Tuesday 24 July 2012

First Meeting Suffolk RA08 - Wednesday 10 October 2012



Well I finally managed to book a venue and speaker for the opening night of the Suffolk PAC 08 Suffolk.

So near it is, for the first guest speaker we have been fortunate to get the one, the only Mr Denis "Digger" Moules. He will be giving his talk on “Fifty years of Fenland Piking”. Denis will also have copies of his books available for purchase.

FENLAND PIKE (FENLAND PIKE)

Wednesday 10 October, 7:30 - 10pm

Venue : Stowmarket Community Sports and Social Club CIC
Greens Meadow
Bury Road
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 1JQ

Directions
Cost of the event is £3.00 for existing PAC Members and £4.00 for non members

Monday 9 July 2012

Pikeathlon

Please support these guys.....I will be guiding them on their day in our region

Tuesday 3 July 2012

Broadland Pike Tagging Study

Balanced Pike Stock
Went up to Narfulk last night to a talk by Andy Hines and Steve Lane of the Environment Agencies, Fissheries, Recreation and Biodiversity team.

Working with the Norwch District Pike Angling Club, Natural England and the Broad Angling Study Group (BASG) http://basgonline.org/pike-subgroup/ they have tagged 222 pike on a couple of broads with a non invasive tagging and dye system. The aim of the pilot study is to prove that these tags will or will not stay in the pike one release. If they do work, they hope to take the study forward and take data from angler on the length, broad location for further research.

Of the pike tagged thay have alreay gotten some quite amazing take on male to female ratios, length and weigh comparisions and scale samples for analysis in the lab

Andy Hines and his team froms the EA and NDPAC have been trained to insert these tags into the anal fin of the pike. This non invaise tagging has never been tried on old Esox, so it ground breaking stuff.

So if you fishing either Ormsby Broad or Burnt Fen and you capture a pike, please take a look at the dorsal fin for a orange dye mark and the check the anal fin for a yellow tags with a ID number on it.

This ID number should then be either phoned through, text or emailed back to the team

You can send data to the team via text message/phone on 07920 472722 or email piketagging@basgonline.org

So get involved!!!!