Last updated: June 5, 2025
MEMBERSHIPS
PAC club members.
Thanks to all that attended the AGM to renew their club membership.
May I remind club members that the last date for renewal of membership is 31st May 2025. Non renewals by this date will be allocated to individuals on our waiting list.
Membership renewal costs remain the same as last year at £80.00. Concessionary membership £50.00 (over 65s with 5 years concurrent membership).
Payment may be made by:
BACS (club preferred method) Reference: Name and Membership No.
Membership cards can then be posted to myself with a SAE for endorsement at the address below.
Cheques made payable to PAC. Members name and number on the reverse. Submitted with current membership card.
This may be done with a SAE posted to Steve Rotchell, 6 Laxton Gardens, Baldock, SG76DA.
Cash. To be collected by myself at the "Hen and Chickens" Baldock on either 9th or 16th April after 8pm.
COULD MEMBERS THAT FEEL THEY ARE NOT RECEIVING EMAILS SEND THEIR CURRENT EMAIL ADDRESS AND CONTACT NUMBER TO: steve.rotchell1@virginmedia.com so that I can update the records.
Thank you in advance for your continued support. See you around the lakes. Regards.
Steve Rotchell (membership secretary).
SPRING/SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2024
Dear all Members old and new I welcome you to your 2024-2025 campaign whether you are looking for some fun, some good specimen hunting or joining in on the matches, all of us here at the committee we wish you a very good season filled with plenty of catches, great scenery and new friends made in the club all through the love for fishing. Below are a few little notes from the committee just to give you a warm welcome from us here at Priory Angling club. Please make sure you keep checking the website and if you need to contact anyone on the committee, all the details needed are on the website.
Ken Dell - Chairman
Dear Members, from the old one's to the new joining members, welcome to the new season of 2024-2025 in your lovely well maintained lakes at Walkern - Warrens and Weston, I am delighted to say it was nice to see the few faces fishing on the 1st day of the season and seeing the joy on there faces when catching, I would like to say a Big thank you to the members that joined in with the work party's, it was also nice to seethem catching up with old friends and having a banter with them, also I would like to thank the Committee for all there hard work, that they have put in throughout the year. So if it's your P.B your after or just catching that little silver and having a nap, I hope you all enjoy this season as much as I have over the past 20 years or so.
Bendy Rods & Tight Lines
Ken Dell
Elliott Brown - Club secretary
To all members old and new I wish you every success on your fishing and may the nets stay full and the smile stay big, please remember the website has changed and is now www.prioryanglingclubherts.co.uk if you have a link for the old website this will not work anymore so please use the new one. Talking about the website, there is now a place you can submit your own fishing photos to be put on the website through approval, we would love to see some more of your catches and would say its also a good place to show off your catches that other people may be chasing, remember its all in good fun.
Any questions please don't hesitate to get in contact the club have a email address for contact and this will be the email that sends out further email so please use it, if you have not had an email for a while might be worth emailing and asking so you can be added to the distribution list. The email address is - prioryanglingclubherts@hotmail.com
I wish you every fishing success for the season.
many thanks
Elliott
Joe Seagroatt - Head Bailiff
Had a long walk all around Clay End this morning Saturday, there is still a fair amount of submerged weed in the lake but the lake looks healthy and there is plenty of carp swimming around and crashing about. At the moment the level of the lake is fine and the pipe we put in on the work party is doing what it should do but the amount of rain we have had has made the weeds grow a lot faster I do hope more members will try to fish this lake as we would love you to take photos of you catches and submit them to Jake to put on the Website.
Enjoy the season Joe
Lee Pagett - Match Secretary
Here at priory angling club we have an active match scene taking place at Weston and warrens lakes and one away at a chosen venue for a Christmas match.
Firstly we would like to thank the 25 anglers who attended the matches last season.
The matches we hold at our Weston and warrens lakes. We feel that these are an excuse for our members to come along and have a bit of banter at a predetermined time and place and fish with a little competition,mostly enjoy, and have fun doing what we all love.
We had 16 matches last year attended by 25 people over the course of the season. This comprised of 4 evening matches which qualify for a final, 2 charity matches and 11 other matches which took place on Sundays. Our charity matches raised £171 which was donated to Garden house hospice in Letchworth.
We handed out 11 trophies or shields at our A.G.M this year to various winners of the matches who all were pleased to receive them judging by the smiles on the faces and I’m sure they will all be back for more this coming season.
We would love to have more people attend this year, we normally average around 9 people per match so plenty of room for you to attend. We have no superstars fishing and everyone has a chance of winning a trophy having people fishing matches for the first time this year and coming out victorious so why not join us.
Our matches take place on Sundays meeting at the car park of Weston or Warrens at 8 am for a peg draw. Fishing is for 5 hours from 9am -2pm we then weigh in and still home in time to cut the grass or watch the football. Our evening qualifiers are meeting in the car parks for 6pm then fish from 6.30 until 9.30pm.
Please refer to the website for times,dates and venues and we would love to see you there this season
Tight lines all
Lee
The committee once again wish you a happy season and plenty of catches
thank you
PRIORY ANGLING CLUB
******* BIG THANK YOU FOR THE WORK PARTY'S *********
As the work parties have come to a close want to give a special thank you to all the members that have turned up to help out and make sure that your fishing experience around the lakes are that much better so when you are at the lake fishing and you see that the reeds are neat the lillies are nice and all the bushes are trimmed spare a thought for those that have helped out this year in making sure this work was completed
First off big Thank you to Joe, Luke and Jake
who have take on the first year organising the work parties and making sure that everyone knew what jobs needed to be done and made sure it happened.
and also to all the member listed below who helped out:
Gary Carter Marshall Cooper Barry Exton Nathan Amerigo David McGuiness Stuart Bygrave John Hooton Martin Sharp Ian Glover Ron Cashman Nick Jones Matthew Hawkes Dan Taylor Josh Woodhouse Paul Swainson-1 Steve Nicholson John Hollands Mick Allen Simon Agombar Barry Yates John Crabb Mike Broom Brett Newman
These are all the names from my sign in book , if i missed anyone then you did not put your name down!
Final one to all the commitiee members that showed up to help with the work on the Sundays, Jake, Luke and Joe and greatful for your help guiding them and getting stuck in with the members. We would like to see more people coming down and helping next year so please dont hesitate to get involved, everything you neeed to know will be posted on the website so keep them eyes peeled.
thank you
AGM MEETING MINUTES
AGM Meeting 11/4/24
Committee present: Ken, Barry Elliott, Cath, Steve, Jake, Steve, Joe, Luke No apologies
Introduction: Ken Dell open the meeting and introduction of everyone on the committee, which was then passed to Barry. Barry: talked about being in the club for 42 years since 1982 and talk about seeing old faces and new faces and gave a brief talk about the people on the committee doing a good job. Ken: then spoke about his position and what he does in and out of the club, reiterated about Barry being in the club for 42 years, spoke about how the club has changed but its nice to see old faces and new faces even though the turn out for the AGM was small happy people could make it. Talk about some of the older members who have been in the club and have done their bit through out the years to keep the club running and the new members helping carry that on. Then passed over to club secretary Elliott
Elliott: introduced himself and spoke about seeing lot of friendly faces both old and new and how he has been active on the committee for a couple of years now, talked about the website being changed for a new one. Thanks the committee for all the support of him through the good and the bad times. Thank Ken for all his guidance and the knowledge he has parted on to him, Then spoke about Joe, Luke and jake coming along well with the job they had in hand and getting the work parties ready to keep the lakes looking lovely for the members to fish. Thanks was also given to Ron and Ian for the work they have done around the lakes. Ken: Has also mentioned about the leases for the lakes with Clayend being signed and Weston and Warrens being done as well, Then introduced and passed over to Member secretary Steve.
Steve: Nice to see old faces and new, started with saying the membership list is looking healthy and understand that its not been easy for people with the cost of living crises. Ask that because these are new books please make sure that if renewing you have a fresh passport photo with you for the new books. To also make sure that these are renewed before the last day of May. Ken: Steve now has the very hard task of getting all the members ready and if everyone can make sure they get renewed and not left to the last minute. Passed over to Finance Cath.
Cath: Cath introduces herself and goes straight into the figures on the accounts Total membership money in: 18,210 Cost for the fisheries equipment and supplies brought the total out money to 20,960 Currently to date there is 5,050 in the bank. Ken: Explained the situation with the clay end leases and how they are November 1 so when we renewed we had to pay twice due to the time frame with Weston and warrens 1st June Clayend 1st November Ken also explained that money as been spent on some of the work around the lakes which is the first time the club has had to pay for external people to do work and the cost of other things such as the generators and the dye which is why we had spent more then we had brought in Explain the negotiations with the lake and what the old prices were and the now new prices: Then Now Weston: 4,180 4,000 Warrens: 2630 4,000
Ken stated this was negotiated down a lot and took a lot of work, Ken also spoke about being 52 member short on the list and this was due to people giving Steve the run around or not renewing when they were meant to. Ken spoke about the prices frozen but if we keep having these problems. He will have to investigate prices increases or renting the lakes out to club for matches for the day which will reduce fishing time.
Ken then passed onto the Fisheries officer and head baliff Jake, luke and Joe Jake spoke on behalf of the Three, Jake spoke about how they are spaced about with Joe mainly doing Clayend and Luke and Jake with Weston and Warrens. They are putting more focus onto fish safety and how we can help make the fish healthier both in the water and on the bank. A question was asked by a member about the work parties to which Jake replied that this Sunday and for the next 6 weeks there will be work parties on going. They will be put on the website tonight with the details for the first work parties which will be Sunday 14th April meeting Clayend car park at 8:30 am. A question was asked by members about any tool they should bring that will be needed, Jake stated all tool are useful but mainly shovels are what is needed the most as a lot of digging needed for the replacement of the pipe to be repaired. Ken: The main concern is replacing the Pipe as where the pipe had been destroyed the water was not flowing and overflowing into the field also stopped any Dye being put in because this would also just escape instead of staying in the lake and would just be a waste of money putting the dye in at the moment. A list of job is there and there is something for everyone for Pruning to digging and everything in between. Ken asked for the Cray fish traps not to be messed about with and that they are there to do a job but if you do catch a cray fish although you may not like it step on it. Ken the made a point to say if it is an egg bearing females, please take it far away from the lake to destroy or dispose off because the eggs can make their way back into the lake. Ken went on to say if any cormorants are seen on the lakes the please phone and make the club aware as there are at other lakes and we want to keep them there and not exploring our lakes. The Bailiff is a full time job with the 3 lads and Ken throwing people off regular and Ken stated he had thrown 4 people off the last couple of days walking around the lakes.
Ken then passed onto the match secretary Lee Lee: Thank everyone who turned up to the matches and stated last year saw 24 different people turn up to the matches. Total there were 16 matches. Charity matches were done for Kevin Elson. Total money raised by the Anglers and people coming down to donate was 171 pounds total and this was given to the garden house hospice by the club. Lee then went on to talk about matches and that all are welcome to the matches and all the upcoming dates for the matches are on the website. Then trophies were presented to the winners
Lee in between announcing the cups spoke about Paul Gaudion passing away and giving the cup to his wife. Then spoke about the Christmas match and how Steve Rochell won the match then as he got up ended up fracturing his leg and thanks to the people that stayed to help him out.
Ken then closed out the meeting by thanking everyone who came to the AG< even tho the turn out could have been a lot better as many members missing and would have been good to see some face.
Meeting Closed: 19:50: