premier angling league

[joffmiester]

is a premier angling league out of the question match angling seams to be dying on its feet yet club angling is growing in strenth we all make the effert for the one off national surely out there is someone with a plan that could work

[Dodge]

Good idea joff .....would have to be a one off championship tho as most top teams calenders are pretty full....think it has been mentioned about an annual one off canal team championship aswell on here.....think both ideas would be good for team fishing with the right backing,trophy etc.
I personally dont think team fishing is struggling joff...the circuits we fish at Sensas NW are very healthy,all be it we have to travel a fair bit to the midlands etc to compete at a very high level.There are plenty of good venues out there for sure and teams willing to compete....i personally think we have to move with the times,i think local leagues etc have had there day...whats the point in fishing a 4 or 5 team local league !!! The bigger the match the better for me...good banter,good competition and good payouts (for the drawbags ::))
The sooner match angling modernises itself in england the better....this could be a step towards it joff nice one

[joffmiester]

first and foremost you need a good team of organizers up and down the country that can plan in advance i'm sure 4 or 5 rounds and once every six weeks would be a start
one thing i would say is that it would be hard for the organizers to fish so they would have to be payed % or sponsorship as these people are the back bone of modern day matches now. plus if it was a team of organizers they could do the weigh in witch would stop a load of messing around and would aid the results being done quicker and easyer

[Woodhouse]

You could organise it Joff, obviously after the Semi at Cudmore and the Sensas challenge your lot wouldn't be putting a team in.

[joffmiester]

and where were you lot then did you make the semis did you get invited to the sensas final i mean qualify is NO the answer

[lloydy]

I think a national league is the way forward but it needs a lot of thinking through, with the price of petrol etc travelling all over the country puts a lot of people off. i also believe that if you have a national league on various venues at the end theres no need for a final the team that proves the best on 4 or 5 different venues deserves to be the winner.

[joffmiester]

just sent the dates out for the summer league 2 river 2 canal 2 lake and 2 commercial and guess what 12 teams have said yes making it the biggest yet i would say at this point no money has been past over

[joffmiester]

lee if a partime angler gets 8 kamasan points he should be able to fish the final don't you think its not as if he's fished hundreds of matches saturdays and sundays just the few he can make every now and again in between running his business and looking after his family 8 points in 8 big matches not these knockups the danger is if the partimer can fish saturdays and sundays the story could turn around don't you think it could of been me holding the trophy

[endpeg]

Id like to see a national league but its easier for us in the Midlands. Ive asked other big teams from elsewhere and they arent prepared to travel hundreds of miles when they have perfectly good matches more locally. Not my opinion i must add... It seems to be the south where decent top-level match fishing is really suffering. Perhaps its a cost issue but i dont personally think it should be.