My Father fished in that match and caught the biggest fish. It's weird seeing him twenty years younger than I am now. All I remember about it was that he came back with thousands and thousands of embassy cigarettes. He didn't smoke and gave them all away.
Johhny Toulson was a hero of mine when i was a kid and a memebr of Notts Federation. He was a master of Stoke Bardolph. I'm still fishing the Trent, not many on there though.
River fishing has declined in the Uk , a country where if you have the money you can pay the people who look after the waterways to discharge your waste into the waters they manage.
Love the old Abu closed face reels still take some beating on rivers looks like they were the state of the art then and still good now , lovely film no long poles then lol
Uk rivers have declined massively. I worked at factory who used all sorts of chemicals including acid. I noticed that run off from the factory site was entering the stream that ran through the factory. Being a countryman I brought it to the attention of the boss. He said don’t worry we pay the EA for water abstraction and we pay the EA to discharge waste into the river. The people who are supposed to look after are waterways earn money from people who pollute are waterways.
"This must've been ripped from our google video or youtube upload" Guilty as charged - copied from google video as I don't think anybody was watching it on there
How cool is it to find this video here. I spent the Monday evening after the win with Chris, Ray Mumford and Ken Collings celebrating his win at Molesey Thamesiders In Kingston...............
This is awesome! My father fished in the 1972 Woodbine Challenge - Johnny Thorpe if anyone remembers. Certainly he had similar tackle to that used here, and I like the use of the Van der Valk theme.
Great stuff!! Simple days. Incredible how much match angling changed in the following decade. Micromesh keepnets, feeder fishing, carbon poles, continental seat boxes etc. Mitchell reels and ABU 506s have certainly stood the test of time though.
Great to see this footage but has anyone out there got any footage from the 1974 Woodbine Challenge?? I have been looking for years now as apparently a film was made by WD & HO Wills but Bristol Records Office say that they dont have a copy. My Dad won it in 1974 so would love some footage - Please help!!
The match we all wanted to win back them. Never got past the regional finals myself. Great to see Chris Love, Dickie Carr and a few more of my contemporaries. Dunno how many of us are still about. Proper fishing when it was a massive participant game. None of that carp stuff.
"Everyone gets a packed lunch and a bottle of beer" lol. Fascinating historical window into match fishing. Waxed jackets and wicker seat boxes everywhere, love it, thanks for the upload.
The winner chris love bought himself a ford Cortina 2000e saw him driving it with his window cleaning ladders on top near the river thames at Staines...I was only 16 years old at the time!!!
Events like this with tobacco companies sponsoring were the best ,fishing golf tennis,darts ,snooker,rugby football ,loadsmore .I am privileged to know and fished alongside a woodbine champion .he won it from peg 31 ,what great days
Things have come so far from '73 but the abundance of fish will never be like times past...the participants are top notch ...California Ghetto Carp'n Club. ..I*B*CATCHIN
One of the lads in an old club i was with actually came second in this match with 69 pounds & 2 oz He qualified for Denmark by winning the North East semi on the river Wharfe at Ulleskelf with 14 pounds from the graveyard section. The same club could also provide a second placed finisher in Denmark with 89 pounds a few years later and i think that was the year Ken Giles won the match with 110 pounds of Bream
Great to watch yesteryear fishing and how it was shame that fish care wasn't high on the agenda then and from a time when I was just starting fishing a a small boy lol this is my partner's account my name's Dean
apollo36uk deserves a knighthood for this!...I first saw the tape in 1974/5 at a Hinckley Angling Club event at the "Sweet Pea Club" in Coventry Rd. Ivan Marks was guest speaker, but was late, think someone had to drive to Leicester to get him! Brilliant roach fishing, long trotting, 13ft glass rods and ABU 506's! A great bit where Ken Giles realizes that He has to "crank it up"..so changes to "the bomb", mid stream, to get a better stamp off fish....does so while standing up and holding rod!
I have always thought that " the gentle art of trotting " consisted of a centrepin reel and stick float. These anglers all seem to be using a closed face reel or a fixed spool. I'm going to be river fishing this autumn and I'll definitely be using a centrepin, a Grice & Young Gypsy D'Argent, which looks well worn but still functions perfectly well.
Look at when the fish were being weighed in fish just dumped on the bank to weigh separately and dumped in metal cages, thank god we look after fish so much better now, I've never had a fish injured or killed weighing in after a match even when weighing in 100lb weights
@@pimpedoutbarbie1 I thought you meant as they swung them in after catching them - but yes having watched the full video you're right that they are a bit rough at the weigh-in. It was the 70's though - nearly all blokes smoking & expecting tea on the table when they got home....
Golden days of match fishing, big competitions , with competitors on a more even playing field. 13ft rod and a reel. No £500 boxes or £2,000 poles
So true fishing was better in the old days now people are more interested in expensive fishing tackle than catching fish!!!
No F1 carp or fancy 16m poles. Nice to see.
fishing a stick float with a 13ft rod and an ABU closed face reel will never go out of fashion
My Father fished in that match and caught the biggest fish. It's weird seeing him twenty years younger than I am now. All I remember about it was that he came back with thousands and thousands of embassy cigarettes. He didn't smoke and gave them all away.
Smoking and Fishing....my two favourite things
Simon Foster with you Simon I could add another favourite but better not Beats the muddy pools of today Great days glad to have lived through it
Johhny Toulson was a hero of mine when i was a kid and a memebr of Notts Federation.
He was a master of Stoke Bardolph.
I'm still fishing the Trent, not many on there though.
Terry - I've just noticed you're a fan of the Sheep.....You are dead to me!!
+Simon Foster Man after my own heart :-D
Brill well before big business got into angling
Good old times when they used to hand out a bottle of beer 3:37
Die ing of lung cancer and fishing 🎣, what a combination 😮if you won a few hundred quid in them days be a absolute fortune 😅
River fishing has declined in the Uk , a country where if you have the money you can pay the people who look after the waterways to discharge your waste into the waters they manage.
Brilliant video the good old days ,better than now times
Love the old Abu closed face reels still take some beating on rivers looks like they were the state of the art then and still good now , lovely film no long poles then lol
two fingers to the commercials this proper fishing
Commercials have been good for fishing loads of fish to be caught fantastic!!! Love catching fish...
Uk rivers have declined massively. I worked at factory who used all sorts of chemicals including acid. I noticed that run off from the factory site was entering the stream that ran through the factory. Being a countryman I brought it to the attention of the boss. He said don’t worry we pay the EA for water abstraction and we pay the EA to discharge waste into the river. The people who are supposed to look after are waterways earn money from people who pollute are waterways.
Ha ha
"This must've been ripped from our google video or youtube upload"
Guilty as charged - copied from google video as I don't think anybody was watching it on there
How cool is it to find this video here. I spent the Monday evening after the win with Chris, Ray Mumford and Ken Collings celebrating his win at Molesey Thamesiders In Kingston...............
This is awesome! My father fished in the 1972 Woodbine Challenge - Johnny Thorpe if anyone remembers. Certainly he had similar tackle to that used here, and I like the use of the Van der Valk theme.
Great stuff!! Simple days. Incredible how much match angling changed in the following decade. Micromesh keepnets, feeder fishing, carbon poles, continental seat boxes etc. Mitchell reels and ABU 506s have certainly stood the test of time though.
Great to see this footage but has anyone out there got any footage from the 1974 Woodbine Challenge?? I have been looking for years now as apparently a film was made by WD & HO Wills but Bristol Records Office say that they dont have a copy. My Dad won it in 1974 so would love some footage - Please help!!
Love it Van Der valk is HOLLAND. Not Denmark.😆😆😆😆
The match we all wanted to win back them. Never got past the regional finals myself. Great to see Chris Love, Dickie Carr and a few more of my contemporaries. Dunno how many of us are still about. Proper fishing when it was a massive participant game. None of that carp stuff.
Dunno what the Van der Valk theme tune was on this for. He was Dutch, not Danish. Nobody smoked woodbines either.
"Everyone gets a packed lunch and a bottle of beer" lol. Fascinating historical window into match fishing. Waxed jackets and wicker seat boxes everywhere, love it, thanks for the upload.
Dickie Carr photobombing the announcer😃
The winner chris love bought himself a ford Cortina 2000e saw him driving it with his window cleaning ladders on top near the river thames at Staines...I was only 16 years old at the time!!!
Events like this with tobacco companies sponsoring were the best ,fishing golf tennis,darts ,snooker,rugby football ,loadsmore .I am privileged to know and fished alongside a woodbine champion .he won it from peg 31 ,what great days
Can't mistake the grating gears of a Mitchell reel.
great video,really enjoyed watching it,brought back memories.
enjoyed watching this but fish care is non existent.
Fished the Guden in the early 80s prolific water.
wow a brilliant video , took me right back.
thanks for posting
Chris love is a fantastic angler I saw him fishing when I was 16 years old on the river thames at richmond an absolute joy too watch ...
Remember when we were alive...wonderful video
So where was Ivan Marks on this day then?
Bottle of beer and pack lunch,just brilliant
Things have come so far from '73 but the abundance of fish will never be like times past...the participants are top notch ...California Ghetto Carp'n Club. ..I*B*CATCHIN
As it was the 'Woodbine Challenge', I wonder if smoking was compulsory during the match?
Hahaha!!!
Each competitor was given a packet of 20 woodbine cigarettes and they had smoke them during the competition!!!!
Good old days
One of the lads in an old club i was with actually came second in this match with 69 pounds & 2 oz He qualified for Denmark by winning the North East semi on the river Wharfe at Ulleskelf with 14 pounds from the graveyard section. The same club could also provide a second placed finisher in Denmark with 89 pounds a few years later and i think that was the year Ken Giles won the match with 110 pounds of Bream
Bet those rods are heavy !
Great to watch yesteryear fishing and how it was shame that fish care wasn't high on the agenda then and from a time when I was just starting fishing a a small boy lol this is my partner's account my name's Dean
£2000 prize in 1973! you could of bought a property back then with that in the North East and Yorkshire. when men where men thanks for posting
Chris love blew his winnings on a ford Cortina 2000e that's why he is still cleaning windows haha
Brilliant stuff.
Wonder if the Guden still has the shoals of roach or has it gone like UK rivers?
apollo36uk deserves a knighthood for this!...I first saw the tape in 1974/5 at a Hinckley Angling Club event at the "Sweet Pea Club" in Coventry Rd. Ivan Marks was guest speaker, but was late, think someone had to drive to Leicester to get him!
Brilliant roach fishing, long trotting, 13ft glass rods and ABU 506's!
A great bit where Ken Giles realizes that He has to "crank it up"..so changes to "the bomb", mid stream, to get a better stamp off fish....does so while standing up and holding rod!
What number was D Harrell’s peg
I bet they got free Woodbines, too! Brilliant upload; thanks for sharing this.
I have always thought that " the gentle art of trotting " consisted of a centrepin reel and stick float.
These anglers all seem to be using a closed face reel or a fixed spool.
I'm going to be river fishing this autumn and I'll definitely be using a centrepin, a Grice & Young Gypsy D'Argent, which looks well worn but still functions perfectly well.
TH-cam gold! Thanks for this.
This is a fantastic video!! Just great !! Thank you for uploading !!
60lb bags of Roach from a river, i wonder how many decades since that has happened...
Last season on the Hampshire Avon
Fantastic video. Thanks :)
wonderful
3:37 Dickie Carr??
Just watched it and said that's Dickie, rewound it and if you listen it says `D Carr 28` some faces from the past !!!
Stan smith bus organiser. Lol. The old boys club
Proper fishing, happy days guys :-)
So coooool man !! How fishing has changed since than
Disgusting the way they use to treat fish just swinging them in and throwing them on the bank
They are throwing them into keepnets so they can be weighed at the end & put back alive. They are not putting them on the bank.
Look at when the fish were being weighed in fish just dumped on the bank to weigh separately and dumped in metal cages, thank god we look after fish so much better now, I've never had a fish injured or killed weighing in after a match even when weighing in 100lb weights
@@pimpedoutbarbie1 I thought you meant as they swung them in after catching them - but yes having watched the full video you're right that they are a bit rough at the weigh-in. It was the 70's though - nearly all blokes smoking & expecting tea on the table when they got home....
£2000 then is now worth £30000