SURFSCAST WALES

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What an absolute privilege and a pleasure it was to welcome the worlds top casters to our club for the Century / Surfcast Wales International 2009. We had 41 casters from Wales, England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium, Germany,
Argentina and Australia come to compete in two days of casting heaven.
The weather was fantastic wall to wall sunshine with a light westerly wind both days straight down the field; you know what they say “The sun always shines on the righteous”.
Everyone was in great spirits meeting up again to re kindle old friendships as well as forging new ones; there truly was a tremendous atmosphere both on the field and at the Saturday night get together with loads of laughs and good humoured conversations. Talk of the night was the massive prize table and with everyone guaranteed a prize to take back home what could they achieve.
Day one was the 150g where casters had 10 casts or until 16:30 to nail their 2 best which would go towards their final score. After an easy start with casters making sure of having 2 measures things started to wind up full blow tournament style absolutely awesome display by the worlds best. Way out in the lead was the undisputed world champion Danny Moeskops a lead that he kept all day with a succession of massive casts. Behind Danny things were tight with the positions constantly changing until the very last round where the finishing positions were
finalised .
Going in to day 2 the 125g Danny was first ,Andy 2nd followed by Steve Boyt with only meters between them, all to play for now but what to do ? Play safe and get those mandatory measures or go all out from the get go , well some took the safe option and others put down the gauntlet . Once again Big Danny held his form hitting leads right out the back of the court with his Century TTR leaving the rest of the world’s best to sort out the rest of the finishing order.
This was one of the hottest contested competitions ever at our club with the positions changing cast after cast, round after round, right down to the last cast of an incredible event and no one really knew for sure where they had finished up.
The officials then took the numbers and hid away in the cabin for what seamed like an age while others set out the prize table which just blew everyone away they couldn’t believe that our generous benefactors had been so
supporting of the Surfcasting community by providing awe inspiring selection.
Century GB in particular Mr Simon Chillcot who was our close partner in the event and to whom we hold a
massive debt of gratitude for their contribution which consisted of a staggering six TTR’s an absolutely fantastic rod that hold numerous casting word records and used by the vast majority of the top casters ,six E1000 eliminators a brand new design , slim but very powerful and already setting records and three Kompressor SS top end casting fishing rods all with bags and reducers not to mention the t shirts and badges. A special thanks much be said to Mr Lew Marsden for all his input and help getting this together.
We had many other companies help to make this event so prestigious and with great gratitude we would thank them all for their help and support. Keens tackle and guns , Pure Fishing , Chris Macey , Sakuma , Anyfish
Anywhere Torbay Angling and QTC. Please take the time to let these wonderful benefactors know what this
support means to you.
Finally just to say thank you to everyone casters, sponsors, organisers and spectators for all you efforts and
congratulations to the winners .
Kind regards Surfcast Wales