Last Cast Squad News - Team Meetings, Venues, Matches.

Hi Colin

Look forward to the practice at cudmore on feb 16th,hope a number of the team can make it.

regards Peter

We are going to have a practice for Round 1 of the VDE Supercup. This will take place on Friday 16th February at Suez, Cudmore. Please let me know if you can attend. Dont worry if you can’t because of work.

Getting on to Suez to practice at the weekends is difficult, because obviously it is used for Opens. Basically, you have to take pot luck and enter the open, and hope you draw on Suez. The alternative is for us to book Suez for a Saturday, but we will need to take quite a few pegs to justify this. Let me know if you are interested in doing this, and we can see if it is viable.

So basically you need to get two answers to me: 1) can you fish on Friday Feb 16th? and 2) do you want me to investigate booking Suez for a Saturday (or are you happy fishing the opens)? 

Cheers, Col 

Our round 1 match against Urmston and Boathouse is now to be fished on Saturday 24th February, on the Suez canal at Cudmore. It is teams of 8 and our team is as follows:

 - Neil Lloyd

 - Pete Lowry

 - Steve May

 - Colin Mercer

 - Pete Mercer

 - Sean Mulheir

 - Pete Mulheir

 - Pete Woodfruffe

Reserve is Pete Jones. This is the team for the first round, and should we progress to the next round, it may change.

Bloodworm and joker are banned. Frank at Cudmore has agreed to give us the whole of Suez, so with 24 anglers and 50 pegs, we should be able to double-peg it. We’ll sort this nearer the time. The tie will be decided on points, not weight, with anglers in sections of 3.

I plan to organise a practice, but with Suez having matches on most Saturdays and Sundays, this may be difficult. Will keep you posted. Col.

Have just heard from the captain of Boathouse. They cannot now make Feb 17th. Therefore we plan to shift it back one week to Sat Feb 24th.

Will try to speak to captain of Urmston tonight, and then Frank at Cudmore tomorrow, to re-arrange. Please check if you are available for following Saturday ie Sat 24th Feb.

Watch this space. Col.

The next squad meeting will be 8pm on evening of Thursday 15th February - venue to be confirmed. Try to make it please. Col.

As you know, we have drawn at home against Urmston AA and Boathouse AS. The tie will take place on Saturday 17th February at Cudmore. It will be teams of 8, with 3 anglers in each section, with the top angler scoring 3 points, second angler 2, and third angler 1. I’ve now spoken to both captains - friendly blokes so it should be a good day.

I’m going to ring Vic/Frank at Cudmore to see what lakes are available on that day, and as soon as its booked, I’ll let everyone know. Please let me know if you are available to fish, either by posting a message, sending an email, or phoning me on 07767 601564.

This is a club competition, and we need to respect the spirit of it, so sponsored anglers such as Andy and Darren will not be invited to fish.

All the above is provisional, subject to confirmation once I’ve spoken to Cudmore. Will keep you posted.

Col.