Chris63

John and Ben Hofgartner have kindly offered Stoney and Friends one weeks holiday at their Etang Des Royale lake to sell with all profits going to Macmillan Cancer Support. The week on offer is 11th August - 18th August 2007 The cost of the holiday is £345 per person up to a maximum of 12 anglers. However if the lake is booked on block for a maximim of 12 anglers, then John is offering a special deal at £3,000 Included in the price is fishing and food. You will need to make your own travel arrangements. Anyone interested in this offer, please contact me either by email ( cisaacs@acumus.com) or via pm. The offer above is their standard price for a week, but Stoney and Friends will get ALL THE PROFIT.

Hermit Where abouts on the Mole are you fishing? There are some very good stretches, and some very nice fish in the Mole - its just knowing where too look!! I have always had most success roving with one rod.

Back to the top!!!!

Raffle Prizes and Donations As you will all hopefully know, at next weeks Stoney and Friends RMC Dynamite Yateley Fish-in, Stoney and Friends are hoping to break the £100,000 barrier on total money they have raised for Macmillan Cancer Relief. In order to ensure this is achieved we need to make our raffle as appealing as possible. Most of our usual supporters/sponsors have donated prizes, but times are obviously hard for the trade as less “casual” supporters have donated this year. In this respect, can you help in any way? We are looking for any items that we can use as raffle prizes. They do not have to be angling related, nor do they have to be of high value. Anything that may appeal to someone will be gratefully appreciated. It may be that you work for a Company that has Corporate marketing gifts/clothing/umbrella’s/mugs etc – any of these will be much appreciated. If you can offer any “prizes”, please contact me on mailto:chris_isaacs@europ-assistance.co.ukchris_isaacs@europ-assistance.co.uk or phone me on 07971 792376, or alternatively contact Allan Stone. Thanks

Raffle Prizes and Donations As you will all hopefully know, at next weeks Stoney and Friends RMC Dynamite Yateley Fish-in, Stoney and Friends are hoping to break the £100,000 barrier on total money they have raised for Macmillan Cancer Relief. In order to ensure this is achieved we need to make our raffle as appealing as possible. Most of our usual supporters/sponsors have donated prizes, but times are obviously hard for the trade as less “casual” supporters have donated this year. In this respect, can you help in any way? We are looking for any items that we can use as raffle prizes. They do not have to be angling related, nor do they have to be of high value. Anything that may appeal to someone will be gratefully appreciated. It may be that you work for a Company that has Corporate marketing gifts/clothing/umbrella’s/mugs etc – any of these will be much appreciated. If you can offer any “prizes”, please contact me on mailto:chris_isaacs@europ-assistance.co.ukchris_isaacs@europ-assistance.co.uk or phone me on 07971 792376, or alternatively contact Allan Stone. Thanks

Depends on which weekend you are looking at. First weekend in September, and you won't get much better value for money than the Stoney and friends fish in at Yateley! http://www.stoneyandfriends.co.uk for more details

Elton Sorry for the delay in replying (thanks Singy for bringing o my attention). Stoney is the man to talk to (I believe you have his number), but I believe there are still swims on the Match, Sandhurst, Summer, Horseshoe and maybe Nursery. Regards

There are still some tickets available for this not to be missed event. For those that Chesh doesn't feed, there will be a caterng van on site all weekend. Sunday also sees one of the best angling raffles around.

Tickets are still available for this not to be missed event. There will be catering facilities on site, a toilet or two!!!!!, and a huge raffle on the Sunday. All money raised goes to Macmillan Cancer Relief. More details on www.stoneyandfriends.co.uk or contact me.

Good response Elton to what I hope was a tongue in cheek comment by Chesters. For anyone interested, it is likely that the total amount raised by Stoney and Friends over years for Macmillan Cancer Relief, after Yateley 2004 will exceed £100,000. Even Chesters must agree thats not a bad effort for "Stoney and money paying slight aqaintences". For Chesters information, organising successful events of this nature is not a 5 minute job, nor is it a one person job (hence the "friends"). As soon as one event is finished, the organisation for the next starts. In addition they are accounts to run, annual returns to prepare for the charity, contacting and cajoling the angling rade for support, news lettrs to issue, event reports to write and circulate, posters to design and print and our website to keep up to date, let alone keeping people informed via forums like this. And what does Stoney get out of it? - absolutely nothing other than the personal pleasure of knowing he has been instrumental in raising thousands of pounds for a very good cause.

Anyone from this site hoping to attend? [ 12. July 2004, 02:19 PM: Message edited by: Chris63 ]

Application forms are now available at Stoney and Friends Date - 3/4/5th September We want this years event to be the most successful ever and ideally we are looking to raise £20,000 from the weekend. If you fancy attending, get your applications in early so we can send you your sponsor forms and you can get out their collecting as soon as possible. If anyone works for a company that would like to offer some corporate sponsorship, have a look at our site and/or get in touch with me.(Split Lake already has one sponsor) Last year we had just over 100 anglers attending, lets see if we can get the numbers up tp 150+ this year. I hope to see as many of you there as possible

Application forms are now available at Stoney and Friends Date - 3/4/5th September We want this years event to be the most successful ever and ideally we are looking to raise £20,000 from the weekend. If you fancy attending, get your applications in early so we can send you your sponsor forms and you can get out their collecting as soon as possible. If anyone works for a company that would like to offer some corporate sponsorship, have a look at our site and/or get in touch with me.(Split Lake already has one sponsor) Last year we had just over 100 anglers attending, lets see if we can get the numbers up tp 150+ this year. I hope to see as many of you there as possible

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I am pleased to inform you that the following companies all kindly sponsored us at Wraysbury. It was thanks to their generosity that so many people were able to win raffle prizes and that we managed to raise so much money. THANKS TO ALL THE COMPANIES BELOW RMC Angling Nutrabaits Mainline Baits Streamselect DHL Express Gardner Tackle Yateley Angling Centre Gold Label Tackle Shakespeare Heathrow Bait Services Richworth Linear Fisheries Cotswold Aquarius Pike Anglers Club Top Line John Roberts David Bird Design Group www.fishsim2.com The Tackle Box Wychwood Leeda Solar Tackle Tackle Shop Crawley Angling Society Armaled International JRC Keenets Planet Prints Carp-Tech MJB Products Ocean Fresh Polar Buff Original Video Production Company Bury Hill Fisheries Coulsdon Angling Centre MCF Developments Percy Chapman & Sons Villeroy & Boch Tableware SBS Tactical Bait Products Dinsmores Catfish Conservation Group Patisserie Valerie Pure Fishing Anglers Paradise

Stoney and Friends Charity Pike Fish-In RMC Wraysbury One & Two 29th February 2004 Friday evening saw the first party of organisers/helpers arriving at Wraysbury One with a view to getting everything organised for the Sunday fish-in. An hour or two of discussion on where to set everything up ensued, with a few beers consumed to help the process. By 22.00hrs with the temperature rapidly plummeting into minus figures, the draw of warm sleeping bags (in cars!!!) became too strong and we all turned in for the night. Early Saturday morning arrived without too much incidence (other than Chris advising us that he had found that the rear opening tail-hatch on his 4X4 to be anything but supportive when leaning against it from the inside and trying to relieve himself over the top in the middle of the night rather than get out into the cold – luckily he managed to avoid the puddle when he fell out of the door!!!), other than a light sprinkling of snow. A mug of tea later and the intrepid organisers where on their way to Kingsmead for a few hours Piking before returning to Wraysbury to finish the setting up in the afternoon. On arrival we were soon joined by the intrepid Pompey duo Graham and Brian. Kingsmead was yet again kind to Chris who was first into a monster Pike of about 3lb!!!! after only half an hour. Eugene, not to be out-done and proving his nickname of Jona was now unfounded, was next in with a fish of around 12lb. Shortly after this, Mike arrived after dropping his girl of at the nursery, closely followed by Allan (daytimedave). Two hours later, and no further fish resulted in the band of merry helpers deciding it was time to call it a day and head back to Wraysbury to sort out base camp. Allan Stone had left us an hour earlier to let the “Happy Chippie” into Wraysbury One, so we were quietly hoping most of the hard work would have taken place. On the way back, and much to our surprise, the cars took on a mind of their own and before we knew what was happening, we were sitting in the warmth of the “Percy” with beers in front of us. This coincided with a phone call advising that Tug had turned up with the tent (base camp) and that it had already been set up. One beer turned into two etc and a pleasant hour or two passed. Eventually, sense was seen (although not by Andy), and we headed back to camp. Everything was then organised for the Sunday morning onslaught of anglers. Whilst this was going on, there was a steady stream of anglers arriving who were turning up for the Saturday Night Social. Andy and Chris, “relaxed” after their afternoons activities in the “Percy”, decided to ‘help’ the “cheerful chippie” with cooking supper – much merriment followed for everyone other than the “chippie”!!. With the Saturday Night Social under way Brian was woken from his forty winks by Graham (not a sight I’d want to wake up to!) and he joined us in the tent. “Tent” doesn’t really do it justice. It was a 12X12 that Tug had kindly borrowed from the RAF (with permission) that was big enough to sit most of us. That is until someone bright spark (Andy) decided that to warm it up we should light a disposable barbeque inside. (off the ground to comply with RMC regulations on no fires) Safety wise, this wasn’t a problem as the BBQ was very small, and the tent very high. However, the disposable BBQ was so small it didn’t give off much heat. It then became a mission for the pyromaniacs around us to find enough wood to build the BBQ into a mini bonfire (sorry, bigger BBQ!) – again not a problem if the wood they found had been dry. However, how much dry wood do you find around lakes in the middle of winter – none! as they were to prove as the tent instantly filled with choking smoke. The first time they did this it was quite amusing, by the fifth time, not quite so much!! Sadly, two of our guests had to leave at about 21.00hrs due to family problems (luckily it turned out to be OK in the end). This is only mentioned as they had set their bivvy up for the night some hours earlier. Due to the apparent emergency of the situation, it was all hands to the pump in getting them packed up and on their way. If only someone had filmed what had ensued it would have been worthy of its own whole show of “you’ve been framed”. A few people by this stage were extremely relaxed (to the point where their legs were obviously asleep whilst the rest of their body wasn’t!!). Leaning over to pull out tent pegs that were fighting back became a mission for Chris (and some others to be honest). The only way to stop the pegs pulling him over, was for him to crawl around the tent – or over it!. Eventually everything was packed away and our guests were on their way. Bed for some followed shortly after this (I didn’t have too much of a choice as my legs were already asleep!!!) so I’m afraid the rest of the evenings social will have to go un-reported. 05.00 Sunday morning came around far too early. A quick tea later and it was action stations. The computer was fired up for registration, car park marshall’s kitted out in day-glow vests (very fetching) dispersed, the happy chippie woken up and ‘kicked’ into cooking mode and then the gates were open. Despite everyone knowing the gates don’t open until 06.00 it never ceases to amaze me how many people are waiting outside and who stream in at 05.30. Our apologies go to the residents of Wraysbury who put up with this each year. By 06.30 the vast majority of anglers had signed in, and had headed off for their respective lakes. Dawn was breaking and the sun was trying to shine through. Over the next hour, and a bacon butty or two, various latecomers turned up and signed in. By 09.00 only 10 anglers hadn’t turned up which wasn’t bad in view of the weather conditions. This meant we had just over 100 anglers fishing on the two lakes. With signing in duties passed to Stoney (it was about time he did something) it was time for everybody’s favourite job – walking round the lakes selling raffle tickets. Hippy, Tug, Mike Lyddon, DaytimeDave, Andy et al who had been on Car Park Marshalling duties had ‘surprisingly’ not returned to base camp – only to later be found fishing. This left us with a choice – Allan or Chris to walk the lakes. Allan being the main man obviously needed to man base camp in case someone had any questions for him, or in case someone turned up with a camera to take a photo of him!!. In addition, at his age the walk round the lakes may have been a bit too much. So off I went in bright sunshine to start at Wraysbury Two. 5 minutes later and I’m getting out of the car in the village car park to be greeted by a Snow Blizzard. My apologies to those people thinking a Yeti was approaching them!!! Two hours later, and Wraysbury Two had been circumnavigated – sadly not one fish was reported caught during my travels. On arriving back at the car my phone went off and on answering I was informed by Andy that my wife had turned up and dropped the kids off – only two hours early!!! A quick dash back to Wraysbury One was therefore called for in order to save those present from my two little terrors. On arrival, I find the wife still there and the “cheerful chippie” trying on his charms – sadly unsuccessfully as I’d happily sell her on for the right price!!! 3 packets of crisps each and a fizzy drink later and it’s time to walk Wraysbury One selling tickets. The kids had been warned to be quiet when approaching anglers and give them there due, they weren’t too bad. It’s just a shame I didn’t warn them not to throw sticks and stones in!!! – sorry to the angler in the sunken barge swim!! Fishing wise, only 3 Pike were caught that I am aware of, one of 3lb, 9lb and 13lb, the later two falling to lures. A number of missed runs were also reported!. The lact of fish however did not detract from the event. As with all our events, the anglers turn up to firstly raise money for Macmillan and secondly for the social, with the fishing just being an added bonus. Raffles tickets sold, it was time to sort out the raffle prizes. Forgetting I was shouting out the ticket numbers, I suggested that rather than put together big bags of prizes, we should have more smaller bags so everyone had a better chance of winning – next year will be different! A quick thank to all attending was given, and unhooking mats were presented to the six paying junior attendees to encourage them to continue with their hobby and not forget fish welfare – shame my kids couldn’t understand that they were under 16 but hadn’t bought a ticket as I’m now the worst dad on earth! The raffle then got underway. 1hr later and we were still going strong with plenty of prizes left much to my voce box’s annoyance. Sadly we then had a slight diversion as one of our elder guests was overcome by the excitement (it must have been the atmosphere of anticipation I generated ) and keeled over. His family with him however reacted very quickly and managed to stop him landing on one of my lads and his raffle prizes. Joking aside, I am pleased to say Allan visited them in Ashford Hospital after the event and all reports suggested he was making a good recovery. All our thoughts are with you and we hope you are soon well enough to grace the banks again. The raffle continued until the last prize had gone, approximately 1 1/2hrs after we had started. This shows how many prizes we had, and in this respect our thanks again go out to every company that donated prizes to us. Finally, I am pleased to advise that we raised £1,859 from the event. Well done to everyone involved, and thank you for your ongoing support and generosity at our events. Chris Treasurer Stoney and Friends

£1,859 Thanks to everybody who attended the Stoney and Friends Pike Fish-in yesterday(and to RMC for yet again donating the waters). Due to your generosity (and that of all our sponsors in providing raffle prizes so you were keen to hand over your hard earned dosh on raffle tickets), £1,859 was raised. Thanks also to Tug, Mike Lyddon, Capt Pugwash, Jona, Hippy and DaytimeDave for the early morning stewarding and general help over the weekend. A good social was had by all, One or TWO fish came out, and Macmillan Cancer Relief are again benefitting from the angling community. Chris Stoneyandfriends

Over 100 tickets have now been sold, but we still have space for more people. If you have left it to the last moment, email Stoney today, as it's not too late to enrol. It looks like a few mad people are turning up Saturday night to bivvy up in the car park for a social. all are welcome to do this, but please let us know in advance if you intend to do this. Whilst it looks like it's going to be COLD, the saturday social is always great fun (unless you are the "cheerful chippie" ) I hope a few more of you sign up in the next day or two, as if we could get the numbers to nearer 150 it would be brilliant. See you all next weekend.

Polly Sorry I didn't reply earlier. Loads of double pegs on both lakes. Cambridge to Wraysbury would take about 1hr - 2 at the outside. Basically, head dowm M11 and turn right when you hit the M25. wraysbury junction is the one after Heathrow.

The annual Stoney and Friends Pike Fish-in in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief with be held at Wraysbury One & Two on 29th February 2004 (thanks again to the kind generosity of RMC) Application forms are available at here Last year just over 100 anglers attended (many who caught some nice fish) and ideally we would like to increase that number to 150+ this year (and the waters still won't be crowded), so please tell as many anglers as you can about the event. There will be the usual raffle on the day, and the "Happy Chippy" will be in attendance with his vast array of hot and tasty meals For anyone travelling a long way for the event (or those that can't get up early in the morning! or who just like socials), there will be a social in the Wraybury One Car Park on the Saturday evening where you can bivvy up if so desired. For further information, contact either Allan Stone or myself. I hope to see loads of you there.

Tickets are still available for anyone interested. Email me your address and how many tickets you want (£1.00 each - 5 to a book). My email address is chrisi@gislimited.co.uk Thanks Chris Treasurer stoney and Friends

Elton Sadly we don't have the facility for taking money on line, otherwise we would hapily sell them on the web. If anyone would like tickets, if they email me at mailto:chrisi@gislimited.co.ukchrisi@gislimited.co.uk. I will get tickets out to them by post the same day. They can then fill in the stubbs and send them in with their money. Elton, can you email me with your address so I can get two books out to you. Thanks Chris

Stoney and Friends are currently selling raffle tickets for a draw that will take place at the Five Lakes Essex Carp Show on 21st March 2004. Prizes are: 1st A week’s fishing for 4 at Acorn Fishery in Somerset 2nd A pair of Terry Eustace Genesis X 2 ¾ TC Carp rods 3rd A RMC 3 rod coverall permit for next season 4th £100 of vouchers for Yateley Angling Centre Tickets are £1.00 each and come in books of 5 If anyone would like to buy any tickets, or would like to sell some tickets on our behalf, please pm/email (chrisi@gislimited.co.uk) me with your details. Thanks very much for your anticipated support. Chris Treasurer Stoney and Friends

Stoney and Friends are currently selling raffle tickets for a draw that will take place at the Five Lakes Essex Carp Show on 21st March 2004. Prizes are: 1st A week’s fishing for 4 at Acorn Fishery in Somerset 2nd A pair of Terry Eustace Genesis X 2 ¾ TC Carp rods 3rd A RMC 3 rod coverall permit for next season 4th £100 of vouchers for Yateley Angling Centre Tickets are £1.00 each and come in books of 5 If anyone would like to buy any tickets, or would like to sell some tickets on our behalf, please pm/email (chrisi@gislimited.co.uk) me with your details. Thanks very much for your anticipated support. Chris Treasurer Stoney and Friends

To any one on this site who is manning a stand at the show, especially on Sunday, if at closing time you have any tackole/bait/clothing etc etc left over that you can't be bothered to cart away, please bring it to the Stoney and Friends stand, as we would be more than happy to take it for raffle prizes at our next fish-in. Thanks Chris Stoneyandfriends