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Results – English Shore Species Festival 2008

English Shore Species Festival

Dover 2008

We arrived at the Grand Burstin on Thursday for the registration and to draw our peg numbers, There were lots of concern over the weather forecast for the weekend which gave a 5– 6 locally 7.

We ate breakfast with a good 5–6 blowing but as we had not received any telephone calls from Dover SAA we made our way to the Dumphead Pier to be greeted by Alan Edgington with the good news that we were on! The fishing was manic to say the least I have never caught so many Dogfish and Pouting. The scales masters could not keep up with the amount of fish caught even though we had three sets of scales on the go! We caught mainly Dogs and Pouting but there were Bass, Codling, Dab, Eels, Smooth-hounds, Whiting, Scad and Pollack, with Peanuts taking the day with a monstrous ½ lb Tadpole fish.

Day 2 arrived with a forecast of force 7 and pouring rain but the boatman said that we were in the middle of the storm the sea was as flat as the proverbial pancake so off we went again, The fishing was not as frantic as day 1, but I never had one cast on the outside that was either a double or treble shot if we had been fishing a normal top weight match the winner would have needed 30 lb of fish.

Once again lots of different species were caught, with Gerry Knight having 2 lobsters! John Campbell put the icing on the cake with a wonderful 1lb 7oz Golden Grey Mullet.

I must thank Alan Edgington and his team from the Dover SAA. for their hospitality, advice and help providing us with drop nets for the bigger fish. It was a pleasure to be permitted to fish there. Once again a big thank you to Andy for all the superb prizes and to all the members who acted as weigh masters a big thank you.

Results

1st .    John Campbell                 Golden Grey Mullet   107 %

2nd .   Reg Clough                      Pouting                         62 %

3rd .   Brian Flack                       Tadpole fish                 60%

4th .   Garry Galbraith                 Most species                  6

5th .   Dean Hilton                      Scad                             58%

6th .   Jerry Knight                      Lobsters                         2

7th .   Budge Booker                  Scad                              57%

8th .   Peter Campbell                 Dogfish                         56%

9th .   Martin Sherwin                 Dab                               49%

10th . John Ryder                       Smooth hound              45%

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