Post by anglerpaul on Dec 21, 2004 10:18:26 GMT
Just found out Ivan Marks my hero.
The cheeky grin is no more, cigarette sales tumbled long ago and gone are days when producing his landing net meant untangling half a dozen reels from it.
Untidy, but undeniably brilliant, Ivan Marks succumbed to cancer on Sunday, December 5 aged 68. He represented England on a number of occasions in the seventies and early eighties, the highlight being in 1976 in Bulgaria when he won the individual silver medal.
Top Man, and a brilliant angler will be missed.
As a member of the crack Leicester Likely Lads match team, he could take large fields apart using float or swing-tip tactics and his rich array of hauls included winning the Great Ouse Championships three times in four years when fields were over 1,000 strong.
For many years he had a weekly column in Angling Times when his rival was the late dick Walker. He attracted a crowd of spectators wherever he travelled and certainly played to the gallery but in a nice way and the audience just loved it.
“Ivan Marks was without doubt one of the top match anglers of all time and in his heyday was a household name at a time when carbon rods and 16 metre poles were non existent,” said NFA president Terry Fell.
The cheeky grin is no more, cigarette sales tumbled long ago and gone are days when producing his landing net meant untangling half a dozen reels from it.
Untidy, but undeniably brilliant, Ivan Marks succumbed to cancer on Sunday, December 5 aged 68. He represented England on a number of occasions in the seventies and early eighties, the highlight being in 1976 in Bulgaria when he won the individual silver medal.
Top Man, and a brilliant angler will be missed.
As a member of the crack Leicester Likely Lads match team, he could take large fields apart using float or swing-tip tactics and his rich array of hauls included winning the Great Ouse Championships three times in four years when fields were over 1,000 strong.
For many years he had a weekly column in Angling Times when his rival was the late dick Walker. He attracted a crowd of spectators wherever he travelled and certainly played to the gallery but in a nice way and the audience just loved it.
“Ivan Marks was without doubt one of the top match anglers of all time and in his heyday was a household name at a time when carbon rods and 16 metre poles were non existent,” said NFA president Terry Fell.
