Avalon, 9 May (14 pegs)

New Dad, Ryan Jordan celebrated the birth of daughter Maddie in style winning comfortably with 10lb to spare.  Fishing mainly with paste at 16m from peg 17 Ryan weighed in 58lbs 11oz.
This capped off a busy week for Ryan who has had to juggle breast-feeding Maddie through the night whilst delivering parcels during the day to such far-flung places as Oldland Common and Soundwell and in between managing to fit in four practice sessions at Avalon to make sure he made the frame on the match day!

Following up a golden peg win at Landsend last week, the runner up was form man of the moment, Adam (2 nose) Caswell who managed 48-9 from the top corner flier peg 17.  Adam fished long down both margins with paste and pellet to record an all-carp weight of 48-9 which was just enough to push his idol, Mark Radford into third.

Mark, a pipe-bender through the week, made a rare appearance in the frame having weighed in 47-6 from peg 3.
Just out of the money by 2lbs was Rich Jones on peg 13 with 45-5.
Rich (below) looks shocked and slightly embarrassed by the ease with which the fish in his peg were happy to snaffle his pellets!

Top silvers went to new member, Ade (creepy) Crawley with 6-4 from peg 21 followed by Adam Woodland, just 2oz off with 6-2 and Steve Burgess with 4-7.
The golden peg remained safe from harm with Derek Lucas who could only manage one fish for a total weight of 3lbs.
Cider Farm next week, if you are fishing please bear in mind that Mark is now insisting that nets should be bone dry before arrival.

Overall:

1. Ryan Jordan ...... peg 17 ...... 58-11
2. Adam Caswell .......... 23 ...... 48-9
3. Mark Radford ........... 3 ........ 47-6
4. Rich Jones ............... 13 ...... 45-5
5. Alan Healy ............... 11 ...... 32-8
6. Simon Belcham ........ 7 ........ 26-15
7. Ade Crawley ............. 21 ..... 25-8
8. Darren North ............ 12 ..... 21-14
9. Adam Woodland ........ 1 ...... 18-14
10. Paul Reed ................. 19 ..... 17-5
11. Ryan Radford ............ 5 ....... 17-2
12. Steve Burgess ........... 10 ..... 15-7
13. Steve Wynne ............ 16 ..... 10-4
14. Derek Lucas* ............ 9 ........ 3-0

*golden peg

Silvers:

1. Ade Crawley ...... 6-4
2. Adam Woodland . 6-2
3. Steve Burgess .... 4-7
4. Ryan Jordan ....... 1-9
5. Steve Wynne ...... 0-12
6. Paul Reed ........... 0-11
7. Ryan Radford ...... 0-4