Saltwater Boat Angling — December 2017

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WEDNESDAY – Wreck day

Due to a strong Westerly wind many

of the boats decided not to go

wrecking, as anchoring and

positioning would be difficult.

Catches were generally poor and day

two’s leader Matt Osborne suffered,

achieving only 20%. A mixture of

conger eels, tope, spur dog, blonde

rays, undulates rays and black bream

were caught. The day was won by

Karl Dettmar from Germany and Jon

Law from Wales took the overall lead

with a total of 290%.

THURSDAY - One of each

species

Again, fishing conditions were

difficult due to strong winds but the

beauty of Weymouth is that you can

normally get out and fish in most

conditions. Jon Law won the day

with 14 species and 48 fish points.

At this point Jon lead the competition

with a total of 390%, second was

Scotland’s Derek Yuille with 378% and

third was Joel Luyts with 351%.

FRIDAY – Lures only

It’s always a fascinating day, going to

sea with no bait, and this year proved

to be no exception. This was

fortunately the best day for weather

and was fished in light winds and

bright sunshine. A wide variety of fish

were caught of various lures including

mackerel, scad, garfish, sand eel, pout,

poor cod, black bream, ballan wrasse,

cuckoo wrasse, other wrasse and

gurnards. The day was won by Perry

Dack with 176 fish points, only one

fish point ahead of Paul Hart, who was

again only one fish point ahead of

Thor Rasmussen. There was no

change to the overall placings on the

day with Jon Law of Wales taking a

splendid win with 485%. In second

place was Derek Yuille of Scotland and

third was Joel Luyts of Belgium. The

prizes were presented by Rachael

Bradwick of Fladen at the Weymouth

Angling Centre.

Skippers

The Weymouth skippers participating

were Adrian Brown on Al’s Spirit, Ryan

Casey on Meerkat, Paul Whittall on

Offshore Rebel, Jamie Pullin on Peace

and Plenty, Lyle Stantiford on

Supanova, Ivan Wellington on Top Cat

and Clem Carter on Wild Frontier.

Congratulations to Lyle Stantiford for

winning top skipper for the week.

Full results on Weymouth

Angling Centre Facebook

The next WIBAC will be held on

15th to 19th of October 2018. If

you fancy a real angling

challenge and a fun week, details

will be found on the Weymouth

Angling Centre website at

http://www.weymouthangling.com/

events/weymouth-international-

boat-angling-challenge-wibac-

2017-sponsored-by-fladen-and-

navionics

Nice bream for

Brighton’s Andy

Smith

Derek (Scotland), Winner Jon (Wales) and 3rd Joel (Belgium)

Lyle Stantiford

was top

skipper

Weymouth sunset

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