Saltwater Boat Angling — November 2017

6 Saltwater Boat Angling

An inexperienced Tubertini team

England won this year’s Home

Nations Boat Championship for the

second year running.

SCRABSTER: A rst day blitz, gave

the England Home Nations Boat

Team the platform for a memorable

victory in this years’ Home

international event held in Scrabster.

With nearly 3,200 sh recorded and

returned (mostly cod, haddock,

pollack, ling, gurnard and dabs) over

the two-day event, Tubertini Team

England recorded a massive

479% from a possible 500%

on the rst day to set up a

ne victory. The second day

saw an expected ‘bounce

back’ response from Ireland

and host nation Scotland,

but not sucient to

overturn England’s rst day

eorts and their day one

lead was only reduced by

3%, leaving them clear

winners by 31%.

Teamwork, organisation and

execution under the guidance of

Team Manager Steve Batchelor, lay at

the heart of the England

performance. Top England

performers were John Belamy, who

came second individually, to

Scotland’s’ Ally Campbell, with

England’s Steve Batchelor nishing

third. The remainder of the England

Team, Brett Lomas, Pete Bailey (rst

cap), and Gary Geoghegan (rst cap)

all produced match winning

performances to seal the victory, with

late reserve call up, Ray Ashby

providing the on-shore support. After

some initial diculties, the event was

well organised by the host Nation

Scotland and their organising team

plus boat skippers and stewards must

be congratulated on a successful

event. Ireland will be the hosts in

2018 in Cork, when England will be

hoping to make it three wins in a row.

England were sponsored by Tubertini,

with further help from Christchurch

Angling Centre, Tronix Pro and Vass

clothing. The team for the Home

Nations was chosen by an Angling

Trust Selection committee.

Day one

England 479.4%, Scotland 440.8%

Ireland 375.3%, Wales 370%

Day two

England 387.1%, Scotland 389.9%

Ireland 421.6%, Wales 321.2%

Overall

England 866.5%, Scotland 830.7%

Ireland 796.9%, Wales 691.3%

ENGLAND GRAB GOLD

We are now in month three of the

competition and This month’s winner

is Tommy Calder who landed a 9lb

9oz Small Eyed Ray on Nigel Lihou’s

boat, Optimist, out of Brixham. Tommy

joins Barry At eld and Kevin Rishman

the two previous winners. They’ll be

 shing the  nal next spring for the

wining prize £1000 of Snowbee gear.

If you want to enter your best

catch then please  ll out the form

on page 31 or email us at editor@

saltwaterpublishing.co.uk with a

picture of your  sh.

Th e Big Fish

Charterboat

Competition

Tommy Calder

WEYMOUTH

COMPETITION UPDATE

Colin Penny, skipper of Flamer IV

has kindly sent us a list of upcoming

competitions being run from

Weymouth FLAMER IV Weymouth –

upcoming competitions

October 20th – Annual 1 Day Species

/Hunt/Competition

October 21st and 22nd - Annual 2 Day

Species Hunt/Competition

Flamer Festival Competition for

the persons who  sh all three days

October 20th, 21st, 22nd

November 18th and 19th - F.I.S.H.

Species Singles Competition

November 20th - F.I.S.H Species Pairs

Competition

For details and to enter contact Colin

• telephone: 07968972736 or email:
  [email protected] website:
  http://www. amer4 shing.co.uk

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