Landsend Match Lake, 27 Sept 2009 (13 pegs)

With a gentle breeze blowing into peg 1, Psv's vice chairman, Ryan Jordan, set the pace early on to such an extent that after the first hour it looked as though he had built up an unassailable lead. Unfortunately for him though, despite making plans on how to spend his winnings, the fish in his peg soon dispersed to the other side of the island where Craig Edmunds ( on the golden peg 24 ) and Brian Shanks were waiting to capitalize.
Craig, fishing soft pellet at 14m into open water and along the edge, then managed to put together a steady run of fish throughout the match but found himself fighting a losing battle to Landsend regular, Brian Shanks who fished 6mm hard pellet tight over to the island on peg 20 over a light pellet feed to easily win the match with an impressive 109-5.
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the lake, on peg 13, in-form Knowle West bagging machine and last week's winner, Alan Healy, was determined to upset the big guns.
Fishing maggot, shallow at 11m Alan caught steadily through the match to sneak second place from Craig by less than 3bs and weigh in a healthy 85-11.
Taking up 4th position was junior "Cookie Crew" member Adam Caswell (pictured below) on peg 6, who despite a fishless first hour, upped his pellet feed and managed to foulhook a steady run of decent fish, alternating between hair-rigged pellet and "marbles" of paste fished into the shallow island margins of peg 6 putting 70-13 onto the scales.
Silvers ace, Mark Britton, overcame a broken mid-section of his pole to hammer out 30lbs 6oz of quality mixed silvers from peg 11.
Match secretary, Steve Burgess, used his time wisely on peg 5 to test out some new rigs and methods (popped-up expander pellets) in readiness for the "serious" match at the same venue next week.

Adam Caswell foulhooking his way to 4th place!

Overall Result:

1. Brian mugger Shanks ..20 ...... 109-5
2. Alan Healy ................ 13 ....... 85-11
3. Craig Edmunds* ....... 24 ...... 82-8
4. Adam Caswell ........... 6 ........ 70-13
5. Darren North ............ 18 ...... 54-6
6. Ryan Jordan ............. 1 ........ 46-5
7. Mark Britton ............. 11 ...... 38-0
8. Mark Radford ........... 21 ...... 37-4
9. Paul Elmes** ............ 9 ........ 34-9
10. Adam Woodland ...... 16 ....... 29-3
11. Simon Belcham ........ 19 ....... 25-5
12. Steve Burgess ................ 5 ....... 23-14
13. Paul Reed .... DNW

* golden peg
** silver peg

Silvers:

1. Mark Britton ...... 30-8
2. Craig Edmunds .. 24-7
3. Paul Elmes ......... 19-3
4. Mark Radford ..... 5-15
5. Darren North / Simon Belcham ... 3-2
6. Ryan Jordan ........ 2-15
7. Brian Shanks ....... 1-15

Pairs Results:

1. Darren North / Adam Caswell ... 27 .... 125-3
2. Alan Healy / Mark Radford ........ 27 .... 122-15
3. Mark Britton / Dave Tippet ....... 11 ..... 38-0
   

Pairs Updated:

1. Alan Healy / Mark Radford ....... 340 ... 1,727-15
   
2. Darren North / Adam Caswell ... 278 ... 1,301-13
3. Paul Reed / Steve Burgess .......... 204... 1,026-2
4. Derek Lucas / Simon Belcham ... 204 ... 825-9
5. Mark Britton / Dave Tippet ........ 97 ..... 349-13
6. Adam Woodland / Mike Wilson .. 43 .... 329-1