Despite the strong cold wind we had a really good match today. There were 25 qualifiers hoping for a good draw in this big money match. It was cold and blustery with a strong ENE freezing wind but the fish fed well and once again over 100lb was needed to win.
1st Colin Provins, Suffolk Water Park/Bait-Tech, fishing a bomb with bread and had 16 carp in the first hour and for the other 4 hours managed to put another 10 carp into his nets on peg 30 for a total weight of 118lb 2oz – Suffolk
2nd Dick Bagley, Nisa Waveney, fished his usual method feeder with bread on the hook and had fish throughout the match mostly for a weight of 78lb 8oz – Suffolk
3rd Alex Reynolds, Browning Wickford, had some carp early, on popped up bread then caught down the margin on pellet for a weight of 75lb 4oz – Suffolk
4th Bob Fuller, Viscount Tackle, had carp early on the bomb then caught down the margin for a weight of 73lb 7oz – Suffolk
5th Frank Ling, Woodbridge AC, fished paste down the margin and weighed in 69lb 15oz – Suffolk
6th Peter Binks, Walton on Naze, weighed in 68lb 4oz – Essex
Photo of part of Colins catch is at the bottom of the post.
Saturday’s Silver fish only match on the canal lake was also interesting. the skimmers seemed to be fairly well spread along the canal. The tench were fairly tight in peg 20 where the winner came from.
1st, Walton on Naze Peter Binks, Tench and Skimmers on peg 20 made up his 30lb 4oz winning weight on casters
2nd Ken Rolfe, skimmers on peg 12 16lb 2oz mostly on pellet
3rd Bob Wessels, Suffollk Water Park/Bait-Tech on peg 16 with 13lb 6oz
Easter Sunday match on M1
Water Temp 8.7°C and by the end of the match there was medium-level cloud and a temp of 8.9°C the wind was WNW and 15mph with visibility of 45km and the air pressure was 1013 hPa, and rising. Overnight lows were down to 1.7°C.
Well there is no accounting for why and how fish feed! Today there were 39 anglers on the bank which left only 3 pegs free on M1 and yet the results are some of the best that there have been. Participants were expecting a hard match due to the falling water temperatures, the colder weather and the number of anglers fishing the match but that certainly wasn’t the case, with both the carp and the silver fish feeding well.
1st, Aaron Coleman, Suffolk Water Park/Bait-Tech, on peg 6 fishing a bomb and bread weighed in an all carp catch of 105lb 0z.
2nd Mark Nash, Brian Dean Tackle, fished a method feeder switching between polony and bread on peg 10 and weighed 81lb 02oz
3rd John Dale, SWP/Bait-Tech, peg 35 fishing the pole and pellet and also the feeder, John weighed in 69lb 07oz
4th Bob Fuller, Viscount Tackle, peg 24 fished method feeder and weighed in 58lb 8oz
5th Peter Binks, Walton on Naze, peg 27 fishing the feeder and the and the pole weighed 54lb 7oz
6th and section 1, Darren Clarke, SWP/Bait-Tech on peg 16 weighed 42lb 14oz
The defaulted best silver fish weight was Steve Crowe, Diawa Angling Direct with 14lb 2oz.
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