lets hope David has enjoys his retirement, I have purchased match fishing from day one however the present format depicted in the magazines is a far cry from the innovative early days, these days we see head to head matches with anglers using different baits or alternatively sponsored anglers doing a feature on a venue either promoting the venue or promoting his sponsor, normally these are done midweek on an empty venue with no pressure and is an absolute con, this no more represents match fishing than a pleasure angler bagging up on his favourite venue on a pleasure day in his favourite peg during the week ,using his favourite bait on a venue devoid of anglers something we have all done! I long for the day when the magazine is more match fishing focused/orientated showing top anglers fishing matches warts and all or features on the local venue expert who wins or frames most weeks actually going through his paces on a match, there are lots of top anglers who blow out very often instead of living on past glories and hype lets see more articles of these lads fishing in the lions den (on a match) and under pressure. or will that spoil the reporters weekend?
TF_Fred Davis.
