REVIEW

Without a chance of framing, some anglers didn't show for the last match. This resulted in some sections contained less anglers than others. Although it seems this had little or no impact, the overall scores could have be effected. Rolf has addressed this situation and next year the final day may offer up an individual 'Special' prize. It seems that sportsmanship is still not as strong as her indoors nagging on a Bank Holiday Monday? and no one can blame anyone to giving in to that!.

Moaning aside the final day fished a little better, even though the strong and cool easterly remained a nuisance. The Carp had pushed into the car park bank and it was these pegs that dominated the frame with Peg 14 also putting in an appearance. Again, most carp were taken off the top over spayed pellet fished between 20cm and 1m deep. Dave Wightman pushed himself into overall second with a day winning weight of 170-12-0, but could do little with M McDermott's consistency who took third place on the day with 136lb and ran out overall festival winner. Drawn on Pegs 19, 8 and 14 he took close to 360lb of carp over the 3 days.

A Personal thanks from Rolf goes out to Mark Sawyer - Van Den Eynde - for arranging the VDE sponsorship for this event. Also he asked me to give his thanks to those regular faces helping at the weigh-in.

Mark Sawyer - Peg 26 - Well on his way to 141-00-0