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It didn’t rain! Thankfully the rain stayed away and the BBQ went ahead as planned. Rob was in charge of the BBQ and the rest of us talked fishing.<\/p>\n

After the food, which was delicious, Rob held a raffle of goodies donated by fellow chalkstreamers. I was lucky enough to win a collection of Lydia Thomas’s wonderful flies, I’m looking forward to using them.<\/p>\n

A grand total of \u00a355 was raised and donated to Fishing for Schools<\/a> – well done everyone.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all who organised the night, donated a prize – see you all in the Autumn and hope you have a great season.<\/p>\n

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Chef de partie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Food!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Burger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lydia Thomas Flies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It didn’t rain! Thankfully the rain stayed away and the BBQ went ahead as planned. Rob was in charge of the BBQ and the rest of us talked fishing. After the food, which was delicious, Rob held a raffle of … Continue reading First Cast Supper 2026 Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbq-social","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gFzt-o9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1331,"url":"https:\/\/www.poogig.co.uk\/dorsetchalkstreams\/2024-cast-supper\/","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":0},"title":"2024 First Cast Supper","author":"John Grindle","date":"April 21, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A great \u201cFirst Cast Supper\u201d was held in celebration of the start of the 2024 season in West Stafford village hall. 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