What's been caught when and where, useful for Club Members to keep tabs on their own individual progress, as well as a useful guide for visitors to this website to see what's being caught locally around the Brighton area.

Monday 7th January 2008 7pm until midnight. 

This event, the first of 2008, was scheduled to be fished at Brighton Marina. Unforetunately the weather was awful,with westerly winds gusting up to 30mph, the eastern breakwater was closed for obvious safety reasons. We moved to Newhaven, with 24 anglers fishing the West Beach Car Park, the river, the small arm and Seaford beach.

Fishing was difficult and scratchy, lots of undersized fish were present the catches being rockling, channel whiting and pouting.

Sixteen of the 24 anglers weighed in a total of 52 sizeable fish. The winners were:-

1st         Mark Trott             2lb   2.25ozs

2nd        Ronnie Burnett     1lb 13.50ozs

3rd        Jamie Sharp          1lb 11     ozs

Mark also won the heaviest roundfish prize with a 1lb 1oz channel whiting.

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 Monday 4th February 2008 6pm until midnight. 

Scheduled to be fished at Shoreham Beach, because of the vast quantities of wood from the sunken ship scattered all along the Sussex coast, and the extreme weather forecast, the Tossa's once again found themselves fishing in the relative shelter of Newhaven Harbour. As the competition progressed the south westerly wind stiffened and moved southerly so by two thirds of the way through  we had to endure a full gale of wind and rain in our faces.

Despite being plagued by undersized fish 26 anglers weighed in 65 sizable fish between them, bags consisting of flounders, rockling, channel whiting and pouting.

The winners were:-

1st   Jamie Sharp      1lb 13.25ozs

2nd   Andy Brand      1lb  12     ozs 

3rd    Rod Punter      1lb    5.5  ozs 

Best flattie went to Jamie Sharp with a 11.5ozs flounder, and the best roundfish was a 6.75ozs rockling caught by junior member Oliver Blackmore.

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Monday 10th March meeting unforetunately had to be cancelled due to extremely bad weather.

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Monday 7th April 2008 10am until 4pm

Thirteen anglers took part during a very cold day on Brighton Beach, the icy north westerly wind made a difficult day less enjoyable especially as only a dozen sizeable Rockling were bought to the scales. Typical for the time of year, plenty of undersized fish about although nothing to get too excited over.

1st      Rod Punter            9.5ozs

2nd     Nick Hale               8.5ozs

3rd      Pete Ellis Martin    8  ozs

The roundfish pool was shared by Rod and Pete who caught a humble 4.25ozs Rockling. The flatfish pool carries over to the next meeting at Brighton Marina.

A special mention for our youngest member, 9 years old Oliver Blackmore, who half way through the six hour match, while suffering from the bitter cold, was offered the chance to sit it out in a warm car with a bag of chips, Oliver opted to stay on the beach and stick it out. Good boy!

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Tuesday 6th May 2008 Brighton Marina 7pm until 1am

Sixteen anglers took part in the evening match fished on the East Arm of Brighton Marina. It was a pleasent evening with an easterly breeze later turning north easterly so the sea was calm. A total of 64 sizable fish were weighed in, mostly pouting and some occasional rockling. Once again there were lots of undersized fish returned alive.

1st         Don Jones         2lb   13.25ozs

2nd        Rod Punter        1lb   14.25ozs

3rd         Andy Brand       1lb   12.25ozs 

The roundfish pool was won by Don Jones with a pouting of 9.75ozs. Once again the flat fish pool carries over to the next competition.

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Monday 9th June 2008 Pagham 1pm until 7pm

Fourteen anglers participated in our annual Awayday event, fished this year at Pagham. Unforetunately, despite being a beautiful hot sunny summer day, the event was spoiled by the huge amount of seaweed present in the water. Despite the difficulty 2 anglers weighed in and several undersized Bass and Black Bream were returned alive.

1st    Ross Brand      1lb  6ozs

2nd Tracy Newington  7.25ozs 

Ross won the roundfish pool with his 1lb 6ozs Bass, and once again the flattie pool carries over. 

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Monday 23rd June 2008 Shoreham East Arm 12 noon until 6pm

Fifteen anglers took part in this Shoreham Harbour event which has become known as "The Long Walk". On a sunny summer day with a stiff breeze blowing, six anglers weighed in including both juniors in attendance Luke Morley and Lewis Trott, Luke caught a Gurnard weighing 8.25ozs and Lewis, on his first outing with the Club and fishing as a guest caught a Black Bream weighing 9.25ozs. 

1st   Ken McNeill      2lb 5.5ozs         (2 Ballan Wrasse)

2nd  Don Jones          9.25ozs 

3rd   Luke Morley        8.25ozs

The roundfish pool was won by Ken McNeill with a Ballan Wrasse of 1lb 3.5ozs and the flatfish pool, a treble rollover, was won by   Ronnie "the chicken" Burnett with his 8ozs Flounder. Both Ken McNeill's Ballan Wrasse and Luke Morley's Gurnard were returned to the sea immediately after being weighed and recorded.

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Monday 14th July 2008 Brighton Marina East Arm 6pm until midnight

Thirteen members fished this event with eleven of us weighing in. Breezy to start though the wind died down with the making tide.

1st         Mark Trott               7lb  12.75ozs

2nd        Rod Punter             3lb         2ozs

3rd        Tracy Newington     2lb  11.75ozs 

Best  round fish was a 4lb 2.5ozs Smoothhound caught by Mark Trott and the best flattie a 7.75ozs Dover Sole caught by Roger Jones. 

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Monday 18th August 2008 Rover 10am until 4pm

Only nine anglers turned up to fish the Rover, four fished at Shoreham Harbour and caught no sizeable fish, and five fished at the Newhaven West Beach car park where the winning fish, a 14oz Ballan Wrasse was landed by Mark Trott.

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Monday 15th September Shoreham West 6pm until midnight

 

Fifeteen anglers turned up to fish this event, of the only four to weigh in fish, two of them were our junior members, one of whom was the winner. Congratulations are in order for Luke Morley, who has fished excellently this year and whose enthusiasm puts most of us adults to shame.

1st      Luke Morley            1lb   8.    ozs

2nd     Rod Punter             1lb   6.25ozs

3rd      Lee Blackmore             10.75ozs

Luke Morley had the best roundfish a just sizeable Codling of12.75ozs and Rod Punter the best flattie, an 8oz Sole.

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Monday 13th October 2008 Seaford Beach 6pm til midnight 

Fifteen anglers took part in this event at Seaford and Newhaven, ten fished Seaford and five exercised the option to fish at Newhaven West Beach car park. Seaford produced far more fish than Newhaven on this occasion, loads of Channel Whiting, Pouting and one flounder.

1st      Lee Moran            9lb   9.75ozs         21 fish

2nd     Ron Burnett         8lb   10.75ozs        20 fish

3rd      Pete Martin          8lb   3ozs              19 fish

The best roundfish was a 1lb 1oz Channel caught by Darren Morley, and the best and only sizeable flattie a flounder of 8.25ozs was caught by guest angler Rick Etherton.

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