We are still in need of more controllers for the world flyfishing championship. All controllers who sign up for the 3 days will recieve:

A commemorative bottle of Glengoyne with a personalised worlds label
Snowbee shirt with worlds logo embroidered on.
Landing net
Other commemorative items

If you are interested please register on
http://worldflyfishingchampionships2...rollerform.pdf

and of course be able to observe some of the best flyfisherman around

Whats involved? Although there have been some details it's a bit vague
Leven is my nearest.

I would love to be able to control and have an opportunity to watch some of the best anglers in the world compete at an arms length!

If you become really desperate I could travel across from NI and let on I'm a local

Hope all is going to plan

Keep in touch

PS Any chance of a shirt

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Would love to be involved, but dont have any competition experience but lm sure l could fill in a form. Are spectators encouraged.

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I live too far away but I would recommend that anyone who can get there considers doing this. You don't need local knowledge as the competitors should make their own decisions, you are not there to be a ghillie. You are also able to watch some of the World's best anglers at close quarters which is priceless.

Your job is simply to measure and record fish caught by your competitor, check that the flies and tackle used are within the rules and that's about it.

The competitor should present the fish to you in a net with the hook still in place. You unhook it, check that the fly is legal with the hook properly debarbed, measure the fish in the device given to you by the organisers, record it and then pass it back to the angler to release. You don't even have to wade across if your competitor crosses the river, they are required to bring the fish to you.

Having said that many controllers are happy to follow their angler and often carry their spare rod for them.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

Whats involved? not much more than it says on the pdf file. In a boat you look after 2 competitors and keep a record of their catch on an official score sheet. On a river beat its the same but you only have one competitor to control for.
Is NI to far?- well if you can get here we will use you as we need non scottish controllers to control for the Scots. I would have to wear the shirt on melvin!!
Spectators- its difficult on the lochs you would not get close enough to see much except when they leave and return, on the river sector you will be able to view but from a distance

Thanks sewinbasher for the input

I noted from the Fips mouce rules that in the boat comps, That only the controller will be allowed to operate the engine.

Jim

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I would have thought that the running of the World Championships would have been quite proffesionally done, obviously not, given that the controller application form does not even state which dates you would have to be available.

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Its on the web site under program the competition days are the 8th,9th and 10th June 2009

This is true Jim but when I fished the anglers took it in turns, usually 30 minutes each, to direct the boatman as to where and how they wanted the boat positioned. I don't imagine that things have changed much.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary