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July 2008

Plymouth, United Kingdom

SHIPPING & INSHORE WATERS FORECAST

1. 2008 WEBSITE LATEST NEWS

If you wish to get in touch with the BCC webmaster I can be contacted at the following address webmaster@britishcongerclub.org.uk  WEBSITE PICTURES  - When submitting pictures for the BCC WEBSITE it would be a great help to the webmaster if you can name your picture file as shown in the example: john_doe_57lb_5oz.jpg  This ensures that I get the name of the captor and the weight correct. Often I get a file name like IMG_123_7678.jpg which means nothing and with no further information. Thank you! Sadly we have had no pictures or news from members THIS YEAR which is disappointing. Perhaps the weather has been a factor for Congering? The result is very little has changed on the website. The British Conger Club MESSAGE BOARD continues to be a good forum for everyone where postings are approved by the webmaster. If your posting refers to Conger Fishing/Fishing or something to do with the BCC Club it is approved. If spam is posted no one ever sees it and we get lots --this month the daily record was 192 spam messages. However, the real result is NO SPAM on our site. We still get the occasional idiot who tries to send something smutty in a "covered email", but nothing gets through. The British Conger Club Website reports on conger fishing news in the UK and other fishing and marine news worldwide. Please note that some months we do not have many new Conger pictures due to poor weather or I have not received any? I am always grateful for conger pictures, or pictures from any of your trips. Many anglers think the pictures need to be of eels of monster proportions to be published, this is not the case. When the weather is inclement and you have a trip booked always phone the Skipper for a weather check the day before your trip as the weather at your fishing location may be very different from your home location. He will then advise what to do. If you quickly want to hear the BCC WEATHER  - THE SHIPPING & INSHORE WATER FORECAST can now be heard by clicking on the LINK below or on our weather page. You need REAL PLAYER installed on your PC for this to function. Simply click on the LINK below:   SHIPPING & INSHORE WATERS FORECAST webmaster@britishcongerclub.org.uk  1st July 2008.

2. BRITISH CONGER CLUB NEWS

CONSERVATION IDEALS DOMINATE CONGER CHAMPIONSHIP British Conger Club Championship Festival Winners 2008 From left to right - Martin Regan (Plymouth), BCC President Roger Coultman, Gary Galbraith (Rochester), BCC Chairman Bryn Lavis and Chris Martin (Newhaven) Such is the attraction of conger, anglers from the USA, Holland, Scotland and many other areas far from the South West were among the 70 competitors in the British Conger Clubs Championship.  This, the 46th event was based on Plymouth’s Mount Batten Watersports Centre and fished at wrecks within a twenty-mile radius.  Despite winds up to force six, 210 eels were caught during the two sessions but just 7 of high weight were brought to the scales.  Gary Galbraith of Rochester a familiar figure on Plymouth charter boats over many years won the title with a fish of 64 lbs 13 ozs, a clear margin over runner up Martin Regan of Plymouth and Newhaven’s Chris Martin who had fish of 57 lbs 12 ozs and 56 lbs 8 ozs.   There was a tie in the Ladies Category between Pam Toms of the Isle of Wight and Kath Lavis of Plymouth.  The Islanders Derek Toms, Pam Toms, Jeff Hoey, and Steve Beare were the overall Team Champions with 1180 points, a narrow victory over Black Country Danglers Kevin Lindup, Paul Keeling, Michael Banks and Gary Galbraith. Plymouth’s Kingfishers and the Seagalls tied for first place in the private boat team category each having 560 points.  Top charter boat on Day 1 was Roy Strevens Tamesis and on the final day Shaun Brett’s Size Matters, the former winning the skippers prize by virtue of Galbraith’s Championship fish.    | The leading private boat was Trio owned and skippered by Roger Mc.Dougall.    The Reg Quest Memorial Trophy for which there is a special entry raised £300 for the R.N.L.I and the trophy was shared by Galbraith and Derek Toms both achieving eleven returns.   Report and pictures by Mike Millman (BCC Press Officer) A further BCC Report can be found under competitions from the menu bar. Please also read the MESSAGE BOARD for further comments on the BCC Festival -(Webmaster) If you have any Conger Club News that you wish to report please email the webmaster@britishcongerclub.org.uk Unfortunately the BCC Website has had a few problems with some of the committee's email addresses. I am still trying to get our webhost to rectify the problem. The problem addresses appear to be the two new one's festivalofficer@britishcongerclub.org.uk and juniors@britishcongerclub.org.uk  Please do not use these until advised. I apologise for the delay in sorting out this problem.

email: secretary@britishcongerclub.org.uk