2-ой клубный чемпионат Мира ( 1982 год)

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A Look Back To 1982 And How Essex County A.A Won The Second Ever Browning World Club Championship.

This story has been written by Bob Cheeseman a member of the winning Essex County Team

Sunday August 1st 1982

To qualify for this competition your club had to win the 1st division national championships. Essex County AA achieved this in 1981 on the River Ancholme, beating 79 other teams with a score of 714 points, 26 more than the second place team.
So now it was time to prepare for the trip of a lifetime and fish the 2nd Browning World Club Championship on the River Arno in Florence Italy. We gained some knowledge before leaving by watching a video of an international competition on the venue the previous year.
Headed by manager Dennis Salmon, we decided that we would go to Italy 2 weeks prior to the event, giving us time to practice and gain as much local knowledge as possible. It was going to be expensive around £1500 each. Sponsorship in those days was hard to come by, however we managed to get a supply of groundbait and lightweight jackets from the then British Groundbaits. They also supplied some stickymag and Ace, a groundbait additive.
Because of the expense only 6 of the 12 man squad decided to go, they were Gordon Blanks, Tom Boulton, Bob Cheeseman, Graham Fletcher, Bob Nudd and Micky Thill and of course Dennis Salmon.
Having so much gear and groundbait to take, we loaded up the cars and took the ferry to France and travelled down through the Alps and into Italy, arriving the following morning in Florence. After unpacking we went down to the river and found it 3 feet down below normal level. The levels restored to normal during the following week
We found a local tackle shop and introduced ourselves to the owner Andre Coclini. He was very helpful and took us to the river and showed us how the locals approach it. He had great knowledge of the venue and a magnificent stock of whips, poles and pole floats in his shop.
During practice we found that the upstream sections were better for small Carp, Wasse, Carrasio and Goldfish. The third section held the bigger Carp up to 5lb and the last section closest to the Ponte Vecchio Bridge was the hardest, with small Chub, Carrasio and Carp. During practice we had weights of up to 26lb on the waggler and 20lb on the pole. Mainly Carp along with Wasse, Chub, Carrasio, Goldfish and Catfish. Most of our practice sessions were between 7am and 10am as these would be the match times. This gave us lots of free time to talk to locals, visit tackle shops and the surrounding areas. With the help of Andre and his knowledge of whip and pole fishing and our expertise of waggler fishing we formulated a plan of attack.
Bob Cheesemans Account of the Match
I started fishing at 7am on the 5 meter whip and was quickly into an 8oz Chub which gave rise to an applause from the watching crowd. A few smaller fish followed before that line dried up. I went over my joker line with a bloodworm hookbait but had very little response. I fished further out with maggot at 10 meters and caught some small Carp, Goldfish and Carrasio. In the last hour I went on the waggler line were I had been feeding small balls of stickymag and had an immediate response, taking some slightly better Carp and more Goldfish. One of my Carp kited way to my right, with my rod tip 2 feet under the surface playing the fish it went round the adjacent anglers pole tackle and brought an immediate strike. Fortunately my float never surfaced before his hook came away and I successfully landed it. My float staying below the surface until the fish was in my area stopped me having the fish disqualified.
During the match the runners had advised that Micky Thill had caught some Chub on the whip early but was now struggling. Bob Nudd had landed 2 decent Carp along with some bits and Tom Boulton although having been told off for feeding balls of groundbait bigger than a walnut, had had a poor start but was now catching up fast with his slider tactics.
When the final whistle blew at 10am Dennis and the runners Graham Fletcher and Gordon Blanks advised we may have won and that Bob Nudd looked to be the individual winner.
After weighing in and adding up the points the organisers ‘Browning’ advise that we had won both the team and individual trophies
Points and Teams on the day
Individual - Bob Nudd 1 point 9lb 11 1/2oz 1st individual
Bob Cheeseman 3 points 7lb 8oz 5th individual
Tom Boulton 3 points
Micky Thill 4 points
Total 11 points
Teams
England 11 points
Sweden 14 points
Belgium 15 points
Italy 17 points
France 18 points
17 teams took part
We were presented with this massive trophy on the bank immediately after the match and results had been announced. Later that evening we were formally presented with the trophy and accompanied medals. Bob Nudd was also presented with the individual trophy.
We are proud to say we are still the only English club to have won this prestigious event since its inauguration in 1981 and would like to thank Browning for a lifetime of memories.

The photograph shows (from left to right) Tom Boulton, Bob Nudd, Bob Cheeseman Holding the magnificent Browning Cup and a picture of the team having received the cup on the river bank.