July 2017 - Quick Overnight Sucsess for WAC Coach Paul

 A quick overnighter for some of the Coaching Team at Carpdell fishery between our National Fishing Month events this weekend. Even seasoned fisherman have to question their sanity sometimes as we looked out into the torrential rain which just kept coming! Still such questions are soon answered when there is some action on the rods. David Brown was the first to see the alarms bursting into life as a Tench heralded its...
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July 2017 - 1st WAC NFM Event of 2017

 Saturday, 29th July saw the first of our National Fishing Month events which was held on Carpdell fishery as part of the Cassiobury Farm and Fishery open days. Weather was not the greatest, but we still managed to deliver over 50 of the 30 minute tasters sessions which we were running. Plenty of fish to be caught, and the larger resident perch were certainly on the feed which offered a cracking capture for a...
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July 2017 - Taster Session Dates for Cassiobury Farm Open Days

 Watford Angling Coaches will be running our annual National Fishing Month events as part of the Cassiobury Farm and Fishery Open Days again this year. These events will be held on July 29th, August 5th, 10th, 19th & 23rd and September 2nd. The open days run from 10:00 to 17:00 each day. For entrants to the farm open days, we will be providing; 30 Minute taster sessions - join one of our team of...
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July 2017 - NFM Event at Boxmoor - 3oth July 2017

 National Fishing Month celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year, as part of the NFM events, we will be at Boxmoor & District AS, Westbrook Mere Lake (HP1 2RQ) on Sunday, 30th July. We will be running free 30 minute taster sessions. A lovely venue which offers a great chance to catch your first fish. Full details available on the National fishing Month website, see link below. Hope to see you there! http://www.nationalfishingmonth.com/fi…/2763-fishing-for-all
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June 2017 - Welcome Back Jack!

 Been a while since our last update, our AIMS students have been working hard in the classroom getting their paperwork in order for their course work to be finished off. Hasn't left much time for fishing but with only 2 modules left to complete we should hopefully have enough time to sort out an end of year competition. Welcome back to Jack who was a previous student of ours who has now returned back to the local area,...
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May 2017 - Rickmansworth Canal Festival

 20th & 21st May saw us helping out for the launch of the Canal & River Trust Angling Go Fish campaign for 2017. Event was at Sabey's Pool and was part of the programme for the Rickmansworth Canal Festival, joining the Watford Angling Coaches Team of Paul Forman, Tony Forman and David Brown was fellow Professional Anglers Association, Roger Smith as well as Dick Pilkinton and his team from Tring Anglers. The Saturday started off well with good catches...
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May 2017 - Going on a bug hunt!

 Busy day for our students down at Carpdell fishery today. With the main lake occupied it was the perfect time for our AIMS students to start to tackle their environmental module. They need to consider the effects of pollution on food sources, so first things first they needed to understand what lives in our rivers and streams. A pond dipping session soon revealed the extent of what makes up the food chain in these watercourses as they worked to identify...
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May 2017 - Limited Fishing but getting results

 As the majority of our students are getting close to completing their AIMS course we will be spending a lot of time in the classroom in order to complete their workbooks and assessments. Fishing time will be limited but hopefully they will continue to enjoy some captures in the time available. Good luck to them all on both fronts!
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April 2017 - Welcome On Board Daniel!

 Easter Break over and schools are back, Daniel joined our Coaching programme this week and was straight in with a new personal best. Well done and welcome on board!
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April 2017 - Key Cray strikes again!

 Another successful day trip to a local club lake for WAC Coach Paul. NashBait Key Cray doing the business again with this stunning long Mirror that pulled the scales round to 22lb 02oz. Plenty of potential for this fish. Tomorrow we will be setting up the Professional Anglers Association stand at The Big One, and will be there all weekend providing advice to coaches as well as running the prize draw in aid of The Angling Participation fund.
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