What a week.

Well what a busy week. Ive been working on the whitby sea anglers website for an hour most nights. Im currently converting the site from its html format to css which allows you to use much less code in the program behind the website. The trouble is I dont know css very well so have been learning as I go along. All good stuff though. The whitby sea anglers fishing club website is almost finished and can be viewed by visiting www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk
Most evenings have involved a bait collecting/dog walking session, the main target at the moment being peeler crabs, ive been peelering most night s and will probably be doing a lot of crabbing right through the summer months. The aim is to get as many of those big north east coast peeler crabs as possible into the freezer whilst they are moulting. However at present the going is tough and I have only been able to gather a small percentage of the crabs I usually do in comparison to other years, I put this down to the water being colder due to a colder than average winter this year ( Water temps are said to be the lowest since 1996). What ever happened to global warming ?.
On Friday night I attended the meeting of the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Association of Sea Anglers ( YALASA ) a localised conservation group whoose aims generally are the preservation of fish stocks. I left home at 6 pm and the evening involved a drive down to Scarborough to meet a couple of other lads who attend the meeting and then on to the meeting held in a pub between bridlington and Hull. It was gone 11 when I finally manghed to get home again. Up for discussion at this meeting was the recent Bass management plan and proposed increase in bass minimum landing size and increased mesh size for bass nets. Also discussed was the proposal to have association members trained up as qualified fishing coaches. The association is to look at finding the £250 funding per person for the training. The association have also asked myself to add a contact page to the website so that people can leave their comments about yalasa and the matters the group adress. So far this has proven quite a difficult task with most of the free comments page programs available on the net holding quite a few errors. However good friend of YALASA Nick of Hebrided hosting is currently helping me with the comments page and with his expertise it is hoped to have it up and running in the near future. All the details of the meeting and YALASA as an organisation can be found on their website at www.yalasa.co.uk
Well here we are on Sunday and another week has flown by. Projects for today involve walking the dog, sorting the allottment, playing with the kids and updating pauls website www.sea-otter2.co.uk