The Don Valley Specialist Group

[The Monk]

The smaller localised groups only really work on a by invatation only crietria, this is not any form of elitism, they just simply work better that way. At its height my own group was 75 strong and really became far too large and involved far too much paperwork just trying to keep members together and we never really fished together in more than a group of twenty, on average over the years I have found about 12 or less members is about right and even then factions can tend to break off into splinter groups.

 

[Matt Brown]

We also figure that only around two thirds of us will turn up to fish at the same time, so that gives us about enough space to catch a few but stay in touch to learn from each other.

 

[Ron 'The Hat' Clay]

And I'm shortly away on the first of my expeditions under the umbrella of the DVSG.

Tench and bream in the Fens.

 

[The Monk]

have a good trip Ron, sounds great mate

 

[Herr General Swordsy]

well i've got the lob-on for barbel !

Its raining.......Get in!

 

[Wolfman Woody]

"No more than 10 or 12 should be the guideline. Such groups can ONLY be formed on an invitation basis."

Oh well, I suppose our hotel group is just that (without an official title though)because very few get invited anyway. Only as our guest can you fish and we don't have riff-raff either. Smart dress code for a start not to mention only the very latest tackle, no cane allowed.

 

[The Monk]

The thing with the local group ideology was that they were all members of a collective, that was NASG/NASA/SACG/SAA, as as such they/we collectively got together under the umbrella once a year and generally met other groups, got pissed and talked fishing all weekend, no group is an island, although our group did fish on one once!! We would also proudly carry NASG/NASA/SACG/SAA badges on our person (era dependant of course) and thus be recognised by other umbrella members when we fished the circuit waters of the day ie Roman lakes, Redesmere, LLandrindod, Cuttle Mill etc etc. It was all part of the commeradiree errr crack (cant spell commeradaree)

 

[Baz]

They'll be wanting there own table at the Annual F.M. Dinner next, hahaaaaaaa.
Good luck to you anyway.

 

[Andrew Bailey]

Is the Roach group still going?

 

[The Monk]

The Roachfishers, no, Ron set this up a few years ago, email him for more details

 

[Feeling tranquil]

'I've learned loads from Bob R, Ron, Mike T and others and you will too.' How can we when it's such an exclusive group?

Seriously, hope it all goes well. There's more than enough knowledge and skill inthere for it to work exceptionally well.

Bob - I take it your health is up to it now? Hope so....

 

[Gary Knowles 2]

I didn't know the Bolton lads were still going Monk. I gave a couple f 'interesting' slide shows for them a while back. Is it still being run by Tony ?