G.V.A.C . Hooked! Highlights in this issue: Volume 5 Issue 2 Newsletter Date: Spring/Summer 2019 • Events for this year announced • Latest News Goodbye Snow, Hello Sun !... Hopefully • We look at some essen- Hi Everyone, main species. Even the coaches tial tackle Welcome to the second news- caught. Over 60 young people • A look at a good read letter of the year. Having been turned up on the day and they fishing every week since the too all caught some fish. • Pole Rigs & start of the year I can honestly Hopefully a return in June will Shotting! say I really hope the last of the see us enjoying much better cold weather is behind us and weather. we can look forward to warm days, plenty of bites & netfuls But that is what fishing is all of fish! about… and for me the beauty of the sport, you never know what you’re going to catch Inside this issue: By the time you read this edi- next. tion we will have completed 2 or 3 of our sessions for the Completing the level 2 CAST year, we have lined up some ‘First-Timer Oliver deep awards will be a priority in the in concentration new & old venues for 2019 and coming weeks and for anybody Dates for the 2 a whole variety of different Diary who hasn’t started the CAST techniques & methods for you awards or would like to start to try. them then have a word with A Coaches Blog 2 Paul at any of our FishClub p.s. Don’t forget to upload any Our first session at Suffolk sessions for more information. catch photo’s you have to our Water Park in April saw 5 of Junior Facebook page. our ‘advanced’ juniors tackling match Lake 1 on pole and feed- As always if you have any ques- Product Review 2 er. Conditions weren’t helped tions then please get in contact Be sure to show this by a mixture of sun, rain, sleet with us & we’ll try and answer newsletter to your par- & a touch of snow, together them for you. ents so that they know Behind the 3 with a biting northerly wind when the Fish Club ses- but you all caught, mostly on See you all soon !! Scenes sions are taking place… the pole, with Roach being the Tight Lines (Editor) Book Worm 3 (New) Latest News Pole Rigs & 4 doors at Gt Blakenham. So lots Feel free to post your own Shotting! to look forward to, and some catches and days out fishing as April saw us at Suffolk Water new techniques to challenge well. Park for the first of 3 sessions your fishing skills. there this year, plenty of roach Type in Gipping Valley An- were caught although the Facebook page gling Club Juniors on Face- bream & carp evaded our best Keep in touch on our Face- book and checkout the pages. attempts to catch them… book page where you’ll find details of all our advertised FishClub 2019 will be taking us events and showcase all of the If you have any ideas on to Battisford, Jimmy’s lake/ great sessions we’ve have over what you’d like to see in woody’s lake & Alton Water the year. the future please let us and we end the year back in- know. Page 2 Volume 5 Issue 2 Hooked! Dates for the Diary Mums, Dads & Grandparents this is the section Jul 2019 you need to read. Here are the up & FishClub 3 - Beginners to Advanced coming sessions planned for the year. Sat 6th - 8.30 to14.00 (Jimmy’s Lake) (NFM) Long & Short pole work May 2019 FishClub 1 - Beginners to Advanced Sat 11th - 8.30 to14.00 (Battisford Top Lake) Family Fish Day 2 - Beginners to Advanced (FF) Sat 1st - 9.00 to 16.00 (SWP - Match Lake 1) Juniors waiting to Pole & Waggler fishing (FF) start fishing Sept 2019 Jun 2019 FishClub 4 - Senior/Junior Pairs match Family Fish Day 2 - Beginners to Advanced Sat 28th - 8.00 to16.00 (Alton Water) (FF) Sat 1st - 9.00 to 16.00 (SWP - Match Lake 1) Pole, Waggler & Bomb fishing (FF) Pellet Waggler & Bomb Fishing Members £5.00 Non-members £6.50 FishClub 2 - (CANCELLED ) per session . Sat 22nd - 8.30 to14.00 (Stonham Barns) (FF) Key: Long & Short pole work (FF) Family Fish, (NFM) National Fishing Month A Coaches Blog The Joys of Fishing! for an hour watching the tor- about how to get the best out rential rain coming down be- of a swim. All the blogs go fore deciding to drive back into detail about the baits, Well, since the New Year I home. methods & techniques I’ve have managed to get out on used & will hopefully help with the bank nearly every week In that time I have fished 6 of your own fishing, if you want- and the weekly blog tally is the 7 scheduled GVAC Mid- ed to fish these lakes. currently standing at 16. week league matches and most surprisingly have man- Why not join me on the jour- It’s been a real eye opener aged to win 3 of the matches ney trough the year & read my with every week being a dif- & win 2 sections as well, so blog, ferent venue trying to find out not a bad return so far. Just pop along to the following the best baits, methods, talk- Paul watching Lennon link:- ing to regulars etc. unhooking another Having never fished some of Roach these venues, certainly not I’ve also managed to pick the https://angling4all.org/blog under match conditions its worst day for the weather on been a brilliant challenge and “Every journey starts with most weeks as well, one such has really got me thinking week saw me sitting in my car a single step!” Product Review Item : Mag Store Pre-tied locate each individual Rig If you are not a fan of tying Hooks Stick into their new system your own hooks then these Tackle Firm : Preston Innov box (8-10 Rig Sticks are sup- are a great alternative and will Preston Mag Store Pre- Price : £3.00 - £3.99 plied in each system depend- save you a lot of time & effort tied hooks ing on size), allowing you to but this comes at a price. Description : swap and change their loca- Personally I much prefer to tie tion within the box and add My advice would be to perfect my own hooks as pre-tied new Rig Sticks . your own hook tying skills and hooks don’t give me the ver- in the long term save you a lot satility or options for what I In addition you can now buy a of money… but as they say… need, but Preston Innovations variety of pre-tied Preston each to their own. last year released something a hooks on a rig stick. These little bit different to the indus- come as 8 pre-tied hooks try standard. which you can then instantly “If time is your enemy lock into your Mag Store Sys- then this solution could be Firstly the Mag Store Sys- tem box. the answer!!” tem which uses magnets to Page 3 Volume 5 Issue 2 Hooked! Behind the Scenes Bait-Tech Offer There are limits to this offer & lakes, Maypole & Battisford For those of you that are not is strictly for the use of GVAC lakes. aware, local company Bait- juniors only. The work involves cutting Tech, one of the UK’s leading back the overgrown trees & bait firms with a distribution Paul will be sending out a shrubs, clearing out swims to network stretching around the revised price list soon so that make them more comfortable world, will continue providing you can see what we currently to fish from and various other GVAC junior section with have to offer. maintenance tasks. Bait-Tech’s Pro substantially reduced cost bait It is also hoped that during Natural range & groundbait to cover the Around the Club 2019 there will be some sub- FishClub sessions for 2019. Now that we are getting into stantial repair work carried Not only that, but Bait-Tech the warmer weather members out on the banks of Woody’s have kindly allowed us to pass of the committee & willing lake as the banks have eroded on this generous offer to you volunteers are carrying out quite badly in some areas. juniors, so you can buy bait, work parties at some of the pellets & groundbait directly clubs venues. Check the club diary if you are from the club at our FishClub So far these parties have car- interested in attending any of sessions. ried out work at the Barking these work parties. Book Worm - Ivan Marks on Match Fishing If I’m not fishing then I like nothing better than to read all from his own range of about fishing, be it one of the angling newspapers, a maga- floats that were in the zine or one of the many books that have been written by beginning all hand made by the greats of the sport. Ivan himself but which So I thought I would share with you some of the books were later produced com- that I have read over the years, which have inspired me to mercially. learn more & improve my own angling ability. I still have some treasured floats in my own collec- Title : Float Fishing with Ivan Marks tion. Author : Ivan Marks & John Goodwin Ivan talks in-depth about ISBN : 0720710278 each design & the materi- Published : 1978 als that were used to create the float.