Still on a roll from last weekend's convincing Psv weekend series win at Holgan Farm, Match Secretary (and club chairman), Steve Burgess continued his winning ways today with an epic performance at Viaduct's Campbell match lake. Due to a slightly late draw and a 10 o clock start Steve bravely chose to leave his pole in it's holdall and opted to aggressively target the carp on peg 132 with straight lead and waggler tactics only.
Fortunately this decision payed off handsomely with a couple of early fish on the waggler with 8mm scopex flavoured banded pellet fished over towards the platform of peg 135 before an early tree incident forced a change to the straight lead.
This produced a steady run of small-ish carp for a couple of hours until a run of lost fish, liners and foulers prompted a change back to the shallow waggler which produced some better fish and a final total of 131lbs 7oz for a well-earned first place.
The rest of the action was concentrated around the top corner of the lake with Will Dearlove on 115 leading the pack. Will fished pellet shallow at 14m before switching to the waggler over the pole line (as the fish were spooking off the pole) for a total of 120-7.
Mark Radford was just one fish behind from peg 116 fishing pellet shallow at 13m for 116-6 followed by Ron Hardiman on 118 with 112-3 caught on similar tactics.
Top silvers went to Simon Belcham on peg 127 with a mixed bag totalling 34-1 caught on meat at 8m.
Bob Warren took second in the silvers from the next peg (126) with 31-7 caught in a similar fashion.
Strangely, Bob and Simon both weighed in the same overall weight of 74-15!
Overall Result:
Fortunately this decision payed off handsomely with a couple of early fish on the waggler with 8mm scopex flavoured banded pellet fished over towards the platform of peg 135 before an early tree incident forced a change to the straight lead.
This produced a steady run of small-ish carp for a couple of hours until a run of lost fish, liners and foulers prompted a change back to the shallow waggler which produced some better fish and a final total of 131lbs 7oz for a well-earned first place.
The rest of the action was concentrated around the top corner of the lake with Will Dearlove on 115 leading the pack. Will fished pellet shallow at 14m before switching to the waggler over the pole line (as the fish were spooking off the pole) for a total of 120-7.
Mark Radford was just one fish behind from peg 116 fishing pellet shallow at 13m for 116-6 followed by Ron Hardiman on 118 with 112-3 caught on similar tactics.
Top silvers went to Simon Belcham on peg 127 with a mixed bag totalling 34-1 caught on meat at 8m.
Bob Warren took second in the silvers from the next peg (126) with 31-7 caught in a similar fashion.
Strangely, Bob and Simon both weighed in the same overall weight of 74-15!
Overall Result:
- Steve Burgess (132) .. 131-7
- Will Dearlove (115) ........ 120-7
- Mark Radford (116) ........ 116-6
- Ron Hardiman (118) ....... 112-3
- Lionel Legge (112) ........... 90-6
- Simon Belcham (127) ...... 74-15
- Bob Warren (126) ............ 74-15
- Stewart Riddle (119) ........ 63-0
- Keith Ray (123) .............. 58-5
- Alan Healy (114) ............ 55-8
- Paul Reed (124) .............. 54-4
- Steve Wynne (111) ......... 52-1
- Ryan Radford* (129) ...... 51-14
- Rich Jones (130) ............. 49-0
- Darren North (110) ......... 43-3
- Adam Caswell (125) ....... 31-9
- John Darby (128) ........... 13-9
*golden peg
Silvers:
- Simon Belcham ....... 34-1
- Bob Warren ............. 31-7
- Darren North ........... 21-12
- Paul Reed ................ 17-7
- Alan Healy .............. 16-15
- John Darby .............. 13-9
