News and Events

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

We hope you like our new website, we are more than pleased with the investment that we have made.  There are still have a few changes and enhancements to make, in particular the Catch Reports Section, an “A-Team” Gallery of the lakes inhabitants so you know what fish your targeting, better information on the capture gallery (captor, weights, etc) and some more information about the club, the committee and bailiffs. 

We want the new site to be future-proof and more interactive to enable us to provide our membership with real time updates, but we want to only make these enhancements once.  We are currently looking into developing a Smart Phone App that will provide updates of news, catch reports and capture photos for members.  This is all dependent on feeds from the new website, something which we are playing with at the moment.  We need to ensure that the data we post to the website is both usable and searchable from the website, but also compatible with a Smart Phone App too.

None of The Committee are web or computer gurus, to say the least, so this will take a little bit of time to sort out.  (If you are or you know someone who is a web or computer guru and can lend a hand please get in touch) 

In the meantime we are keeping the website as up to date as possible.  If there is anything else you’d like to see then please feel free to let us know at members@southlakeas.co.uk

The Opening Night Draw for Southlake will take place at 2012′s AGM in April.  Memberships can be renewed before via post or on the night.  We will  communicate this regularly via Newsletters, e-mail reminders, our new website www.southlakeas.co.uk, the Forum and Twitter over the next 5 to 6 Months.

Pictures from our recent 5th Annual Charity Match in aid of The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust and MacMillan Cancer Support.

Thanks to all those who participated and help raise money, our members, our sponsors including an enormous THANK YOU to Nash Tackle, Rueben Heaton, Preston Innovations, Fox International, Richworth – Streamselect, Rob Malin and Bounty Hunter Publications for all your donations for the raffle prizes and Waitrose who donated the food for the weekend. Your generosity knows no bounds and we wouldn’t be able to raise nearly as much money as we do without your kind donations.