October 2014 - Challenge Shield Match - Key Stage 4 Students

Last session of the current term for our KS4 Students...Competition Time! With the Challenge Shield up for grabs and prizes to be had it was going to be a hotly contested event! These guys have gained a reputation for big fish captures and were soon strating to fill the nets and weigh slings .Half way through and Sam had taken the lead and he made sure he held that position to the end. Congratulations to him and well...
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October 2014 - CAST Level 1 Assessment day for KS4

Hard to believe that next week will be the last session of this half term for our Key Stage 4 Programme. With the exception of Harley who only joined last week, this was the assessment session for the Level 1 CAST Award. But hats off to Harley as he worked alongside from making up the pole rigs from scratch through to setting up, plumbing depths and most importantly playing and landing those fish! Next week will be the competition...
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October 2014 - Sportivate Watford - Bad Weather Doesnt Stop Play!

Penultimate week of the Sportivate CAST programme in Watford. Well done to all for fishing in some seriously dour weather! Still rewards were there to be had, apologies for the photo quality but it was hammering it down! Looking forward to the competition next week, difficult to predict the outcome of that one as all are very evenly matched.
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October 2014 - End of Programme Competition - CAST Dacorum Angling Project

The last of our 6 week Cast programme at The Dacourm Angling Project on Boxmoor & District AC Westbrook Mere Lake. To round things off we had a pairs match. First off all congratulations to everyone as all 8 students caught, but special note to the winning pair, Rakeem & Jove. Rakeem caught the first Pike we have seen on the programme and it was a lovely fish to round off a very enjoyable 6 weeks. All students were...
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October 2014 - Welcome Harley to our KS4 programme

Welcome to Harley who joined our Key Stage 4 Programme this week. Looks like he is going to fit in well as he set up next to Callum and both were soon putting the rods through their paces, but hats off to Sam who was on fire, landing 4 carp to upper double figures in the 2 hours he was fishing, brilliant result. On the other side of the lake Anthony & Carl were really struggling and despite best efforts...
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October 2014 - Week 4 - CAST Programme Watford

Week 4 of the Watford CAST programme. After completing their Health & Safety quiz, we got the rods out and started well with the first Tench coming along within minutes of casting....then it went very dark, then the rain started and then the first flash of lightning! Back to the classroom for the rest of the session, important lessons were learned....namely how to drink copious amounts of tea and playing hangman!!! Still it was all smiles and giggles and...
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October 2014 - Dacorum Angling Project - Update

Penultimate week of the Dacorum Angling Project, all 8 students have performed really well and after a successful check on progress to see that they were all meeting Cast Level 1 criteria we were able to announce that next week could include a competition to close the programme off. They have all decided on a pairs match with pairs being drawn from a hat....the last few weeks have seen numerous fish going being caught by all the student. going to...
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October 2014 - Week 3, Sportivate CAST - Watford

Week 3 of the CAST programme in Watford. This week the classroom sessions was all about staying safe, from swim selection to Weils Disease. We were still able to get bankside with 90 mins left, fish are in full autumn feeding mode at the moment, so we were all kept busy checking on netting, unhooking correct identification, weighing and cameraman duties!! Well don't to all, well on track to meet your CAST level 1 certification!
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September 2014 - Key Stage 4 Programme

Good session with our Key Stage 4 students today. Having seen the way the fish were feeding on last nights session, we decided that we needed to beef up the rigs in order to cover any carp that may come our way. Classroom session was therefore tying up pole rigs with 8lb line straight through, it proved to be a good decision as their knots were put to the test. All caught carp with the largest being landed by Callum...
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September 2014 - Week Two - Sportivate CAST - Watford

Week two of Sportivate Cast in Watford. Lake is fishing really well at the moment and with the numbers up, we knew it was going to be a good two hour session. So well done to Eden, James, Ross, Sean & Baily. Everyone of them caught multiple fish with good sized Roach, Bream, Tench & Carp....Perfect!
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