Downes lining up powerful squad for Italy; Hook LINE AND SINKER.Byline: GARETH PURNELL BIRMINGHAM'S Mark Downes is finalising his team for the World Championships this year in Italy. The venue is the Spinadesco Canal, a man-made canal close to Cremona. Reports suggest that the canal has been very poor in recent months but the Italians have been stocking it like crazy with carassio (a kind of carp), bream bream: see sunfish. bream European food and game fish (Abramis brama) of the carp family (Cyprinidae). Found in lakes and slow rivers, the bream lives in schools and eats worms, mollusks, and other small animals. , asp and a few carp. The five-man team will come from Alan Scotthorne, Will Raison, Stu Gardener, Stu Conroy, Sean Ashby and Des Shipp. It's arguably the most powerful squad of anglers ever assembled anywhere in the world, but they will be up against it taking on an Italian team who are simply brilliant on home soil and always have a trick or two up their sleeves. The event is being filmed for the new internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. angling TV channel onlinefishing.tv with the twopart show fronted by Match Fishing editor Dave Harrell. LOOK out for the all-new Team Abu consisting of 14 top Midland commercial match anglers who will be promoting the new Suveran range of rods. Roy Marlow has pulled together a team of anglers who are not high profile but who he says already use Suveran gear and have an 'awesome record' on stocked waters. These include Gary Sadler, Kev Russell, Steve Porter Steve Porter may refer to:
Gordon Parker is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, specializing in research in mental health. and Steve Conway. "The plan is to grow the brand and increase exposure of the new range and if it works we'll be expanding Team Abu into carp fishing," said Roy. MORE than 1,600lb of fish were weighed in by the ten teams of five who contested the UKDMFC Teams Championships at Woodland View Fishery. Midland Bears White put in an impressive eight-point score to be declared champions for 2008. The team of Pete Willis, Terry Robson, Jim Ellis Jim Ellis may be:
THE Monument Fishery at Shifnall is taking bookings for 2009. To make a booking call 01952 463141. Click on www.total-fishing.com to join the UK's No1 online angling community. |
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