EFSA European Boat Championship, Maloy, 2017 Sunday 30th July and the opening ceremony took place with a walk from the HQ hotel through the town of Maloy down to the quay where the flag bearers continued onto the large pontoon where the ferry berths. Here they walked the step to the upper level to parade the flags. The opening speeches were delivered from the top deck and … [Read more...]
Results – England Boat Championship 2017
The EFSA England Boat Championship 2017 was fished out of Poole with 48 anglers competing for the pins over the two days on six boats On day one it was windy but not enough to stop some of the boats getting reasonably far offshore to find rays, tope, dogfish and strap conger. Inshore, flatties and gurnards were caught with bream being caught on the majority of … [Read more...]
Results – Iceland Open 2017
EFSA Iceland Open 2017- Olafsvik Twenty members travelled to Iceland to fish what was a trial event for next year’s European Boat Championships. In addition to the Icelandic anglers there were anglers from Belgium, Ireland and Scotland. The practice day was fished in good weather with most of the target species being caught. Colin Searles, … [Read more...]
Results – English Shore Championship 2017
This year’s event took place at Eastbourne and had a good entry of 25 anglers fished the two days of 28th and 29th April 2017. Day 1 It soon became apparent that the fishing was not as good as it was a couple of weeks ago. New comer to EFSA Jamie Morton landed a sizable 5 bearded rockling when retrieving the first cast of the day, but unfortunately for her that was the only … [Read more...]
Results – England Species Championship (Flatfish) 2017
EFSA England Species Festival (Flatfish) Weymouth 2017 The annual EFSA England Species Festival was fished form Weymouth on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th of April with the flatfish including rays as the target species. At registration on Friday it became clear from the chat that the rays were not around in any numbers and very few plaice so turbot and brill would be … [Read more...]