European Line Class and Boat Championships Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, 200 On the 17th August the opening ceremony to the 2008 Line and Boat Championships took place, all be it a shorter than planned parade due to the, as was described by the compare, “soft weather”, to translate to English; it was pouring with rain and blowing a gale! Unfortunately this weather continued on … [Read more...]

Chesil Beach 2008 The organisers of this years section shore championships selected the famous Chesil beach as the venue. This beach extends many miles along the South Coast but for our competition this year we were concentrating on the Eastern end at Weymouth. The beach here is steep and unlike much of the rest of the beach has a number of fish holding lumps of wreckage from … [Read more...]

Game Championship Zihuatanaejo, Mexico 2008 Getting to the venue proved a logistic challenge but then are not all the best things in life worth the effort? A Friday evening flight from Heathrow saw us landing at Madrid with just over an hour to make our onward connection to Mexico City where we had a 4 hour wait to make our final flight to Zihuatanaejo. Our group finally … [Read more...]

European Shore Championship Pwllheli, Wales The Headquarters, The Celtic Royal Hotel, Caernarfon, was excellent with good food, helpful staff and a well stocked bar. Registration and drawing for zones went on late into the night. Day 1; Fishing from Abersech beach 16:00-21:00. Fishing was scratchy with. strap Congers, Flounders, L.S.D and Whiting making up limited … [Read more...]

English Shore Championship Orfordness 2007 12th and 13th October It was the first time this Championship was fished in Orford; w e booked the Premier Travel Inn as our Headquarters which was 30 minutes car journey to the quayside. It was also the first time we had used a Travel Inn for our Headquarters, but with first class rooms , 25 yards to the restaurant and … [Read more...]