All our yesterdays........two for Bill

#1

whilst he ponders over that other one

#2

Got both of them TK.
The one on the right is Joff's doppleganger.

#3

The other one can 'come on down'

#4

Good god !
I am trying to remember when that photo was taken !
TP and TT.
Did you know before Trev worked for himself and Sensas he used to work for BT as an engineer and his work colleague was Bob Eaton former Coventry captain. Remember him Bill and TK ?

#5

Bob Eaton
or was he half-eaton from Nuneaton.

#6

As long as I recall Dennis Stringer was the captain of Cov in my day. He was followed by Tony Sandelance; Tony definitely captained their team in '86 when Billy Makin and Ray Mills fished for them.
I can't actually remember Arf Eaton cptaining them but you are probably correct

#7

I am sure Bob did, abeit very short time, inbetween Dennis and Tony.
He still fishes now at Mallory, Curborough and a place called Thorpe Constantine and still wins alot !
It was in the eighties as I remember Tony Scott joining them but he did not stay very long.
Swadlincote AA used to have two matches a year against them, one at Bladon and Newton Solney and one at Thrumpton. 25 a side with a waiting list !
Everybody wanted a chance to draw the weir at Thrumpton and bag up with chub !

#8

I remember fishing Thrumpton in a challenge match years ago; it was very short pegged. Ian Heaps was above me and at one point he accidentally hooked my stick float rig. Believe it or not I was catching roach and he was struggling! When he hooked my set-up he said, "I only wanted to see your shotting pattern", that was priceless humour.
I did beat Ian that day but not long after he slaughtered me in Ireland on the Airport at Lough Erne. I got beat by well over 100 lb, I am quite proud of that! He had something like 166 lb of bream on wagg; I had 20 lb!
He was on a race of rocks and I couldn't reach him with a feeder. He came in our Hotel that night and we had a few beers!!!! He has a brill sense of humour, a lot of 'em did in those days.

joffmiester · #9

to right bill
even roy marlow

dave rossi , dave downes and stan piecha take some beating even today
stan is still a top angler he's the only bloke i know to have set up a stick float rod up and have a 3lb tench on it last weekend

joffmiester · #10

why do you think it was like that bill in those days Ireland was always a crack i remember fishing the ballinasloe festival we stayed at tom bedders favourite hotel with Ivan,Stu killen, Steve warner, mick Stanford , Sid meads a hole load of top bream anglers we had practiced the day before the final round and Ivan would sit behind you with a bank stick

at the ready if you made any effort to grab your rod too early you'd get a tap on your hands

needless to say mine were tingling but you never forget those times i went on to finish 5th in the match next to

tom bedder i think he let me beat him as he kept shouting to me !! STRIKE!!!

what memories of great times

joffmiester · #11

talking about thrumpton i remember stu killen breaking the record with chub on one of the midweek opens we all used to meet at Bets cafe kegworth for a meg breakfast it was either thrumpton or later in the season Trent lock
this particular wednesday it was thrumpton i remember iit well carrying loads of bait and stuff to stu peg he had even made a rod specially for the chance of drawing the weir. another class fisherman but one of the biggest yellow stream takers of all time

#12

why do you think it was like that bill in those days Ireland was always a crack i remember fishing the ballinasloe festival we stayed at tom bedders favourite hotel with Ivan,Stu killen, Steve warner, mick Stanford , Sid meads a hole load of top bream anglers we had practiced the day

I can remember that Hotel in Ballinasloe, (was it the Hilton?). Used to free beer before 10pm to everyone stopping there fishing the Ballinasloe festival. I can remember still drinking there in the morning and Ivan walked by with his holdall, he was going to the draw!

I stopped up the road in a cafe; crappity smack knows what room paid for my ale

Brill days.