serious topic on match fishing

joffmiester · #1

right i've been thinking the future of match angling looks to be getting worse rather than better and will have a knock on effect with sponsorship for teams if we are not careful we are all moaning about the lack of matches or matches clashing or leagues clashing you'd like to fish it but cant because your fishing another
STOP RIGHT THERE match fishing needs a massive rethink and its not going to happen over night maybe not for a whole year
what we need is a board of organisers from around the country north south east and west some to do saturdays and some to do sunday we need a united match calendar and this is where i mean a whole year away team and league matches need to state how many anglers in a team should they be 3,5,6,8,or 10
I'm sure if we mixed and matched venues say river,canal,lake and commercial this would be far better and perhaps in a B/J league have canal and lake all so we don't get into the same rut that we are in now
this is going to take time and a lot of working out but if we don't start soon none of us will be fishing decent matches
its easy to sit back and watch the sport go downhill
what do you think

#2

I think you aint got a prayer!

FORDY_1 · #3

Me also,fact is 80% + just want to sit on commercials,no walk,safe parking,local ,good fishing. sad but true,i do it for periods as it's easy,cheap(bait wise)and convienient.Rather go on a good river every week tho.

joffmiester · #4

:-[thats it then

:-[see you on 10 peg commercial club matches then

#5

You might not see me Joff!

#6

People dont want to travel anymore that is becoming more apparent, the best chance of big matches now is for local organisers to run a league with each organisers water being used, this way the regulars off each venue will probably fish league and you dont need to pressurise one stretch of water meaning better fishing for all

#7

Wasn't that done in the Summer League? What happened?

#8

Wasn't that done in the Summer League? What happened?

I think that may be due to it being run in close season Bill, there are more people stop fishing than you think. I don't think there is an easy solution anglers seem not to want to travel but when a good local league is run they dont turn up. Strange people anglers

#9

There was only two in the Closed season, six in the season

I had a list of 17 teams that was whittled down to 6 when it came to the crunch.
I think too mant waste their hard earned dosh on hook a duck fishing

#10

I feel sorry for the lads who put thereselves out to run good matches then people dont turn up after moaning theres no good matches to fish, they will moan when there are nobody running matches.

joffmiester · #11

team wise i think sponsorship will finish before long i'l keep running the summer league and increase the amount of rounds so we have proper matches every other week its only leicester and trentmen that have other team commitments in our league and thats up to us to sort out

#12

The way some act there will not be many match organisers left soon.

You can't do right for doing wrong.

joffmiester · #13

too right there bill poor old bob dyer we had to sort a section of the river out and add another instead :-/on the day it fished crap and he got slated for putting it in i stepped in and said next time we wont even put a section in just fish a section short it soon wnet from

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#14

The way some act there will not be many match organisers left soon.

You can't do right for doing wrong.

totally agree Bill, even i am trying to give up moaning

Except at Turner

joffmiester · #15

what made matters worst he was drawn next to me on crap pegs had a right stinking cold on him and forgot his river rigs so the man had a bad day without all thesh#t from the rest of them

joffmiester · #16

he now tells me he wont be doing it next year

and this is the bloke that helps me with
summer league
tetley league
teams of eight winter league
soar valley winter league
i just hope he sticks to his word and then we will see what state the fishing will be in around here like i've said its hard work and plus your given up a lot of time when all around you are laughing and joking

#17

The mad thing is joff some of the league in yours and our areas are some of the biggest ie your summer league and woodrots teams of three

#18

Woodrot?

Watch it fatboy!

#19

I can understand where Bob is coming from.
I've virtually called it a day; I don't want another 'moaning winter' like last year.
Why don't these 'so called' top anglers accept the fact that they maybe to blame themselves for getting it wrong.
It is always the same ones that moan; maybe they simply can not afford to be there.
I preferred the old days of much harder fishing but no moaning.

#20

When i first fished wolves aa matches there were 60 to 100 anglers every week and 4lb was a megga weight, now they get 15 to 30 and 7lb is probably an average weight