Lancashire Anglers Floundering About

Fleetwood and District Angling Club members were out at Lytham where it started off a bit cool but ended up like a summers day.

They started fishing about two hours after high tide and it was very muddy to start but ended up on firmer ground later on.

Next to no wind all day water flat calm, but a bit of weed and the anglers noticed a couple of small harbour porpoises as the match started. It did not fish as well as expected, the consensus was that it needs another couple of weeks as the fish are not switched on to crab yet.

As normally some areas seemed devoid of fish, best area seemed to be to the right of were you walk down.

Congratulations to Ian Hewitt on the win today. Eighteen anglers fished most caught a fish.

Mick Parkin with a bass from Marine beach

Top Ten

1^st Ian Hewitt 6 flounders for 84 points

2^nd Clive Mason 5 flounders for 48 points

3^rd John Hodgson 3 flounder for 47 points

4^th Jim Gross 4 flounder for 45 points

5^th = Dave Hutchinson 4 flounders / John Beswick 3 flounders for 40 points

6^th Paul Smith 3 flounder for 37 points

7^th Simon Dawber 3 flounder for 28 points Dave

8^th Trevor Barnett 2 flounder for 27 points

9^th Chris Moore 2 flounder for 26 points

10^th = James Hudson 1 flounder / John Foster 2 flounder for 19 points

Biggest flounder was 39 cm worth 20 points for John Hodgson

Next club match is on Easter Saturday at Marine Beach with the fishing from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

Leyland and District Sea Angling Club fished their latest match at Morecambe beach over low water.

1^st Fred Howard with 4 flounders including the joint biggest fish at 33cm scoring 28 match points.

2^nd Nigel Thompson with 2 flounders and a whiting scoring 23 points.

3^rd = Norman Pilkington with the joint biggest flounder scoring 14 points, and Peter Pilkington with a flounder and a plaice also scoring 14 points.

5^th goes to Sue with a whiting.

Thanks again to the 7 members supporting the match thanks everyone.