Welcome to Burnham Boat Owners Sea Angling Association. We are a small boat club that has been established since 1976. We are affiliated with the Bristol Federation of Sea Anglers and the National Federation of Sea Anglers.
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Webmaster: Sal Norris
Website photographer: Tony Tandy / Sal Norris
~~ Burnham Boat Club News ~~
This page is for any breaking news and updates from the Burnham Boat Club. Regular visits will keep you up to date with whats been happening between comps and meetings, and also provide the latest info from meetings and events. If you have any news please get in touch at the address below.
Has anyone been fishing?
As you can probably tell there is not alot happening!! If you have any fishing news please let me know, I would like some more pics too!
Weymouth Plaice Chase on the 14th and 15th June 2008
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Weymouth Wanderers!
The boys from Heron and Makita have been out on their Weymouth adventures again with yet more and unexpected results.Steve and Neil on Heron decided to beat the holiday crowds and went down and did a long stint on Friday 30th Mayovernight,while Terry and John being older and needing more sleep went down on Saturday morning. Steve and Neil knowing that petrol is cheaper in France headed off for their long range wreck mark so that if they got low on fuel they could always fill up over there.Terry and John on the other hand did their fishing drifting Portland ledge,so that they would not be home late for bed. I got a phone call at about 11:30am from Steve asking if I would be home at about 1330 to weigh some fish if they stopped in on their way home, and as I had just got back from holiday it was OK by me.1400 came and went and after a call to Steve I was told that they would be a bit later as they had bumped into Terry and John and were now catching more Cod than they had seen all year.So as for the fish, at the end of the day Neil again took the best Conger of the day with a fish of 64lb 13oz while Steve took Conger of 59lb 05oz and 48lb 05oz. They also reported many others to 30lb + and Neil also took a Ling of 18lb 05oz. As for Terry and John their score at the end of the day was one Pollock and 13 Cod all between 7 and 12lb also the bonus of catching fish of this quality while wearing T-shirts and sunglasses.
by Chris Evans
Super Ling!
Some of our members had a good day on Saturday 10th May out of Weymouth. Plenty of fish being caught in the area including reports of Black Bream, Bass ,Bull Huss, Conger to 20lb+ aslo the ever popular Doggies. Mackeral are also about in good numbers.Steve George managed to get out to one of the long distant wrecks where he produced this specimen 21lb 13oz Ling,and as we can see by the photo weather conditions were perfect.
Thanks Chris for the report and pic!
4th May
Sunday 4th of May saw the usual get together and the scores were:
Martin Quinn - Nil (and didnt get stuck but collided with John Dumbleton coming in)
John & Craig Dumbleton - Out of the two Craig had the biggest bass of 4lb 8oz
The two Julies - Waynes bass 4lb and Marks bass 8lb 14oz, well done Mark another nice fish
Hardup and crew had one small bass
Andy Georgiou with Anthony & Nigel Devey - Nil
Gary & Craig out on Craigs boat with engine alarms ringing in their ears until Craig realised he had ran out of oil!
Did Wayne wet himself laughing??
Thanks Simon for the pics and info
Massive Ray!
The highlight of the day for the Bristol boys out on a charter trip from Minehead on Sunday 27/04/08 was this 24lb 11oz Thornback ray, caught by non member Garry Mewdell. The huge ray was a fish of a lifetime and i'm sure Garry will soon be joining one of the clubs hopefully ours. Nigel Devey, Martin and John Quinn plus the Georgious all had a good day aboard Atlantic Blue out of Minehead, with plenty of Smoothound, tope and rays.
This ray was only 1lb 5oz short of the Bristol Channel record.
Reported by Chris Evans
Annual awards evening
The Annual Burnham Boats awards was on Thursday 17th April. Here are the pics of most of the winners of 2007. Well done to all you, it was a great evening!
Draper does it again!
It has been reported that during an unofficial competition on Sunday Mark Draper caught the biggest fish. This Thornback Ray is so far also the fish of the month!! Well done Mark!
Thanks Tony for the pic and report!
Winner of the Ray Farthing Trophy 24th Feb 2008
Tony Tandy fishing aboard Halcyon has earned Chris some early boat points with his win at the Ray Farthing Tophy Comp. Although not pictured the winning fish was a 10lb 11oz Thornback. This cod weighed in at 4lb 7oz. Well done Tony, a good result as only four fish were weighed in at this comp! For all the other pics click Competition News
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