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
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
Times for the Match on Brecon Canal Sunday 23rd June
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
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
Release of Water into the River Usk by Welsh Water
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
Love Flows – World Fish Migratory Day
Dear migratory fish friends, We are officially ONE YEAR away from the next World Fish Migration Day! And we already have ONE HUNDRED events! Hooray!!! To celebrate this, we have launched the Love Flows documentary on our YouTube and Facebookchannels! Have you seen it??We are excited for our World Fish Migration Day family to watch this film. We think it
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
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
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.
Carp League – 1st Comp this coming weekend
Due to the work still not being completed at Cyfarthfa park I have decided to move the first carp league competition this Sunday (the 7th April) up onto Top Pond Pen-Y-Wern. I would like to ask anyone wishing to fish the league this year to meet at the carp park at the centre of Top
Senior Coarse Competition
Today Sunday 31st March the senior coarse anglers fished a competition at Redhill Fishery Monmouth. 13 anglers fished. 1st was Jason Woodford with 52lbs 8oz 2nd was Jim Howell with 52lbs 3rd was Mark Sweeney with 38lbs 4oz 4th was Dave Couzens with 31lbs 8oz 5th was John Coombs with 24lbs 4oz the next competition
Large Carp Cyfarthfa Park
Tommi Bevan-Jones with one of the new carp we introduced recently, Tommi has called this fish Shoulders Unfortunately Tommi did not have scales with him so an estimated weight would be around 23lbs.
