RECENT CATCHES
September 2022
Despite the carp deaths seen earlier in the year, there are still plenty of fish left in the lake at Marle Green and Chailey Stowe has been enjoying some soccess since the water re-opened. All the fish would now appear to be in good condition.
Chailey reports: After Marle Green re-opened I made my way down to the lake for an afternoon session. A plum and monster crab pop up from Origin Baits and a pva bag of
pellet was enough to tempt this low double ghostie out of the snags. Similiar tactics also accounted for the mirror and common.
August 2022
Despite the very hot weather with no rain to speak of and water levels some 18 inches or so below normal, the Pevensey Haven has been fishing extremely well with members capturing some superb tench and bream.
Chris Holvey enjoyed catching these fine specimens above, while Mick Worsfold also did well with a fine bream weighing 5lb 12 oz and a tench of 6lb 10oz.
5 July 2022
Mick Worsfold enjoyed good sport on the Pevensey Haven, his catches including a
5lb 4oz bream and a 4lb 2oz tench
1 July 2022
Chailey Stowe has turned his attention to the River Cuckmere, capturing an 8lb common carp and two tench weighing 5lb and 6lb respectively, the latter being a personal best.
5 March 2022
Chailey Stowe sent in this report & photo.
The weather was miserable but at least the fishing wasn't!
After arriving at Marle Green I did my usual lap of the lake, quickly located some carp and put my rods into position using Origin Baits Antarctic Red 16mm bottom baits with a small pinch around the hookbait every half and hour or so.
Unfortunately I lost one straight away but I only had to wait a few hours till my right hand rod ripped off. A strong fight began which lasted a good 15 minutes before the fish slipped into my net. A very respectable 12lb 14oz and my first mirror of the year.
24 October 2021
Chailey Stowe sent in this report and photos.
"I recently I got out in the horrible weather for a session at Marle Green and
was rewarded very nicely. The carp fed big time on Origin Baits Antarctic Red,
resulting in nine fish, my biggest ever haul at this venue.
I battled through 3 feet of floodwater from the Cuckmere and a fallen tree
just to get there, but it was really very worth it in the end."
We should mention that Chailey travels to his fishing on his bicycle!
21st October 2021
Dave Simmonds sent in this report and photo
"This 10lb 8oz carp was the first ever fish
caught by Aidan Keenan age 11.
We were fishing at Curls Farm and needless to say he’s now hooked."
Isn't it great to see the youngsters out
and catching fish.
9th July 2021
Mick Worsfold enjoyed an early morning session on the Chilley Stream, landing these two fine tench weighing 6lbs and 7lbs respectively.
21st June 2021
Chris Copeland captured this beautiful
1lb 5oz roach during the evening match
on the Wallers Haven on the 21st June.
It's great to see a good sized roach from
the Wallers, there's always been plenty of small fish. Let's hope there will be plenty
more larger specimens showing up in
the future.
It's also nice to see fish other than carp!
June 2021
Chailie Stowe must be the keenest of all of our young members and has sent in these reports and photos of recent sessions at Marle Green and Curls Farm
Marle Green, 13th June 2021.
The other evening I checked off one of my target fish at Marle Green, having heard
about a big mirror carp residing within this lake I've always wanted to catch it, however
with people showing me no pictures I was sceptical of its existence, but safe to say I'm
a sceptic no more. After setting the hook this fish took me everywhere, almost lost it in
the lillies about 6 times, but I kept calm and applied steady pressure during the long half
hour fight. As I landed it I thought it may have been a fish named "Barbie" which I had previously caught at 16lb 9oz but it wasn't, as this fish weighed in at a whopping
18lb 5oz, the only downside being that I caught it as it was turning dark so I
couldn't capture the best photo.
Marle Green, 6th June 2021.
After a long and hard day at work I decided to ride my bike up to my favourite Southdown water and was rewarded with two stunning fish, the mirror weighing in at 12lb 10oz and
the common at 13lb 2oz. Both were caught on free lined bread and fought incredibly
hard after me setting the hook, with the common stripping half the line off my reel!
Curls Farm, 29th May 2021.
A lovely 15lb mirror caught from Curls Farm, my biggest mirror from this lake and
maybe the best looking too.
10th May 2021
Chailey Stowe was pleased with this
11lb golden coloured mirror carp
from Marle Green
10th May 2021
12 year old Louis Hunt with a superb
22lb 8oz common carp captured from
Curls Farm on the 9th May..
March 2021
Robbie Joad was delighted with this fine 16lb 6oz Common Carp from Curls Farm
March 2021
Russell Freeman, Keith Francis, Guy Francis (junior member) and Robbie Joad joined the SAA for the winter season at the beginning of 2021. Despite the awful weather conditions at times they seem to have enjoyed their fishing and had this to say.
Russell - “Firstly I'd just like to say thank you for admitting the four of us to join the club for the winter season.
We've had some great adventures and caught some wonderful fish, particularly at Curls Farm and Chilley Stream. It's been a fulfilling introduction to angling for Guy for his first season and the discipline and planning involved has taught him some great skills”.
Keith - “Just to add to Russell's words, a massive thanks for the club membership through the winter, we have absolutely loved our fishing over the last few months.
I attach a picture of Guy with his first carp from Curls Farm, caught and unhooked by himself.
As you can see by the conditions, we have been in all weathers and tried to make the most of it.
It is tough enough getting children out in the fresh air and away from screens these days and I have been so pleased how much he has enjoyed and stuck at fishing even in the worst of the conditions”.
March 2021
Despite the miserable weather the carp at Marle Green were still feeding,
Chailey Stowe capturing several including these.
9 January 2021
Hardy stuff these carp anglers. Despite the cold weather the carp still fed at Curl's Farm, Jack Graves enjoying a dreat day, capturing commons weighing 20lb 8oz and 15lb 9oz and a beautiful linear mirror of 10lb 5oz.
Jack reports that the biggest fish gave a great battle.
28 November 2020
Chailey Stowe with a pretty
8lb golden coloured Mirror Carp
caught at Marle Green
4 October 2020
Graham Hewlett was pleased as punch with this lovely PB Common Carp from Curls Farm weighing in at 11lb
1 September 2020
Steve Ray was chuffed to bits with this lovely 15lb Mirror Carp from Marle Green
1 September 2020
Chailey Stowe reports that the other day was probably the best ever session he had had with the carp at Curls Farm, catching 2 fish weighing in at 16lb and 17lb. Both were caught on a snowman rig with a pva bag filled with hemp oil soaked pellet.
18 August 2020
Jack Graves has been enjoying success with the carp at Curls Farm including this fine specimen
August 2020
Chailey Stowe was pleased with this 4lb 4oz pesonal best bream capturing during a
night session on the Wallers Haven
July 2020
Gary Flint enjoyed a great session
on the Cuckmere at Shermans Bridge, capturing a fine brace of tench and
an 8lb bag of roach.
14 July 2020
July 2020
Charlie Watkins with a fine brace of
lovely tench from the Wallers Haven
4th July 2020
It's great to see younger members enjoying success with their fishing, Chailey Stowe capturing this
10lb Mirror Carp at Curls Farm.
June 2020
Another youngster doing the business was Louis Hunt, aged 11, with this lovely
common carp from Curls Farm.
19th June 2020
Having fished the Cuckmere for
53 years, Ian Turner was delighted to capture his first ever tench from the river weighing a shade over 5lb
June 2020
Young Harry Johnson was pleased
with this pretty Mirror Carp
caught at Marle Green.
It’s been a fantastic start to the 2020 season on the rivers,
Steve Hunt having a great day on the Cuckmere at Shermans Bridge,
here’s his report and photos.
16th June 2020
Just thought I'd check in and share my catch with you, particularly as it was a PB for me for both tench and bream. Unfortunately, the only thing I didn't take were my scales but having pb'ed my tench of 5lb 1oz last year (my first year back with the club since 1986 when it was Hailsham AA), this was somewhat bigger, so I am gonna take a stab at 5lb 8oz (optimistically possible going 6lb).
I have never had a bream anywhere near this size and I'm guessing at a weight around 5lb.
What a cracking start to the season, never mind one that has had a such a challenging set of circumstances but this seems to have brought a resurgence of numbers back to the sport (or new members), so that's fantastic.
Anyway, this was down at Shermans and a big thank you goes out to Keith who took the trouble to cut back a number of swims for us lucky anglers to roll up to.
Wishing you all the best
Steve Hunt
March 2020
Chailey Stowe was pleased with this
tench from Cinderford Pond
February 2020
Despite the awful weather,
Matt Kingdon has been amongst the carp at Marle Green, including this fine double figure mirror.
January 2020
Clive Copeland with a fine mid double pike from the Wallers Haven at Boreham Street
27 December 2019
Matt Kingdon ended the year in fine style at Curls Farm, capturing this fine Common Carp weighing in at 21lb.
October 2019
Continuing his success with the Wallers Haven Carp, Clive Copeland has caught this stunning common weighing 23lb 12oz.
How much longer before we see a
30 pounder recorded ?
October 2019
The Wallers Haven has certainly been producing the goods this season,
Matt Kingdon capturing this magnificent Mirror Carp weighing in at 24lb 14oz, on a Scopex Squid boilie.
September 2019
Following a short pre baiting campaign Clive Copeland targeted Carp on a recent 24hr session on the Wallers Haven at Ironbridge and landed this stunning 16lb 2oz mirror carp from a snaggy swim.
It was caught on a snow man rig and landed after a tense 10 minute struggle. Clive said the fish was in absolutely pristine condition and suspected it had never been caught before.
Strong and appropriate tackle is needed to land these fish on Wallers as they are incredibly wily and fight like demons, just look at the paddles on it !
28 July 2019
Mark Gilbert captured this fine 14lb 6oz
Common Carp from Curls Farm
28 July 2019
Another great Tench from the Wallers Haven, Matt Kingdon capturing this 7lb beauty
7 July 2019
Still more from the Wallers Haven.
Clive Copeland fishing a 24 hour session at Iron Bridge, landed 15 tench, the best this superb female weighing 7lb 7oz, thereby breaking
his own club record.
The tench are getting bigger, how
long before we see an eight pounder.
27 June 2019
The Wallers Haven continues
to produce the goods,
Nathan Smith capturing this
beautiful 17lb 8oz common carp.
June 2019
Scott Summers was another member fishing a night session on the
Wallers Haven, capturing this fine
6lb female tench along with 23 bream ranging from around 1lb up to 4lb.
June 2019
What a fantastic start it's been to the new river season.
During the day the bream shoals on the Wallers Haven can be elusive, but if you want to find our slimy friends in numbers, then have to think about fishing at night.
Fishing at Middle Bridge on such a session last weekend, Chris Copeland, who loves the smelly creatures, landed 25 bream ranging from about 1lb to around 4lb 8oz. Using his favourite method of cage feeder full of particles, with corn or bread on the hook, the sound of his Delkim alarms kept him awake throughout the night and with most fish averaging over 3lbs, he reckons he landed over 65lb of fish.
Here’s Chris, just before sunrise, holding a reasonable sized fish plucked out of one of his keepnets. Although looking tired, he says that he can’t wait until his next night session in two weeks time, meanwhile his wife continues to refuse to enter the garage due to the smell of all that lovely bream slime on his keepnets!
June 2019
Another member having a great opening day of the new river season. was Luke Ripley who captured this magnificent common carp from the Wallers Haven.
Weighing in at 26lb 14oz, his fish would constitute a new Association record if claimed for & validated.
June 2019
Scott Piper enjoyed a great session on the opening day of the new
river season.
Fishing at Middle Bridge on the Wallers Haven, his catch included this fine 4lb 8oz bream and the
6lb 6oz tench shown below.
June 2019
Scott's 6lb 6oz Tench.
August 2018
Matthew Kingdon again, this time with a fine 22lb 12oz common carp captured from the Wallers Haven at Boreham Street.
Previous to the capture, Matt had been pre baiting with boilies and spooked a large fish which jumped clean out the water, so he baited with 0.8kg of 15mm scopex squid at that spot, returning 48 hours later when he put out another 0.6kg and fished with a gooed up single white scopex squid pop up on a stiff hinge rig just off the bait.
Matt was catching tench and bream and then at 2am, got another bite, just two beeps on the alarm, so he got on the rods and with the bobbin lifting gently picked up the rod, thinking it was another bream.
Feeling a solid resistance, Matt set the hook and the carp shot off about 40 to 50 yards up river and gave a hell of a fight, it just wouldn't give up, taking some 20 to 30 minutes to finally bring to the net.
Matt’s fish, if ratified, would be a new club record, beating the old record by 12oz. That fish was also caught at Boreham Street, but way back in March 2003, right at the end of the river fishing season.
July 2018
Neil Angell with a beautiful 9lb 4oz wild carp, captured from a marsh drain on the Pevensey Levels.
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July 2018
Laura Angell caught this fine 5lb 4oz specimen bream from a marsh drain on the Pevensey Levels.
May 2017
Sunrise over Marle Green, courtesy of Matthew Kingdon,
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