Avalon, 29 July (18 pegs)

A far better turnout today with 18 fishing, which included a welcome return to the Psv family for Ryan Jordan who's creaky Garbolino swivelling seatbox has been sorely missed at our matches for a number of years now.  As a result we had the entire left bank and three pegs at the top of the right bank so lots of room.
Predictably, the pellet waggler was the dominant method and with Rich Britton taking time out from his busy work schedule to fish it looked like a case of who would take second as when it comes to fishing the wag there aren't many (if any) at Psv that can match him at it.
True enough, Richard (pictured below) cruised to victory from peg 11 with 139lbs 7oz.

The competition for the rest of the framing places was a closer battle between two more waggler experts (Will Dearlove and Chris Szakacs) and Stewart Riddle.  Greatly assisted by drawing a "pleasure fishing" peg (16), Stewart took second place with an all-carp catch of 99-3 followed by Chris on peg 23 who fished the whole match today and mixed long pole up the end margin and waggler for 94-14.  Will completed the top four with 86-8 from peg 13.

  Having drawn the winning peg from the last match here, 19, Alan Healy opted to ignore the masses of carp that hang around this corner of the island and instead fished for the silvers. Fishing at 8m with soft pellet and paste he managed a healthy 26-9 for the top weight of slimy things.

Paul Reed took second with 17-8 from peg 12. Paul was a bit cagey about tactics but I believe he caught in a similar fashion to Alan.  Paul is pictured below, fortunately not smiling!

Unfortunately, what was otherwise a good day's fishing was blighted by some interruption from a group of "doggers" who had took up residence in the undergrowth.  The shocking picture below just goes to show how low some members of society will stoop to get their kicks!

Overall Result:

1. Richard Britton (peg 11) ... 139-7
2. Stewart Riddle (16) ....... 99-3
3. Chris Szakacs (23) ........ 94-14
4. Will Dearlove (13) ......... 86-8
5. Mike Smith (26) ........... 76-12
6. Mark Radford (17) ........ 62-5
7. Lionel Legge (24) ......... 60-9
8. Alan Healy (19) ............ 56-1
9. Steve Burgess (28) ....... 55-4
10. Matt Tainton (1) ........... 54-3
11. Chris Gay (21) ............. 46-15
12. Ryan Jordan (5) ........... 41-7
13. Adam Caswell (30) ....... 35-11
14. Matt Williams (7) .......... 28-11
15. Paul Reed (12) ............. 25-0
16. Derek Lucas (3) ............ 22-9
17. Ryan Radford (9) .......... 22-7
18. Pete Uzzell (6) .............. 22-3

Silvers:

1. Alan Healy ....... 26-9
2. Paul Reed ........ 17-8
3. Matt Williams .... 10-4
4. Chris Gay ......... 21-7
5. Derek Lucas ..... 7-5
6. Adam Caswell .... 6-13
7. Ryan Jordan ...... 6-3
8. Pete Uzzell ........ 5-12
9. Steve Burgess .... 5-10
10. Matt Tainton ....... 4-12