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The Inter-Counties Charity Match 2005 |
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Oh what a day... |
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| The ICCM was fished on the 20th, February by 66 anglers, a third of the people signed up decide that either the weather was too cold, illness or other reasons that they could not attend what turned out to be another great day out. | |
| The day went pretty well considering it snowed the night before leaving the roads down to Dunwich in a dangerous state, the staff at the Ship Inn made us very welcome by providing us with bacon rolls and hot drinks early on Sunday morning as well as allowing us to take their restaurant over for the after match presentations, thanks must go to David and his Staff. |
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| Once booking in was completed we all made our way over to the beach to find a snow covered and cold shoreline but with the wind at only around 10mph it was not to bad, a nice looking rough cod holding sea ahead. Once the match got started the first fish soon came in, John Abbott landing a 2oz pouting on his maiden cast, I bet he didn't think that would end up as his only fish of the day and even go on to win him a prize, with hindsight he could have been in the pub the rest of the day. | |
| As with most outside events the weather just got worse with the wind getting up to a very strong 30+mph straight down the beach making it hard to fish against the current and the weed it dragged up. I think by 3pm everyone was more that happy to pack up, any longer on the beach could have been a little bit hard to cope with. | |
| The weigh-in was quickly completed over at the car park and everyone raced over to the pub for a warm up and a pint whilst we continued to sell raffle tickets and sort out the prizes. | |
| The team captains with help from Jake did a great job in sorting the winning weight out and soon the news came through... | |
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winning county was once again Suffolk for
the second time running with an amazing weight of 8lb 10oz from its top
five with Essex second, only 2 anglers putting 1lb 6oz in with 3 fish
and Cambridgeshire bring just over 11oz to the scales for third place.
Norfolk's
15 anglers failed to catch putting them right at the bottom, bit like
the counties football team I guess....The winning weight game ran by Nigs was won be Jake Smith with a spot on guess of 2lb 14oz, he looked more than pleased with his prize of a tin of Quality Street bless him. The raffle went well and helped put £164 in to the charity fund, many thanks to the countless people that gave us the prizes, this was a real boost that we so badly needed. |
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The Full Catch Results. |
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Team |
No. Fish |
Weight |
| 1st | S Cook | Suffolk | 2 | 2lb 14oz |
| 2nd | W Perring | Suffolk | 1 | 2lb 9oz |
| 3rd | K Morley | Suffolk | 1 | 2lb 3½oz |
| 4th | A Hepworth (Jnr) | Essex | 2 | 11½oz |
| 5th | K Thrope | Essex | 2 | 10½oz |
| 6th | R Middleton | Cambridgeshire | 1 | 9½oz |
| 7th | J Banham | Suffolk | 1 | 8½oz |
| 8th | K Eley | Suffolk | 1 | 7oz |
| G Bell | Suffolk | 1 | 7oz | |
| R Mann | Suffolk | 1 | 7oz | |
| 9th | S Boyt | Suffolk | 1 | 5oz |
| 10th | P Symonds | Cambridgeshire | 1 | 2oz |
| J Abbott | Cambridgeshire | 1 | 2oz |
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| A quick total up gives up a fantastic rough total £700 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society but don't quote me on that but all in all what a great day out, a bit of fishing, banter, fun, a pint or two and raising some money for a very worthwhile cause. | |
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This event was brought to you by. |
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John Abbott - Mark Alsop - Kev Eley - Jake Smith - Dean Bass - Dan & Nigs Silverwood |
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With our great sponsors |
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Halls Group - Transport Investigations Ltd - John Abbott - Angling Direct - Floaters Tackle Yarmouth |
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| Jake Smith - Futters Bookmakers - Sudbury Angling Centre - Last Cast Bury - Reeves and Wrights | |
| Tackle Xchange - The Rig Man - Dorma UK - Tony Friend - Mark Alsop - Castways Felixstowe | |
| Tackle Up Felixstowe - Colchester Bait & Tackle - Norwich City Football Club | |
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Breakaways Tackle Ipswich - Markhams Tackle Ipswich - Stuart Clay Traps Melton |
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Radio Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire |
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Special thanks to people that did those little extra things without being asked. |
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| Mark Miller, Last Cast for getting so many of his customers interested in the match. | |
| Jake Smith, for helping out in so many ways before, during and after the match. | |
| Kevin Eley, for not only searching Suffolk for prizes but continued on into Essex. | |
| Nigs Silverwood, for help with the side games and at the presentations | |
| Barry Daynes, for kindly selling raffle tickets in a wet and windy car park. | |
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The event team would like to thank everyone involved, the Sponsors, Captains, Leader-Lines, Radio Presenters and all those anglers that sat on a cold beach for coming along, this event can only work with you all so... |
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THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT |
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THIS EVENT WILL BE BACK IN 2006 FOR ANOTHER CHARITY - VISIT LEADER-LINES FOR DETAILS ON THIS AND MANY OTHER EVENTS, NEWS AND FEATURES - LEADER-LINES, NUMBER ONE FOR EAST ANGLIA. (That's a Fact) |
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