Feeder King Horton Grange

1st Colin Bailey 14lb 2oz Peg 30

2nd Keith Simpson 9lb 9oz Peg 22

3rd Jack Blenkinsop 4lb 1½oz Peg 32

17 Anglers fished in extremely windy conditions

Keith Simpson and Peter Barnes(4th) have pools money to pick up

 

Summer League 1 Woodlands, Kestrel

1st Scott Williams 83lb 1oz Peg 29

2nd Andy Duguid 80lb 8oz Peg 25

3rd Jimmy White 68lb 5oz Peg 17

15 Anglers fished

 

Winter League results

Match 10

1st Keith Melnyk 14lb 8oz Peg 7

2nd Eric Brown 6lb 5oz Peg 4

3rd Vince Dack 5lb 5oz Peg 2

Match 11

1st Brendan Heslop 11lb 11½oz Peg 12

2nd Nigel Beardsley 7lb 5½oz Peg 8

3rd Jack Blenkinsop 6lb 9oz Peg 5

 

A.G.M. 2nd April 7:30 prompt

Any proposed changes to the constitution must be made in writing to the committee, signed and dated, at least 2 weeks before the AGM.

Environment Agency Fish Deaths Report

Here is the official report on the fish deaths on Brenkley:

 

 

 

Winter League results

Match 9

1st Eric Brown 9lb 2oz Peg 11

2nd Vince Dack 8lb 15oz Peg 30

3rd Tony Dixon 4lb 3oz Peg 9

 

Winter League results

Match 8

1st Vince Dack 9lb 8oz Peg 12

2nd Richard Wildman 5lb 5oz Peg 11

3rd Eric Brown 3lb 10oz Peg 37

Match 7

1st Eric Brown 4lb 7oz Peg 36

2nd Vince Dack 2lb 4oz Peg 6

3rd Brendan Heslop 2lb 2oz Peg 35

Match 6

1st Tony Dixon 6lb 4oz Peg 3

2nd Eric Brown 4lb 0oz Peg 31

3rd Keith Melnyk 3lb 15oz Peg 3

 

WACAC Members Facebook Page

Just to remind members that the official Facebook page run by WACAC is 'WACAC' only and not 'WACAC Members' which is run by mainly disgruntled anglers who are not necessarily members of WACAC. Take the posts with a pinch of salt and don't be taken in by the ill-informed minority who post misinformation on there.

WACAC's website or WACAC's Facebook page are the only true sources of the clubs pertinent information. Meeting minutes are recorded on the left hand side of this page.

 

Winter League 6 rescheduled for this Sunday

Please be aware that the cancelled winter league match last Sunday will take place this Sunday 28th January.

 

A member passes away

It is with regret that the committee has to inform it's members of the loss of Nigel Young who passed away in November.  Our thoughts are with his wife Ann and family. A generous donation of £112.55p has been donated to WACAC on behalf of his family and friends.  This is much appreciated.

 

Winter League 5 Result

1st Eric Brown 2lb 10oz Peg 1

2nd Nigel Beardsley & Vince Dack 1lb 15oz Pegs 33 and 12

3rd Keith Melnyk 1lb 13oz Peg 5

 

Fur & Feather

1st Scott Williams 3lb 15oz Peg 37

2nd Eric Brown 1lb 13oz Peg 33

3rd Andy Duguid 1lb 12oz Peg 34

 

Letter from our landlord regarding the QEII lake

In answer to your members questions,

The Council does not allow any powered craft on the lake either full size craft or remote controlled. In the past they have been used to disturb wildfowl, and have also been used in poaching activities

The park byelaws state at Byelaw 10 "No person shall erect a tent or use any vehicle including a caravan within the park on land other than set aside for the purpose". The council set this aside to allow the club to camp for 48 hours, any longer was considered as an incentive for non-anglers to camp. There being no ablution facilities available now it has been discussed at higher management level if it is still fitting that anglers can still camp when no toilets are available. I am resisting their advisement to remove this right, but if your members want to make an issue of this, I will guarantee management will remove this right from the agreement.

The parking restrictions wont affect anglers at all, there is a 72 hour allowance for parking with no return for 12 hours, as I understand it your members can stay for 48 hours with no return to the water for 24 hours.

The club and I work well together, being an angler myself I always look after the clubs interests. Those members who keep asking the same two questions could end up being detrimental to all of the members if the right to camp is removed. As the landowners the council make the rules for the betterment of the park, and to allow the club some autonomy in allowing its members some flexibility within the byelaws, They are within the councils gift and can be removed just as easily. Please make them fully aware of this, and if they don't like the conditions you operate under, they don't have to fish the lake !


Warmest regards
 

Fur & Feather December 17th

Last event of the season. Open to all. Bring a prize to the value up to £5.00. Anything from fishing tackle to biscuits

Annual Trophy places for 2023 on the left (Menu)

2024 Application Form

Events for 2024

All updated

Winter League 3

1st Vince Dack 6lb 10oz Peg 4

2nd Keith Melnyk 5lb 9oz Peg 8

3rd Eric Brown 4lb 12oz Peg 1

Winter League 2

1st Scott Williams 7lb 1oz Peg 34

2nd Keith Simpson 4lb 2oz Peg 9

3rd Vince Dack 3lb 5oz Peg 2

 

Feeder King Horton Grange

1st Keith Simpson 3lb 14oz Peg 9

2nd Tony Dixon 2lb 5oz Peg 3

3rd Keith Melnyk 1lb 12oz Peg 32

Winter League 1 Horton Grange

1st Eric Brown 9lb Peg 1

2nd Scott Williams 8lb 12oz Peg 3

3rd Nigel Beardsley 6lb 11oz Peg 36

 

Carp overnighter 5 July

1st Anth Foster 13lb 2oz

2nd Alan Kelly 12lb 5oz

7 fished in total

48hr overnight 6 August

1st Chris Carr 62lb 9oz (five fish)

2nd John Knox 40lb

3rd Anth Foster 16lb 4oz

8 Fished in total

Carp Overnight 7 16th September

1st Alan Kelly 21lb 8oz

10 fished in total

Overnight series final positions

1st John Knox

2nd Anth Foster

James Reynolds with the biggest fish of 30lb 8oz

 

Memorial Match Milkhope

1st Mark Bradford 9lb 10oz Peg 25

2nd Tony Dixon 9lb 3oz Peg 9

3rd Craig Goodall 6lb 9oz Peg 23

Rod & Line 2 Horton Grange

1st Nigel Beardsley 10lb 10oz Peg 29

2nd Vince Dack 6lb 8oz Peg 15

3rd Tony Dixon 5lb 11oz Peg 19

Final placings

1st Nigel Beardsley 3 Points

2nd Colin Bailey 8 Points

3rd Tony Dixon 12 Points (on weight)

 

News Update

The main gate at Horton Grange has been adjusted so no more heavy lifting!

Next year members will be required to submit 2 recent passport size photos to update our records.

Juniors are reminded they will still have to fill in a membership form each year even though they may have paid a one off fee of £10.00 in the past (no photo ID's required)

The club phone has been replaced and working fine now

A new carp record by John Knox for a bag of 84lb during a match on the QEII

The "Magic Twig" fishing tackle has been banned on all waters as it compromises the welfare of the fish

 

Horton Championship Final Match

1st Colin Bailey 9lb 3oz Peg 30

2nd Brendan Heslop 8lb 2oz Peg 16

3rd Richard Wildman 5lb 10oz Peg 36

Overall Top Three Positions

1st Nigel Beardsley 7 Points

2nd Eric Brown 21 Points

3rd Scott Williams 29 Points

OAP/Disabled Final Match Milkhope

1st Dave Brown 18lb 8oz Peg 2

2nd Paul Hutchinson 5lb 14oz Peg 4

3rd Nigel Beardsley 3lb 10oz Peg 6

Overall Top Three Positions

1st Nigel Beardsley 9 Points

2nd Dave Brown 10 Points (76lb 1oz)

3rd Eric Brown 10 Points (53lb 1oz)

Full Tables see match results on the left
 

 

Summer Series Oaks Cedar
 

1st Davey Jobe 37lb 14oz

2nd Andy Duguid 35lb 10oz

3rd Brendan Heslop 32lb 4oz

A big thank you to the scalesman and helpers on the day
 

Overall Series

1st Andy Duguid 6 Points

2nd Eric Brown 15 Points

3rd Scott Williams 16 Points

 

Oldn's & Youngn's
 

Winning Partnership Rich & Arlo Southern

Individuals

1st Scott Williams 5lb 11½ oz

2nd Mike Horsfall 3lb 1½ oz

3rd Nigel Beardsley 1lb 14½ oz
 

 

OAP/Disabled Match 6 Brenkley

1st Nigel Beardsley 7lb 1oz

2nd Alan Kelly 5lb

3rd Eric Brown 3lb 13oz

Horton Championship Match 6 Horton Grange

1st Nigel Beardsley 12lb 4oz Peg 26

2nd Colin Bailey 9lb 3oz Peg 10

3rd Eric Brown 6lb 13oz Peg 8

Horton Championship Match 5 Horton Grange

1st Nigel Beardsley 9lb 7oz Peg 36

2nd Eric Brown 5lb 12 oz Peg 15

3rd Craig Goodall 5lb 5oz Peg 31

 

QEII Trophy Match

1st Nigel Beardsley 15lb 10oz

2nd Paul Hutchinson 12lb 6oz

3rd Vince Dack 9lb 14oz

OAP Disabled Match 5 Horton Grange

1st Eric Brown 10lb

2nd Paul Hutchinson 8lb 9oz

3rd Keith Melnyk 5lb 10oz

Summer League Oaks Cedar

1st Tony Glenny 70lb 4oz

2nd Andy Duguid 53lb 8oz

3rd Davey Jobe 48lb 2oz

 

OAP/Disabled Match 4 Horton Grange

1st Nigel Beardsley 15lb 4oz Peg 11

2nd Dave Brown 8lb 9oz Peg 25

3rd Eric Brown 7lb 12oz Peg 21

 

 

Fish Deaths

Recent fish deaths on Horton Grange total 27 bream for 93lb and 17 tench for 74lb.

The EA visited the water and explained that the oxygen was normal. However, the fish deaths are due to high water temperatures combined with the stress of spawning. They also said that this time last year they had 60 call outs due to fish deaths, whereas in the last month they had 600 calls.

The Angling Trust website has reported rivers with an unprecedented number of incidents

 

 

Rules Reminder

 

Members are reminded of rules 9 and 16 which state.

 

9. Members must adopt a responsible attitude to members of the public and other water users and endeavour to avoid injury to anyone in anyway.

 

16. Members must always keep within the club boundaries.

 

Club boundaries are the immediate area around the waters and not into the adjacent woods or fields

 

OAP/Disabled Match 2 Brenkley

 

1st Dave brown 17lb 8oz Peg 10

 

2nd Barry Evans 8lb 3oz Peg 1

 

3rd Richard Meldren 5lb 6oz Peg 6

 

Keep out of Danger

A member has entered the woods around Milkhope during tree felling

and put themselves and others in danger resulting in a severe warning to the

club from our landlord. The matter was dealt with by the committee but be

assured any breach of rules puts our fishing rights in danger and could result 

in the club relinquishing any fishing we currently have.

Under no circumstances are members allowed to wander away from the ponds

unless organised by the committee. This is a rule.

Woodlands Kestrel Summer league 4

1st Andrew Duguid 145lb 13oz

2nd Dean Cox 107lb 3oz

3rd Martin Ford 103lb 15oz

OAP/Disabled Match 3 Brenkley

1st Eric Brown 14lb 4oz

2nd Ken Newton 13lb 6os

3rd Nigel Beardsley 6lb 1oz

Carp Overnighter QEII

1st John Knox 5 fish for 84lb 5oz - New Match Record for the QEII

2nd Dominic Naylor 20lb

3rd David Burton 14lb

Another £10 was donated towards prize money

Peg Repairs

There will be contractors on our waters next week to repair pegs and improve

drainage on Milkhope. Please be patient!
 

OAP/Disabled 1

1st Dave Brown 17lb 8oz

2nd Barry Evans 8lb 3oz

3rd Richard Meldren 5lb 6oz

11 fished

Horton Championship 3 Horton Grange

1st Nigel Beardsley 6lb 15oz Peg 35

2nd Keith Melnyk 3lb 3oz Peg 29

3rd Tony Glennie 2lb 9oz Peg 25

18 fished

Horton Championship 4 Brenkley

1st Martin Ford 20lb 15oz Peg 11

2nd Nigel Beardsley 14lb 12 Peg 3

3rd Steve McMurchie 12lb Peg 22

16 fished

 

 

Pairs Match Result Milkhope

1st Dean Cox and Michael Knox 22lb 8oz

2nd Vince Dack and Eric Brown 19lb 2oz

3rd Colin Bailey and Tony Dixon 12lb 15oz

 

Another member passes on

The club are sad to announce the recent death of John Reynolds who was well known by fellow anglers in the North East as well as WACAC.

A funeral will take place on 7th June 12pm at Whitley Bay Crematorium.

 

Dangerous and stupid Action

An angler dipped their net, correctly, at Brenkley and pulled this out.

Just be careful please!

 

Summer league 3 Eden Grange

1st Eric Brown 91lb

2nd Andy Duguid 87lb 8oz

3rd Alan Thompson J 74lb 15oz

Horton Championship 2

1st Jeff Lincoln 23lb

2nd Terry Mather 20lb 9oz

3rd Nigel Beardsley 18lb

Horton Championship 1

Jeff Lincoln 21lb 10oz

2nd Nigel Beardsley 21lb 8oz

3rd Vince Dack 13lb 6oz
 

Summer League 2 Woodlands SkyLark

1st Mark Bradford 100lb

2nd Andy Duguid 60lb 2oz

3rd Scott Williams 32lb 7oz

Memorial Brenkley

1st Nigel Beardsley 3lb 7oz Peg 27

2nd Eric Brown 1lb 15oz Peg 12

3rd Mike Roper 1lb 4oz Peg 19

QEII Carp Catches

"Dave" weighing in at 34lb 5oz

"Patch" weighing in at 28lb

 

Rod & Line 1 Milkhope

1st Colin Bailey 23lb 5oz Peg 28

2nd Nigel Beardsley 19lb 15oz Peg 4

3rd Scott Williams 12lb 7oz Peg 11

Carp 2 48hr QEII

1st with 2 fish Mel Carter (17lb 2oz and 18lb 10oz)

2nd with 2 fish David Greateaux (9lb 8oz and 7lb 11oz)

3rd with 1 fish David Burton (9lb 6oz)

17 fished

This weekend is a charity match on Brenkley with £3.00 each going to a good cause.

 

Winter League 11 Result

1st Nigel Beardsley 14lb 6½lb Peg 31

2nd Scott Williams 10lb 12oz peg 35

3rd Richard Wildman 9lb 12oz peg 6

Overall Result

1st Nigel Beardsley 7 points

2nd Richard Wildman 16 points

3rd Vince Dack 20 points

4th Eric Brown 25 Points

5th Brendan Heslop 27 points

Wydon Burn Maintenance

Wydon Burn will be off limits for 3 or 4 weeks from 27th March to carry out essential maintenance

 

Work Schedule and stocking

This year we aim to contract out some of the more demanding tasks to make our waters more comfortable to fish

The control of weed and reed in the QEII has been targeted with the help of council facilities along with repairs to platforms.

The fence at Brenkley is near completion and the aeration windmill has been erected with just the air stones to install into the pond. A couple of pegs will be renewed also

Peg 8 on Horton will be targeted and rebuilt by a contractor. The trench on the left hand side has done it's job and kept the path drier  this winter.

Milkhope needs a bit of TLC on the left hand side by cutting back the hawthorn bushes. The water inlet has been sorted now thanks to our landlord and the pond is full to cater for the recent stocking.

Carp 3 to 5lb were stocked into Milkhope last weekend along with large bream and a couple of big tench going into Horton Grange.

Summer League 1 Eden Grange

1st Andy Duguid 48lb 8oz

2nd Scott Williams 36lb 8oz

3rd Eric Brown 27lb 3½oz

 

Milkhope Stocked

Milkhope was stocked with carp between 3-5lb this weekend.  2 anglers had 11 fish between them yesterday.

Winter League Match 9 Result

1st Richard Wildman 4lb 9½oz Peg 30

2nd Nigel Beardsley 3lb 15½oz Peg 10

3rd Tony Dixon 3lb 13oz Peg 2

 

Not Clever!

Somebody used the Horton Grange top car park last week as a toilet just a foot away from the undergrowth, No paper either?  Also an empty sweetcorn tin was found in the same car park. Have some decorum please!

Winter League 8

1st Nigel Beardsley 9lb 7½oz Peg 32

2nd Vince Dack 4lb 2½oz Peg 10

3rd Brendan Heslop 3lb 6½ oz Peg 36

Winter League 7

1st Nigel Beardsley 5lb 0oz Peg 32

2nd Eric Brown 3lb 7oz Peg 35

3rd Tony Dixon 1lb 13½oz Peg 34

Winter League 6

1st Nigel Beardsley 7lb 2½oz Peg 34

2nd Brendan Heslop 2lb 0oz Peg 11

3rd Richard Wildman 1lb 12½oz Peg 1

 

Fur and Feather Match Cancelled

Winter League Result

1st Scott Williams 7lb 2oz Peg 7

2nd Richard Wildman 5lb 14oz Peg 10

3rd Eric Brown 5lb 12½oz Peg 9