EIGHT West Bay Sea Angling Club junior members signed on for the annual Stokes Family Trophy competition on East Pier.

Despite rumbles of thunder before the match, the weather stayed dry but cloudy with a gentle south easterly breeze.

Aaron Chambers was the first to kick off proceedings with the first of dozens of common blenny or shanny that came to the rods nearest the rocks.

All but one of the competitors landed fish with shanny, corkwing and ballan wrasse, tompot blenny, pollack and weever coming to the scales. Unfortunately no flounders showed so the prize for heaviest flatfish went unclaimed for a second match in a row.

Ewan Chambers landed a brace of sizeable corkwing wrasse which gave him the lead but was soon challenged by Nathan McMaster who answered with another corkwing followed by a shore rockling.

Aaron Chambers eventually made it into third spot with a sizeable corkwing wrasse and positions seemed to be set for the match but a last-minute capture by Caolan Ayers was just enough to earn him the prize with a ballan wrasse of 349g, 19g ahead of Ewan Chambers.

Although Aaron Chambers had the greatest weight and number of fish (14 for 854g), fish achieving the Angling Trust’s minimum size takes precedence over undersized fish so he attained a respectable fourth position with a sizeable weight of 152g.

The junior section would like to extend their gratitude to the Stokes family who support this event with tackle vouchers, with thanks also going to the other sponsors.

1 Caolan Ayers 488g (349g sizeable weight), 2 Ewan Chambers 638g (330g sizeable weight), 3 Nathan McMaster 684g (209g sizeable weight)

Heaviest round: Caolan Ayers 349g ballan wrasse.

First fish: Aaron Chambers

Last fish: Kadie Lynham

Heaviest weever: Kadie Lynham 25g

Most fish: Aaron Chambers 14

Smallest fish: Eden Lynham weever 9g

Wooden spoon: Owen Swatridge

Sponsors on the day as follows: The Stokes family, Norman Stokes, Watchouse Cafe, Kay Guppy, Richard ‘Tiny’ Daw and Andrew Fowler.