all our yesterdays one for the oldies

[joffmiester]

fished for the likley lads after being in the team for five years he got his first chance on the seven and we all know what happened there

[CHOPWORM HERO]

The river SEVEN wheres that joffy boy
Oh forgot those fish are roach joff if you hadn't seen any before
Not a crappity smackin 2 pound perch in sight

[joffmiester]

chris pebs had 69lb of perch in the autumn festival mindyou thats midweek i'm sure it was won with 89lb of roach as well mate

[joffmiester]

its not only big perch i catch chopped perch hero



here's a 3lb5oz roach there's not many that can say they have caught a 3lb roach matey
ok it was foul up its wobbly cheeks its better to be lucky than good mate

[CHOPWORM HERO]

Fair play Joff, but you didn't tell us you had a thai bride on the side ::)

[grumpy]

looks like bomber holmes What did happen on the severn?

[joffmiester]

looks like bomber holmes  What did happen on the severn?

he fell in

[joffmiester]

Fair play Joff, but you didn't tell us you had a thai bride on the side  ::)

no she just wanted to eat them ::) ::)

[CHOPWORM HERO]

A up Joff who was in the team for that national on the Severn

[joffmiester]

i'm working on it not sure if grumpy was in the team back then
phil coles was as one of the youngest competitors to fish at that level
brian envis roy ivan rossi wardy i'l try and find out more

[bill yards]

ear y'are Joffie

Leicester Angling Society 1971.

Ivan Marks (capt)
Bill Bywater (now living in N Ireland; he had a heart attack a couple of days ago).
Brian Dexter
Dave Downes
Brian Envis
John Essex
Howard Humphrey
Pete Grumpy
Roy Marlow
Dave Rossi
Jim Todd
R Wiltshire

Reserves: m. Fuller and Roy Jeffery.

[grumpy]

Sorry to hear about billy backwater hope hes ok. I wasnt pete grumpy that day we had beaten the brummie superstars plus 2 ringers(ashurst + toulson) on their own muckheap -- great day

[bill yards]

BAA team that day was:
Clive Smith (capt)
Kevin Ashurst
Hughie Boulter
Barry Brookes
Austin Clissett
Ken Giles
Stan Lewis
Tom Reece
Jim Rider
John Rider
Ron Russell
John Toulson

Reserves were Naughton Dunn, Eric Shrimpton and Bill Stroud.

Leicester AS won by eactly 12 lb with 124-8-8.

Sorry about the Pete Grumpy

[CHOPWORM HERO]

So bomber didn't fish on the Severn according to that team sheet. So the main thread of this subject was wrong, does that mean Joffy got his history a bit mixed up

[joffmiester]

So bomber didn't fish on the Severn according to that team sheet. So the main thread of this subject was wrong, does that mean Joffy got his history a bit mixed up 

sorry mate sometimes we get things wrong it was around then perhaps you can in-lightness us when it was
but i thought phil coles was around

[bill yards]

From memory I think Phil Coles won the National on the Bristol Avon.

He may have been the youngest to win it but certainly not the youngest to fish in it

[bill yards]

It was easy to get confused as Leicester had two teams in that National on the Severn.
Leicester and District Amalgamated ociety of Anglers was the other one.

Team:
Stan Piecha (capt)
R. Osborne
R. Moss
G. Bott
K. Smith
Phil Coles
P. Oldershaw
W Darlison
C. Lenton
D. Cox
Robin Grouse
M. Stevens

Reserves: P. Danson, T. Ward and G. Smith.

[joffmiester]

cheers bill some proper blokes on both team sheets i am so glad to have been around some of these lads it so different for young anglers to follow angling methods now who fishes stick floats,wagglers on a regular bases on rivers, and squatts and pole on canals feeder fish on powerful rivers most of theses lads did them all week in week out
now-er days you have to stick to one venue to compete on commercials yes youngsters can do this and are very good at it but would they want to ever fish natural venues

[joffmiester]

robin grouse and george bott blast from the past
i still see dave downes in the woodies and the year after stan was captain he left and fished for croft hacket or something