World championship

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Took this off another forum

Heavy rain renders England’s practice useless.
After almost two weeks spent at the venue practicing, heavy rain has rendered Drennan Team England’s careful preparation useless. The hills feeding the River Morava, where the championship is set to take place have received prolonged and heavy rainfall, changing the usually docile river into a raging torrent.

Team member, Des Shipp said: “We might as well forget about information gleaned in practice up to now, when light floats and whips were order of the day. On a low river, the key to good results was catching bleak, but with the extra water in the system hardly any have been caught in todays practice – when 30g flat floats have been needed to hold bottom.”

Worryingly, it seems that worst may be yet to come, as sources suggest that the flow will increase from the 60 cubic metres of water that the river is carrying today, to over 300 tommorow. I am worried that even the mammoth 50g flat floats that I have tied up may not be heavy enough! To make matters worse, the temperature has dropped dramatically too, from 23 degrees centigrade earlier in the week, down to just nine degrees today.

As is normally the case when conditions change, it is going to come down to each individual angler to work out how best to cope with the conditions that they are faced with on the day.”

TEAM FOR THE FIRST DAY
1 WIL RAISIN
2 STEVE GARDENER
3 STU CONROY
4 SEAN ASHBY
5 DES SHIPP
Alan is sitting out of the first day, the conditions are better than first thought yet not long pole fish have been caught all bleak weights Sean was the top weight today with 2kg something but england’s sector was a faster length today the french in the next sector had a kg a man more than England in the steadier water still 2kg in 4hours of bleak ain’t bad fishing 

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http://www.matchfishingmagazine.com/news/item/1149-close-finish-at-world-champs#

[TF_daveyboy]

Unofficial results suggest that Serbia have taken the lead in this years World Championship with 19 penalty points. England look to be sitting in 6th place, some 10 points behind the leaders. Star performance on the day came from Derby ace, Sean Ashby, with a staggering 537 bleak for 6.289 kg. He told Match Fishing, “I’m obviously delighted with todays result, but more importantly, the team is still in the hunt for a medal. I am a big believer in the saying that you can’t win a World Championship on the first day, but you can loose one, and we still have everything to play for tommorow.”

Other notable performances include Steve Gardener, who came 2nd in the section with a weight of 4.788kg. Steve caught some bleak early, and added a couple of bonus 700g skimmers in the last twenty minutes. The team going in to tommorow’s match is yet to be confirmed, but it has been suggested that Alan Scotthorne might replace Stu Conroy, who struggled from a difficult area of A section today.  

England’s Performance

A Stu Conroy 12pts
B Will Raison 5pts
C Steve Gardener 2pts
D Sean Ashby 1pt
E Des Shipp 9pts

Unofficial Results

1 Serbia 19pts
2 Poland 23pts
3 France 24pts
4 Germany 25pts
5 Slovakia 29pts
6 England 29pts

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Poland 19pts
Serbia 19pts
Belgium 24 pts
France 24 pts
9th England 29 pts

Sean Ashby 1pt 6th on weight

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What about

Wales
Ireland
Scotland??

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@dunno wrote:

What about

Wales
Ireland
Scotland??

Some info here: http://www.sfca.co.uk/2012/09/15/59th-world-championships-day-1-results/

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@dunno wrote:

What about

Wales
Ireland
Scotland??

Scotland 22nd

Wales 32nd

Ireland 36th

37 countries fishing.

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I’d stick a couple of large dendras on the hook. 😀

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Full day 1 results here

http://ffpc.fr/index.php?rub=comp_inter&nom_text=Championnats%20du%20monde

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I think we have a really fascinatin day ahead. The top two teams are bound to go for bleak again but I would be pretty certain more big fish will be caught. For a start the teams that are out of it (including all the home nations apart from England) will fish for big fish with bream the main target. Plus the big fish have been fighting a very strong current for three days and the river is now fining down – they will be more spread out and are far more likely to have a go… Re belgium… They may well go for broke… I know the manager from my time fishing these events and he’s won all team medals apart from a gold in his tenure I think… His team are comfortable fishing for them and I would imagine he does not think his team can actually win the gold fishing for bleak – we will see but that would be my bet… on the other hand with fewer teams fishing for the bleak it will mean that those who get their head down will draw and catch more of them… As for England they were a bit unlucky … I gather DES shipp was told to go for big fish and got one, but lost another one at the net that would have gained him four or five more places. They still have a chance of a medal…

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