2008 World Fly Fishing Championships

[Golden Eagle]

22-30 March, 2008
Rotorua, New Zealand

Final Individual Results
http://www.2008worldflyfishingchamps.../Final_Ind.pdf

Final Team Results
http://www.2008worldflyfishingchamps.../Finalteam.pdf

2008 FIPS-MOUCHE 2008 World Fly Fishing Championships website
http://www.2008worldflyfishingchamps.../ViewPage/Home

[AaronJasper]

We need to get in the top 3 dammit!

[alanb_ct]

You're on your way to making that happen. Hope to (and expect to) see your name on that list in 2009. It was really interesting studying your rig and flies today.

[SlowNDeep]

place name total placings points No of fish longest fish
1 CZE - Czech Republic 241300 383 125 540

Someone want to splain me what all this means

[AaronJasper]

I would venture to say the fish total is what it is.

The length is in millimeters I think.

The score I can't tell you much about though.

And on a funny note.. it all means they did better than us >

[alanb_ct]

The complete rules are here in English:
http://www.2008worldflyfishingchamps...07-english.pdf

[SlowNDeep]

name total placings points No of fish longest fish PLACE

Martin Droz - CZE 51360 78 20 540 1
Julien Daguillanes - FRA 48540 73 20 585 2
Tomas Starychfojtu - CZE 58980 98 22 515 3
John Horsey - ENG 39480 59 22 689 4
Lucjan Burda - POL 35240 56 22 580 5
Des Armstrong - NZL 52800 87 24 535 6
Simon Robinson - ENG 52140 90 24 552 7
Janne Pirkkalainen - FIN 28540 40 24 610 8
Tomas Adam - CZE 53180 87 25 475 9
Piotr Konieczny - POL 47180 80 27 533 10
Antonin Pesek - CZE 47060 71 27 518 11
Jan Bartko - SVK 35500 56 27 560 12
Sandro Soldarini - ITA 40460 65 30 535 13
Luca Papandrea - ITA 36380 59 30 580 14
Aaron West - NZL 34400 55 30 498 15
Donald Thom - CAN 32460 54 30 624 16
John Bell - NZL 29660 41 30 627 17
Kiyoshi Nakagawa - JPN 41000 66 31 525 18
Lloyd Struther - NZL 40660 64 32 585 19
Josh Stephens - USA 29440 44 32 560 20


And how does this work

[Davyfly]

Interesting results here, have not as yet studied each days totals for individual points, but l would hazard a guess at this. All be it l am not sure how they sectioned the river beats. Fishing the lakes is a different deal, all have the same advantage.
You stick the Czech boys in first position fishing a river section and they will very likely fish it out and attain max points for that section, they may well also do same for other sections they fish after others. they are that good, focused beyond belief.
They had 4 guys in the top 20, that says it all.

They have a very strict team regime and work together, which is one of the most important issues for a team to win, aside from the fact they have great skills as individuals, the French are not that far behind either. And they very quickly asses how to fish new water.

There was a time way back that the English team were invincible, all be it l see my old friend John Horsey did real well in this event. I have no idea why Wales did so poorly, other than they did not have anglers of good skill. I need to have a word with my friend Moc Morgan about that one, he is the Welsh TM.

Davy.

[Magnet]

In metric lingo ,a 500 milimeter fish would be about 20 inches, wouldn't it? What types of trout were they catching?

[Davyfly]

Magnet.

Both Brown and Rainbow trout were introduced to NZ. The fishery there at one time produced monster fish, as with many systems to day human pressure has reduced overall fish sizes.
I had friends there that regularly caught 10lb plus fish in the hay-days, they eat them.

The USA is one of the few countries to day that still uses Imperial measurement. Yes, app 25 mm are to I ins. 10 per centimetre.
It is way easier to work in units of 10. USA currency was based on the Spanish currency historically.
The old English currency was in units of 12, hence l dozen. Or 244 pennies to one English pound. I was in my teens when the UK changed to metric scales of weight, measurement, liquid and coinage, it still confuses me as l still refer to the old Imperial way.

Davy