RESULTS South East V Thames Estuary charity meet 26.4.09

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:36 am

WOW what a blinking marvelous day we all had!!
I'll NOT blabber on i'll get straight to the point!! laughing

1st Prize BIGDIGGER.. with a Flounder weighing in at 11oz
2nd Prize WIZZ262.. .. with a Flounder weing in at 10oz
3rd Prize SOUTHENDFISHERMAN with 3points for undersize bass

The Winning team was... *Drum Roll*......

..................... THAMES ESTUARY ...............

This was made up form

WIZZ262 Flounder 10oz AND 3points for 1 Flounder 1 bass and 1 dab? (was the teeniest fish i've ever seen!! )
SOUTHENDFISHERMAN 3 points for 3 undersized bass
GARRYGOV 2 points for 2 undersized bass
KOPITECOL 1 point for a smelt
and
JAY180 1 point for an undersized bass too

WELL DOWN TO THE TEAM!!!

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SOUTH EAST TEAM TOTAL WAS

BIGDIGGER Flounder 11oz and 1 point for an undersized bass
and
BEEFY.. 2 points for 2 undersized bass (sorry i had it as pootytang. my error apologies!!)

WELL DOWN TO THE TEAM !!

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The only other fish caught was

CABRAT with an undersized bass also!

TOTAL FISH CAUGHT ONTHE DAY

16

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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:40 am

Great Stuff Sue happy

Glad it all went well from the amount effort you put in happy

Not only that but fish actually caught! and prizes and not forgetting the money raised for the worthy causes. happy

cheers
mrix

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:44 am

NOW FOR THE MONIES RAISED FROM THE SUBS AND THE RAFFLE DONE ONTHE DAY!!

We have raised the grand total of....... *drum roll*

£440 big hug

WHICH WILL BE
£220 TO The Royal LondonHospital Constance Green Ward
£220 TO The Kent Air Ambulance

what a wonder lot of people you all are!!

NOW i'll blabber on lol,, tougue

Thank you ALL for coming along to support us with this great fundraising event!!

It has been stressful, annoying, pleaseing, aggrivating yet great fun to organise!!

thank you too SQUIDLYDIDLY AND SEAFERRET for all thier help with this!!

also to Tom for putting up with me going on n on about it for the last 4 Months!! ESPECIALLY the last 48 hours before it big hug

The weather was.. fabulous!! i did NOT think it was going to be good let alone SUNNY and DRY whew!

Thank you to ALL the people who donated gifts for the raffle.. ALL of which i wil be contacting in the near future!

THANK YOU ALL ONCE AGAIN FOR A GREAT DAY HAD!!

Sue

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:45 am

could who ever it was that borrowed £5 for the raffle please pm me so i can give you details to forward
cheers

Sue

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well done to you all and sue for the effort sorry i could,nt get there it is a bit dodgy driving with arm in a sling another time maybe

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:38 am

Fantastic after all the effort Im glad to see that it was well worth it.

Yep as you pointed out you never know how generous folk can be until you put them to the test. big grin

A nice few bob to go to 2 worthy charities and you and tom should be proud of yourselves. big hug

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Cheers keith big grin

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:08 am

hogwart! thats nO problem thank you for your £10 donation too!!
sorry you couldn't make it! you'llmake the return match i hope! lol

Keith ! it was indeed.. as merris999 said in another post! recession?? what recession! great causes..

Sue

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:57 pm

Yeah you were right sue about that tiny dab,i dont know how it got the hook in its tiny mouth,the worm was bigger than him.

heres a pic if BIGDIGGER well happy with his win , well done m8 happy

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:06 pm

Well done sue and everyone who contributed with donations or support.
It was a great day with a good bunch.
Looking forward to the return match i know col has his thinking cap on

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:16 pm

Hi Sue and All,

My baby bass was of similar size to Eva who was fishing to my left,

OOps forgot to hand in sheet due to being one of the last to the presentation tent.

It wasn't about winning its the taking part quote "Kopite Col" on way to match if we lost the team event LOL.

BUT WE DIDN'T LOL devil

Joking aside

Where Can I start

The biggest winner was 2 charities who are now £220 per unit better off.

The Day was a masterpiece of organisational competence for which everyone who attended and fished owes a huge hug, thank you and well done to
Strood Sue a woman who has no doubt spent the last months eating, sleeping & dreaming of the success of this event.

Thank you Sue, Seaferret and Squiddly.
We all aplaud you
big hug

I will be putting some pictures up soon once Image shack uploads them ha ha.

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:33 pm

Thank you Sue for making a big sacrafice to you faimly life, but im sure think it was worth it. A fantistic day weather and people alike, hats of to you Sue. Cant wait for the next one.
cheers, Beefy big hug

now go and have a long rest you deserve it

Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:02 pm

EVA.. i think you caught fish didn't you??

i dont have your sheet!! PM me please .. waterman !

Sue

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:03 am

Ive just posted the 2 cheques for £220.00 off to the respective charities!

The Kent Air Ambulance Trust (South East)
The Royal London Hospital (Constance Green Ward) (Thames Estuary)
With this letter attached.. i hope you all approve!!

Sue

Please find enclosed cheque for £220.00 which is half of the £440.00 raised from my charity fishing meet that I held on Sunday 26th April and what a day we all had!!
I couldn’t have asked for better weather! The forecast had been for a dreadful weekend of rain but, on Sunday I drew back the curtains with much hesitation I may add!! VOILA what a gorgeous day it looked at 05.30 haha I was so excited and hoped that it all went to plan and that anglers ACTUALLY turned up!!
31 anglers turned themselves out for this charity meet!
They came from Canvey to Aldershot, Southend to Strood, and Ramsgate to Gravesend!!
10.00 was the agreed time to meet at The Little Oyster car park at Minster most were there by 09.30!
I checked all in who came and sent them off to their allocated peg to start fishing on the whistle blow at 11.30.
I was nervous as heck by now!! A gibbering wreck!!
Blew whistle and they were off! Was a concertina effect of rods being cast into the sea!
16.30 I blew the final whistle
In total 16 fish were caught, 2 of which were Flounder,
1 at 11 oz which took the winning 1st Prize,
1 at 10oz which took 2nd place
And 3rd place was a catch of 3 undersized Bass,
All fish were caught and returned safely to the sea!
Then we did my raffle which took 1 hour to complete!
All prizes had been kindly donated by various tackle shops around and some local shops to me in Strood. To which of course without their generosity this would not have been.
In all a GREAT day was had by all!
So as I say here are the monies donated to you by our meet!
It has been a great pleasure to raise this and I am soooo pleased that it all went without any hitches!
Please have a look at the site www.sea-fishing.org in the South East Forum under South East v Thames Estuary charity meet and you can see all about it and photos and comments from other anglers who attended!
Yours sincerely
Sue Horne

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:24 pm

sounds great Sue, cant wait for their replies!

Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:42 pm

top notch!!! well done sue