The difference one phone call from Ross Honey makes ..
“Hi, Matus, how are you? Ross Honey calling. I have great idea!”, is how it started, and we were on the phone for hours and hours. Ross explained his idea to me, some people say would he’s amazing or he’s crazy, some would say he’s on mission impossible. What can I tell you about that idea?! Ross said
“Let’s make a difference together.” It was one of the best ideas in carp fishing that
I have ever heard. It was actually a great message! A message for living your time, living right now. So we spend our time making our big career, working from morning to night, we think that our children are happy, because we can buy them what they want?! But you can’t return the time, you can’t buy it back. You can earn the big money, but you lose time to be with them, with your family, friends and just living the life and just enjoying the moment. I had never thought about it, I had become a father, with the most beautiful wife and small person in my life, my son Adam. It changed everything and I started to live differently. Not for me, but for him, for her, for us, for family. It also made me think about the second life
changing event in my life, which was last year, when I lost my colleague Mario, he was same age as me, and tragically, he died of leukaemia. Some people die young.
“What do you think about World Carp Classic Junior, like the WCC, but for children? It is not only the competition, but we want to help the children in hospital who have leukaemia. A child like that only has one thing, what
they have is hope. Hope that they win the fight, they win and stay alive. They need the financial support, but most importantly they need practical help.” Ross Honey asks, “What do you think?’ So, for the next few days, next few weeks, we
are speaking about it, thinking about it, could it be done? We were trying to do our best, to make it
work, make it happen. Ross the founder of WCC, the organizer, manager, director etc. Me, Ross’
Matus continues his
story of how he became an integral part in the planning stages of the ambitious WCCJ
friend, a joker on the phone, and because I am from Czechoslovakia, and I am a carp fisherman for more than 20 years, I want to help him with this event. But how can I help with all the things he needs. I had no idea just how much goes on behind the scenes to organise an event with this level of quality. Was it possible to get the first World Carp
Classic Junior 2015 on Lake Katlov in Czech Republic in June? I arrived with my wife and son a few days
before the competition started. We got lucky, drew the wild card entry so we could participate as the WCC Family team: captain Silvia, vice-captain Adam, competitors Michal and Samuel. I was the manager/guardian of our team. Lake Katlov is situated near the small city of
Kutna Hora, where the really fantastic opening ceremony took place with its flag parade through the town and the peg draw on the balcony of the Cathedral of
St.Barbara. In the evening, during the dinner and afterwards, you could see and hear discussions everywhere, between competitors, captains, organizers, sponsors and friends. A fantastic warm atmosphere, in the shadow the Cathedral of
St.Barbara, with great food on the tables, with everybody talking about carp, fishing, boilies, families and stories of the life of a carp fisher. The next morning saw the teams moving from
bivvy city on to their pegs and competition starts. On the lake that has never been fished before, the owner Jakub has some original wild carp and of course, some new carp stocked in the 10-20+kg category.
The competition started slowly, just a few runs
in first day and night, it looked like it was going to be a difficult event. If you had a really great peg and you can’t fish, it is pretty similar to the best fisherman sitting in the worst peg. There were some better pegs, but with the new rule – three biggest fish you can win from any peg and most important, you have a chance right up until the very last minute. We lost several carp and five hours before the end of the competition we hadn’t landed a single fish. We had to cast a long way to our hotspot near the small island. The problem was the amount of weeds in a water full of mussels and snails, which were cutting the line. You can imagine the atmosphere and feeling of our team on the last night after losing around seven fish. But, live your dreams and never give up, and
you have to believe in what you do and just make the best of a bad show. We were trying boilies on the bottom, pop-ups, snowmen rigs and the dream of Samuel was the bait boat from Karpela, the dream of Michal was to win. I had found out about the Karpela containers from the Ross’ visit to the Carp Show in Slovakia. My four year old son Adam was playing with this interesting new form of bait and he like it. Ross was asking my opinion and I told him “Let’s try and we will see.” The prize for the biggest fish caught on a Karpela Cont bait was the bait boat. So we tried the Karpela Cont bait ball system and we managed to win the boat! In the very last hours Michal and Samuel landede two nice commons and in the end we ended up in a great third place on the first World Carp Classic Junior 2015. So, it’s a really big, big thank you to all of you
who participated and the biggest thank you to Jakub, Ross, Marianne, Andy and all Marshals and to everybody else who helped to make this competition an unforgettable event. See you soon on Lac de Madine.
nMATUS SVEC
Family values ... One big happy WCC family. The carp gets the best job!
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