August 2015 - Ryan & Vanessa Tandy achieve their CAST Starter awards

Many thanks to Sue Tandy for sending in the photos of her Children's, coaching session with us. Ryan & Vanessa were booked in with us on 21st August for a 2 hour beginners session. They both worked really well and were quickly getting to grips with casting, bait application and identifying bites, their efforts were justly awarded with some cracking fish including Tench, Roach & Skimmer Bream. Both...
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August 2015 - 2nd National Fishing Month event at Cassiobury Farm & Fishery

  The second of our National Fishing Month events at Cassiobury Farm and Fishery was held on 15th August and what a great day it proved to be. Some 1200+ people attended the open day Over 50 participants had a 30 minute introduction to angling session with one of our coaches and there were certainly some fantastic captures of all species types. Huge thanks to our regular coaches Tony & Dave, plus Roger & Del...
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August 2015 - Come to our National Fishing Month Event - 15th August

  Not long to go now until the second of our National Fishing Month events as part of the Cassiobury Farm & Fishery open days. Farm is open from 10 until 5 pm on 15th & 31st August, loads to see and do, some amazing animals, you may even catch a glimpse of the baby Meerkats which have just been born. Entry to the Farm is £5 per person (under 5's...
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August 2015 - National Fishing Month event at Cassiobury Farm & Fishery

  1st August saw the first of our 3 National Fishing Month events at the Cassiobury Farm and Fishery Open Days. An early start for us as we set up base camp and winkled out some Roach and Perch for the species information tank. We were all a bit nervous as whilst Carpdell Lake has been the home of WAC since 2011, we were entering into unknown territory as to how well...
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July 2015 - 30th Abingdon Scouts Take their Level 1 CAST Course

  This was the first National Fishing Month Event for us this year as we welcomed the 30th Abingdon Scout Group to the Lake. All 10 boys undertook their Level 1 CAST course which they all flew through with flying covers. A fantastic group to work with, it was really nice to see how they all worked together and helped each other out. Their teamwork was justly...
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July 2015 - End of Another School Year

The end of another school year saw our programmes draw to their conclusion this week. Congratulations to the students on our 6 week Sportivate course as part of the Dacorum Angling Project. Unfortunately we were 3 students short for the end or programme match due to travel problems with the trains etc. But we had a cracking match, based on a simple 1 point per fish we found ourselves with 4 competitiors on the same points at the...
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July 2015 - Inter Schools Final

Great day helping out on the Hertfordshire & Middlesex Angling Development 2015 Inter Schools Coarse Match Final held at Rib Valley. To make sure there was a level playing field for all this competition was fished in teams of 4, split into 2 pairs, only equipment which could be used was the 4m whips provided. This proved to be a really sucsessful approach as everyone was catching a good amount of fish and it was difficult to judge who...
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July 2015 - Plenty of action on the rods

Quiet start to the morning with KS4 as only 1 student, bit of a mix up with the others thinking that there were no more sessions before the summer hols and also Max unable to attend as he broke his leg yesterday (best wishes for a speedy recovery). Numbers picked up in the afternoon with a full house for KS3 including a new starter, Leon. We concentrated our efforts at one end of the lake as a few...
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June 2015 - Heat 2 of Herts & Middlesex Inter-Schools Coarse Competition

Enjoyable day helping out at heat 2 of the inter schools coarse match hosted by Hertfordshire and Middlesex Angling Development. Competition was held at Lock 6 Dobbs Weir over 16 pegs fished in pairs. Plenty of fish and a lovely variety of species. Congratulations to The John Warner school who finished joint first with two of their three teams! Looking forward to helping out again at the Final in Rib Valley in a few weeks.
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June 2015 - Morning session with KS4

Morning Session with Key Stage 4 fishing was a little slow to start off with but the bait mixture of corn, micro pellet and fishmeal ground bait we soon started to see the fish making some mistakes.
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