Serving anglers in Essex for 65 years
Please contact Junior Match Secretary Nick Mitchell 07970505668 to book a place in these matches. Every Junior that attends matches gets a prize.
Following the end of Season 2023/2024 there were only two winners of Junior Matches, Jasmine Wilkinson and Riley Joy. With Jasmine winnings most of the Matches she was crowned 2023/2024 Junior Champion and they were recently both presented with their trophies. Here is a picture/
Whilst getting prepared for the start of this Match, it was clear that we would not be having a lovely July summer’s day, what was not expected was the heavy rain and wind, which made conditions feel more like December. The heavy downfall of rain made fishing difficult at times for our Juniors but they pushed through and the weights for the match were as follows
Jasmine Wilkinson 32lb 11oz
Hannah Dakin 26lb 7oz
Riley Joy 6lb 4oz
Looking forward to see how this venue would fish with the long spells of bright sunshine that the UK has been having, instead we had heavy outbursts of rain and wind. With so many different species of fish in this venue it was hard for the Juniors to work their way through the many smaller fish to find the larger ones. Some succeeded and some didn’t but all in all a good day was had by all those attending. The match results were as follows
Marley Darch 9lb 2oz
Jasmine Wilkinson 7lb 1oz
Riley Joy 5lb 5oz
Hannah Dakin 2lb 9oz
As ever this venue is a lovely place to hold a Match at but like with most venue’s you never know what is going to be produced. There were some lovely specimens caught and although a strong wind lasted for all of the Match, there were various types of fish caught from Silvers and Perch to Bream and Tench
The results of the day were
Hannah Dakin 16lb 4oz
Jasmine Wilkinson 10lb 3oz
Marley Darch 6lb 11oz
Riley Joy 3lb 12oz
This is the first time we have held a match at this lovely venue and the weather was certainly smiling on us all. Although there was plenty of evidence of large carp in this lake they clearly made a joint decision to not take many of our baits. This match therefore turned out to be a ‘Gudgeon feast’, but what a wonderful selection of Gudgeon were caught.
The results of the match were are follows
Hannah Dakin 3lb 6oz
Marley Darch 3lb 3oz
Jasmine Wilkinson 1lb 13oz
First match of the new season and with the sun shining brightly what more could you ask for. Some large catch weights would be nice and although this venue in the past has produced some extraordinary weights, sadly today was not the day that this was going to happen. All of our Juniors who attended caught but some more than others but then that’s how it goes sometimes, but everyone had a good day. Still smiles all round at the end of the Match, with a joint 2nd place which shows how you always fish to the final whistle and the finishing weights were as follows
Marley Darch 44lb 11oz
Hannah Dakin 11lb 1oz
Jasmine Wilkinson 11lb 1oz
Riley Joy 6lb 7oz
Sunday 28 July 2024 at Thoby Wood
Wednesday 31 July 2024 at Tunnel Barn
Saturday 3 August 2024 at Bicknacre
Saturday 3 August 2024 at Bicknacre
Wednesday 7 August 2024 at Southminster