The weather has finally turned and that chill in the air has now turned to a cold wind. The river Tamar is still fishing well with a mixture if species. Which is surprising as we have had a fuel spill at the Barbican and an illegal net stretching from the Corinthian yacht club up to west hoe? Mackerel are slowly disappearing with the occasional one being caught from the piers and these have been around the 1lb plus mark. There are still a lot of joeys being caught from Penlee point and Rame head. Pollock are everywhere, and to a decent size too. Codling are in the river but still not in any great numbers, we have had them from the Tamar Bridge out to Mountbatten pier. A lot of anglers are travelling up to Brixham as a lot are being caught from Berry head.

The girls have been out in force along the Hoe catching Ballan Wrasse and have had some crackers , Jo Screach had a nice 4lb 8oz and Kat partridge had one at 4lb 2oz.

The first shop competition of the season went off well. 25 Anglers fished Beesands Beach in what turned out to be a cracking night. The weather was light winds from the west and a slight swell to the coloured water, this however did eventually blow up around 1030pm and as expected heavy rains and high winds blew its way around the southwest, this did not matter much to the anglers as the match completed at 11.30. We had an awful drive back to Plymouth though. Fishing got better as the night progressed with Lee Knight leading the way from the start with lots of good size whiting and dogfish; I was fishing in the middle of the group, right in front of the Cricket inn. This was a bonus for me as there was a group singing in the pub and they were good too, so I had something to keep me interested. Lee eventually won the match with a big score of 41 points, myself second and Mitch 3^rd. Not bad scores for a one rod and three hook comp. Fish caught were Dogfish, Whiting, Pollock. The next match will be a Christmas special on Sunday 21^st December with a festive prize table; this again will be a one rod three hook match at Beesands from 10am until 4pm, pegs can be bought from the shop for £5.