Rod Barr caught a 22.7kg tope and tops the West Bay quarterly standings
THE current leader for West Bay Sea Angling Society’s club’s fish of the quarter, July to September, is club chairman Rod Barr who caught a tope off Southsea.
Barr’s haul of 22.7kg (111.2 per cent) whilst on a boat out of the Hampshire venue is a new club record for outside club waters and, after posing with his catch the tope was returned alive to the sea.
Meanwhile, in the latest daytime match at Abbotsbury only a few mackerel were caught.
Results: First most fish points: Adam Cullingford 4pts; Second best fish: Steve Fowles – mackerel 33; Third most species: (1) Gerry Read – mackerel.
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