News and Events

In December we carried out our Bream Removal exercise at Redlands.

We employed the services of Blueslate Fisheries to carry-out the work

Blueslate arrive

We started out by laying 260m of Seine Netting

Preparing the nets

Getting ready to sail

Setting the nets

 And proceeded to pull it in….

Retreiving the net

This was not the easiest thing we’ve ever done I can tell you…….. Doug took a breather to take the photo, honest!

What will we have?

All our hard work

The weigh in

Weighing in at......

 The Bream ready for their journey to their new home

Ready to go

A Total of 58 Bream weighing 335lb were removed during this exercise.  We are looking to do another Bream removal in March / April 2012

Here is the latest Newsletter.

Newsletter Winter 2011

If you haven’t received yours via e-mail or Post (give the Posties a chance it is Christmas…., oh and don’t forget to Tip them too (10% Cut please Martin, Jon, James and whoever else I’ve missed)) send us your e-mail address to news@southlakeas.co.uk

We now have a Smartphone App for Android (Apple iOS, Blackberry and Windows Mobile coming soon, we hope!), so Southlake Members can keep up to date with Latest News, Catch Reports and Photos, and What’s Going On at our Venues.

You can download this app from http://southlakeas.mobapp.at/ or by using the QR Code

The Bream removal from Redlands announced in October will now be taking place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th December 2011.

Members are welcolme to attend to view the netting.  However I would advise in advance that the primary objective is the removal of Bream, not a survey of the Carp stock.  Please don’t expect the netting to be stopped so you can be shown all the Carp prior to slipping them back into the lake.

So the Netting can take place uninterupted Redlands will be closed to fishing during the days on both Friday 16th and Saturday 17th but will be open again to fish the nights.  Those fishing Friday night need to at least reel in at 1st light (approx 7.30am / 8am)

There will still be lots of work to be done around the lake too, so rather than stand around waiting for Carp to be netted we would like to think that those attending will participate in an impromptu Work Party too.

Next years AGM will be held on Friday 6th April 2012 at the Oakwood Centre.

The AGM will start at 7pm and will follow the usual format, and will include the Opening Night Draw for Southlake (Friday June 15th 2012)

This years AGM will be followed by “An Evening With” Slide Show

Two Special Guest Speakers (To Be Announced Soon)
Tackle Roadshow from Leading UK Tackle Firms (To Be Announced Soon)
Rig Clinic (To Be Announced Soon)
Two Bait Clinics (To Be Announced Soon)
A Bar (This one is confirmed)

Free to Southlake Angling Society Members, £5.00 Entry On the Door to Non-Members.

Start Time: Approx 8pm

Membership for the 2011/2012 season is now closed, with a full complement of 200 Members. Those interested in joining for next season please complete and return a Registration of Interest Form, an application for next season starting 1st June 2012 will be sent to you in March 2012.

We are pleased to announce more Work Party dates, at present all the work parties will be taking place at Redlands.  Start times will be 9am through to 1pm at least.  There are 12 Work Parties planned which should give all those who still haven’t attended ample chance to attend.  Anyone who has already done a Work Party but wants to come along to support us and help out further can also attend.  The dates are as follows:

2011

Saturday 3rd December and Sunday 4th December

Saturday 10th December and Sunday 11th December

2012

Saturday 7th January and Sunday 8th January

Saturday 21st January and Sunday 22nd January

Saturday 4th February and Sunday 5th February

Saturday 18th February and Sunday 19th February

Angling’s representative body, the Angling Trust, has launched a new web site for anglers to record sightings of cormorants, goosanders and mergansers throughout the UK: www.cormorantwatch.org The new site is easy to use and will gather vital data to help persuade government of the need for action to protect fisheries. 
The Angling Trust succeeded in persuading the Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon to carry out a review of the licensing procedures and he has stated that he is prepared to take “bold decisions”.  As part of this review, the Trust needs data on the abundance of cormorants to convince the government to take decisive action.

Anglers can record sightings and activity of cormorants anywhere in the UK, directly onto a Google Maps driven micro-site at www.cormorantwatch.org  Users will also be able to scroll around the map and zoom in to view details of each recorded cormorant sighting and watch the real picture of cormorant predation in UK waters build up week by week.

If any members see Cormorants on our waters we would encourage you to record them via the www.cormorantwatch.org website.

The Committee will shortly be carrying out some fisheries management at Redlands.  We have been in consultation with the Environment Agency for some time now regarding improvements to our Redlands venue, and shall be shortly embarking on an exercise that will improve the venue as a whole.  This will involve reducing the biomass of the lake by reducing the head of Bream, which will result in increased water quality to enable our fish stock of remaining Bream, Tench, Carp and Silver Fish to flourish and grow.  This work will also assist in restoring the balance to the lake and providing much needed funds to enable us to carry out further improvements, such as completing the work on the Ponds at the top of the venue to transform these into a dedicated match fishery.

We know that members will be keen to come along and see what is netted so we will advise members of the dates that the work will take place.  We envisage it will be towards the end of November once the water temperature has reduced and the weed has died down.

TV Presenter Jeremy Wade will be signing copies of his book “River Monsters” on Friday 18th November 2011 between 3-5.30pm at Chapter One Bookshop, Woodley