Feb 26, 2026 · 3 hr 57 min · 16 segments
In this episode, England international feeder angler Mick Vials joins the podcast to share stories from a lifetime in competitive match fishing, from his early matches through to representing England…
Matt GodfreyHostTobyHostwillfully or not, you're on the journey because you're getting dragged along with the tide, aren't you, with people around you.
How do you feel about that? Because I weren't there for that and I'm jealous of it.
How do you feel about that not being a part of match fishing nowadays? What it was then, the coaches, the...
of course, in a nostalgic way, you look back and you say, wouldn't it be great if we still did that? But life's changed, hasn't it? Because there's not 10,000 people working at steelworks.
And people don't work nights and they don't work down pit and they don't work in the steelworks and get dirty and then need to go fishing because they're blokes and they've...
And of the 800 people on the Stones' open in June on the Witham, where there's six draw bags, because there's that many people, they have to have six separate draw bags.
Just to split the queue up? Yeah, to make it happen in some kind of time before tea time.
You got your ticket for the match from behind a bar, but it had to be a Stones' pub, as did the Wards' brewery match, as did, and you'd have to send off for a ticket.
And when you went to Embassy Pairs, which was a bit later, or any Embassy-sponsored match, they gave you 20 fags, 40 fags.
willfully or not, you're on the journey because you're getting dragged along with the tide, aren't you, with people around you.
How do you feel about that? Because I weren't there for that and I'm jealous of it.
How do you feel about that not being a part of match fishing nowadays? What it was then, the coaches, the...
of course, in a nostalgic way, you look back and you say, wouldn't it be great if we still did that? But life's changed, hasn't it? Because there's not 10,000 people working at steelworks.
And people don't work nights and they don't work down pit and they don't work in the steelworks and get dirty and then need to go fishing because they're blokes and they've...
And of the 800 people on the Stones' open in June on the Witham, where there's six draw bags, because there's that many people, they have to have six separate draw bags.
Just to split the queue up? Yeah, to make it happen in some kind of time before tea time.
You got your ticket for the match from behind a bar, but it had to be a Stones' pub, as did the Wards' brewery match, as did, and you'd have to send off for a ticket.
And when you went to Embassy Pairs, which was a bit later, or any Embassy-sponsored match, they gave you 20 fags, 40 fags.
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