December 2024.

QUIET TIMES / SAD TIMES By Reedie 

November has been a quiet month, with not a great deal happening on the match
front. The club match that was meant to be at Nyewood, was cancelled as that date was the return date against Steadham A/C. This was held on the River Rother at Steadham Bridge, there were only 4 from each club that fished the match, so we all fished downstream from the bridge. Ironically all the Petersfield team fished the 
later swims, where Steadham fished the early swims. It was hard going for most of the day, but for the first couple of hours, I had a great session having almost a fish a cast.  Most of the fish that were caught were dace, some of those being of a decent size. Although the weather was favourable, there wasn't going to be any big
weights. On the day Steadham were 1st with 5lb - 3oz, 2nd with 4lbs, & myself 3rd with 3lbs - 14oz. 

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The next match was meant to be the next Away Match & Silver Fish Match at the NMG fishery The Pump Station in Longmoor.  However due to the terrible weather conditions on the day, the fishery owner decided to cancel the match for safety reasons, so there were no results. Now we are into December, the next match is the Xmas match at Nyewood.  The match will take place on Sat 28th of December
which is the reserve date, as the first date the ponds will be closed for Fishery
Management works. 

Although it is a few months away, on Sunday 2nd of March 2025, there is a Charity Open Match on both ponds at Nyewood. The match is in memory of the late John Clarke; his wife Viv will decide the charity the funds go to. There will be a maximum of 30 places, over both ponds. Details of the match will be released closer to the date.

To close my report, we lost yet another of our long standing members, this last week. My very close mate Keith Tupman lost his fight against Throat Cancer. 
Keith had been a member as long as I can remember, & he was a committee 
member for many of those years. Keith, myself & Eddie Matthews helped run the junior match group in the late eighties through to the nineties. A brilliant match angler & all-rounder, he will be greatly missed. 
His funeral will be at the Oaks Crem on Monday 16th of December 2024 at 1.45pm. 

                        For this month, I will leave it at that! 
                                       Cheers Andy