November Meeting

Ken Crow addressed the members of the Gateway region this month with a very interesting and insightful look into the role of the fishery manager, and the successful running of a good, consistant, winter pike fishery. It was obvious from his presentation that Ken cares deeply about his pike and goes to great lengths to conserve his fisheries longevity.
As usual the buffet was consumed with relish, and I actually managed to snaffle the odd sarnie this month!
This months raffle prizes were kindly donated by Mk2 Angling in Crayford and by The Anglers Rest in Welling...Cheers guys

Novembers Meeting : Ken Crow

Novembers meeting will be held on Tuesday the 6th November at the Papermakers.
This month the man sharing his wealth of knowledge with us is

KEN CROW

Ken is very accomplished pike angler and a previous recipient of the PAC's Pike Angler of the Year award. He is a also the fishery manager of Kents most prolific big pike water, Bough Beech Reservoir, which has produced pike to over 40lbs.

As usual we will be starting at about 7.15-7.30 to drink beer and regale each other with tales of all the monster pike we've all been catching!!!!!, and the talk will start about 8.00pm

Usual buffet and raffle, and we will have a few copies of PAC 30 for sale for any interested parties

£2.50 members/£3.50 non members

RODDERS WOWS THE CROWDS AT THE GATEWAY!

Stevie "Rodders" Rodwell entertained the largest turn out the Thames Gateway region has seen since its inception. Close to forty of Kent and Essex's finest (along with quite a few piking Legends) were entertained by the Fenland Superstar with Steve (The Godfather) Taylor unselfishly supplying a supporting act too....(Maybe they could start up a double act..a surefire winner for next years conference I reckon?)
If you haven't seen Rodders talk then I recommend that you make the effort to go and see the man at a region near you.........you won't be dissapointed...the guy is hilarious, and on the flip side, a top pike angler with a wealth of experience.

Thanks again to Mark at MKII Angling for the raffle prizes

October Meeting : Steve "Rodders" Rodwell

Next months meeting is on Tuesday 2nd October at the Papermakers, and our guest speaker this month is none other than the Fenland Maestro himself

STEVE "RODDERS" RODWELL

Rodders has a wealth of experience fishing the Fenland Drains, with over 100 twenty pound plus pike to his name,as well as exstensive knowledge of the Broads, Trout ressies and rivers, plus his fishing exploits with ET and Mr Horton!
Steves talk is entertaining as well as informative, and will be an excellent incentive what with the traditional pike season looming, to dust those rods down and get out there among 'em!

Meet at 7.15-7.30 for beer and banter, 8.00pm start for the talk.

September Meeting : Andy Lush

Thanks to Andy for starting the season off with a bang. 25 of the Gateways finest listened to Andy deliver a very interesting and sometimes thought provoking talk about all aspects of his lure fishing....from trolling the big trout ressies to fly fishing for predatory barbel and vertical jigging for dutch zander and perch
Andy's obviously a man who thinks long and hard about his fishing, and uses this to the best advantage judging by some of his catches.
Thanks to Mark at Mk II Angling for the raffle prizes, and as usual the buffet was consumed with great relish ( but not by me as I was too busy selling raffle tickets )

September Meeting : Andy Lush on Lure fishing

Tuesday 4th September sees the start of the speaker season at the Thames Gateway PAC region
To kick us off this autumn we have

ANDY LUSH

well travelled lure angler and proprietor of the Friendly Fisherman tackle shop,

http://www.thefriendlyfisherman.co.uk/

who will be gving us an insight into all aspects of his different lure fishing styles from pike in the UK to zander in Holland and predatory barbel from Spain...

As well as Andy's talk we will have the usual raffle and resplendent buffet........
This all takes place at the Papermakers Arms in Dartford, Kent, and we meet around 7.15-7.30 for an 8pm start

July " Summer special" Meeting

A big thanks to John Synnuck for regaling a well attended meeting this month, with his tales of Masheer, huge Catfish, and ever huger Tarpon. For anyone who couldn't make the meeting, you missed a cracker......the big fella has caught some cracking fish from all corners of the globe, and I think I speak for everyone there, that we were all suitably impressed...............those Tarpon don't half ruck...
I'm sure Jon would be more than happy to bring his talk to other regions if they were interested in something a bit less pike, but still predator orientated....


AUGUST Meeting

Next months meeting will be on Tuesday 7th August, and as a pre runner to the first "proper" meeting of the pike season in September, I will hopefully be bringing some of the latest catalogues from the Friendly Fisherman. So if anyone wants to put an order in for some nice new shiny lures, for the up coming trout water season, you can fill in a order form, and when Andy Lush visits the region in September for his Lure Talk, he can bring lots of lovely lures with him that you have pre ordered.

If anyones got any pics of some summer lure caught pike then send them to me at the regions e-mail pacregion19@aol.com and i'll put them in the gallery.