17 members managed to turn out to the AGM on 19 February, which was 7 more than last year! To read all about it click on the link to see the minutes.

AGM MINUTES - 19 FEB 11.pdf (43.98 kb)

As the river had been over its banks for some days, the WULAC guys offered to fish the return match of this challenge on their Church Pool on 20 February 2011. So a team of 12 LAS anglers turned out on a dour morning to fish this match. There was a stiff and very cold East wind which really put the fish down, except for WULAC's Andy Wheeler, who had a sheltered spot where the carp fed close to the bank. He managed to bag 8 of them for a weight of 44 Lbs 12 Ozs, which would have beaten the LAS team total of 37 Lbs 1 Oz by itself! Although WULAC had 5 blanks to LAS's 2, they still amassed a total weight of 66 Lbs 15 Ozs to win comfortably. There was some consolation for the LAS team though, as Terry Thompson managed second place with 12 Lbs 12 Ozs, Ray Armstrong was fourth with 7 Lbs 6 Ozs (one carp taken first put in - then never had another bite!) and Bob Smith fifth with 5 Lbs 4 Ozs.

It is hoped that we can fish the WULAC team on our river before the end of the season - possibly combining it with the Scramble Match on 13 March.

Just to update all members on Graham Davis's progress. I had a telephone conversation with him just after the match last Sunday (17 July) and he is now home and has been able to walk round his fishery. He was completely exhausted when he got back and showering tires him out too. But this is good progress, as the doctors reckon it will be 3 - 6 months in total before he gets back to as good as he is going to be.

The reason he 'phoned me was to enquire about the match result, wanting to know who caught what from where. He does hope to be fishing the river before the end of the Summer League matches. However, he was worried that he would not be able to lift the landing net out of the water with a barbel in it, so I assured him that it would be fine for Pam to help him with this, as all the lads want to see him back on the bank.

I know you read these web pages regularly for the match reports Graham, so get well soon mate, as we all miss you and Pam on the banks at Leighton.