The annual competition was once again saved from extinction by the Irish EFSA section stepping up and offering to organise the event.  They are used to organising fairly large competitions particularly on the East coast as they have access to good quality accommodation at a reasonable cost and numerous beaches.  However this year they did have some late reorganisation due to … [Read more...]

Sheerness Species Festival (Ray) 3rd and 4th May 2014 With anglers travelling from Lands’ end and John 0’Groats (well nearly) it looks as though we have representatives from most corners of the country, the weather reports from the beginning of the week had hanged for the better, the forecast 19-20mph north easterly had reduced to a mere breeze. The original plan was to … [Read more...]

Poole Fun Fish (Flounder) January 19th 2014. Piscary headed towards Brownsea Island and fished 150 yards from the shoreline. After two casts Neil Cottington was winding up his first flounder (and his fellow anglers on the boat). His rig was two down with four glass red real beads. Neil Bryant changed over to the same rig cast and had a fish within a few minutes he cast out … [Read more...]

This year the Annual EFSA European Shore championships was hosted by EFSA Holland using beaches in the Zeeland area. The Dutch organisers set out to provide anglers with a package that would be low budget but retain good quality accommodation and well-organized matches with excellent bait and on beaches that could provide a good opportunity of catching reasonable numbers of … [Read more...]

Weymouth Species Festival 16-17th November 2013 So here we are some 8 months later than planned, the weather looked a lot better than it did back in march, but the forecast for the fishing was a little less optimistic. A few of the competitors had booked a practice day on-board one of the boats booked for the weekend, they returned with little to show for the day out. Day 1 … [Read more...]