What has your respective personal associations with Daiwa as consultants and its product tackle contributed to your angling personal development both as a match-angler and in enhancing associated skills because of particular items?

We all fish matches be they club or open most of us try to do our homework on the venue, what do you do in addition to gain that special something that makes all three of you ( Will Raison,Steve Ringer and Kieran Rich ) big match winners and much more sucessful than most on the open circuit.

What is the one thing that you believe gives you a clear advantage over other anglers on commercial fisheries?

With the preparation that goes into fishing international matches for your country, how do you find time to practice fishing with large flat floats and international rules. Do you think their should be more matches in the UK fished to international rules on natural waters? Is there scope for a series?

Do you still have fun fishing?

If you could pick one non English angler to represent England at a CIPS World Championship (either float or feeder) who would you select and why?? 🙂

How much time do you devote to international style/team fishing inbetween your normal club/open matches, pleasue fishing and feature/magazine articles? And does the amount of time you spend practising for International events affect your normal fishing routine or vice versa?

if you had to have another job not associated with angling what do you think you would of ended up doing .

If there was one method and one bait you could take to any commercial fishery in the country, what would it be and why?

Question to all 3.
Which commercial fishery rule do you find the most annoying or puzzling?

as a novice to match fishing , what would be the 3 most important key points of advice that would help on natural & commercial waters

Rank these in terms of importance; bait, depth, presentation.

How much preparation time on average do you spend per match and do you try to standardise your rigs with regard to line size and hook choice.
I’m getting to the point where I take so much stuff to my peg to cover every eventuality it is starting to blow my mind. :confused:

Being Professional

There is a clear difference between the pleasure angler and the club / open angler. In general this difference in preperation is massive. There is a difference between the club / open angler and professional angler however how you do this and the steps you need to take are not as clear. How did you guys take the big step from becoming a club / open angler to a seriousness professional and what advice can you give to those who want to aim to follow in the same footsteps.

Thanks

Mike

With the Olympics being on at the moment and the great support witnessed by all the GB competitors.
How would you go about getting the Angling world championships to the same level of exposure as certain other sports and receiving the level of support that England’s performances over the years have richly deserved?

In Using the Diawa TDR for match float fishing, would you ever make use of a very high quality fluorocarbon mainline for waggle presentation or consider the use of the latest nanofil line technology, and which in your opinion would give you the better outcome given the reels special attributes in association and relation to presentation, durability and line strength?

Is that it for poles now, standard packages all excluding One company seem to be 16 meters. Question to all 3 anglers, what are your thoughts on fishing past 16 meters ?personally I think you may aswell pick a bomb rod up. Thanks Anthony Waters

If you woke up to find that a fishing gizmo you had always relied on had never been invented and you were the only person alive to know all about it, what would it be? and what would you do about re-inventing it, would you take it to market yourself or trade it away to a tackle firm?

What should clubs and individual anglers be doing more of to encourage youngsters into fishing?
I think this is the greatest threat to our sport, we are all getting old!!!

I think that more needs to be done to promote fishing to youngsters? How would you go about doing this? Andy

What’s real happening under the water when my swim is fizzing and I cannot get a bite?

Whats the best fishing accessory (i.e. items under £10) in your box and why?

How are we gonna protect the future of our sport and get youngsters interested, on the bank and staying out of trouble??

You guys obviously spend many hours on tackle development, what would you like to spend time developing over the next 12 months specifically that you think would help us anglers most?
My thoughts (on a couple of things that irritate me), are line clips (make easier to release and harder for them to release themselves), also we need more help sorting out our pegs key features so maybe an accurate electronic swim scanner to fix to our poles to map out swims?

Earlier this year, I joined a local club which has a couple of nice still waters holding a decent head of bream, skimmers and roach, with a few tench, carp and ide. I’m on a very tight budget for bait, but have had some success feeding pellet with pellet or sweetcorn on the hook. Could you suggest an alternative choice of cheap (but effective) bait and feed?

What can be done to raise the profile of angling as a spectator sport, particularly for a television audience, and are there lessons that we can learn from darts?