Mick you tease,i’ve been logging on & off for the past hour !
It had better be worth it.lol.

As Promised. 124 Fished.

1st Robert Wright 26-2-0, Peg 9, Laleham up, Roach on Pole

2nd Roy Breakwell 23-1-0, (61), 4 Bream + a few bits. First peg below Walton Bridge.

3rd Simon Willsmore 19-10-0 (33) Laleham down. Incredible net this, 700 Gudgeon!

4th Andy Rogers 19-8-0 (115), Molesey Down, Roach on Topper.

5th Mark Warne 19-2-8 (116), Molesey Down, Roach on Pole.

Sections:
1-10 Mark Lindsey 13-4-0
11-20 Colin Underwood 7-14-0
21-30 Chris Vandervleet 15-12-0
31-40 Mark Harrington 8-4-0
41-50 Simon Drew 14-10-0
51-60 Steve Clark 6-14-0
61-70 Paul Glenfield 9-13-0
71-80 Steve Harryett 11-11-8
81-90 Steve Tyler 2-10-0
91-100 Graham Dack 15-2-8
101-110 Gary Pook 2-10-0
111-125 (Paid 2) Alan Symonds 18-6-0
Runner up David White 15-10-8

Pegs 115-120 Weighed nearly 90lbs between them with peg 118 unoccupied.

There were 17 double figure weights in total.

Cracking day all round and hope someone can step in next year as Dave has announced his retirement. Also a big thank you to sponsors and helpers on behalf of all who took part.

~clap Well done Roy, nice one Moi Son, I fished 2 pegs below the bridge a month ago between 7pm and mid-night for 1 Gudgeon !!!

Well done Mark Lindsey

Possibly the most disappointing and frustrating match i’ve ever fished.

Really fancied it at the draw as it was in the ‘bream area’ (Peg 84). Longest walk to a peg ever. Easily over a mile.

Set up and started on the tip. Nothing.

Switched to maggot feeder after an hour. Nothing. Nothing on the waggler line after feeding it with maggots, caster and hemp for an hour either.

I didn’t have so much as a sucked maggot or a liner in five hours.

No fish topped, no fry spooked in the margins. Nada.

The section was won with 2lbs.

Then an hour walk back to the car.

Not the best – but will still go back next year hoping for a draw!

Brilliant it was won with a weight of roach and well done to all those who framed. Simon W’s 700 gudgeon is probably a world record…..

@MARKHLDAS wrote:

~clap Well done Roy, nice one Moi Son, I fished 2 pegs below the bridge a month ago between 7pm and mid-night for 1 Gudgeon !!!

Well done Mark Lindsey

Hathers, the pegs below the bridge are real snag pits though, God knows what must have been lobbed off that Bridge over the years. Derek Willan below me spent 2 and a half hours on the feeder losing a rake of tackle before switching to Pole. He’s got to be a bit sick because he then only got done for section by 11ozs after giving the rest a start.

I also lost 6 feeders…. well it was actually 7 but I got one back in bizarre fashion.
I ‘caught’ my 3rd Bream when I hooked into a feeder I’d lost in a snag earlier with the Bream still on (it was definitely my end rig). When your luck is in, it’s in.

Well done Roy im really pleased for you, I had a really frustrating day in the last hour and a half i was pestered with Bleak. But i still ended up with 11lb12oz which with the class of field to end up in the top 17 was a result for me.

And my prediction of double figures needed for a section win on 50% of the sections was right, it could have been so much better had we not had that dip in temp.

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3rd Simon Willsmore 19-10-0 (33) Laleham down. Incredible net this, 700 Gudgeon!

GREAT to see the gudgeon making a comeback i know fish have cycles but i thought we had see the last of gudgeon the river soar used to be full of them i know simons 19lb is a great weight it was quiet common on the river to get double figures one man stands out in my memory and that was barry chaplin i’m sure his best weight of all gudgeon [no bonus perch or roach] was 23lb he also tied on weight in the same section with a bloke they had 17lb 15oz in a ten peg section

i’m not sure if they will ever come back here as we are over run with crayfish probably the cores of the decline in numbers ~sick

Gobber wins it,i can’t believe it,how did you let that happen MTB?
I bet he told you how he did it!lol
Boy he can draw……well done Rob.

Great to see the silvers making a comeback everywhere it seems. 26 lb of roach to win the Thames Champs is fantastic news, so is the 19 lb of gudgeon ~clap ~clap. Well done aswell Katarino on 2nd overall ….. great reading MTB , nice one ~clap ~clap ~clap

Ps In every big match you always get one or two duff sections , thats the way it goes sometimes ….. i was in one yesterday ! ~sick ~sick lol

Thanks all, just goes to show even a muppet like me can get lucky sometimes ~clap ~clap

Having had a good look at the results sheets it was a decent match apart from the first 30 pegs at Molesey. 15 DNW’s and only 4 anglers breaking 2lb, one of them being Graham Dack with 15-2-8 from peg 91 (i.e. more than the other 29 pegs in total). Why they sometimes shoal up like that is a mystery, he said it was solid and he caught virtually all through.

Outside of that area though, aside from the double figures there were 27 weights between 5lb and 10lb with quite a few admitting they could have done better if they’d had a pop at the gudgeon during quiet spells.

Hope we are all back again next year.

Dave Harper’s full report is here:

https://www.total-fishing.com/news.aspx

Also he sent the weigh sheets which are here:

https://www.total-fishing.com/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=32265

mmm Thanks Mick and Sponge for the crack in the morning the highlight of my day.had a right SHIT day 5Th section snap in half and that summed up my day.

But i would like say well done DAVE HARPER and his team for yet another well organise event
also a thank you to the sponsors well done.

congratulations to Robert wright on a winning performance,

well done Roy(katarino) tremendous performance
in snag city.

Also a big well done to Chris vandervleet who must had the worst peg in the match by the rowing club at laleham and to win his section said it all..

and well done to every one for taking part.

who running it next year

~think

theres a challenge for someone??? PIKEY ARE YOU WATCHING THIS SPACE ????

Dingdong. Chris’s peg might be by the rowing club making it a PITA but most of us locals would have run to it. Aside from it being a good peg in it’s own right they’d left out the pegs on the roadside so you had big Chris on a decent peg that was also an end peg. An angler that good was never going to make a mess of it.

roy i didn’t know that,cheers for that cause
last week i put it in and someone refuse to fish it.

roy
if you had the choice which peg would you run to
the peg you drew at walton or the peg at laleham

Seriously? Laleham mate, it’s a good peg. Walton Bridge depended solely on the cloud coming over, that’s why I was keeping an eye on the bloke by the flats. Without the cloud I’d have been a DNW.

cheers roy for that infro,

and now you enjoy spending your winning
~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap

Nice to see Alan Symonds of bar/dag did well 6th overall and a section winner by the look of it, I hope alan doesn’t accuse me of drawing well next time we meet up ( he normally does ;o)) I shall remind him about the flier he drew on this thames match lol

seriously – well done mt8 fantastic result well pleased for you and congrats to all the winners,seems like a great match might have to have a word with JB about fishing this next year. having recently fished the trent (some would say attended the match lol) then the colne maybe I should have a crack at old father thames.providing I can get a ticket lol

@Katarino wrote:

Dingdong. Chris’s peg might be by the rowing club making it a PITA but most of us locals would have run to it. Aside from it being a good peg in it’s own right they’d left out the pegs on the roadside so you had big Chris on a decent peg that was also an end peg. An angler that good was never going to make a mess of it.

Thanks Ding dong and Katarino i really enjoyed my days fishing on the River apart from the last hour and a half when a spoilt kid fished of the platform and abused his mother for the remainder of the match.I must add i was catching well up until then.
Anyway i did have a chance of moving as a steward came upto me and gave me the offer as i was right next to the Rowers platform to the left. The reason i never moved was due to being told that it was a good area (not an end peg as there was 2 anglers to my left) and i had asked the rowers when they were finishing which was 10.30. Well done Katarino for coming second and i would like to thank Dave Harper for running an excellent match. Long may it cotinue

Forgot to add well done to my team mate Rob for winning the match.~clap

Sorry Chris, I was misinformed then about where you were, Stu said you were last one before the narrow Roadside bit. You were well informed though because it is a really good area.

This is a bit of a late reply but I’ve been soaking up the sun in Turkey 🙂