Geordies and Mackems come to Smogland.

**jarrow viking** · 19-01-2008, 19:20

Date: February 24th Time: 2pm-7pm Venue: Steetley pier , please look at the bottom of this post for updates.

Get your name down for this titanic clash of rods and fish for the pride of your area!

The Geordies: Jarrow Viking, Bigpaul, Chloesdad73, Medlar, Rambo, Nicky, MickA, robz1994fishingismylyf
The Smoggies: thx_kosh, Bry oM, Pigeon Ian, Codmaster, rockman, Lose I must?, Mike?
The Poolies: Baza, Dabcatcher, Monkeyhinger, Whippy Zippy,
The Mackems: Colin Green, Dangler, Mick Cave, rrjezuz, Codbasher 3, Fatlad

We are going to arrange a shuttle to Steetley by van or car from the Headland.
A small fee of £5 per entrant is to be charged and this will go to the British lung foundation (Duncan Mann Foundation).
Please reply to this thread if your up for the fight and I will add your name to the teams. Also state which team you wish to fish for.

Update: 14/2/08
Not long now fellow anglers, battle will soon commence!

If anyone doesn't know the way to Steetley pier and would like to follow me down to Hartlepool, I will be at Easington services on the A19 between 12pm and 12.20pm on Sunday Feb 24th.

If you would like a lift along to Steetley from the Headland area of Hartlepool, park your car up nearby and meet myself and Bigpaul at the start of Old Cemetery road (the long straight road that takes you to Steetley) at 1pm on the same day. We will also take you back to the same place after the meet at 7pm. For anyone who is making their own way to the pier, we will see you there at 2pm.

Just so I get a rough idea of who needs a lift, please let me know through this thread or by pm.

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Update: 30/1/08 The rules, I don't like too many rules to be honest but here are some basics........
1. One rod and reel to be used at any time.
2. Two hooks maximum.
3. The angler involved must hook and play the fish to the surface unaided, once a fish is on the surface, assistance by other anglers will be allowed.
4. An opposing team member must record your fish on the card provided.
5. The use of edible crab for bait is not allowed.

To keep this one fair a pegged zone system is to be employed. A lucky dip will be carried out before the competition to find out who is in which zone.

There will be 4 zones, possibly 5 with one team member in each zone.

zone 1 The end
zone 2 The concrete
zone 3 The platform, North side
zone 4.The pier between platforms and the end scaffolding, North side

If there are more than 4 in a team, the extra team members will fish zone 5, the opposite platform.

Scoring. We will have a points system that will work like this: Whiting= 1 point, Dabs= 1 point, Flounder= 1 point.
Coalfish= 2 points.
Cod= 5 points, Bass= 5 points, Haddock= 5 points. Any other type of fish= 1 point.

Undersize fish must be returned but you will still be able to claim points for your catch.

The different teams fishing the competition will have their points added up at the end of the comp, the total team points will then be divided by the amount of anglers in each team.

Example: Total fish points for the Geordies = 50, we then divide this amount by the number of Geordies in the team, lets say this is 5 persons. The Geordies score would be 10.

This will give anglers the option to either keep or return their catch.

Lifts to Steetley and back from the Headland are to be arranged, watch this space!
Good luck to all who enter and may the best team win, tightlines J.V.

**Chloesdad73** · 19-01-2008, 20:58

Hi Lads,

I would just like to say a massive thank you for this. This means a great deal to me and my family. As many of you my remeber i took my dads death quite bad.But have started tt cope much better by doing stuff like this.

I for one am definatly going and will be winning for the geordies. Lets hope there are many more coming.

Many thanks again

stu

**bigpaul** · 19-01-2008, 21:34

Originally Posted by Chloesdad73

Hi Lads,

I would just like to say a massive thank you for this. This means a great deal to me and my family. As many of you my remeber i took my dads death quite bad.But have started tt cope much better by doing stuff like this.

I for one am definatly going and will be winning for the geordies. Lets hope there are many more coming.

Many thanks again

stu

No probs stu its with great pleasure and welcome to the geordie team...