The Angling Scene

By Steve Higgins

Saturday the 24th of June saw 42 anglers lining the banks of the popular El Bosquet Fishery complex at San Felipe tion,amongst gymnasts from the national and international teams.

De Neri, some 4km from Catral, the first time the complex has had all 42 pegs booked and with another 2 or 3 names on the waiting list.

The reason for this sell out was to show our love, appreciation, and respect for a lifelong friend and a member of Abbey Angling and their sister club, Rod & Reels, who, sadly, passed away on 5th of MayÖ. Terry ìMr Fixitî ScreenÖ.for his inaugural Memorial Match.

The Jennifer Colino Club gymnast Valeria García currently on loan to the Riba-roja club,came in second place overall.

Saam Lunch Not Plain Sailing For All

I suppose it was apt that the Memorial Winner on the day was his close friend and event organizer, who drew Peg 9 and the very prolific 8-16 section. Those with knowledge of El Bosquet knew that the winner would come from this area, and they were correct, for Ian Brown made no mistake and took 44 carp and a couple of Mullet for a run-away winning net of 40kg 080grms.

When Marlene Hutchinson, the sole lady angler, drew Peg 17, many knew she would do well as peg 17 is a ëmethod feeder pegíand has a residential shoal of carp, but they are so difficult to get away from the reeds, but Marlenís prowess with the feeder proved too much for them and she came a very credible Runner-up with 25kg 100 grammes.

Trophies Just Keep Coming For Charo

There was much delight and quite some, errmmm ìurine extractionî for her husband, Dave Hutchinson, who could only manage just over 9kg from Peg 19. Marlene was quite content with kicking her hubbyís butt AGAIN.

Neil McBirnie, the venue expert, came close, but sadly, no cigar for his 23kg 060 grammes was way off the mark but good enough for 3rd place, just beating Mick Hill on Peg 2 who weighed in 22kg 300 grammes.

In 5th place was Nick ëEnd peg againí Bastock who, in drawing peg 40, was greeted with moans and expletives! Nick weighed in 19kg 700 grammes to win his section and take home a ëwhite envelopeí. After the event, many went for a welcoming shandy ñ not to mention chip butties (which are always donated by Angie of CafÈ Uno) ñ at CafÈ UNO in Catral.

Two of the SAMM Groups, Balaton and Shoestring, enjoyed a fun sail-meal-sail on June 23rd, organised by Balaton Group leader Julian Pering as part of the SAMM Social calender.

Two Shoestring boats Uno and Cuatro and three Balaton boats started from their base at CAR, Los Narejos on the Mar Menor at 10:30 with the SAMM support boat, crewed by Martin and Norman, following along; all heading for the La Playa restaurant at Los Urrutias. Some wives and other members were to meet them there.

Two of the Balaton Groups Russian members we're sailing Sirocco with new Swedish member Nils. Vision was crewed by their German member Jurgen with Jez and guest Shelley, Ginetta by Julian with Colum and Laura.

The five boats sailed through the gap between Pediguera and Baron islands on a south easterly breeze then turned West towards Los Urrutias. Well most did! For some reason Jez was convinced that Los Urrutias was further down the coast and instead of following the other four boats decided to sail on South. Once they realised the mistake they put away their sails and motored in order to catch up.

The Shoestring dinghies put into the beach adjacent to one of the new jetties while the Balaton boats anchored offshore due to the shallow water.

Everybody had an excellent menu del dia At La Playa restaurant with 22 people from SAMM attending. After lunch Julian accepted the “Parrot” (a prize for a Balaton member who messes up) from Sergey for the mistake of not putting Visions keel down at the start of the last race day. However, he was pleased to immediately pass this to Jurgen and Jez for heading in the wrong direction this morning. Over lunch Colum and Laura asked if they could join the Balaton Group and have since done so. The dinghies were able to get quickly away once the lunch was over and the Whaly gave the crews a taxi ride out to the Balaton boats. As requested by Martin, Julian helped push the Whaly off the jetty and, as a reward, was soaked to the skin by the prop wash when Martin deliberately revved the engine. Unfortunately no video of this ambush.

On the way back the boats had a lovely beam reach sail in a decent breeze. Sirocco decided to take a route to far to the east the crew not knowing they should steer for the blue building which shows where to head to get back to CAR. Jules phoned to get them back on track and they were not far behind, coming in fast on the good breeze.

The Torrevieja tennis player, 15-yearold Charo Esquiva, has been crowned champion in both the individual and doubles categories in the 2023 Mapfre Cadet National Tennis Championship. The individual final pitted Charo Esquiva against Eugenia Menéndez from Asturias in a match that went to three sets. In a closely contested match, Charo had to raise her game in the third set to take the title with a final score of 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Later she was also crowned champion in the doubles competition. Pairing up with Marta Picó from Alicante, they

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1.AC/DC, 2.Athens, Los Angeles, Paris and St Louis.3.Deep Impact, 4.Negev, 5.Thombstone, 6.Boca Juniors, 7.Nokia and Motorola, 8. Colour blindness, 9.The Blue train, 10.a.The Tide Is High (Blondie), b. River Deep Mountain High (Tina Turner), c.Rocky Mountain High (John Denver), 11.Argentina and Chile, 12.Witness, 13.a.the sound of ringing bells (or ringing bells), b. shade, c.words, d.sand.14.Tom Cruise.15.Harry Potter.16.India (Statue of Unity), 17.North by Northwest, 18.Deserts, 19.Saudi Arabia.20.The mausoleum defeated Ascanio and Azurza from the Canary Islands in two straight sets, 6-4, 6-1 in the final.

With these two titles, Charo Esquiva has now achieved her seventh Spanish championship in less than two years of her fledgling sports career.

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