All our yesterdays...........some gud young uns

#21

Yep that was my first junior national and I remember it like only yesterday. I never did any good on any of the practices and only just got in the team. Funnily enough I went only a couple of years later with Swadlincote AA in Div 2 National (Think it was 1980 ) and had a good weight of around 5lb. I think I have fished 5 nationals on that venue in various divisions. Junior, Div3, Div 2, Div 1 twice. Last national I fished on there found me on an end peg on some boats. Just started to bag on the hemp then the angler at the next peg fell out with the bloke on the boat ! After the row the bloke revved the full ****lucks out of the engine and turned the bottom upside down ! Never caught for the last one and a half hours then had a couple at the death. Beaten by two bream weights for 3rd in section only by 100 / 200g ! My 4 kilo odd of roach put me 13th overall, gutted. Could have ******** that angler for that he was bang out of order as the boater was not making that much noise. Ah well another spell of good luck !!!

choppy you have some great stories from the past love hearing them

you should be old than me though

our paths every crossed much back then whether we didn't know each other or its my memory that is failing me

:-/but great stories
what ever happened to roachy he was from your neck of the woods

#22

Ta for sharing those memories with us C W H

Even though that last un didnt result in what could have potentially happend at least you've 'seen it', 'lived and experienced it', and have always got that memory of a chapter of your life that noone can ever take away

trypewriter · #23

I wonder if CW Hero remembers the occasion when me and him were in Eddie Coales' car on the way back from the Witham when it caught fire and Eddie drove it onto a petrol station forecourt where a guy was filling a car up with petrol (it was an old fashioned place where they served you, rather than serve yourself). The guy's face was a picture (his language was atrocious though - lots of words with fs and cs in them, the sentence ending with 'off').

#24

Yes I do Trype !
Mind you Eddie can f*** and B**** with the best !
I have not seen Eddie for years !
I remember you had a few roach on the wag but was next to Mick Peverley who caught a lot more !
I think it was him, anyway did he not tell you the reason he had caught more roach was that he fished an 18 than your 20/22's. I remember we kept talking about it on the way home until the car began to smoke !!!!!!!!!!!!

trypewriter · #25

You are absolutely right. The day in question the river was a horrid grey colour and it looked like snow melt had gone in, so I kept things neat and tidy. The guy below blasted bait in from the off and gave me a right good hiding. Not only did I discover after the match that he was fishing two maggots on a size 18, but he was fishing more than a foot under depth and running it at them (It was ripping through as well!). He did it from start to finish which I thought was a a bit strange, but he then told me that he'd practised on the length the day before and eventually sacked up using those tactics, so he'd decided to start on them. Local knowledge eh? I think he did me about 14 lb to 7 lb on the day. Happy days mate.