Sutton Courtenay Angling Club have honoured member Phil Boyes (pictured below) for his 60 years’ loyalty – including more than 40 of them as a committee member – by naming a new lake after him.
They have also made him a life member of the club.
The lake, which has been newly dug, is adjacent to the club’s Otneys stretch and will be known as ‘Phil’s Lake’.
I have often mentioned Phil in these col-umns as he has won every trophy on the club’s caldendar and he also stands in for John Percival when John is away and I need their match results.
This is a fitting honour for his work.
l Local catfish expert Paul Scarrott caught four specimens from Orchid Lakes’ Club Lake, topped by a fish of 50.5.0. The others weighed 10.0.0, 45.8.0 and 48.3.0.
He used a 3/0 Owner hook with worm and liver fished over groundbait.
Fishing a 10mm cut-down boilie in conjunction with a PVA stick over groundbait, St Neots angler Paul Elt banked a nice tench of 8.9.0 from an unnamed Oxfordshire pit.
Paul, who is backed by Oxford tackle giants Drennan International, was fishing with local specimen angler Stewart Moss, who works for Drennan.
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