Whitley Bay AS Open Festival

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Coming up next month...



As usual, tickets will be in the shops in the new year prior to the event - and I get asked this every year...if you get your ticket from one of the shops, no, you don't need to come to the registration beforehand! And yes, you can now use cart to your heart's content

Gary

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Good to see a well established comp sticking to sensible boundaries

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Tickets now in at:

Ollie's - Whitley Bay
Anglers Utd - Lynemouth
Sport & Leisure - Blyth

also be in at

McDermotts - Ashington
Billy's - North Shields
Moonfleet (both stores)

Gary

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There seems to be some confusion amongst a lot of anglers just what is the current position with regard to the latest planned restrictions on catching/keeping bass...with the open coming up on Sunday I thought we needed some official clarification on the matter, so I've been into the NIFCA office today to find out the current official position - here is the body of an e-mail that I've just had in response to my enquiries:

Hi Gary, as per our conversation earlier I have been in contact with the MMO. Apparently the new Statutory Instrument regarding Bass has been written and passed but not published.

This will be done alongside the publication of the 2016 TACs and Quota regulations (any day now).

Basically the officers at the MMO (and I agree) have concluded that until the official publication the bag limit of 3 per day is still in effect.
I will endeavour to let you know ASAP if anything new comes to my attention.


So I plan to keep an eye on the situation over the next few days and if the current position has not changed, I'll get a notice up on here & other sites announcing that anglers will be able to weigh in bass (up to three). If the new legislation is published before the weekend then bass will be ineligible. It's unfortunate that all this is occurring right now as it makes announcing our position a last minute thing, but I don't want to ban them prematurely when it's actually still legal to catch & retain them.

Cheers, Gary