Sun 1st December
Shallow boats points: 1st Dec match
The day started foggy and wet, and rained most of the day, but everyone caught fish on the Christmas Fayre competition
It was good to see that the whiting are returning in numbers. Fish caught were mainly whiting, dogfish, congers, pout and the one flounder.
Winner was Steve Tyers who also shared the optional pool with John the fish with congers of 2.381kgs
congratulations to Steve Furse who won 2nd knockout
Everyone got a prize for fishing, thanks to John Richards and his wife for getting the prizes
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Steve Tyers | 21 Whiting, 10 Dogfish, 2 Conger eels, 1 Pout | 34 | 18.197 |
| Barry Instrell | 11 Whiting, 3 Dogfish, 1 Conger Eels, | 15 | 7.823 |
| John Ferranti-Donavellas | 3 Dogfish, 2 Conger eels, 3 Whiting | 8 | 7.928 |
| Jim Merritt | 2 Dogfish, 18 whiting, 1 Flounder | 21 | 6.205 |
| Steve Furse | 2 Dogfish, 12 Whiting | 14 | 4.848 |
Sun 3rd November
Shallow boat results ; 3rd November
A good result with 17 anglers all catching fish. Weather was overcast, but calm, and 87 fish between 17 anglers a good result
Conger eels and dogfish dominated the competition but good to see 3 nice bass along with whiting, pout and Thornbacks
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| John Ferranti-Donavellas | 1 Thornback Ray, 2 Dogfish, 5 Conger eels | 8 | 18.966 |
| Terry Carter | 6 Whiting, 1 Thornback Ray, 2 Dogfish, 2 Conger Eels, 1 Bass, 1 Pouting | 13 | 14.968 |
| Adey Groves | 1 Dogfish, 4 Conger eels, 1 Bass, 1 Pout | 6 | 10.659 |
| Steve Tyers | 3 Conger eels, 2 Pouting, 1 Dogish, 1 whiting | 7 | 7.285 |
| Barry Instrell | 1 Bass, 2 Dogfish, 2 Conger eels | 5 | 6.746 |
Sun 22nd September
14 members and 1 guest fished the species hunt in very mixed weather. The start of the competition met with heavy storms, but cleared later in the day.
Only 7 species were caught, with John Ferranti-Donavellas winning the species hunt with 4 species. Steve Tyers came 1st with a total weight of 6.992kgs followed by Adey Groves with 6.831 and taking optional pool with a conger of 3.402kgs 3rd was John Ferranti-Donavellas.
Steve Furse, Adey Groves, Barry Instrell and Tom Leung all went through to the next round of the knockout competition
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Steve Tyers | 1 smoothound, 6 Dogfish, 1 Bass | 8 | 6.992 |
| Adey Groves | 1 Smoothound, 1 Conger, 1 Bass | 3 | 6.831 |
| John Ferranti-Donavellas | 3 Dogfish, 1 Conger, 1 Bass, 1 Gurnard | 6 | 6.407 |
| Steve Furse | 1 Conger | 1 | 1.984 |
| Barry Instrell | 1 Bass | 1 | 1.814 |
4th August
We welcomed 2 new members onto our shallow boat competition on 4th August. 16 members and 1 guest fished on a sunny day, where a good variety of fish were caught.
For once the mackerel showed up and along with a the last of the smoothounds, there were conger, bass, silver eels, black bream, wrasse and whiting as well as a nice red mullet.
Adey Groves was the winner taking optional pool with a smoothound of 3.742, second Steve Southwell, and third Matt Bowles.
Our September shallow boat competition will be a species hunt.
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Adey Groves | 2 smoothounds, 9 Mackerel, 1 Scad | 12 | 9.252 |
| Steve Southwell | 8 Black Bream, 1 Wrasse, 1 Silver Eel, 1 Red Mullet | 11 | 3.975 |
| Matt Bowles | 1 Smoothound | 1 | 3.288 |
| Barry Instrell | 1 Black Bream, 1 Bass, 1 Whiting | 3 | 2.863 |
| Jim Merritt | 10 Mackerel, 1 Black Bream | 11 | 2.691 |
July14th
At last a bright sunny not too windy day to fish, the changed date and time of our shallow boat competition
to 14th July, with fishing from 3.00-8.00 proved successful with the smoothounds. Winner on the day was Steve Southwell with 3 nice smoothounds also taking optional pool with
one of 4.592kgs, closely followed by Wayne Bulley with 2 smoothounds, 3rd Steve Tyers with a good conger and bream 4th Jim Merritt with a smoothound
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Steve Southwell | 3 smoothounds | 3 | 9.920 |
| Wayne Bulley | 2 Smoothounds | 2 | 6.689 |
| Steve Tyers | 2 Bream, 1Conger Eel | 3 | 4.521 |
| Jim Merritt | 1 Smoothound | 1 | 2.834 |
| Steve Furse | 1 Bream, 1 Conger | 2 | 2.495 |
23rd June
A sunny day at last giving the opportunity to go past Greenland’s Buoy for some members, but even that blew up a bit later so return to the favourite of mark of Greenland’s
A good selection of Smoothounds showed up and some good size black bream. Adey Groves won the competition with total weight of 13.322kgs and shared the optional pool
with Jim Merritt, both catching smoothounds of 3.742kgs. Runner up was Gary Thomas, followed by Steve Tyers. The first knockout was completed with Adey Groves winning.
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Adey Groves | 4 Smoothounds 1 Whiting | 5 | 13.322 |
| Gary Thomas | 1 Smoothound, 4 Black Bream, 1 Plaice | 6 | 4.874 |
| Steve Tyers | 1 Smoothound, 1Conger Eel | 2 | 4.081 |
| Jim Merritt | 1 Smoothound | 1 | 3.742 |
| Barry Instrell | 3 Black Bream | 3 | 1.531 |
26th May
Shallow Boats results 26th May:Another windy trip out for the May shallow boat match, saw 17 members and 1 guest go out. No-one went past Greenlands Buoy because of the weather,and a poor weigh in with only 8 fish being caught. The winner of the match and optional was Adey Groves with a smoothound of 2.041kgs.
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Adey Groves | 1 smoothound | 1 | 2.041 |
| Billy Haynes | 1 Smoothound | 1 | 1.927 |
| Steve Tyers | 1 Red Gurnard, 1 Bass | 2 | 1.857 |
| Lewis Gull | 1 Smoothound | 1 | 1.644 |
| John Richards | 1 Bass | 1 | 0.850 |
21st April
Once again the wind played a major stumbling point to a good days fishing, 16 members and 1 guest fishing, 12 managed to find fish. Winner was Steve Tyers who also took optional pool with a good dogfish of 1.021kgs
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Steve Tyers | 12 Dogfish, 3 Pout | 15 | 9.935 |
| J Ferranti-Donavellas | 7 Dogfish | 7 | 5.443 |
| Steve Furse | 4 Dogfish, 2 Whiting | 6 | 3.827 |
| Adey Groves | 5 Dogfish | 5 | 3.373 |
| John Instrell | 3 Dogfish | 3 | 2.353 |
24th March
On a very blustery day 13 anglers went out, and only one boat ventured past Greenlands Buoy to be rewarded a haul of 24 dogfish on the boat.Paul Harris won the competition with 16 dogfish and Adey Groves took the optional pool with a Thornback Ray of 3.912kgs
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Paul Harris | 16 Dogfish | 16 | 11.481 |
| Steve Tyers | 13 Dogfish, 2 Pout | 15 | 10.718 |
| Adey Groves | 1 Thornback Ray, 7 Dogfish | 8 | 9.383 |
| J Ferranti-Donavellas | 1 Plaice, 8 Dogfish | 9 | 6.807 |
| Gary Wiltshire | 8 Dogfish | 8 | 6.038 |
February 11th
Shallow Boat match Sun 11 Feb saw 15 members and 1 guest go afloat on a cloudy and windy day. Everyone stayed within Southampton water where a
good amount of conger eels showed up. In the points again were Steve Tyers and Barry Instrell, with Steve catching a conger of 3.402kgs to take optional pool
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Steve Tyers | 2 Conger Eels, 5 Dogfish, 1 Pout | 8 | 8.419 |
| Adey Groves | 2 Conger Eels, 3 Dogfish, 2 Pout | 7 | 6.363 |
| Barry Instrell | 1 Dogfish 1 Dogfish, 1 Whiting | 3 | 3.544 |
| Paul Kimber | 3 Whiting 4 Dogfish | 7 | 3.487 |
| Terry Carter | 1 Dogfish, 1 Conger | 2 | 3.231 |
January 14th
16 members caught a good selection of fish on a cold but sunny day. All the fish were caught in Southampton waters no-one went past Greenland’s Buoy. Welcome to new member Jonathan and nice to see Frank Swanborough among the prizes for the start of the new year. Barry Instrell caught a nice Thornback Ray for 5.188kgs to take optional pool
| NAME | SPECIES | NO. OF FISH | TOTAL WEIGHT KG |
| Barry Instrell | 3 Whiting, 3 Dogfish, 1 Thornback Ray | 7 | 8.166 |
| Steve Tyersl | 5 Dogfish, 17 Whiting, 1 Pout | 23 | 7.820 |
| Frank Swanborough | 7 Dogfish 1 Bass | 8 | 6.306 |
| Paul Kimber | 8 Whiting 4 Dogfish | 12 | 4.480 |
| J Ferranti-Donavellas | 3 Dogfish, , 11 Whiting | 14 | 4.395 |
| Adey Groves | 2 Whiting, 4 Dogfish | 6 | 3.337 |