My travelling partner Darren Gillman walked up to me waving a Carps AC opened draw ticket with peg 123 written on it. I soon realised that it was still ten minutes before the draw. Darren then confessed, he found the ticket on the ground outside the tackle shop. I said to Darren that was his chance of drawing the peg gone, of course, you guessed it wasn’t, Darren drew peg 123!!
I drew peg 112. I was reasonable happy with this, but knew that with Darren on peg 123 and peg 121 also in the match and with only two being paid in the Silvers, Carp was to be my best chance of picking up. I started on the paste at 13 metres and caught Four Carp straight off. It then went finicky; however, I persevered at 13 metres adding another five Carp before I moved in to the margin of the bay to my left and behind me! I added one small Carp and ten Tench before the whistle. I weighed 20lb of Tench (Silvers) and 46lb 5oz of Carp for an overall weight of 66lb 5oz and seventh in the match and the first sun burnt arms this year!
The match was won by Marc Illingworth (pictured right) with 195 lb of Carp from peg 124. Marc caught most of his Carp on the shallow pellet waggler. This made the long drive from Southampton well worth while for him.
As predicted the Silvers was won from peg 121 by Shane Caswell (pictured bottom right) with 36lb 11 oz of mainly Tench. Shane fished soft pellet down to the left hand empty pallet. “Chip shop” peg 123 was a close second with 35lb
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Full Result:
1. Marc Illingworth 195-0-0 peg 124
2. Ray Hayward 172-02-0 peg 116
3. Tom Thick 122-04-0 peg 115
4. Tom Magnell 115-04-0 peg 118
5. Steve Denmead 81-13-0 peg 131
6. Lewis Greenwood 66-10-0 peg 126 (Junior Carps AC member)
Top Silvers:
1. Shane Caswell 36-11-0 peg 121
2. Darren Gillman 35-0-0 peg 123
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