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Tyne Anglers Alliance Tyne Championship 21st Aug 2011
Results
1st Peter Scott 55lb 12oz
2nd Nick Jose 40lb 8oz
Joint 3rd Eddy Brydon Graham Jones 39lb 12oz
Joint 5th Paul Stainsbury Peter Close 37lb
Winning team CB components 30pts
51 double figure weights, a new and truly exceptional record
Kerry Gibson, Tyne Rivers Trust, stepped in this year and
organised the
pegging etc. and did a good job with the help from Northumbria
Water staff. The trust received a donation of £1,000 in total
this year
Robbie Stevenson from the Environment Agency
thanked everyone for a phenomenal match again and commented that
you would struggle to find a better match in the country. A
great deal of information was gathered from anglers as they
fished which is genuinely used for fish data analysis.
Of course a big thank you to Steve Hoggins of the Tyne
Anglers Alliance who, with the help of John Turner,
organised a great event again this year
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A STATEMENT FROM THE TYNE ANGLERS ALLIANCE:
Feb 2010
As you all know the TAA have been in
discussions with the latest owner of the Lakeside complex at
Fellgate regarding his decision to halt angling on the site
Although both our secretary Stan Henderson
and indeed The Environment Agency have talked to him, and
explained the need for local angling at Lakeside, we have been
unable to persuade the owner to reconsider. We are therefore
obliged to inform all TAA members and affiliated member clubs
that the decision to cease ALL angling at Lakeside is now
absolute and in force.
For the avoidance of any doubt please be advised
that The TAA now have no jurisdiction over the two ponds at all.
We have also had it put to us that ANYONE angling in future will
be liable to prosecution, so please inform all members of this
fact, and remove the waters from your club books.
We understand that the owner would like to
develop the site, and if that happens and the ponds are filled
in, The Environment Agency will help rescue the fish, but as
things stand at present no fish are to be removed.
Over the years Lakeside has been the subject of
complaints regarding irresponsible anglers leaving litter and
behaving badly, and whilst it would be wrong to say that their
actions were the reasons that caused angling to be lost, it is
true that we would have had more local support to keep angling
open had our behaviour been better. Perhaps all clubs should
learn from this
Whilst disappointed at the outcome on Lakeside
the TAA however remain optimistic about coarse angling in the
region. The new fishery at Hexham's Wydon Burn which has seen
Hexham AA join the ranks of the TAA is a positive step, and they
are other opportunities in the pipeline as we speak.
The two Lakes at Killingworth, the two stretches
of the tidal Tyne at Newburn and the much improved Throckley
Reigh are of course unaffected by what has happened at Lakeside,
and remain open to all TAA members.
Thank you for your support. If anyone ever
wishes to attend a TAA meeting they are more than welcome. They
take place on the third Tuesday of every month in the Empire CIU
Club on Salters Road off the High Street, Gosforth.
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