Fishing Match at St James Pond – 11th August…
The Results are in!
🏆 1st Place: Dave Couzens – 33lbs
🥈 2nd Place: Dia Davies – 21lb 8oz
🥉🥉 3rd Place: Jason Woodford and Jim Howells – 12lb.
Salmon and Trout Conservation
As you may already know, we are now members of the Salmon and Trout Conservation. They are the UK’s only independent charity campaigning for wild fish and their environment. Their goal is for UK waters that support abundant and sustainable populations of wild fish and all other water-dependent wildlife. Members should receive more information about this via email. We hope to keep working with this amazing charity in the future!
” Too much water is being taken out of our rivers, too much is being thrown into them and not enough is being done to protect our watery places – it’s our job to reverse this trend. We work to influence government policy, industrial practice and individual behavior which results in measurable improvements to the state of the water environment, leading to healthier wild fish stocks, improved biodiversity and less pollution in our rivers, lakes and oceans.
We aim to inspire, inform, involve and influence everyone who can take action to safeguard our water environments. Protecting and standing up for life under the surface is a cause worth fighting for, both for current and future generations. ”
Inter-School Competition Winners
Above is a picture of the winners of this years inter-school fishing competition. Our winners this year are St Aloysius school. The school won the trophy for the 2nd year in a row, the shield was presented to the school by Tony Rees MBE and the children were presented their trophies by Doug Hawkins Senior Coach and John Coombs the children’s coach on the day. Besides the shield each child received an individual trophy as a memento of the day.
Brecon Canal Run
A running event in and around Brecon Beacons/Black Mountains on 9th/10th/11th August 2019, will include the Towpath from the Canal Basin to Crickhowell. The details are listed below, anglers be aware that a lot of people will pass you by
Details.
Date from 9th August 2019 @ 20:00
Date to 11th August 2019 @ 20:00
Event Up Hill Down Dale – Beacons 100/50 (running event of 100 miles or 50 miles)
Numbers 120 athletes over both events
Location Monmouth and Brecon Canal between Brecon – Crickhowell
Date from 9th August 2019 @ 20:00
Date to 11th August 2019 @ 20:00
Event Up Hill Down Dale – Beacons 100/50 (running event of 100 miles or 50 miles)
Numbers 120 athletes over both events
Location Monmouth and Brecon Canal between Brecon – Crickhowell
Coarse Competition Redhill Sophies – Result
1st Mark Sweeney 124lbs
2nd Adam Toomey 111lbs 8oz
3rd Jason Woodford 105lbs 15oz
4th Dave Couzens 97lbs
5th Jim Howells 84lbs 8oz
NRW’s proposals for new rod and net fishing byelaws
NRW welcomes the decision announced on 16th July by the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths and the opportunity to move forwards with our shared objectives for sustainable fisheries for the future. The Minister’s decision follows a full public consultation and independent scrutiny of all evidence at a Local Inquiry managed by the Planning Inspectorate.
The new byelaws will become law on all rivers wholly within Wales on 1st January 2020 and will see the following controls and restrictions implemented:
- Implementing full catch and release fishing on all net and rod fisheries for salmon
- Requiring catch and release of sea trout in rod fisheries on vulnerable rivers prior to the 1st May
- Setting a 60cm maximum size limit for the taking of sea trout in all rod fisheries
- Implementing method restrictions (controls on use of bait, barbless hooks and treble hooks) so that released fish have the best chance of survival.
- Making consistent the start and end of the net fishing seasons by:
- Shortening the netting season by starting net fisheries no earlier than 1st May
- Ending the netting season on the 31st July
The survival of salmon in some rivers is now threatened, whilst across Wales all of our salmon and most of our sea trout stocks are now at risk of further decline to biologically unsafe levels. All evidence reinforces the need to take bold and urgent action.
NRW will work closely with our stakeholders via our Local Fisheries Groups and the Wales Fisheries Forum during scheduled Autumn meetings (November) to ensure a smooth transition.
We want to ensure that all anglers and netsmen in Wales fully understand why the new measures are required and what they mean to them on all our individual river fisheries. All fishermen need to be compliant, but we also want to help by promoting good practice C&R, ensuring that all released fish have the best possible chance of surviving to spawn and contributing to the recovery of stocks.
The Welsh Government announcement and papers can be found here: –
Carp Competition – 14th July Cyfarthfa Park Lake
Had a great turn out for today’s carp league comp. 12 competitors. 6 seniors and 6 juniors.
Today’s results:
Juniors:
1st – Connor Cooke – 1 fish for 7lb 12oz
1st – Tion Howells – 1 fish for 7lb 12oz
Seniors:
1st – Tom Jehu – 4 fish for 37lb 10oz
2nd – Paul Grist – 1 fish for 3lb
There was a lot of bream caught today but they unfortunately do not count for the comp.
Thanks all who turned up, the support is greatly appreciated. I look forward to seeing you all again on the 4th August for the next comp
Tom Jehu
Carp Competitions Secretary
Open Match on Dolygaer Reservoir 22 Jun 19
Match results
Match results
Times for the Match on Brecon Canal Sunday 23rd…
The times of the senior match on the Brecon Canal below the Aqueduct are as follows Draw at 7 am fish 8 am until 1pm
Gary Davies
It is with great pleasure that the Alliance can announce that Gary Davies has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Services to the Community. The Chairman and Committee would like to congratulate Gary, this is a well deserved award for all years of tireless hard work he has put in on behalf of the Alliance
Cutting the lilies in front of the grass bank
Whilst the work was continuing on the park walls to make them leak proof, a small work party was convened to trim the lilies in front of the grass bank. The lilies had spread which made fishing extremely difficult from these pegs. The Alliance had purchased a specialist cutter which is designed to cut weeds in lakes ponds and rivers and it was put to good use and amazed the guys using it on how efficient it was. Below is a gallery of the work being carried out.
Release of Water into the River Usk by Welsh…
Richard Allen of Welsh Water has advised us of the following
Due to the declining levels in the river Usk we are now instigating the regulation release from Usk reservoir.
We will be releasing water from the reservoir at a rate of 50 ML/d for regulation purposes. This water will be abstracted at our Prioress Mill pumping station.
Further information from Guy Mawle of the Usk and Wye Abstraction Group……..
This release is smaller than last year’s which was over 80Ml/d and will probably continue for some weeks. It will help support the level of Llandegfedd reservoir is advance of the shut down of pumping at Prioress Mill, Usk this summer while Welsh Water switches from the old to new station to enable them to operate under their new licence. There will still be abstraction by Welsh Water at Llantrisant further downstream.
Love Flows – World Fish Migratory Day
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Charity Walk along the towpath
On Sunday 19th May if you are fishing the canal be aware that a charity walk will be taking place from the canal basin to Llangatock. A lot of people could be passing you along the towpath.
Senior Competition Top Pond Sunday 12 May
The result of the match fished on 12 May at Top Pond.
1st Dave Couzens 2lbs 8oz
2nd Jason Woodford 6oz
3rd Jim Howells 4oz
Senior Competitions
Our Comp Sec Doug has been in contact with Jess the Comp Sec of Rhymney Anglers. This has come about after Jess asked us if we would like a comp against Rhymney on a home and away basis. This is still to be arranged. However, in the mean time, Jess has asked if any of our anglers would like to fish with Rhymney they have a competition on Molly’s on Sunday and should you wish to, you may just turn up and fish with them
Senior Coarse Competition
The senior competition held on Sunday 14th April was a complete blank for everyone, even me and Doug won that one as no one caught a fish so everyone was a joint winner!!!!!!
The match fish on Sunday April 28th at Riverside Fishery was won by Dave Couzens with 26lbs 12oz, 2nd was Jim Howells with 17lbs 7oz, 3rd was Steve Llewellyn with 16lbs 12oz, 4th was Jason Woodford with 14lbs 12oz and 5th was Dia (Odd Socks) Davies with 12lbs 10oz. Our sympathy goes to our Comp Sec Doug who weighed in 3lbs because he had a small hole in his keep net and a lot of the small fish escaped.
Kemeys Salmon
Marius Macenas fished the Kemeys beat on the Usk yesterday Thursday 11 April and caught a 10lb Salmon on the fly. See the pictures below, the salmon was returned to the river and swam strongly away.
