Three Club Charity Event

I have attached an email from Claire-house in response to the tremendous success of the three way charity event and a photo of the presentation on the night with a guaranteed minimum of £2001 raised.

From: Pat Faragher [mailto:patf@claire-house.org.uk]
Sent: 10 July 2012 14:51
To: colincook1878@googlemail.com; Keeley Rick
Cc: kirsty@claire-house.org.uk; jill@claire-house.org.uk
Subject: FW: Pictures as requested - Thank you

 Hi Colin and Rick,

It was great to meet you both and the rest of the angling group last night. I enjoyed the meeting and was both thrilled and amazed at the amount of money you have raised. What struck me though was the fabulous spirit of community with you all coming together to support Colin and his family when they have been through the most horrific of experiences. Colin you must feel very proud to have such wonderful friends and support in your community. I am touched by this on both a personal and professional level. Claire House exists because of wonderful people like you who have empathy for others and do something to make a difference.

If you could let me know what you decide to call your newly formed angling group we can ensure you get a copy certificate for all three locations more if required and thank you letters to those people we also discussed namely Dougie Walsh c/o Asda Ellesmere Port and Martin at Firtrees Wigan.

It really was my pleasure to meet you all and if dancing on tables is ever required you know where to find me!

Regards,

Pat Faragher

Director of Fundraising

Meeting rule amendments

At the recent meeting two, what I can only describe as 'best practices' were discussed that have bugged me personally for a while and a committee decision was taken with immediate effect to implement the details below albeit will require formal confirmation at the AGM if these are indeed permanent rule changes.

Interestingly these appear more hearsay than documented rules as looking at club records back to 2002 I can't find the specific rule number to change!!

Anyway to clarify the practices of : -

 - 'A competitors cannot fish past the corner of the next peg' will be replaced with 'a competitors peg will be deemed half way between themselves and the next angler irrespective of permanent pegs with no angler present'.

- 'Competitors are not allowed to exchange bait after the all in' will simply be dropped.

Both will take immediate effect and I will raise at the pre - AGM in September.

23rd June - Chester Lakes

Well only ten turned out at Chester Lakes on Saturday on the middle lake, Jason Connah drew on the peg near to the car park on the road side on the way in down on the slope and fished at 6m and against the reeds and caught steadily throughout, lost a few too for a winning 25.2lb. Kenny Stuart did well with the severe wind in his face all day, he caught 20.8lb at 9m and on the inside. Ian Lloyd drw the Golden Peg and was comfortable at 8m with the wind behind and I'm told should have done a little better than 3rd with 20.4lb according to our resident coach!!

Damages on the day Jason Connah broke 5th section, Rick Keeley broke 5th and 4th section as the blew his pole out of the rollers 7 times (once is an accident 7 times is Rick being a ballon!!) oh nad his top 4 blew away 5 times down the field.

Rick's thought for the day " that place has cost me more money in sections than any other fishery, including Conway" and you need a top 5 to fish to hand

Result

1st - Jason Connah - 25.2lb

2nd - Kenny Stuart - 20.8lb

3rd - Ian Lloyd - 20.4lb

17th June - Fir Tree - Three Way Charity Match

Well 24 turned out and after fishing 8 sections of 3 Rivacre ran out the winners with five section wins, two seconds and a third.

 

Ian Lloyd ran out the individual winner of the first Three Club Charity event at Fir Tree with his catch of 35.6lb of mainly Carp + silvers caught at 17m on corn. Ian fed a pot of corn and pellet on this line, but started on the inside and had a couple of bits, but after an hour or so decided to try the far line on corn where he caught steady for the rest of the match.

Second was Billy Gore with 33.0lb caught on meat and pellet at 16m mainly down the inside and over. Billy was as doubled over at the end holding the pole for that length of time, and didn’t feel too good either suffering from food poisoning (could it be Dougie poisioning his butties to give us all a chance) third was Dave Cargill from Eggy Ferry with 20.7lb again caught over on pellet but managed a few from the track as well.

The total money looks like being over £2.000 and Rick has asked everyone to collect all their sponsors’ money by the 2nd July for the WBAC meeting on the 9^th so Clair House representatives can come to collect the cheque. Keith is organising a Big cheque from the bank for the photos.

Result

1st - Ian Lloyd - 35.7lb
2nd - Billy Gore - 33.0lb
3rd - Dave Cargill - 20.7lb