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Season Update Early July 2024

Now back on the river and Bream showing from the lower pegs at Fladbury, a Barble in the Sunday match and quality Roach in peg 4 on the GB feeder. We are about to start the Spring League with big weights of Carp expected.

Trustees

We now have three new Trustees in Peter Fawke, Peter Whittingham & Roger Middleton joining Frank Bagley & Dave Mullins.

Full Membership

Recovering well with seven new full members most fishing the River Matches.

Fladbury Fishery

The 26 match pegs are in excellent condition access is good & signs replaced. The 9 pegs in the lock stream have been cleared but pegs 27 & 28 need new platforms. We have agreed a plan to deal with the large overhanging branch below peg 2.

Pleasure Fishing

Remember that the 26 match pegs are available when there are no match bookings and the 9 lock stream pegs are always available for pleasure fishing. See- “Fladbury Match Box” for availability.

Season Update Early July 2024

Now back on the river and Bream showing from the lower pegs at Fladbury, a Barble in the Sunday match and quality Roach in peg 4 on the GB feeder. We are about to start the Spring League with big weights of Carp expected.

Trustees

We now have three new Trustees in Peter Fawke, Peter Whittingham & Roger Middleton joining Frank Bagley & Dave Mullins.

Full Membership

Recovering well with seven new full members most fishing the River Matches.

Fladbury Fishery

The 26 match pegs are in excellent condition access is good & signs replaced. The 9 pegs in the lock stream have been cleared but pegs 27 & 28 need new platforms. We have agreed a plan to deal with the large overhanging branch below peg 2.

Season Update 21/5/2024

Now well into the river closed season we are fishing matches on Canals & Pools completing two matches of the Aggregate Series which continues in June with the Fladbury Cup, three matches of the Canal Series and we are well into the Winter Pools Series with the fourth match at Shrewley pools this Saturday. Next is the Spring League Series with big weights throughout the summer. Match turnout has been good boosted by some of the river match anglers joining us on the pools matches.

After nearly 6 months of flooding we have started sorting out Fladbury Fishery ready for the river matches. Vehicle access is superb & Saturday’s work party gave us a brilliant start. We have another work day planned for Sunday the 9th of June meanwhile repairs to certain pegs will continue throughout May including lowering the steps in peg 4 and fitting handrails in peg 2 & 4.

Membership;-As you know we lost a few this season. Almost all gave very good reasons, a couple of members (including the Chairman) were aging and not fished for a while, one said he had too many commitments, a couple had a short stay and three long term members disappointingly decided to go. We lost 8 full members in all & so far & we have 3 new members planning to fish the river matches. So far turnout on the Canals & Pools has been good, the Associate members seem to join around June.

Strangely we have quite a few full members that plan to re-join in June, I’m sure we will be ok.

Fladbury Water Quality Update;- The Society has been measuring water quality & suppling results to the Angling Trust since November 2021, measuring Phosphates, Nitrates and Electrical Conductivity, see the WQMN page. A high level of Phosphate throughout this period is the main concern & we have shown that the fish regularly move downstream late Autumn.

After seeing our results on the Society website local wild swimmers formed the Avonvale River Action Group (ARAG) which the Society has supported since their conception, their progress has been amazing now measuring locations up & down the Avon supplying data to the Angling Trust on behalf of the Society, see avonvaleriver.org.

The Angling Trust issued their first WQMN seasonal report and made Girling Angling Society their Angling Club of the year for 2023. Their second season report is soon due and Girling AS and ARAG have produced a joint article for their second annual report. Visit Angling Trust

Now, an enormous amount of awareness but no progress.

Bank Clearing

Here we go again it’s Bank Clearing time. The first session is on the 18th of May. The Pegs are in a mess caused by flooding from the end of October 2023 through to April 2024. There’s debris on all of the pegs, some damage to the steps and the sign in peg 3 required work.

With the weather improving we now have a couple of weeks for Gary, the guy with the Tractor who works for the land owner to get down there to clear the top of the pegs allowing vehicle access. It cost us £50 a go limited to twice a year but saves us an enormous amount of work allowing us to concentrate on the pegs.  

The Secretary called Gary the evening of the 4th of May after the match to discuss clearing the top of the pegs suggesting any time before the 18th of May and got a text early the next day with a video informing him that he had just cleared the top of the pegs, wasn’t expecting that.

So we have excellent vehicle access a couple of weeks before the planned work party date of the 18th of May to sort out any damage to the pegs.

Wednesday the 9th of May is suggested to make a start, if anyone can help that would be brilliant.