• Home
  • Diary of Events
  • Galleries
  • EFSA England
    • Welcome
    • England Beach and Shore
    • England Boat
    • England Game
    • Constitution
  • Merchandise
  • Contact
  • Sitemap

EFSA England

  • Reports and Results
  • Fish of the Year Awards
  • EFSA Specimen Fish Awards
  • Newsletters

Results – English Cod Festival 2006

English Cod Festival
River Mersey – 9th & 10th December 2006

This was EFSA England’s first visit to fish for Cod in the Mersey . The organisation had been a bit of a nightmare with many of the hotels being booked as Liverpool were at home. We eventually found a HQ hotel in Birkenhead in which most of us stayed. A big thank you to Rod Adamson and Tony Parry for all there help in sorting out accommodation and organising the bait.

The weather conditions were really against us with force 7-8 North-westerly winds on the Saturday which delayed the start to 11am but at least it gave us 4 hours fishing.

Fishing proved hard with the amount of fresh water in the Mersey keeping the fish in the deeper shipping channels. After the first day Neil Cottington had a well-deserved lead after fishing in difficult conditions.

Thanks to Rod for the tour of Liverpool on Saturday Night and I’m sure the “Angels” photo will turn up somewhere!

The following day was a 6 am start with the conditions much better. It was good to see some of the boats catching plenty of cod with the top boat catching 42 amongst 6 anglers.

The day 2 winner was Ash (where’s my Fags) Currier who caught 13 cod for 489pts.

If the conditions had of been better, I’m sure we would have seen double the amount of cod that were actually caught.

The overall winner was Ash Currier who had a great score of 604 – nearly 200 pts ahead of second place – so well done Ash in becoming our 2006 English Cod Champion.

It was a great weekend and I would like to return again, but get the HQ booked early on the Liverpool Dock Side and make it bait supplied competition.

The only disappointing thing was the lack of support from some of the members from the Northwest who have been very vocal in the past for not holding events up North!

Individuals:

1st Ashley Currier 604

2nd Colin Orme Thomas 425

3rd Steve Brumby 396

4th Martin Bobbett 372

5th Chirs Pucher 360

6th Dave Roberts 326

7th Brian Moss 297

8th Andy Selby 291

9th Kev Preston 290

10th John O’Leary 287

11th Neil Cottington 254

12th Billy Cann 254

13th Richard Russell 238

14th Kim Bowden 224

15th Mark Done 198

16th John Fisell 188

17th Mike Smith 180

18th Harry Stewart 179

19th Neil Bryant 149

20th Glyn Darlow 121

21st Jimmy Bond 97

22nd Steve Smith 86

23rd Nev Key 83

24th Roger Whiting 82

25th Colin Searles 81

26th Mark Smith 78

27th Ken Smith 52

28th Rod Adamson 20

29th Stuart Clee 0

30th Dave Polehill DNF

31st Dave Shay DNF

2 Man Open:

1st Martin Bobbett & Ashley Currier 976

2nd Steve Brumby & Dave Roberts 722

3rd Chris Pucher & Kim Bowden 584

4 Man Open:
1st Neil Bryant, Jimmy Bond, Martin Bobbett, Ashley Currier 1222

2nd Billy Cann, Brian Moss, Steve Brumby, Steve Smith 1033

3rd Rod Adamson, Colin Orme Thomas, Mark Done, Kev Preston 933

Executive Drawn 4 Man:

1st Chris Pucher, Colin Orme Thomas, Ashley Currier, Kev Preston 1679

2nd Steve Brumby, Harry Stewart, Brian Moss, Rod Adamson 892

3rd Richard Russell, Glyn Darlow, Kim Bowden, Andy Selby 874

Life Members:

1st Chris Pucher 360

2nd Andy Selby 291

3rd John O’Leary 287

Frank Klugman Trophy – Longest Cod

Andy Selby – 66cm

Day 1 Winner Neil Cottington 146

Day 2 Winner Ashley Currier 489

Top Boat
Olivia Jeanne

Filed Under: Reports and Results

EFSA England Forms

  • EFSA England Membership Form
  • Fish Of The Year Entry Form
  • EFSA England Merchandise Order Form

Forthcoming Tournaments

  • 2025 06 18 – European Species 2025. Zeeland, Netherlands
  • 2025 07 11 – English Boat Championship, Newquay
  • 2025 08 04 – European Boat Championship, Fedje, Norway
  • 2025 09 29 – European Shore Championship, Denmark
  • 2025 11 28 – English Species Festival (Cod & Rays), Liverpool

Important Links

  • EFSA HQ

Copyright © 2025 · Site by Design 22