BILLERICAY & DISTRICT
ANGLING CLUB
Serving anglers in Essex for 65 years
Serving anglers in Essex for 65 years
With 8 matches in the season, these matches are held at good venue’s and are very enjoyable. Sadly in recent times the number of members attending these matches has dwindled and the Committee would like to advertise these events to all Female members to attend either at the Ladies Matches or with your Partner at the Mixed Pairs Matches.
To book a place at these Matches, details of which are all shown on the fixture list in your handbook, or for any queries please call Nick Mitchell on 07970 606558
Attendance to these matches would be greatly appreciated and would help save the events from cancellation.
Another enjoyable season has finished and after some interesting results thought the year the Mixed pairs results were as follows
Mixed Pairs
Alison & Martin 197lb 14oz
Kathy & Nick 174lb 12oz
Jean & Martin 117lb 9oz
Wendy & Alan 67lb 3oz
Ladies
Kathy 74lb 12oz
Wendy 60lb 10oz
Alison 58lb 4oz
Jean 53lb 1oz
The last match of the season was to make the final decision over who won the 2024 season. This venue has showed various results in the past so yet again it was the end weights which made the decision of the season. Everyone enjoyed the day and the results were as follows
Kathy 56lb 6oz
Jean 33lb 5oz
Alison 28lb 5oz
Wendy 22lb 15oz
We had four mixed pairs attending this match and a good days fishing was had by all. The results of the match were as follows
Jean & Martin 44lb 7oz
Wendy & Alan 13lb 1oz
Alison & Martin 10lb 10oz
Kathy & Nick 10oz 4lb
The Tench today appeared to by only at the far end of the Lake today with the rest of the swims being occupied by other specimens. All good day was still had by all and the results of the match were as follows
Wendy 24lb 5oz
Alison 8lb 10oz
Kathy 4lb 9oz
A good showing of both Bream and Carp during this match and this again depended where you were on the Lake as to what was caught. Still a good days fishing and the results of the day were as follows
Alison & Martin 75lb 6oz
Kathy & Nick 49lb 5oz
Wendy & Alan 14lb 2oz
Jean & Martin 10lb 4oz
Not having fished this Lake before it was unknown as to what would be caught and by the end of the match the weights were very close and as previously, it was a ‘one fish makes the difference’ but that fish happened to be the only Carp caught during the day. Well done Jean with her MAIDEN WIN in her first year attending these matches.
Jean 10lb 3oz inc 8lb 5oz carp
Wendy 6lb 4oz
Alison 3lb 4oz
Kathy 2lb 10oz
Like so many venue’s when fishing you never know what is going to happen until it does. Sadly the heavy persistent wind and rain made things very interesting and it is somewhat difficult to fish and hold onto your brolly. We all battled through and the results of the day were as follows
Alison & Martin 53lb 10oz
Kathy & Nick 41lb 7oz
Jean & Martin 27lb 4oz
Wendy & Alan 12lb 12oz
Another enjoyable Match between the Ladies present to see who could come out the winner and gentle competition and banter was had by all, from comments like ‘is that a fish or a leaf’ to ‘OMG I am sitting on an ant’s nest’. Never mind the leaf size fish do get bigger over time, or so I am told. The results of the match were as follows
Alison 15lb 1oz
Wendy 7lb 2oz
Jean 5lb 7oz
Kathy 4lb 11oz
As ever this venue is a lovely place to hold a Match at but like with most venue’s you never know what is going to be produced. There were some lovely specimens caught and there were various types of fish caught from silvers and Perch to Bream and Tench. A nice 1lb 7oz Perch was caught by Jean, which was an impressive size.
The results of the day were
Alison & Martin 35lb 14oz
Wendy & Alan 22lb 7oz
Kathy & Nick 14lb 10oz
Jean & Martin 8lb 4oz
This is the first time we have held a match at this lovely venue along with the Junior Match and the weather was good all day. Although there was plenty of evidence of large carp in this lake they clearly made a joint decision to not take many of our baits and in fact only one carp was caught during the match. This match therefore turned out to be a ‘Gudgeon feast’, but what a wonderful selection of Gudgeon were caught.
The results of the match were are follows
Kathy 8lb 11oz
Jean 4lb 2oz
Alison 3lb 0oz
First match of the new season and we had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to enjoy our Mixed Pairs and Ladies Matches. Welcome Martin & Jean. As usual we fished at the same time as our Junior members match and we enjoyed bright sunshine all day, not like the persistent rain of previous years at the start of the season. The finishing weights for the day were as follows
Kathy & Nick 59lb 2oz
Martin & Jean 28lb 0oz
Martin & Alison 22lb 8oz
Wendy & Alan 4lb 13oz
Well Done to Martin and Jean, 2nd place on their debut Match
Wednesday 26 March 2025 at Southminster