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Only you think it is fabulous, Tommy, everybody else thinks it`s 💩

Well done Tommy. Great words about Parko. I personally knew him through my dad Dave Swales and my uncle John Swales. He also used to come with us, Dalton Prog lads, to Westwood every year. A great bloke who will be greatly missed.

Great story Tommy just to let you know you were a great inspiration to me as a kid when I started fishing and to this day you still are, thank you x

Welcome Home Tommy, damp, wet , miserable England😂😂😂

well done tommy

What’s the name of that box and punches please

Hi Tommy..... Fantastic video as usually.... Greatings from Serbia.

My rod holder thing bounces all over the place. Annoying as.

Great filming

Great video Tommy 👍

Hard luck Tommy, you know better than most that fish swim, you can't catch what's not there, even if you're a World Champion.

Took your advice and got one. Bloomin brilliant. How did I manage before??

work , work , work , we all feel your pain tom , errrr

Very best of luck on the trips abroad tommy

Fantastic video Tom Well done 👍🎣

How do you get here from Doncaster and is it usually booked up for matches?

Good luck on freestyle & vets

Hi tommy. How do you get to the car park for that stretch? I fished further down near the docks last week

Why did you have to mix the fjuka squeeze ready groundbait Tommy?

What a fantastic story.

47 years ago I think it was, maybe 48, I was a fishing obsessed early teenager, and our school club had done ok in the schools national on the Warks Avon at Evesham, one of our regular waters. But one weekend I went there just to watch: it was an Angling Times super league match, and boyhood hero Ivan Marks was in it. I went with a lad called Richard Blew and we got there very early, excited. As we walked along the river a tall, long haired angler asked us, in a Yorkshire accent, “Are you lads local? What do you know about fishing this river?” We recognised him as the Bionic Bleaker, and he seemed genuinely interested in hearing us talk about what were, in retrospect, the very basics: stick float down the inside, waggler line across, chrisoidine maggots and casters, maybe a pinch of hemp, bread based ground bait - a real case of telling granny how to suck eggs! But he stuck with us along the whole length of the match stretch, and asked what we knew about each peg. We were a bit star struck, and pleased that someone was interested in our opinion! We wished him well at the draw, and then rushed off to make sure we were at the front of the crowd behind Ivan, a near mythical figure to us. We watched every cast, noted every change of line and tactics, and counted every cigarette! Ivan did ok, but he had two prolonged spells where the bites became scarcer, and those few harder to hit, and he lost a couple of big chub, to groans from the crowd. Word was that the long-haired fella was doing much better, further upstream … We followed the weigh all the way along, and sure enough, with 23lbs odd if I recall, you won it; Ivan was 5th or 6th with about 16lbs. But that’s a vague memory. I picked up the board that had Angling Times Superleague - Tom Pickering printed on it. You signed it for me; I kept it for years, in my parents’ garage, until they passed on. I drifted away from fishing - certainly competitive fishing, though I have dabbled from time to time over the decades as I’ve moved around - a bit of small river flyfishing in Derbyshire, some big barbel hunting on a mate’s farm on the Herefordshire Wye, some sea fishing for food in the Western Isles and in the Med, but in recent years, health failing a bit, I have relaxed very effectively watching fishing videos on RUclips. It was good to stumble across you again in these circumstances, and realise you are still a master. All power to your elbow: thanks for showing an interest in what a couple of youngsters knew about their local stretch, nearly half a century ago.

Probably, a Daft Pike that broke the main line loop ?

Should get ursen down to the long pond Barnby dun see how good you really are on a tuff venue

Towing in

Still no fjuka groundbait, can't understand it seeing as it catches everything that swims.

Great result👍

brilliant info about the tip Tommy 👍🏻 🎣

That quiver tip not lined up with rod rings is playin havoc with my ocd tommy😮

Is that Pollington Tom ? Fished a club match there a few year ago, we were nearly all Watterlicked !!

On a river, chub & barbel are smarter than F1's etc & probably don't want to get too near the feeder, or maybe they like the way the pellet wafts in the current on a longer hook length. Remember how we used to fish for chub & barbel using a 3 foot hook length back in the day, when Method feeder wasn't even a thing !! (I'm 67) So maybe even 12 or 15 inch, bearing in mind, the pellet ends up downstream from the feeder - on a river anyway !!

What was the "Transfer Fee" lol. ⚽

Hi Tommy that is the best fishing video I have ever seen and I will certainly be getting some of that liquid flavouring for my pallets. Keep up the great content 💯👌👍

Great tesult👍

Can't believe you never used 2 important baits in your groundbait bud?.......as a 80s match angler ....would have thought you of all people would have used these......I ain't gonna say what.....as you should know..... certainly did me ok...wouldn't fish with out them 😉

Now that's a reet proper canal me duck 🦆

Alan Barnes has never bought a pint !!!

Strange you don't use the fjuka groundbait.

Could have been worse you may have been asked to fish for a southern team. Strange none of you yorky bars every came over in the 1970's to fish the big matches in Lancashire

You did it for yorkshire and a win for leeds

Promotion at last to Lancashire 😅

Drone footage10/10 JONATHAN

do pike count

Big perch in there Tommy seen them caught over five pound

Would you not catch on the little point at the side of you would that not hold fish?

Can you park at back back of peg on this stretch?

I like the way you've set your box up, simple, never thought of that 😂

Fancy getting grandpa on the scales, no conscious some folk 😁💪👍 Good luck on the national Tommy 🤞,keep mr kerry away from the draw bag 😂

One man and his dog. 👍

May be a pike

Tom Pickering, great content I really liked it