January 2025.

Welcome to the first chat of 2025, I hope that you all had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Onto things fishing, please remember that the PDAC annual general meeting will be held next month at the Petersfield Community Centre, Tuesday 18th Feb at 7pm.  This will be your opportunity to have your say and put any questions to your committee. Please remember to send in any questions you would like to ask prior the meeting, so we can have the answers for you.

Raffle donations will be gratefully received, all proceeds to the PDAC Development Programme, we shall also have the "Members Free Membership" draw... only those in attendance will be in the draw. 

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Committee Vacancies: 

We have vacancies for Treasurer, Match Secretary, Fisheries Officer and general committee members, if you think you would like to join us to help moving the club forward, then make sure you have a proposer and seconder. Details of all vacancies are listed below in this newsletter.

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EGM update:

Those of you that had attended the "Emergency General Meeting" in November, will be aware of the club seeking CASC status, this, we are still awaiting approval and hope to have some news for the AGM.

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Resources:

I am pleased to announce that after a successful application for a Councillor Community Grant, we have now increased our resources with the purchase of a new seine net.

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Fisheries:

As most of you are aware, Nyewood Bottom Pond had suffered a number of fish deaths last year, now this has settled, the club had conducted a stock evaluation on Saturday 14th December. The result of this netting had proved that numbers were low with Carp, but on a brighter note, we have been working closely with the EHDC and local Parish Council since July to relocate some stock from a local water to Nyewood Bottom Pond. I am now pleased to announce that once all the relevant Health Checks and permits were approved, PDAC volunteers had recently conducted a netting; and have now relocated 60 immaculate Carp, ranging from 3-11lbs to Nyewood's Bottom Pond.  

Nyewood Bottom Pond will be closed until the 18th Jan, just to give the fish time to get used to their new home.

My thanks to the Volunteers on both occasions of the netting's who braved temperatures that polar bears would have been happy with spending hours in and out of the water getting the job done.

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Xmas Match result:

The Christmas match was held on the 28th December at Nyewood, weather was not good and neither was the fishing, only three members out of 10 caught, Findlay Tester was first, Steve Elliott was second and yours truly came third.

Please if you are out fishing any of our waters let us know how you get on with a report or some photos we are always interested to seeing what is being caught.

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Junior activities for 2025:

It had been an extremely busy season for the PDAC Development Programme with various successful events for the juniors, It had also been noted that some would like to see more junior match events; and the club are considering to reignite the successful junior match league of the 1990's, that saw some juniors that went on the represent England and still have success in the world senior match scene of today.​

If you would like to express your interest with this, then contact Dominic Davies at domjdavies@live.co.uk.

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Membership Renewals:

Reminding members that the current handbooks no longer contain the membership renewal pull-out, this is due to the handbooks being replaced with members ID cards, these will be issued on application for the 2025/6 season. Members may renew in person at the AGM or online from mid March; postal applications will continue as normal.

Please be advised that Geoff Grimes will be stepping down as Membership Secretary and any postal applications sent to his address will only delay any processing of memberships. 

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hopefully see you at the AGM.

Tight Lines 

 

Steve Chapman

PDAC Chairman