Lower Thames Championship could see pole produce winner

Warlingham & District AS is proud to announce that Drywall Ceilings and Partitions (DCP) are to support the Lower Thames Championships that are to take place on Saturday, 18 September 2010.



The event that can cater for up to 200 anglers, will take place on the Thames between Laleham and Molesey which promises to provide even better catches than 2009. Daiwa Dorking captain Steve Sanders said: "The Thames seems to be back to where it was in the early 80s with plenty of dace in the river with Molesey and the Desborough Cut being especially good."

Although some new access points to the river are being negotiated in the area where bream are known to reside, this year could see pole anglers reap all the major prizes with the winner likely to collect a cool £1,500.

DCP Managing Director Chris Dulley said: "We are very pleased with the feedback and publicity this event obtained in the past couple of years and that our contribution of £3,000 spices up the prize list. We look forward to seeing not only the established river anglers but also hope to see the up and coming commercial fishery stars try their hand at something slightly different.”

Tickets for the event cost £25 each with cheques made payable to Warlingham DAS. Postal applications, enclosing a SAE should be made to Dave Harper, 27 Queen's Court, Kempton Walk, Croydon, Surrey CR0 7XG.

Are you up for the Challenge, part of the Midlands match scene sees us take on the might that is TKs Harrisons crew, on the canals around Walsall, having battered them last year on the Curley Wurley, they are taking us back to the scene of their previous lucky win on the Cannock Extension.
The match will be fished on Saturday 7th August 2010 and be followed by an after match get together over a pint and barbeque at Harrisons club. Are you up for the craic if so post up on the Harrisons Silly Challenge thread http://www.talkangling.co.uk/upload/...challenge.html

3rd FIPSed World Championships for Veterans, Watersportbaan, Gent, Belgium

England’s Veterans angling team continued to impress when winning their third consecutive team medal when they were narrowly beaten into silver spot on the podium by host team Belgium in Gent from 10th – 11th July. The rowing course had been the venue for other England angling successes and was where the junior team won gold and later in 2008 Callum Dicks won the individual title.


Manager, Joe Roberts and Dick Clegg were joined on the bank for a couple days by Mark Downes whose knowledge of the venue from his previous visits was invaluable.


At the start of practice small roach and perch provided most of the weights but as the week progressed, quality bream began to make an appearance and team tactics had to be spot on for the weekend match. Eight countries lined the banks in temperatures that reached 36 degrees making bankside fishing almost unbearable. The match tactics were to feed joker in a leam based mix at 11.5m for bream and a groundbait and leam mix targeting small fish at 6m. England started well and after the first hour the team was on course for a good position. Knowing that bream would feed later in the match England fished for roach on 6m at the start and switched later to 11.5m as the match progressed.


The team selected for the first day consisted of: Terry Lancaster, Roger Holmes, Stan Binge, Dicky Carr with Don Slaymaker as the reserve.


At the end of the first day England were in 3rd position with hosts Belgium and Holland jointly in the lead with 11 pts. Both Holland and Belgium had ignored small fish going with an out and out bream approach.
Day 1
1 Holland 11 pts
1 Belgium 11pts
3 England 14pts
4 Italy 16pts
5 France 17pts
6 Hungary 18pts
7 Germany 26pts
8 Portugal 31pts


Don Slaymaker replaced Stan Binge for day 2 which saw little change in team tactics but everyone had to be aware that a switch to bream fishing would come earlier in the match. Again tactics were almost spot on with three of the team landing quality fish, and Don Slaymaker the top weight in the match with 12.900 kilos.
Day 2
1 Italy 11pts
2 Belgium 12pts
3 England 13pts
4 France 15pts
5 Hungary 16pts
6 Holland 23pts
7 Portugal 27pts
8 Germany 27pts


Overall
1 Belgium 23 49.240
2 England 27 42.185
3 Italy 27 38.345
4 France 32 32.005
5 Holland 34 33.155
6 Hungary 34 31.415
7 Germany 53 14.765
8 Portugal 58 12.000


Individuals
1 Gustave Van Extergem Belgium 2pts
2 Roger Santermans Belgium 4pts
3 Roberto Torri Italy 4pts


England team
Roger Marlow 6th 5pts
Terry Lancaster 7th 6pts
Dicky Carr 16th 9pts

Stan Binge and Don Slaymaker fished one day only.


Dick Clegg, OBE, International Events Manager said “The competition site and the organisation was excellent, but the occasion was sadly tinged by the death of my long time friend Jackie Dupuis who has been involved in running both the French Federation and has been Secretary General of FIPSed for many years.”