English Shore Species Festival Dover 2008 We arrived at the Grand Burstin on Thursday for the registration and to draw our peg numbers, There were lots of concern over the weather forecast for the weekend which gave a 5– 6 locally 7. We ate breakfast with a good 5–6 blowing but as we had not received any telephone calls from Dover SAA we made our way to the Dumphead Pier to … [Read more...]

Swedish Lupus Summer Cod Festival Hot off the press and just back from Sweden we have our new Zero to Hero, our very own Mr Neil Cottington, who took a magnificent 5th place from a field of 106 anglers. Neil fished really well beating many established Swedish pirk specialists with a nice 8.5kg fish amongst his haul, last year he blanked both days (and don't I know how that … [Read more...]

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...]