Stan Robak - Winner

Stan Robak (TUB)

Holding the pole at length on the motorway bank was almost mission impossible today as a STRONG NW wind pushed poles to all shapes and contortions. It was no surprise that the peg that sits furthest out and fishes well at just 14m was the premium peg at the draw bag. Delight to have drawn the Peg, Stan Robak (TUB) took a steady run of fish on sweetcorn at 14.5m on top of the bar and made no mistakes to keep his self ahead of the chasing pack with a match winning 102lb - Stan took his carp on Sweetcorn and Maggot hook baits and a few bonus silver fish earned him an extra few quid in the silver fish pool - all 2lb of them!

Chris Davies (Prestwood and District)

Drawn on Peg 33 was Prestwood and District angler Chris Davies. Despite the cold conditions, Chris fished tight to the bank to produce a weight just short of the magical Ton (and winning weight) with 96lb 8oz. Yet again, a match is decided by less than one fish

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Elsewhere

Dave Wightman drawn on Peg 24 fished maggot for a competitive weight from this winter and summer hot spot. Elsewhere the Carp seemed intent on sitting just off bottom and not feeding (Rolfs small but very detailed fish finder confirmed this prior to the match - how long will it be before we see one of these gadgets on the end of a pole? I'm sure they're banned already, but by way of experiment it would be amazing to see.