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Dont forget that the wyvern region quarterly meeting is on monday 8th April at lyme regis sailing club at lyme regis. 7.30pm with the meeting starting at 8pm.
All local clubs who belong to the wyvern region should send some delegates along on the night.

A few reminders about how we operate our great little wyvern photo competition.
West Bay Watersports and the Tackle Box at Lyme Regis kindly put up a £20 voucher each month plus also a £50 voucher once a year. Senior entries must be over 100% and be caught within the wyvern boundaries which are between lines drawn between brean down and portland bill and crackington haven down to looe. All of the area inside these lines is our area. Junior entries must also come from that area but they do not need to be over 100%.
Please visit the wyvern website for more details on this event.
The entries that get sent in should always be from wyvern clubs and be sent from if possible the clubs fish recorder. All pictures must come though the month of capture.

Nice to see the local ifcas out and about in lyme bay checking compliance on both recreational angling and commercial boats.
Well done we say.

September 7th and 8th 2019 is the date for the two day small boat open at salcombe, south Devon.

Kindly sponsored once again by Aquacat.

Get it in your diary now.

A past competor. Dont tell him your name Pike.

Our main sponsor for the last few years.

A great turn out

Archie is happy

Pete hutchins and finley munday

Adam reece giving the talk on lyme bay

Sallie date and alex parker

Willow herbert and mike hansell

Well done willow

Overall champ rob wheaton

Just had the sad message that former wyvern chairman and NFSA Chairman Ron Bradley sadly passed away last week. Ron certainly done a lot for angling world in the earlier days of Wyvern.

RIP

Now this is very good reading on the top 10 clubs and how they finished in the specimen award scheme.
The wyvern region is certainly looking good having 9 clubs in the top 10!

Please have your say.

For the second year running Ben Bradstock of Honiton sac wins the 158 entry Wyvern Open at Slapton.
Full report up tomorrow.

Very good entry at the wyvern open at slapton.
Entry of well over 150 with mackerel, gar and doggies being caught.

Just a week away.

Not long to wait.

Not long to go to this great little open competition in the new year.

Anyone intrested in doing their level 1 coaching then please read on.

Hello everyone

Please could you complete the National Angling Survey before it closes at midnight on Sunday!

This is a specific link for sea anglers with some additional questions about sea fishing.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NASAT2Sea/

Please share with your club contacts etc.

Thanks

David Mitchell

Head of Marine | Angling Trust

Please support our open on the 6th January.

Please don't forget to get this one in your new diaries.
Always a nice little comp after the new year.

More details from mike spiller on 01404 43397.

Here is the poster for our open shore on the 6th January 2019.

Please can i ask you all like and share this post to get the news out to all corners of the south west.

A great agm last night at the RBL in Exeter.
Thanks for your support.

Sunday January 6th 2019 will be the date for the Angling Trust wyvern region open shore at slapton sands. As normal we put on this comp on the first sunday of the new year.

Please can we ask that you like and share this post to get the date out to all.

More details will follow soon along with the poster.

Final reminder

The salcombe small boat will be fished tomorrow (sat) only.

Sign on at the slip area from 8am. Fishing from 9.30am till 5.30pm.

Hopefully see a few of you down there.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

The small boat at salcombe this weekend will be going ahead on Saturday only. Sunday has been cancelled after advice from the RNLI at salcombe.

Please can i ask you all to support this event if possible on saturday.

If everyone can like and share to all on face book that would be great.

Please spread the news.

Not long to wait for this event at salcombe.
A big thank you to all our sponsor's this year as shown on the poster but especially chris mills and aquacat marine, Veals mail order and the fishy buisness at salcombe. If needed, bait can be ordered and collected at fishy business for the event.

Please can we ask that we all like and share the poster.

Great news this morning.

Not long to wait for this great little event.

This event is open to all juniors aged 16 and under.

Just one week away.
Please help support your local Region.

Please help us get the date in the anglers diary.

Always a great weekend.

Got some super prizes sorted for this event. Lots of rod and reel combos etc for overall plus the age groups also.
This event is OPEN TO ALL JUNIORS 16 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER.

All juniors entering will also receive a free goodie bag of tackle plus also free refreshments. Please help us get the message out by liking and sharing.

Please like and share this post to get our poster out for the junior open competition. Its open to ALL JUNIORS AGED 16 OR UNDER.
As normal all entrants will recieve a free goodie bag along with some refreshments.

IF YOU FISH AT BRANSCOMBE BEACH PLEASE READ.

Appeal from the owner/ operators of the Car ark and facilities at Branscombe, would visiting anglers please try and take rubbish home with them in the first instance, but if rubbish is to be left in their bins, would anglers please be so kind as to sort it according to the labels on the bins. Their new contractor will be charging for unsorted rubbish, those extra costs may ultimately have to be passed on - so maybe it could mean higher parking charges or similar. Please, no disused bait to be left in any of the bins, bait not used should be thrown into the sea once clear of packaging.

Thanks from branscombe car park team.

CAN ANYONE HELP LIBBY AT THE DEVON AND SEVERN IFCAS TEAM? THEY NEED LOCAL ANGLERS HELP IN CATCHING SOME BASS.

We have been contacted by Libby. Please see below. If intrested please get in touch with Libby.

Dear Wyvern region

We have a PhD student at Plymouth University (Thomas Stamp) who is studying how bass move in inshore and estuary areas e.g. how much time do they spend in Bass Nursery Areas, which are the most important habitats? This will help us to determine whether current bass nursery areas are sufficient to protect different ages of juvenile bass.

I think you may have heard about Tom’s work includes a project tagging juvenile bass with acoustic ‘pinger’ tags and deploying acoustic receivers in 3 estuaries (Salcombe, Dart, Taw-Torridge). Every time a tag gets close to a receiver, the receiver will detect the tag ‘ping’ and will log that individual bass as being nearby. The receivers are distributed in such a way that a bass moving up and down an estuary and in and out of an estuary will be detected by a receiver so we will see exactly how they use estuaries. The batteries in the tags should last up to 2 years so Tom will get high-resolution information on how bass move in these areas and how long they are resident for. It has taken Tom two years to get all the funding and permissions involved and so the acoustic receivers are just being deployed.

Tom has permission to catch and retain bass for tagging purposes using a variety of methods. He will be fyke netting in Salcombe but would also really like some support from anglers in Salcombe and the Dart to catch bass for tagging. Could you circulate this to anyone you think may be able to help? We are looking for people who could be available for the following dates and locations:

27th-29th June - Salcombe

2nd-5th July - Dart

Catching bass is all that would be involved: all tagging will be undertaken by a fully trained and licensed team from Plymouth University. Anyone interested should contact Thomas Stamp for more information: (thomas.stamp@plymouth.ac.uk) , 07729 060 551.

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

Libby

Libby West

Senior Environment Officer

Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority

phone: 07720683624

email: e.west@devonandsevernifca.gov.uk

Hi all,

Thanks to a very good question from Simon, please see the note below:

Tom is looking for shore based anglers, as for various logistical and licensing reasons his tagging has to be done from the shore. He will have a van with an aeration tank in to transport fish from the site of capture to the tagging & release location so that anglers can choose the best spot to fish from and move with the time/ tide.

Very best wishes,

Libby

Wyvern chairman does go fishing😁
A few nice smoothound for Alex Parker today up at minehead aboard the "mary ellen"

Just a quick post to say that David Rowe funeral will take place this Friday (4TH) at noon at the Methodist church in Bovey Tracey.

Sad news this morning. David Rowe passed away at 07.30 this morning.

A big thank you to all our major sponsors for their continued support to Wyvern Sea Angling.

Plymouth Angling Centre

Seaton Angling Centre

Any Fish Anywhere

Robs Bait and Tackle

West Bay Angling Centre

Osborne and Cragg

JG Technologies

Southwest Sea Baits

Forms

Fish of the Month
Record Fish Entry Form
Senior Photo Competition
Junior Photo Competition
AT Specimen Fish Form

Links

Angling Trust
IFCA
Wyvern Region (Angling Trust)
Sea Casting for Beginners

Contacts

Chairman:
Alex Parker 01752 666706
Hon. Secretary:
Mike Spiller 01404 43397
Hon. Treasurer:
Vacant

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