HSAC Cley May 10th

By Dene Conway

Ah the good old British Summer reared its ugly head, with several members away on holiday or busy elsewhere and windy , weedy conditions we all knew it would be a hard struggle to find some sizeable fish.

Small schoolies dominated the day to the right of the beach with one of our juniors Joel Conway catching in excess of 12, but sadly all under the clubs size limits so none to weigh in.

Most of the club ventured to the left of carpark in search of Bass and Flounder,this proved to be just as bad as everywhere else, with Tony Thomas finding a lucky good sized Bass just under 3lb to take the match easily.

Peter Loke found an elusive Flounder at 28cm giving him second place and pushing him up the leader board into 5th overrall.

John "Silverfox" Neave was the only member to catch more than one fish and he managed 3 small dabs to secure a 3rd place.

Dene Conway also managed 1 Dab just on 18cm to sneak into 4th place with the rest of the field blanking it showed how difficult it was to find any fish at all.

With Salthouse this coming week our hopes are pinned on the bigger Bass that have been reported and hopefully the Smoothhounds will appear in greater numbers.

With 6 matches gone in the Summer Accumulator its still anyone match as the top 6 are very close, just out in front in Tony Thomas on 102pts, closely followed by John Neave on 100pts, 3rd is Dene Conway on 92pts, 4th is Nicole Conway on 84pts who slipped down from 1st after her blank session., and 5th place with 81pts goes to Peter Loke who has leap frogged up the board with some good results recently,still in contension is Richard Ives on 80pts who after a good start and two wins in the frst two matches seems to be letting the others catch up, no doubt he will make a mad dash for the winning post in the last 4 matches, and with the last match being held at Kings Lynn its still anyones title.

Results

1st: Tony Thomas 1 fish for 2lb 15oz

2nd: Peter Loke 1 fish for 0.9 1/3 0oz

3rd: John Neave 3 fish for 0.7oz

4th: Dene Conway 1 fish for 0.1 2/3oz

All other members failed to catch a sizeable fish.