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.

Wednesday 10 October, 7:30 - 10pm

Venue : Stowmarket Community Sports and Social Club CIC
Greens Meadow

Bury Road
Stowmarket
Suffolk
IP14 1JQ

Directions

Map to ground

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

Pikeathlon

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

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!!!!

Facebook - Suffolk PAC

Hi All,

One of the Suffolk members has very kindly setup and will administer a facebook page for members to follow and make contact with each other.

Please use the link to find the page Suffolk PAC

Going Afloat

For all you anglers who go afloat, it worth having a read of The Best Practise Guidelines for Anglers Going Afloat .

Be Safe!

Re Launch of RA08 Suffolk (PAC)

Welcome to the new Pike Anglers' Club of Great Britain (PAC) Suffolk region 08 website.

Over the coming months I hope to share with you what the PAC in Suffolk has to offer.

As the new RO, I have three objective for the next 12 months, they are:-

• Setup monthly meetings during the Autumn (6 x meetings October - March) and 3 over the spring/summer period
• Setup a website for Suffolk RAO8 (Ticked)
• Work with fisheries, Environment Agency (EA) and Police on fishy issue

So keep looking in on this website for updates and hopefully the Autumn/Winter programme for the 2012/13 season.

Just to give you some background on me, I born and bred Suffolk and have been pike fishing for over 20 years. Most of my fishing is done on still waters, but in the last three years I have started to fishing for pike and zander on the rivers across East Anglia.

If you want to contact me, with any comments, suggestions or information, there is a new email address for the Suffolk Branch of the PAC. Its suffolkpac@hotmail.co.ok

So, I hope all you Suffolk Piker, both experienced and new will get behind the region and make it a success.
Tight lines!!!

Jason Skilton PAC