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Angling

Halls pit.  Nothing to report.

Ocean pit.  Plenty of roach feeding in most swims to groundbait feeder, with red maggot, corn and worm as hook baits.  A tench over 8lbs was caught by a carp angler, some carp to 20 lbs have also come out.  One angler had five eels when pleasure fishing.

Bottle pit.  Plenty of tench and carp have been caught this season so far, but

the fish have gone off the feed at the moment.

Club and Middle pits. Both fishing well for all species on most baits.

No 1 pit,  Carp still the main species for the anglers fishing this pit, but some good bags of roach and bream can also be caught using the right tactics.

Weybread Fisheries.  Plenty of skimmers, tench and small carp to pleasure anglers; specimen carp to the more dedicated carp angler.

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Magpies Gear Up for the New Season

Harleston Magpies Hockey Club  have restructured their youth coaching set up  to cope with the increasing demand of young people wishing to take up the game and take part in the coaching sessions and games arranged for all levels. The club's successes at senior level have been achieved as a result of the stream of young players who have graduated through the youth development programme. This programme has been run by the club's youth development officer, Nick McAllen ably assisted by a number of parents, ex players and coaches.  One such ex player and parent is Stuart Peters who has recently been appointed the Boys Development Officer. In the late nineties Stuart captained the men's first team in the national league but has recently been assisting with mini hockey, under sixteen and eighteen indoor and playing in the men's development team, a group especially dedicated to developing young boys in an adult league.

Magpies have commenced pre-season training and as always are pleased to hear of anyone of any age who is interested in joining the club or attending one of the coaching sessions arranged for all age groups.

At the top end of the club Magpies Ladies will be in the National Hockey League East Conference and the men will be in the Men's equivalent. As always the club are keen to welcome spectators, early games are noted below with the exact push back times being in the local press or the Magpies web site.

Ladies: Saturday, 25th September V Surbiton; Saturday, 9th October v OLs; Saturday, 23rd October v Ipswich.  Men: Sunday 19th September v Southgate; Saturday, 2nd October v Oxted;  Sunday, 17th October v Wimbledon.

For further details and an update on news of Magpies, please check web site www.magpies-hockey.co.uk