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Coors Veterans
Festival 2008 |
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This year we have changed the festival slightly, firstly by moving the date because the festival is later in the year and the park isn’t overly busy we are able to use more popular lakes for the festival, secondly we have made two of the days silver fish matches only and finally we have increased the festival to four days. There are 32 veteran anglers joining us for the festival this year and it is being fished on Pollawyn, Jennys, Python and Sycamore.
Day One
A Section Sycamore.
Sycamore is one of our Silver fish only lakes and today saw some great mixed bags of fish. Mike O’gorman was today’s lake winner with 33lb 6oz; Mike was on peg 3 and caught on the pole with worm. Second on peg 15 was John Waples, John caught on the long pole with caster for a weight of 28lb 8oz.
Section Winner
Mike O’Gorman 8 points
B Section Pollawyn
The high bank section from pegs 15 to 32 is being used for the festival and the winner today was Michael Gibbs, Michael was on peg 32 and caught on the pole with chopped worm and caster for a weight of 29lb 2oz. Malc Proctor was second with 27lb 5oz, Malc was on peg 18 and caught on the bomb & pellet.
Section Winner
Michael Gibbs 8 points
C Section Jennys
Jennys is the second of our silver fish only lakes and has been fishing well over recent weeks. Mal Runacres was the lake winner today with 25lb 13oz; Mal was on peg 19 and caught on the pole with pellet and worms. David Cleaver on peg 13 was second with 24lb 14oz, David caught on the pole with double red maggot.
Section Winner
Mal Runacres 8 points.
The lake winner today on Python was Steve Harding; Steve was on peg 17 and caught on the pole at 11 meters with red maggot for a weight of 14lb 12oz. Second with 13lb 14oz was John Heald, John was on peg 15 and caught on paste.
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Name
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Weight |
Points |
| 1st |
Mike O’Gorman
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33lb 6oz |
8 points |
| 2nd |
Michael Gibbs |
29lb 2oz |
8 points |
| 3rd |
Mal Runacres |
25lb 13oz |
8 points |
| 4th |
Steve Harding |
14lb 12oz |
8 points |
| 5th |
John Waples |
28lb 8oz |
7 points |
| 6th |
Malc Proctor |
27lb 5oz |
7 points |
| 7th |
David Cleaver |
24lb 14oz |
7 points |
| 8th |
John Heald |
13lb 13oz |
7 points |
| 9th |
Bruce Wilcox |
21lb 7oz |
6 points |
| 10th |
Roger Greenfield |
16lb 14oz |
6 points |
Day Two
So day one got off to a good start, lets see how they faired on day two.
A Section Pollawyn
The lake winner today was Eric Searle, Eric was on peg 15 and had a weight of 41lb 10oz caught on the bomb and pellet. On peg 26 Mike O’Gorman had a weight of 37lb 3oz to take second, Mike caught skimmers over groundbait and big roach, skimmers and perch at 4 meters over casters. Section Winner
Eric Searle 8 points
B Section Jennys
The lake winner today was Les Hills; Les was on peg 20 and had a weight of 40lb 10oz. Malc Proctor was second, Malc had a weight of 40lb caught from peg 19 on the long pole shallow with pellet.
Section Winner
Les Hills 8 points
C Section Python
Mal Runacres was today’s lake winner, Mal was on peg 14 and caught on the groundbait feeder with maggot and on the long pole with pellet for a weight of 24lb 1oz. Second with 23lb 3oz was David Cleaver, David was on peg 11 and caught on the small maggot feeder tight over to the reeds.
Section Winner
Mal Runacres 8 points.
D Section Sycamore
The lake was won today with 26lb 8oz and this came from Ian Stevenson on peg 11. Ian caught on the long pole and in the margins and had mainly big perch. Steve Harding was second on peg 13, Steve had mainly F1’s, skimmers and roach caught on the pole at 11 meters with maggot and caster for a weight of 26lb 6oz.
Section Winner
Ian Stevenson 8 points.
Day Three
It is turning our to be a few close festival and the chaps seem to be really enjoying themselves, we did have worried about the date of the festival but so far the weather has been mild so smiles all round!
A Section Jennys
John Waples was today’s lake winner, John was on peg 15 and caught on the long pole with worm and corn for a weight of 60lb 8oz. Second on the lake was Mike O’Gorman, Mike had a weight of 41lb 8oz caught from peg 20 on the pole shallow with pellet.
Section Winner
John Waples 8 points.
B Section Python
The lake was won today by Malc Proctor on peg 15, Malc caught on the feeder with maggot for a weight of 33lb 5oz. Ian Turner was second on the lake with 24lb 1oz, Ian was on peg 14 and caught on the groundbait feeder with dead red maggots,
Section Winner
Malc Proctor 8 points
C Section Sycamore
David Cleaver was today’s lake winner on peg 1, David had a weight of 29lb 9oz caught on the pole at 11 meters with soft pellet over groundbait. Second with 27lb 13oz was Mal Runacres, Mal caught on the long pole with pellet and was on peg 8.
Section Winner
David Cleaver 8 points.
D Section Pollawyn
We had joint lake winners today, firstly Tom Michaels on Pollawyn with 35lb 10oz, Tom was on peg 15 and caught on soft pellets and 5 meters on the pole. Andy Partridge also weighed in with 35lb 10oz; Andy was on peg 32 and caught on the short pole with caster.
Section Winners
Tom Michaels & Andy Partridge 8 points.
Overall top 10
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Name
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Weight |
Points |
| 1st |
Mal Runacres
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77lb 11oz |
23 points |
| 2nd |
Mike O’Gorman
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112lb 1oz |
22 points |
| 3rd |
Malc Proctor |
100lb 10oz |
22 points |
| 4th |
David Cleaver |
77lb 10oz |
22 points |
| 5th |
Steve Harding
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65lb 9oz |
21 points |
| 6th |
Michael Gibbs |
80lb 3oz |
20 points |
| 7th |
John Waples |
109lb 6oz |
19 points |
| 8th |
Andy Partridge |
68lb 4oz |
18 points |
| 9th |
Les Hills |
65lb 8oz |
18 points |
| 10th |
Tom Michaels |
59lb 3oz |
18 points |
Veterans Festival Final day
So we have reached the final day of the festival and as we go into the last match it is looking to be a very close result.
A Section Python
It was a hard days fishing on Python today with the chaps struggling for bites as the fish just didn’t seem to want to feed. The lake winner was John Waples on peg 12 with 16lb 2oz. Mike O’Gorman was second on the lake with 14lb 10oz from peg 11.
Section Winner
John Waples 8 points
B Section Sycamore
It has been a great weeks silver fishing on Sycamore but today more that the other days the carp have been showing more providing an additional problem for the anglers but there were still some great results. The lake winner today was Ian Turner on peg 13, Ian had a weight of 26lb 1oz. Second was Malc Proctor on peg 11 with 25lb 2oz.
Section Winner
Ian Turner 8 points
C Section Pollawyn
It was also a fairly tough day on Pollawyn for the anglers today; David Gibbs was the lake winner on peg 15 with 29lb 8oz. Tony Murphy on peg 27 had the next best weight with 25lb 12oz.
Section Winner
David Gibbs 8 points
D Section Jennys
It was a great day up on Jennys with some great silver nets and the weight consistent across the whole of the section. The lake winner today on peg 21 was Andy Partridge with a whopping 55lb 8oz. Steve Harding was on peg 16 and had the next best weight with 36lb 9oz.
Section Winner
Andy Partridge 8 points.
So that was the White Acres Coors Veterans festival 2008 and here is how the final results look.
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Name
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Weight |
Dropping |
| 1st |
Mike O’Gorman |
126lb 11oz |
29 points |
| 2nd |
Malc Proctor |
125lb 12oz |
29 points |
| 3rd |
David Cleaver |
102lb 12oz |
28 points |
| 4th |
Steve Heading |
102lb 2oz |
28 points |
| 5th |
John Waples |
125lb 8oz |
27 points |
| 6th |
Andy Partridge |
123lb 12oz |
26 points |
| 7th |
Mal Runacres |
88lb 5oz |
26 points |
| 8th |
Michael Gibbs |
97lb 8oz |
25 points |
| 9th |
David Gibbs |
89lb |
24 points |
| 10th |
Ian Turner |
95lb 1oz |
23 points |
| 11th |
Tom Michaels
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81lb 10oz |
23 points |
| 12th |
Robert Haigh |
70lb 3oz |
22 points |
| 13th |
Dave Ealding |
90lb 14oz |
21 points |
| 14th |
Les Hills |
76lb |
20 points |
| 15th |
Tony Murphy |
74lb 13oz |
20 points |
| 16th |
John Price
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75lb 15oz |
19 points |
| 17th |
Nigel Groom |
62lb 14oz |
18 points |
| 18th |
Eric Searle |
68lb 5oz |
16 points |
| 19th |
Ian Stevenson |
60lb |
15 points |
| 20th |
John Heald |
57lb 15oz |
15 points |
| 21st |
Trevor Pearce |
65lb 5oz |
13 points |
| 22nd |
Steve Williams |
47lb 2oz |
13 points |
| 23rd |
Alan Mason |
41lb 13oz |
12 points |
| 24th |
Brian Lewis |
40lb 9oz |
12 points |
| 25th |
John Cole |
57lb 2oz |
11 points |
| 26th |
Robin Page |
45lb 12oz |
11 points |
| 27th |
Roger Greenfield |
39lb 12oz |
11 points |
| 28th |
Bruce Wilcox |
38lb 5oz |
11 points |
| 29th |
Kevin Scott |
48lb 15oz |
10 points |
| 30th |
Ken Blower |
43lb 10oz |
8 points |
| 31st |
Carl Casson |
36lb 14oz |
7 points |
| 32nd |
Jim Rippon |
27lb 2oz |
6 points |
Well what a close result! We have a new veterans champion for 2008, Mike O’Gorman takes this years festival title in what has been the closest result we have had since the festival started. There were doubts in having the festival at this time of year, but this had been the only week that enables us to use the best possible lakes for the festival, we have found it has worked better this way and will be keeping the festival at the end of the October.
Mike has had a cracking and by the looks of it just bagging one extra fish has pipped Malc Proctor from making it a hat trick!
Thank you once again and well done to all the anglers that fished with us and hopefully we shall see you next year (and we shall give you plenty of notice for the coach trip bring arranged by Jamie for the Friday!!)
Thanks to all once again, Kirsty |
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