Drennan Superleague Western Division

joffmiester · #21

dodge i take my hat off to you and your lads

we went through the same in the super league final

:-[most of the lads counld'nt get time off or were on holiday and as you know the result showed
but at least we turned up and gave it our best shot

i hope i have turned the corner and have increased the team so if anyone do's not fancy a venue or work has to come first i can have a squad for most matches
the days of falling out because you have been dropped have gone and now team meetings are done mostly on the phone or after matches
some times we all forget fishing is a hobby and should be enjoyed

#22

If teams went backwards to the days of say 15 men squads angling in the country would go forward, the England team especially.

Wise words worth thinking about.

Guest · #23

agreed on that one mr yards

. teams of ten , max squad 15 , leagues fished on natural venues lake , river and canal ,like the old border league from 15/20 years ago

(great days

) (but no more

). maybe its time for a revival of sorts. as for england improving their chances in the future, why dont we start inviting all the italian and french internationals over to fish the ditches everyweek so we knacker their chances up

just a thought but what is hook a duck fishing in french and italian?

#24

If teams went backwards to the days of say 15 men squads angling in the country would go forward, the England team especially.

Wise words worth thinking about.

Well said Bill

totally agree mate

#25

dodge i take my hat off to you and your lads we went through the same in the super league final :-[ :-[most of the lads counld'nt get time off or were on holiday and as you know the result showed
but at least we turned up and gave it our best shot
i hope i have turned the corner and have increased the team so if anyone do's not fancy a venue or work has to come first i can have a squad for most matches
the days of falling out because you have been dropped have gone and now team meetings are done mostly on the phone or after matches
some times we all forget fishing is a hobby and should be enjoyed

Thanks for those kind words Joff

i have a bit of thinking to do, but firstly i want to get back to enjoying my fishing......been going through the motions a bit of late.
Fishing two of my favourite venues this weekend, the river weaver and staffs/worces canal, so hopefully will catch a few .......

joffmiester · #26

bill it will never go back to 15 members non of us can afford to fish two team matches in one weekend bye that i mean big team matches in different areas say one on the weaver and one on the soar i have to pick some for one and some for the other you might get one or two of the lads fish both but not ten very often
this how ivan got around teams
take our super league round on lakeview it will be like the uk champs all over again but if i don't follow suit we would be last but one thing is for shore all the anglers fishing for leicester don't fish for anyone else
ivans little black book still has its uses

and you have to remember that you win nothing in the super league until you are in the final

#27

Joff,
I meant if EVERY team went back to 15 in a squad not just the Leicester Mars Bars

Surely this would be beneficial all round for any future England set-up.
OK agreed they are doing OK at the moment but what about ten years down the line.

I havn't got a crystal ball and who knows what the future holds.
We at Eclipse struggle to get ten at times but two team National gongs in three years must prove something.

Don't ask how we did on the other year1

joffmiester · #28

i see what you mean back in the old days we did'nt have commercials and your squad fished rivers and canals and most of the team could handle that
but today most semis and finals look to be going to commercials
a lot of anglers are now born and breed on commercials and fish them 3 or 4 times a week and to keep in touch you have to include them in your squads and that means bigger teams

#29

So its the Bridgy in Manchester this sunday for the Drennan superleague practice

Edge lane bridge Stretford (think i drew there a couple of months ago ;) ) to the gas works Trafford Park

The permenant pegs are closer than on a commercial, there will be at least 40 boats all doing 20mph,only 20 ASBO`s have been served this week....... some good news tho ..... the cormorants have had a rest all week, they have mainly stayed in Salford Quays !!!!!

#30

So its the Bridgy in Manchester this sunday for the Drennan superleague practice

Edge lane bridge Stretford (think i drew there a couple of months ago ;) ) to the gas works Trafford Park

The permenant pegs are closer than on a commercial, there will be at least 40 boats all doing 20mph,only 20 ASBO`s have been served this week....... some good news tho ..... the cormorants have had a rest all week, they have mainly stayed in Salford Quays !!!!!

What will it be like dodge?

#31

I have been down for a walk on the way home from work Lloydy, plenty of fish topping on the boats at edge lane and at the yuppies and rathbones, didnt manage to get up to the gasworks. To be honest the length being used is not the best stretch of the bridgy, but it is where all the bigger matches in recent years have been fished........ the end pegs will be good..... permanent pegs 350, 390 & 391 plus all the boat pegs at edge lane 351 - 360 , the tree pegs 372 & 373 could throw up anything and look really good and the yuppies to rathbones 380 - 388 usually fish well this time of year. Probably 10lb-15lb will win but if the bream show on a couple of pegs 20lb plus could win. The pegs i have mentioned are permanent pegs !!! sometimes they paper peg it to give a bit more room ;)

#32

Mars Bars ??? Think i won a multipack yesterday on the Bridgy Superleague practice

as several yam yam members of this forum were pegged next to me

or is it yum yum

#33

Drew peg 12 dodge conny and paul hughes said it were crap,so i threw the teddies and my dummy out of the pram. Two bream later felt a bit better, strange the way fish switched off tho.

#34

Nice one Lloydy

funny that mate coz hughesie also told Rob Middleton peg 10 was crap and you both came 1st & 2nd in the match

Seriously tho ...... i bagged up with roach for 3 and a half hours and also suffered a terrible last hour and a half

ended up with 7.3.0.

I think a B/Joker match on there in a few weeks time would see some fabulous fishing ;)

#35

I had a proper mixed day on this penulitmate round at heronbrook

I drew on canal peg 2, the venue fished ridiculously difficult for most i think, i caught nearly all my fish from a line were i hardly fed anything, but on the lines i did feed i just had an odd liner or foulhooker

. I framed in an 80 pegger at heronbrook last year with 75lb of F1s but the venue has changed hugely since then and apart from meadow pool, putting 50lb together is a huge challenge. The main frame on my Milo seatbox came apart where it used to be welded together

which meant a very uncomfortable 5 hours leaving me almost sea sick

i was also left holding about 8 inches of my no4 section which snapped when i was playing a psycho 6lb carp which was hooked in the nether regions, just managed to grab what was left of my top kit as it started to vanish across my peg :D the fish was still on luckily

. I ended up with just 25lb for good points beating Englands Stu Conroy off the next peg

.
I left before the results were announced but word was Taypot had done the buisness again

endpeg · #36

I had a better day than you by the sounds of it Dodge! Weighed 51-9-0 and couldnt believe that was enough for 2nd in the match! Drew Peg 12 on Island and had to share the raised bar with two anglers opposite as they'd put 14 pegs on the lake instead of the 7 in the previous round. Just had a nice day catching small F1s up and down and down the edge. It was flat calm most the day with high pressure so was never going to fish great.

Surprised only one angler topped 60lb off the section on Meadow, especially with Drennan Team Ringers' Andy May on there! Im just glad we managed to be a point off the top 'without' having to resort to ringers!

endpeg · #37

Teams:
1st Tri-Cast Highfield, 32
2nd= Drennan NW, 33
3rd= Shakespeare, 33
4th Saints, 37
5th Fox Match Tipton, 44

Indiv:
1st Geoff Wyatt (Tri-Cast Highfield) 60-0-0
2nd Jon Arthur (Shakespeare) 51-9-0
3rd Paul Bick (Shakespeare) 47-15-0
4th Mark Addy (Drennan North West) 43-10-0

Not sure exact overall points but Saints are 1 point in front of us and 10 points in front of Drennan NW with one very tight round to go on the Bridgy!

#38

Endpeg..

They cant be ringers....surely their names are on the squad list that was entered at the start of the competition?

#39

Hats off to keiron rich who turned down at least 4 teams including mine ::)

#40

Teams:
1st Tri-Cast Highfield, 32
2nd= Drennan NW, 33
3rd= Shakespeare, 33
4th Saints, 37
5th Fox Match Tipton, 44

Not sure exact overall points but Saints are 1 point in front of us and 10 points in front of Drennan NW with one very tight round to go on the Bridgy!

Just fell off my chair

Tri-cast highfield won on a commercial :o

Knew i should have took some squatts