Whitley Bay 2011 Open - full result

[davidhayley1945]

a big well done gary to you and your commitee,a lot of people don,t think about the time and effort and hard work that goe,s in to running an open,sadly the opens are starting to dwindle the days of a thousand plus anglers have long gone .keep up the good work for next year . davy:red:

 

[g-force]

a big well done gary to you and your commitee,a lot of people don,t think about the time and effort and hard work that goe,s in to running an open,sadly the opens are starting to dwindle the days of a thousand plus anglers have long gone .keep up the good work for next year . davy:red:

Thanks Davy, yes the big numbers are long gone from the local opens. Found this clipping from 1979's Chronicle, my last year as a junior, when the festival was a two day event - can't see getting nearly 700 rods fishing between Tynemouth & Blyth (as the boundaries were back then) ever again and 1000 plus over the two days.

Mind you, back then when you got back to the weigh-in you realised you knew half of the anglers as you'd spent most of the day chucking over each other!

I did hear talk about the possibility of Tynemouth resurrecting their Open - any chance you think?

Gary

 

[davidhayley1945]

i dont think so gary,the last onewe just broke even ,we could never get sponship from the major firms ,and paid most off the prize table out off club funds the number of anglers were dropping every year as you have all ready found out ,i just hope the eveing open is a success for you davy .