Name

Gary Thorpe

TUB

Corn/Pellet

Mike Stimpson

Didcot Angling

Corn/Pellet

Dave Hoare

A34

Corn/Pellet

Gary Acock

Banbury Castaways

Corn/Pellet

Chris Davies (Prestwood & Dist)

Extra Water Slows Sport on Saturday.

Chris Davies (Prestwood & Dist)   For the third match running Peg 14 finished well in front of the chasing pack. Today it was the turn of Prestwood and Districted backed Chirs Davies. Despite returning a number of fish via a hole in his landing net the somewhat red faced angler banked a creditable 133lb 120z - maybe the pools will pay for a new net - or will he risk waiting to see if he wins one in the coming Easter Festival backed by Van Den Eynde courtesy of Mark Sawyer. With the fish averaging 5lb, that must have been some hole? All the same Chris spent time plumbing the peg in order to find the small bar at 14-15m, as a lake regular Chris new exactly what to look for and never put a foot wrong - other than dropping a few fish out of the landing net - for the whole five hours. Better still as a 'Gooner' the Arsenal scored 4 to go top; so in all a good day out for Chris.

Stan Roback (Maidenhead Baits) Sat opposite Chris on Car Park peg 24 was Maidenhead Baits backed angler Stan Roback. As is the 'Norm' with this peg, Stan found himself chasing Chris for fish and a slow start seemed to be the difference at the weigh in. Fishing a sweetcorn bait at 16m over potted pellets, Stan fell just short of the Ton with a runners-up weight of 94lb 4oz.

Elsewhere. The predicted extra water put fish off the feed, even though a few fish were spotted topping during the match. Noted pegs producing the bites with some of the not so fancied pegs slow going in the cooler weather. Expect more pegs to produce in the Sunday matches as Carp get the taste for pellets during the Saturday match. Silver fish matches having very little interest at the moment.

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