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Monday, May 28, 2012


Team Ireland: 32nd FIPS-Mouche
World Fly Fishing Championships
SLOVENIA 


The Team consists of:
Captian: Stweart Mc Grane from Wicklow 
Hubert Smith from Louth
Dave O Donavan from Cork
Micheal Thowig from Cork
Peter Driver from Wicklow
Micheal Drinin From Cork
Sean Bowen from Cork

On Wednesday morning the Irish fly fishing team will depart for the World Finals in Slovenia, the team has been preparing for some time now and are looking forward to the weeks practice to fine tune there methods and techniques. Their guide who has been working for Ireland for the last four months is Mirko Skfar a local competition fly fisher who knowledge of the region is second to none. The   Competition starts on Wednesday the 6th of June and will be over on the following Sunday after five three hour sessions on rivers and lakes.  




The following teams will compete for the gold 

 Australia Ireland Romania
 Belgium Italy Scotland
 Bosnia and Hercegovina Japan Slovakia
 Croatia Luxembourg Slovenia
 Czech Republic Malta South Africa
 England Montenegro Spain
 France Netherlands Sweden
 Finland New Zeland United States
 Germany Norway
 Hungary Poland

Thank you to all who helped out the team for your support.

River Sava Bohinjka

River Sava Bohinjka

River Sava

River Kokra