Ron’s ready for fishing face-off
Date Published : 22 September 2007
An angler from Walsall has special reason to want to bag the winning catch in the annual Vic Lees Memorial Contest.
Ron Nicholls, from the Yew Tree estate, has been putting in the hours on Walsall Arboretum Lake in a bid to win the competition held annually by Walsall Council to commemorate the founder member of the Arboretum Fishing Club.
Ron, aged 54, worked with Mr Lees at the Corus coated steelworks in Walsall for nearly ten years and was a regular fishing partner of his.
“Vic gave me a lot of tips about angling,” said Ron, “I have been involved in organising the competition for a couple of years now but this is the first time I’ve been able to enter the event because in previous years it has clashed with running events I have raced in.
“As an old friend of Vics I would dearly love to win the contest and I have been practising on the lake.”
Ron, a member of the Arboretum club, says his best catch on home turf is 15lb but ‘it can be a difficult lake and it all comes down to what happens on the day’.
This year’s event is on Sunday (June 17) with a 9am draw in the mess room and fishing from 10am-3pm.
There are only 25 pegs, costing £6.50 each, available.
To book your place call park ranger John Miller on 07736 388412.