Well worth a watch........

#1

Pinched from elsewhere

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... igLrkpDEAQ

A nostalgia trip

Recognise anybody on there

#2

Ps - starts on 30 secs - so wait a bit

Drynet · #3

How good was that

#4

Thats it, I'm growing some pork chop sideboards

#5

That is a terrific watch TK. I do remember the name of Chris Love and Tonkers from down here from those days. Mind you I must have been only 5 years old then.

Southerners win again

#6

I do remember the name of Chris Love and Tonkers from down here

Didnt Chris Love' s younger bro used to do an article in the bi monthly 'black and white' Match Fishing mag in the 80's

(One for Taypot to delve into the archives when he's got 5 mins)

#7

Whilst we're on a nostalgia trip I thought I'd bump this to the top for Bill and Co who might not have seen it............

(Hope the link still works - cant check on this tin box at work)

#8

Not seen that before TK, really enjoyed it.
Could remember lots of them including a few spectators believe it or not.
Chris Love's brother is Andy Love, he does a few match results for AM.
Tonkers AC. Tonkers was the name them Savveners used to call dace I believe; CV will tell me if I'm wrong.
Tony Rees, peg 5, brilliant to see him again. He was listed as Worksop but it was the very same Tony Rees that fished for BAA and the all conquering Cofton Hackett.
I thinks a chap named John Parsons, from Leeds way, won the first ever Woodbine.
In those days you had to win a qualifier; I won one on the T&M then you got to the semi final. There was loads of qualifiers and over 100 in that one I won. You then went to the semi final where so many went through, can't remember how many. My semi final was on the River Trent at Shardlow and I was the fastest loser

If anybody dropped out I would have gone to Denmark but nobody did.
I won another qualifier on the cut somewhere and that semi was on the Trent at Swarkestone. Ivan was on the opposite bank and he made the rest of us in that area lok like muppets!

Happy days

Ta TK

#9

Nice to see so many using 506s and 507s.
We used to take a part out so they would backwind.
We also used to glue several short lengths of strong line, at intervals, so they just pertruded over the spools themselves. This stopped the line blowing back into the reel in a facing wind.
Still got one of my doctored 506s but have given a few of them away.

#10

Glad you enjoyed it Bill

Aye - the years are catching up with me too - I remember quite a few names from it too

Andy Love also used to do a column in MF in the 80's - 'Love stories' if my memory serves me..........

Sounds like you had some desperate bad luck in getting to one of the finals bill

- hard luck - but a few good memories no doubt

Some scumbag nicked my 2 506s (or were they 507s

with the rest of my clobber) in the early 90's

But I'm still using a couple of close face reals when I fish the Trent (occasionally) - ones a 506 I picked up from a mate, the other a Daiwa

Sprucey · #11

is all this starting to sound like rose tinted specs or as bill forgotten to take his sanatogen again i told him all those years of self-abuse would eventually take its toll ps louie says does he still wear his huggy bear pimps hat ?

#12

Oy Sprucey,

My specs are clear mate.
I don't know whether you saw that Woodbine film but they were roach; silver things that are proper fish.

My hat was nicked about 10 years ago; I am still looking for it.
Does it fit Louie?

Sprucey · #13

bill
i hear the last time you caught any silver fish (roach ) was about the same time your hat went missing ? louie just told me she thinks she knows where you can get a new pimp hat from . any further developments i will let you know ok

#14

I always preferred the Abu 501 Bill, still got two of them gathering dust in the cupboard. though I did dig out and use my 1044 the other day for the first time in years.

#15

thats the year i was born
a truly great year
dave if you dig them 501s out id be interested in buying 1
to go with my other 1 as hes lonely

#16

5 grand prizemoney was a lot of dosh in 1973

great to watch

#17

Thought I'd bttt for Chop Worm Hero - if he aint seen it before............he'll love it..............sure to recognise a few faces from 'All our yesterdays'

ps - takes a bit to start, comes on after 30 secs

#18

Great, in fact crappity smackin f**kin great

really enjoyed that even though I was rather young then (9yrs), two years later went everywhere with Tony Scott and got to meet Clive, Max and Ken plus loads of others as Tony would take me all over the place, Huntspill, Bristol Avon, Coombe Abbey, Trent, Warwickshire Avon etc.
If I remember Ken Giles came fifth in that match, happy days and many thanks. Respect

#19

Glad you enjoyed it Chopworm Hero