Grant - shows off the winners cheque and trophy

CATS CREAM FOR GRANT
IT was another big payday for superstar angler Grant Albutt as he showed his class to win the 178-angler White Acres ABU Spring Festival with a maximum points score of 36 points. Grant dropped his opening days section third from Porth then went on to record four straight section wins and that was enough for the £3000 winners cheque.
Marston Green based Grant won last Octobers Skol festival but agonisingly missed out on the £25,000 winners prize in the Skol final but showed he was back at his best in the ABU event.
Going into the last day Grant needed a final match section win at Gwinear to guarantee the victory and week long festival leader Harry Billing to miss out on a final day section win.
Daiwa Dorking grouped Grant not only won the section at Gwinear 28 but the lake with 119-13-0 of caty food caught carp but for Harry (Keenets Northwest) he could only count the cost as he missed out on a section win by one small carp on Trelawney.
On the second day Bolingey peg 10 was the scene of Grant's first section win where he pole fished cat food a t 11 and 13 metres tempting 52-8-0 of carp to 6 lb.
Moving onto Pollawyn pools peg 36 another section win came to long pole at 15 metres and luncheon meat producing 57-0-0 of carp and skimmers.

When Albutt drew out Gwinear 28 he was set for serious crack at the title and he made no mistakes despite some tough competition on the adjacent pegs. ABU donated keepnets and landing net prizes among the top 12 individuals and there were cash prizes for the top ten.

Essex County Van Den Eynde angler Paul Yates smashed the Gwinear match record with a 232-3-0 carp haul during the second day of the White Acres ABU backed spring festival from peg 20.
Paul presented long pole and meat 5 m out in front of the empty peg 21 to his left for around 40-50 mirrors and seven commons averaging 5-6 lb gearing up with 0.18 mm line, a Maver eagle size 12 hook and 16 elastic.
Best fish of the week was the 16-1-0 ghost carp to Arthur Turner while the mystery weight winner was the 77-8-0 of Chris Chadwick.

DAILY LAKE WINNERS
DAY 1:
Pollawyn Dean Barlow (Essex County VDE) 184-14-0 peg 28;
Python and Trelawney Anthony Rogers (Browning Wolves) 60-12-0 peg T18;
Gwinear Lee Woodhouse (Thatchers 2000) 137-15-0 peg 14;
Porth Tim Rowe (Team Rizzla) 20-7-0 peg 38;
Bolingey Chris Sheldon (Residents) 75-0-0 peg 22;.
DAY 2:
Pollawyn Kieron Rich (Tri Cast) 96-0-0 peg 27;
Python and Trelawney Steve Cooke (Ashima Worksop) 56-0-0 peg T21;
Gwinear Paul Yates (Essex County VDE) 232-3-0 peg 20;
Porth Harry Billing (Keenets Northwest) 26-7-0 peg 32;
Bolingey Tim Rowe (Team Rizzla)103-7-0 peg 27.
DAY 3:
Pollawyn Alan Barker (Bag Up Pellets) 132-8-0 peg 25;
Python and Trelawney Peter Price (Saints) 27-4-0 peg T24;
Gwinear Dean Barlow (Essex County VDE) 119-11-0 peg 31;
Porth Norman Marsh (Mansfield AC) 13-9-0 peg 76;
Bolingey Tommy Pennington (Keenets Northwest) 48-8-0 peg 22.
DAY 4:
Pollawyn Pete Wedgbrow (Slapheads) 81-12-0 peg 19;
Python and Trelawney Dave Pimlott (Keenets Northwest) 24-12-0 peg P20;
Gwinear Richard O'Connor (Keenets Northwest) 92-14-0 peg 25;
Porth Lee Harrison (Browning Scunthorpe) 16-11-0 peg 71;
Bolingey Gary Webber (Thatchers 2000) 60-12-0 peg 26.
DAY 5:
Pollawyn Paul Keeley (Keenets Northwest) 117-4-0 peg 19;
Python and Trelawney Alan Gage (Somerset Majik) 27-7-0 peg T2;
Gwinear Grant Albutt (Daiwa Dorking) 119-13-0 peg 28;
Porth Alan Le Patourel (MAP Garbolino Starlets) 19-6-0 peg 38;
Bolingey Ernie Ayers (Vale Angling) 59-3-0 peg 26;.