Fishing holidays in Cornwall at White Acres

Maver Festival Final Day

I cant quite believe we have come to the end of the week already, on one hand time has flown by but on the other it seemed that on the day that we had KHV confirmed everything was going in slow motion, it has been devastating news for all of us, not just for the park but also for the anglers as we like to be able to provide the best fishing possible. This is one problem we are not going to let get to us, this week we have had to put up with more than a few moans and groans but we have had even more kind words of support from anglers not only fishing the festival but from those who visit the site throughout the year and from other fishery owners themselves. It has been a harder festival than normal and this is also partly due to near arctic weather conditions which hasn’t been the best for fishing but as we have said it is the same for everyone and there is still £3000 up for grabs and a whole host of other prizes so lets see how the final day panned out.

A Section Bolingey

Today on Bolingey we saw the top weight of the week with Jamie Wilde on peg 23 taking the lake win with 136lb, Jamie caught at 5 meters on mean and had a few fish late on down the edge. Second on the lake was John Cowey, John was on peg 46 and caught on the pole at 14.5 meters with meat and pellet for a weight of 100lb. Colin Mercer was on peg 27 and took third on the lake with 91lb 9oz, Colin caught on the 17 meter pole with meat. The next best weight on the lake was 82lb 2oz and this came from Simon Skelton on peg 22, Simon caught on the 13-meter pole with meat.

Section Winners

Jamie Wild 9 points 136lb

Harry Billing 9 points 74lb 4oz

Des Shipp 9 points 57lb 6oz

John Cowey 9 points 100lb

B Section Pollawyn

Without the harsh glare of the sun on the high bank today there were a few more fish showing, Howard Kaye was today’s lake winner, Howard was on peg 27 and caught 7 on the t bag and 8 on the pellet waggler for a weight of 76lb 14oz. Second on the lake with 67lb 11 oz was Bob Jarvis, Bob was on peg 28 and caught half on the t bag and half on the meat feeder. Third on peg 12 was Alan Scotthorne, Alan caught on the pole with pellet for a weight of 64lb. The next best weight on the lake was 52lb 1oz and this came from Phil Ringer on peg 26

Section Winners

Howard Kaye 9 points 76lb 14oz

Alan Scotthorne 9 points 64lb

Steve Potter 9 points 52lb 15oz

Kev Baxter 9 points 23lb 12oz

C Section TO/A/C/PY

It was a tougher day on Twin Oaks today, it has fished really well all week but the fish seemed to have backed off a bit. The lake winner was Tom Scholey on peg 10, Tom caught on the meat feeder for a weight of 54lb 9oz. Second was Graham Hall on peg 16 with a weight of 52lb 1oz. Sean Cameron was third on the lake; Sean was on peg 6 and caught on the deck at 14.5 metres on meat for a weight of 49lb 15oz. The next best weight came from Steve Sanders on peg 12 with 48lb 14oz.

Section Winners

Tom Scholey 9 points 54lb 9oz

Steve Clark 9 points 46lb 13oz

Jon Howell 9 points 39lb 2oz

Grant Albutt 9 points 16lb 14oz

D Section Trewaters

The weights were slightly down on Trewaters today and this is mainly due to with all the cold water running through the lake, this is a problem that we wont be able to solve until the festivals are over so we just have to keep our fingers crossed that we do not have much more rain over the next week. Today’s lake winner on peg 35 was Derek Willan, Derek caught on the feeder with chopped worm and caster for a weight of 22lb 4oz. Dave Harpin was second on peg 48 with 20lb 8oz. Michael Sanders had a weight of 14lb 6oz that put him third, Michael was on peg 21 and caught on the pole with maggot. The next best weight and also a section winning weight was 13lb 12oz and this came from Timmy Rowe on peg 30.

Section Winners

Derek Willan 9 points 22lb 4oz

Dave Harpin 9 points 48lb 9oz

Tim Rowe 9 points 13lb 12oz

Stuart Bracey 9 points 13lb 8oz

E Section Porth

It was a tense day on Porth today with Steve Ringer needing to win his section to take the festival top spot, Steve has so far taken 4 lake wins this week but today Tommy Pickering knocked him off the top spot taking the win with 25lb 2oz, Tommy was on peg 89 and caught on the groundbait feeder with worm tip, Picking up a festival winning section win and second on the lake was Steve Ringer, Steve was on peg 23 and caught on the feeder with maggot and pinkie for a weight of 20lb 3oz. Third on the lake was Nick Dean, Nick was on peg 82 and had a weight of 15lb 3oz caught on worm. Roger Brown on peg 84 and the next best weight on the lake, Roger caught on worm for a weight of 14lb 14oz.

Section Winners

Tommy Pickering 9 points 25lb 2oz

Steve Ringer 9 points 20lb 3oz

Geoff Ringer 9 points 12lb 12oz

Adam Wakelin 9 points 10lb 2oz

So that was the final day on the White Acres Maver festival 2008 and here is how our final top 20 looked.

Final Top 20

1^st Steve Ringer 36 points (dropping 9) 321lb 2oz

2^nd Des Shipp 36 points (dropping 8) 181lb 10oz

3^rd Timmy Rowe 35 points (dropping 4) 220lb 5oz

4^th Alan Scotthorne 35 points (dropping 2) 218lb 3oz

5^th Steve Sanders 34 points (dropping 6) 237lb 4oz

6^th William Raison 34 points (dropping 6) 215lb

7^th Martin Amos 34 points (dropping 1) 146lb 13oz

8^th Derek Willan 33 points (dropping 6) 122lb 15oz

9^th Adam Wakelin 33 points (dropping 5) 158lb 13oz

10^th Tony Wynnick 33 points (dropping 4) 208lb 10oz

11^th Ben Leach 32 points (dropping 8) 181lb 8oz

12^th Bob Jarvis 32 points (dropping 5) 263lb 5oz

13^th Jamie Wild 32 points (dropping 5) 230lb 8oz

14^th Don Slaymaker 32 points (dropping 4) 168lb 15oz

15^th Neil McKinnon 32 points (dropping 2) 173lb 2oz

16^th Colin Mercer 32 points (dropping 1) 200lb 13oz

17^th Mike Barlow 31 points (dropping 5) 168lb 8oz

18^th Mick Lees 31 points (dropping 4) 148lb 10oz

19^th Tommy Pickering 31 points (dropping 4) 140lb 5oz

20^th Dave Hillier 31 points (dropping 4) 139lb 8oz

So Steve is our festival winner with a fantastic 5 section wins, we would like to offer congratulations to all of our winners and festival entrants, this week has been fairly tough for all of us but there has also been a lot of enjoyment. We would like to offer a massive thank you to Maver for their continued support and their generous prizes that they provided for the top twenty winners and thanks to Steve Mayo from Maver who was here to present the prizes. This week has had ups and downs for all of our anglers but for Mr Ringer it was a week full of highs as he adds another festival win to his numerous White Acres accolades. Thank you once again to all of the anglers that took park and thank you to all that have been following our daily reports.

Cheers, Kirsty