Hot off the press, the Region's latest news and whispers...

Hi, after our fantastic evening with John Goble and Tony Myhill, we have our fantastic charity raffle and online auction (Pike and Predator forum) monies rolling in for Cancer Research UK. At present we are well on our way to £3000 and are confident of reaching somewhere near £3500 in total. A marvellous effort indeed, we have one of our region's members, Kevin O'Keefe, to thank for putting in a lot of hard work in running the amazing online auction. Well done Kevin! On Wed 10th Nov at the Nags Head pub, for the Mark Barrett and Denis Moules talk, we have Darren Crouchman from Cancer Research UK coming down and paying us a visit, in order for us to present the cheque to his charity. We'll be in touch with the local 'papers for that one! So, all in all, another special evening.

We are currently in talks with another massive name in the world of pike fishing, to come and give us a talk and we hope to announce this soon. Can't say who it is yet, they don't come much bigger but we are keeping everything crossed and are hoping for either a Dec 1st slot or early 2011. Keep watching this blog!

Don't forget our first fishmeet! Nov 6th, £5 for two rods, we'll be piking from 7.30am to 4pm. Ideal for us to have a get together, ideal for beginners to the sport, a real chance to get the Essex PAC out on the banks and get meeting people! Email me for the venue now....shrimphead2@mobileemail.vodafone.net. A day ticket water in Essex reknown for it's piking!

Lastly, we are currently trying to sort out some wonderful Essex PAC 102 RA car stickers! Oh yes, we are really gonna get the word out with these and when it's sorted you'll be able to buy them at our meets.

John Goble talk ...smashing night

John Goble, captor of Britain's biggest ever river pike, came into Essex for a blockbuster of an evening. Giving his first ever talk to any PAC region, his mix of short stories, humour added with a hint of indescribable, enormous pike images. The evening, by way of feedback, was extremely well recieved and John battled the nerves to put on a great show. For the shorter second half after the food and charity raffle, Tony Myhill, John's acquaintance, described some very peculiar lures and his good times over the years with the late, lure guide Charlie Bettell. For an insight into the great Charlie, here's some stonking footage of him in the boat with Gryff Rhys Jones,just click here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTMyXWwWZE
The Essex PAC Region 102 would like to thank John Goble and Tony Myhill for taking their brave pills and giving us an insight into their world of pike fishing!
At the top of this post is a photo never seen before....
Bill Palmer and John Goble ! What a night!

Essex PAC in the Angling Times :-)

Hey, did you see us in last week's top fishing paper? Our Cancer Research charity night went Goble-global !!
Another coup for the Essex boys !!

Our first evening, up and running!!!!

The Dave Horton show, (that's him on the right) what a cracker! By all accounts, a decent turn-out for the 102 club's first ever meet. I'd like to sincerely thank those who turned up, seems this region of ours has some formidable pikers within !

Special thanks to Dave Horton, one of our members and he donated his talk to the region free of charge. Quite fitting to have the great man talk about his many experiences in and around some of the Essex waters besides the rest of the UK, a legend in more ways than one ! If watching his talk doesn't give you the inspiration to go out and catch big pike, nothing will.

In helping the region reach it's first talk i'd like to give my right-hand man Ray Pemberton a big thankyou, he never stopped working through the summer to set our opening night off with a bang, he done everything he was asked and then some. I think our members can be proud to have Ray pulling the strings. Think i'll start calling him Mr Fixit ! Also to Andy Syddell, who set up this blog in the summer when i really needed help ! Top man.

With John Goble and Tony Myhill as our next guest speakers on Wed Oct 13th (see below) please be aware we are raising money on behalf of Cancer Research in honour of the late, great Charlie Bettell and the talk will be in part in rememberance of Charlie. I ask of you all to contribute to the raffle on the night, organised by Kevin o'Keefe. Half the entry fees and all of the raffle will be donated to Cancer Research UK. Don't forget everybody, you don't have to be a PAC member to attend our meetings/ talks, so how about you bring a friend? Also, we are in talks with Eddie Turner concerning his tackle stand at this talk, so keep an eye out for confirmation.

Don't forget on our evening meets to take a raffle ticket when you pay the entrance fee, this entitles you to free food from the bar when served at half-time interval. We should have all the big screen tv's working by the next talk, along with the microphone nobody should miss out on any part of the talk then !