a sad day

[joffmiester]

not too cheerful do you know why

[TK]

No Joffie

[Simple]

Cause them two guys bottom left are wearing shorts and have better legs than you

[Dodge]

A couple of slap heads got sun stroke ?

[CHOPWORM HERO]

Runners up by only 1 point in the Angling Times Winter League Final 1998-9 season on the Trent Embankment which was the last final on that venue.

[trout_mask_replica]

I fished that match for Future image Dublin
We were last of course
But winning the semi on Hallcroft was nice

[joffmiester]

hallcroft i remember that one i think Quorn queers had the individual winner that day and when he went up for his money the rest of the team had gone as they finished last

[joffmiester]

Runners up by only 1 point in the Angling Times Winter League Final 1998-9 season on the Trent Embankment which was the last final on that venue.

come on finish it off choppy who won the day

[CHOPWORM HERO]

I think it was the team you used to hate with a passion Joff, when you used to fish with Qourn.

[joffmiester]

come on say it

come on

[Woodhouse]

Who was it Choppy?

[CHOPWORM HERO]

Leicester !

[joffmiester]

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[trout_mask_replica]

Joff.I thought Tony Peel won it with a big weight under the conditions(40lb),feeding nothing,just casting a waggler to
one of them paddle things???????
It was great for us at the time,as most teams coming over
from Ireland to fish the semis finished way down,competing against more organised
teams,who usually practiced for weeks,on the venue.

[joffmiester]

i think its great you come over mate it was a brilliant result for you that day as commercials were really taking off then and i wouldn't of thought you had many if any over in ireland
did some of the lads come over for drennan final at barston a couple of years ago as well

[trout_mask_replica]

Yeah,twas a good result,we used the smallest feeders ever
made(i think) tiny 5g nisa ones about the size of a thimble,mixed up 1/3 of a bag of sensas black & put either
1,2 or 3 pinkies in the feeder!
Barston;that was a few years later,either Lurgan or BSI.
We kind of folded in 2004,our last match was the 2005
world clubs in Italy.
Team fishings gone here now,which is a shame.

[joffmiester]

its a shame to hear about the team fishing over there i wonder if a semi final could be arranged over there for a change that way most would only have a long weekend with a couple of practices
looking around one or two sites the interest is coming back to the irish festivals thats got to good news for you
i do like holland thou bill off the site loves coming over there but that might be because there are no tree's within 50 metres of his peg

[joffmiester]

world clubs thats brilliant mate i bet that was some match not many can say they have fished that
nearest we got was on the gloucester canal national

the sensas final is a real eye opener as well and a couple of lads from the site are going later on this year the north west boys

[trout_mask_replica]

Festivals are only good for us if you can afford to have all
the time off & unless you live in cavan,you have to live in
digs,eat out ect,so theres no huge advantage appart from
the ferry.Some organisers have even started charging more
entry for anglers living here.
World clubs finals,We were lucky enough to compete in 4,from the 6/7 years we were in existance
1998 Bulgaria
1999 Czech rep
2000 Portugal-we won team bronze
2005 Italy
Good times,i have to say

[joffmiester]

top draw mate
i see what your saying the dutch festivals are not sponsored bye anyone its only the money we put in yet we have to book through a travel agent to get the digs at the right price  its not right
its like over here white acres have festivals running right through to June  yet with the odd exception you can't afford to have the time off so your limited to which ones you fish
like you say