITIONS

1 Joe Arch 9 pts

2 Steve Martin 10 pts

3 Darren Newland 11 pts

4 Orry Turner 15 pts

5 Colin Carey 18 pts

6 Robert Tuck 19pts

7 Michael Groves 30 pts

8 Keith Morley 32 pts

9 Richard Burt 32 pts

10 Billy Lindfield 35 pts

11 Steve Durrant 39pts

12 Dave Lane 42pts

13 George Smith 50pts

14 Alan Price 55pts

15 Hugh Rathbone 57pts

16 Paul Stevens 58pts

17 Les Trish 58pts

Ladies Winner was Heather Lindfield from Greasby.

Junior Winner was Henry Randell from Holt.

A pairs competition was run within the match and winners were:-

1 Pete Corker (Holywell) & Darren Newland (Isle of Wight)

2 Keith Morley (Kessingland) & Paul Tovell (Gorleston)

3 Steve Durrant (Felixstowe) & Mark Pinder (Ipswich)

Joe was overall champion with a 1st place and a 2^nd place in his zone giving him 9 points. Joe is a 49 year old from Cardiff who was individual world champion in 1997 and member of the welsh team that took team gold that year. He was 2nd in zone on day 1 with 5 pollock and a bass, all caught at short range He was 1st in zone on day 2 with 2 pout a dogfish, whiting and a garfish (caught in the last 5 mins). He is sponsored by Julian Shambrook of Anyfish Anywhere and the tackle he used was :

rod - Anyfish Anywhere big beach

reel – Daiwa 7HT

line - Ultima F1 platinum, powerflex shockleader,memorex snoods

hooks -kamasan

He regularly fishes chesil and is very experienced on the venue. His garfish was caught on the “washing line” rig !!

Steve Martin from St. Leonards on Sea ran him close also with a zone 2nd and a 1^st giving him 10 points.

Cash prizes down to 17^th position overall and section pools down to 4^th place in each section each day giving a total cash prize fund in excess of £4800, plus tackle prizes and trophies. SAMF is grateful in particular to our member Julian Shambrook of ANYFISH ANYWHERE who donated many of the zone prizes and individual prizes including a top of the range rod for the winner’ We are also grateful to DAIWA & ULTIMA for also donating tackle for the prize table.

AGM 2010

As usual the AGM took place during the weekend of the Masters and the following are the bullet points from the meeting:

We had 204 members in 2010. 94 fished the Masters.
Website is now up and running – www.seaanglersmatchfederation.com

MASTERS 2011 – We had previously accepted a proposal by Ian Bowell to have a spring time competition on Orford Island. Unfortunately Ian has had to pull out of organising this and Mark Sharman volunteered to take over, which was accepted. It is now to soon to have a spring competition so he is looking for it to be moved to November. Further details to follow soon.
To try and increase numbers entering the Masters we introduced, on a trial basis, a 2 tier entry system. There were no objections to this and it will continue for next year. As I pointed out at the meeting the numbers fishing the Masters had been boosted by 38 anglers and a large number of these were new members thus boosting our membership and putting us back into profit for the first time for a number of years. Most people were positive about this move but I had received a few complaints, and I believe we took some stick on angling forums, but these people do not fully understand the reasoning for these changes. We have to change with the times and if we had stuck with the old system we would have had the lowest membership and entry to the masters ever.

TREASURERS REPORT :–

The accounts show that SAMFs worth is £6575.57 which is a small increase of £38.15 from 2009. Also we have to bear in mind that this year we have had the Forces challenge for 2009 included in these accounts which took place just after the AGM last year. We have had to take some serious action to halt the decline such as reducing sponsorship etc. At one stage in the year it looked like we were going to make a large loss but the increase in membership for the Masters has brought us back on track. The running costs, such as postage, printing & stationary, telephone & broadband have remained at a similar level this year.

We are still in a relatively strong position and just need to continue being careful with expenditure. Sponsorship for the challenge matches will have to remain low this year but I am hoping to bring back the sponsorship for the pairs.

For this reason I propose that SAMF subscriptions remain at £20 for 2011.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS :-

Chairman – John Amery

Vice Chairman – Eddie Painter

Secretary – Andy Steele

Treasurer – Mary Steele

AREA REPRESENTATIVES

South West Scotland – None

North West – Bill Lindfield

North East – Bob Gascoigne

North Wales – Shane Russell

Anglia – Mark Sharman

Sussex – Vacant

Hants & Challenge Match organizer – Darren Phillips

Kent – Mark Rogers & Mick Davies

Essex – Ian Reynolds

South West – Hugh Rathbone

Individual League Organizers – Eddie Painter & Hugh Rathbone

South Wales – Joe Arch

Humberside – Rob Neale

BELGIUM & HOLLAND CHALLENGE MATCH 2010

A report by Darren Phillips:

The 2010 Challenge was held in Lymington on 2- 3 July. This year the 15 man teams competed for the Alan Gilbert Memorial Cup, a fitting tribute to Alan an England International and regular member of the SAMF team.

Match 1 was competed at Milford Shingle Bank. Weather conditions were ideal with light winds and sunshine. A total of 81 fish were landed and consisted of Bream, Bass, Garfish, Mackerel, Pollack, Undulate Ray and Wrasse. Top angler on the day was Ian Golds from SAMF who registered 6 fish for 171 points from zone B. Heaviest fish was a Ballan Wrasse of 90 points landed by Darren Newlands at his first appearance in this event. SAMF emerged as day winners with 269 points followed by Holland on 372 and Belgium with 407.

The second match took place at Pennington Sea Wall. Bright sunshine and a strong North Westerly wind posed far from ideal conditions. However, the teams landed 108 fish, mostly Bass but there were a few Bream along with a Golden Grey Mullet, a Flounder and a surprise Pipefish. Top individual on day 2 was Dutchman Remi Lindhout who landed 6 fish for 90 points from zone C. The heaviest fish was a Golden Grey Mullet caught by Rudi Jacobs from Belgium. SAMF won the day with 318 points with Holland very close behind on 338 and Belgium with 380.

SAMF were overall winners on 587 points, Holland 2^nd with 710 and Belgium 3^rd with 787. Mrs Jane Gilbert, the Guest of Honour presented the cup and medals to SAMF team member Mike Perfect one of Alans oldest friends and regular fishing partner. The top individual over the 2 days was Ian Golds from SAMF who won a rod kindly donated by Anyfish Anywhere. SAMF would like to thank the Stewards and the staff of the Elmers Court Hotel. The next event will take place in Belgium 14- 16 October 2011.

Top Ten Individuals

	Name	Team	Total Fish Points	Total
1	Golds, Ian	SAMF	253	3
2	Newland, Darren	SAMF	195	14
3	Lindhout, Remi	Holland	149	18
4	Vlietinck, Benjamin	Belgium	148	19
5	Forster, Garrie	SAMF	144	19
6	Punselie, Rob	Holland	210	23
7	Phillips, Darren	SAMF	147	24
8	Teunesen, Robert	Belgium	129	26
9	Pinder, Mark	SAMF	117	26
10	Geuze, Remco	Holland	95	30

NATIONAL SEA LEAGUE

A report by John Amery:

Worthing based match team Prime Angling showed their mettle on the North Norfolk beaches to win both days competitions and emerge as clear winners of the 2010 SAMF National Sea League Final, fished 27/28 November.

Arctic conditions met the competitors on Saturday morning, with snow on the beaches, heavy seas and a biting easterly wind. Conditions were difficult but just fishable.

These conditions meant that the whiting that had been present in numbers prior to the match were not there and competitors targeted dabs, which were to make up the bulk of the weekends catches.

Prime Angling led the way by securing a zone win, a second and 3 thirds for a total of only 12 points and their angler Colin Carey winning his zone and having the biggest catch of the day.

Zone Winners were:-

Steve Llewellyn Tim Relf Ray Christoforato John Horsup Colin Carey

Rhonda Valley Zziplex Garry Evans MT Eagles Prime Angling

Day 1 runners up were Garry Evans Match Team fromSouth Wales with Anglian team Eagles in 3^rd place.

Day 2 saw an improvement in conditions and whilst still very cold and showery the sea had dropped off somewhat and catches improved. Day 1 had seen 221 fish caught, day 2 was to produce 614.

Prime Angling again led the way and won the day with a total of 19 points in front of Castaway Tackle with 29 points and Avenue Angling with 32 points.

Colin Carey was again the top angler

Zone Winners Day 2

Tony Thomas Carl Porter Lee Caley Andrew Hutchins Colin Carey

Nth Norfolk Castaway Castaway Garry Evans MT Prime Angling

Local organiser Tony Thomas had a very successful weekend, having a zone second on day 1 and winning his zone on day 2 to be 2^nd individual.

League secretary John Amery picked out Tony for special mention at the prize presentation as Tony had arranged the headquarters and accommodation, had singularly pegged the beaches and had done all the results.

It was agreed at the AGM that 2011’s final will be fished at Eastbourne.

Anyone interested in fishing or organizing a league should contact John Amery on tel. 01995 61211, john-samf@ry-isp.co.uk.

DAIWA PAIRS

The Pairs continues to be well supported and this year is the 30^th anniversary. Nick is guaranteeing a 1^st prize of #3000 with a limit on entries to 144 anglers, more details from the Pairs website – www.irishpairs.co.uk

FORCES CHALLENGE

A report by Darren Phillips:

Hosted by the Police, the 2010 Challenge Match between the Sea Anglers Match Federation (SAMF), Combined Armed Forces (CAF), Fire and Police Services was fished at Llandudno and Talacre North Wales 16- 17 Nov.

Match 1 saw the 15 man teams competing on Llandudno Beach. Species expected were Dogfish and Whiting. A total of 451 fish were caught, measured and returned during the 5 hour match. The majority of the fish were Whiting but also included Cod, Plaice and Dabs. Surprisingly no Dogfish were caught and apparently this is unheard on the venue. The top individual on Day 1 was Steve Sheehan representing the CAF who caught 26 fish from peg 60 in C zone for a total of 256 points (2.56 Kg). SAMF narrowly won the first match with 316 points just 21 ahead of runners up CAF with 337. The Police finished third with 453 and the Fire Service scored 490.

Day 2 saw the anglers head off to Talacre. The weather had changed for the worse and they were greeted by strong Easterly wind with rain that saw the beach turn into a sand storm. Although unpleasant the competitors battled on landing 1018 fish comprising of Whiting, Dabs and small Codling during the 4 hour match. Julian Shambrook took the top place on the day for SAMF catching 38 fish worth 700 fish points (7Kg) from peg 60 in C Zone. SAMF benefitted greatly from the experience of the 9 English and Welsh Internationals within the team to win the day with 211 points. CAF were once again the runners up with 370. The Police scored 421 and the Fire Service 573.

SAMF emerged as the overall winners with a total of 527 points, followed by CAF (707), Police (874) and the Fire Service (1063). Top individual over the 2 days was England International Malcolm Stote from Lymington with a very impressive 7 points. Kevin Green was the top angler for the Police with 21 points (6^th). Top CAF team member was Nathan Lankaster with 26 points (8^th) and Gary Geoghegan led the way for the Fire Service with 28 points (11^th).

INDIVIDUAL LEAGUE.

Despite a few leagues having been run the entry numbers to the final, which had been organized at Skegness, were very low there fore for the second year running we had to cancel the final. Because of this we have now decided to stop running this competition, and I would like to thank Eddie Painter for organizing the events over the past few years.