2018 Fun Fish Poole A soggy and windy day was forecast and 28 anglers boarded 4 boats while 4 anglers went to roam the shore, all to target flounder to become the 2018 fun fish Champion. The boats all headed to the same bit of shallow mud as this gave the best shelter from the prevailing wind. The reports of recent boat trips targeting flounder were not very encouraging, as … [Read more...]

Hof Van Domburg in the Netherlands was the HQ for the 2017 European Shore Championships. Nine EFSA England anglers travelled over on the Monday to enable a practice on Tuesday before the opening ceremony and registration.  Picking up our bait and a few goodies from the well stocked local tackle shop we were soon on the beach for a few hours fishing, catching mainly dabs … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]