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Think Digger Conway is still fishing

and still drawing end pegs

Never spotted that MRV and Bill


I'll have to trawl those results again to spot if any other members made the frame

Had a few good battles with yanny I'm sure he's hanged up the gear! Bit like me  :( he was a proper all rounder.

no mate still fishing just commercials now still has the shop in doncaster

That's a waste

Great read looking at all the old results, "our" Lenny Pulford is still as keen as ever & went to the dark side but has recently returned and is doing loads of silver matches, Phil Iveson fishes one day a week & is still a canal & river nut, dont think he's ever fished commi's and Bob Brown and Lee Harrison still go loads. Fish the Thorne pairs with Lee and what a class act he is, he's winning on commies in summer & still doing the biz october-march on the canals

Nice update fin

Steve Roach ( Shepshed Charterhouse) wonder if anyone knows if he's still about. Used to work for him, well, when we didnt go fishing that was!!!!! .He was a brilliant Plasterer, I was a cr*p labourer, but we were always skint cos we never did owt but fish!!!!!!

steve roach fished for Quorn years back and i can remember practicing for a national on the welland .we dropped on the biggest roach shoal i'd see on the welland and all 15 of us bagged up on wagglers poles you name it steve left three michell match reels on the bank that day and returned the next week and picked them up what a case after we fished one match he never returned home and went on the missing list up the thursday then turned up for the team meeting when asked where have you been he replied just stopped on for a few drinks proper right laff

i remember yanny catching that carp it was big news down the bank that day
another name in the results Edgar Parnell king of the witham
he made the whole team a set of wagglers for the Leicester home brewery boys for the witham national
a real proper finish like nothing else i'd ever seen ,still got one or two somewhere what a angler he used to be in one semi final on the witham he asked if i could provide 12 bread trays for the team :-?they didn't half rattle all the way there but the reason was clear when we saw the venue on the day very low and thick mud these were a godsend i'm sure kieth hobson won the semi that year

Interesting insights Crafty and Joffie   


As well as Grumpy, spotted CWH doing the bizz as well

know what you mean Joff.
We fished Keith Hobsons match at Worsborough one year and went for a few after and I got home on the following tuesday!!!!!!!!

Here's a few more from the same edition of Anglers Mail - there were 11 pages of match reports that week back then, and clock the size of some of the matches


Better start off with one for Dodge and the NW gang 

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steve roach fished for Quorn years back and i can remember practicing for a national on the welland .we dropped on the biggest roach shoal i'd see on the welland and all 15 of us bagged up on wagglers poles you name it  steve left three michell match reels on the bank that day and returned the next week and picked them up  what a case after we fished one match he never returned home and went on the missing list up the thursday then turned up for the team meeting  when asked where have you been he replied just stopped on for a few drinks  proper right laff

IIRC Steve had an ASI with 3 top trays on it. Not really sure if his feet reached the floor.

Here's a few more from the same edition of Anglers Mail - there were 11 pages of match reports that week back then, and clock the size of some of the matches


Better start off with one for Dodge and the NW gang 

1992 just a tad before i got into team fishing , was heavily involved with my cricket during the summers back then TK . Quite a few Saints anglers in the then Tubertini team plus the Bridgy actually had some fish in it !

see Myles Phillips on the Swarkestone match ..... see other thread on team image!

I fished the next polesworth open and came 2nd with about 4 lb .... didn't fish as well!!

Benchy still fishes and wins on the Avon ..... and I even saw Tony Eaves on a match a year or so back!! haven't seen Cas for about 5 years .... he was turning to the dark side at the time.

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Les Thirlaway was a team mate of my brother, (strangely he was called Archie) they both fished for Andover.

Those were the days...polly wag chucked inches from farside tins ....
Chub were boss back then.  hemp n caster down  neardide ledge...Squatts  were only ever used in yer feeder bream  mix.

Then a certain gentleman called Richard Thorne popped up on scene and started to take the place apart with double figure roach catches..feeding upwards of 2pt of squatt and 4pt of hemp.