Cider Farm, 16 May 2010 (19 pegs)

As expected on Cider Farm's Dabinett lake the top three places were taken by the usual form pegs on the gap between the islands.  Venue regular Mike Smith took the top honours and his first win since joining the club this season with 73lbs 5oz from peg 6 all caught on paste.

Second place went to Mark Radford on neighbouring peg 7  with 68-3, again all taken on paste.  It seems as though Mark has finally shaken off his run of crap draws and returned to form having framed twice in two matches.
In third place, despite drawing the hottest peg on the lake, peg 21, was "rock steady" Eddie Wynne with 57-5 caught on pellet.  It's rumoured that since Eddie started match fishing (many years ago) he has never drawn a bad peg!

With the lake split into two sections, 1 to 14 and 16 to 28, another "paste-head",  Chris Szakacs took the first section from peg 3 with 41-4.  With nobody on peg 2 Chris was gifted another empty peg next to him when Alan Healy thought he had drawn peg 4 but in actual fact had drawn 14.  Alan practically skipped up the lake to peg 14 but only managed to weigh in 10-12 so in hindsight he probably wished he'd stayed put on 4 and saved himself a few pound coins!!
The second section went to Adam Caswell on peg 22 where, despite losing a shedload of fish in the infamous Cider Farm reeds, he still managed to foul hook 33-8  and put himself at the top of the PSV year totals!
In the knockout Adam Caswell goes through to the second round after beating Ade Crawley in 2 out of the 3 legs of the first round as does club junior member, Ryan Radford after beating Steve Wynne twice.
Adam Woodland and Simon Belcham face a decider at Campbell next week with Simon having a 3 point advantage. And Eddie Wynne and Mark Radford also face off next week with Mark ahead by just 1 point!
Mike Smith goes to Campbell with a 17 point lead over Yan, the flying Dutchman, and Steve Hutchinson and Ryan Jordan also meet again next week with Steve Hutch ahead by 5 points.
One-off battles at Campbell will be between Bob Warren and Paul Reed, Neil Mercer and Rich Jones and also Mike Wilson and Alan Healy


Overall Result:

1. Mike Smith ........ peg 6 ..... 73-5
2. Mark Radford ........... 7 ..... 68-3
3. Eddie Wynne ........... 21 .... 57-5
4. Chris Szakacs ........... 3 ..... 41-4
5. Adam Caswell* ........ 22 .... 33-8
6. Steve Burgess ......... 16 .... 25-2
7. Adam Woodland ....... 20 .... 20-13
8. Darren North ........... 19 .... 15-1
9. Steve Hutchinson ...... 9 ..... 13-12
10. Ade Crawley ............. 1 ..... 13-3
11. Alan Healy .............. 14 ..... 10-12
12. Rich Jones ............... 8 ...... 10-10
13. Stuart Riddle ........... 12 ..... 9-12
14. Ryan Jordan ............ 18 ..... 8-13
15. Paul Reed ................ 25 ..... 5-4
16. Yan (Jan / Colin) ...... 16 ...... 5-0
17. Derek Lucas ............ 27 ...... 4-7
18. Ryan Radford ........... 17 ..... 0-4
19. Steve Wynne ........... 28 ...... DNW

*golden peg