Youth Team USA
is in 4th place after the first session. France took 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 10th in the individual results which is out of control. There are still a couple of days of competition. I'll let you guys...
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Portugal again. One of the kids fished on that team. He is currently in 5th.
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Can you explain the performance of the French? Do they use different techniques from us, or is it that they're just more used to European rivers?
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They train, network, study, and practice. They started a sucessfull program almost 20 years ago. They are heavily sponsored so they can hire coaches, spend time in the area, and gain the experience....
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That's about right, competitive fly fishing has been around in the UK since the 1800s, there really is a very different focus to ward competitive fishing than we have here in the US. Make no mistake,...
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The team is currently in 3rd place with a couple of 1st place finishes yesterday. I think today is the last day. Hopefully I'll have place finishes for everyone by this evening.
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Most of the kids now are 17-19. Although Team USA has been a young team for the last 3 years. I think we only had one team member at 19 and as young as 16. 4 years ago our whole team was 14-15 year...
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Excuse my ignorance, but I don't have any knowledge of how competitive fly fishing on the international scale works. I have seen these compeitions on the sports channels where teams of two draw for a...
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No word on "official" results. However the French team's forum is reporting: 1. France 2. Slovika 3. Spain Team USA was close to 3rd or 4th so if these results are correct it looks as though we got...
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Speaking of the French, how many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows, because nobody's ever tried to do it.
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These are the results after session 3. I had originally posted them as the final results. I misinterpreted session 3 for day 3. Still Team USA has a fair lead after the 3rd session and ic currently in...
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Here is the link for all the scorings. http://www.fppd.pt/Not%c3%adcias/tabid/842/ctl/Details/mid/1483/ItemID/386/Default.aspx
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Apparently they came in 4th on the last day. I was led to understand that we were ahead in points but tied with Spain on the last day. Rumor has it that a protest was filed of some sort and we were...
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