Garbolino Spring Classic 2016 festival at White Acres

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Welcome to the Spring Garbolino festival 2016. This year we have a full house with 72 anglers fishing 6 peg sections over four days rotating daily on Trewaters and Twin Oaks.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Garbolino for once again sponsoring this event and for the prizes they contribute.

Let’s see how the anglers fished on their first day…

Day One

Finishing first in A section was Ian Ridgeway on peg 15 with 98lb 4oz fishing pellet feeder. Dale Hancock also fished pellet feeder from peg 17 and weighed 75lb 11oz. Finishing third on peg 16 with a weight of 73lb 7oz was Vincent Bonnick. Lee Bramham took fourth place on fishing bomb and pellet from peg 12 and had a weight of 72lb 11oz.

In first place on peg 33 was Justin Hunt with a weight of 73lb 14oz, Justin fished bomb and meat. Danny Edwards took second place on peg 35 with a weight of 49lb 10oz fishing between pole and tip. Finishing in third place was Alan West fishing bomb and meat from peg 26 with 40lb. With a weight of 37lb 8oz Alex Clark finished fourth on peg 34 fishing the long pole.

With a weight of 90lb 12oz Brad Hancock secured himself first place fishing the feeder from peg 24. Andrew Salcombe finished in second place with a weight of 85lb 6oz on peg 23. In third place was Roy Penkethman on peg 22 with a weight of 81lb 2oz fishing pellet feeder. With a weight of 69lb 12oz was Paul Deighan on peg 20.

Simon Gould took first place in his section today fishing pellet feeder with 6mm pellet and had a weight of 82lb 5oz from peg 52. With 53lb 8oz Dave Williams on peg 38 caught on the method feeder.
On peg 48 Curtis Garrish finished third with a weight of 51lb 8oz swapping between method and bomb and bagging a few down the edge. With 42lb 7oz and fishing from peg 54 was Ian Hutton.

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Day Two

Fishing corn and pellet from peg 36 was Barry Garrish with 74lb 11oz. Adam Playford on peg 24 finished in second weighing in at 65lb 1oz fishing pellet feeder and bomb. Finishing third on peg 34 with a weight of 53lb 8oz was David Brown who caught mainly down the edge and with corn. Ian Ridgeway took fourth fishing corn in the margins from peg 26 and weighing 46lb.

In first place on peg 35 was Nicholas Etheridge with a weight of 63lb, Nicholas fished the feeder catching Carp and F1’s. Paul Pleasant took second place on peg 23 with a weight of 55lb 8oz fishing down the edge. Finishing third was Howard Parker fishing at 8 metres for Carp from peg 29 with 52lb 2oz. With a weight of 48lb 4oz Danny Edwards finished fourth on peg 25.

With a weight of 108lb 7oz Paul Deighan secured himself first place fishing bomb and pellet and pole at 5 metres from peg 53. Brad Hancock finished in second place with a weight of 74lb 8oz on peg 54 fishing bomb, pellet and in the margins with meat. In third place was Andrew Heath on peg 42 with a weight of 47lb 14oz, Andrew fished method feeder. With a weight of 47lb 10oz was Gareth Price fishing the feeder and short pole from peg 50.

Lee Kendrick took first place today in D section with a weight of 98lb 12oz fishing waggler and pellet from peg 1. With 76lb 4oz Andrew Patterson on peg 9 had 76lb 4oz fishing method feeder. Fishing bomb and pellet and the short pole from peg 15 Jamie Brierley finished in third with a weight mof 73lb 12oz. With 72lb 6oz Gary Smith finished fourth from peg 7 fishing bomb and pellet.

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Day Three

Adam Playford fished meat in the margins from peg 36 and had 97lb 6oz.
Kevin Howard on peg 26 finished in second place weighing in at 75lb 12oz fishing pellet feeder and bomb and pellet.
Finishing third on peg 29 with a weight of 62lb 14oz was Steven Evans fishing pellet waggler.
Fishing the pellet feeder, Jack Heath took fourth place on peg 30 weighing in at 62lb 11oz.

In first place on peg 53 was Alex Clark with 52lb 10oz, Alex fished long pole and 4mm pellet.
Nicholas Etheridge took second place on peg 46 with a weight of 47lb fishing pellet feeder.
Finishing in third place was Howard Parker fishing pellet feeder from peg 51 with 37lb 14oz.
With a weight of 34lb 12oz Mick Brumpton finished fourth on peg 42 fishing method feeder.

With a weight of 164lb 6oz Brad Hancock secured himself first place fishing from peg 14, Brad swapped between bomb and feeder.
Stephen Dunlop finished in second place with a weight of 142lb 4oz fishing pellet feeder from peg 15.
In third place was Chris Hancock on peg 8 with a weight of 100lb 10oz fishing pellet feeder.
With a weight of 93lb 8oz was Roy Penkethman fishing pellet feeder off peg 7.

Simon Gould took first place in his section today with a weight of 50lb 12oz fishing feeder to the island bagging mainly Carp and F1’s from peg.
With 46lb 1oz Gary Smith on peg 21 fished method feeder.
On peg 31 Gary Lucking finished in fourth with 37lb.
Fishing the feeder from peg 20 was Curtis Garrish with 30lb.

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Day Four – Grand Final

Fishing at 13 metres with meat was Simon Hunter on peg 54 with a weight of 126lb 7oz. Adam Playford on peg 37 finished second weighing in at 47lb fishing bomb, bread and meat. Finishing third on peg 52 with a weight of 33lb was David Brown. Steven Evans took fourth on peg 39 weighing in at 29lb 7oz.

In first place on peg 13 was Chris Taylor with a weight of 134lb 10oz, Chris fished top 3 with pellet. Alan West took second place on peg 15 with a weight of 128lb 3oz.
Finishing in third place was Nicholas Etheridge on peg 14 with 94lb 10oz. With a weight of 86lb 8oz Colin Horwood finished fourth fishing ground bait and dead maggot off peg 7.

With a weight of 90lb 2oz Brad Hancock secured himself first place, Brad swapped between bomb with meat and pellet and long pole in the margins from peg 36. Paul Deighan finished second with a weight of 64lb 4oz on peg 25 fishing short pole and in the margins with meat over pellet. In third was Roy Penkethman fishing pellet feeder from peg 21 with a weight of 52lb 2oz. With a weight of 44lb was Chris Hancock on peg 35 fishing bomb and waggler with pellet.

Andrew Patterson took first place today on peg 35 with a weight of 92lb 4oz fishing pellet feeder. With 70lb 4oz Lee Kendrick took second in his section fishing bomb and pellet from peg 19. On peg 36 Gary Smith had 46lb 12oz. Fishing pellet feeder off peg 26 was Jamie Taylor who had 37lb.

Congratulations to Brad Hancock (Worksop Juniors) for winning this year’s Spring Garbolino festival. Well done to Adam Playford (Deringham) for finishing second overall and Kirk Granger (Matrix Halifax) for following a close third.

Thank you again to Garbolino for sponsoring this event and providing prizes for the top 10.

We hope to see you all on next year’s festival which is the week commencing 3rd June 2017.

Thank you from all of the Fisheries team