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:

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

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 provides an educational message about the state of our rivers and fish populations and also gives hope for a future full of migratory fishes. Feel free to share with colleagues, friends, family and host screenings! Actually, at the launch time of 0800 GMT +12, the Department of Conservation New Zealand hosted a live stream screening! We are honoured by your enthusiasm to celebrate with us. Thanks to everyone that helped to make this film possible including the award-winning director, Francisco Campos-Lopez. Without all of your support, we could not be where we are today. We hope this excites you to celebrate World Fish Migration Day again on May 16th, 2020 and look forward to all of the awesome, inspiring events!

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.

Coffer Dam – Cyfarthfa Park

Two pictures below of area behind the coffer dam at peg 1……..

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.

Young Dan and his first trout

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 Pond at 08:30 this coming Sunday.

Please do not forget that this is a CARP LEAGUE so anyone turning up with any fishing gear that isn’t a carp fishing set up will not be allowed to enter the competition. Also each competitor must have a suitable net (36” minimum) an unhooking mat or cradle, carp care kit, a suitable weight sling. These are minimum requirements for entry.

I look forward to seeing you all there 

I would also like to ask everyone wishing to fish to bring along some cash as we may do a few prizes on the day

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 will be held on Middle Pond on Sunday 14th April

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.

Date for your Diary

Bombers Cafe at Redhill Fishery

I have just been informed that Bomber will no longer be providing food at Redhill Fishery.   Bomber said thanks to everyone for supporting him over the years.  Bomber and Colin have parted by mutual agreement and Bomber asks you not to contact him about this at this time.

All at MTAA would like to thank Bomber and Moira for the great breakfasts we have enjoyed over the years and wish you both all the best for the future we are going to miss you both and all the banter

Result of the Senior Coarse Match at Riverside F

Result of the first senior coarse match held at Riverside Fishery Ystrad Mynach.
1st Dia Couzens 23lbs 12oz.

2nd Mark Sweeney 10lb 12oz.

3rd Clive Jayne 9lb 12oz