Reels On Wheels Fishing Festival 2009

After the huge success of this years fishing Festival we can confirm that we will be making this an annual event.

The 2009 event will be held over the weekend of the 6th and 7th of June and will broadly be run in the same way as this years event.

It will be held again at the Manderson Trust lakes between Cambridge and Huntingdon, which is a fully accessible fishery.

There will be a shorter match held on the Saturday again sponsored by The Wandering Angler this match will start at 1pm and finish at 5pm this allows plenty of time for people to get to the match without having to drive through the night. You will be fishing for the Wandering Angler ROW cup which was won this year by Jon Calli. (A huge thank you to WA for your continued support)

On the Saturday evening we will be having a BBQ which will be included in the price of the weekend and if the atmosphere is anything like this year bring your bandages as you’ll need them to repair your split sides.

Sunday morning we will be providing bacon rolls at £1 each done on the BBQ again and all weekend we will have soft drinks available for sale.

The Sunday match will start at 10am and finish at 4pm you will be competing to win the Reels On Wheels Festival cup which was won this year by Dave Few.

After the match we will hold the presentation and draw the raffle.

As well as the match cups there will be prizes for the best angler of the weekend by weight, the best angler of the weekend voted for by the competitors and a drawn pairs competition all sponsored by The Wandering Angler, there will also be a prize for the biggest fish of the weekend.

As with this years festival Mick Brown will come along on the Sunday to join in with the party atmosphere, pose for photos and chat with the competitors.

The cost will be the same as this years event at £20 for the whole weekend, to confirm your place we will again be asking for a deposit of £10. We are hoping that this years festival will be bigger than last years and for the 40 places to go quickly. The places will be reserved on a first come first served basis so if you’d like to come get your cheques etc in quickly. PM me for details of how and where to send your payments.

We will again be selling raffle tickets for everybody who would like some whether you will be attending or not, again PM me for full details of how to get yours, last year everyone who bought tickets won at least one prize so the odds are in your favour.

Email me or PM me for any info or to book your place.

Well, I'm planning on attending next years venue, as I missed this year.

So come on guys and gals put your names down for such a cracking event.

Your places are booked TT

We have already had bookings for almost half the spaces available, it seems that word of the festival has spread

So Claire , need you to tell us what you want us to bring to make it go with a bang.

Are we doing a fund raiser of some kind?

That's great news Claire......you have done a cracking job on advertising the event

All you need to bring is yourselves and your tackle, oh and any alcohol you might want , there will be a raffle etc so if you'd like tickets bring a few pounds for those, the main thing is everyone comes along has some fun and joins in.

We supply the location, and the BBQ everyone else supplies the atmosphere

cant wait

Paul, I hope you relize that I will have to out-fish you on this one

I can't take any prisioners lol

it will be fun,me ,dave and baggie are going to gang up on you

mmm that sounds like a challenge?? pmsl

Yes AC and I could do with some help here *hint hint*

We have just recieved all the information regarding the 2009 fishing festival from the Manderson Trust whose lake we are hiring.
They are now enforcing a total alcohol ban on their lakes, however as we are hiring them for a whole weekend and also providing our own liability insurance they will allow alcohol at our event, with a couple of conditions.
1. No glass of any sort to be taken onto the site
2. Anyone who overindulges and becomes unruly will be asked to leave by the trust.
We have to pay a deposit for at least the first lake now, so could those who have not paid us their deposits please do as soon as possible.
We already have well over 20 people who have said they will be coming and so far we have recieved 8 deposits. We will not be holding places without deposit so please get your deposits to us as soon as possible. We don't want anyone to miss out on a great weekend.

We have now recieved deposits for all the places at the festival so we are closing entries for the event.
All those who have expressed an interest in the festival but not paid their deposits will be put on a reserve list and contacted should a place become available. We also do this for anyone else who is interested in a place.

As it is only 6 weeks until the Festival we need to start getting final payments in from everybody who is coming.
So if you have only paid your deposit could you please get the remaining £10 to me as soon as possible PM me for details of where to send the money. For those that have paid the full amount already thank you very much and see you all soon

Well we only have 4 weeks to go untill the festival and it is about time we gave those of you who are unable to attend a chance to join in the fun, so like last year we will be selling raffle tickets to you all, the tickets will be £1 each and as well as the prizes we have listed on the ROW forum we have some more coming and a few special ones to add to the pot too so you could win something wonderful.
If you would like to purchase some tickets then please PM me for the address and payment details, good luck everyone
For those coming to the festival please don't forget to bring a few bits of change to buy yourself a few raffle tickets too